Artso Fartso's Whirling Dervish Podcast #7: As I Walk Thru the Valley of the Shadow of Autism

[@kekero540]

I think one of the main things about autism is that autistic people who are smart are basically undetectably autistic. Not that they are just less autistic than the dumber guy but also that they can just learn how to socially interact much easier.

[@breannaw7254]

I forgot how much I loved that shirt..

[@1810jeff]

Breanna W ikr it looks so innocent and obscene at the same time

[@consciouscode8150]

14:04 I don't think that's an accurate portrayal of autism, because that's just the basis of empathy. If you can't understand another person's feelings in terms of your own, you won't be able to empathize regardless of whether or not you have autism - at best you can sympathize. However, I think this would be right if adjusted a bit: autism is some systemic difference in the way a person thinks, and because of this, empathizing with others in terms of yourself is fundamentally more difficult because they're operating on a different psychology. To put it another way, it's not possible to formulate thought without viewing the world through a lens composed of your own experiences. Thought is fundamentally relative, you can't conceive of anything in absolutes without there being something that absolute is relative to, same way black needs white to stand out on a page. If anything, I'd guess the autistic obsession with media is because media offers a simplified, deconstructed view of reality which is universally understandable and can act as a translator between their thoughts and the alien thoughts of normies. Also what about "aspie"? Aspergers is a lot closer to the type of autism you're talking about. Alternatively, there's a word me and a friend like to use, "the tism". When we play Factorio and obsess about the machines being in a very particular order and not wasting space, that's the tism. When we obsessively work on a project for hours on end and forget to eat, the tism. Anime overanalysis, tism.

[@charliewenger7682]

This is the best content you have ever made, it shows that even people who are really different than me have the same existential breakdown

[@wukongsugimoto4906]

Up till now, the episodes have been super fucking gratifying, because I was listening to you ramble about all this shit I'm constantly thinking about. This was the most exciting one, 'cause it gave me an actually unique perspective I wasn't aware of and that's super fucking rare for me and really fascinating when it happens. The Whirling Dervish solidified you as my favorite content creator and outright favorite thing.

[@wukongsugimoto4906]

Last fifteen minutes were pure relatable splendor though

[@Hankler_fish]

Digi slowly becoming a climate change denier based off of one sentence his mom said is hilarious

[@a1ace1991]

Not just that sentence. If i am not mistaken he has said he is unsure of it before. People really need to be taught how the scientific community comes to a general consensus on things. Doubt in certain areas can be dangerous.

[@eveysas]

@@a1ace1991 Why is unsure dangerous?

[@a1ace1991]

If you are a huge company and people are unsure if global warming is real, and affected by people you dont have to be responsible and take care of the environment. The government cant stop you and protect the environment because the lawmakers are elected by people who don't know if global warming is real. If you dont know what is real and dont bother to find out you cant make informed decisions.

[@andrewneal3594]

he's not becoming a climate change denier. He's just making a point about how people just hear things as general consensus or the things they read and never explore further. Climate Change is a prime example of this, so many just assume that climate change is real and is at an extremely dangerous rate. I believe that most of it is real, but so many people are so "as a matter of fact" about it as though there is something wrong with you if you doubt it, especially if there is at least some evidence to counter climate change.

[@Badalight]

@@andrewneal3594 People take it as fact because it is fact. Water is wet.

[@elementofnaivity]

These podcasts are very potent

[@jessiivie8407]

digi im very similar to you in that i grew up unaware that i had autism and just thought of myself as "different" or whatever. i only got diagnosed when i was 17 because i was mad depressed and went to a therapist, who saw my autism as obvious when everyone else saw how high functioning i was and didnt even think twice about my neurotype. i turned my diagnosis into another thing to hate about myself and want to change, but unlike you, that shame held me back from letting myself evolve. it wasnt until you started autistically going off about autism that i stopped shaming myself. something that seemed secret and shameful just turned into a meme and became almost endearing to me. since then, i still consider myself autistic cuz nothing has changed about me, but ive made efforts at communicating better, empathizing better, and ive been acting at more functional levels while still understanding my limits. i dont think the way you describe things as autistic is bad at all and though it is hyperbolic, i dont consider it totally incorrect. the people that have a problem with it are the people who have been told that autism is bad. those people make up the majority because of the way society works, but i can tell you for a fact that something as simple as your autistic memeing is changing people's minds. i hope you dont stop to make these people more comfortable simply because i know you can still do for others what you have done for me.

