Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025If you switch on level scaling for the enemies it's rock solid and even an encounter with a pack of wolves is a challenge. However, you can play it on easiest level and enjoy it like a movie if you want. Nobody loses out. 100
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I'd just rather see games where the maximal number of people can enjoy and complete them. Something like Dark Souls is great for people who want to die a lot and get a kick out of hard gaming. It's a waste of money for anyone else. Witcher 3 got it about right. Death March is a hard setting. 200
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025I know this may come as a shock to you but people whose preferences you don't agree with also get to have their say. Most game designers nowadays are adept at providing some sort of extreme difficulty level. 100
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025It's always a form of gatekeeping or people would just do their own thing and not be aggressively trying to fit in with others and point out who isn't part of it. 010
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Some games are just a sack of wank, it's that simple. And they ruin it for themselves by being lazy. 140
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I'd rather have fun. I'd rather play something well made. I have had my moments of losing it at well made games and persevering. Something like Super Metroid or Zelda Link To The Past. Where once you get a grip on it it's beatable. Even if it was hard to suss out. 150
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025No. If a game throws a brick wall at me that's not fun to beat it's going on the back burner, probably permanently. I don't mind something that's actually a challenge you can overcome but when it's a tedious bullet sponge war of attrition with unplayable dynamics it's piss poor design. 1160
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Fashion. The constant desire to move the goalposts on what's cool to wear/watch/listen to/follow just so you can humiliate and exclude anyone behind the curve (or anyone uninterested in joining in). Why? What's the point? 150
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 22/01/20251. Zelda - Link to the Past 2. Super Metroid 3. Skyrim 4. Final Fantasy 6 5. Fallout 4 6. Breath of the Wild 7. Gran Turismo 8. Super Mario Kart 9. Baldur's Gate 3 10. Witcher 3 010
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025It's not even about the actual salute. It's about the way the press just rolled over and started gaslighting us. He got to do a sieg heil in plain view at the largest podium then watch the people who should be holding him to account roll over and expose the throat. Cowards. 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Blatant Nazi salute appears to be just like a Nazi salute drawing speculation that it could be something other than a Nazi salute from utter cowards masquerading as journalists. 180
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025That's because you weren't saying something remotely reasonable. Disgusting. You're supposed to be taking some sort of moral high ground against Nazis and yet here you are. 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Huh? What the hell are you on about? I'd like you to very clearly explain the link between being autistic and being attracted to Nazism. 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Yeah we knew it was something. Didn't stop us being fucking horrible to you, obviously, but we always knew there was something up. 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025We haven't spoken for years. All the girls chose him over me. 😉 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025It's a marvellous idea. Everyone should copy her and he should be left alone, blinking and confused, in a massive empty auditorium. Even the building staff should quietly leave as soon as he arrives. 030
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025It's an autocorrect mishap because I meant deprecation (it just tried to do it to me again but this time I was ready for it) and I'm pretty sure you knew I did. But top drawer condescension. That means talking down to people. 120
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025OMG I'm autistic. I'm not supposed to get jokes and I'm outperforming 99% of these replies. It's satirical humour, folks. Self depreciation. Sorry, I just used a big word. He's mocking a particular mindset. Is particular a big word? Fuck! 2411
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I assumed you were snarking at Jools Holland. His Hootenanny is prerecorded. 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The fact that this book (just insert anything outside what authoritarians think are rigid social norms for left handedness) exists for people today and ought not to seems to fly over people's heads way more than it should. Great post! 010
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Please stop adding stigma to people suffering from some form of mental illness in this way. Yes, often an identifiable mental illness is a factor. But by no means always. Sometimes people just have really poor access to information and make very poor decisions based on a warped world view. 010
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025It's high time that people understood that believing false things and acting according to those beliefs in ways that are problematic to others is not a diagnostic criterion for mental illness. The person who shot up the school isn't mentally ill by default. 100
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I understand the sentiment of grief/loss/performative honouring. I just cannot get my head around expressing that sentiment by standing in line to briefly shuffle past and stare at the chemically preserved dead meat suit of the person you loved and honoured. 030
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Yep. My childhood memories are largely me overcoming some sort of ick by sneaking up on it somehow. Lots of serious effort put in to find a way to have the food in my mouth without gipping*. Stuff like hiding the egg white by combining with bacon on the fork.media.tenor.coma young boy is cracking an egg into a pile of food .Alt: a young boy is cracking an egg into a pile of food . He is visibly suppressing the gag/vomit reflex 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025And for that show to not even actually be live? 100
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Good for you. Luckily people get to prefer every single graphical style they like. 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025What the hell is wrong with frivolity? Mario Kart is frivolous as the day is long. Joyous gaming with lush cartoony graphics FTW 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025"Do not EVER come up to my parent and tell them they're heroic for putting up with me so well." Every Autistic Child - 2025 0425
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Obviously there's no place in that messed up thinking for such tender flowers as girls. This persisted for a scary amount of time. Autistic boys were evaluated entirely on if they showed these tendencies with the entire thinking being about over expressed masculinity. 000
Reposted by Michael FozzAnn Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 07/01/2025jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.id/index.php/us... Oh dear. A team allege that ABA is a 'nurturing' thing for autistic children in Muslim households. Meantime, in external research on ABA, annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/01/auti... No, it does not 'nurture' autistic children in any faith or setting. Goodness me.jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.idThe Importance of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy in Nurturing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) According to Maqāṣid al-Sharī’ah | Zainal Abidin | El-Usrah: Jurnal Hukum KeluargaThe Importance of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy in Nurturing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) According to Maqāṣid al-Sharī’ah 1298
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Bit curious why you can't remove a follower on this service without blocking them. I don't necessarily want someone I'm not aligned with following and stalking me but I might not want to be so drastic. Just a thought. 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025It's yet another side of toxic masculinity. Autistic males were seen as overly male. They were seen as exaggerating the tendency to show few feelings and to be down to business with little regard for deep connections. All things prized by patriarchal men. This polluted perception of autism. 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I think it depends. There's a place for highly cinematic story rich gaming where avatars show deeply convincing emotions. At the same time there absolutely is a space for games to be fantasy landscapes of artistic frivolity. There's enough room for neither to dominate. 020
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Agreed. Watch a soap opera. Every single plot line revolves around scripted instances of people utterly failing to clearly communicate with each other and the ensuing misunderstandings. They know! I can't watch because it burns my brain. 050
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025That is a very patient dog. Trying to imagine Jasper tolerating even one. If you could get him to let you put it on him he'd just pull it off and shred it. 040
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Which people? What did they do to earn you paying heed to their opinions? 020
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Well that turned into a compression nightmare. 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Quick test of the media thingummy but by all means chip in if you're a fan of Horizon Zero Dawn or Forbidden West 110
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025*stares knowingly and waits for the penny to drop* 000
Michael Fozz @michael-fozz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025"I'm actually offended that you feel the need to hide your autism around me. Like you think I'm some sort of intolerant monster." "Actually offended." *flaps hands* "Why did you just do that?" "Just do that?" *flaps again* "Why are you so weird all of a sudden? It's freaking me out." 242
