• volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    I have to admit it did a lot for me and I can’t believe I am saying that. But I literally just looked at this map for two minutes, trying to figure out what it was that caught me off guard.

    Maybe inverting made South Korea look less like a peninsula “down there, hanging”, and more like something “up there, that people want to climb”?

    Maybe it’s because I am not used to seeing this orientation and it’s refreshing and hence I look at it more closely than subconsciously thinking “meh I know what countries there are and what’s depicted”?

    Like, this shouldn’t make sense, it should not make a difference, why does it make a difference to me, I don’t get it.

    • dontsayaword@piefed.social
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      6 days ago

      The shapes are the same after rotation, obviously, but top and bottom are very different things in our brains.