Needless to say, it kicks in at random moments when I’m not playing. Passing by a store, reading train station signs, you name it.
Those computers in your head
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#12I’ve observed a similar thing with Scrabble. After some years (18 by now) of tournament-level Scrabble playing, I’ve developed the anagramming ability: throw a rack at me and I’ll dump the Polish anagrams with 70-80% accuracy. I no longer reorganize letters on my rack or even in my head: the anagrams just come back. It’s become an unconscious primitive. Needless to say, it kicks in at random moments when I’m not play…
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#13"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
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#14"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
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#15"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
More likely is a strong visual intuitive sense of place which can't translate well to street names and left/right statements
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#17"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
This doesn't work in triangle-based cities like Szczecin :) It's very hard to stop the assumption that 2 right turns is roughly 180 degrees :)
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#18"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
I like playing strategy games more than first-person shooters. I did played a lot and started with FPS but stopped after being rushed to the hospital after I collapsed playing a game way back in the early days. :-)
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#19"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…
This is nice. I'm kinda opposite. I tend to be able to zoom-out in my mind, where I'm and look at my bearing from a bird's eye view like a map (positioning myself on a map such as Google Maps). I like playing strategy games more than first-person shooters. I did played a lot and started with FPS but stopped after being rushed to the hospital after I collapsed playing a game way back in the early days. :-)
Ouch. What was the collapse caused by? Was it related to the game?
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#20"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for me in Copenhagen, Rome, and Barcelona (and miserably failed in Tallinn at night). I always thought that it was my innate ability to navigate three-dimensional spaces, but now I begin to suspect that this is a…