#anramble

[anheliotrope]

You're struggling to get stuff done? Well, have you tried building a cognitive torture machine to motivate yourself?

[anheliotrope-old]

I'm not sure if things like this ignite my desire to continue playing Pharaoh, or totally kill it.

[anheliotrope]

asking someone from HR three questions and getting 1 answer, then asking 2 questions and getting 1 answer and then asking 1 question and getting 1 answer is somewhat reminiscent of partial function application

[anheliotrope]

remember to give your local manic pixie dreamgirl day trader a wellness check every now and then. if she won't come out of her room, you may place a single cup of lacroix at her door and whisper words of comfort. do not under any circumstances tell her she cannot beat the market. do not insinuate she would be better off investing in a total market index fund. instead simply praise her for her warrior spirit and depart.

[anheliotrope]

there are decades where nothing happens

and then there are weeks where decades happen

but sometimes those decades are the decades where nothing happens

[anheliotrope]

Mahjong is proof sent by Satan himself that game design doesn't actually matter.

[anheliotrope]

Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang: If you really loved me, or humanity, at all, you would nerve staple yourself and show yourself to the nearest anguish factory.

Colonel Corazón Santiago: I think we should hurt people during boot camp more. It would build character.

Provost Zakharov: I must directly cause the extinction of every mind worm species despite knowing that the planet is sentient and self-aware and will collectively like humanity less for this. I fucking love science.

Lady Diedre Skye: The mind worms will rape us less frequently if we pollute less.

CEO Nwabudike Morgan: We're managing to sell more holosims of the recent war than the war is costing us so it's impossible to say if the war is morally good or bad on net.

Commissioner Pravin Lal: I think we should improve things somewhat.

Sister Miriam Godwinson: God himself reached out to me in a vision and told me that building fully automated nanobot thought police would be bad.

[anheliotrope]

One fascinating aspect of body swapping to me is the idea that you could experience someone else's body's sensory data, but with your own mind. This is an incoherent idea for a few reasons, but still fun.

I love the idea of being able to judge each other's qualia. Swapping bodies for a minute just to tell the other person that their headache is actually mild and they're being a little bitch about it.

Person A: I've got headache.

Person B: How bad is it?

Person A: Most dreadful.

Person B: You look fine.

Person A: What does that mean...

Person B: I just bet it's not that bad! Swap with me!

Person A: I don't think we should use magic for this kind of trivial matter... also you're being kind of a dou--

Person B: Ilu Resh Vadam Kash!!

*Poof*

Person B: Yeah, just like I thought... I've had way worse. It's not that bad of a headache. But oh god, why is breathing so hard. What's wrong with your nose??

Person A: It's... it's possible to breathe this easily? How long does this spell last? Also, you really need glasses.