Today I learned about this Flintstones video, which simulates the effects of hearing loss, and its perfect.
This isn’t precisely the way mine sounds, but it’s close. I’ve described it as being muffled in the way snow can muffle sounds before.
Stop mumbling!
Whewww.
When I first started noticing that everyone around me was mumbling, I realized that if I thought everyone was mumbling, it meant that I was the problem.
I’m so grateful that I did not turn into the guy from this advice column. Full link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2024/09/24/asking-eric-husband-hearing-loss/
Full link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2024/09/24/asking-eric-husband-hearing-loss/
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3N4orKx
PSA, folks: if someone close to you says you should get tested for a thing, or that something about your health is affecting their life? Please believe them.
Written Reviews
My response to the above post follows.
I’m a fan of written reviews personally, in part because I am hard of hearing (and don’t process audio data well), and in part because they are just easier to absorb. Like other commenters said, with a written review you can scan the page to find something you’re looking for (using visual clues to aid in your scanning). It’s impossible to do that with audio or video unless those mediums are exhaustively annotated with – you guessed it – writing.
I do enjoy video things from time to time; I love Playing Around Games on TikTok, for example. (double check that name? did i remember it right?) But even a personable and pleasant video host like that still falls prey to the fact that I can only really pay attention, and absorb the audio, if I am in the right headspace to sit down and really exercise my brain towards listening to people talk. (And even then I prefer videos with captions!)
Video, as a medium, really shines when it comes to things like tutorials for playing a game. My gaming group will often watch a how-to video together before we play, just to see all the pieces and how they move/fit together/whatever. But if I’m reading a review/hearing someone talk *about* the game? Written, with optional photos of the game board, please.
Thank you for reading this far!
Emilybook 