KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on I feel like I will want to live completely alone in the nature at a future time in my life 1 day ago:
Some people definitely do want to, and in fact do.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 day ago:
The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he’ll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.
- Comment on Still looking for the right community for this meme 1 day ago:
All complaints about the message aside, you’re misusing the meme format.
It should be ‘uneducated people making vaccine policy’ on the red pill and ‘big pharma making vaccine policy’ on the blue pill on the first image; uneducated people making gun policy on the red pill and gun industry making gun policy on the blue pill on the second. You’re supposed to put opposing choices on opposing pills. It makes no sense the way you have it.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 2 days ago:
Whether they’re surprised or not, going public with it was a good marketing ploy because I never would have known about the game if they hadn’t, and I bought it. I’m sure many more of their sales can be attributed to the same.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 days ago:
Coincidentally, I have two earlobes that I’m not using for anything - how much are you offering?
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 2 days ago:
I have played the game. There’s far more pornographic games on Steam. All of the nudity is censored, there are no kids or even characters that could be mistaken for kids in the game, and it’s obvious in its intent - there’s nothing that I’d describe as even approaching titillating; the whole experience is clearly just intended to - and successfully so - make you feel uncomfortable and unsettled. The scene in question - the one that previously had the young girl - is particularly unsettling specifically because of how it normalizes everything else that’s going on, and I agree with them that the scene works better with a grown woman than it would have with a kid. There’s no reason for this to be banned on Steam.
- Comment on Marathon Art Controversy Resolved As Artist Reaches Agreement With Bungie And Sony 4 days ago:
I’d bet some significant amount of the hype was from people thinking “Oh, sick! The Marathon franchise is getting a revival!” without realizing that the new game had essentially no relation to the Marathon franchise they remembered. I don’t know who they think is sitting around thinking, “You know what I want? Another live service extraction shooter.”
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 5 days ago:
If you earned 100,000 bits every day since the first day the Earth existed, you wouldn’t even be half way there today!
- Comment on Corvid-19 5 days ago:
He looks perfectly gentlemanly. Bet those chest feathers are nice and soft to lay against, too.
- Comment on Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day 6 days ago:
Yeah but that isn’t as impressive sounding.
Did you know the wayback machine saves 150,000,000,000,000 bytes worth of webpages every day?! If you stacked 150,000,000,000,000 bytes end to end, they would reach from earth to the moon and back SEVEN TIMES! That’s enough bytes to fill 18 American football stadiums!
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 6 days ago:
Is the implication, then, that people with money are never dangerous individuals?
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 6 days ago:
In some cases she’d be better off approaching a bear, but she won’t know it until it’s too late.
Sometimes he’d be better off approaching a bear, too, and also won’t know it until it’s too late. This isn’t a gender thing, this is just a “some people are shitty” thing.
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 6 days ago:
A better approach would be to try to pick up a woman who’s alone, offer her a drink*,
A bit of a tangent, but I really hate this. Not meaning to call you out, this is a really common recommendation for an icebreaker and it’s also reinforced by popular media and the like, but it always feels to me like the implication is that if a man wants to approach a woman, they must buy something for them as part of that process. Like it’s a transaction fee to be given a chance.
- Comment on I heard that this offer applies to more than just turkeys 1 week ago:
- Comment on Forever young 1 week ago:
That’s funny - MW2, BF: Bad Company 2 and BF3 were the last competitive shooters I really enjoyed, too. I had a good time playing Apex Legends for a while, but not because I was good at it… more because I could have fun playing my own version of The Running Man until someone inevitably found me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
You’re welcome! It’s a topic I find intriguing, and it’s always interesting to discuss the different ways people experience these things, now that I realize we’re not all the same. :)
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 1 week ago:
He was a politician who was caught having accepted a bribe, basically, which seems bizarrely mundane today.He said something to the effect of “Don’t look, this will affect you” before he did it, too… petty self-aware for someone who’s about to kill themselves in front of a crowd.
- Comment on Forever young 1 week ago:
When I was a kid, I had this fantasy that gaming 10s of years later would be fantastic… Schooling all the kids with my 20+ years of experience they lack, running circles around them.
Turns out dulled reflexes are a bitch and it’s exactly the opposite.
Competitive multiplayer games are nowhere near as much fun as they used to be. I do still feel good about being able to complete (non-dexterity-based) puzzles and make complex deductions a lot faster than them, though.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
It’s possible that you’re a 3 or a 4. My understanding is that people who are 1s can see the apple as though it was there in front of them. They can rotate the image in their minds, break it in half and examine the insides, see the seeds and the veins on the leaf and the discoloration near the stem. Zooming in or out isn’t problematic at all.
If you’re a 5, you can certainly be aware of these things - that they’re features of an apple - but if you really focus on seeing the apple - as though with your eyes, rather than just thinking about the features of the apple as qualitative properties - you can’t do it. It’s just blackness.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week 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.
I’ll give this a look! Thanks for the recommendation!
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.
