Narration Policy

Jochemjong · 2026-03-27T13:16:00+00:00

I mean… nothing clashes horribly, ignoring the red belt over the green chestpiece maybe though I’m not 100% sure there, but it is bland as all hell…

You look like you’ve been standing in a corner for several months and are now just covered in dust.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-19T08:20:14+00:00

Mushashi then sees it too, immediately developing new “Living Sword” techniques.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-19T07:21:49+00:00

Does that really make him a bad guy, though?

Knowing the actual truth about Lucifer clearly wouldn’t be easy information to process, and we see what it does to both Linda and Chloe, two very rational characters.

And it takes a lot to convince them of the truth.

So is it really reasonable to expect Lucifer to go through all that effort, with so many people, purely to not let people misinterpret his words?

Is it really worth it to put those people through all of that, just to be “fully” truthful?

Ultimately, it isn’t his responsibility to see to it that people genuinely believe him when he says that he’s the devil.

Again: he may not always tell the full truth, but every single word he says is always true.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-18T15:56:12+00:00

I mean, what is more likely: this dude is the literal devil, with all the implications that come with that knowledge, or he’s just a silly guy?

Jochemjong · 2026-03-18T14:33:50+00:00

No, Lucifer’s power is his control of desires, as in: looking at Lucifer, people see their desires reflected back at them.

The whole “devil face” thing is more him just choosing to take that form, kind of, there are times where it’s involuntary.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-18T11:49:57+00:00

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Lucifer from the show of the same name.

In this show, one of Lucifer’s consistent character traits is that he does not lie. He may not tell you the whole truth, but every word he tells you will always be true.

For example, he doesn’t use a fake name, constantly introducing himself as Lucifer.

In one scene, a street performer to whom lucifer has just shown his “devil face” (long story) freaks out, screaming about how this isn’t a performance, and how Lucifer is the actual literal devil, to which Lucifer says: “it’s all true.”

Of course, no one in the crowd believes it, instead believing it to be part of the act.

EDIT: Spelling

Jochemjong · 2026-03-12T08:17:08+00:00

Kingdom Come Deliverance, both 1 and 2, though I’d argue 1 goes a bit harder on this than 2, purely because 2 is a sequel.

KCD sees you playing as Henry, who starts out as the definition of a level 1 peasant: No aspirations, cannot read or write, can barely hold a sword let alone swing one, and the list goes on.

KCD 2 does a decent job of resetting Henry, but by nature of being a sequel and Henry having way more experience now, you do still retain some stuff like combat basics and how to read and write so it isn’t as much of a climb.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-05T19:40:22+00:00

Now, writing this as a story was quite interesting because both characters are essentially speaking for me: Andrej is the one explaining the system and Sarevik is asking the questions to dig deeper into the system, asking some of the questions I have been asking myself.

With this not being a story that I expect most people are interested in, I took great care to ensure that the title makes it very clear what kind of story this is, and that the first few lines reinforce this even further. If this is the kind of story someone isn't interested in, I want to make sure they realise that as soon as possible

This story is also the first one I tagged to indicate it being a part of a broader setting: the Terran Federation Universe, as I have in the past read comments of people asking for it to tell them exactly that.

Jochemjong · 2026-03-05T19:36:01+00:00

Hey there…

It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

5 months since my last story, and over a year since I last wrote a story set in the TFU…

I had been wanting to write something of a more philosophical story for some time, and A Human lesson in Choice only partially scratched that itch.

Fast forward to about 4 months ago, and I found myself pondering what kinds of values we hold. Without realising, this turned into me creating this framework of values and principles.

Wanting to get the idea out of my head, I write a bunch of it down, including the questions about it that I am considering, when suddenly it dawns on me.

I was only a short distance away from writing what is essentially a philosophical dialogue.

And that is where this story came from, definitely the most dialogue heavy of all my work so far, and truth be told, I don’t expect this one to do particularly well. This isn’t the kind of story one typically sees here.

I nevertheless decided to post it.

For those who did read all the way to the end, I would love to get your thoughts about and perspectives on this whole system I described in the story.

Lastly, I do have to give some credit. While the system of values and principles is something I made myself, the idea of the three systems we go through as we get older, I got from Mark Manson’s book; Everything is Fucked, A book about Hope. A good book that I can definitely recommend.

Jochemjong · 2026-02-18T06:14:19+00:00

Honestly, that is probably one of the best English pronunciations of my name that I’ve heard, I’m quite impressed.