[@m.a.g.e.]

My dervish whirls just like this one. Mad relatable episode.

[@user-ky8cx2tj7q]

I can't tell if Digi and I think the same way, or if I've been listening to his opinions for so long that my perspective is heavily influenced by his. Probably both.

[@TheKing-ve7lz]

Tea Leaf same

[@Exciya]

@@TheKing-ve7lz You can't have perspective without your own opinion so I'd guess we're (fans) are just alike. You like it for a reason.

[@greggreenie3734]

In these troubled times we NEED episode 20 of ISMA.

[@black1blade74]

never wanna watch anything with mumkey again.

[@mihlu.3929]

Been re-listening to it again and I wholeheartedly agree

[@greggreenie3734]

Chester Bennington died two years ago today

[@mihlu.3929]

@@greggreenie3734 thats a fuckings throwback

[@fromspace1664]

tbh digi i don't really watch that much anime but i've always just been extremely interested in just hearing you go on nerdy rants so this podcast is probably my new favorite thing right now

[@mlgmagikarp8876]

i have never related with a piece of content more then this video

[@lunalanding9127]

I feel the same.

[@treadmillgaming5963]

So I do a fairly popular panel at a lot of anime conventions, I worked as a radio host for several years, and I'm very involved in the role-playing community in my tri-state area My partner is a fursuit maker, and a mortician. Not even getting into beard random meetings I've had, I have connections with prolific voice actors, internet celebrities like people from teamfourstar, political figures from radio interviews, and all sorts of weird stuff in-between. That's from a guy with probably 1/10 of your reach, so my heart goes out to you for being as lost in the sause as you must be

[@smokinghot5373]

The algorithm used by the major companies on the internet will tend to feed you with more of the same things you engage with. It's an echo chamber we end up creating to ourselves.

[@deadgavin4218]

every dicision anyone makes is ALWAYS the best and only dicision they could make per the information they knew the inclinations they have and they want

[@iklone]

"The self-righteous vs the don't-give-a-fuck" is similar to a theory I've been thinking about for a while. There seems to be two types of autists (on the internet particularly) and I use Maddox vs Dick as the archetype of it. The Maddox takes everything super serious, is wholly more innocent and believes himself to always be in the right, needing the gratification of others. The Dick other is a shit-poster, deploys underhand tactics with out any outward pride, but is total in his self confidence so doesn't seek acknowledgement. This duality is everywhere: Biggest Problem, ISMA, internet politics, tumblr vs 4chan, Char vs Amuro, L vs Light, etc etc; and I'm pretty sure it's the same idea as you touched on this episode... Further research is required

[@Getz-Da-Chompy]

What will the interesting to see is how people treat autism if it turns out that the faeces treatment truly is a cure. All of these years of building a model where we were calling it a spectrum would collapse. I wonder if people would even accept that, considering how integral it's starting to get for the way that people describe and identify with autism

[@ToaOfGallifrey]

I think that, a lot like how the anime community is so diverse thanks to being so expansive, MMOs have a similar effect in that the playerbase will be very expansive and you'll meet lots of interesting people. It's no exaggeration for me to say that my life would not be what it is now had I not decided to install and play Wizard101, a game I didn't think anything of until my mom saw a commercial for it and said "hey that's looks neat", due to the people I met. During my 4 years of playing regularly, I made a wealth of connections with a wide variety of people, some of whom I still consider my best friends and speak to on a daily basis. Even a couple friendships that either fizzled out or went sour, I treasure greatly and don't regret the way they went because they exposed me to new experiences from the safety of my computer screen.

[@SpeckObst]

Your talk about corporations actually shows that you have no idea how it works since you clearly never worked inside any corporate structure. Of course these people don't see themselves as evil. Nobody does. Not even mass murderers. But yes, greed and the fact that they allowed to squeeze as much out of the system and their work force naturally leads to the fact that a lot of them will do it, especially since they themselves are held to the goal of growth. Talking like they make these complex moral decisions just excuses their behavior. For example: A ton of research has shown that decreasing the average work week of 40 to 32 (in most office jobs) will actually lead to more productive results in the long term. You can already see the effects in some countries like the Netherlands. But companies still refuse a simple structural change like this without changes to the law and will actively use their money to spread misinformation. Or hell, take the system of lobbying. These people only care about gathering as much power and wealth and system is designed in such a way that those become the most powerful.

