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BitwiseFool ◴[] No.44522927[source]
Personal anecdote: As a child I played a lot of Sim City. In those games bridges must be perfectly straight and as a result I developed a mental model that curved bridges simply don't exist. When I first drove over a gently curved bridge in my late 20's I felt a serious disturbance to an irrelevant worldview that I never questioned.
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scubbo ◴[] No.44523085[source]
I first got hold of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas early in the summer holidays during my school years, which meant I was able to play nearly-uninterrupted (save for pesky things like sleep and food) for several days straight.

When I finally surfaced, and Mum drove me into town for something or other, I felt visceral panic that she was driving on the "wrong" side of the road.

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sidewndr46 ◴[] No.44523190[source]
You must be in a left hand drive country?
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christianqchung ◴[] No.44523222[source]
Based on the use of "Mum", very probably.
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1. Agingcoder ◴[] No.44523486{3}[source]
Coming from the same area, I didn’t even think that it might look odd to folks in other parts of the world …