Re: ~70% of people are completely worthless in the information age
I don't overrate it at all. My mom figured out text messages just a year ago. I blew her mind when she realized I could text her a picture of where I was standing to help her find me in a parking lot. This happened just last summer. She did not know this was possible or a thing people could do.
She's also about 120 IQ -- I tested her. And she's probably severely ADHD, worse than me, which I have no doubt is where mine comes from. Other interesting IQ things: after ADHD treatment my measured IQ went from 125 to 150+, on the kind of tests Reach used to give out. It was fucking bizarre thinking of myself as "kinda smart but not as smart as Reach/Rubix/you" to "could be PhD in some hard science at an Ivy if I wanted." ADHD is also why I was such a shithead on FFR -- starting conflicts with people was the only thing that could get me to focus that I had access to at the time. (I eventually subbed this with binge drinking and extremely dangerous top-speed shit at 3AM which I am glad I no longer do. I have driven 60+MPH laps drunk in a suburb that the HoA wanted to be 20MPH and crashed into a speed limit sign. I sped off and parked at my house and leg pressed the sign back into place; no one has any evidence of the damage or even knows I did it. ADHD medication has -- I'm confident -- kept me from being a convicted felon.)
But yes, circling back to what you said, FFR is not just "a video game forum where everyone's quality of life is probably in the top global 10%" it's a video game forum for a HIGHLY SPECIFIC variant of a video game simulator that requires the user to have fluent knowledge of file/folder trees and what parts go where, plus incredibly game-specific knowledge if the player is to create charts, and on top of that understanding of musical rhythm plus graphic design if the player desires to release a whole file.
In terms of nerdery we're up there with Dwarf Fortress and probably above mainstream Minecraft modders. We're probably one of the most tech-competent gaming forums to ever exist and it's important to keep that in perspective before we forget our place on Mt. Olympus or whatever.
I don't overrate it at all. My mom figured out text messages just a year ago. I blew her mind when she realized I could text her a picture of where I was standing to help her find me in a parking lot. This happened just last summer. She did not know this was possible or a thing people could do.
She's also about 120 IQ -- I tested her. And she's probably severely ADHD, worse than me, which I have no doubt is where mine comes from. Other interesting IQ things: after ADHD treatment my measured IQ went from 125 to 150+, on the kind of tests Reach used to give out. It was fucking bizarre thinking of myself as "kinda smart but not as smart as Reach/Rubix/you" to "could be PhD in some hard science at an Ivy if I wanted." ADHD is also why I was such a shithead on FFR -- starting conflicts with people was the only thing that could get me to focus that I had access to at the time. (I eventually subbed this with binge drinking and extremely dangerous top-speed shit at 3AM which I am glad I no longer do. I have driven 60+MPH laps drunk in a suburb that the HoA wanted to be 20MPH and crashed into a speed limit sign. I sped off and parked at my house and leg pressed the sign back into place; no one has any evidence of the damage or even knows I did it. ADHD medication has -- I'm confident -- kept me from being a convicted felon.)
But yes, circling back to what you said, FFR is not just "a video game forum where everyone's quality of life is probably in the top global 10%" it's a video game forum for a HIGHLY SPECIFIC variant of a video game simulator that requires the user to have fluent knowledge of file/folder trees and what parts go where, plus incredibly game-specific knowledge if the player is to create charts, and on top of that understanding of musical rhythm plus graphic design if the player desires to release a whole file.
In terms of nerdery we're up there with Dwarf Fortress and probably above mainstream Minecraft modders. We're probably one of the most tech-competent gaming forums to ever exist and it's important to keep that in perspective before we forget our place on Mt. Olympus or whatever.
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