If you've ever been around an autistic kid, you know that the difference between them and a normal kid is night and day. With ADD, there's a lot of kids who are just hyperactive, etc. - the line is blurry. With autism, kids have severe communication problems, unmistakable behaviors (rocking, intense movements), fascination with routines and patterns, and a number of other things. It's nothing like ADD. When the line is blurry with autism, they have an entirely separate category - Asperger's syndrome - before you even get to normal kids.
They are not comparable at all, and it is not at all a matter of medical diagnosis becoming more widespread. Go read any basic article on autism and you'll see (assuming that you grasp the contents) that it's nothing like what you're representing here.
Besides, autism isn't really treated with drugs. It's treated with behavioral therapy. So if you're going to suspect anyone, suspect those dastardly behavioral therapist conglomerates who are driving prices up.
There also seem to be a disproportionate amount of schoolgirls...
Yeah... about those schoolgirls... I met one of them in RL. Jimmy "The Iron Brick" Hoskins is now one of my closest friends - nice gal and all, but she didn't look anything like I expected.
Totally right. Games take people without jobs and/or friends and elevate them, by the simple mechanism of "spend all day playing" to the status of powerfully equipped demigods, near-unassailable by the common man, whereas the successful, busy real-life person is relegated to a lifetime of mere mediocrity, looking up through the windows of Naxxramas at something they will never attain. Yes, gaming is the great equalizer! The mighty are brought down, and the weak are exalted.
Disclaimers:
Yes, I play WoW.
No, I am not a hard core raider.
Yes, I have a real job.
Yes, I have a significant other.
No, she does not weight 250 lbs.
No, I don't care that I don't have any Tier 2 set pieces.
No, I do not live in my mother's basement. In fact, I own my own house.
Yes, I exercise.
No, I don't play a girl in-game despite being a guy in RL.
Yes, my alts are still levelling.
No, I do not subsist on pizza and chinese food.
Yes, I can spell.
No, I did not repeat any grades in middle school.
Yes, I know that "ur" really means "you are" and not "your".
No, I did not purchase any of my characters.
No, I did not eBay any gold.
Yes, I hate reputation grinding, but...
No, I don't hate them as much as you do - I never played Everquest.
No, I do not feel it my responsibility to tell people about (a) the trash greens I find while killing trolls in Arathi or (b) my life, over Ventrilo.
Yes, I bathe at least once a day. With soap. Real soap. Not like from Fight Club.
I know the numbers. They're retarded. They do not account for anyone with anything beyond a minimum of muscle. I have wide shoulders and a high proportion of muscle.
So if I'm overweight by definition, the definition is, by any reasonable definition, moronic. Your definition would put most of the defensive backs in the NFL at between 30 and 60 lbs overweight. Have you ever seen one of them? They're shredded.
exercise, because no girl is going to date a 200lb lard-ass.
Wow... You must never have lifted a weight in your life. There are a lot of guys my height (5'11") who weigh upwards of 200 lbs and have body fat well under 10%.
I'm 205, personally, and sorry, I'm not fat. you need to revise your numbers.
No go. The same idiots who rave about their ability to stuff poisons into their bodies are the ones who fund the ACLU and insist that they have a right to be treated the same as health junkies thanks to a right to privacy.
Pfft. I'm informed enough to know that in a blue state, my vote doesn't count. I'm more educated than 95% of the people in my state, but I don't vote because it could never possibly matter.
Then again, I'm arguing with someone who said "The solution is to education people..."
Well, given the number of 20somethings I've seen playing World of Warcraft and still incapable of spelling simple words or avoiding ethnic slurs, I gotta say... YUP.
It's not just that your spelling is bad, it's that you're generally stupid. The dyslexia isn't really relevant.
The article you posted cleared up the translation matter greatly! He was not, in fact, asking for the land of Israel to be removed from maps. He was, rather, suggesting that the regime be removed. Let me translate that for you: No more Jews running Israel. I love his logic, too - because an Arabic expert can't properly decline a Latin noun, thus is his Arabic expertise rendered moot. I see why you like the guy. He thinks like you do. You also failed to mention the number of other bloggers and Arabic experts who immediately diced this guy's analysis.
