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Nothing too noteworthy so far, but that can always change.
"'Normal' only exists in games."

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Name the game: You play as a character in a suit of armor that explores caves and fights monsters. As you explore, you find more weapons and gain more abilities. Among the monsters that you fight is a big creature that can be called a dragon.

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@HASHi_KIONGOZi Who keeps cash in their back pocket?

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@RetroMoviesDB

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@iriaizanami Why is Ranma there twice?

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@RetroMoviesDB

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@ChromeTyranno Looks more like a bird to me.

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@tunechistark

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@ChaosMoonKitty I could have sworn that was antifreeze

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@CFCDeniss @JusLizzy_ Jack Frost

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@_Yowsa_

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@hussain786_fkh Clearly this is a FAcetious post. The FAlse claim is presented as FAct. FAint of mind, the author FAcilitates engagement with a FAke premise, that usually FAils to achieve the intended outcome. A FAd, FAding into the ether. There are many more words, but this is a FAt enough post

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@Classisco123 Kida, the forgotten Disney princess.

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@TheBatHome Peak

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@BladeOfMelissa It’s 21
A man (1) has 17 sons. (18) Each son has two sisters. (20)
Then there’s the mother.

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@TheCartoonBase

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Why can’t I find The J Geils Band’s song in streaming services?

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@WholesomeMeme The 1987 Ford Crown Victoria LTD just pulled out of there.

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What in tarnation are you talking about?

[Lord Galvatron @GalvStudios22]

We’ve had pirate Transformers

We’ve had dragon Transformers

We’ve had bug Transformers

We’ve had dinosaur Transformers

We’ve had every type of Transformer

But we still don’t have cowboy Transformers

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The most quoted "there's no spoon" scene from Matrix is the most misunderstood scene.

The boy tells Neo the spoon doesn't exist.

Most people think this means "nothing is real, everything is simulation."

Wrong interpretation.
Completely backward.

The spoon exists. The child exists. The conversation exists.

What doesn't exist is the boundary between the spoon and Neo.

The separation is the illusion.

When you try to bend a spoon with your mind, you're operating from the assumption that "you" are separate from "spoon." Subject acts on object. Mind controls matter. That duality creates the impossibility.

The child figured out something neuroscientists are just confirming:

Your brain doesn't distinguish between self and environment the way you think it does. The neural networks that represent "your body" extend seamlessly into the networks that represent "the space around your body." The boundary exists in language, not in neural reality.

For example, a tennis racket becomes an extension of your arm, a race car becomes an extension of your body. The instrument stops being separate and starts being you.

The spoon bends because Neo stops treating it as external. The separation dissolves.

There's no spoon to manipulate because there's no separate self doing the manipulating.

This is grounded in science. Embodied cognition research shows your brain can map the tools and objects you focus on as real extensions of your body schema. Pianists’ brains often represent piano keys within their finger map. Surgeons’ brains can represent their instruments as extended limbs.

The Matrix scene was accidentally teaching applied neuroscience disguised as sci fi philosophy.

The real takeaway:
Stop trying to change things outside yourself. Recognize that the "outside" is a cognitive construction.

The spoon bends when you realize you are the spoon.

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@DyerbolicalDB You forgot the fact that that’s bare metal in the sun. And the kids are in shorts.

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@TheStingisBack Harry Belafonte