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I had a fun taste of muscle memory when I moved to Japan. The car I had over there, its blinker (turn signal) lever was on the opposite side as my car in America. The window wiper level was where my American car's blinker was, though. You have no idea how many times I kept turning on the window wipers instead of the blinker. And then, when it was raining, I kept turning on the blinker instead of the wipers. It was so hard to break those habits!

And then I had to break it all over again when I moved back to America. *facepalm"

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But… wouldn’t her body weight be different in the Game than in Life anyway?

The Kido apparently translates brain signals to actual motion, so she’s thinking “push off with the force needed in normal gravity!” and the low gravity is causing her to wildly overjump and flail to catch herself. Weight is different but the force required to travel distances is also different, at least until you’ve been at low gravity for a while and your muscle mass starts deteriorating to the point that low g is all you can tolerate.

I have the same problem every time I drive a European car. In Australia, blinker on right (roadside), wiper on left. Most Australian designed, and even most imports are like that. But there are some, especially the European made ones, where the levers are opposite, and I will often mess it it when using them.

I know, right? Muscle memory is an awesome tool, but sometimes it can be a b****. Especially if you keep switching between several games with similar overall controls.

“Let’s riflebutt this guy in the face.” (Throws a grenade)
“Roll to dodge!” (Jumps right into the attack)
“I’ll jump over this small bottomless pit.” (Rolls into the pit)
“A dragon! Run!” (Ducks instead)
“I’ll talk to this friendly NPC.” (Shoots flamethrower to his face)
“That target’s far away, I’l aim with the iron sights.” (Fires secondary attack)

That’s why you always use a grenade launcher for your secondary attack. Who needs aim when you have explosive damage?

An interesting thing about cars though is that on both left hand and right hand side drive vehicles, the pedal order under the floor is the same otherwise you would not have been able to drive at all. Imagine if you were to try to brake and instead accelerated, or suddenly slammed on your brakes in the middle of heavy traffic because you were trying to go faster.

Muscle memory is a beautiful thing when it works, I normally type in whole words or even short phrases with no active thought given to what my fingers are doing or what letters the words are made up of. But then again, it breaks and it bites you: I made the switch from old Thinkpad keyboard to new Thinkpad keyboard in April of this year, and I still rarely type as much as a sentence without something going wrong!

I wish it rained often enough here for me to develop windshield wiper muscle memory. 🙁

Australians may complain about lack of rain, but this Australian knows that we do get rain. In fact, we got our entire annual rainfall in the space of about 2 hours yesterday. Flooding streets and drains.

I had the same thing happen when I switched cars!

And I love the struggle it is for Dani just to pull out a little interior decorating.

Awww, Danni’s got a good eye for interior design 😀 Those shades are very nice 🙂

Breaking her habits? Might as well switch from ballet to Linkin Park. 🙂

My wife and I took a 2 week trip to Ireland from the US many years ago. I rented a manual transmission car and whenever I was stopped at a red light and it switched to green, my right hand would shoot out towards where the gearshift would be in the US (my right hand going up and to the right). It would smack into the glass, because I was on the wrong side of the car. Doh! I was able to handle driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road with some extra caution, but that instinct (under pressure) to reach out w/ my right hand kept with me for almost the full 2 weeks.

Breaking habits? Aw. I bet Kleya can relate to that.

This is kind of cute, because like, Kleya’s automatically trying to “defend” her friend Danni, because she thinks being wrong is bad and so no friend of hers could possibly be wrong! But Danni’s just over there demonstrating how to be mature and accept failure with grace. Let’s hope Kleya learns from her example ^_^

Presumably as a professional, Danni knows allllll about the relationship between failing and being good at a thing, as opposed to poor Keiko who was only ever good at a thing so never learned how learning works <.< (As a former "smart kid" I can relate…)

I imagine Kleya will have in mind a coding solution for this problem. She’s an expert on Kidos, after all. I kinda feel like Danni has so much grace about her limitations and struggles though that teaching her that everything can be easy is teaching the wrong person the wrong lesson.

How is Kleya going to be socialized if she only sees solutions that require learning or adapting her environment, instead of herself?

My Dad used to drive a 3-on-the-tree truck, and then drove an automatic with the shifter on the column. Then he bought a Kia, with the shifter on the floor. Several times, he nearly broke the windshield wiper stick because muscle memory made him grab it like a stiff gearshift.

I hate the blinker thing. I run into it all the time when switching between my parents Kia and my Ford.

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

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