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It's me at different times of the day.

This but with yiff 👌

Let's be honest, all three children are looking at tablets.

Isn't that Shinji?

I guess it's a matter of preference, because in my mind there's no way listening takes less brainpower than reading.

We usually think in linguistic concepts even when reading a book, one of the most difficult things to do with a student when they are learning drawing is teaching them to really see instead of thinking of linguistic traits. I have aphantasia and it is difficult for me to recall visual traits so instead i focus on visual recipes, or construction while drawing. It is difficult for me to recall faces for example but if i reduce a face to geometric shapes and proportions and do a lot of trial and error so i can approximate a face I've seen.

So when reading is not that I am seeing things, but i am making a conceptual map, an abstraction. Kinda like how dreams are like stories we tell ourselves to the point they might seem like intangible images. Sometimes I feel my brain relate stuff i read to things i've already seen, or builds some conceptual bridge between known concepts to unknown ones.

But reading is also a practice on itself different than hearing. Language has aesthetics, rhythm character. I feel i learn more about the aesthetic beauty of language by reading it on the page than hearing it on an audio book because it forces me to build that bridge between my horizon of understanding and the authors'.

This is especially true for authors that have an entirely different background than me because to understand them i need to read slower and research. Something that audio books doesn't allow with it's predisposed presentation.

I don't think this is very related to phantasia.. With a book you can stop and think about things (imaginatively or critically). With video your entire attention is captured and it's quite difficult to step away from the narrative being presented. In my experience audio is somewhere in between, and I'm able to zone out on my own tangent sometimes (but this is annoying, because I miss things)

I do too, and I didn't know it was different for others until I was an adult. When I was young they used to guilt trip me for wasting my intelligence because I hated books.

I grew up inspired by creative world building shown in movies like LOTR and in games. I read more than most people, but it's never books.

I hate how so many people fail to consider others might not have the same perspective or needs.

Case in point: I absolutely LOVE The Lord of the Rings films. Absolute masterpieces that haven't aged A DAY.

Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring" had me asleep in 25 pages.

Much worse, it looks like he's watching 1 guy 1 cup... 🫥

Do...do you really want the context?

One man, one jar

It's not poop. And it's not leaving his pooper.

And this is just boomer humor.

you doubt me? I'm so offended :<

No, it's something much worse. Just move on.

Probably depends what book you read

Does it "look" different? I only notice when they leave out important things are distort

I'm a big fan of the book. Couldn't stand the movie.

I was really surprised because, while I have a track record of hating adaptations of books I've read, a lot of my friends that had read the book absolutely loved the movie. So I thought maybe it would be okay, even if I didn't love it. But I couldn't finish the movie at all, I didn't even make it halfway.

Out of curiosity, have you watched and read 2001: A Space Odyssey? How did that comparison go, if you have?

I hated the book, so I am excited to see the film

The movie actually gets it mostly right. It's not 100% true to the book, no movie can be but it's pretty damn close.

Well, I'm glad I didn't read the book then. I watched it with no expectations going in and had a great time.