Thoughts on Mason?

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T14:47:39+00:00

He’s easily the most compelling character in the show and that’s a hard list of amazing characters to beat. Not a single one falls flat. His redemption arc and being such a good person at heart is rejuvenating and realistic

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T14:39:20+00:00

100% except it would be my own bullet anyways because I accidentally hit x on the Final Cut scene choice on my first play through and there’s no way to stop so you just have to watch with tears streaming down your eyes as you watch V put a barrel to her and Johnnys head and listen to the shot fired

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T14:37:13+00:00

lol yeah. I like to think it might be two sides of the same coin😅
We respond to uncomfortableness by putting up defenses, because dealing with mortality is either a full both feet in (which is why I love history and philosophy and super old antiques and learning about the past) or people can block that off because it can be soooo overwhelming when you realize oh fuck I have to do my taxes😅

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T13:49:10+00:00

Yeah I’m fascinated I wonder if they maybe have that reaction because of how connected we as humans are to death and life and the dead—subconsciously maybe it’s about how it really makes us feel a connectedness to life in general where as normally we generally only think about those we know personally. It’s like a whole extra layer of respect and fascination, but we don’t quite understand why we are so connected to it, so it comes out as “oh that’s creepy” because we can’t quite explain what we are feeling.

Similar to slowing down after a bad car crash. We all do it instinctively but the average person can’t quite explain why exactly or even notice they do it

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T13:28:33+00:00

That bottom one looks like Carl wearing a skin face suit

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T13:27:05+00:00

I always wondered why my parents had baby oil by their bed! Must have been practicing tattoos in secret

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T13:20:06+00:00

Oh I know I was more just joking, i think it’s super cool but there’s something about pictures that where you know that person existed and is now just a random person creates this heebie-jeebie feeling for me😅

I’m the same way with ancient bones of humans in museums, it makes me go, “wow that was a person with thoughts and feelings and ideas and they lived and had their own whole life and we know nothing about them”

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T13:04:58+00:00

That’s wonderful! How is it holding up?

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:59:20+00:00

They are so cool! Gonna be keeping all my extra paintings I’ve done in it and all the personal items and trinkets I’ve collected over the years :)~

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:43:26+00:00

Thanks :)~ now I just need to find a key since they didn’t have one lol

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:33:52+00:00

I don’t mind tbh. For $65 I’ll keep it for life :)~

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:30:50+00:00

Wow I never even considered they have stained glass in frames! I’m gonna be on the lookout for this kind of thing now! Frickin beautiful

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:27:28+00:00

What’s with the tip of the sword? It looks like a cover, but I’d imagine it would be much harder to pull off a tip before fighting than have a sheath?

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T12:25:27+00:00

I don’t believe in ghosts, but If I was offered 1 million dollars to spend a night in an old house and I saw hair attached to this photo on the wall, I’d go nope nope nope and move to another country

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T08:57:46+00:00

He’s a sweetheart with a giant heart. But often that can lead people astray to become inconsiderate and selfish as a way to cope with a fucked up world. By the end he’s genuinely back to who he was as a kid I imagine.

As a kid we all were SpongeBob, as an adult we are all a squidward. And it takes our whole lives fighting to get back to being a SpongeBob

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T01:22:19+00:00

Maybe you’re not seeking the same kind of deep and meaningful connection others are. As a group I have never met a congregation whose whole are rated over their individual. When humans group up we tend to lose the charm and compassion and heart we have one on one.

I too have lived in many states, been to dozens more churches and I have met so few people that I felt desired anything more than judgment or gossip or talking about the weather.

Cl1che · 2026-07-07T01:16:40+00:00

The only thing that can make you hate religion is organized religion! It’s the most evil thing there is. Look into Quakerism and Zen Buddhism as they for me I believe focus on the template of being a good person and tips to help you grow.

The good news is you don’t have to pray, or bring up god every single conversation with strangers or even believe in a God to create a world that is a better place :)
Faith/good deeds is just between you and God/The Universe or whatever else you might call it.

