He/Him | Hu/En/some Jp | ASD | Bi | C/C++/D/C#/Java

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  • Also see the recent “anti-DEI” backlash.

    I tried to get hired at an “anti-DEI” company pre-pandemic, for an intern position. They asked my brother if I had “unexplainable” fits of rage that would lead to destroyed equipment and bitten coworkers. Then in the second round they asked if I knew how much is 2 + 2, in a joking manner. Finally they instead tried to hire those who actually cheated the entry tests (they had to be let go), they had the best luck with reeducating a Javascript dev into a Java one. All because they though all disability that isn’t coming from amputation is “severe intellectual disability”, because joke made at the expense of the intellectually disabled.






  • I too have some similar concept, but for a Metal Gear (the 2D ones) clone in an Urban Fantasy setting, with the vampires primarily being a stand-in for autistic people, and the vampire myth being adjusted accordingly, with the whole “virality” thing mostly relegated to genetics, but present as a commonly held myth, alongside with power-scaling adjustments (especially due to the protagonist being a vampire), with also its own myth that make the common people afraid of them…