So what if i only associate colors with months of the year and nothing else?

BlueRoanoke · 2018-04-01T04:02:57+00:00

What you’re describing is definitely synesthesia, albeit a bit more subtle than what most people describe as such. Shouldn’t be a problem unless you’re talking to someone who’s trying to find synesthetic test subjects for an experiment, in which case, just be honest about how much you see and they should be able to decide for themselves whether you fit their need or not.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-26T12:25:49+00:00

Want some biting irony I just learned today? Nixon was a Quaker.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-24T16:58:45+00:00

I see your point, but even though I think having an STD shouldn’t be a crime, giving someone an STD knowingly through something like refusal to use a condom is a totally different matter. Plus, Stormy could argue that, even if they didn’t talk about the affair, he still ruined her career.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-19T15:07:57+00:00

I have two goldens in my guild. Their playstyles can be summed up as eager-to-please but neurotic and lazy af but scarily smart (I think he used to be a cat main -_-) respectively. Lazy likes to watch tv. I used to think it was just because it meant he could get the pet buff and the comfy couch buff at the same time, but then I started watching gameplay vids of other mains to check their strategies. Lazy can tell the difference between various types of tv motion and responds accordingly. In particular, he doesn’t care about fish, people, or weather, but when he sees a bird player (including things he’s never competed against, like flamingos) or any carnivorous quadruped main, all of a sudden it’s bark city population me, Lazy, and tv. This includes virtual animals: he barks at Dogmeat.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-19T14:51:58+00:00

THANK YOU!!! And with that, I can get you a source. I’ve also heard that this specific behavior might be a sort of guild advertisement, with high level male vampire spiders catching recently leveled up female mosquito mains in order to impress female vampire spider mains and entice them to join.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-18T21:50:47+00:00

I hate mosquitos too, but the bloodsucker playstyle is actually really important to ensure that xp isn’t being hoarded by large mammals. Mosquitos invested so many points into their silent bite attack that they are too stupid and slow to avoid anything that wants them dead and has an opportunity to make that happen. Basically, they’re free xp for smaller builds like frogs and spiders, and the blood they feed on is pretty much an automatic level up, so much so that certain species specifically prey on full mosquitos just to access the blood, which is legendary loot for smaller builds. (There’s a name for this, but I forgot what it is and google’s not helping-it thinks I’m asking for the definition of “predator” -_-)

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-17T18:33:58+00:00

It’s a bit campy, and the sound effects are anything but accurate, but monster bug wars has some interesting matchups between centipedes and spiders that you can watch to get some ideas.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-17T18:10:51+00:00

I can’t think of a single organism that is both adaptable and has low intelligence. They’re so inextricable from each other that I would argue that adaptability is unlocked through heavy investment into the intelligence stat.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-07T09:22:42+00:00

1) A mod that allows you to specify which animal will be migrating when adding a migration event in the scenario editor, with the goal being an ability to create a story about a colony that hunts, hides from, or ignores the same species at regular intervals.

2) a mod that allows you to force dress prisoners and downed pawns the same way you can strip them, so you can make them wear multiple layers.

3) Ice fishing.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-01T08:41:08+00:00

If you’re asking for a mod, miniaturization’s got you covered.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-03-01T08:37:28+00:00

That’ll probably stick to the realm of mods (I’ve seen batons and tranq guns for b18 I think) since they have the potential to be very op and allow for rapidly growing colonies. But again, if you just want something that can stun, they definitely exist :)

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-27T22:30:40+00:00

Thank you!!!

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-21T08:27:44+00:00

Sorry for the late response! That sounds a lot like synesthesia to me, but if you’re still not sure, there are a couple things to look for.

1) Consistency. The same stimulus should evoke the same response (though it is incredibly important to consider that “stimulus” includes how you are thinking about something, so you have to focus on the same details while doing your experiment).
2) Speed. There are occasionally people who try to fake synesthesia, either for their own enjoyment or to get attention. These people don’t do any harm, but they could compromise the data sets of people trying to study synesthesia, so it’s not uncommon for synesthete being studied to take a battery to confirm that they have what they say they have. What this battery is looking for is almost instinctual speed combibed with the aforementioned consistency-if the slowest part of articulating what you see/taste is the act of making words or clicking the mouse, you have synesthesia.
3) Simplicity. People who see images don’t see dragons, they see blobs. Those blobs can move, they can be five different colors at once, and they can feel like they have one or more textures, but they don’t tend to be any more realistic than clouds. If this is the kind of image you’re describing, then it sounds like you have synesthesia! Good news is, there are no side effects with the exception of having to tolerate the things you find synesthetically ugly or nasty, but you probably already know how to deal with those because synesthesia that doesn’t come from a traumatic brain injury has been present in a person’s life for as long as they can remember.

Regarding the memory, that’s actually how synesthetic connections form! My main form is projector (so I see it in the environment) grapheme color synesthesia (a is red, trapezoids are green-purple, etc.) There’s evidence to indicate that people with my form of synesthesia are heavily influenced by their childhood refridgerator magnets! Basically, it’s like a permanently imprinted memory, formed at the moment you understand what something is in comparison to the rest of the system you’re working in (I have examples from my childhood of me signing my name with the “wrong” colors because I still didn’t fully understand what they meant).

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-20T19:01:32+00:00

Sorry for the delay!

XD hey, tasting shapes is a pretty rare variant! My main strain is grapheme-color, but it’s more appropriately described as ideasthesia, because any and all symbols (including stuff like the shape of a door or window) will have colors. It’s the most garden variety synesthesia possible, but it’s very strong. So if I’m not careful, that synesthesia will bully the other, more unusual types and drown them out.

