I’m sad I got the Dwarf Fortress and Satisfactory autism and not the Hearts of Iron and Crusader Kings one. My friends with that brand know so much history
My wife saw me playing Satisfactory once and when I explained the balancing of input and output, she also called it the autistic game.
My first brain thought reading this was “but all games I like are autistic because I am autistic”
If you don’t spend weeks curating a personal modlist to make an idealised version of your favourite games, have you ever truly played?
I didn’t realise how much I needed a 9:21 ratio comic, but here it is
Ah yes, my favorite type of meme: “DAE think things that require thinking are autistic???”
Somehow it’s okay for autism but the “R word” is highly offensive. I guess it’s supposed to be a good thing because we gatekeep an attention span longer than fifteen seconds behind being autistic?
What the hell is the R word
“retard” I guess, but I have no idea why they brought it up
Because I think there’s a valid comparison between calling dumb things retarded, and calling complex things autistic.
Not at all. “retarded” is/was regularly used as a slur against people with developmental disorders, including ASD peeps. conflating it with dumb is harmful and/or triggering to the same people.
Your problem here is that you actually feel that being autistic is bad, and therefore are insulted to be likened to such.
“Autistic” has been used as a slur for a couple of years now, and your comic is no different. It’s used against people with different minds and medical conditions. What makes a game autistic? Because it’s different than other games? Because they require more thought and work? Because they’re busier games? Using the word autistic to describe them is insensitive to those with the condition and misrepresentation of what the word means. Maybe you could use a word that already meets the definition of what you’re saying rather than attacking an entire demographic?
Somehow it’s okay for autism but the “R word” is highly offensive.
Yeah? Only one of those words is a slur. It’s the one you literally can’t write down because it gets removed for being a slur.
Retard isn’t itself a slur just like autism isn’t. The context in which they’re used makes them a slur, and in OPs context, autistic is used as a slur.
You’re still fighting the r-word war? Most people moved on around 2008 with the attack helicopter jokes.
Thank god I’m only Factorio autistic and not Dwarf Fortress autistic. Then again, Dwarf Fortress looks kinda 🔥 Might check it out.
I want to like DF but then I get annoyed at having to tell the dwarves literally every single thing to do
You’re grown ass dwarves
Figure out that we’re done making turtle soup.
Age of wonders, hearts of iron, mount and blade?
How those autistic?
Does make all strategy game autistic?
All grand strategy, automation and city building games. I don’t make the rules.