[@randomness6498]

SpeckObst or they just fill your time so you dont have the time to think about yourself and how you are overworking yourself for those greedy managers

[@ToaOfGallifrey]

I don't know if you ever finished it, but connecting is more or less the central theme of Mawaru Penguindrum (Sarazanmai too but iirc you finished that and even though Sarazanmai marks it more as the forefront of its story, I think Penguindrum weaves it a bit more organically into the narrative). I'd highly recommend it if you wanna see Ikuhara exploring it.

[@Zanador]

Last I heard he was about halfway through Penguindrum and getting bored with it (understandably IMIO it kinda goes off the rails in the middle). I think he's only watched one episode of Sarazanmai but he liked it and will probably finish it near the end of the year with Finish or Fail.

[@autisticbidan2303]

This is the best series on the main channel period

[@ayumukasuga9597]

You're simultaneously making a point about the importance of nuance when talking about wealth (which I'm glad you made because I agree with it) while also making a point about how Corporations are good for society when 1. The majority of innovations are made in the state sector because corporations arent going to take risks on what doesn't make them profits 2. Banks and corporations actively collude with one another to lobby for wars in other countries which create further dominance on the resources of those countries by western conglamorates. The importance of this fact cannot be understated. Have you ever wondered why the moment a country nationalized their oil to provide competition to Western Trusts that they're all of the sudden blown to bits or sanctioned heavily? It's because capitalism in its monopoly stage eats away at these nations. 3. Financial Crises are an innate result of deregulation and the same companies you defined as having good intentions are the very same that lobby for crises to occur.

[@Trixiethegoldenwitch]

I wasn't trying to argue that corporations are good for society, nor do I disagree with any of those points.

[@ayumukasuga9597]

Thanks for clearing things up! I think I misinterpreted what you were saying from the way it was framed. Great episode by the way. The existential part about life and go forward from suicide were very motivational.

[@studioofshred1050]

THANK YOU ARTSO

[@hobbitonthestorm1519]

Where’s ghiblicast?

[@williamseward7429]

HobbitOnTheStorm I heard something about some member not being able to record

[@AtenaHena]

Is being autistic cool now? There are ppl around me who don’t seem autistic at all but say they are misunderstood geniuses

[@Luluco_G]

You describing Autism as the inability to see something from another lense than your own and not being able to relate to people reminds me of the way some queer and trans people treat fictional characters. When they in some way relate to struggles of a Character, they assign traits of themselves (being gay of trans for example) on to the fictional character as a way to explain the relatability to themselves, saying things like "_____ is trans!". Instead of putting themselves in the characters shoes, they put the character in their own shoes.

[@skyfinity9199]

Yeah, that and it's also a super easy way to troll people. So someone identifies queer elements in a character's experience, and at that point only claims there are interesting parallels, but people still end up losing their shit. How do you react when people reject the most minimal walking-on-eggshells queer interpretations and try to throw out the discussion entirely? Fuck y'all: every character is trans. And gay. And autistic. I'm not saying that is true in every case, but I see so many people assume that SJW types aren't capable of trolling and it is so silly.

[@Erik-zr6wy]

I am bi and I don’t think that way, lmao!

[@Luluco_G]

@@Erik-zr6wy I'm Bi as well. Of course not every queer person is like this. It's just very few extreme people. But it's a very consistent trend I've noticed and It very much reminded me of what Digibro said.

[@k.a.nsmith1581]

An online test is not a diagnosis. But maybe taking the test seriously was just proof of stupidity.

[@eveysas]

It's not a diagnosis but maybe it seems important enough to take it more seriously than before.

[@k.a.nsmith1581]

@@eveysas i took a onlinetest saying the character a most resemble is naruto these test mean nothing . If actually cared hed see if he was by going to a professional .

[@jumbaliajohn3116]

This is the best podcast I've ever experienced

[@chrislaezur730]

This was cool

[@psychedelicbee5039]

You always talk about consuming as much media as possible, so review books weeb. Also where the I Am Games videos at?

[@Timaeus3]

Yes.

[@intelligenceparadigm4931]

Your description of autism not only describes me but also I've just realized that I'm 25 and I didn't think normal people could empathize or understand things without comparing it to themselves. I can't even conceive another way of existing. Is this real? What?

