Guys I think cognitohazards are real
Marina from Splatoon 2 is definitely a cognitohazard because when I look at her I am strangely drawn to her and I have not yet met a person who thinks that Marina is not an absolute goddess
Guys I think cognitohazards are real
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Edit: Missed the anomalous requirement in the definition, disregard.
That's not a cognitohazard. If I put my fingers in the teeth of a rotary saw, I'm not bleeding because I know what a rotary saw is. I'm bleeding because I just put my hands in the path of a tool designed to cut much denser material than me. Same thing with your examples.
A cognitohazard is something that damages you just because you know about it. Like, Lovecraft talks about knowledge not meant for mortal men? Kinda like that
While you're right that his examples weren't cognitohazards, you actually just described an infohazard.
Rules of thumb:
If you see or hear it and you die it's a coghaz.
If you know it and you die it's an infohaz.
If it's a self spreading idea that makes you die it's a memetic hazard.
A cognitohazard would be like the Rings video tape; you see it and you die seven days later.
Ah, I missed the anomalous part of the definition, sorry ._.
However I think you're kinda mistaking it with infohazards. Cognitohazards by definition are:
A cognitohazard is something that poses a danger to any subject that perceives it with any of our five physical senses: sight (visual), hearing (auditory), smell (olfactory), taste (gustatory), and touch (tactile). This applies to both things that cause physical harm as well as things that cause psychological damage, but only in a way that would be anomalous. A bright light that causes blindness would not be a cognitohazard, nor would a sharp edge that cuts you when you touch it. A sound that causes you to bleed from every pore or a smell that causes you to go insane would be a cognitohazard.
[ Insert 'Seward is a cognitohazard' joke here ]
Whenever I hear the song Good Time by Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl City, I cannot maintain a train of thought until the song ends. It's not that I really love the song either, I can't think enough to develop an opinion on it. It just shorts me out.
The Antibirth soundtrack is godly. Forgotten Lullaby makes my stomach churn because it's TOO good.
pastarasta1 is quick-talking and often scheming
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