Tarquinn2049

Yeah, I’m autistic, so I have a swing from 25th percentile in some categories to 99.9th percentile in my best categories. The crazy thing is that it feels the same from my perspective. I can only tell I’m relatively good or bad at something when I compare to others. And it makes for alot of confusing scenarios when people know me as a “genius” but then see me not catch something they would think is obvious.

I have a pretty special relationship with intelligence, and a somewhat uncommon perspective.

One of my strengths is spatial reasoning, I basically have a full map of everything I have ever seen permanently running all the time in some part of my brain. Down to milimeter precision. I can tell you exactly how far away something is from me now based on the last time I saw it. When I park my car in the garage, it is always within the same milimeter in both dimensions. Which is helpful, because my space is pretty tight.

The downside is, when there are alot of moving objects, it can cost alot… and I can’t not do it. So driving in heavy traffic is basically no. I would end up going catatonic, and thats not a good way to drive. So I always drive at the least congested times, even if that means having to fill a few hours of time before an appointment or something.

One of my weaknesses is of course the standard one that comes to mind, facial expressions. I have set up various ways to logic it out, but no matter how much thought and reasoning you put into it, the differences can be too subtle to make up for not being able to intuit them. And generally, it takes me so long to guess what someone is feeling that I might as well just default to guessing “annoyed” as it will likely eventually be correct anyway. Lol.

But, interesting enough, being smart at something does indeed feel like everyone else is bad at it, rather than that you are good at it. And being bad at something doesn’t innately feel like you are bad at it, and surprisingly, it also doesn’t feel like other people are better at it, despite me knowing that to logically be true. I would guess there is some survival instinct or ego preservation mechanic at play. But yeah, it kind of just feels like I make random mistakes and other people are getting lucky more often. Which kind of alligns with the way I’ve heard lower intelligence people describe their entire lives. So that kind of checks out. Unfortunately for me, I am otherwise smart enough to know that how it “feels” is an illusion.

Some of the things I am bad at are more like low aptitude, I could learn them with enough time and effort, it just takes so much more time and effort than the things I have high aptitude for. But other things are unfortunately seemingly impossible to improve, some physical structure of my brain just wasn’t initially designed in a way that it can perform that function. I’m assuming the aptitude stuff is mostly things that depend on regional neuron density, and mine likely varies across the whole. Some missing function ones have kind of all of a sudden sprung to life at some stage of my life, out of the blue. I would guess those are ones that I didn’t initially have the physical pathways for, but eventually neural plasticity found an alternate route to it. I didn’t have empathy until about age 15, but now I almost have too much, lol. But I do actively practice it. I will sit there and spend an hour literally emulating someone elses life in my imagination to the best of my knowledge. It’s very helpful for alot of things. I’ll know when I hit a wall in my emulation, what sorts of things I would like to know more about.

Another interesting note, because my brain is somewhat poorly wired in alot of ways, it actually accounts for a much higher percentage of my daily caloric use. I can eat so much more food than other people my size, sucks when paying for it, but awesome when eating some of my favourite stuff.

VR is done with a controller for each hand. Nice to play old emulated games on a virtual 4k screen set up wherever you want at any given moment, any size and distance. There are regular olden days style flat screen emulators, but also a few systems have full VR emulators too, they convert the games into 3D, either immersive first person or diorama mode. There is also a 3DS emulator in VR so you can play 3DS games in perfect 3D and instead of 400x240(240p), you can play in 1080p or more. And if you missed out and are curious about Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, of course there are VR emulators for that. There were some pretty cool games, and now they don’t have to only be in various shades of red. You can pick which color they are various shades of. And there is a project currently in the works to colorize each game properly instead, as an overlay.

Can also play while laying down and put the screen on your roof. Or play while a passenger in a car, bus, train, plane.

And with VR, hand motions are 1 to 1, no waggles, but also no exaggeration. You move your hand exactly how you want to swing your racket, or sword, or staff. People have gotten pretty creative with spell casting in various games.