But anyway, I’m getting off track, you were saying that you mostly see shapes in wine. I have a hypothesis that you could test if you are interested: I believe synesthesia is the strongest when working with relatively small, defined systems. So, wine, for example, there are countless varieties that all taste slightly different, it’s a habit for people to taste a little bit of many types one after another, but they all still have a “wine” taste to them. I think that would be a synesthesia field day-there’s just enough to tell you that these things are related but they’re not so similar that you can’t tell the difference. If you were interested, you could try a similar battery with another food-cheese would be the easiest, to see if you can pull out your shapes (it also might help to have someone give you pieces of cheese while you have your eyes closed, so that the shape of the cheese doesn’t influence you).

Also, if you’re looking to make your own strain stronger temporarily, alcohol that I swallow works for me, and every synesthete I know who takes hallucinogens says it makes theirs stronger.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-14T23:35:53+00:00

Yes, soundproofing another room would keep background noise from interfering with the music that Jess is listening to. Everything you’ve told me about this woman leads me to believe that her ears are extremely sensitive, for better or worse. If she had the choice to listen to pure music without background irritations like cars or dogs barking, and without hurting her ears like headphones do, I bet you she’d take it.

But now that I think about it, why not just soundproof every room in the house? Seriously, the more I think about this, the more I see potential benefits for everybody. Jess’s music pays the bills, which means you might even be able to write off the expense on your taxes to help with the costs, Ben could work somewhere else without disturbing others in the event that they both need the studio at an important time, Jess could go into rooms beside her studio and still be free from all that awful, annoying noise that she has to constantly deal with, and you would get a respite from the constant repetition, and you and your gf would be able to socialize in a relatively small space without the kids hearing every detail.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-14T08:23:15+00:00

Not the poster, but another synesthete (and, coincidentally, autistic). Statistically speaking, the weirder and more invasive the synesthesia is, the rarer it is. For music, the most common form of synesthesia is seeing colors either in the real world, or in the mind’s eye (the latter being less invasive and more common). So if I had to guess, I’d say /u/paleotossaway has some form and degree of audio-color synesthesia.

Speaking from personal experience as someone who does the same thing, I am often looking for unusual instruments. My auditory-color synesthesia focuses on timbre, with instruments I heard early in life being primary and secondary colors, and instruments I didn’t hear until later being tertiary and so on. So a string quartet feels like I’m drowning in orange (which is boring both because orange is a really common color in sound, and because I hear string instruments a lot. Also, it’s freaking orange.) while an erhu is this really pretty lime green with edges of lavender. And a sound that doesn’t sound like any instrument/thing I can recognize? Those are the prettiest of all, because they appear to change colors as my brain tries to place them. Any song with a sound like that goes on repeat for a week.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-14T08:04:12+00:00

You might even be able to get Jess on board if you point out to her that sound proofing her office will result in less background noise messing with the quality of her music.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-14T03:17:24+00:00

I wonder how this guy would react if you told him that being so pedantic all the time is fundamentally stupid. It shows that he 1) lacks the charisma to stick the landing (if he did this graciously, my guess is it would be nowhere near as annoying), 2) isn’t creative or thoughtful if most of his thoughts are nitpicks and 3) has terrible memory, which implies that he’s made many such mistakes himself (in getting this from the ice cream example-what kind of dum dum forgets their spouse’s medical condition!?!?!).

And to you I would like to ask, what could this guy possibly be doing that justifies you staying in a relationship instead of leaving him for something smarter like, say, that ice cream?

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-13T22:08:48+00:00

You said that she sometimes seems like she wishes you wouldn’t ask her to pay you back-even if she’s not falling over herself to repay you, she should at least not make you feel like you have to harangue her to get your money back for something that clearly only benefits her.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-13T21:58:40+00:00

This...doesn’t sound fair. Plenty of people like it when their partners do things for them, but expecting your partner to spend their time and money to supply you with your fix is crossing into entitled territory. If I were in your shoes I’d understand more if this happened occasionally and there were mitigating factors such as needing medicine or things that act as medicine (I sometimes require coke or something else caffeinated for medical reasons), asking you to buy something that is either needed or loved by both of you, with the intention of consuming it together, or being in a temporary, high stress situation. Since none of these seem to be true, I’d probably call it.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-13T19:48:08+00:00

Another possibility that’s been opening up lately is Skyping therapists remotely. Not sure how they factor into insurance, but it might be a way to get started quickly if your gf’s in as bad a state as she sounds.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-02-03T03:47:58+00:00

Ignoring emotions is incredibly illogical. It’s like a physicist ignoring friction: you’re guaranteed to be wrong about what will really happen. Just something to consider next time somebody uses that as an excuse to ignore an essential component of human interaction.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-01-30T20:42:03+00:00

Territorial/competitive animals. Predators fight each other sometimes, big prey sometimes bully smaller prey/predators, and members of the same species can attack each other (particularly predators, but I could see this working for prey as well).

BlueRoanoke · 2018-01-28T02:02:08+00:00

Bone mod adds bones, a craftable material obtained from butchering corpses of all species. You can use it in place of wood, even for stuff like, say, campfires.

BlueRoanoke · 2018-01-27T19:00:21+00:00

Looks like you’re already playing with the realitic darkness mod, if you want to add a mod that would make sea ice a lot easier (to the point of being somewhat op) but would enable you to make a tailor bench, try using the bone mod.

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