“desire paths” well and good, but who (above the age of 15) is jumping a hedge to save 3 second walk time? Must be next to a school.

I believe you are acting way too definitive about something rather unknowable.

For example, what is Aphantasia then?

I’m in the “inner monologue” camp. Most of what I think materialises as thought words. I don’t have to move anything in my throat to do that unlike OP though, I can think in words without mumbling to myself.

But I know the voice can’t be all. It’s difficult for me to think in words while actively saying something, but I can have new thoughts while speaking. Sometimes, I get interrupted in thinking mid-sentence, but then I return to that sentence to finish it because… it’s just satisfying? It’s not that I learn anything new.

I feel like I don’t have very much imagination any more. Its hard to produce images in my mind, not impossible but I do have to concentrate - remembering images is easier.

Weirdly, way harder to me: imagining a voice. Inner voice is what I sound like to myself, I can remember and replay songs and quotes as I heard them, but having any voice say anything is hard, especially female voices. Went through some examples in my head couldn’t make anyone say anything - until I thought to make different tf2 mercs sing “Oh Canada”, that somehow worked despite me definitely not having heard that before. Brains are weird.

Ad blockers

Discord, YouTube and Twitch. Even if I don’t count 1 because I don’t really build any online presence, all 3 together probably count as having mainstream social media no matter how strict the definition.

For purely economic reasons, the less often I need to buy it, the more I allow myself to splurge.

So vegetables and my go to drink I consume everyday are bought the absolute cheapest, but that spice blend for those veggies lasts me months so I really don’t care if there’s a cheaper alternative.

Of course, expensiveness is measured per kg/litre, paying a bit more up front is always worth it if it means a lower price per kg (if you can consume it before it goes bad).

If we don’t have to have played it - the Zelda Cdi games, for obvious reasons. My most recent subscribtion is an active YTP channel.

The edutainment games presented by Germany’s beloved children’s show host Peter Lustig, published by Terzio.

The tie-in video games to both his TV series Löwenzahn as well as the Swedish Gary Gadget (Mulle Meck) books were elevated by his voice clips and I still quote them regularly. They really put a lot more effort into these games than anything I’ve ever experienced, there was fucking free DLC for Gary Gadget if you visited their website and had your father put some files in the right folder.

The worlds themselves both star an excentric man tinkering on inventions, but while sometimes fantastical they are more grounded that the world of Peterson and Findus. They teach children about community and physics, similar to the book “the way things work” - guess who presented its animated show of the same name in Germany?

Link him Bill Wurtz’s “history of the entire world I guess” and tell him to skip to 2:08

As knowledge of sleep paralysis spread through the internet, people quickly memed on the concept of having your own demon that watches you sleep. Lot’s of impact font memes beginning with "My paralysis demon… " changing this rather horrifying concept into just an imaginary friend or room mate.

The joke here is that Debra’s demon would rather spend time with that man, and Debra misjudged how close their “friendship” was. Like the awkward situation of realising one’s best friend is best friends with someone else.

A talking apple? How novel.

Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it’s implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.

I dont care about Genshin’s cultural impact, Fortnite’s mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!

And since I used to say it too: “You can absolutely play without paying money” isn’t an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.

BMI works for me, skill issue :P

I can recognise the Font/lack thereof.

Get that AI slop out of my face before I block you.

Ah, I have heard the name of those before.

Egrets, right?

Like this?

Women have always been initiating, just (…) in a more indirect way.

Well, tell me those indirect ways!

Au contraire! As was sung, “I am the one thing in life I can’t control” (Edit: Oof, how embarrising), spending effort on that is the waste. So just coming off as more approachable is the one path open to me.

Way to miss the question, I know that works for some but for me it’s not going to happen. Unless you can tell me why I can’t take the role that never needs to initiate I’m not interested into being psyched up.