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DatDude
12/11/2012, 02:45 pm
It was insane.
I let him borrow my copy of the game, and he invited me to to his house to see him play the final episode. I knew he would probably get emotional since I saw how attatched he was to the characters and whatnot..I honestly did not expect though for him to react the way that he reacted.
When he saw that lee died, and saw the credits roll, he literally took this toy wooden baseball bat and literally swung with all of his power and smashed the tv to bits. Screwed him up emotionally, insane.
Congrats telltale? :o
thestalkinghead
12/11/2012, 02:49 pm
LOL I'm gonna take a wild guess and say he was to young to play the game
DatDude
12/11/2012, 02:52 pm
LOL I'm gonna take a wild guess and say he was to young to play the game
Nah, he's 28. Lives with his parents. He has some type of mental disability, I believe it's called aspergers syndrome? He acts a bit eccentric sometimes, and has a short fuse in terms of emotion. I guess he just snapped
thestalkinghead
12/11/2012, 02:55 pm
Nah, he's 28. Lives with his parents. He has some type of mental disability, I believe it's called aspergers syndrome? He acts a bit eccentric sometimes, and has a short fuse in terms of emotion. I guess he just snapped
oh :(
HiggsBoson2142
12/11/2012, 03:05 pm
I knew a guy with aspergers. He basically played shooting games and Hitman. Sooo, I probably wouldn't let a person like them play the Walking Dead (Since they can get really emotional.). But thanks for warning us!
MuffinMansBro
12/11/2012, 03:37 pm
I see a lot of things like this and I question the decision of whoever it was that labeled me with aspergers, (I don't remember, it was a long time ago) because while I AM weird (I guess) and pretty anti-social, I certainly don't do things like bust a tv over a videogame...
Ghositex
12/11/2012, 04:04 pm
Yeah, we used to have this classmate with asperger syndrome, until seventh grade. He was a nice guy, but he never smashed a TV.. Not that I know, at least.
Tyrant
12/11/2012, 04:04 pm
Pics or it didn't happen.
Moggyoxys
12/11/2012, 04:08 pm
Was he trying to imitate Clementine or something? Also, people react to events in their own ways I guess.
Ghositex
12/11/2012, 04:10 pm
Was he trying to imitate Clementine or something? Also, people react to events in their own ways I guess.
As far as I remember, people with Asperger syndrome tend to create strong emotional bounds with some objects: OP's friend seems to have done this with the game
AnnaSan
12/11/2012, 06:09 pm
Pics or it didn't happen.
I was about to say that xD
dankirk
12/11/2012, 06:19 pm
As far as I remember, people with Asperger syndrome tend to create strong emotional bounds with some objects: OP's friend seems to have done this with the game
Too bad he didn't bond with his TV...
G.Ross
12/12/2012, 10:47 am
Pics or it didn't happen.
Yep. Pics please.
IAmTheLastOmegaManOnEarth
12/12/2012, 03:46 pm
I knew a guy with aspergers. He basically played shooting games and Hitman. Sooo, I probably wouldn't let a person like them play the Walking Dead (Since they can get really emotional.). But thanks for warning us!
i have mild aspergers and i dont get "really emotional" over games
I can get emotional (the walking dead games, mass effect ect) but i would not smash my tv lol
just wanted to say that u shouldnt judge us all because we have a disability
some are more severe than others
Textbook
12/12/2012, 05:39 pm
Story feels false to me.
Eric Northman
12/12/2012, 07:31 pm
It was insane.
I let him borrow my copy of the game, and he invited me to to his house to see him play the final episode. I knew he would probably get emotional since I saw how attatched he was to the characters and whatnot..I honestly did not expect though for him to react the way that he reacted.
When he saw that lee died, and saw the credits roll, he literally took this toy wooden baseball bat and literally swung with all of his power and smashed the tv to bits. Screwed him up emotionally, insane.
Congrats telltale? :o
Your friend has issues with anger control. If you argue with him I'd suggest doing it over the phone.
