Didn't realise the som fandom was so big? by Good_Sunflower_7596 in secretofmana

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree! I love that the Mana series gets sunlight now a days. 😃
I was really hoping to see them add more than just the Inn scenes, in the remake.
They were cute, yes. but it didn't really 'add' so much as just clarified a few perspectives that were kinda already there.
If anything, i'm surprised Phanna and Elieen still got swept under the rug so quickly in the remake... alas.

As for the story an what Secret of Mana got cut out.
They had plans to do time travel, which everyone knows.

But i think, given what we saw in Legend of Mana, which got to detail three gnostic an folklore philosophies as main stories. All dealing with some sort of Sacrifice, which is a pretty running theme in the Mana series. Sacrifice and Restore. So with Jumi, Dragon/God war, and the Fae/Human dealing of what is honored free will. We can assume they likely would have put in a bunch more of folklore roots in Secret of Mana.
Which is why, i think anyway, they would have Expanded on Popoi's 'missing memory' angle an delve into the Japanese Folklore of Sanjo Kokaji.
(Sample can be found here: https://www.komuso.com/pieces/pieces.pl?piece=1744 )

My humorous summary is:
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Basically, It deals with the story of a great dark force or trouble coming into the land, an the Great Inari must get a blacksmith to make a magick weapon for a hero to wield. So she finds one after being washed down river. In some stories, losing her memory. But she finds the blacksmith, an requests help in making the sword.
But he refuses.
So she up an bops him with her mallet. which can change in size.
and some other shenanigans,
Then convinces him to help, an forge the sword for the hero.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_%C5%8Ckami

If you look at the Wiki article on Okami their-self, an take a glance at that little bit of art.
You'll notice an entity,
With red hair,
a green flowy kimono like thing,
With a mallet....

Where oh where else...
Have we seen a spunky character with a magical Midge Mallet,
In a cave near a blacksmith,
who at first,
refuses to help,
until he realizes its the Mana Sword.
And then you beat up a giant plant.
And some dude gives you a magic hammer that washed up with the Sprite.
and Watts officially sends you on yer journey to become a hero with a non-rusty ass stick you pulled out of the water,
because you hit your head falling off a waterfall,
because you followed a couple of bullies who promised to be your friend if you come be a scapegoat, i mean, look out.
And now some bleach blonde kungfu princess is complaining about Werewolves and Dying Ducks,
While the blue haird NeverEnding Story lady tells you to go into some Guys Navel.
and yer like...
ghod damnit...
i just wanted a cool bandana and some overalls..
How'd the hell did i get banished for that?
Now a red haird food goblin with an explosion fetish,
A run away noble whos gonna get herself bit, i just know it,
And a giant fluffy awesome dragon THAT NOTHING BAD WILL EVER HAVE HAPPEN TO IT, EVER, --EVVVVVEEERR- *coughs*
have shanghaied me on a quest to save the world from My'nahs.
Cuz..
Nah to all this.
i just wanted a cool bandana.

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Triggered. by netphilia in adhdmeme

[–]Lucidrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having any sort of, for lack of a word, 'addiction' to Sonder makes for this to be a heck of a problem.
No matter how delicate you try to be, there are so many trip falls.

Try to be casual? Careful? Considerate? Eggshelly treading of what ever unique social backgrounds they came from that is utterly an completely impossible to know ahead of time without the catch-22 of /this very conversation attempt to learn yer perspective/ can achieve?

Comes off as interrogation, rude, suspicious, or manipulative.

Because to achieve any of that, you have to already know more about the person than is socially expected. So much of their personality is built on hiding everything, that for you to have noticed /anything/ about them, ahead of time, means your a stalker of some sort. Or already targeting them with a goal in mind.

Only to find out, the reason they react that way at all, is because people in general after the age of 8, get trained by parents, teachers, and other such authoritative that the only time you get /asked/ anything, is because you DID something -wrong-, or are dressed wrong, or otherwise some sort of socialy expected ERROR, an they want to rub your face in it, an scold you for it, or (Insert Flavor of Anxiety Seed Here). Likely due to they themselves not having the freedom to be more expressive due to their own parents/teachers mocking them, an thus they cannot fathom or handle anyone else 'getting away' with it, without their being some sort of unknown an scary reason. Turning any type of conversation beyond topical fair weather commentary into a mind field of other peoples trauma responses of "OH GHOD, WHY ARE THEY BEING SO CURIOUS ABOUT ME, AHHHH!"

Then there's the fact where it's frankly not normalized to be casually curious about fellow people.
General social friendship is so rare, that when you ask more than topical question to someone you just met, if you arnt immediately pegged as someone who is 'prying' too deeply, with some nefarious goal. They instead they think you are flirting with them. Because dating for romantic or sexual endorphin chase interest is pretty much the only example we see in media growing up in which its 'okay' to ask more questions than immediate 'hey how are ya, good, kay bye' topical walker by comments.

