vis4valentineI have a theory that the more lore a franchise has, the more of an autistic fanbase it has. I made a graphic about it.
LumidaubWell yeah. The more unnecessary nonsense there is to know that won’t ever benefit me in real life AND to be an escape from reality, the better.
Homespore165Are you really trying to say kingdom hearts has a less autistic fanbase than harry potter?
NepentheFrom an outsider's view, I'd think they're close. What I wanna know is how Kirby has more lore than My Little Pony. He's a blob with a one-word vocabulary.
He’s got a surprising amount of lore attached. He’s also canonically way more powerful than you’d expect
QuillsNow i wanna see Kirby’s lore, hope there’s some cool 1 hour or longer video about it somewhere there
Not sure if you’re being facetious but check out the Unraveled episode on Kirby it’s worth a watch and only about 20 mins.
I’m serious bout that, gonna look into this, thank you!
He’s the literal reincarnation of capital-G God. Also there are other reincarnations of God running around the universe. Kirby lore is… unusual
djquadraticKirby lore goes DEEP - he’s canonically a god
vaultdweller013POYO!
TN:“I shall devour the Blood god, for he is weak”
ZozanoKingdom Hearts as a franchise is autistic, but the adult fans know it’s fucking stupid. Meanwhile, HP adult fans don’t realise how weird it is to put your Hogwarts house in your profile bio, because HP is mainstream, and they’re autistic.
empireOfLoveFactorio autistic hyperfocus gang represent
Semi-Hemi-DemigodCan't.
Too busy.
Not enough iron.
The factory must grow.
I’m not autistic. I just really like trains. Choo choo motherfucker.
Blaine is a Pain
Long days and pleasant nights.
NielsBohronThankee sai
And just like that, I have found Lemmy to be along the path of the beam. Go now, friend, and may we meet again, at the clearing at the end of the path.
Pity we went with a bird as the unofficial kbin mascot instead of a fish, then, since we already have our rat
Holy shit am I am autistic? I fucking love factorio.
Maybe. Maybe not. Factorio really tends to scratch the constant-stimulation dopamine button that makes autistic people quite happy and get into hyperfocus, so it’s one of those really really close venn diagrams…
First you build your miners. Then your factories. Oh no, a bottleneck. Gotta optimize. Good, let’s scale production up. More building, but then another bottleneck! Optimize.
Occasionally shoot biters because ain’t nobody got time for alien bastards ruining my optimization experience.
Am autistic
Love me some good trains
Love playing Factorio
Simple as
Hey, some of us are ADD too!
HaphazardFinesseMe, with ASD and ADHD: “Porque no los dos?”
at_an_angleI both love and hate Factorio is on here. Lol
The factory must grow
It's definitely the outlier. Zero lore. Maximum obsession.
exoplanetaryI feel called out by it on a personal level
TheCheddarCheesedeltarune should be here and on the top of the list
(ut too tbh)
Colonel SandersBut, Undertale is already on here. And you can pretty much lump the two together.
Ok but CoD Zombies actually has quite a lot of lore
I still remember all the hate threads on modern warfare because of how warzone messed with the canon of the series. Haven’t seen such an autistic fan base not sure why it’s so low
Probably the fact that, despite any lore or canon, 90% of gameplay across the typical modes (campagn, multiplayer, survival) is mindless gunfighting
The pones are there yay!
Baron Von Jso unfortunate that neigh doesn’t work for the pun here.
Sad
Sorry couldn’t really figure out what to say
Bray, maybe? Is that an affirmative equine sound?
Ooooh! so you’re searching for an affirmative equine sound?
Hmm, i don’t think i know any too, i guess Bray works…? I dunno sorry, hehe
RoundcatI feel Marvel needs to be further to the right, and Spiderman needs its own separate category.
I think given how massively popular globally marvel is. The ratio of autistic fans would be quite small even if the numbers are large. Maybe pre MCU I’d put it more to the right.
gamermanhTo put TF2 so low when it has Abraham Lincoln as the first pyro is a sin
To put Minecraft above it is a joke of it’s own
snarfI have no idea where TF2 should fall, but I will say that for a simple-seeming blocky building game, Minecraft has a shocking amount of lore.
jackpottf2 has an entire comic serious lmfao
Minecraft has multiple story-driven games, multiple interactive Minecraft: Story Mode adventure games, and a handful of books.
even the tf2 writers said that the lore of tf2 is more conplex than any other game of valve, ffs
This is X-Philes erasure, and I won't stand for it.
So why has Factorio less lore and more autists?
Trains.
I think its more depth and emergent gameplay intruigue autistic people. Dwarf fortress comes to mind as well. Lore is a type of depth people can enjoy so games with it make the world more interesting to explore. But also complex mechanics also work for the same reasons.
No, i mean, it’s contrary to what the title says.
IgnacioI'm in this picture, and I don't like it.
TakI know I’m not supposed to take it seriously but how the hell does Elder Scrolls have more lore than Warcraft? Warcraft has so much lore there’s books to compile the lore that are also not definitive or accurate because there’s more lore.
In Elder Scrolls, those books are already built into the games.
I’m not sure if you’re joking here
Looks like someone’s never read the lusty argonian maid.
Too much loaf
Ooh, the lore in Elder Scrolls goes way deep. I mean, there are more exotic concepts most know which are not really discussed in games like Lunar Lattice, Godhead and CHIM, but if you dig deeper, you're in for a real ride. Most of it goes way over my head, but concepts like time travel and AI from the future, Amaranth, and lastly, the Elder Scroll themselves about which Septimus Signus made simplified, but not inaccurate, in-game comments, are much discussed topics among the deep lore fandom. Plus all the more mundane stuff behind the scenes--dreughs, ayleids, Akavir and it's many inhabitants, sloads, Hist and their origin (discussed in Infernal City/Lord of Souls, but more questions raised than answers given. Hint: the Sleeping Tree is related to Hist and the rumor Ysolda dismisses as "nonsense" is literally true.) etc.
You could write a heavy tome about the history and deeds of the Dunmer people alone, let alone all the other events that happen(ed) in that universe.
I’m not saying there isn’t lore but there are 30 novels for Warcraft as well as nearly 20 years of WoW and another 10 or so of Warcraft. All of that before touching Hearthstone, the tabletop games, or comics.
I’m not accusing Elder Scrolls of being lacking but that Warcraft as a franchise is absolutely massive.