Krejall
@Krejall@ttrpg.network
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
10, if that’s as high as it goes. I’m judging ‘perversion’ to be a combination of ‘conceptual distance from normative sex’ and ‘the degree to which the average person would be horrified by it.’ I don’t get banned from places because I’m not a jerk, but there aren’t any ‘communities’ for what I’m into anyway. I don’t think my thing even has a name, really. For that matter, it might not actually fit on a scale like this where the assumption seems to be ‘sex plus some stuff.’ My therapist thinks I should write a book about it.
It’s kind of lonely, and it’s a pain in the ass to find porn (I usually have to just make my own) but I did get lucky in that none of it involves kids or animals or anyone incapable of consent.
- Comment on Do cartoon characters see each other in the art style or “realistically”? 4 months ago:
Centaurworld is a pretty good example of characters being aware of their own animation style as one character slowly transforms between the two.
- Comment on Is it actually very common for people to have violent sadistic fantasies, possibly involving actual people in their lives? 4 months ago:
I think there are different kinds of violent fantasies. I imagine all kinds of violent stuff in an unrealistic action movie kind of way, with exploding heads and disembowelment and all that (I run D&D games lol). I got worried that I might be dangerous. Then, one time I tried to vividly imagine the actual real world consequences of hurting a real person that I knew, and I couldn’t get any further than imagining the pained, betrayed look on their face before I had to hit the eject button. That brief exercise fucked me up for weeks afterward, but it was pretty reassuring. In the long run. I think I’m the schmuck in the horror movie that chokes when it comes down to actually firing a gun at someone and gets killed for hesitating, and honestly I think I’m okay with that.
- Comment on To what do blind people jerk off? 7 months ago:
Has nobody ever talked dirty to you? Words can be very powerful, even recorded ones.
- Comment on Which way, Western man? 9 months ago:
I mean…
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 9 months ago:
A psychopath wouldn’t be worried about whether they’re a psychopath.
- Comment on Neurodivergents of Lemmy. Do you think of yourself as (A) Cursed by fate, permanently damaged and suffering OR (B) Gifted by fate with a nonstandard package of strengths and weaknesses? 9 months ago:
I don’t think anybody really sees themselves as a simple ‘A’ or ‘B’ in this way. Maybe I’m wrong. It just seems impossible to simplify an entire life and experience of the world as either ‘blessed’ or ‘cursed’.
Which isn’t to say I think models of human capability can’t be fun.
I like to imagine it more like ability scores in D&D. Someone might have low Wisdom, but training and proficiency can still make them extremely perceptive. And in some cases, you can find ways to leverage an unusual ability when you’re trying to do something, like making an intimidation check using Strength instead of Charisma. What is a weakness in one scenario can be a strength in the next.
This model is still simple enough to visualize easily, but has enough moving parts to allow for lots of different ways of being without any one way being ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Neurodivergence might be part of the stats you roll up, but your circumstances and your choices combine to build a life experience around them that can be completely different from another person who rolled the same numbers. Likewise, different rolled stats can affect how well you handle certain situations and adventures, but this is neither a curse nor a superpower, and is true for everyone.
Models only get you so far, but humans are a social species. We need each other by our very nature. Teamwork is in our DNA. And, like DNA, teams are more adaptable when they are diverse. Everyone has something to bring to the table, neurodivergent or otherwise.
- Comment on Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters released on Steam 10 months ago:
If you liked this game, you might be interested to learn that Pistol Shrimp games, an independent game dev company started by Paul Rieche III and Fred Ford (the original creators of Star Control and Star Control 2), are making a sequel, with story written by Paul Rieche III.
The re-release on steam is partly to get the word out about it. Join our discord to learn more!
- Comment on Adult casts in (J)RPGs, a list 11 months ago:
Disgusting things, children. Glad I never was one!
- Comment on What's Your Favorite, Not at All Epic, Star Trek Quote 1 year ago:
There’s coffee in that nebula!
- Comment on MmmHmmm 1 year ago:
I am having a hell of a time trying to find this image without text already on it