pouring one out for all the affordances we used to have in our environments that facilitated our well-being in some significant way but then some modern architect or city planner or social crusader decided that if all they had to justify them was folk practice then out they go
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Does "affordance" mean something something like "accomodation"?
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
My sole exposure to the word has been this Achewood strippic.twitter.com/bDCeKFiSOI
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which reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) story about the guy who learned the word 'dire' from D&D's Dire Axe and Dire Flail weapons so he thought 'Dire' meant 'two of them, strapped together', leading to confusion when Dire Wolves where encountered.
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Replying to @palecur @jenphalian
i can see processing that somebody's band name was "two straight guys, strapped together" and not really batting an eye, tbh
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