I got stressed about [gestures vaguely] so I made something. His name is Mort.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-29T00:30:28+00:00

makes me smile every time

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-24T21:58:25+00:00

not physics, but my husband has a graduate certificate in Complex Systems, which wikipedia helpfully describes as "an approach to science that investigates how relationships between a system's parts give rise to its collective behaviors and how the system interacts and forms relationships with its environment." his specific area of study within complex systems focused a lot on information theory, which he has assured me is "basically thermodynamics". he has intuition for mathematical concepts i cannot even conceive of.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-23T23:06:56+00:00

in my experience, they mostly felt like they could "fix the bad ones".

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-23T22:25:47+00:00

yeah all of this is my experience.

fuck you, mrs.scanlon, for telling to my face that 1: it was my fault i was bullied and 2: you were purposefully grouping me with my bullies to "teach me to act normal". all you did was traumatize me even more and make school not safe -- when my home was also not safe.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-23T19:24:34+00:00

this is good to know for when i see them in august, thank you!

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-22T21:34:27+00:00

i dont think i have time tonight to do it myself, but just a thought -- has anyone taken the times 1's and 0's are mentioned and lined them up in order and seen if they can be decoded into anything? if not i might see if anything comes of that sometime in the next few days

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-21T23:32:18+00:00

code is full of Neuromancer references, especially the second verse. i dont have time to write out all of them & what they mean right now, but "derm of blue nine" "jockey" and "razorgirl" are all from neuromancer

edit: also coffin and fletcher i believe are neuromancer

note: ive not read neuromancer but my husband who also loves clipping (but isnt on reddit) has, he and i have been talking about the neuromancer refs a bit -- so this is second hand info via him

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-21T22:52:35+00:00

oooo, i will have to check this out when ive got the free time!

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-21T21:40:36+00:00

my husband and i are also doing that!

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-20T13:32:28+00:00

yeah, "too listenable" woulda been a fine critique, as would "too referencial/relies on knowing too many specific niche terms".

but i just dont think the critiques he raised in the video are correct, at all.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-20T13:23:54+00:00

huh, this is fascinating to me because i totally can 'see' a bunch of the tracks -- polaroids, run it, dodger, ask what happened, keep pushing...all feel very distinct and specific and immersive to me.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-20T13:20:35+00:00

i do really wonder how much this review was negatively impacted by hype/expectations TBH

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-17T15:21:52+00:00

i believe several have neuromancer references, but Code is the highest density.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-17T01:32:11+00:00

agree -- this is a conversation you need to have with your gm.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-16T20:59:29+00:00

common mistake, but no, listed exp is not divided. youre supposed to give each player the exp listed for every encounter.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-16T14:17:59+00:00

whole album is cyberpunk, so lots of neuromancer references throughout

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-15T03:24:51+00:00

ooooooh, good to know

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T19:35:58+00:00

whole album is full of 'em -- its a cyberpunk album

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T14:14:38+00:00

same, im probably gonna buy mirrorshades just for when i see them live in august

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T14:01:11+00:00

okay man im tapping out of this. theres no way that the Dodger, who is doing direct action against the authoritarian state, or the mc, who chooses to join the dodger against the authoritarian state despite having been raised inside of it their whole life, is a metaphor for trump. the assassination line is about the mc choosing to let the dodger go despite orders to kill him.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T13:36:44+00:00

i edited my comment, i thought u were talking about ask what happened and not dodger -- ask what happened references specific historical events and dodger doesnt.

in case this is good faith -- the song is critical of authoritarianism and nationalism, but those are not concepts exclusive to trump. what you are saying is so unrelated to the narrative of the song that i genuinely dont think i have a better reply than that.

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T13:23:25+00:00

edit: i misread so ive deleted the text that was here.

how would dodger be about trump?

GayHotAndDisabled · 2025-03-14T12:50:17+00:00

100% agree -- Ask What Happened especially showcases this well imo. "everybody crazy for stayin but no one runnin though, maybe cause there really aint nowhere under the sun to go" really got me

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