[@randomness6498]

Intelligence Paradigm what. Thats commun knowledge, ofc you gotta relate your personal problems to others, or else how tf will you understand how others feels ? 👌

[@joed9514]

1:09:47 is yikes. I'll point out that the entirety of the peer reviewed scientific community is in agreement with the existence of man made climate change. The 'it's a debate' idea is the same thing evolution deniers do in American schools. Cuz if they can claim it's a debate they can act like there's plausible deniability. You're right everyone is being paid, but who's paying who matters more than if someone is getting paid. The people who report that man made climate change isn't real are being paid by groups representing those who would profit from climate change not existing, oil, natural gas, mining, transport, etc. The people who say it does exist are being paid by literally everyone else doing any kind of research. The people who claim it does exist don't have anything to gain from it, but the people who claim it doesn't tend to have a very vested interest in it not existing. This idea that since 'both sides are research being paid for by someone so they're both equally trustworty' is propaganda that only benefits those trying to deny the effects of man made climate change. Honestly people don't appreciate the gravity of how massive it would be if we were wrong about climate change. It would be the most widely accepted idea in modern scientific history to be completely overturned since the revelations on relativity and quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. Anyway not trying to ramble or preach, I just hate seeing people get suckered by blatant propaganda.

[@btbwilkinson]

Well, since the peer reviewed scientific community conveniently excised everyone who disagrees on man made climate change it was easy for them to build a "consensus."

[@andrewneal3594]

dude, there's PLENTY of people who would benefit economically from climate change being real. Solar power companies, democratic nominees, nature organizations, etc. I'm not saying climate change isn't real, but you'd have to be willfully ignorant to believe that people don't benefit from climate change being real just to make it sound like climate change deniers are a bunch of greedy bastards.

[@ShadowCrap13]

"The more you know, the more you know that nobody knows anything" booooiiii That's what describes me right now. Everyone's just trying to live the best they can, and everyone is just making it up as they try to logic together things and events that are influenced by other people who, too, are making things up as they go along, based on their own logic. It's a hard and scary thing to face, especially when you're trying to look for some guidance. EDIT: Ok so what I mean is, it's the hardest when you feel like shit has no real logic behind it, and certain things seem like they're more just an effect of tons of unknown causes that break your idea of how things are suppose to work.

[@graylightning4181]

The title says 6 but the thumbnail 7

[@Sparkys_World-0]

He’s kinda right, the audio link is Episode 6 ✌️

[@Trixiethegoldenwitch]

@@Sparkys_World-0 fixed

[@bobbio100]

>Talks about sonic r34 artist >fails to mention the username

[@cosmicblu4726]

It honestly humours me that you are on the fence about climate change. I get why, (we should all question our sources) but I find it wierd that anyone doubts it in the first place. Seriosly, look up some PBS and PBS Eons vids on the subject. There's multiple points of evidence FOR it, not just 2 or 3 reasons. Do people really just look out their window and go, "Yep, (insert crazy assertion on climate change)." It's GLOBAL not local. (Yeah, local is a part of the global, but the change in itself is really only noticeable (perceivable) across such a large scale as the entire earth.)

[@andrewneal3594]

bruh he's not exactly on the fence about climate change, he's making a point about how people just see or read information, establish it within themselves and never explore further. I personally think a lot of climate change is real, but people can certainly doubt it on the basis of the government and companies and mobs of crazy people constantly trying to sell you that idea for whatever ulterior motive. I see people compare climate change deniers to racists in professional articles and stuff, people for climate change can be just as insane as what people claim climate change deniers are.

[@AntiNihilist]

I know it might seem futile but you really should write a book about how to interpret autism. It doesn't have to be long, but I think talking about it from a philosophical approach likely hasn't been done before, or perhaps just very little.

[@teacup4561]

The stuff around 30:00 fucking blew my mind. At first I was like "yeah, maybe some people" but then I thought about and I realized that happened to me too. It's totally a thing; if you're a minor online you're probably going to experience grooming or something like that at some point. Like, guaranteed. My story takes place when I was 12 using Gaia online for roleplay. That's just like what you did if you were a middle school nerd in like 2011. Now there was a lot of weird fetish stuff happening on that website, but this one takes place in a dead forum where everyone else had abandoned it except me and one other guy. He said he was in college but I'm betting he was older than that based on our interactions. He knew I was 12 and called me 'well spoken' and 'mature for your age' and stuff like that. He had me do a master / slave roleplay where my character put his in diapers and tortured him and stuff. I thought it was kinda weird but I did it anyways, and now that I look back that was sketchy as hell. He even asked me to draw pictures of our roleplay because he knew I liked to draw. That's definitely some creepy behavior and I can't believe my naivete allowed it to go on for so long. Eventually I lost interest and moved on, but still... My naivete got taken advantage of so this guy could enact his fetishes. I had never even realized how common stories like this are though. I'm betting almost everyone has had one experience like this if they were ever using the internet before the age of like 20. Jesus.

