Self perception.
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- Konrad Knox
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Self perception.
Something i noticed about the examination system. Characters with high perception can detect more details about other people from greater distance than characters with low perception. That's great.
But also, if you click on yourself, it looks like the game still checks for perception. Is this a bug or supposed to be like that? So the characters with lower perception don't know what they themselves look like?
Should self-perception bypass perception check? Basically asking this because it makes it impossible to tell what build I am without asking others to tell me, unless I have perception over 12.
Thanks.
But also, if you click on yourself, it looks like the game still checks for perception. Is this a bug or supposed to be like that? So the characters with lower perception don't know what they themselves look like?
Should self-perception bypass perception check? Basically asking this because it makes it impossible to tell what build I am without asking others to tell me, unless I have perception over 12.
Thanks.
- Konrad Knox
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- Konrad Knox
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Well, Nitters, I look down at myself, at my hands, and see wrinkles, the pattern of skin, smoothness of it, I can look at my muscles if I flex a bicep, I can tell if my stomach and ribs are fit, if the muscles are shabby and saggy or well defined. I look down at my stomach and see if I am fat or skinny (fat if I can't see my penis because my belly blocks it, etc). I can tell how my face looks by feeling the skin of my beard, forehead, cheeks - I can feel wrinkles. Perception is not just sight - it's sense of touch, smell, taste, hearing, and any other "sixth" sense you can have, your instincts. Old people have an old people smell, young ripe women smell like young ripe women. As an animal, a human being can rather correctly estimate oneself as of where they stand compared to others.
I need a scale to tell you that I weight exactly 160 pounds and my height is 6 feet. But without those devices I can already say that I am medium-tall, slim, young looking. Simply because I look slim compared to others. I feel which humans are bigger or smaller than me.
Does that give you an idea?
I need a scale to tell you that I weight exactly 160 pounds and my height is 6 feet. But without those devices I can already say that I am medium-tall, slim, young looking. Simply because I look slim compared to others. I feel which humans are bigger or smaller than me.
Does that give you an idea?
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What is a mirror?
is that some kind of magic?
if we want to see ourselves, we norodaj look in some still water.
or at a polished shield.
you civilized people must be centuries ahead of us...
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mirrors in a world like illarion could be affordable for the upper ten persons of the isle, but not for everybody.
is that some kind of magic?
if we want to see ourselves, we norodaj look in some still water.
or at a polished shield.
you civilized people must be centuries ahead of us...
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mirrors in a world like illarion could be affordable for the upper ten persons of the isle, but not for everybody.
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I agree with konrad to a degree that one can roughly estimate how we compare to others and how others see us. But there is also a degree to which we do not really know how we appear to others. Some people think too much of themselves, others not enough. This is perhaps the goal that nitram is striving to portray with the difference from looking at someone else vs. examining ones self.
I like the mirror idea, but I also like that maybe we need a friend to tell us we could lose a few pounds etc.
I like the mirror idea, but I also like that maybe we need a friend to tell us we could lose a few pounds etc.