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[cosmolinguist]

diffrentcolours is playing some Star Wars shooty video game and I'm dismayed and angry to learn that I can apparently understand so much of what he's saying. All the names of these fucking spaceships (and some people) I thought had been safely forgotten!

Because I only had a year, maybe even six months, of being obsessed with Star Wars when I was like 15 and there was no other sci-fi novels in the grocery store for me to read, and yet here all that garbage still is?!

When he says "I shouldn't have tried to attack a corvette in a TIE fighter" I should not know what that means. But I do!

Hmph.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

I think our brains learn differently age 15 -- I've got lyrics to songs I'd rather forget which seem implanted, while remembering anything these days requires effort.

[cosmolinguist]

This is true actually: I was thinking it was just about how intense everything felt then and how little there was to focus on (no internet then! and I had few friends/extracurriculars), but some of it must be about how brains just work in kids and teenagers.

[silveradept]

From what I have read about the development of teenage brains, learning all of that was going to help you make friends and allies as you geared up to go out into the world, it lodged firmly in your brain. Or if there were strong emotional attachments to that information.

[cosmolinguist]

Oh cool! That's interesting, and checks out: none of the stuff I was obsessed with as a teenager helped me make friends but I really would've liked it if it had!