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@hikari There was a DS game called "Polaris" that was all about drawing paths over patterns, and after I played it for sufficiently long for the rest of the day when I looked at text I could not see the letters, I could only see the whitespace, the paths between and within letters that you could potentially draw a Polarium path along, it was very disorienting, it had not until this point occurred to me such paths exist

@mcc @hikari oh wow. that sounds like a powerful and counterproductive experience :D

we used to like looking at books with Linotype-era typesetting because the machine is smart, but not smart enough to prevent "rivers" through the text, it takes a skilled operator to do that...

@ireneista @mcc is a river when the spaces between words more or less line up, such that there's a noticeable… channel?… running down the page?

@hikari @mcc exactly so!