Iran talks a good game. I love how you point out their renunciation of terrorism, as we see the number of Iranian-made bombs exploding at road sides in Iraq growing every month, or how you plainly ignore their consistent anti-Israel rhetoric because of a single quote they made while trying to appease the international community (particularly, the U.S.) after the nation right next door to them had been invaded in a matter of weeks.
The 600,000 people in mass graves are generally innocents. If you think I'm arguing your point, you need to learn to read, because you are (as usual) plainly whiffing on what the point is.
I love how you point out Abu Ghraib, as if I somehow thought that was okay. It's not. Nobody says it is. But what you're saying is that because we did it, it's okay for Saddam to have done it. I don't want anyone to do it, and I think the people who did should be punished. Pointing out examples where the U.S. didn't behave perfectly is one of the mose asinine arguments ever. We somehow managed to avoid putting 600,000 people in mass graves, and yes, that gives us a moral edge over Saddam.
If you want to rant about how I don't look up your partisan links, you can't complain about not knowing about "the disappeared" in South America. It had nothing to do with the CIA, conspiracy boy. Look it up.
I take it you are conceding my rebuttals of your other stupid points from before, as you seem to have dropped them. You'll also note that for most of Iraq, the violence has basically disappeared; the violence is now localized to 3-4 provinces (out of 17, I believe). Yes, an occupation with an insurgency is a messy place. Nobody denies that. But people with their heads out of their asses realize that taking a look at Iraq and realizing it's a mess now does not mean it will be a mess in the long run. Counterinsurgency campaigns usually take 5-10 years.
But at this point, you've shown you're just another anti-Bush yahoo. I don't like Bush. I didn't vote for him. I don't think he's doing a great job. I have huge problems with what happened at Abu Ghraib. I don't like how we have handled the occupation in many ways. But I still support us going over there, for reasons you've never even bothered to probe, instead assuming a wide array of equally incorrect theories.
Sadly, partisan nitwits like yourself don't add anything to the debate. You repeat the same drivel every other anti-war yahoo does, with a blind disregard for any fact that might get in the way of your single-minded thinking. You bring up irrelevant points when you don't have real answers (CIA in Venezuela), you latch on to a single article that doesn't even prove what you're saying it does (and is widely discredited - Canadian Arabic translation), and you seem to think that Bush is a mass murderer on the same level as Saddam (chuckle.) You're so one sided in everything you've said that it's almost comical when you call me "patriotically blinded".
Now that's irony.
p.s. We hated the Taliban for sheltering a bunch of terrorists. Or am I rewriting history now?
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If you've ever been around an autistic kid, you know that the difference between them and a normal kid is night and day. With ADD, there's a lot of kids who are just hyperactive, etc. - the line is blurry. With autism, kids have severe communication problems, unmistakable behaviors (rocking, intense movements), fascination with routines and patterns, and a number of other things. It's nothing like ADD. When the line is blurry with autism, they have an entirely separate category - Asperger's syndrome - before you even get to normal kids.
They are not comparable at all, and it is not at all a matter of medical diagnosis becoming more widespread. Go read any basic article on autism and you'll see (assuming that you grasp the contents) that it's nothing like what you're representing here.
Besides, autism isn't really treated with drugs. It's treated with behavioral therapy. So if you're going to suspect anyone, suspect those dastardly behavioral therapist conglomerates who are driving prices up.
I think the OP meant to draw a distinction between "gaming" and "playing with yourself". :)
I doubt anything will sway this conception in my mind.
You sure that's not the shrooms talking?
Wow, way not to have a sense of humor. Even if you didn't think it was funny, you could have at least gotten that it was just joking around.
Dude... please take a freshman composition class, or middle school English... anything would help.
I can do this too. Let's see... "Water is probably what made this <object> wet."
See above.
The real problem is that it tastes so good that I go through it too quickly.
Heh... but it's actually true. I just don't have very good gear. :)
/cry
Yeah... about those schoolgirls... I met one of them in RL. Jimmy "The Iron Brick" Hoskins is now one of my closest friends - nice gal and all, but she didn't look anything like I expected.
Disclaimers:
So you're, by definition, overweight.
I know the numbers. They're retarded. They do not account for anyone with anything beyond a minimum of muscle. I have wide shoulders and a high proportion of muscle.
So if I'm overweight by definition, the definition is, by any reasonable definition, moronic. Your definition would put most of the defensive backs in the NFL at between 30 and 60 lbs overweight. Have you ever seen one of them? They're shredded.
