Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello there, I'm Sheep, or [SPACE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK].
I've been diagnosed with Autism—well, the book Unmasking Autism capitalizes the A in it, so I suppose that's grammatically correct—a year ago. Maybe ADHD too, but that's a story for another time. Something, something, a big can of worms... But anyways, I couldn't really find an Autistic community near where I live, and the ones I could find are in Bangkok. That wouldn't have been a problem if I was a few hundred something kilometers away from it. And then there's the issue with language barriers—I mean, I could speak Thai, but I've forgotten most of it a few years back and pretty much am stuck in a basic level. Yes, I know this site is British. That book I've mentioned earlier made it clear enough for me. I did have a bit of self-discovery for a couple of months after the diagnosis, and like most of my fixations, it seemed to get forgotten. No, it didn't really change my life—no one got to know about it, anyway.
Right, so, interests. Let's see... SIGNALIS, Metallica, RWBY, novels (I really loved The Sum of All Fears), writing, movies (Die Hard is an excellent movie), Persona, Deus Ex, bass/guitar-playing... uh... whatever Wikipedia article my brain settles on. It's that bad, trust me. Oh, and excuse the pretty long block of text earlier. Funny how I'm a whole lot more focused on writing that instead of working on my writing projects. Huh. Oh, almost forgot: I quite like Fire Emblem: Fates, too! No, I haven't played the other ones. Maybe I'll pick that up again someday.
But anyways, I hope this'll be a pretty neat community, the fact that I'm a quarter a world away be damned.
...Do you know that Les Claypool almost got into Metallica?
Hi there and welcome! I do deep rabbit hole dives on Wikipedia a lot, if you're really into that give Depths of Wikipedia a follow on Twitter. The lady who runs that flags up a lot of weird stuff, it's funny.
I'm not into metal, but I do love Led Zeppelin.
I see your Deus Ex and raise it with Half-Life 2 (my favourite FPS ever).
I really do also love Half-Life 2, to the point I've gotten a bad habit of modding it—thank goodness for the custom folder—to the point I have a... fair bit of knowledge over how Source works. It's essentially GoldSrc under Havok, steroids, and a lot of spaghetti coding. ...I wonder if I should try a hand at designing a game under the Source engine someday.
Why not? Go for it! From what I've heard, game design is very challenging. But it's rewarding at the end of it. I'm not skilled with all that, my creative thing is writing.
Still, I'm half tempted to use one of those easy-peasy RPG maker tools to have everything custom made already, then just insert an amusing story over the top. Launch it on Itch.io kinda thing. Then I can claim I made a game (sort of)!