[@lunalanding9127]

I thought the 4th one was my favorite, but this one out did even that. Your point about not knowing enough is very relevant. I'm 24 and all my friends perceive the world in such a way that said that they definitely know what's going on. This is particularly bothersome in political discussions; nevertheless, the views you hold are kin to my own, and it's nice to see someone who I feel like I wouldn't agree with on many things come to similar conclusions. Also, I'm not really sure about your Autism theory because I like many of the things that you mentioned but have little to no tilt towards autism; however, I do think there may be a way that someone who is autistic views the world that connects with an underlying human ability towards storytelling, which is an abstract pattern matching algorithm. I find that I also am great at pattern matching but particularly on a macro level rather than a micro level. I start with themes first then go to characters later. This allows me to construct narratives or stories with ease that many "normies" don't seem to experience. (I'm equating storytelling to abstract pattern recognition btw).I construct top down (although there are other ways of creating stories, but I find this way the most interesting personally). Anyway, I'm certain there can be a connection, but what it is called and what it means, I do not know.

[@uglypatch7077]

I feel physical pain every time you use the word pastiche.

[@calmfulspider]

I was always INTP throughout all of high school and the beginning of college. Now I’m half way through college and it’s INTJ and I’m not sure what caused the change. I don’t think it’s a major change but it’s interesting.

[@numberproof7228]

"Nothing is going to get you closer to human bedrock than female sonic the hedgehog taking lots of cock" - Digibro 2019 On a more serious note, I am so happy that without fail, every episode of the Whirling Dervish has something that I deeply relate to. Please keep producing these in the same way you have been.

[@plebby4176]

Every single content creator I follow who’s shared their Meyers Briggs has been an INTP like me

[@bobbio100]

I think what you're talking about with regards to Amazon is hitting close to something. A lot of people might be out there thinking the exploitation of workers is a character problem on the part of Jeff Bezos. He's a bad actor in an otherwise generous situation. To my understanding, that's missing the bigger picture. And you're right to point out how narrow-minded that view is. Bezos probably isn't a good person. He's not exactly a bad person, though, either, because he's just making a profit. He's making as much profit as possible as fast as possible. And his ability to do so is reliant on human labor, and extracting value from that labor in as wide a margin as possible. The profit motive and the system that enables it to exist - capitalism - is what drives the decisions. Bezos isn't personally trying to make life hell for the people who work in his factories. He's just trying to pay them as little as he can while making sure they work as hard as he can convince them to. And that might sound "evil" but it's what the system rewards. If it doesn't sound like what he should be doing, the system needs to change. Not just the individual. It's only now that he has the power to slow down and/or redistribute wealth, but chooses not to that his personal morality can be called into question.

[@TheLastScoot]

The podcast where Digibro denies Climate Change.

[@90jcraplee]

I don't know if i agree with him about this who people with Autism need media in order to understand the world around them thing and that that's something normal people don't need to do. But I also don't know if i feel that way myself because it actually is a normal thing that most people do or if it's that I just had Asperger this who time and didn't even know it.

[@haydenknurck8313]

👏👏 wow I have Aspergers and you did pretty good.

[@murray9807]

Yo, Digster, you put last week's episode in the download link.

[@tuskinradar8688]

47:00 The levels of Chiaki J Konaka was right that this podcast is reaching shouldnt be possible rn

[@jurgen9678]

We have the same briggs personality type yeet!! I knew there was a reason why I love your mind

[@dragoniraflameblade]

I'm autistic and my symptoms are different than yours, but there's LOTS of overlap in similarities. I find the study of autism is insane and totally messed up. It can get confused for a whole host of other mental illnesses. At first, they thought it was common only in boys and girls rarely get it. Then within the last two decades studies go, oh wait - girls are ridiculously good at masking/hiding symptoms. It's craziness. I've been spending most of my life working around and fighting my autism and trying to understand how to get it to work. I finally had it confirmed by a therapist and it's like a weight has been lifted.

[@kekero540]

Girls aren’t necessarily more adept at hiding symptoms it’s more that non confrontational is expected from them so they are rarely treated as having an actual disability since women can live with a non confrontational lifestyle. Men can’t really live like that.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

The definition you were looking for at the beginning was "High Functioning" Aspergers is on the High Functioning end of the Autism Spectrum. "That doesn't seem like it follows for how Autism works" some think that the symptoms of Aspergers can stop manifesting in adulthood. Side note: "regular more subtle media" Avatar was the highest grossing movie and now it's going to be Avengers Endgame.

