Yet another introduction

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I'm new here, but some of you might know me from other places... because I'm horrible at introductions, I'll just find one I sent to another mailing list, heh:

I'm a 22-year-old university student living in Georgia who was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome some years ago. My main interests, at least in a vocational sense but also as hobbies, are computer programming and music (in fact, I'm a computer science major and a music minor); however, I've various other obsessions as well, including anime, typography, and old-school video games, among others.

It's interesting; I'm really good at some things, like the aforementioned programming and music performance and composition-- but at other things, ranging from certain aspects of the physical sciences, to arithmetic, to finding my way around-- I'm not good at all. My sense of direction is absolutely horrible; I've gotten lost in my own hometown more than a few times, and navigating any other city is basically hit or miss even *with* a map. I have a hard time with spatial things in general, I've found; I always have difficulty with those IQ test questions where you have to imagine what a certain shape would look like once folded, or have to mentally rotate things in three dimensions to figure them out.

Oh, then there are the auditory processing issues-- people just don't realize how difficult phone calls can be when you can barely make out what's being said. -_-

So yeah. Greetings, and all.

Yay! Another retro gamer... welcome to WrongPlanet codeman!

dunc

Great, another anime fan . Have you seen Evangelion?

I recognize your avatar from somewhere... maybe Aspergia?

Hey Codeman38, welcome aboard. Nice to get to see you here other than just on IRC. It's MishNBoys from Starlink-irc #aspergers chan.

Hi- welcome to the board

Mel

Yeah, I used the Ryoga avatar on Aspergia as well... along with a few other places like ADD Forums.

And yes, I've seen Evangelion. Very bizarre series, but quite enthralling...

I think I saw you there. I joined only a short time before Aspergia was closed, so you probably don't remember me.

I'm not familiar with the character, but it looks like Ranma 1/2 (which I haven't seen). Is it from that series?



It's my current favorite. Ayanami Rei is one of my obsessions, though not in the way you are probably thinking. (I've been mistaken for a guy on other forums because of my obsession with Rei ). I like her because I find that we are very similar.

Indeed it is. It's Ryoga Hibiki... well-known throughout Japan for his utterly horrible sense of direction. In trying to find Ranma's school, he ended up on the wrong island entirely several times... and in trying to find the lot behind his house, he ended up circumnavigating the earth. ^_^


Heh, yeah, Rei is rather Aspie-ish... though of course, considering she is an artificial lifeform and all, I suppose it's to be expected.

What Kind Of Music Do You Like Or Are Intrested In

All sorts. I mainly play classical with a bit of jazz, but I've composed a few snippets of electronic music, and as for listening, pretty much anything goes.

By the way, you don't need to capitalize every word... it makes things a bit harder to read that way.

Wow, and I thought I got lost easily .

Are you also blessed with this horrible sense of direction?



That she is.

And shhh... don't spoil the secret for anyone who may want to watch!

I always thought it was a combination of her origins and upbringing that made Rei the way she was. They do say, after all, that the only difference between each Rei is the environmental factors. And I imagine that having Gendo as a guardian wouldn't exactly predispose you to warm, fuzzy feelings.

Yeah... not quite as bad as Ryoga's, but I've come dangerously close at times. I still get lost going to places I've been numerous times... and yes, I've even gotten lost in small- to medium-sized, one-story buildings on a number of occasions.

Old video games, huh? Like Space Invaders and Galaga and Dig Dug?
I found them recently re-released for Gameboy Advanced SP. Pretty cool!

Ooh, Galaga. After all these years, that game is <em>still</em> incredibly fun.

For me, the category of 'old-school' games encompasses anything up through the end of the Super Nintendo era, though the post-'95 SNES games are stretching it a bit. Even with the SNES, game design was so simple in comparison to the disorienting three-dimensional mazes in today's games...

And indeed, the Game Boy Advance is a retro gamer's paradise.

"Old school" for me means anything before 1985 when the NES came out.

One of my uncles had an artari 2600. When ever we would go over there since he was one who like throw parties, I would spend hours playing Pacman and Pitfall on it.

And even older than that was the coleco-telstar "Combat" game my parents got back in 1977 that had analog processing and digital scoring.

I found it in our basement one night back in march 1993, and promptly took it apart to see vintage video game electronics. I was amazed at the number of diodes, transistors, and discrete IC's on the circuit board. In the center of it was a giant 40 pin chip that had "general instruments" printed on it. It was in a socket so I grabbed a flat head screw driver and removed it so I could get a closer look.

When I tired to put it back in however, I wound up breaking off on the pins on the chip. So combat never got a chance to be reincarnated.