Quote Originally Posted by Pandastirfry View Post
okay... I know it is a MAJOR nit pick but...

"Art and stories depend on things like synesthesia for immersion."

Err.. Synesthesia is a neurological condition that is involuntary, one of the most common forms of which is color-graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored.

Very rarely would a story teller rely on a condition that an estimated 1 out of 23 people have and presents in various forms, for immersion
The term is not limited to neurology. The first part in hearing the term in lecture was that its reference was far more specific than the term's general (albeit rare) usage. Any time in which things have a different obvious faculty of perception, memory, reflection, etc, and yet blend across each other by some abnormal or linking circumstance is considered synesthetic, and the phenomenon as synesthesia. Though saying that it is used in designing a video game might be too strong a word, the term itself is not necessarily incorrect.

I'm sorry for nit-picking in reverse, but I don't see why something with a clear, even if abnormally written, intended meaning should be chocked up to error.