On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, J.R. Hyde wrote:
>
> Not really. Your own mind can start noticing things it never noticed before
> completly unintentionally. An example of this is whenever i learn a new
> word... it pops up all over the place. Before i just glanced over it and
> ignored it, but now it stands out like a signil fire. I would guess the
> same thing is hapenning here... and that nothing has changed, except maybe
> a *lessening* of missed notes as verant documented on the higher level
> songs. Some individual simply had a bad experiance and could not get selos
> started because he happened to have a bad roll of the dice at an
> inopportune time. And from that point on it just snowballed down hill and
> he started to notice the missed notes because he was now thinking about
> them unconsciously all the time.
Please, it was *real*. It was EXTREMELY frustrating, enough
that after two 3-5 hour nights of it (it wasn't one instantce
of me being unable to get Selo's started) I quit my bard for
almost a week and played my enchanter instead. When I finally
played my bard again, the problem was *still* there. I'd been
planning on switching to my enchanter again, but my friends on
my bard server just got a guild started last night so I hopped
in to join the guild and play a bit, and the problem was gone.
I can normally stack 3 songs no problem, sometimes 4. During
the time I was having this missed note problem, I could only
keep 2 song icons up consistently, and sometimes manage 3.
It was that bad. Running the numbers, at a 5% missed note
rate, you should be able to play 3 songs without a missed note
85% of the time. With a 20% missed note rate (which was my
original estimate, but I stated it as 10%-20% because I *know*
the mind has a tendency to overestimate these things) you can
only play 3 songs without a mised note 51% of the time. That
fits my observations of keeping 3 songs going, so my 20%
estimate was probably pretty accurate.
I minored in social and cognitive psychology in undergrad.
My graduate thesis topic was a statistical analysis of data
channel capacity in high-latency high-loss environments. I
*know* the tricks your mind can play on you, and I *know* how
it's easy to mistake statistically random data for something
else. This was NOT my imagination, it was real.
--
John H. Kim
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