my fam is doing our annual rewatch of the lord of the rings movies and i’ve come to the conclusion that when they’re trying to go over the pass of caradhras and gimli is like ‘we should go through mines of moria instead’ and there’s that long saruman speech about how gandalf doesn’t want to go into moria because he knows what the dwarves awoke there, and then gandalf … immediately doesn’t say any of that to any of the party
…that’s basically the equivalent of, in dnd, if the dm had just given a whole prepared monologue of information to gandalf’s player of things gandalf should already know …
….and then when they go ‘so do you tell the rest of the party that?’ gandalf’s player just goes ‘no.’
we all know pokemon was made by an autistic person but consider the idea that it was made for autistic people as well:
1. absolutely nothing in the entire game requires dexterity or quick reaction time. you can beat the game with no problems even if you have the reaction time of a shuckle
2. game mechanics based on categorization, things placed neatly into categories that are easy to memorize
3. there are multiplayer elements but the game itself? completely single player. no social interaction required to enjoy the hell out of this game
4. you are not only encouraged but expected to have empathy for and form an attachment to these virtual creatures that do not actually exist, which is very easy for an autistic person with hyperempathy to do
5. the whole point of the game is collecting things. autistics will understand this one
6. making eye contact with an npc is an act of aggression
7. Loud noises like Supersonic or bright lights like Confuse Ray make your pokemon confused, unable to listen, properly respond and sometimes hit themselves much like someone having an autistic episode.
