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There are definitely degrees to aphantasia. Rather than complete inability to visualize in the mind, I’d hazard a guess that most (myself included) can visualize to a minor degree in bursts. That might not make a lot of sense describing it to someone who doesn’t experience things that way, but if I focus, I can have a brief moment of imagining the visual features of something or someone but it fades quickly.

But as others have said here, there are far more ways than purely visual that such memories are stored and recalled. Spatial memory is comparatively strong for me as one example, such that if I close my eyes and focus on it, I can make myself “feel” like I’m in another room I’m familiar with entirely. Anyone who has ever wandered around their room in complete darkness or with their eyes closed probably knows what this feels like.

As it relates to this article, I’ve always heard that those with aphantasia can still have visual dreams since the two experiences rely predominantly on different parts of the brain. At least in my case I’d claim aphantasia but also no issues with experiencing dream visuals.

Sorry to yap so much, but I find it so extremely interesting that people can have such wildly different experiences within the mind like this, such that someone can sound totally bonkers to someone else if they don’t share the same experience. Inner monologues are another related phenomena where it’s fun to watch people try to explain what it’s like to each other.

I’ve tried playing this game via GameNative on an AYN Thor myself because I thought a handheld would be perfect for this kind of game. I’m on the steam version instead of Epic, but I can confirm that there’s a monsterous load time when playing the PC version through GameNative. Subsequent launches were faster, especially after I lowered a setting in the menus regarding how it loads data from disk.

But even then, I had a lot of broken textures and models and semi frequent crashes too. I really recommend playing on traditional hardware for the time being.

GameNative has been actual witchcraft for a bunch of games, I’m playing Mina that way myself right now. But yeah for whatever reason, Cassette Beasts isn’t playing nice with it yet.

I’m not sure what the reason for this theoretical is when it’s already documented that self-hosted instances have full free access to the paid perks.

It’s become pretty clear since all of this kicked off that none of the Discord-replacement hopefuls have the infrastructure to accept even the smallest fraction of users fleeing Discord. Paying for some nice-to-have features when using the official instance is at least a plan towards paying for that infrastructure.

Speaking on a more broad level, I find it more suspicious when services are free these days with no path to self-sufficient monetization. We’ve seen enough of those fall to venture capital influence at this point.

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