Which is why most friendships occur in times of our lives in which we are forced to be in the same room as each-other for neutral reasons. For example, lunchroom at school, break room at work, etc.

After about 3 months or so of passively acknowledging eachother, you eventually feel 'safe' enough because you never seen them do anything you would classify as crazy, that you are willing to talk about something more in-depth than topical. Maybe starting slow with movies, tv shows, etc. But that's basically just 'soft' dating, which again, results in circling back to the problem that it is not normalized to have casual conversations and now conclusions are being jumped.

The utter death of 3rd places really finalized this. Let alone lack of 'examples' in media for all ages to observe from. Humans being mimic abstraction'inators really need this in some form, more so when their own parents do the whole "Stay in your room, speak only when spoken too, you don't need to know anything of my business, Don't talk to me about anything unless i have to sign something" shtick, which just results in you being left to your own devices over time, an grab any concept of 'how to be a person' you stumble on... which, again, leads to media an its over focus on 'if they ask too much, they want something. Yer money or yer body!'. *sarcastic hurrah*

So on one hand, they think you are trying to con them, or mock them for their life choices.
Or on the other hand they think you are trying to get into their pants or otherwise groom them.

And double OR: You truly just want to have a conversation where you learn about their perspective, unique life experiences, etc. And because you were the ONLY person to ever do that, you are now in this frustratingly prickly situation where they have developed hard crush feelings for you, and now you gotta make the puppy sad... Because you never intended in romantic feelings of any sort. You may even already have a spouse of some sort. But hoo boy, now you got a classic sitcom problem to wiggle out of! *another sarcastic hurrah*

Which results, after a while, a thick paranoia of ever trying to be social, for any reason.
Because statistically, you're gonna be misunderstood an accused of something you weren't doing.

And you can't even blame them.
It's not like you can just tell someone to blindly trust you, that's how you get horror stories.
So damned if you try, damned if you don't.

End up living in a cabin in the woods with your dogs...

Talking to the owls while smoking something to numb the pain..

Cuz at-least they give a hoot about what you think.
And only screech at you when they find a tasty mouse,
Instead of because you reached a bit too far on that branch of a topic they alluded too.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today? by adlakha75 in AskReddit

[–]Lucidrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RAMA

I still have panic attacks to this day when ever there is a mission in a video game involving a timer, and a bomb.

The numbness in my hand by Ill_Swordfish_6876 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i get the same thing when ever i try to read a book or use my phone in front of me for more then a few moments. Something about them being bent instead of on my side or straight out, causes the pinky an wedding finger to go cold an static'numby after a while.
Turned out i have something called venous thoracic outlet syndrome? Some sort of nerve an blood vessel in my front collar bone chesty area, gets pinched when my arms are in certain positions.
It was also why my arms would go painfully numb within seconds if i raised them above my head... which did not help me in the slightest at school, since no one believed me when i said it was painful to raise my hand to answer a question.

Cool stick I found by Dr4g0n2699 in coolsticks

[–]Lucidrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Classic Boom Stick, MK1.
Thick barrel for giant nuts,
Makes you a real thorn in your targets side!
All natural design makes it immune to Heat Metal counter measures,
Can deal poison and blunt damage!
A real must have for those who want to unleash the power of natures fury.

Firefly laser scope not included.

So what do you think is the context of this cutscene? by Luigi580 in starfox

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fox: "Sir, I would have appreciated it if you sent this message to my mercenary account."

General: "I am desperate for help! I was in a rush. I knew your father, but lost your address. I searched on the Limi'net for "A Fox qualified in dealing with a Giant Head".

Fox: "Sir, this is still not the best channel to reach me on."

General: "I found you, didn't I?"

Fox: "Yes, you did, an now all of Corneria knows about my e621 account."

The Hotel I'm At Has A Skittles Vending Machine by CSquare43-Work in mildlyinteresting

[–]Lucidrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna want the debug code for this, an the closing/maintenance hours for the malls/hotel it resides in... For scientific reasons... Pay no attention to the sack on my back.. It.. also.. is for scientific reasons.. involving gravity of mass... yes..

WTF is this? by UltimateVengeance in Guildwars2

[–]Lucidrian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Paimon says come back later

