Posts made by il-volpe

@jennkryst Semi?

ETA: I have been trying to play vampire.

Also. If I try Liberation, is their "every XP spend must be justified" rule going to go the way such rules often go -- I can't spend XP until I do something special, but I am never actually offered an opportunity to do something even half fucking special, so it's just doubling-down on making the game unplayable for the rank-and-file?

I can't imagine how people would think it would.

What @pacha said.
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Knight of Crowns: I will ask you a series of questions designed to root out all pretenders to the throne.
Only a true High King will hold the answers in his heart.
What popular television program stars actor Tim Daly?

Eliot: What the fuck?

@astrid What are you playing there?

Witch-Kings / Witch-Queens. Family has nothing to do with it, you rule if you can cast Edward's Sparkling Testicles, or you rule if you can keep your hand in this Box of Pain longer than anybody else, or, etc.

Hehe, clothes all the same. Remember the Jeff Goldblum The Fly (1986)? He's got seven identical suits. I was 11 and said, "I am gonna do that when grow up."

@thhppbbbt Not so long ago we called this BAP ("Broader Autism Phenotype") or "cousins."

@silverfox said in Autism and The MU* Community:

Where does the line get crossed for a behavior to be more spectrum than a quirk?

Seemingly sarcastic, yet true: The line is where neurotypicals start to think it's weird and annoying.

@macha Another autistic friend of mine uses only slip-on shoes because it takes too long to adjust laces so that lace-up shoes are exactly the same amount of pressure on each foot.

@derp Yes. https://www.worldcat.org/title/born-to-run-a-hidden-tribe-superathletes-and-the-greatest-race-the-world-has-never-seen/oclc/318360335&referer=brief_results

I do hand flaps, and tics. Not all the time, I can be very still. I do what my sister-in-law calls "the tyrannosaurus thing" which is holding one's hands high in front of one's chest. Once I walked in on my sister-in-law, my stepmother and my grandmother all talking about how they could tell when their husbands were getting sick because they'd do the tyrannosaurus thing before noticing themselves that they weren't feeling well. My grandmother looked at me and said, "It doesn't work on you, you do it all the time." I'm a lot more aware of it since then and do it less in public.

I'm pretty drawn to people who tic and stim, my instincts go "family!" and I want to share food with them and clobber any hyena that tries to nibble on them.

@faraday I really like those foot-glove toe-shoe things called Vibram Fivefingers. They have two major disadvantages. One is that the best ones, with the thinnest most flexible sole, are deadly on ice; you melt the ice under your foot and hydroplane across the street. The other that everybody wants to talk about them.

Just being barefoot is best, but people are batshit about it, so I end up walking around with a pair of shoes slung over my shoulders so I can put them on to go indoors.

I am too old for a childhood autism diagnosis -- I predate "Asperger's Syndrome" in the US and Canada, and a speech delay was a required criterion for an autism diagnosis prior to that. I probably had a speech delay but nobody noticed; evidently I cried so much as an infant that family members feel they are still justified in ignoring me when I make noise forty-six years later.

So as a kid I was "gifted, but emotionally disturbed" and put in the gifted program and the one for the firebugs, the kids in foster care, the kids of colour who didn't grovel enough and the girls who got angry.

One day like fifteen years ago I made a MUSH character with a certain set of my own quirks, more of them than I usually do, and another player told me what a great representation of an autistic adult he was. I still don't have an 'official' diagnosis from a medical-expert-on-autism, but nurses, shrinks, my GP, other autistic people, my uncle's PT, etc keep giving me the casual one.

MUSHing, where people's social-signals are right there in text, allows me to play at being far more socially adroit than I am.

I am totally hyperlexic. It's not so profound now. When I was a kid it was probably hilarious. When I was in grade 3 I went on this Hemingway kick. I didn't understand Hemingway, of course, but when I re-read them in my late twenties I remembered the cadence.

@faraday I, too, am an "idiopathic toe-walker." You might be amused by this barefoot running trend thing, and the 'Born to Run' book and related stuff about the mechanics of the human gait, 'cause it kinda looks like not being a toe-walker is an artifact of wearing harder-soled shoes and shoes with heels. My mom used to hang out with this old Shoshone guy when I was a kid and he said I just walked the way people did when everybody wore moccasins.

@derp Places that serve waffles, generally.

@ganymede The entertainment factor is increased if you do it when they don't ask, but when they say something like, "I'm so hungry but there's nothing in the house/I am too sick to cook/I can't decide what to cook, much less muster the energy to do it," and don't tell them you did it until after it arrives.

Actually, you can bring your online friends soup. Sort of. I have ordered delivery food online for friends 1.5k miles away.

Hmmm. I find I feel that having a grid is a defining element of MU-ness. They were created to have multi-player Zork.

I'm kinda puzzled as to what one needs to do to make it accessible for blind players. My first 'MUD' was LambdaMOO, and one of my first MU* friends is blind. He uses a screen-reader, the MOO didn't do anything about it.

I think MUSHes do need to think about accessibility, in numerous ways. I am pretty sure the player demographic has a disproportionately high percentage of disabled people. I don't think not doing this makes the game not-a-MU, but it does kinda make the designers dicks.