Yahtzee comparing cluttered game design to Asperger's Syndrome
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Oh god. This goes for all of you: next time someone says someone that makes you mad, just shut up. These days we need a constant ticker running at the bottom of our vision which analyzes the race, medical conditions, sexual preference, religion, and national background of a person we are talking to and gives a running list of words we are not allowed to say. Jewish? Don't say "pennies." Liver disease? Alcoholic jokes are a no-no.
Its rediculas, and if you really feel so strongly about it just don't watch it.
For the past couple years I felt that western society was more advanced than middle eastern society simply based on the "muhammed cartoon controversy" where street riots occured because someone didn't like a cartoon in some stupid danish newspaper.
Well, I was rudely awakened to street protests against a cartoon in the new york post, and lost all respect for our society as well.
Sticks and stones will break your bones,
BUT WORDS WILL NEVER #$()@%*)(#*% HURT YOU
Its rediculas, and if you really feel so strongly about it just don't watch it.
For the past couple years I felt that western society was more advanced than middle eastern society simply based on the "muhammed cartoon controversy" where street riots occured because someone didn't like a cartoon in some stupid danish newspaper.
Well, I was rudely awakened to street protests against a cartoon in the new york post, and lost all respect for our society as well.
Sticks and stones will break your bones,
BUT WORDS WILL NEVER #$()@%*)(#*% HURT YOU
Maybe this will sum of some of the more negative views in a nicer way then other posts. Aspergers is like the ADD of this century. Parents are quick to diagnose their children with something if their kids are not perfect. The problem with this is that the whole hype surrounding Aspergers and Autism makes the idea of it being a possibility more prevalent within a doctor's mind to diagnose it. Before a kid would just be going through a phase or just be introverted etc...The criterion for many diseases and psychological disorders have insanely broad criterion and any person considered "normal" could open a book and probably find something like 10 things wrong with them. And I think this is what has happened to Aspergers, parents read about a wide range of symptoms and attribute it to the child, this in turn has the possibility of creating a vicious cycle in which the child is influenced or told they are thinking one way or another and it propagates into their method of thinking and thus inadvertently causes what was thought.
I'm sorry but as Neruobiology major and Psych minor I've seen people with real disorders who have actual symptoms. To me this whole trend of "highly functioning" is questionable, it is incredibly clear that many high functioners are barely any different from any normal person and well within the standard deviation.
I'm sorry but once a disease starts getting positive claimed benefits like being "highly intelligent" it really shouldn't be a disease anymore, the prominent cases are people who are completely deficit in numerous areas of their mental capacities and excel in one or two things, a high cost for few benefits. It is not a 1 for 1 like oh I'm overly shy or somewhat awkward when talking to people but I'm an ace at math, science etc... that isn't a disease, you just suck at social skill and thus you spent time at home studying.
Some angst because of this is because Aspegers and autism is the new excuse people use that you have to be nice to them or you can't offended them for one reason or another, when they function as well as or better than the next person.
In a few years a new "disease" will be diagnosed and its prevalence will rise and aspergers will fall, like ADD did.
There are people who are truly affected by such diseases and are pained by it on a daily basis and will suffer with it for the rest of their lives, the rest will just have an excuse whether "diagnosed" or not.
I'm sorry but as Neruobiology major and Psych minor I've seen people with real disorders who have actual symptoms. To me this whole trend of "highly functioning" is questionable, it is incredibly clear that many high functioners are barely any different from any normal person and well within the standard deviation.
I'm sorry but once a disease starts getting positive claimed benefits like being "highly intelligent" it really shouldn't be a disease anymore, the prominent cases are people who are completely deficit in numerous areas of their mental capacities and excel in one or two things, a high cost for few benefits. It is not a 1 for 1 like oh I'm overly shy or somewhat awkward when talking to people but I'm an ace at math, science etc... that isn't a disease, you just suck at social skill and thus you spent time at home studying.
Some angst because of this is because Aspegers and autism is the new excuse people use that you have to be nice to them or you can't offended them for one reason or another, when they function as well as or better than the next person.
In a few years a new "disease" will be diagnosed and its prevalence will rise and aspergers will fall, like ADD did.
There are people who are truly affected by such diseases and are pained by it on a daily basis and will suffer with it for the rest of their lives, the rest will just have an excuse whether "diagnosed" or not.
It would be a lot easier for me to react to the Zero Punctuation's video if there would be a written script of every show. Yahtzee talks way too fast for me to grasp everything he says.
Yes, I am le frenchman.
And tell Yvette thanks for dinner, and that I'll return the favor when I come home.
Hon hon hon!
Yes, I am le frenchman.
And tell Yvette thanks for dinner, and that I'll return the favor when I come home.
Hon hon hon!
Actually, I do have Asperger's (or is it Autism, I forget the term the doctor used) and I find Yahtzee's videos quite funny (though not as funny as his old ones, I must say).
Though, I actually did start a thread about a previous video of his where he mentions a game acting like it has Asperger's Syndrome and my resulting anger, not from him making fun of Asperger's, but from him using two behaviors that actually occur in ADHD and saying it's Asperger's.
Man, a quick Wikipedia search can give you the basics on a "syndrome"... is that so hard?
*Cough*
Anyway, I wasn't offended by Yahtzee... I was annoying by his not grounding his jokes in fact, but I wasn't offended.
Asperger's is actually very difficult to diagnose and can be easily misdiagnosed as other things and vice-versa.
Though, nothing annoys me more than people who diagnosis themselves with it, it has to be said.
And where in popular belief does Asperger's cause elite levels of programming knowledge to form? I ask you, where?
Though, I actually did start a thread about a previous video of his where he mentions a game acting like it has Asperger's Syndrome and my resulting anger, not from him making fun of Asperger's, but from him using two behaviors that actually occur in ADHD and saying it's Asperger's.
Man, a quick Wikipedia search can give you the basics on a "syndrome"... is that so hard?
*Cough*
Anyway, I wasn't offended by Yahtzee... I was annoying by his not grounding his jokes in fact, but I wasn't offended.
Yes, because everyone with Autism has no sense of humor, clearly...Kukul said:
Asperger's is actually very difficult to diagnose and can be easily misdiagnosed as other things and vice-versa.
Though, nothing annoys me more than people who diagnosis themselves with it, it has to be said.
And where in popular belief does Asperger's cause elite levels of programming knowledge to form? I ask you, where?