(11-21-2015, 05:34 AM)Shaadaris Wrote: Coincidences are a thing, as are subconcious predictions; heck, that's like one of the most important parts of the mind. If you couldn't predict things on the fly and had to actually think about it, everyone's lives would be far more difficult.


And now for something completely different: Problems with Skyrim #196: These bandits always have their main loot in a single chest at the very end of their coincidentally linear fort, right next to an usually easily accessible "quick-exit" blocked by only a flimsy wooden bar, and this chest is usually locked with no bandit having the key, nor any key existing anywhere in the fort.

(11-21-2015, 08:06 AM)Marxon Wrote: So, what would people think if I said Marxon the avali has been seriously injured, and is now suffering long term brain damage rendering him deaf on his right side, resulting in him being unable to navigate, brain damage causing him to be mostly mute, have moderate retrograde amnesia...

And a complete inability to experience sadness.

(11-21-2015, 08:08 AM)Jim_Clonk Wrote:

(11-21-2015, 08:06 AM)Marxon Wrote: So, what would people think if I said Marxon the avali has been seriously injured, and is now suffering long term brain damage rendering him deaf on his right side, resulting in him being unable to navigate, brain damage causing him to be mostly mute, have moderate retrograde amnesia...

And a complete inability to experience sadness.

The first thing I would think is whether or not any of this matches up with actual science, but that's just me.

(11-21-2015, 08:09 AM)Marxon Wrote:

(11-21-2015, 08:08 AM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: The first thing I would think is whether or not any of this matches up with actual science, but that's just me.

Just random brain damage can cause people to do crazy things such as having "face blindness"

(11-21-2015, 04:36 AM)Marxon Wrote:

(11-21-2015, 04:31 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: I get deja vu all the time. Jamais vu, too. But they dont cause me to have a mental breakdown, bruh.

How about recognize it before you finish your sentence, because you already know the answer.

It makes no sense. Impossible.

(11-21-2015, 08:19 AM)Segolia Wrote:

(11-21-2015, 04:36 AM)Marxon Wrote: How about recognize it before you finish your sentence, because you already know the answer.

It makes no sense. Impossible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_in_language_comprehension

Your brain is predisposed to linguistic processing and you are constantly processing people's movements, intonation, speech patterns ( "prosody" etc.) all the time. Research shows that there is a strong correlation between speech production and speech processing, to the point that based on things like syntax you can probabilistically determine what people are going to say next with a surprising degree of accuracy

See: http://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/86.1.bresnan.pdf

Or to put it another way - your brain is very good at language processing to the point where you can intuitively understand and predict what people are going to say with a surprising degree of accuracy based on things like their sentence structure, tone of voice, facial expressions etc. 

It isn't literal precognition though.

(11-21-2015, 08:06 AM)Marxon Wrote: So, what would people think if I said Marxon the avali has been seriously injured, and is now suffering long term brain damage rendering him deaf on his right side, resulting in him being unable to navigate, brain damage causing him to be mostly mute, have moderate retrograde amnesia...

And a complete inability to experience sadness.

(11-21-2015, 10:59 AM)Surge Wrote: I got a Sunder~

Not one of those shitty re-coms either. A full military spec Sunder-class. I've assigned my Shepard to it as a miniature escort carrier.

(11-21-2015, 12:53 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: It's hailing right now and yesterday we've had a storm.
Who broke the weather?

(11-21-2015, 12:40 PM)Surge Wrote: "Hand over the organ shipment and nobody gets hurt!" bitch do you really wanna fight a wolf with a bunch of kites?

(11-21-2015, 12:57 PM)UnamusedAvali Wrote:

(11-21-2015, 12:40 PM)Surge Wrote: "Hand over the organ shipment and nobody gets hurt!" bitch do you really wanna fight a wolf with a bunch of kites?

Yes, they probably do.

(11-21-2015, 01:21 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: I'm a bit surprised about how little attention the terraria server actually got.