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Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻:ri: 🇨🇦 @ murdoc @autistics.life Posts 0Comments 4Joined 12 mo. ago
Murdoc Addams 🧛🏻:ri: 🇨🇦 @ murdoc @autistics.life
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@ickplant @db0
I remember that decades ago this was considered a classic men vs. women thing, so I wonder why that is, what's going on there. Did "male culture" pick up this trait from their 1% minority somehow? Or is there something else to this? :blobcatthinking:
I remember an incident where my best friend's girlfriend got pissed off at him for doing this (in retrospect I believe he is classic ADHD), and kicked him out of his own room so she could talk to me alone because I was just listening to her. So, on the surface that's weird since I was the autistic one. OTOH, I've had plenty of people tall me what a great listener I am, when it's more do to with me being "quiet and shy" around people I'm not entirely comfortable with yet, and this too scared to offer solutions. So in that respect, yes, me doing so would be a sign of how comfortable I am with you.
@thepostoftomjoad @southsamurai
That's what I have done, starting as far back as my early teens. I began learning psychology, in particular about interpersonal communication and relationships, and learning more throughout my life. So I think that I am better than most NTs in terms of these things. It doesn't make up for things like incompatibilities though, or issues that many people have that more require counselling or therapy. But it has still helped in other cases.
@BasicActionGames @ttrpg @ttrpgs
I'm not normally big on super hero games myself, maybe because I didn't grow up on those kind of comics. Played a little Heroes Unlimited, made a couple of fun characters there. But one system I do love is Aberrant by White Wolf. As is often the case, WW knocked it out of the park.
I only ever played one character in it, kind of, but ended up playing three different versions of him for three different games, each with slightly different powers and a different backstory. His powers were always about shadow/darkness manipulation, including being able to make it tangible and even weaponizing it. Depending on the version, he could do things like make the area around him completely dark (although he could see fine in it), make that darkness physical, thick like tar so that it was hard to hear, move, or even breathe. He could also make shadow beings to do his bidding, shoot "lasers" of darkness, even travel long distances quickly by entering one shadow and coming out another.
For backgrounds, the first version didn't even start out with shadow powers. His only power (aside from a couple of super attributes) was that he was basically undead. His "power" came upon him just a hair too late to save his life after he had drowned, so he was technically dead, but the power kept him going anyway. His heart still beats, and his lungs work, but he didn't need to actually breathe, or eat, or sleep. He didn't get the shadow powers until he was tortured by a demon worshiper and they manifested to protect him. (So much good story in these games!)
Whereas the last version gained him powers before he even knew that he had them. Basically his main power was making a shadow version of himself that could do other tasks. When it started, this shadow clone only manifested while he was asleep, doing things that he wished he could do, but couldn't (e.g. dealing with bullies). This led him (and the player characters) on a journey of investigation, tracking back a series of murders that eventually led to... him! Shock and horror! Yeah, he was always a deeply psychological character with dark, gothic, and horror themes. That's why I keep playing him. :blobcatmeltlove:
Actually, I did play another character in Aberrant after him. Her background was one of my favorite pieces of writing ever. Also psychological, dark, and gothic. Her powers revolved around the manipulation of blood. (Mini-content warning here: this gets a tiny bit graphic or might be unsettling anyway for some.) So she could move other people around by their blood, even into the air (very painfully); cause terrible wounds, especially internal, by rapidly shifting a person's blood in their bodies; and since in Aberrant your own powers can't hurt you directly, it allowed her to fly. She had two little demon wings on her back that were too small to actually make her fly, but it looked like they did if you didn't know how her powers worked. She was also super-attractive, but had the ability to turn back into the mousy little nerd (with no wings) she was before her powers. This gave her a pretty solid secret identity, even though that's seldom necessary in Aberrant; it just added to her personal drama. She also had a thing where if she drank blood, she'd get back her "power" points faster than she would normally, which squicked her out, but could come in handy too. (Ah! More drama!)
Sorry if that was too much. I just love both of those characters. Heck, the first guy I even translated into two characters in Vampire: The Masquerade, and even one in Trinity (although he had no shadow powers, more just the personality). Funny how two of my favorite rpg characters ever came out of a genre I'm not a big fan of. 😛
@raltoid @ickplant
Alternatively, what one of my roommates and I do is often we will preface our rant with "I just need to vent." or finish it with "Thanks for letting me vent."