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[Dunamisdeos]

Unrelated: These diamonds I found in the woods are delicious.

[munch munch munch]

[LordBaal]

When I walked among the living, I used to torment some guy with my magic as a way to compensate for my low height, until one day in the woods...

[Dunamisdeos]

That reminds me, I can't even remember what he did now because the details have faded but I think I strangled him twice. He used his bullshit magic midget powers to come back the first time.

[Il Palazzo]

Seems on topic:
Midget song

[Imic]

I don’t know where this discussio. is going, but I’m terrified, confused, and extremely curious to find out.

[scriver]

So when I first encountered Redcaps in the Pathfinder: Kingmaker computar gaem I thought they were just Pathfinder's (the tabaltep gaem) overly edgy attempt at making a "dark and gritty" monster out of the common gnomeTOMTE myth. But looking them up today, originally just to see if I remembered their name correctly, turns out they are a real thing. Well, not real, obviously. But a critter from real folklore. And they seem to be pretty darn dark an gritty in them too.

I felt this was relevant.

[Kagus]

I learned about redcaps from Magic and Mayhem, back in ye olde daye.

[Sirus]

Man, I first learned about Red Caps in Prisoner of Azkaban. Long before I ever even knew about Pathfinder.

[Frumple]

Y'all people are friggin' weird to actually remember when you first heard of a specific random fantasy/mythology fodder critter.

Assuming you actually do and it's not just your brain fucking with you like it apparently likes to do vis a vis memories. Been running across stuff on more recent memory research lately, and I've come to the conclusion you might as well not even bother to try. Odds are pretty good anything like that didn't actually happen like you remember it, apparently. Our general recall accuracy as a species seems to be somewhere in the region of goddamn atrocious.

[Egan_BW]

As a species? I haven't seen any research showing that other animals are any better at memory. The more interesting observation would be that we tend to be a lot more confident in the accuracy of our memories than we should be.

[pisskop]

Our memories are adapted to make us as socially superior as possible, even as our morality screams in pain from the pretzel twists.

[Yoink]

I had a dream last night that ended in me strangling a midget to death in the woods because he wouldn't stop using his evil magicks to wreck my life.

How are you guys today.

I just woke up from a dream where I was playing this pretty sweet, tank-centric multiplayer shooter, speeding around in my tank blasting enemies, when suddenly I was yanked into this long-winded cutscene depicting some multi-national council of peace talks or whatever - but I was still in my tank, driving around the war room firing my weapons at the delegates and all but unable to actually effect anything.
It was kind of a frustrating end to a pretty fun dream.

[Frumple]

As a species? I haven't seen any research showing that other animals are any better at memory. The more interesting observation would be that we tend to be a lot more confident in the accuracy of our memories than we should be.

As a species, as in our brainmeats in general ain't good at it and none of us are particularly free of the issue, even before various sorts of cognitive degeneration sinks its claws in. Haven't seen anything mentioning comparative cross species capability, but that doesn't somehow mean we're good at.

We are a lot more confident in our memories than we have actual grounds to be, though, yeah. The implication of that being we're pretty bad at remembering stuff accurately. Drum on that front seems to be getting noticed and beat in particularly in relation to eye-witness testimony (and confessions) in legal/criminal cases, where it's getting ever more increasingly clear both are unreliable as all hell.

... in any case, in unrelated wtf, there's this:

Unfortunately, she never did become a Spirit Immortal, but she did leave behind eight remarkable children, each awakening different water elemental Spirits.”

“Monarch of the Oceans, The Colossal Leviathan
Champion of the Swamp, The Divine King Serpent
Terror of the Seas, The Abominable Cthulhu
Majesty of the Rivers, The Seven-Headed Hydra
Beauty of the Arctic, The Enigmatic Narwhal
Devourer of Tides, The Obsidian Xuanwu
Emperor of the Lagoon, The Heavenly Sturgeon
Eminence of the Lake, The Sovereign Koi

Fish, legendary aquatic creatures of myth, and then Cthulhu. One of these is not like the others.

[Lord Shonus]

Cthulu seems to have been entrenched so heavily in modern pop-culture that it is increasingly hard to distinguish it from more "genuine" legendary creatures.

[Egan_BW]

Aye, problem is that we can say that we have bad memories, but bad compared to what? We can't say (for lack of data) they're bad compared to other animals, we certainly can't say they're bad compared to any extraterrestrials or something, and we certainly do have better memories than inanimate objects, plants, fungi, or bacteria by virtue of having memories at all. The only thing that our memory is actually worse than is our own perception of how good our memory is.
That is, our problem isn't the fact that we're bad at remembering things, it's that we vastly overestimate our own ability to remember things.

Okay, you could say that computers have "good" memory, but that kind of memory works completely differently to our own.