I want a checkbox that says "Any claims of Autism Spectrum disorders must be verified by an admin with a Dr. Excuse. Self diagnosis equals instant ban."
As an officially diagnosed aspie, I'm down with this. I've spoken with a number of people who claimed posession of an ASD. Maybe one of them actually struck my "this guy might actually have it" bell. Basically, being anti-social and having above average intelligence is not enough for a diagnosis.
Since you agree with this, we're going to need to see your doctor's note or else you have to voluntarily accept self-banning.
What about games like Torment where you're still working in the same direction, since your goal isn't really good or evil related, but the evil option lets you really, really, really be a dick about it?
Fable, although comparing it to Torment pains me, sort of
but there you do knock off a villain
but you don't have to give a shit about anyone who isn't family
and when you do thwarth his attempt at getting this thing of awesome power that'll let him enslave all of albion you can decide to take it and do that yourself if you want to
no asshole likes any asshole but themselves in charge
EDIT: On second thought strike family. In order to take over the world you have to really be an evil dick.
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asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
You know what, I don't mind a binary good and evil system in a game if it actually effects the side you are on at the end. Like instead of storming the bad guy's lair the same way you would if you were a good guy and then getting an ending where you become the bad guy, you actually join the evil side and work with them. Then you spend the rest of the game wiping out all the people you helped in the early game.
I hate choosing between being a white knight saving everyone and an antihero out for revenge when the end result is pretty much the same, and so are all the events leading up to it.
I am pretty sure I played a game where the options were basically Good: Destroy evil Evil: take out the competition
just because you're both evil doesn't mean you'll work together
rather the contrary
just that instead of foiling the villains attempt at world domination you basically just staged a coup and set yourself up as the new villain
I don't have a huge problem with the steps leading up to that being largely the same as a coup's a coup
I think KOTOR 1 got it pretty close. If you go evil, you are very clearly a bad guy well before the game ends and doing some bad guy things.
Sure, you can go after the other bad guy, but that shouldn't be it. Then you're just setting yourself up to have the good guys send another protagonist to defeat you in the sequel.
asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
I want a checkbox that says "Any claims of Autism Spectrum disorders must be verified by an admin with a Dr. Excuse. Self diagnosis equals instant ban."
As an officially diagnosed aspie, I'm down with this. I've spoken with a number of people who claimed posession of an ASD. Maybe one of them actually struck my "this guy might actually have it" bell. Basically, being anti-social and having above average intelligence is not enough for a diagnosis.
I blame House for this. There was an episode where he was trying to fool everyone into thinking he had Asperger's so they'd leave him alone and accept him as a jerk.
people claiming to have ass-burgers was commonplace before it was on house, duder
it's basically turned into an excuse for anti-social nerds to cop out of taking responsibility for how they are dickheads towards people
Aspergers is the new Ayn Rand
All we want to do is be anti-social in a huge underwater distopia powered by DNA rewriting slugs. What's wrong with that?
asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
cause that's what I have.
GNBS
Generalized Neck Beard Syndrome
It's terminal
I'm so sorry
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asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
cause that's what I have.
Toss in ruggedly handsome and that is what I have.
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The saddest thing is seeing an "aspie and proud of it!" type outclassed in the area in which they have chosen to specialize. I tended to see it a whole lot while tutoring computer science and math classes.
OK, it's only sad when a real person with aspergers falls into this thought trap and has a rude awakening. It's fucking hilarious when a self-diagnosed anti-social loser does the same thing.
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asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
G&T kids are massivley over-represented on the socially awkward end of the scale actually. Though there's a number of possible explanations for that (mostly cultural and social ones).
asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
cause that's what I have.
Awesomeberger's
sweet!
let's just cut that down to a more managable buzz word and....
Hey guys, I just got diagnosed with awesome syndrome.
What's a fairly simple method of encoding some text into a puzzle? I don't want to use a Caesar Cipher as it's boring.
Using a book as the source for the code? "16, 32" meaning page 16, 32nd character. Is this for D&D? Use the player's handbook, but refer to it by some arcane name, like 'the font of all knowledge'.
What's a fairly simple method of encoding some text into a puzzle? I don't want to use a Caesar Cipher as it's boring.
Using a book as the source for the code? "16, 32" meaning page 16, 32nd character. Is this for D&D? Use the player's handbook, but refer to it by some arcane name, like 'the font of all knowledge'.
