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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:27:18 JST clarity flowers

   I've been learning today about how emotions are a circle. or perhaps a cube

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:32:41 JST clarity flowers

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     I'm thinking about different ways of modeling emotions in sim games. I feel like whenever I see these models I immediately get the impression that whoever came up with the model lives a very boring life because they always miss out on the cool emotions (or just kind of cram them into the model in arbitrary places to make it all fit)

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     Dan Patch (datn@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:43:10 JST Dan Patch

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     @clarity that flower doesn't pass my smell test

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:48:50 JST clarity flowers

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     • Dan Patch

     @datn same. most confused by the implied axes (no way are "fear" and "anger" opposites, but the braided wheel version implies that they are) but also interest -> anticipation -> vigilance definitely does not map to my understanding of those words.

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:52:09 JST clarity flowers

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     throwing my hat into the ring

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     Dan Patch (datn@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:55:15 JST Dan Patch

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     @clarity yeah. also serenity and aggressiveness are too close together. this reeks of Jim Cunningham

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 12:57:02 JST clarity flowers

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     academics don't have the wisdom & courage to udnerstand that UwU is an emotion

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 13:35:25 JST clarity flowers

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     "emotions" may be the wrong mental model entirely tbh