RetroGamer87
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Joined: 30 Jul 2013
Age: 38
Gender: Male
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Location: Adelaide, Australia
14 Sep 2018, 4:47 am
I would hug puter and forgive it then I think there'd be a bit fewer puters moldering in landfills and recycling places if they put that sign on puters when they bug up.Noo! Smash the puter! Bash his brains in!
14 Sep 2018, 10:13 am
I once punched out the motherboard of a VCR for failing to comply. It was dumpstered immediately.
Since many autists invent "social" connections with inanimate objects, it is unusual for me to do that. But, I did and still do when needed. Most of the time, I am angry with how NTs design furniture, appliances and even civil engineering.
Why aren't utility-service holes located on or near the sidewalks where traffic is unimpeded, and the workers are safer? I mean, humanity has experienced the engineering everyone loathes for what ... four or five centuries?!?
What do you mean when you say autists invent social connections with inanimate objects?
I have few friends, but I have many inanimate "friends." A Wrong Planeteer told me years ago that the word for this phenomenon is enjoying "simulacra" (or "simulacrum" for the singular). Autists imbue friendship qualities often with their inanimate objects.
This phenomenon was discussed on WrongPlanet.net at <
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12187> from 2006 to 2015.
It was the basis for some research, one example: <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362361302006001007>.
And it was also described by someone who recognizes her own attractions to inanimate objects: <https://autisticacademic.com/2014/07/15/autism-and-animism/>.
I write this surrounded by my inanimate objects watching over my shoulder to see that I get every word spelled correctly. Within arms' reach, the Hallmark Peanuts Easter Egg that I gave to my mother when I was 13 years of age shows the image of Snoopy and Woodstock laughing together. When my mother asked if I was Snoopy (because I wore Snoopy T-shirts obsessively that year), I agreed and said that she was Woodstock "because we laugh."
There is more about this matter online, but you get the idea.
14 Sep 2018, 6:36 pm
I can't use a computer without talking to it; sometimes coaxing it along, other times saying yelling many, many, naughty words at it. I think that the modern keyboard is actually the single most astounding piece of computer technology; it's quite incredible how hard you can poke, punch and slam your fists on one without them breaking - if only they could make all the other parts so resilient! 
The strange thing is how I can switch it on and off so easily. If someone taps me on the shoulder to ask if I want of cup of coffee while I'm in the middle of a good rant at the PC, I can instantly switch to nicey, nicey, super-polite, thank them very kindly for the coffee, then turn back to the PC and go straight back to being Mr. Pottymouth. I wouldn't dream of speaking to a person the way that I do my PC (or any and all coffee-tables), even if they'd really riled me up.
