The Disaster Autist
- Past Work
- office jockey, pro actor, IT pro, bouncer, insurance salesman
- Politics
- Humanist Practicalist
- Philosophy
- Absurddhist
- Health
- multiple joint replacements, two organ transplants, sometimes skin cancer
53 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.
Joined Apr 2022
: One of the things I like least about a lot of story franchises is that the mystery, intrigue, and such of the story world goes very much bye-bye after about the second or third installment. The mythic becomes the commonplace, the taken-for-granted merely so a hero can have more than a hero's journey but become essentially a demigod or indeed a god, which is lazy and boring, IMO.
In old tabletop RPGs in day ior yore, we called such stakes-raising "planet-busting"... and "boring" and "lazy.
: I ran across this today, and it resonated.
I run away from that shit as fast and as hard as I do from its counterpart.
: Emotions don't cause problems. A lack of emotional self-awareness does, as does an inability to read the emotions of the room.
It reminds me of that meme:
The Disaster Autist
- Past Work
- office jockey, pro actor, IT pro, bouncer, insurance salesman
- Politics
- Humanist Practicalist
- Philosophy
- Absurddhist
- Health
- multiple joint replacements, two organ transplants, sometimes skin cancer
53 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.
Joined Apr 2022