Actually no, it's for a letter to my girlfriend. I bought some postcards in her presence without her noticing and she's pestering me for the details of how and when I did this, I said I'd tell her when I send her the third one, but I don't want to make it easy.
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What's a fairly simple method of encoding some text into a puzzle? I don't want to use a Caesar Cipher as it's boring.
Using a book as the source for the code? "16, 32" meaning page 16, 32nd character. Is this for D&D? Use the player's handbook, but refer to it by some arcane name, like 'the font of all knowledge'.
asperger's is especially appealing as a self-diagnosis for socially maladjusted nerds because aspies have this pop culture reputation of being incredibly intelligent despite being socially retarded
so, it's like a way of saying you are handicapped and thus have an excuse for your behavior
but still feeling intelligent
some nerds see life like a game of GURPS and feel that for their brainsmarts they had to sacrifice points in their social skills or something
real life don't work that way
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
cause that's what I have.
Toss in ruggedly handsome and that is what I have.
Throw in huge penis and you've got me.
I've always wondered what it was that made me different from everyone else! Now I know there must be a whole class of people with the same condition. I'm not alone anymore!
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She doesn't get on with her parents for obvious reasons.
Ask Dr Doherty of Magherafelt medical centre.
Fable, although comparing it to Torment pains me, sort of
but there you do knock off a villain
but you don't have to give a shit about anyone who isn't family
and when you do thwarth his attempt at getting this thing of awesome power that'll let him enslave all of albion you can decide to take it and do that yourself if you want to
no asshole likes any asshole but themselves in charge
EDIT: On second thought strike family. In order to take over the world you have to really be an evil dick.
I call my wiener 'biscuits'.
is there a disorder for not being socially maladjusted and still being incredibly intelligent?
cause that's what I have.
I think KOTOR 1 got it pretty close. If you go evil, you are very clearly a bad guy well before the game ends and doing some bad guy things.
Sure, you can go after the other bad guy, but that shouldn't be it. Then you're just setting yourself up to have the good guys send another protagonist to defeat you in the sequel.
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Awesomeberger's
All we want to do is be anti-social in a huge underwater distopia powered by DNA rewriting slugs. What's wrong with that?
GNBS
It's terminal
I'm so sorry
An excuse to get out of P.E.? Man that was often the part of the day I looked forward to.
OK, it's only sad when a real person with aspergers falls into this thought trap and has a rude awakening. It's fucking hilarious when a self-diagnosed anti-social loser does the same thing.
G&T kids are massivley over-represented on the socially awkward end of the scale actually. Though there's a number of possible explanations for that (mostly cultural and social ones).
sweet!
let's just cut that down to a more managable buzz word and....
Hey guys, I just got diagnosed with awesome syndrome.
"See, my pet rat has fleas, and he ate my homework and his fleas gave me the Black Death."
spent the morning updating our center's website, then just went and filled the liquid nitrogen tank
then i will take some pictures on a microscope and maybe look at some micro-cat scans
I made a deal with my Sophomore-year Gym teacher that if I aced Health, I didn't need to participate in P.E.
I think it was more I would look for any excuse to get out of doing anything.
And that I'm a giant fucking nerd.
Using a book as the source for the code? "16, 32" meaning page 16, 32nd character. Is this for D&D? Use the player's handbook, but refer to it by some arcane name, like 'the font of all knowledge'.
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Lets be honest here, you got to be around a bunch of other sweaty boys in the shower
it was like a golden corral buffet for your eyes
so, they see a guy who is sociable, charismatic, attractive, and popular
who still plays dungeons & dragons and collects Transformers
and in their heads they're like "huff puff this is not fair i gave up being cool when i decided to be a nerd US GAMERS HAVE AN IDENTITY"
Actually no, it's for a letter to my girlfriend. I bought some postcards in her presence without her noticing and she's pestering me for the details of how and when I did this, I said I'd tell her when I send her the third one, but I don't want to make it easy.
The Bookonomicon.
I have never met a person who has said that.
Throw in huge penis and you've got me.
I've always wondered what it was that made me different from everyone else! Now I know there must be a whole class of people with the same condition. I'm not alone anymore!
i was called a poser at a star trek con
it was pretty mind-blowing