[@GeahkBurchill]

Why is Mumkey in the thumbnail?

[@Lepstick_-]

I wonder

[@revolverocelot8106]

@Patodesu well thanks for nothing dude

[@MaxDOutEX]

A one hour podcast is long? Weak

[@btbwilkinson]

@@GeahkBurchill, I have adhd and can listen to a podcast.

[@Jalae]

re:brigsmyers weird, i went from intp to infp after my attempted suicide/deciding to transition and how that changed me.

[@hikikomoron]

THATS MY SUPERPOWER, NIGGA AIN’T NO DISABILITY I’M A SUPERHERO! I’M A SUPERHERO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@Aspirinium]

I was listening while lying in bed so naturally i fell asleep. And i had a dream where i was working with Digi in retail, putting stuff on shelves in a supermarket and stuff. And while doing so, podcast broke through my dream through Digi's character. So he was proclaiming words of this podcast non-stop really loudly and all the coworkers flanced to place where he was and kept their distance. And i as his friend felt bad for him and was like, come on guys, i know him, he's not always like thta, he's allright sometimes. Regarding autism, for a long time i had an idea that main component of it is lack of communicative, social skills. And the other day i watched Vsause' Mindfield episode about chimps with crazy memory. And this episode proposes theory that during evolution some chimps traded off this crazy memory skill for communicative skills to become humans. Since some autistic people has crazy brain abilities, my not so, but still autistic brain linked those to things together and i came up with hypothesis that being autismo is in a way returning back to monkey days.

[@Milkra]

“As I walk through the valley of $wa, i am unaffected by the flames of hate. For I am a fandom angel, savior of all fandoms” If anyone remembers where that’s from I love you

[@axeburningfire2507]

20:20 found him! he's me.

[@nicobane]

you give normies too much credit. normie media is fuckinng thoughtless and not very far away from kid media in the way it treats it’s audience. do autists gravitate towards easy to read, colorful and expressive media? yes. do non autists gravitate towards thoughtlesss, non challenging, easy to grasp concepts? yes.

[@Awesomebaconman123]

"normies"

[@nicobane]

@@Awesomebaconman123 normos

[@SarxTheJew]

1:09:47 the Science Understander has logged on.

[@itafiatreviso7335]

10:00 FUCKING YES GODDAMMIT YES SON OF A BITCH YES

[@itafiatreviso7335]

This episode speaks to my soul, and I can tell that this was a long time coming. I really appreciate this video, even if it is just because I relate to it. Sorry for contributing to your overwhelmingly autistic audience...

[@Heatranoveryou]

If amazon wasn't publicly trade sure, but it is. Amazon is purely greed. The reason jeff bezos takes a huge pay check is that amazon gets a larger tax write off for giving it to him. Its possible that jeff bezos personally intends to do good with his money though. The more money you have the more money you make which means the more he can do.

[@Heatranoveryou]

@@howard_blast LOL I never said any of that. Please fuck off.

[@siIverspawn]

There are very few good shortcuts to rationality. Thinking the world is simple is wrong. Thinking everything is complex and nothing has a simple answer is also wrong. I won't say it's equally wrong, the latter is probably closer to the truth than the former, but it's still wrong. The existence of a lot of factors does not imply that there cannot be simple explanations, because a single factor might account for over 90% of the story. Sometimes it does. For example, why do people have sex? Evolution programmed us in such a way that it feels good. Are there other reasons? No doubt. You could analyze this question and come up with all sorts of increasingly complex and nuanced points. But the basic explanation already accounts for over 90% of the story, so it is actually correct to say that there is a basic explanation, and wrong to say that it's complicated and nuanced (if by that you mean that the nuance is important). I would consider the climate change stuff to be a failure of rationality that's guilty of the above. There are lots of nuanced reasons for why it is more or less likely to be a thing, but the simple reasons are the strongest ones, and you don't really need the nuance to be rationally confident. Though I don't claim it's quite as clear cut as with sex.

