Yeah, I think if it weren't for common knowledge in this group, we would probably have... ended up as a long-term mental patient or something. :\ Not that there's intrinsically anything WRONG with coming to the front and not having any clue about how to do certain things or even what they are, but the fact is that if someone comes out and asks to have it explained what a car is, OMG, It Looks Weird in the eyes of society, so you can't have that, we're in ur hedz fixing ur brain!
Although there are times when some of us, when we can get away with it, will... deliberately ignore common knowledge, and ask someone to explain something to us, because knowledge-dumps just feel a little weird sometimes, in terms of what they do to your mind and your identity, even if they're absolutely necessary. I mean, if you woke up years in the future surrounded by technology that you knew had never been part of your life before, yet that you somehow knew the use and purpose of, it'd be a little bit unsettling and you'd be scrobbling for something that seemed 'familiar,' for most people, I think. (I sometimes wonder if the people who wrote the scripts for the "Matrix" movies ever thought about that, seriously. Although I guess it depends maybe on what the skill in question is? "HAY WOW I KNOW KUNG FU" is 'cooler' in most people's books than "HAY WOW I KNOW DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.")
...and, uh, hi and all that. :3 We have a couple nonhuman sorta people in this group as well. As for the scheduling thing, I think... hrm, well, that's kind of a system numbers thing. In our group, scheduling would get super complex because fronting is kind of random and could be anyone, really. If you're a small group, might be easier to work that out.
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Date: 2007-02-28 10:56 pm (UTC)Although there are times when some of us, when we can get away with it, will... deliberately ignore common knowledge, and ask someone to explain something to us, because knowledge-dumps just feel a little weird sometimes, in terms of what they do to your mind and your identity, even if they're absolutely necessary. I mean, if you woke up years in the future surrounded by technology that you knew had never been part of your life before, yet that you somehow knew the use and purpose of, it'd be a little bit unsettling and you'd be scrobbling for something that seemed 'familiar,' for most people, I think. (I sometimes wonder if the people who wrote the scripts for the "Matrix" movies ever thought about that, seriously. Although I guess it depends maybe on what the skill in question is? "HAY WOW I KNOW KUNG FU" is 'cooler' in most people's books than "HAY WOW I KNOW DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.")
...and, uh, hi and all that. :3 We have a couple nonhuman sorta people in this group as well. As for the scheduling thing, I think... hrm, well, that's kind of a system numbers thing. In our group, scheduling would get super complex because fronting is kind of random and could be anyone, really. If you're a small group, might be easier to work that out.
~Yushyu