Wow... You must never have lifted a weight in your life. There are a lot of guys my height (5'11") who weigh upwards of 200 lbs and have body fat well under 10%.
I'm 205, personally, and sorry, I'm not fat. you need to revise your numbers.
No, it was the "not having any clue what the Big Bang theory is in the first place" where you went wrong.
Adrenaline &&/|| shock != distraction.
OH NOES! The news in the middle east has been drowned out for a day! Will it ever come back?
No go. The same idiots who rave about their ability to stuff poisons into their bodies are the ones who fund the ACLU and insist that they have a right to be treated the same as health junkies thanks to a right to privacy.
Because I'm sick of my health care costs skyrocketing because of dumbasses who choose to put stupid things into their own bodies. It is my business.
Err... no, I live in a blue state, as I think I mentioned above. So blue, in fact, that my red vote will never count as long as I live here.
Depends entirely on if it's more broken, or less, which is what the rest of the posters are posting about. :)
Then again, I'm arguing with someone who said "The solution is to education people..."
GG.
DANGER!
Yes, now that private means are *sooooooo* secure, I think we can just move on to public machine security. ;)
Well, given the number of 20somethings I've seen playing World of Warcraft and still incapable of spelling simple words or avoiding ethnic slurs, I gotta say... YUP.
The article you posted cleared up the translation matter greatly! He was not, in fact, asking for the land of Israel to be removed from maps. He was, rather, suggesting that the regime be removed. Let me translate that for you: No more Jews running Israel. I love his logic, too - because an Arabic expert can't properly decline a Latin noun, thus is his Arabic expertise rendered moot. I see why you like the guy. He thinks like you do. You also failed to mention the number of other bloggers and Arabic experts who immediately diced this guy's analysis.
Iran talks a good game. I love how you point out their renunciation of terrorism, as we see the number of Iranian-made bombs exploding at road sides in Iraq growing every month, or how you plainly ignore their consistent anti-Israel rhetoric because of a single quote they made while trying to appease the international community (particularly, the U.S.) after the nation right next door to them had been invaded in a matter of weeks.
The 600,000 people in mass graves are generally innocents. If you think I'm arguing your point, you need to learn to read, because you are (as usual) plainly whiffing on what the point is.
I love how you point out Abu Ghraib, as if I somehow thought that was okay. It's not. Nobody says it is. But what you're saying is that because we did it, it's okay for Saddam to have done it. I don't want anyone to do it, and I think the people who did should be punished. Pointing out examples where the U.S. didn't behave perfectly is one of the mose asinine arguments ever. We somehow managed to avoid putting 600,000 people in mass graves, and yes, that gives us a moral edge over Saddam.
If you want to rant about how I don't look up your partisan links, you can't complain about not knowing about "the disappeared" in South America. It had nothing to do with the CIA, conspiracy boy. Look it up.
I take it you are conceding my rebuttals of your other stupid points from before, as you seem to have dropped them. You'll also note that for most of Iraq, the violence has basically disappeared; the violence is now localized to 3-4 provinces (out of 17, I believe). Yes, an occupation with an insurgency is a messy place. Nobody denies that. But people with their heads out of their asses realize that taking a look at Iraq and realizing it's a mess now does not mean it will be a mess in the long run. Counterinsurgency campaigns usually take 5-10 years.
But at this point, you've shown you're just another anti-Bush yahoo. I don't like Bush. I didn't vote for him. I don't think he's doing a great job. I have huge problems with what happened at Abu Ghraib. I don't like how we have handled the occupation in many ways. But I still support us going over there, for reasons you've never even bothered to probe, instead assuming a wide array of equally incorrect theories.
Sadly, partisan nitwits like yourself don't add anything to the debate. You repeat the same drivel every other anti-war yahoo does, with a blind disregard for any fact that might get in the way of your single-minded thinking. You bring up irrelevant points when you don't have real answers (CIA in Venezuela), you latch on to a single article that doesn't even prove what you're saying it does (and is widely discredited - Canadian Arabic translation), and you seem to think that Bush is a mass murderer on the same level as Saddam (chuckle.) You're so one sided in everything you've said that it's almost comical when you call me "patriotically blinded".
Now that's irony.
p.s. We hated the Taliban for sheltering a bunch of terrorists. Or am I rewriting history now?