You wake up on a plane of snow. It's uncharacteristically fluffy and dense, as though it has been falling here for generations. You look up to find a blackened daylight, devoid of the atmospheric scattering you'd associate with home. Instead, there is nothing but the dim starlight of our warm yet ever so distant nurturer and a ringed planet; its moons seeming to dance around you in a slow and meth... » Continue Reading
i've been way too proper and philosophical (perhaps a bit insane) in my blog posts as of late, so taking a reprieve would do me well. with that in mind, does anyone know of any music you'd describe as "robot-folk?" and by that, i mean uniquely mechanical and/or robotic vocals or instrumentation paired with the stripped back, minimalist styling of a lot of folk music? i don't mean vocaloid cove... » Continue Reading
niko (and the game itself, in a sense) is kind of an example of how we, as humans, breathe life into the lifeless, aren't they? oneshot is a story, just like many others; niko isn't real, at least materially speaking. likewise, they can't truly converse with us. again, it's a story- words and pixels on a screen. but... that's not all it is, is it? consciously or not, we ascribe a humanity to them.... » Continue Reading
it's honestly kind of funny how much i try to be rational, yet i always feel (very irrationally) as if people are out to get me. like, somehow what i do online and what i say is always being watched or recorded; Truman Show-type behavior. thing is, i know rationally there's no way for that to occur; that, more or less, nobody cares about my existence. i've never been diagnosed with schizophrenia, ... » Continue Reading
(this topic kind of teeters the line between writing discussion and philosophy, but just in case i'm gonna categorize it as philosophy lol) as this is a blogging site, i feel like i can actually speak about this without it being compressed into reactionary nothing-statements. that being said... fiction and reality, while separate, are very much intertwined! by that i don't mean some odd, pseudo-sp... » Continue Reading
a few months ago or so, researchers observing the TRAPPIST-1 system using the James Webb Space Telescope (cursory resources on what those are here and here ) published a paper that discusses the observed improbability of there being a substantial atmosphere on both » Continue Reading
Kind of new here, and this is my first post. Apologies if I don't really... fit the aesthetic here that well; hopefully I'll learn soon enough lol! Here's an artpiece I made a while back of an Outer Wilds x OneShot crossover concept. » Continue Reading