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KnightOfCups wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:18 pm

mek wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:39 am

I hate hate hate hate very much that "aphantasia" caught on

I have been noticing this become more and more common a thing people say, and it seemed like it was fairly new?

It should be obvious I am fascinated by the way people's brains work, and how differently they do, but hearing "aphantasia" makes it sound like a disorder, so it's honestly thrown me for a loop. I had thought that the word itself was something clinical-- an actual disability that effects brain function-- as opposed to "I don't think in pictures."

Your post was helpful, b/c I didn't realize it's just the same thing (ish) with different words.

I know there's value in having names for things, and I love to label my own bullshit, but this one has been super confusing to me.

I dislike pathologizing variance in human brains.

YEAH.

That's exactly the problem, is that people hear that and think it's some kind of disorder, and the people talking about having it talk about it like it's some kind of disorder. That they are missing something by having a different mode of thought.

There are people who will argue that "aphantasia" refers to not having any mode of thought, of having no internal experience, and I have thoughts about that but the primary and most relevant of them is that this is not how the term is used. All of the studies on it are focusing on it as a lack of visual thinking, the vast majority of people who talk about it are talking about it from a reference point of not being able to picture things in their mind. And it sucks.

Okay, spent a few hours on this, and fiddling aside, I have it set up so that I can just plug things into Twine and get a dating sim out of it. Visually, anyway.

These are all placeholder images, but it's doing more-or-less what I want it to

So! Proof of concept is good and work on the actual project is go!

I am in love.

My first ever reddit post is a request for technical support because I can't get a dingdang Twine macro to work properly

It Is Driving Me Nuts

Two hours later and my post has 122 views and zero comments, so probably not actually a solution for this problem, which is Annoying

I'll have to write around it

Taking a sleep aid tonight to hopefully curb this insomnia thing, though often they have no effect on me when I get like this. We will see how it goes

What the documentation says:

Yeah, totally my bad for not knowing what that means in this context. You got me.

This solution causes other problems but I don't feel like being chastised for not knowing things so we're gonna just keep trying to figure things out by ourselves thanks

Again, a hundred or so views and I didn't get a response until the developer came by to answer my question so maybe this isn't quite as obvious as they think it is, hmm

Wow. That’s a bullshit answer and a very shitty tone.

That certainly cements that I never want to ask anything, anywhere about how to use their stuff.

When I’ve looked for stuff I noticed that they (general “people who make stuff usijg twine”) tend to answer questions by referring back to the same 3 or 4 documents that often don’t explain things such that I can understand it. It’s very frustrating.

In short, fuck that guy