[@Cesia18Wind]

Probably gonna regret this later, but. I'm autistic. Got a fancy diagnosis from Kaiser and everything. I don't like Shingi. Like I know the point of the anime is that he learns that nobody can read his fucking mind. But I've had too many actual problems where an NT expects me to read their body language or face squishes and don't believe me when I say I can't. Literally had a conversation where I yelled at someone that I can't read their bloody mind and will they just fucking say what they mean. And like I know it's difficult to put a piece of yourself out there and be vulnerable for a shake. But that's true for everyone. Even autistics. So no I don't like Shinji. I think he expects results without trying. But I haven't seen the anime in fucking years so kid me could be wrong. IDK. But I don't really have any desire to go rewatch either. So there you go. Two-cents from a real-live verified autistic. *fucking jazz hands*

[@Sandalwoodrk]

Hmm If not seeing someone as there own person with different needs than yours and only understanding them through your understanding of yourself is autism Then 99% of people I interact with are autistic And I interact with A LOT of people

[@mysticmarbles]

I don’t think you meant that literally all anime fans are autists looking for overtly emotive characters, but I know some people will take it that way. I agree probably the majority of them do gravitate to anime for those reasons but at the same time I’m not going to put someone who is into samurai action shows into the same box that I’d put someone who’s into moe romance dramas. There’s a lot of stuff you just can’t get elsewhere (or not as readily) that you might come to anime for. Heck some people just like the art style, and not in an “I need obvious emotes” kind of way. There’s plenty of normies who just like DBZ and One Punch Man that are getting something different out of anime than the autists. You already know this, I’m just vindicating pedantic people here.

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

I wish there were a website where you could just argue with randos. Like that's the explicit, stated purpose. If somebody isn't annoyed, you're doing it wrong.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

There is it's called 4chan

[@Psyteth]

The entire internet is used for that.

[@ThatguycalledJoe]

4chan is too unfocused. And the entire internet isn't *made* for that. Big difference.

[@randomness6498]

ThatguycalledJoe Discord

[@someguy4384]

TF is Mumkey Jones doing in the thumbnail? You don't deserve to use this wonderful man in your video in it, you bastard!

[@daksh1673]

The noble goal of amazon of world domination

[@CaptainBagman]

The world is way smaller than you think.

[@tohitarmorclass0846]

20 minutes in and I've come to the difinitive conclusion, I'm hella A U T I S T I C the empathy comparison about media really hit close to home.

[@RobertsolutioM]

Autismo Fitso's Whirling Autist Podcast #7

[@bw1170]

Welp just learned that I may be a little autistic. Or at least Digi's interpretation of it

[@bw1170]

Digi made this while high didn't he

[@shadethenovice]

Digi you are actually one of the people I think about when you say people make judgements before knowing all the information. You did so this episode by stating that unexplainable events aren't occurring because of spiritual reasons, despite not knowing yourself. Why are you more correct than anyone else if nobody truly knows?

[@isochron5597]

I'm a diagnosed sperg and I hate Shinji.

[@koopanique]

I wonder what percentage of the population considers itself weird/autist at some level, and what percentage of the population would consider itself normie

[@H2BH4U]

You still make content?

[@Zanador]

He's put out a video nearly every day for the last like, month.

[@BlackMita]

"Climate change" and "greedy corporations" are essentially the same topic, with the same solution: Pass laws that limit what huge companies can do. The end goal? Tighter regulation of the economy. Even if people are honestly worried "living conditions in the future" or exploitation, they just end up arguing for socialism without really realizing it. Can't respect it.

[@gnnr222]

INTP Gang!!!!1!

[@porridgeramen7220]

One of the most ironic aspects of listening to this video is the fact that you talk about the importance of Autistics (or really people within this invisible magiv circle upon which you thrust the term "autism" need more worldliness and perspective to create great works of art, but a pattern I keep recognising with you, but I realise now that your understanding of issues such as climate change and COVID-19 is founded on an aggressively insular echo chamber of information, and it's difficult to try and get to you wake up to the reality on these subjects when you're adamant that you reached such conclusions through critical thinking.

[@Scrubsexplorer]

I don't think gut bacteria is the cause.

[@btbwilkinson]

Just the cure?

[@Scrubsexplorer]

@@btbwilkinson Neither

[@Cons-Cat]

ok boomer .

[@artlix4790]

summary: We are all autistic so STFU and accept it and live on

[@AntiNihilist]

1:00:00 Oh no. it looks like Digi was bought out by the evil corporate overlords. Get ready for the ad breaks about the wonders of Shell gas stations 1:00:38 btw that was the reason to believe in Trump enough to vote for him last election, he has stakes in making a strong economy. Clinton's wealth on the other hand comes through taxing people more to bring more money to the government so she can spread the wealth to every democrat controlled program in favor of democrat politics only. Which in turn allows her to receive kick backs from the companies(or countries) in favor of these democrat programs or issues.