Eric Northman
12/12/2012, 07:32 pm
Nah, he's 28. Lives with his parents. He has some type of mental disability, I believe it's called aspergers syndrome? He acts a bit eccentric sometimes, and has a short fuse in terms of emotion. I guess he just snapped
This was not the game for him I'm thinking.
DatDude
12/12/2012, 11:01 pm
Story feels false to me.
Well, I wouldn't have a reason to bs. Just thought it was quite surreal...I mean, I saw alot of videos of people breaking down crying over the ending on youtube, I thought for sure he would cry or be emotional to some extent, I just didn't expect him to react the way he did. lol.
As for pictures, I would love to post them... except for the fact I didn't take any... and, to be quite honest, I feel like I would be invading his privacy anyway's by making him look like some freak show by parading his smashed tv on the internet:(
QuarterPounderVlad
12/13/2012, 09:17 am
Too bad you didn't take pics.
Too bad for your friend though.. Assburgers can be a bitch.
Mr. Standards
12/13/2012, 09:46 am
Yep. Pics please.
You would ask for pictures wouldn't you... ; )
I guess I'll help then. Was it a CRT? What size?
Iyrsiiea
12/13/2012, 12:12 pm
I have Asperger's Syndrome. I've never smashed a TV, but I do get rather emotional over things most people don't and overreact to things other people are a bit upset about. It's not necessarily a behavioral disorder, but a social one in that it can be hard to understand and conform to social norms in terms of communication and 'proper' reactions to things.
plaqueconspiracy
12/13/2012, 02:49 pm
I have Asperger's Syndrome. I've never smashed a TV, but I do get rather emotional over things most people don't and overreact to things other people are a bit upset about. It's not necessarily a behavioral disorder, but a social one in that it can be hard to understand and conform to social norms in terms of communication and 'proper' reactions to things.
That doesn't sound like a disorder. That just sounds like every tumblr user ever. Every computer-era teenager ever.
Come to think about it... I probably have Asperger's. And a lot of people I know and see sometimes probably do also.
DatDude
12/18/2012, 12:50 pm
so my friend who has aspergers syndrome..who went on an angry trip, concerns me now after the school shooting thing.
I know it was confirmed that the shooter had aspergers, i pray to god my friend never becomes like him.
Eric Northman
12/18/2012, 06:59 pm
so my friend who has aspergers syndrome..who went on an angry trip, concerns me now after the school shooting thing.
I know it was confirmed that the shooter had aspergers, i pray to god my friend never becomes like him.
He has the capacity for overblown emotional reactions and extremely violent irrational actions with little to no provocation, apparently. Honestly, if this kids parents aren't trying to get him help, then maybe you should. Who knows if he is capable of murdering innocent people, I'd rather not find out the hard way.
dustpuffs
12/19/2012, 07:53 am
Does he only show aggression toward inanimate objects, or does he do this toward people too? Because I know someone with Aspergers who screamed and threw his calculator on the floor and stomped it to pieces when it didn't work properly, yet he is very kind and empathetic toward people, and I wouldn't worry about him being violent with others at all. There is so much about these things that people don't understand yet, and they try to lump everyone with a syndrome into one category, when they may be very different individuals.
Typicaldavid
12/19/2012, 08:29 am
hey yall, lets not talk about this, shall we? I think your friend would like to keep his own privacy about it and talking about him on a forum with strangers isnt really the best thing to do.. we all know what happened at conneticut was a tragedy, and we hope for the best for your friend, but its just not appropriate to talk about it on here.
Eric Northman
12/19/2012, 08:36 am
hey yall, lets not talk about this, shall we? I think your friend would like to keep his own privacy about it and talking about him on a forum with strangers isnt really the best thing to do.. we all know what happened at conneticut was a tragedy, and we hope for the best for your friend, but its just not appropriate to talk about it on here.
There is no harm in discussing it here. Nobody knows his identity, so his privacy isn't compromised.
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