I think when you’re overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game
Kind of sad creator archetype: admirer of high culture but can't quite pull it off (Gaiman, Rowling)
Very cool creator archetype: reads/watches a bunch of junk and pulpy stuff and alchemically transmutes it into gold (Pynchon, PKD)
good morning pronoiacs. everything is working in your favor. you won yesterday. you'll win today. you'll win tomorrow. entire continents full of living beings are working behind the scenes for you to win. the weight of history is pressing down on a lever that makes you happier.
why do grandmas always insist on being called something cutesy like “gigi” or “bunny” when they could instead instill fear with a name like “blade” or “night fury” or “The Reaper”
the scene in primetime where he phones his wife and says “mary. it’s chris hansen.” and she just goes “i know, chris” is the hardest i’ve laughed in a theatre all year and also only like the 4th funniest moment in the movie
One of the reasons Megami Tensei has survived to this day isn’t because of the devil summoning itself. I believe it’s because, 40 years ago, I proposed a method of calling forth devil into PC as AI and sending them all over the place online. This is precisely the kind of issue we face in the modern era, and I consider it to be my true originality.
Doom is a hallucination. Everywhere on Earth, life is expanding, multiplying, growing, advancing. Zoom out. Your myopia is driving you mad. Everything that exists is connected. Everything that exists is unique. The fact that you can't remember this means nothing at all.
When it was realized plants have electrical signals that give readings on polygraphs it was discovered their frequencies can entrain with a nearby person's heartbeat. Life makes order with synchrony. We have a biorhythm with the sun, two heartbeats can entrain before people meet.