On The Memory Capacity Of Trickster

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  1. ViroMan

    ViroMan Black Hole (*sniff*) Bully

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    huh... you got super good memory if you can actually remember that many names... isn't the average person only capable of remembering around 50 or so names before shit gets bury? Need to look that up again.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
     
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  2. Lazybum

    Lazybum :D Staff Member Moderator

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    That doesn't relate to just remembering names, I mean if you could only remember 100 names how could someone remember all those latin names for plants/body parts/diseases/minerals and so on.
     
  3. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    That has nothing to do with remembering usernames. I can look at the list of usernames and tell which ones are familiar to me. Some I can put to a personality, some I can not. The idea that people can only remember 50 names is absurd.
     
  4. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    Not only does that article note that the number is around 150, but also that it applies only to stable personal relationships, not names in general.

    I mean, think about it. It's implausible to only remember 150 names, let alone only 50. If you add up all the famous people I can name, that'd easily outdo 150, not to mention the number of people I personally know.
     
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  5. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    I could memorize all 150 Pokémon WHEN THERE WERE ONLY 150 GOD DAMN YOUNGSTERS
     
  6. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    But none of us know the subsequent generations...
     
  7. Ikalx

    Ikalx Member

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    I felt old yesterday when I randomly was watching university challenge and one of the kids didn't know Aerosmith when they heard it. Cryin' no less.

    There's so many reasons to know that song.
     
  8. ImSpartacus

    ImSpartacus nerf spec plz

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    Candles gon flip his shit.
     
  9. Candles

    Candles CAPTAIN CANDLES, DUN DUN DUN, DUN DUN DUN DUN.

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    How the fuck doesn't recognize Aerosmith? Okay, I can get someone not knowing a particular song, bur Steven Tyler's vocals and Joe Perry's guitar are impossible to miss.

    Fuck this, I'm gonna' listen to some Aerosmith now.
     
  10. Ikalx

    Ikalx Member

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    I have no bloody clue. They're your age, lol, you should know :p
     
  11. Drag0wn

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    You people missed the Pokemon joke.

    In the first generation of Pokemon there are 151 Pokemon, counting Mew. Not 150.

    By the fourth generation there were 493 but after that I no longer cared.
     
  12. complete_

    complete_ lamer

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    ho-oh was in the first episode of the show

    johto is my canon
     
  13. DarkHorizon

    DarkHorizon Member

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    Mewtwo is just mew but messed up and it's not even evolved.
    Could it be there really is just ONE FIDDY???
     
  14. blizzerd

    blizzerd Member

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    there were never just 150, mew is the 151st
     

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