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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: The Speedgamers Marathon For Autism Charity |
| steelback |
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Posted: 12 Jun 2010, 4:53 pm
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| I saw some of their Metroid marathon. Things didn't go so well, as the guy who was supposed to play Metroid Prime 2 couldn't make it, and the others had to guess their way through it. But I like that so many of their marathons are for autism-related charities. |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Classic comedy |
| steelback |
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Posted: 27 Feb 2010, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,287
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| Most areas had at least one TV station where you could catch the Stooges or Laurel and Hardy. In Detroit, Sunday was the day where WXYZ would show an Abbott & Costello movie in the morning, and then WXON would air a Blondie movie (based on the comic strip). I wasn't as big a fan of Blondie, but ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Unusual ability to pronounce foreign languages? |
| steelback |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 10:01 pm
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Replies: 75
Views: 11,539
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| ... and as for foreign languages, I don't think it's weird that I can read almost a half-dozen languages without being able to understand them. I like sites like Wikipedia and Bible Gateway, because they come in dozens of different languages. Some of these languages I will read aloud (German, Dutch,... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Unusual ability to pronounce foreign languages? |
| steelback |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 75
Views: 11,539
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| I've always noticed how hard it seemed for other people to replicate pronunciation of other languages properly, or to spell. When I get asked how to spell something, there's a shape in my head, and I just start reading letters... odds are they're the right ones. I once lost a spelling bee because t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: "Shadow speaking" |
| steelback |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 9:48 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Some time ago, I found a podcast of an interview that Peter Gzowski did for CBC Radio with Donna Williams, around the time she published her book, "Nobody Nowhere." During the interview, Donna mentioned that she had a talent for repeating somebody's words the instant that the person said them, which... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Star Trek V: the Final Frontier |
| steelback |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 9:33 pm
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Replies: 16
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| I wonder if some of the negative criticism came from the idea that Sarek had a child before he married Amanda and had Spock, when nothing in the previous TV episodes and movies hinted at that? |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: cringe worthy commercial |
| steelback |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2009, 9:27 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,107
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| This brings to my mind something that I feel is very important. I want all beer and soft drink companies to stop including certain sounds from their commercials, both radio and television. These sounds include the sound of a drink being loudly poured, and the sound of that long sigh that someone mak... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Supporting Autism in a way other than Autism Speaks |
| steelback |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 3:21 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 4,579
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| Have you tried looking up Autism Speaks on Facebook? I looked it up the other day, and got page after page of Autism Speaks group there. It's distressing, because this organization is quickly becoming, if it's not there already, the voice of the autism community, at least according to the NT world. ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Blizzard of 2009 |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 3:06 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 3,914
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| Curse you, Anthropogenic Global Warming/Climate Change/Whatever we're supposed to call it now! |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Kim Peek is dead |
| steelback |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 3:04 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 7,802
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| One might have thought that, with the connection to "Rain Man", which was a very commercially successful movie, and as I recall, generated some acting awards for Dustin Hoffman, this would have been a story of some significance that it would have been reported more than it has been. But it's always ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: $1120 bikini |
| steelback |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 2:56 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,085
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| I have some dental floss that could be used as a bikini, and I'll let you have it for $100,000. |
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Forum: WrongPlanet.net discussion Topic: WP a Hate Site??! |
| steelback |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 2:54 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 7,130
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| The other day I came across this YouTube video, and it really shocked and saddened me, because it basically branded every single member of Wrong Planet an "Autism Nazi": [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q16OwMo2OQQ[/youtube] I'm not sure how many ways there are to refute this person's claims,... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Sherlock Holmes. |
| steelback |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2009, 2:40 pm
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Replies: 37
Views: 5,704
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| I think I'd like to see it, but I'm so afraid of what how Hollywood is going to treat this character; i.e., how many explosions and GC effects will they be able to fit into 19-century England (remember Wild Wild West)? |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Wii games w/ real music |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 9:51 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,107
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| I recently finished Super Mario Galaxy, and when I saw the credits, I was surprised to see that the music for the game had been performed by an actual orchestra, instead of the usual CG music that Nintendo usually does. Which makes me wonder if there are any other Wii games that use orchestral sound... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Exploding chewing gum |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 9:35 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,316
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| ... and you'll find the ad for it in next month's issue of Spider-man comics, next to the X-ray glasses ad. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: World’s First Bionic Fingers |
| steelback |
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Posted: 11 Dec 2009, 9:33 pm
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Replies: 8
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| It's so amazing, what we can come up with to adapt to things like disability. And that robohand definitely looks cool. But would you rather have a fully-functioning artificial limb, or a natural one that could regenerate itself (not sure whether this link will work): U.S. military can regrow human l... |
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