Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 4 days agoI agree on everything except the audio over text bit. If it has to be anything, let it be text. Let me be able to skim it if I want, don’t make me sit through an audio file to get background lore.
If it isn’t gonna be presented through the actual storytelling of the gameplay, put it in a text file.
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah I get it, but I like having the option of having a voice actor narrate the text to me rather than having to read everything. Especially as I mostly game on a TV that was not meant for reading.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Audio processing disorder (AuADHD) so being narrated at is pretty much white noise for me; so can’t relate.
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Huh, never heard of this before. Does it affect music perception too?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Not really. It’s less to do with hearing/perception and more how the human brain processes regular speech; neurodivergent people, like those with ADHD and/or autism like myself, process these things differently.
The brain processes singing differently than regular speech and the issue with audio processing disorder is that how we process regular speech makes it hard for us to hold conversation. Like I need people to repeat things a few times occasionally and if I’m not paying direct attention to the person speaking then voices are basically like “whomp-whomp” from Peanuts, so if someone calls for me while I’m doing something I straight up won’t know I’m being called for.