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I've been thinking that I really need to turn in my introvert club membership card, because, damn it, I want to meet people in person.
Not online, where communication is clumsy (unless it is in writing and with the very few people who are *good* at writing), voices sound like weird, faces all come from the Uncanny Valley, where a talk resembles a spiritist ghost summoning, and the cat is making worried noises because human is giving off strange sounds from their fake ears for no reason known to cat.
Today I got hit by an inspiration particle.
OK, so, interacting with people is strenuous. As is hillwalking. As is creating complex concepts. As is cooking a six-course vaguely historical feast for fifty. "Strenuous" is not the problem, assuming I kind of volunteered and can re-charge later.
But interacting with fragments of people as transferred by wonky tech -- fragments that need to be completed from intellect, emotion, experience and imagination, to have any as a chance of successful communication, dumbing down concepts, balancing over an abyss of misunderstanding and misinterpretation, while one is simulatneously assulted by unpleasant sounds and images, tech trouble, and unhappy cats -- that is five times the effort and less than half of the results. So it's about 10 times the effort spent on people in a vid conference as opposed to seeing them over a desk or in a room. And that is just. too. much.
We hates it, my precioussssss. (Cuddles cat.)
Not online, where communication is clumsy (unless it is in writing and with the very few people who are *good* at writing), voices sound like weird, faces all come from the Uncanny Valley, where a talk resembles a spiritist ghost summoning, and the cat is making worried noises because human is giving off strange sounds from their fake ears for no reason known to cat.
Today I got hit by an inspiration particle.
OK, so, interacting with people is strenuous. As is hillwalking. As is creating complex concepts. As is cooking a six-course vaguely historical feast for fifty. "Strenuous" is not the problem, assuming I kind of volunteered and can re-charge later.
But interacting with fragments of people as transferred by wonky tech -- fragments that need to be completed from intellect, emotion, experience and imagination, to have any as a chance of successful communication, dumbing down concepts, balancing over an abyss of misunderstanding and misinterpretation, while one is simulatneously assulted by unpleasant sounds and images, tech trouble, and unhappy cats -- that is five times the effort and less than half of the results. So it's about 10 times the effort spent on people in a vid conference as opposed to seeing them over a desk or in a room. And that is just. too. much.
We hates it, my precioussssss. (Cuddles cat.)
