Oops, I forgot about my quotes. I went to bed and woke up since I made that so I most of forgot my others quotes, my bad.
I was going to respond to you to tell you that yes, it is indeed a mechanic: if you get a Lucky! in battle, you get a chance to win either more experience or more coins, but you also have the chance to either only get what you started with or to lose it all.
As for
EarlTamm
I was supposed to point out that I too have both Asperger's and ADHD, but to point out the differences between us.
As you well know those on the ASD often have one or two intense interests, though I feel like us with Asperger's tend to be much less narrow but just as intense (like instead of wheels on a car specifically or the sound of wheels on a car, we really like cars or vehicles as a whole but we can tell you just about anything about cars just like those who are higher on the ASD can be very knowledgeable about that one subject).
My big two are video games and general media. I used to be big into movies, but now I've kinda moved on and I enjoy anime and creator content a lot more, though if I started reading manga and books again you'd probably never see me on here again. However, whereas you guys have been listing that you hesitated to join social media platforms like forums, I've never had that issue: my issue was talking with people IRL.
See, when I was growing up I got into video games and computers early on, at like the ages of 4 and 5, and I've never looked back for the most part until I became an adult and realized how things kinda change when you have responsibilities (though I'm still bad at them). It was all I talked about and I was very knowledgeable but no one really cared and those who did I sometimes overwhelmed them. I never had many friends in school and most of them abandoned me as the years went by, so I stuck with what I knew: video games. When I discovered Naruto, the manga/anime that had the biggest impact on my life, I would always conjure up jutsu ideas or improving ones I had seen as I always have been the creative type but really not had any skills behind this creativity. This was when I found out about text roleplaying forums where you could create characters and interact with other characters written by someone else and have crazy interactions and build a story you really couldn't do anywhere else, and ever since then I've been big on social medias of all sorts (anyone remember Gaia Online? Tinier-Me? Jcink or Forumotion websites? MySpace? Yeah, had an emo profile there just like most teens around that time).
Since I could find a place online with people who shared my interests and I didn't have to worry about talking about other things or the nuances of face-to-face discussions, I hit it so hard I stopped doing homework or anything I really should have just because of how much I enjoyed it. So I can't truly relate to being anxious to join a forum despite having the same 'disabilities.' Now sure, I had to learn that I didn't need to do stupid stuff like fake who I was for attention or realize that trolling isn't something to take to heart, but once I broke through that I had an even better time.
Now take that and mix it with super-Christian parents who thought video games were bad for you and limited me to an hour a day on any form of interactive media as well as pushing me into fields of study I didn't care for and you can see the 'oof' everywhere. Not fun times, I assure you, but I was never really an angry person about anything unless I was losing at a game...well, once I grew up that is.
Quick question for you
EarlTamm
and
Ovaltine
and anyone else here who knows or believes that they are on the Spectrum (I say believes because it's a known fact that sometimes people self-diagnose and are usually wrong, like 'OMG I'm SO OCD, haha!' and the reason the WebMD memes exist): have you ever noticed that the claims of us being un-emotional really...don't seem to fit? They say that we are robots and don't relate or feel sympathy for others, but I've never known that to be true for myself. I always felt like I had too much emotion surging to the point that it was almost too much and didn't know what was appropriate to say or do, and combining not knowing what to do and often doing it wrong and being corrected due to a lack of proper social skills, I just didn't do anything...and thus I look like an uncaring robot when in reality I just didn't know how to properly approach the situation with the overwhelming emotions I had.
I found something that suggested this after interviewing people on the spectrum, if you guys are interested I'll see if I still have it (or if it even still exists).
Mr. Stagg Whenever I'm reading through the Banjo thread, I'm always reading your posts in Mama Luigi's voice lmao
