INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.08 And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.08 And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else
ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.
everyone is saying student housing but the problem is that comes with being a student, a fate i would not wish on my worst enemies.
i'm not sure why this was posted without the link to the actual GFM but here it is
post-apocalyptic gang like the kings, the gang that worship elvis from fallout new vegas, except they’re all skaters who worship tony hawk
Addendum: none of them know what he looked like
What did The Hawk look like? He looked like you. You look like Him. We all look like Him. The Hawk was always told “You look like Tony Hawk”, but no one ever thought He was The Hawk. So we can only presume that everyone looks like The Hawk. He is the commonality of all humanity.
The commonality of all humanity that does sick shreds.
Tony Hawk is a member.
drinking water when I have a headache should give instant relief. it should go away. what's even the point of drinking water if it can't do that
I’m gonna do it! I’m gonna do the dishes!
I did it! It sucked but I did it!
Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right:
• Trump starts a contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir company to create a database of ALL INFORMATION on EVERY LIVING AMERICAN
• Its revealed Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have had a very massive fight, supposedly because Elon Musk is sleeping with Miller's wife
• Trump ousts Elon from the administration, after over five months of being besties. Leaves with Stephen Miller's wife, who he just hired at one of his companies (!?)
• Elon starts saying the Big Beautiful Bill sucks
• A GOP Representative reveals that most of them didnt actually get to read the Big Beautiful Bill, GOP leadership basically made them rubber stamp it and they are pissed to find out it makes them all look horrible. A lot of them are now discussing a shakeup in GOP leadership.
• Trump says Elon has "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (🤮)
• Elon escalates massively, stating that Trump is in the Epstein files and THATS why they havent released them yet
• This comes right as Alex Jones loses a massive chunk of his audience because he's endorsing Trump's Palantir contract, and his fans are basically all very concerned about their privacy. They want a new conspiracy to follow and they just got one
• Trump starts threatening Elon's government contracts
• Ian Miles Cheong calls for Trump to be impeached immediately, and for JD Vance to become President. Elon Musk quote retweets this with "Yes"
• JD Vance was mentored by Peter Thiel
• Steve Bannon takes to Fox calling for the immediate deportation of Musk, and making SpaceX a public company
im so serious about this but if youre autistic and especially if youre chronically ill creative labour cannot be your only way to relax. working on a creative project is still working. take time to do nothing. its good for you i promise.
How does one do nothing? This is a genuine question. Very chronically ill autistic who wants to create all the time.
I don't know what OP would suggest but here are some restful activities that I've been trying to force myself to do more of:
watch (or preferably rewatch) movies and tv shows that aren't emotionally challenging
read longform books/stories or nonfiction
play chill or simple video games
listen to music without doing anything else. Like put on a full album and just lay there and listen to it
meditate
take walks
take naps
Me reading the Trump/Musk breakup news this week:
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Kira could have intentionally poisoned the station gossip well by telling some people it's hers and Keiko's baby, telling some people Bashir got her pregnant, and telling some people that Miles is the father. Can you imagine?
And she does it just by truthfully answering whatever question she gets about the pregnancy - just like with Dukat.
“Who’s the father?”
“The Chief.”
“Who got you pregnant!?”
“Doctor Bashir.”
“Whose baby is that?”
“It’s Keiko’s.”
does anyone have that quote that goes something like 'white germans under the nazis lived just fine as long as they were loyal to the state, gave their children to the army, and paid their taxes, and in this sense many americans would be comfortable living under fascism' trying to find who said it but google is giving me jack shit
"The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the “good Germans” had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared. Since many “middle Americans” already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so. "
- Michael Parenti, Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit
Have you played SOMA? I think it's the kind of fucked up that would make your brain go brrrrrrrr
I have watched other people play SOMA (I don't like playing timing-based or reflex-based stealth segments). It's a wonderful game to watch people who are inexperienced with scifi play because the theme of personhood is incredibly straightforward for philosophical scifi lovers, but for newbies it blows their fucking minds and it is so fuck to watch people with fresh perspectives get whammed by the classics. I've watched people get up to the bit where you have to copy yourself into the diving suit and hear the voice from the other room and only then realised that the other version would still be there and it's great every time. SOMA is an absolutely wonderful game for delighting newbies with, gateway drug for philosophical scifi, I can't recommend it enough. Problem with SOMA is that there's a cafe called SOMA in my town and every time I walk past it I think about the game.
