Today I Learned

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A cat falling off a dresser registers a magnitude -2 on the Richter scale.

 

Celery and Celerity don't seem to share an etymological ancestor.

 

Neither do 'plane' (a flat surface) and 'plane' (an aircraft)

 

And neither do "light" (the opposite of dark) and "light" (the opposite of heavy).

 

sole (fish) and sole (one) don't but sole (fish) and sole (like on your feet or shoes) do! this one gets used in semantics and other ling courses to introduce various concepts.

 

The shoe fish.....

 

they are both derived from a word for a specific kind of sandal, yes.

 

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" was originally a BDSM joke.

 

This is super obvious in hindsight but today I learned the reason I can't play most horror games but enjoy most horror films is because a film is you being told a story and a game is you being in a story. I'm easily susceptible to even half assed immersion so it gets... Too Real I guess

 

This is one of the reasons my most common way of experiencing horror games is to search something like "[game name] full playthrough no commentary." It particularly stood out to me watching someone play Prey, because half the game's premise is jump scares (the most basic enemies are mimics that turn into duplicates of objects sitting around), and that was zero problem watching a playthrough, but I knew that jump scares while I was trying to focus on a task would have turned my brain into soup in minutes.