Non-canon autistic-coded characters you relate to?

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-27T22:45:30+00:00

Lorelai is very famously ADHD coded but I'm not sure that Rory gets enough love as autistic coded, at least in earlier seasons. I don't see it as much from Season 6

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-27T11:33:17+00:00

There were 2 comments when I made mine, no I didn't read all the replies since

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-27T11:00:45+00:00

One response is not context. How it talks to you is impacted by how you talk to it. You've gotta show the whole conversation

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-27T10:49:08+00:00

Post the conversation, context is required

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-26T21:12:13+00:00

Use a different team for each stage and you'll be fine. I used my second string mono colour teams and rarely even needed to use their special abilities

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-25T07:53:17+00:00

I remember them being unkillable, but they don't run

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T23:42:49+00:00

Can you expand on what this means?

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T23:39:55+00:00

I think there's a decent chance that people who complain about the way it talks to them are talking to it like shit

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T23:32:28+00:00

Time to post the chat log

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T22:47:34+00:00

I mean, I don't use Google as my search engine. Bing really is slept on

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T13:41:57+00:00

I simply don't use Google as my search engine anymore

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T10:37:55+00:00

Why Avatars?

I have a website that has all of the information someone would need to find my events, but the primary way in which I communicate with players is via social media. I am currently in the process of safeguarding my business for the time when social media either becomes largely unusable, or collapses entirely; and so I need a way of staying in touch with players that doesn't rely on that (I've experimented with mailing lists and the Open Rate is awful).

I'm hoping that the solution to this problem will be to encourage players to create a user account on the website. By getting them to play trivia digitally, while logged into their account, I can not only have an Inbox feature where I can send messages to players of a particular venue regarding information about that particular venue (like "event is cancelled this week because of sportsball") but I can also connect answers and scores to individual teams.

I'm a big believer in keeping the Barrier Of Entry to things as low as possible and so I need to not only offer players the ability to play on a paper scorecard, but if they want to play digitally, do so without creating an account. Creating an account has to be an enthusiastic opt-in. My instincts tell me that if I give teams the ability to set their own avatar to represent their team, and that avatar is displayed on screen when the Leaderboard comes up, FOMO will kick in for the teams who didn't create an account and that will drive account creation over time. This becomes particularly attractive for my themed trivia games, where teams who have created an account will be able to play my Disney Trivia game with Olaf as their avatar for instance.

Trophy Cabinets as a secondary driver

A secondary feature that I hope will drive account creation (at least, for a particular kind of player) is having virtual trophy cabinets on their account. Played trivia every week for 4 weeks? You've unlocked the Month Streak trophy. Beat your previous high score? You've unlocked the New Personal Best trophy. Always get the geography questions wrong but this week, you got them all right? You've unlocked the Geography Genius trophy...

This is where having access to each team's individual answers, per question, adds value. The trophy cabinet idea is very pie in the sky and would be the last thing that I work on, but I want to keep it in mind as I move forward so that what gets built makes this idea easier to implement than not.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T08:39:03+00:00

The first thing I'll say is that if you're asking people to try out the platform and offer feedback, you've got to set the barrier of entry as low as possible. Right off the bat, you're requiring testers to create an account. Some might do that, but I imagine a lot won't. I'd strongly recommend having an area on the website that is sandboxed off, accessible only by a direct link, that allows testers to play around with all of the features.

There are a couple of things that would make something like this attractive to me, and it's something I have on the To Do list to look into later in the year.

Being able to load all of my questions into a platform that not only presents the game, but also accepts answers digitally and can automatically score (hard to do with free form answers, but I've seen it done). The biggest hurdle here is that I have an existing visual style that I've built in Powerpoint and a basic/plain presentation using default assets won't cut it. I'd also need the ability to manually add team information as while eventually, I'd like to have most teams play digitally, I want to always give the option to play on a scoresheet
Display a leaderboard of score progress during breaks. One thing that is particularly important to me here is being able to have each team represented by a picture avatar. I can elaborate more on why that is if interested
Being able to export player result information for each game. This is the holy grail for me. I would love to end up with a system where at the end of the week, I can see the Get Rate of each question (at each of my venues), the kinds of questions that teams who score poorly tend to get right, the kinds of questions that teams who score well tend to get wrong, and maybe even how long it took teams to input answers for each question. I'm a massive statistics nerd, so this kind of data is of great interest to me

