Vera Lycaon

@VeraLycaon

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31 y/o white passing mixed w/ Black monster woman from the Netherlands. Artist (occasionally). Writer (again, every so often). Prone to camera sniffing behavior, one of them θΔ folk.

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Vera Lycaon @VeraLycaon3/1/2023, 4:57 AM

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe2/1/2023, 11:43 PM

I just had the wildest theory form in my brain, are you even ready for this one?

It's possible that Informative Lets Plays were a way for people with undaignosed autism to infodump without being prompted.

Am I right? Am I wrong? I am not sure, but every time I explain my SA LP Trans theory I get back a "yeah"

(for context my SA LP Trans theory is that because SA disincentivized Face Cams you got to just be a voice over a videogame, not only did you not get clowned on for looking "goony" because you were detached from the idea of masculinity & therefore did not put any effort into your appearance, but you also got to dodge all sorts of things like ~gender roles and expectations~ and all of this, for the most part, happened subconsciously)

I need someone who knows they have autism and did informative lets plays to tell me that I'm right or that I'm way off base.

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe2/2/2023, 3:23 AM

getting alot of "yeah"s and "oh god oh fuck"s from the audience on this one

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so long, and thanks for all the fish @fluffy-shenanigans2/1/2023, 11:44 PM

as a trans autistic person who didn't make any Informative LPs of my own but consumed them voraciously, I think this theory is supremely plausible

Caro @caro2/1/2023, 11:45 PM

if you havent read this already you might enjoy it

https://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Shield/

Caro @caro2/1/2023, 11:45 PM

i dont know about the site as a whole but this person has embraced your theory and is making art with it

@lexi2/1/2023, 11:56 PM

:yeah:

Keeble @Keeble2/2/2023, 12:43 AM

thats kinda what radio was for me. i infodumped about music you just heard and that was encouraged

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Hal T. Raccmouse @HalTRaccmouse2/2/2023, 4:09 AM

I mean I just didn’t want to see the face of the guy tbh

Violet @OniLink2/2/2023, 2:18 PM

Autistic and making informative Let's Plays. I think you've got it. This is explicitly why I do my LPs

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/28/2023, 9:19 PM

oh i thought that was the entire point

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe3/28/2023, 9:21 PM

i mean its obvious NOW but keep in mind at the time lots of people were just coasting through life struggling but not realizing they had autism

Nire Bryce @NireBryce3/28/2023, 9:27 PM

sure but that's what the adult autism diagnosis was in 2007

Shel @shel3/29/2023, 3:43 AM

Not ALL of them necessarily were but like very very many of them absolutely were and it was for precisely that reason that they were good. Like what made them enjoyable was how the let's player knew fucking everything about the game and could show off things you never would have noticed on your own or could add lots of context and game dev backstory or asides that just really made things wonderful.

I mean, Let's Break Pokémon Blue was such an amazing classic and it wasn't really about playing pokémon it was about explaining how all these weird glitches worked very fully with nothing left out

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