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Video game reviewer Tim Rogers has some unpleasant memory condition where he remembers dates, numbers, etc. perfectly but also compulsively recalls old memories
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
Video game reviewer Tim Rogers has some unpleasant memory condition where he remembers dates, numbers, etc. perfectly but also compulsively recalls old memories all day.
It's not quite like this, he said it's not a photographic memory, but it seems interesting. I read a story where he said he knew exactly how many cinnamon buns he'd ever eaten. I thought it was perhaps fiction, but there was a photo at the end implying it was real.
I think he explains it in his review of the PS1 game "Boku no natsuyasumi"
- spondylosaurus 2y agoA few weeks ago I read his essay "What We Might Mean When We Say a Clock is Wrong" and found it very compelling. He's an excellent writer. 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...
- mycologos 2y agoThat was compelling, albeit for reasons I can't seem to elucidate, kind of like Knausgaard, right down to the mystifying self-presentation as a sort of loser who nonetheless has many friends and lovers (though maybe everybody, if they were to give similarly complete and honest accounts of their lives, would come off as sort of losers, too).
- brezelgoring 2y agoHe reminds me of David Foster Wallace for some reason. In that sense that his writing is long-winded but full of texture and would easily be drivel if it were handled by a lesser writer. I was familiar with his YouTube work but not his writings. Thanks for introducing me to him.
- spondylosaurus 2y agoHa, as a longtime DFW fan I get what you mean! Glad you enjoyed it.