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As someone with aphantasia I never got why people enjoyed reading
having synesthesia, descriptive text has a whole other layer i cant fully explain. words are pretty. lol
That's the thing where your brain overlaps sensory information with areas for processing of other senses, no?
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For me I rarely actively try to visualize what's going on. Perhaps you haven't found something that really sparks your interest in reading, I've only started reading a couple of years back.
Although, of course, I may be completely wrong and visualizing is a big part of reading that I simply haven't realized
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Both are having fun \o/
The theater of my mind is not that great unfortunately
For a second my ingenuous mind suggest me he was watching soccer. Then internet clicked in.
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Science fiction is one genre that just doesn't translate well to the screen. The ideas are too big for a budget and too alien to be adequately depicted. I'm grateful that one man is capable of making twenty hours worth of content in less than a year; it's more sustainable than millions of dollars being spent on two hours of entertainment.
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The real trick is to play games that leave much to the imagination, like a book can.
Bit of a tough crowd for this when posting via a medium people are only seeing on screens. There's a clear defensive tone echoing in these comments.
I love reading and think this post is stupid. Nothing defensive about it. Film can be just as deep and engaging as a great book and a book can be just as shit as a bad film.
The characters here resemble children. Reading stimulates the imagination in a way video cannot. It's a meme not a statement of absolute truth. In my country at least children are saturated with screens and reading is undervalued. It's not a criticism of art forms, it's a criticism of modernity, child-rearing, and content. To your statement there is higher volume of shit video content than shit literature.
I can think of plenty of shows and movies I watched as a child that stimulated my imagination possibly more than any book did.
To your statement there is higher volume of shit video content than shit literature.
Spend some time on a fanfiction site and get back to me on that.
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Full body cringe
Guess which kid is now traumatized
The jar video never traumatized me. Disgusted me, sure. Never traumatized me.
But death of a favored character in a fantasy novel? Never recovered. I still occasionally have moments where I feel like crying over the death of a particular character.
Screen bad
Where is the light source supposed to be? There's no gap in the shadow to match the gap between the TV and the stand. Also the chicks hair is way too calm to display a fucking planet on the wall.