[@superdriver]

14:58 you're massively overestimating "other people"

[@camel662]

I guess autism could be considered a form of mental tunnel vision, but that's just from my experiences and i'm no doctor so someone else find a name for this shit.

[@deadgavin4218]

44:30 hay go on the dickshow and talk about this

[@bubbyradio9112]

Was literally just about to post do a whirling dervish on his latest video than realized this was his latest video

[@axohno]

May this podcast be the savior of the future by changing the minds of countless basic fucks with even an inch of rationality still on the internet (gotta to put in the emojis now to get more clicks) 😞🙏🖕

[@Derpalon]

Man, I'm always massively enjoying like 80% of the content in these podcasts until Digi starts talking politics. I mean really? Climate change denialism just because your mother made an off-handed comment about it? The scientific consensus among climatologists is pretty overwhelming at this point. It is happening and it's man-made. If anything whenever scientists find that they were wrong about something, it's always because they were too conservative with their initial estimates and they realized that we're actually doing damage to the environment much faster than they originally predicted. It's important to note that while it's true things can get complicated the more you dig into them, sometimes Occam's Razor just applies too and you're overthinking it. I refuse to believe that EA puts loot boxes into their games for some secret altruistic reason and not because they're just being greedy exploitative pieces of shit, especially in lieu of their obvious semantic tap-dancing around the issue during recent government hearings on it. Prove me wrong.

[@klauztigr]

He never denied climate change, his point was entirely different. " Prove me wrong." Not wrong exactly, but modern capitalistic system of public companies, especially in US is designed around constantly raising their share values. Its not a question of profits for them, it's a question of survival. If you are just making some good games that sell good, you will not be raising your share values, so you gonna lose investors and so you are gonna die as a company. So it's physically impossible for a company not to be greedy and have shitty business practices, even if you put the most generous and good-natured people in charge.

[@Derpalon]

@@howard_blast What's delusional is to be so hilariously dismissive of science as you sit at a computer, under electric lighting, communicating to someone thousands of miles away through the internet, falsely equivocating rigorous study of empirical data with superstition.

[@Derpalon]

​@@klauztigr Is it a question of survival? As I recall, CDPR and Nintendo are publicly traded companies too.

[@randomness6498]

Derpalon EA puts loot boxes cause they send all that money to the illuminati so they can cause more havoc in arabic countries such as syria iraq palestine, and so, and about climate change ? Just look the fucking window once in a while and you will see lol

[@klauztigr]

@@Derpalon CDPR is very young company compared to EA and it has a lot of room to grow yet(and they do have complains about bad working conditions). And Nintendo has a lot of shitty practices in its business, the fact that they dont dabble in lootboxes particulary for whatever reason (they have a very high profile as a family-friendly company for example, so they have much more to lose in case of a backlash) hardly makes them not ridiculuosly greedy.

[@lordwarryl5712]

I like you more and more Digi

[@ChuckYuuu]

I've found my guy

[@ChuckYuuu]

Just finished the pod. Here's some thoughts I'm a senior studying environmental engineering and have focused mainly on climate engineering; over 90% of the scientific community agrees humanity has increased the caebon content of the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. Short term effects (happening right now) include more violent weather patterns ie stronger hurricanes but not just more rain. There's many interests on both sides but its dangerous to give any side blind faith so I'm not mad at digi for questioning climate science. What gets me mad is people that have no scientific backround are making statements like the earth is flat and discredit actual scientists. America is falling behind the rising asian nations because of this and the political correctness in academia.

[@Jasperr2016]

DIGIBRO THIS IS THE MOST AUTISTIC FUCKING VIDEO IVE EVER WATCHED YOU HAVE NO SELF AWARENESS

[@younggod5230]

guess im autistic

[@YTmaxi]

Here is a little on-topic classic kzbin.info/www/bejne/p52cXmtopLtlgKc

[@randomness6498]

Digibiro, you dont need no studies nor long life research to realise the climate change, all you gotta do is look the fucking windows once in a while 👌

[@haydenknurck8313]

Well for your first part Aspergers is has differnt asspeces me being someobe who has Aspergers. You take in so much of everthing we cant interact well with others. But autisum on the high side of the spectrum just take in to much and cant do anything with it.

[@themangaloid1487]

Would you describe yourself as a glutinous media consumer?