SlurpingPus

@SlurpingPus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨now kith⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  bonus panels on Patreon

  It’s marine porn, isn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British plugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that extension cords can have breakers in them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it seems that you don’t have the internal monologue as a mandatory part of your everyday life, instead using it sporadically as a helping instrument — which also translates to you not using it when reading, for the most part.

  Although it seems weird to me that you’re using narration for conceptual things, and not ones describing tangible stuff. Since you’re a borderline case, you might want to commit yourself to one of the neuropsychology departments, for us normies to study what the hell is going on in your brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The person who recommended those books said they ‘teach how to draw what you see instead of what the brain tells you to draw’. Which is a bit odd, and I don’t know if they meant drawing from references specifically, but it kinda sounds like it might help with capturing an object how it should look. Especially since their ‘after’ example was a detailed drawing of a crow down to the feathers.

  I’m actually simultaneously intrigued and a bit wary of these books, since I prefer unrealistic and quirky style and want to develop one like that for myself, but am afraid I might go for detailed looks if I learn to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Spatial skills seem to be separate from visualization. Elsewhere in the thread a commenter said they can’t visualize, but do very well with rotating objects in the mind and fitting shapes together.

  As to your question, people indeed can imagine smells, tastes, and sounds. Smells are supposedly one of the strongest factors in evoking memories — although my own olfaction was always questionable and got worse with age, but some strong smells still elicit recall from ages ago, e.g. the mechanical smell of subway around here when I haven’t been in it for fifteen years.

  Another commenter said they can imagine the taste of a dish from its ingredients, which I can do only approximately.

  However, I’m pretty good with imagining sound, particularly music — while knowing jackshit about music theory. This actually brings some annoyance, as I’m trying lately to finally do some music production, and it never sounds quite like I want it to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if those people are also generally #5 or thereabouts on this chart

  Afaik the two are unrelated. I’d guess the ‘narration’ is rather tied to the internal monologue. E.g. I’m around 2 or 3 on visualization, but have lots of monologuing going on constantly, and likewise ‘hear’ the text being read unless I specifically try to skim. It’s also worse in the second language, which is English for me, while I can read my native language faster — I’ve noticed before that the second language requires more brain processing and isn’t absorbed as directly.

  Do you have the internal monologue, when not reading?

  The ‘speed reading’ technique, of which you might’ve heard, is all about turning off the internal narration while reading and just absorbing the text directly. However, studies show that for most people, the narration helps comprehension and recall; and also that everyone or nearly everyone has subvocalization when reading, i.e. involuntary muscle movement of the throat, mirroring the words that they’re reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have hardware in the brain wired to recognize faces. For some people it’s not working too well, independently of the other abilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m coming to think there is a lot more nuance to this than the 5 images let on.

  It’s just that spatial skills are separate from the visualization ability, and are judged separately. I’ve been told even that people with aphantasia can do the ‘memory palace’ mnemonic technique, though I can’t quite see how.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if it makes anyone feel better, I’m somewhere around 2 or 3. But that’s really nothing to write about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told on Reddit that people with aphantasia can actually do the ‘memory palace’ thing. But, since it was just one commenter who didn’t quite describe how it would work, while I myself can visualize but dislike the ‘palace’ technique, I have no further information as to how to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a recommendation for the books ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’ by Betty Edwards and ‘The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are’ by Danny Gregory. The commenter also attached their drawings from before and after, saying it took a quite short time to go from rudimentary scribblings to full-fledged detailed realistic drawings. So perhaps these books help, though I’ve got a feeling they might be about drawing from references.

  The same is true if I was going to try to describe the minutia in the painting - what color is the officer’s hair? Are any of the characters wearing glasses? What do the wrinkles in their clothes look like? What kind of shoes are they wearing?

  I’m not really an artist, but for myself I resolved this problem by making decisions like that when I come around to those details. I.e. I’ll choose the fitting shoes when it’s time to draw the shoes. And of course, sketching is for planning this kind of stuff before drawing proper begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the game uses portable bytecode for the ‘Z-machine’ interpreter, and there are dozens of third-party interpreters for it. You can run these games on your phone, no need to compile them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The shape of the ear plays part in the perception of sounds that come directly from front, back, top or bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me, Bartosz Ciechanowski has an explainer about the whole sound thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because you played the boring album version, instead of the one and only 1973 live version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelensky will inevitably reject this nonsense of a deal, just how he’s done with such deals proposed by Russia in the past. So it could be that Trump might want to just shrug and say “okay, we tried, no more weapons then”.

  The actual outcome, as usual, depends on whether Zelensky gets to talk to Trump again and get him to flip in his confused haze, like he’s been doing all this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one hypothesis that makes sense here, because the deal sounds like one of those horseshit proposals already presented by Pu previously and designed so Zelensky will obviously reject it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some kinda ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yall people have micrometer-thin skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘ß’ is in fact a digraph of the long ‘s’ and ‘ʒ’, i.e. tailed ‘z’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The person in the screenshot replied to one such comment that ‘ð’ fell out of use in English by the Middle Ages or by Early Modern English, I forget which — while the thorn remained yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are at least actual popular Chinese names, as Chinese people mention every time this comes up on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A British person opposed to change? Wow, you don’t say! 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hugh Mongous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you don’t have law enforcement answers in anarchist societies that aren’t ‘have cops’. Dunno why you had to lie about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t answer who exactly would jail a guy with a gun who’s willing to use it and knows how to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please elaborate on how you would deal with professional violent criminals in an anarchist manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Energy drinks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I am, a combo of an energy drink and alcohol is called ‘see-saw’, because it whacks the brain like little else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bye fellas, see you tomorrow.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure I could even tell that ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’ was playing two or three times in a row. After that, I’d get suspicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't wait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse even, apparently some meds can stop working after the person tries other ones. At least, this happened for David Foster Wallace.