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Video game personality Tim Rogers supposedly has HSAM, and described it like this: > This is a condition which requires me to remember everything that ever hap

Video game personality Tim Rogers supposedly has HSAM, and described it like this: > This is a condition which requires me to remember everything that ever happens within my earshot and eyeshot. No: I describe it impressively: it turns life into noise, and it is useless. Please listen to my noise now, because if you do not, who will? I have lost the ability to hear it. He wrote a semi-fictional essay about it which I always thought was an interesting read: https://medium.com/@108/what-we-might-mean-when-we-say-a-clock-is-wrong-5f055ff631a6 https://medium.com/@108/what-we-might-mean-when-we-say-a-clo...

kibwen 3y ago
His short story "Just like hamburger, exactly like hamburger" also largely centers on the experience of his memory: "For thirty seconds, I remembered the time a man on the street in Oakland, California pointed a gun at me. I remembered everything I remembered the instant the man pointed the gun at me. I remembered telling a beautiful girl on a hot day in a cafe in Shin-Osaka Station about the man pointing a gun at me. I remembered telling her about what I’d remembered that day. I’d told her I’d remembered my fight in elementary school — where I’d hit, again and again, the kid who’d bullied me an entire year. I remembered telling her that when the man pointed the gun at me I remembered my fight and I wished I’d killed the kid who bullied me. I confessed to her that it made me know I am a terrible person. I remembered confessing my terrible personhood to a girl in a cafe in Shin-Osaka Station. She’d told me I was beautiful and I was wonderful. So I was in a car inside a waterfall and I was wishing that other people could make me, instead of my making myself. Then I remembered my friend and his wife and their two cats, dying in the middle of the night in their house because their 3D printer leaked carbon monoxide while they were asleep." https://medium.com/@108/just-like-hamburger-exactly-like-hamburger-5ba6f95c2b32 https://medium.com/@108/just-like-hamburger-exactly-like-ham...
Tarq0n 3y ago
This is also a prominent point in his review of Boku no Natsuyasumi. He's a fascinating person.

kibwen 3y ago

His short story "Just like hamburger, exactly like hamburger" also largely centers on the experience of his memory: "For thirty seconds, I remembered the time a man on the street in Oakland, California pointed a gun at me. I remembered everything I remembered the instant the man pointed the gun at me. I remembered telling a beautiful girl on a hot day in a cafe in Shin-Osaka Station about the man pointing a gun at me. I remembered telling her about what I’d remembered that day. I’d told her I’d remembered my fight in elementary school — where I’d hit, again and again, the kid who’d bullied me an entire year. I remembered telling her that when the man pointed the gun at me I remembered my fight and I wished I’d killed the kid who bullied me. I confessed to her that it made me know I am a terrible person. I remembered confessing my terrible personhood to a girl in a cafe in Shin-Osaka Station. She’d told me I was beautiful and I was wonderful. So I was in a car inside a waterfall and I was wishing that other people could make me, instead of my making myself. Then I remembered my friend and his wife and their two cats, dying in the middle of the night in their house because their 3D printer leaked carbon monoxide while they were asleep." https://medium.com/@108/just-like-hamburger-exactly-like-hamburger-5ba6f95c2b32 https://medium.com/@108/just-like-hamburger-exactly-like-ham...

Tarq0n 3y ago

This is also a prominent point in his review of Boku no Natsuyasumi. He's a fascinating person.