BeamClaws
Balloon Fighter
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Post by BeamClaws on Oct 1, 2008 22:59:36 GMT -5
Yeah... I would.
And the mental illness part HELPED Gunpei Yokoi, I believe.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 2, 2008 4:36:07 GMT -5
Many, many great men have been autistic, especially engineers, mathematicians and scientists. The inability to empathise with other people, and the inability to lie tends towards a great love of logic, science and maths.
Gunpei Yokoi invented children's toys when he began, so I'm fairly sure it's not that. In fact, I struggle to think up any psychological condition that might be a benefit towards the creation of children's toys while also allowing for complex electrical engineering work.
I suspect he was just a creative guy who got a lucky break when he was discovered by someone as ruthless and ambitious as Hiroshi Yamauchi.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 3, 2008 2:52:50 GMT -5
Just thought of a reply to the first post...
Daisy is not empty. At least, not as empty as Mario. At least we now Daisy has a tendency to be the power type... And Mario doesn'teven have a trait other than beng balanced.
And for the "metal problems" thing... I don't think Yokoi's got any. "Any psychological condition that might be a benefit towards the creation of children's toys while also allowing for complex electrical engineering work" would be creativity. Plus luck.
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Post by parrothead on Oct 3, 2008 4:27:25 GMT -5
Me and Boo Destroyer have Asperger's syndrome, too. If I created the VB and left Nintendo, then I would probably feel like a child taking a shot with a hypodermic needle or got in trouble and is about to get his or her rear end spanked.
Asperger's syndrome is similar to Autism. It causes the I.Q. level to increase higher than an average person's I.Q. level, it causes the person to become very interested in something, mostly unusual stuff, and I think it caused me to never have chicken pox and probably some other diseases and bad conditions in my life, because I heard that Asperger's syndrome makes the Immune System stronger. One bad thing about this syndrome is that it makes people odd.
How does Asperger's syndrome occur in someone? Some people say it's from the three-in-one vaccine given out by different governments before children enter Junior High Schools (or Middle Schools), but I believe it came from birth, because when I was about 3 or 4, I began to remember things. When I saw the infomercial for the Didi Seven product so many times, I began to remember all the words to it. My parents were so astonished about me doing it at a very young age, they wanted me to say the whole commercial in front of several other people, mostly family and friends.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 3, 2008 5:00:47 GMT -5
Aspergers Syndrome does increase the IQ, but it also has a knock on effect on empathy. Of course, there are scales - Aspergers Syndrome falls on the autism scale, and some theorists believe that most people - especially men - fall somewhere on this scale.
But there's a difference between having a mental trait that is common to all people, and having a trait that has been diagnosed as potentially harmful to normal operation within society.
It doesn't surprise me at all that yourself (Parrothead) and Boo Destroyer both have aspergers syndrome. My brother also has it, and so I'm very familiar with the symptoms and the differences in thought and communication.
Parrothead - your posts are detailed and heavily researched, more intent on informing than discussing. This is a symptom (and one that makes you infinitely valuable to me and the website). Boo Destroyer similarly has great ambitions for content. I don't think a site like NinDB could exist without contributions from people tuned to see things that the rest of us are simply unable to - and are willing to put the work in to make it happen.
I don't quite understand why this has anything to do with Gunpei Yokoi. Unless there's an article or interview where he explicitly states he thinks his success is down to his intensely logical mind, then I will gladly state that this has gone WILDLY off topic.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 3, 2008 10:55:43 GMT -5
You have a brother too? I thought it was just you and your sis... EDIT I know this is off topic as ever, I'm just surprised. |
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BeamClaws
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Post by BeamClaws on Oct 3, 2008 13:43:59 GMT -5
I might have that... You won't believe how fast I think up procedures and solve some math problems... And anyway, back to Gunpei Yokoi, I'll tell my brother that, even though he would still think only someone with a psychological problem could create a game as awesome as metroid and make the main character a girl... Not that there's any problem with that.
And Kid Icarus would be a WHOLE LOT better if all the levels were designed by him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2008 22:32:46 GMT -5
I actually have experience with Aspergers syndrome. I dealt with a bad case of depression in my teens, and had few friends (I'm fine now). But a very shocking quality to my parents was an unusual ability to write. I enjoyed it when I could, and I still write short stories of many different styles and viewpoints today. So yes, I agree that Aspergers does something to the mind sparking some sort of creativity, as well as social issues. This undoubtedly sparked major geniuses and creative minds to shape our world. I believe, like others, that this is gene-related, not hormone-related. I think the reason this causes interest in unusual and specific things is exposure to this quality at a young age, mixed with the genes of your parents, thus determining the mental differences and what you will focus on more than other things.
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 3, 2008 22:48:36 GMT -5
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Post by parrothead on Oct 3, 2008 23:02:49 GMT -5
Ever tried chelation therapy? It's a heavy metal ejection that makes Asperger's syndrome and autism less detectable.
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Post by Koopaul on Oct 4, 2008 0:52:36 GMT -5
I also have Asperger's but a mild version, I wasn't officially diagnosed with it until my teens! Yeah, my problem made me completely clueless in many social situations, I also like to rock back-and-forth and spend my spare time whispering to myself... Usually about Nintendo! But that's about it.
Honestly I'm glad I have Asperger's. It made me aware of how foolish people are with their emotions and popularity hierarchy. Pah!
Anyway, people need to stop picking on poor Daisy. She was annoying in like, ONE game.
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Post by Manspeed on Oct 4, 2008 9:15:56 GMT -5
I've always been under the assumption that I had some minor form of asperger's, but everyone I know insists that I don't. All I know is that I has this natural affinity to understand tropes and conventions from an early age, and that I was able to talk and read earlier than other kids. You may notice that as opposed to logic, I'm more of a creative mind that anything else. That's why I'm always circle-jerking over the prospect of new ideas and junk instead of contributing to the site (which I really wish I could). It's also why I take an interest in the setting and characters of a game rather than the way the game is played and such (thus contributing to my inability to play certain genres of games well, such as shooters). |
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 4, 2008 10:32:23 GMT -5
I'm as cool as they come.
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Post by Flip on Oct 4, 2008 10:43:16 GMT -5
I'm as cool as they come. Word |
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BeamClaws
Balloon Fighter
Beam claws closes the gap with his excellent foot speed!
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Post by BeamClaws on Oct 4, 2008 18:08:25 GMT -5
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