But yeah, great way to play wii games. Especially the ones that supported wii motion plus. Wii is one of the systems where you can choose to play in VR, not just flat screen. Gamecube too, cuz same emulator.

Is the foot intentionally a person? Is that some sort of reference I’m not aware of?

The windows normally roll down slightly when you ask the door to open itself. It’s actually been a thing for a long time on cars with frameless windows, you still need to be waterproof with the doors closed. So if you open the door with the window fully up, it has to slide out from the water proofing successfully. Depending on how tight that seal is, it might not be successful, the window might break. So they normally roll down a bit then open, and when you close it they roll back up to make a stronger seal.

On older cars it was a physical thing that brings the windows lower when you pull the door handle. They could have retained that feature for the manual release, but I guess the added price probably wasn’t worth it since the idea is that you only have to manually release in an emergency anyway. So a small chance of the window breaking, like very small, is not a huge deal. If it was every single time you opened the door, sure a chance of breaking the window every day would suck. But for how small the chance is, and only in an emergency, it makes sense to want to save that money.

Look forward to it, worst comes to worst, two new options for the sims, with this and paralives is two chances to not fail like sims 3 and 4 did. And I don’t mean fail in a financial sense, I’m sure they made money. But failed in a “worth playing” sense.

Well, they detected destroyed versions of the virus in pasteurized milk, so unless something else destroyed them before the pastuerization would have done so, there is a chance raw milk would have live virus in it. But it is certainly possible something else was responsible for destroying it before it got into the milk. I sure wouldn’t take the chance myself, it’s already a pretty bad idea to drink raw milk without this added.

That’s just a bunch of big science words for “exotic”, doesn’t exotic milk sound delicious? I’ll drink my wild and untamed milk that is free from all the rules society uses to make it boring and safe. And since even I’m not sure if this is coming across sarcastic, /s. And for good measure, /poe’s.

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Yeah, kingsway is awesome. Played so much of that, got every ending and every class. Last time I played it in VR through virtual desktop so I could have two fast and accurate “mouse pointers”, it was basically cheating. But luckily I had already done everything by then.

Thousands of videos exist of that too. We don’t have to guess what happened, we know how many of them were not peaceful. We also know what their goals were and how close they got to achieving them.

Just like all the video analysis and the physical evidence at these scenes tell us how peaceful they indeed were.

Speaking of video footage, have you recently rewatched footage of the jan 6 riots, even stuff they released themselves that they thought was showing themselves in a positive light at the time…

It kind of sucks that having literal video proof of how it all went down doesn’t actually matter. They just say whatever they want, and so many people will never look into it, just take their word.

I’m assuming the magazine size. Which is generally why magazine size is the common way to enforce which rifles are considered problematic for home ownership.

What “shit” would have to go down to where you would need to have each others backs? You know your opponents are the ones that don’t even want to own guns… you don’t have to be terrified of us.

If you mean -in person- then there is quite likely an autism social society in your area, they probably have a web presence, cuz otherwise we would never find them. So search up words like that and see if you get any results nearby.

The club and social activities will generally be oriented more towards the more profoundly affected members, but it’s common that the volunteers working with them will also be autistic but able to handle organisation and responsibility of the other members. So whichever you are looking for, you’ll find them there.

I think that specific block is also more likely to be a street address in a city. So it has two reasons to be common easy to remember numbers.

The things he’s eating often didn’t eat any meat. Hehe.

Oh ok. Yeah fair. I guess I’m used to the simplified version. Where it doesn’t use the full list, just splits it in half. This method would also work for odd lists of numbers rather than only even. Makes sense.

There is a bit of a typo in it. Since the list of 100 numbers was split in half, it should be x50 not x100. 50 sets of 101 from each pair.

I don’t know what they mean about firefox breaking, unless they are on the nightly stream. I don’t recommend being on nightlies if stability is important to you.

At this point, emulating or using a wrapper for 3dfx is not gonna make any game that needs it run bad. Don’t really need the “full speed” of native support anymore.