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?
One person doesn’t get to decide what is offensive or insulting to everyone. Probably better to say “not insulting to me”.
Because I think there’s a valid comparison between calling dumb things retarded, and calling complex things autistic.
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.
My first brain thought reading this was “but all games I like are autistic because I am autistic”
My wife saw me playing Satisfactory once and when I explained the balancing of input and output, she also called it the autistic game.
Thank god I’m only Factorio autistic and not Dwarf Fortress autistic. Then again, Dwarf Fortress looks kinda 🔥 Might check it out.
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.