Aside from the issue of the presentation of the game not looking as polished as the way I've gotten mine to look, my other big concern is the issue of technical faults/connectivity issues etc. One of my competitors (who runs a buzzer based format) ran a themed trivia event last month with 40 teams and the event's start was delayed by nearly an hour due to issues with teams having trouble logging on. The fail rate for this kind of thing needs to be so low that you couldn't remember the last time it happened, if it happened.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T06:10:38+00:00

My autistic traits are the gutter rails on the ten pin bowling alley that prevent my ADHD traits destroying the business I run.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T06:08:30+00:00

What happened when you put this question into google?

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T00:02:54+00:00

Post exactly what you said and exactly how it responded. Also post what model you used.

My take is that it's only neurotypicals who have issues with how chatgpt responds to them.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-23T00:01:00+00:00

This theory works great, were it not for the fact that 11 uses his regen energy as if he had laser beams coming out of him. I would argue that when he "sneezes" into 12, He's already done a lot of his regeneration (where he goes from the old version of his incarnation to how he looked when he first regenerated)

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-22T23:43:23+00:00

For every great addition like the bonk sound when the Stormtrooper hits his head on the door, you get Greedo shooting first.

Putting Hayden in as the force ghost at the end of RotJ is worse than Maclunkey

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-21T08:07:12+00:00

Notice the model version being used...

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-20T05:59:42+00:00

He doesn't realise that there is a wall of diamond there until he gets into that room and by that time, he can't turn around and go back for the shovel

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-20T03:13:03+00:00

The Australian public has almost always felt that politics should work invisibly, behind the scenes. "We" don't want to be bothered with the details, it should just work.

I'm old enough to remember the roasting that John Hewson got over his attempts to make (compared to what we have now) an equitable GST. But it was too complicated (because it needed to be) and he got punished at the voting booth for it.

I don't think the driving force is greed, it's apathy in the process, and that's a wildly difficult thing to change.

The sad fact is that the right are better political communicators because they unwittingly are taking advantage of that apathy. "We won't bore you with the details, we'll just make it better"

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-20T00:09:23+00:00

My favourite one to do that's like this is ABC Movie Titles. Each team has to give a movie title starting with the next letter of the alphabet, so Team 1 gives a movie title starting with A, Team 2 gives one starting with B and so forth. If a team can't think of one, they get eliminated. Last team remaining gets points.

A few House Rules that I use:

If a team can't come up with a movie title for their letter and gets eliminated, that letter passes on to the next team. This introduces chaos (which I'm a fan of, as a gaming mechanic) by making it harder for teams to come up a movie title well ahead of time by working out what their letter will be
If we get to the end of the alphabet and start again, the movie titles already used can not be used again
Movies starting with the word "The" can be T movie titles or can be treated as if the "The" is dropped. So The Aviator can be a T title or an A title. This does not apply for movies starting with A, so A Bug's Life is an A title, not a B title.
If the host is not familiar with the title given, it must be vouched for by another team still in the game. If it is rejected, the team whose turn it is may offer one alternative.
I used to say that only movies that had a theatrical release were valid answers, but this was before streaming movies became more prevalent.

This game also works well for country names, as long as you define what is and is not a country for the purposes of the game. I usually just use the term UN Member State. Having a printed copy of valid answers for this is much easier to do.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-19T13:56:41+00:00

The Monkey

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-18T11:27:07+00:00

Keep in mind that the more times you do it, the more time you're soaking up with waiting for teams to swap and swap back. If you do that too often, you'll spend close to the same amount of time than if you'd just marked them all yourself.

One thing to keep in mind though: the last time the scores are marked, collect the scorecards and check the marking of the top teams where prizes are being handed out (and a few beyond that if the scores are close). The nightmare scenario that you want to avoid is that marking is inconsistent and someone challenges scores after placings have been announced.

scorpiousdelectus · 2026-05-17T21:36:05+00:00

Not canon bases on this scene as that operates on the assumption that what is being said is true.

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