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Intro/Looking for Friends
About Me
I’ve been on DreamWidth since around November 2010, largely moving blogging operations here since LJ seems to be a ghost-town, where I’ve been active since January 2006 (and I cross-post to both my blogs), along with my Blogspot account “The Autistic Gamer” (http://theautisticgamer.blogspot.com). I’m in my late thirties, and have various interests such as gaming and reading (and I sometimes watch streaming television, though I’m a bit apathetic towards regular network television).
I am, of course, autistic, having received the classic diagnosis as an infant, although it was upgraded to high-functioning autism in junior high (though I didn’t really begin to embrace my autistic personality until a few years into college, since it really, really affects most facets of my life). I don’t particularly care for the label of Asperger’s given Hans Asperger’s shady history, and I have occasional jousts with the family I still live with, being somewhat reluctant to move out due to things like codependency.
Gaming-wise, I mostly play and review Japanese RPGs (along with the occasional Western RPG), and may write a gaming-related editorial once in a blue moon, and give updates at times of what I’m currently playing and what’s in my backlog (which has luckily been shrinking in recent time).
Reading-wise, I mostly read fantasy and science-fiction (and am rereading The Wheel of Time books in prep for the Amazon Prime series), and post reviews of those when I finish them. Sometimes I read other books in between series, most recently Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling.
Politically, I’m center-right, though I’m very, very apathetic towards American politics (and oppose Jeffersonian philosophy on the grounds that every human is unique and incomparable to others), to the point where I actually give more attention to other countries’ politics, especially when the subject has more significant gray area, such as Canada, Mexico, Britain, and Germany, and rarely post about the topic except to say I voted, how, and why. My favorite history book is probably A People’s History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn.
Religiously I’m somewhat centrist, and current attend an Episcopalian church. However, I believe mankind will be saved mostly through nonreligious effort, and that one needs not be Christian or part of a specific religion or denomination for salvation. My favorite book on religion is A People’s History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass.
Sexually, I’m genderfluid, bisexual, and aromantic, but being autistic comes well above those labels.
Another interest is doing anthropomorphic art, although I’ve tried to limit my involvement in the furry fandom given some unfortunate experiences, and while I do have various anthro characters, I’m a human first and foremost.
Next year, I’m most looking forward to the Steam Deck handheld (unless it becomes hard to find like the PlayStation 5, which I’ve occasionally tried to look for albeit too late, and there are many Steam games I’d like to play but can’t due to my antediluvian computer), and the films Dune: Part Two and Turning Red (of course).
Whom I’m Looking For
Friends who share my political apathy and maybe have one or more things in common. I’m a bit liberal about whom I allow to read my blog, and try to keep an open mind.
I’ve been on DreamWidth since around November 2010, largely moving blogging operations here since LJ seems to be a ghost-town, where I’ve been active since January 2006 (and I cross-post to both my blogs), along with my Blogspot account “The Autistic Gamer” (http://theautisticgamer.blogspot.com). I’m in my late thirties, and have various interests such as gaming and reading (and I sometimes watch streaming television, though I’m a bit apathetic towards regular network television).
I am, of course, autistic, having received the classic diagnosis as an infant, although it was upgraded to high-functioning autism in junior high (though I didn’t really begin to embrace my autistic personality until a few years into college, since it really, really affects most facets of my life). I don’t particularly care for the label of Asperger’s given Hans Asperger’s shady history, and I have occasional jousts with the family I still live with, being somewhat reluctant to move out due to things like codependency.
Gaming-wise, I mostly play and review Japanese RPGs (along with the occasional Western RPG), and may write a gaming-related editorial once in a blue moon, and give updates at times of what I’m currently playing and what’s in my backlog (which has luckily been shrinking in recent time).
Reading-wise, I mostly read fantasy and science-fiction (and am rereading The Wheel of Time books in prep for the Amazon Prime series), and post reviews of those when I finish them. Sometimes I read other books in between series, most recently Factfulness by the late Hans Rosling.
Politically, I’m center-right, though I’m very, very apathetic towards American politics (and oppose Jeffersonian philosophy on the grounds that every human is unique and incomparable to others), to the point where I actually give more attention to other countries’ politics, especially when the subject has more significant gray area, such as Canada, Mexico, Britain, and Germany, and rarely post about the topic except to say I voted, how, and why. My favorite history book is probably A People’s History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn.
Religiously I’m somewhat centrist, and current attend an Episcopalian church. However, I believe mankind will be saved mostly through nonreligious effort, and that one needs not be Christian or part of a specific religion or denomination for salvation. My favorite book on religion is A People’s History of Christianity by Diana Butler Bass.
Sexually, I’m genderfluid, bisexual, and aromantic, but being autistic comes well above those labels.
Another interest is doing anthropomorphic art, although I’ve tried to limit my involvement in the furry fandom given some unfortunate experiences, and while I do have various anthro characters, I’m a human first and foremost.
Next year, I’m most looking forward to the Steam Deck handheld (unless it becomes hard to find like the PlayStation 5, which I’ve occasionally tried to look for albeit too late, and there are many Steam games I’d like to play but can’t due to my antediluvian computer), and the films Dune: Part Two and Turning Red (of course).
Whom I’m Looking For
Friends who share my political apathy and maybe have one or more things in common. I’m a bit liberal about whom I allow to read my blog, and try to keep an open mind.
