#shittinginfo

[tamecoffin]

Philosophy is exhausting to get into because it's built around responses to prior ideas and redefining the understanding of them. The whole thing has missing context if you start with the most well known works. You'll only understand everything discussed if you start from the very beginning of Writing About Thinking, whatever book or essay that may be. You just won't 'Get It' otherwise.

You're having to read through the words of the people who thought the most about everything.

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do you think that the guy that invented the toilet winced a little at the thought of someone taking a shit in it. like imagine sculpting an object from scratch and then someone dropping log into it (by design).

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I'm always so skeptical/nervous when I hear about new Suda51 title. He's my favorite game director and it's not even close. But it *really* feels like he should have his inevitable fumble where he falls into his own cliches. The game will just eventually feel like a bunch of Cool Tricks. His recent games have gotten closer to that feeling, like a Best Of.

But dammit, he really does always bring something that excites and surprises me to know end. There are so many little elements and ideas in his games that have deeply impacted my psyche that I really have not seen anyone else do. No other director I know expresses such a genuine excitement for mediums and games.

I was most nervous about the quick montage of Sudaisms at the end of Romeo is a Deadman. Like "Ohhh, this is it... he's just doing The Brand." I'll remain optimistic. The game honestly doesn't look fun at all either LOL. But gameplay is not why I love Grasshopper's games so much. I'll be the first to say that LET IT DIE's gameplay brilliance feels like An Accident. I think being one of like 200 people that still love the game is proof that it probably Failed.

I'll try to remain optimistic about Romeo is a Deadman. Don't know if I'll get it right away. I gotta be in a headspace to digest Sudas.

[tamecoffin]

Had a dream last night that there was a very obscure tf2 bug that was discovered. The bug would lower the quality of all the music in the game slightly, making it muffled and compressed. The cause of the bug had to do with the steam username of all things. A few specific steam account names would cause this bug to happen. If you change your name mid-game, it would instantly fix.

This bug was unfortunately discovered by Oney of OneyPlays, where they were doing a tf2 video. Oney's steam name was a combination of "knight" and the n-word. He checked if the username was the cause by changing his name to the f-slur in 1337. After changing his name back to the combination of "knight" and the n-word, it was proven that this was indeed the cause of the audio quality lowering. The cause is having the steam username "knight" and the n-word combined.

[tamecoffin]

I just explored my thought process on why I enjoy GASP song titles so much and I thought I'd post it here as well.

There is a congruency, I feel, in the way GASP title their works with my process. Not so much puns, more so an enthrallment in how statements can be abstracted and deconstructed. Then expounding on the new mysteries created through that reconstruction. You know, like "what strange context/appearance would this have if it was completely literal?" The mystification is what excites me the most!

Let me walk through my thought process.

"Eating the Translucent Old Folk's Village." Ok. The sound of the track is a first clue. The song has many ghostly voices, manipulated samples. The quality and timbre of these voices feels especially aged, probably coming from older people.

There are multiple of these ghostly voices. Where would you find many old people? A retirement home. Then you can abstract it. If you exacerbate age, it becomes closer to "history." When you think of a historic place with "old homes" you would likely think of a Village.

When you think of a ghost, you typically imagine them being translucent. When a building is comprised of ghosts, it's described as "Haunted." A populated building, such as an old folk's home, likely would have so many ghosts that you could consider the place to be more ghost than building. So, the building is practically a ghost in of itself!

As for "Eating," there is a understood relation with eating as "Consumption" or "Intake." Exploring or being in the presence of a location is, in a way, a consumption of information and feelings. "Eating" is feeling, growth, and being.

So I reinterpret "Eating the Translucent Old Folk's Village" as coming from, "Inside of a Haunted Retirement Home."

[tamecoffin]

please check in on those that write constantly but find difficulty in conversation

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I love Bull of Heaven album cover aesthetic. It's like internet archeology. They recontexualize photos on Wikipedia to appear as ancient and captivating as hieroglyphs.

Like uploading a photograph of a cave painting on the internet is conceptually interesting if you linger on the thought.

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I got megalophobia but only in my dreams, and I'm annoyed that I can't replicate the feeling. I know about The Utility Room, but I need more. I want to capture that horrifying feeling so bad.