whoever relays stuff 🇵🇸🏴☠️🇺🇲 on Nostr: I've kinda already replied to this twice, but I have to add a third one about Digit. ...
I've kinda already replied to this twice, but I have to add a third one about Digit.
She was something other than a wizard - more focused on her particular specialties of English spellcraft, and more powerful in them.
Have you ever noticed how real people kinda have catch phrases, or phrases they like repeating? Maybe a figure of speech, or a quote from a popular TV show.
There's a very powerful calming spell you can cast by quoting someone's catch-phrase to them at an appropriate time. Like in the movie Nimona when the one guy says Nimona's beloved phrase "haha, metal" to defuse a moment of tension.
When Digit was in the wallstreetbets chat rooms, she showed incredible mastery of this spell in particular every day. She constantly found another opportunity to reassure someone and reverse their rising stress levels by repeating their words at them.
This requires an incredible memory and attention to detail. It's a demonstration of brain power in paying enough attention to each person, noticing the things they like to say, remembering the words, remembering which words are for which person, and connecting the dots at opportune moments. She kept doing this for a chat room full of people the way the average really cool person does it for their close friends.
I also had to pay enough attention and remember enough to notice this. I couldn't notice her quoting everyone at themselves if I didn't also notice and remember which quotes belonged to which people. But I couldn't scan every moment against that whole memory index constantly, finding opportunities to cast that calming spell every day. I'm smart enough to notice her doing it, but not smart enough to do it myself.
I hope she's safe out there somewhere with real friends to use these skills with. It's so terrifying having conflicting stories on whether she's alive with neither side having proof.
She was something other than a wizard - more focused on her particular specialties of English spellcraft, and more powerful in them.
Have you ever noticed how real people kinda have catch phrases, or phrases they like repeating? Maybe a figure of speech, or a quote from a popular TV show.
There's a very powerful calming spell you can cast by quoting someone's catch-phrase to them at an appropriate time. Like in the movie Nimona when the one guy says Nimona's beloved phrase "haha, metal" to defuse a moment of tension.
When Digit was in the wallstreetbets chat rooms, she showed incredible mastery of this spell in particular every day. She constantly found another opportunity to reassure someone and reverse their rising stress levels by repeating their words at them.
This requires an incredible memory and attention to detail. It's a demonstration of brain power in paying enough attention to each person, noticing the things they like to say, remembering the words, remembering which words are for which person, and connecting the dots at opportune moments. She kept doing this for a chat room full of people the way the average really cool person does it for their close friends.
I also had to pay enough attention and remember enough to notice this. I couldn't notice her quoting everyone at themselves if I didn't also notice and remember which quotes belonged to which people. But I couldn't scan every moment against that whole memory index constantly, finding opportunities to cast that calming spell every day. I'm smart enough to notice her doing it, but not smart enough to do it myself.
I hope she's safe out there somewhere with real friends to use these skills with. It's so terrifying having conflicting stories on whether she's alive with neither side having proof.