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undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

thundercrackfic

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

toothpaste-footlocker

yet-another-autistic-blog

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

panpteryx

pghumfort

A Pitt season set during Halloween, but one hour of it is just Langdon and Santos, sent to retrieve some equipment from the basement, living a horror movie down there, forced to work together to survive as something supernatural tries to get them.

artaudmatic

Girls who are gonna be ok <3

mumble-muse

the problem with the gay hockey show is that the acting is great, the lighting is great, the music and costuming are great, the care taken is incredible, but you can't recommend it to normal people without sounding like a pervert

gloomydiaz

young man on my completely rammed train home for the holidays watching heated rivalry on his laptop. old lady next to him absolutely riveted even though she can’t even hear the dialogue. merry christmas one and all!

phrogsocks

My wife (ao3) lying in her hospital bed (down for maintenance) as I hold her hand lovingly, waiting for the moment she wakes again (waiting for ao3 to go back up).

batsandbirdsandothers

De-aged Jason Todd and his morally-grey parental figures + Dick

erohon17

oh to be in love

thank you all for the 1k!

giveamadeuschohisownmovie

I’m rewatching RDR1 and RDR2 on YouTube. Now that I’m seeing the story once again, I feel like the reason why Rockstar made RDR2 as a prequel to RDR1 was to give back to the people who loved John Marston. I know that sounds strange considering that we know how John’s story ends, but the RDR2 epilogue does feel like an attempt to retroactively give John his happy ending.

If you were someone who played the games in release order (like me), then the last time we saw John was his bullet-riddled corpse, being mourned by Abigail and Jack. Obviously, Rockstar can’t just undo his death. So, instead of rewriting history, Rockstar decides to change the last image of John that we see. Now, instead of John’s corpse being the last time we see John, it’s now him being happily married and settling down on his ranch.

You can see this throughout the entire epilogue. For example, the scene where John Marston puts on his classic outfit from the first game. It’s treated like a superhero costume reveal. And the last time we see John in combat, he’s written like an unstoppable heroic badass plowing through Micah’s goons.

That’s why I feel the right way to play these games is release order. The epilogue is supposed to feel triumphant and heroic. Even though we know John’s ending is tragic, the epilogue being the last time we see John means our last image of him is as a happily married man who avenged Arthur Morgan. It’s very Sin City / Quentin Tarantino-esque in that even though this doesn’t change history, it technically gives John a happy ending.