I don’t think I’m really explaining the problem well, but like… If I don’t have a visual reference, I just can’t imagine (or draw) what the minute details actually look like in those situations. An artist might be able to take a side-profile picture of a shoe and visualize what that would look like if it was a front or back or diagonal viewpoint, and draw it into their scene. I know what a shoe looks like… I can describe one, I know a shoe when I see one obviously, but when it comes to needing a level of detail sufficient to actually draw the lines - to know where the next line should go - I come up blank. I can draw something and recognize that it doesn’t look like what I want, but it’s difficult to actually identify what it is that I do want unless I stumble on it.
I can draw very low-detail things. Stick figures, say, or basic outlines, but the details come very hard to me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
If you close your eyes and focus on an apple, what do you see? My understanding is that people without aphantasia / who are “1s” can actually see an image of the apple, as though they were looking at it. If you just see black, no image at all, you might be a 5.
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 1 week ago:
Unless I’m misunderstanding your question, the specific server is more important than the software they’re running; it doesn’t matter if the software is being developed long-term if the server shuts down in the short-term… your community will go down with it.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
Thoughts are a weird thing to describe. I bet it just never really occurred to anyone to discuss specifically what they see in their head when they think of a thing - everyone just assumed what they saw was the same thing everyone saw.
It’s like the theory that the color you see as green might not be the same color I see as green - how do you actually determine that?
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
I used to want very much to be an artist, or at least, be able to draw capably, but it’s always seemed impossible. I can think of what I want to draw in a macro sense - like, if I was thinking of that famous Norman Rockwell painting with the boy with the bindle sitting at the diner next to the police officer, I can certainly imagine the scene. Just thinking of that painting from memory, the officer is looking down at the boy who’s looking up at the officer, there’s a man behind the counter in a white outfit looking at both of them with an amused expression, there’s some pastries or donuts or something on the counter…
But to draw something, it feels like you’ve got to be able to imagine the micro details, and without references to look at, I just can’t do that. 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 even have a difficult time commissioning artwork as a result of this, because it’s difficult to describe what I want without having something visual to reference.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
It sounds like you can visualize faces, but not spaces.
Can’t visualize faces at all; I think you pulled that quote from a different post. ;)
The thing to remember, though, is that… I didn’t even know this was something that I “couldn’t do” until it was pointed out to me that others can do it. I just assumed everyone else was being metaphorical when they said they “visualized something” in their head, or whatever. So whereas you hear it and think “Oh gosh, these people can’t do this very normal thing! That must be awful!”, to us, it’s more like we’ve just been living our lives as normal and then 30+ years in, we discover that most people have a superpower that we don’t have.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
I have sexual fantasies, but they’re more like reading erotica than watching porn.
I imagine I describe things just like I expect others do, except that instead of having a catalogue of pictures to reference, I have a filing cabinet of documents with descriptions of those things. The concept of a ‘photographic memory’ is completely foreign to me. If I’m walking down the street and I see someone get mugged, then I get asked about it later, I can recall and recite the things I specifically took notice of in the moment, but if I want to be able to give a description of e.g. what the person was wearing or what color their hair was, I need to consciously observe those things and commit them to memory at the time. As I understand it, some folks can just recall the event and ‘replay’ it in their mind, and recall things they might not have taken direct notice of originally; I definitely can’t do that.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
I’m a #5 on that scale.
And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they’re not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.
I won’t say I’m not jealous of people who’re #1s. However, to directly answer your question, it’s not like our heads are empty. You think apple and (apparently) ‘see’ an apple. I think apple and it’s like thinking of how you’d describe an apple. It’s red, it’s round. It has a stem. It’s juicy. It tastes good… but I can’t see it. Or anything else. They’re just thoughts.
I have a very difficult time with facial recognition, presumably as a result of this. If I’m watching a movie where there’s a lot of characters that are shown but not named, I have a difficult time following that. I need to be able to assign names to them to keep them straight in my head, and often-times if a character isn’t named but they’re important, I’ll assign them a name myself just to have something to track them with. I can recognize people I interact with a lot obviously but if you asked me to describe what someone looks like who I’m not currently interacting with, that’s very difficult for me to do, beyond very surface-level stuff, like their gender or their build. If I had to describe someone for a police sketch, I’d be useless at that. Remembering facial features is like remembering a list of words; I can’t just call up an image of them to describe… if I haven’t already committed that description to memory, I can’t describe the person.
It’s funny, honestly, because I never realized this wasn’t how everyone is until I saw the image you linked some years back. I actually called up my mother immediately after and asked her what she could see. The conversation went something like:
“When you think of an apple, can you see the apple?”
“Yes…”
“Yeah, but like… you can actually see it, though?”
“…yes…?”
“Yeah but I mean like… you can see it, as if you’re looking at it?”
“…yes, what is this about?”
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 1 week ago:
I believe that’s R. Budd Dwyer; he’s pulling a revolver out of that envelope just before shooting himself in the head.
- Comment on Only a few years left 1 week ago:
My doctor told me I can choose!
- Comment on I see the patterns 2 weeks ago:
You’ve misread his message. He’s really trying to tell you “ANTS HELP” - your friend just needs you to recommend an exterminator.
