My father is an imager. My mother raised me but I did more things growing up with my father.

My mother wouldn’t have done any mind image imagine stuff with me. I wouldn’t have gotten any practice. So that could definitely contribute.

Like apparently an imaginary friend is an imager thing?

I played a ton with Lego stuff growing up. I can imagine building Lego sets in my mind, not with images but with What,Where,Why,How,Etc… I enjoyed the instruction manual because in a way it tells a story. But once I built one I could replay building it in my own way with more details.

Then video games probably fried my brain

I was never put in a situation to really need vivid images growing up. I always had movies and video games. I’ve never liked reading, I’m not getting the head movie, it’s just facts I have to remember. A good story is a good story though and there are some I have enjoyed. Flowers for Alegernon is a great read, it’s in an epistolary style.

I never needed an imaginary friend. But maybe if I did I would have developed the skill?

It’s an interesting thing to think about.

My mother and brother both have aphantasia and I never remember seeing any images in my head ever. Counting sheep never made sense to me. So I think mine is more hereditary.

“Out of sight, out of mind” really does ring true for people with aphantasia in my experience.

But from what I have heard and seen people with aphantasia are very good at memorizing lists.

It’s not really a how good of your memory it is but how you choose to store it. Are you going to pull up an image to remember, or are you just going to “know” it. Some things easier with images, some with just facts.

Like how many arches are on the Eiffel tower. Someone with really good image memory might pull up the image in their mind and count. Someone like me would have to know it as a fact and since “How many arches are on the Eiffel tower” isn’t common knowledge or I haven’t heard/memorized it then knowing it as a fact isn’t possible.

But images also tend to be wrong so you can’t always trust them.

In an experiment where people had to memorize a table set up. People with aphantasia got a total of less items on the table but placement and everything was more true. Someone with a true “photographic” memory could get everything right.

How would you attempt to store these three things in your memory?

If someone said:

1. Go to grocery store and pick up half gallon orange juice
2. Go to auto parts store pick up gallon motor oil
3. Do laundry when you get home

I’d remember “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”

I can infer where to get the stuff for example, but aslong as I remember certain details I could remember what I needed to do.

As long as I can repeat “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry” in my inner voice I won’t forget what I need to do.

There will be times where I will forget and then have to think. There was something I needed at the auto store…oh oil. Because I don’t break everything down into a perfect list like “Half orange juice, then gallon oil, then laundry”.

I feel like it’s easier for me to remember if the tasks are related or if the things are in one task. But that is probably for everyone

Not really. For example I cannot pull up an image of the gieco gecko in my mind. I think gieco gecko car insurance, I would have to think deeper to think more. Like does my car need insurance, would the gecko save me money, etc… And I’m just not going to do that for a commercial I’m actively trying to avoid.

Commercials are more for imagers. The ones that need to see the cheeseburger before they buy it. The ones where a gecko seems like a great thing to do business with.

I’m not immune to their propaganda though.

Sounds like you might have aphantasia or a very limited visual memory.

Definitely contributes to your decision making processes

Most people can visualize well so you aren’t the norm

Very vague. I would have said my “images” were very vague before I learned I had it. It’s almost like I can see them but they just aren’t there.

Like when you picture an apple does it have color?

Do you read a book and imagine it playing out in your mind? Do you get disappointed when watching a movie based on a book you read that the visuals do not match what you had imagined?

Do you get random imagines popping into your mind that you don’t control?

Do you have aphantasia?

I have it and assume people get an image of Wicked Wings from KFC that pops into their head and now that they “see” it they crave it. Just like seeing it in a commercial.

And that’s just as a percentage of registered voters

The 33.4% is out of every 18+ adult in America that has registered or could register to vote.

174 million are registered

57 million are unregistered

231 million total.

77.3/231=33.4%

340.1 million Americans in 2024

77.3/340.1=22.7%

So 22.7% of total Americans voted for trump. But that’s counting babies, children, and young adults.

Also trump won the popular vote in 2024 so the electoral system wasn’t the cause. Rigged or poor system yes but he would have won without the electoral college.

77.3 million votes for trump. Wikipedia

73.6% of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote 174 million, 65.3% voted. 154 million. Census.gov

About 231 million people could have voted.

77.3/231= 33.4% or 1/3

To put it in perspective if you walked up to an American adult that could have voted in 2024. You are twice as likely to hear that they didn’t vote for trump or didn’t vote than they voted for trump.

My girlfriend has a lot of tattoos. I always get asked “Do you have any?”. No I don’t.

I’ve been thinking of getting a little calf (cow) tattoo on my calf (leg) so I can say “Yeah I have a little calf tattoo”

My grandmother loved cows, my grandfather loved ice cream. My other grandmother is from Finland, my other grandfather is from Mexico. So it would be a calf eating ice cream made from reindeer milk wearing a sombrero. Then it would represent all my grandparents.

Any more ideas to add would be welcomed. My girlfriend’s favorite flower is a peony so I was also going to put that in there to help set the scene around it with some grass.

I’ve heard it said both ways

The reasons to own one are that they’re cheaper, plug and play, you can buy and trade physical games, and the exclusive games

The reason I’d buy another console is because of the controller environment.

I enjoy shooting games. I enjoy sitting on my couch.

Yet if I play on my PC with a controller it’s going to be an awful experience.

I don’t want to sit at my desk with proper posture.

I just want to relax and have fun. Console gives me that.

I use to be big into Overwatch. The difference between PC and Console is huge in that game, the whole vibe of the game changes. Personally I enjoy the chaotic nature of less precise aiming. Creates interesting scenarios where you have to adapt and overcome. I’d hate it if every game was “I hope our sniper can point and click their sniper first”

A door can get jammed on the door jamb

Yeah Nina. Spoilers>!She gets turned in season 2, becomes a main character in season 3, then “disappears” after season 3 before season 4 starts!<

Being Human UK version has a female werewolf and a great show.

Also The Magicians has a female werewolf making a period blood reference in a later season but isn’t really much about werewolfs. Great show too.

A no-kill shelter will send animals to another shelter if they cannot house all the animals.

In reality they just killed the animals instead of the other shelter doing it for them.

I agree a no-kill shelter shouldn’t kill. But if you think that giving an animal to a no-kill shelter is goIng to guarantee that animal lives a full life you’ll be sadly disappointed.

Gold would be given in troy ounces

Imagine one of the top 500 companies in an economy being a company where it’s sole job is to help people pay taxes.

Depends how you define temperature.

“There’s no such thing as cold”

Something at absolute zero would have zero heat.

If you define temperature as heat then it wouldn’t have heat or temperature.

Kind of similar to trying to measure nothing with a ruler. It says 0. There is no length, but is 0mm still a “measurement”?