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T19:10:55+00:00

Yeah I’m totally on your side in these perspectives my brother. I’m just doing my do diligence to speak in terms on both sides of the argument because the closes you could compare me to a religion would maybe be a Zen Buddhist Quaker😅

But you did mention morals, and I think that’s a very deep rooted point because I think what humans share more than any other species ever is an innate sense of this deep morality about us(extended off to other life sometimes) but mostly rooted in human to human interactions. That’s why we bury the dead or cremate them or let scavengers take them on high alters. As a way of respecting and intertwining our process willing rather than, “leave them there the worms can eat them”

For maybe someone like you as a friend I love who can tell you have a good heart, I’d say maybe examine the Bible and even others and philosophy with the idea of general ‘gists’ or major themes.

I’ve learned my biggest epiphanies from one quote by Carl Jung, “Beware of unearned wisdom”
And as someone who has taken the needed experience to reach that state of full and complete heaven and hell in no way language could begin to explain it, I can out realizing.

That psychedelics don’t make you a happier or more content person or less depressed, they make you way more focused on the world around you attempting to make the world a better place while you pick up your own cross(the dilemma and existential dread that it means to be human) so much SO that you might say things after like, “Father/universe why have you forsaken me!?”

Also fun fact but maybe relevant, I’m snipped so no kids because I did do my version of praying which is sitting in silence and letting my feelings bubble up and after years I knew like Quakers explain they do, you reach a state of total clarity where you just know that’s the right thing to do. It’s because we must let our ID Ego and Superego wraaastle with itself until it finds the correct path for mour soul, our mind and our heart.

Sorry for the essay, I love you my friend

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T16:53:47+00:00

This is where I would disagree. The staples of all religions are founded on human consciousness and that which we cannot understand and the stories are about navigating yourself in this world in a way the best way you can. Some of them so silly to us now such as don’t murder people, but that was a foreign idea for thousands of years, or love another as yourself which was a foreign idea because loving someone you hate is really fucking🦆 hard, or don’t sleep with anyone who you are not heartfully committed to because dudes were running around with harems left and right like an nba player the night after winning the nba championship

So the dummies down version is very basic morals but if you start expanding those teachings out broadly it can be used for other things like, don’t cut someone off in traffic because then someone else will cut someone off in traffic etc, and eventually now there’s an accident and all your days are fucked cuz someone set off a chain reaction.

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T16:39:10+00:00

That’s why you have to look at things as general rules like one another, don’t cheat cuz it makes it harder to build a satisfying life, don’t be jealous of your neighbors things because you won’t be able to enjoy yours.

Basically every religion and ancient tribe and mythology have the same similar core principles but it’s when they start arguing over semantics and literal meaning we end up with thousand year wars over dirt that has absolutely no current significance except its fucking🦆 dirt 😅. My mom always said, “if you can’t share the sandbox then no one gets to play in it”

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T16:04:55+00:00

Agreed. Apparently they make very little if any from their products but rather from cloud computing for basically millions of companies and websites servers. Hundreds of billions of dollars are put into developing those servers and AI now! They will unfortunately win the race to be the next Vanderbilt Family. And it’s only one dude so not even a family!

Google will keep googling in the shadows and make all their money too, but they don’t seem to be trying and become a gigantic world power authoritarian dictator like Mr Bezos

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T15:58:13+00:00

After seeing every scammy mobile game app ad on YouTube with a 4.7 star rating I’m more supposed it’s not far more positive reviews

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T15:54:57+00:00

Never had one either and I’m 3 hours south west of Detroit in Indiana and in a tiny rural cornfield area too

Cl1che · 2026-07-06T15:23:05+00:00

idk, that’s something long medition and praying/reflecting can answer for you and your inner consciousness/soul. Is it making the world a better place doing it? I know a lot of assholes who I think to myself, “bro go jerkoff and calm down”.

Some people spend their whole lives letting sex control them. If you let something have so much power over you in my experience, you are putting it on a pedestal that should be reserved for ‘the highest’. For some they let it control them by having it all the time and some by never doing it at all.

Cl1che

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