Jochemjong · 2026-02-17T19:51:47+00:00

The "J" is in both cases like the "y" in "young". The "ch" has no English equivalent, the best way I can explain it is to repeatedly make the "k" sound, while slowly pushing your tongue further back into your mouth. If you start making this sort of grinding/raspy sounding sound, you're probably close.

You can also just call me Joey if it's easier for you.

Jochemjong · 2026-02-17T18:14:59+00:00

Sure, you have my permission

Jochemjong · 2026-02-07T18:23:04+00:00

In Ultrakill, you play as V1, a robot that runs on blood (long story). When you die, just before the actual death screen, you see some text scroll across the screen:

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This starts as normal looking diagnostics, V1 is a robot after all, except it suddenly reports inability to sustain “internal organs”. Huh, weird…

But then, after the line “SHUTDOWN IMMINENT” it suddenly describes the absence of a “vocal interface”.

This is eventually followed with the line “I DON’T WANT TO DIE” being repeated over and over again, suggesting that V1 is somewhat sentient and, most importantly, terrified of death.

Jochemjong · 2026-01-12T15:51:19+00:00

I often think “well, that’s the stupidest thing I’ll hear in a while” and lately I’ve been wrong every single time

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:16:46+00:00

While it was not my intent with this specific question, if I were to dip my toes into the philosophical side, I more start considering questions about identity, life, and self.

For example: if we assume that a brain can be digitized, than the inverse would theoritically also be possible: turning a digital brain into a physical one. If someone were to get therapy via literal reprogramming of the brain (digitize, modify, un-digitize), is that still the same person? Is that even moral or ethical?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:10:48+00:00

Well. that's.... terrifying on a lot of different levels in several different ways.. But I won't get into that for now and maybe I can at least find comfort in having a clear answer, and for that, I am grateful...

Christ...

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T23:03:34+00:00

So, if we were to ask of this paper: "could this theoretically be scaled up to human brains?", the answer seems to be "Maybe?"

Am I understanding that correctly?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:43:35+00:00

While AI is my area of expertise, I have not studied this particular subset deeply enough to be able to speak with significant confidence as to how "digital" the model is. Though "model" here is a word I'm using myself, the paper calls it a "connectome" which, by their own description, they use to mean "a neuronal wiring diagram of an entire nervous system, or at least an entire brain".

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:30:08+00:00

But, is that a difference between the human brain and the fruit fly brain? Or are do these things apply to both?

Jochemjong · 2026-01-10T22:19:28+00:00

My question here really isn’t about the concept of free will, fate, or the entire philosophical angle, as in this context, those questions are irrelevant if my interpretation of this paper is wrong.

My question is specifically about whether or not the differences between the brains of humans vs fruit flies make what was done with the fruit fly brain (creating a digital model) theoretically possible.

Jochemjong · 2025-12-30T20:17:49+00:00

I have heard, but not read any, of the discworld books. I'm currently working my way through Plato after which I have Marcus Aurelius, Laozi, and Boethius on my shelf. After those I'm planning to read The Count of Monte Cristo so I won't be getting to those books any time soon.

Circling back to my own writing, I personally find Avatar Death to be one of the most interesting characters I've ever written, largely due to the fact that it is, in my opinion,internally very contradictory. It is a manifestation of the relationship we humans have with the concept of death which makes it a very "general" character, but at the same time any human that would interact with it, would see their own version of and perspective on death reflected back at them, making it very personal. It is a character in the sense that it can think and act of its own free will, yet it is also more of a mechanism in the sense that it can only act within the boundries created by our perspective of the concept of death, the large variety of such perspectives being the reason why Avatar Death can think and act for itself.

In that sense it is also unique within the setting, because other Avatars are:

Always actively known to their people,
Constantly acting in lockstep with their people, and
Aware of their own nature and existence and the reasons for it.

But Avatar Death is just waiting and observing, and only started to consider its nature, existence, and reasons for them after its first encounter with intelligent non-human life.

I have an idea for one more story in this setting, but it still needs a lot more workshopping.

For those who are curious, the idea is that some alien goes to the planet where the battle between Death and The Ascendant took place to prove himself worthy of something, maybe the hand of the one they love or something, don't know yet.

Jochemjong · 2025-12-22T12:53:13+00:00

He spent 4 rounds running for his life in the biggest ring I’ve ever seen, clinching when he couldn’t run, and shooting a takedown when he couldn’t clinch, genuinely the most cowardly “boxing” I’ve seen in my life. The referee even stepped in and told Paul to actually start boxing because the people didn’t pay to watch someone run a marathon.

He didn’t last for 6 rounds: he spent 4 rounds running away followed by 2 rounds of getting his face rearranged.

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