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https://tar-valon.dreamwidth.org/ could be looking for you! This community will be doing a rereading/discussion of the entire series at a rate of a book a month starting December 1st. Might be fun.
Hello!
I ride horses and have won ribbons for it. This is how I came to be so aware of how this one's muzzle was in my September drawing: https://www.deviantart.com/randomclaire-chan/art/September-equus-135002600
I have not joined Blogspot - is it a good place? I think maybe my best friend from middle school Lauren might have one but idk for sure - she's always busy with work these days.
Her friend Lydia runs the blog autistichoya. I visited them when there was a disability conference and stayed over the weekend at their apartment. We ate out at an Ethiopian restaurant.
Gaming-wise I stopped doing anything quicklike when I started having seizures. It was sad.
I read the Wheel of Time series when I was volunteering at the library after the above-mentioned difficulty!
The other stuff might not be a good match.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I don't have a Blogspot. It looks like it's connected to Google now. (It seems like everything's become Googlified these days.)
What RPG's are you into right now? I can only game vicariously through acquaintances these days due to my health, but I'm still curious.
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My all-time favorite RPGs are probably Muramasa Rebirth / Genroku Legends on the PlayStation Vita (which I count as one game since Genroku is Muramasa's DLC, and Shin Megami Tensei - Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker on the Nintendo 3DS, which is a very casual-friendly strategy RPG.
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A ton of my friends have invited me to their houses before the pandemic and had me be Player Two - so though I've never afforded a Playstation 2 or 3, in favour of affording scholastics, I played a couple of their games. (Some people are more gifted with funding than others!)
[Hmm, thinking about it, one I just watched during a one-player game, but that effectively made it a two-player game, with all the joking! ^_^]
I have witnessed a different person running around with a Vita before but never had one myself. I have heard great things about your favourite games.
Emulators have always been my best friends.
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Coding is SUPPOSED to make me able to afford legal copies of all the above!
Maybe I'll just see what you have to say about Super Mario Sunshine! That was one of my favourite games for a very long time - until my sister did away with all my systems. (Then maybe I'll read your Fire Emblem stuff, which I played through with my s.o. at the time. He bade me off with someone else while he was busy at work, who subsequently distanced himself from me as well. It was probably the Communist vibes, but c'est la vie.)
Supply/Demand... I only did okay in economics at the beginning. Then it started to get much too hard, so I dropped that class like a hot potato.
The only XKCD text "Heart-stopping text" I laughed at was the last one: "Why are you trending on Twitter?"
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https://gremy.dreamwidth.org/42213.html
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On second thought...
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"Alea iacta est" -> My d20 roll just came back as a 7!
[The history of that: I have studied a lot of Greek and Latin history since middle school, at my undergrad and then I was invited to a few fancy-looking places in the Philly area to study more for graduate school, but it never actually came to anything since I kept falling ill with bronchial discharge right at the times everyone wanted to meet, even though as my journal notes I am a double-reed musician so right now, it's getting into the busiest time of year for my family.]
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What frustrates me about the stuff you noted like no fast travel, unskippable cutscene dialogue, no pausing, no scene skip, et cetera ad infinitum is: what about when I have to use the bathroom or take a break to eat/sleep? See how out-of-party buddies are doing?
I want to play this game, but I don't 100% want to get lost in another dimension right now, I have a life I want to maintain.
Re: "Alea iacta est" -> My d20 roll just came back as a 7!
Next d20 roll came back as a 2.
With regards to meltdowns... um... I originally thought everyone had them periodically, like, at the end of the semester and they were just universally regarded as a cathartic process of cleansing.)
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I hope your condition improves faster than mine!
I went through five before I found a good one I'm not allergic to. I am at the maximum dosage level of what I am taking, but I don't want to play games with switching again, since the last time I spent such a long while in the hospital.
I have been told by therapist after therapist that exercise and a health[ier] diet will make all such difficulties improve.
But, ramen.
I agreed with the boyfriend I had been playing Fire Emblem with to add a carrot, and it IS true that I read that those are supposed to be good for your eyesight.
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Oh well, my cat knocked my water glass over, time to stop editing this now!
I listened and stopped drinking ten cups of tea a day, to a more realistic number, mixed with water... (I started actually keeping track of them in 2011 when I finally started to have seizures as well, after my car accident, which was at the start of 2008.)
(In my case, I take a mandatory nap when I remember so stop looking at screens for a little bit, then ensure that I drink less than 3-5 cups of tea per diem)
I drank a lot of caffeine since I thought everybody did.
However, it also backfires in that if I don't drink around that amount, then the headaches will return anyway.
My problems stem from a car accident I had in January 2008, just after my first semester of undergraduate study.
I think there's still a likelihood of improvement! I haven't gotten worse! The hospital staff sent me away.
Anyway, I drank so much tea since it was one of my major research projects. Forty-five years ago my mother did a huge project on "teas of the world" - my own focus twenty years later was on Chinese tea. I visited the PRC (I was invited to Guizhou University in southwest China in summer 2013) and learned a bit of Mandarin Chinese, which is still problematic for me more often than not, so I tend to claim better abilities with Japanese or Russian. (Obviously, we're conversing in English, so there's that, but I also wish there were more diversity in the world's dialects.)
Exercise helps with aggravated conditions! However, it'd probably be better to talk with someone who knows more about your particular situation rather than to change anything you've been doing. That's always what I've heard from everywhere.
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