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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But nouns? Names of people places and things slip away like there's no place to hold them. I've even forgotten friend and family names sometimes.

Oh boy yes. In the few exceptions where I tried to work in the past 3 decades, I had sooo much troubles putting names to faces. I internally name people after a striking detail. "The loud one", "the skinny one", "the one with weird glasses" so at least distinguish them. And it was hard to mask along with just never saying their names.

Took me forever to kinda remember my own birthdate. And I can only memorize wifey's because it's +1 month and +1 day -1year. That's it. Would I have kids I wouldn't know their names 🫢

But IP-adresses of my servers? Weird complex structures? Yeah sure. In which of the 5838292 folders in my 4 decade holds archive is this one specific email from 1998 or this one holiday pic of this weird turtle I did 20yrs ago? Gimme 2 seconds.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

OMG exactly. I remember my StarCraft Brood War and WarCraft III CD keys from when I was a teen. Who were my favorite teachers names in the same timeframe? Could maybe tell you exactly one.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lol yes. Ask me for some obscure cheatcodes from 1980. But who is this face that just said "hi (name)!"? Family? Friend? I have no idea 🥴

Or throw me in an open world game from 1990. Still know the map and probably all secrete. I feel so fucking dumd sometimes...