Any other games you'd recommend in the philosophical scifi genre? I'm one of the aforementioned smoothbrains that had my shit wrecked by SOMA.
It's a great game for wrecking people's shit! One of my favourite things to see.
You're in luck if you liked its themes because questions of personhood are very popular in scifi.
The problem with me recommending anything is that, as I said, I'm not hugely into the gameplay of SOMA, which means that if you liked the gameplay specifically, I can't recommend anything for you -- I'm sure similar games exist but I haven't played them. I'm a turn-based strategy, simulation game, and walking sim kinda person.
If you like those genres, though, boy do I have some fun scifi recs for you. All of these are available on Steam, which is where I get most of my games.
Citizen Sleeper gets the gold medal for Vibes. It's one of those games that I want to blank from my memory specifically so that I can experience it from the start again fresh. Being the Sleeper was an Experience.
Silicon Dreams leans hard into personhood, memory, and autonomy, and makes you confront such questions again and again. Unforgettable experience. When I woke up in the chair I had heart palpitations.
The Talos Principle is great if you just wanna focus on the philosophy of personhood. Like SOMA, it's all very basic and doesn't require any prior philosophical education or real familiarity with science fiction of this kind at all. Incredibly accessible level of discussion. Also, puzzles! And there's a kitty cat hidden somewhere in the game.
Digital: A Love Story probably won't wreck your shit, it's hardly cutting edge scifi and philosophical deep cuts, but it is fucking adorable. It's set in the near future of 1988 and it's fucking adorable. Its sequels are also interesting enough in their own right but very different in theme.
To The Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory belong to a series that gets deeper into themes of memory, identity and personhood as you go. I recommend playing all of them in order. To The Moon doesn't have much in the way of these sorts of personhood themes, but it is a fantastic game (even if it gets facts about Animorphs wrong :( ) and contains necessary backstory and setup for the other two.
Minds Beneath Us is a fantastic little game I just finished that does have these sorts of themes of personhood, although it doesn't dive into them nearly as hard as it could and goes for a different surface story instead. They're there, but light.
Subsurface Circular is a great little game that plays on personhood, service, and inherent limitation. Also you're solving a mystery! That's always fun!
The Turing Test is also great for this. Made me motion sick as all hell though, so if you're prone to simulation sickness, keep an eye out for that.
It's difficult to know whether or not to include INSIDE on this list, because INSIDE absolutely is a game about humans-as-consumable-product, and an absolutely brilliant one at that. Beautiful game, wonderful presentation, unforgettable experience. However, the abstract nature of the story makes it hard to know whether you'd consider the experience of playing it to count as what you're looking for. It is a game that forces you to put in effort to engage with its themes, and you can play through it without engaging at all (although I imagine it would be a very weird experience if you did).
Similarly, OneShot is a game where these themes exist in the background, in the lives of the robots and the concept of "taming", but they're part of the background setting, not necessarily something you're required to engage with.
If I don't mention Thimbleweed Park or Doki Doki Literature Club, somebody will complain, so here they are, technically on this list. But. I think these games were bad. I think they did a really sloppy job and dropped the ball at the end so spectacularly that it retroactively poisoned the entire experience. Doki Doki fans don't @ me.
Again, I should re-iterate that the gameplay of all of these games is very very different to to SOMA. These are mostly walking simulators and puzzle games, with the occasional rpg or detective game in there. If you're looking for SOMA-like gameplay, you'll need a list from somebody who prefers those types of games.