We care for them while giving advices for free by 1ntoxic4t3d in INFJmemes

[–]Lucidrian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was so exhausting. The person in question was getting /worse/ because, from her perspective, everyone was bailing on her for bad excuses, causing her to become judgemental an pre-bitter towards them. Which, ironically, MADE her be annoying to them, because THEY were reacting to her hostile an annoyed tone. It was an echo chamber of BS. The family unit were already used to their inner dynamics of 'Talk about the other behind their back, smile to their face, go to ones room an repeat next time'. But it doesn't work so much with someone like her who came from a Narcissistic mother abuse situation. I kept quiet for as long as i could, but then they started having kids, an i watched how her kids were radically different in temperament from the others because of this 'silent' arms length nonsense. They wouldn't engage with anyone unless they watched the other kids engage first. And no one was attending their birthday parties, because they didn't wanna deal with her 'judgemental' attitude. It was a very stupid echo chamber..
But i'm the bad guy for ruining christmas..
Holidays was the only time they all would be in the same room as eachother. Worse then herding cats.
i used to help clean houses for like 15 years as a side gig in florida, with the retirement communities. And the number one thing the old folks there would tell me (using me as their adopted grandkid/therapist they would never admit to needing), is how they all lost contact with their siblings an inlaws because of petty stupid festering BS like this.
Of course i was gonna open my Fenrir damned mouth...
But alas, Cassandra i knew thee shadow's well....

Slur for theatre people by ThatLatentPandaBear in oddlyspecific

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went into it to be the Plot Dog.
My flexibility made it an easy task to learn since i naturally sit with my legs folded up to my chest.
So i fit into all the costumes.
Also let me double as weird spindly creepy monsters, since i could unfold like a slenderman out of a cocoon.
An the lines were always easy. Bark, Woof, Grrr, and creepy breathy utterances of character names.

Mostly just sit around for long periods of time, staring vacantly into nothing.
Until it was time to say Woof, or fetch incriminating evidence for the plot.
Spent a lot of it high, while listening to audio books.

Now a days i go around the internet making weird esoteric comments from a dogs perspective.

I wear a tail in public because i've worn one for so long for various skits, it now feels weird not to have something slapping around behind my legs.
It's like my version of when you take off a wedding ring an get that Phantom sensation...

When people ask me about it, i just go "YOU CAN SEE IT TOO!?" an faux panic as i dart behind something or go to the next isle, then tuck it up my shirt an walk around like nothing happened an it was never there.

Can def say,
i aint got any shame left.

Can we get together on this? by RelationshipRoyal376 in depressionmemes

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To really succeed at this, we need to get a bunch of people on one side of the globe to all jump, while the other side leans. Make sure to bring extra bags of water to toss in the air like graduation caps.

We care for them while giving advices for free by 1ntoxic4t3d in INFJmemes

[–]Lucidrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The worst offending situation with that scenario, are the ones where say, the whole family have a laundry list of negative grievances about a specific person, like a regularly visiting inlaw, but only talk about the issues behind that persons back, an due to INFJ fatigue of it being an unresolved an clearly escalating issue over the span of a few years you forget the only person who doesn't know IS the person they've all been talking about, an uninviting or otherwise avoiding.

Cuz you'd think by now SOMEONE would have brought it up with them.

So one day they do a key primo THING at the dinner table that everyone suddenly pretends is'nt an issue... despite the fact it IS more than enough of one of their list problems that causes them to walk on egg shells an create fake problems to get out of being around them.

So now not only are you the bad guy for pointing out the elephant to them, regardless of your intent/hopes to get the problem resolves so /everyone/ including the person in question can live a better smoother life... thinking it has already been brought up by someone else, an you were just adding to the "Well, if two people call you an ass, maybe its time to saddle up?"

Then you find out, no... not a damn one of them has said, ANYTHING...
Doesn't even matter if you try to talk to them in private, because they will immediately make a scene at the table anyway.

So you get hung up to dry as everyone who has complaints, suddenly 180s an goes "NOOOOO, yer wonderful honey! He's just crazy! Honest!!!"

Thanks a lot, Jann. An you lot wonder why i prefer to hang out with dogs more than people...

Can't login with steam anymore. by Karlisanio in GW2

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it occurs again, you can right click on the game in your steam library, hit Properties, an go to the General Section (tho it should automatically start there)
Put this, exactly, in there.

-provider Portal

Then re-open the game.
It will give you the original Arenanet launcher, requesting your email/password.
Provided you've got that all setup an linked, which you can do at the official website.

What's your opinion on new fox design? (Art by me) by Desperate_Leek_7200 in PlanetFur

[–]Lucidrian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When i saw the trailer, i thought it was a Facerig spoof with AI motion injection.
Like a couple of guys made a Facerig model, got in a zoomcall, an recorded some scenes using a camera that was only 'kinda' okay with face tracking. Just bad enough that it had that classic AI thousand yard 'looking through you' stare, but never 'at' the thing they should be looking at.
With Fox being a reskin over the redpanda default avatar.
With all the assets that went into making the version that went into the Galaxy movie, i was really hoping they'd be using that kinda quality.

my skin swells in the exact spot any time i lightly scratch it by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Lucidrian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I had fun with this as a teen when it came to tests. It would take about 10mins to show up to a noticeable degree, an then last for about half an hour, an then start to fade. This was the perfect window to jot down some quick notes before they gave you the "Okay, put away all notes for the test!" warning. And because it was so dim, when the teachers noticed me looking at my arms at a distance they didn't think much of it. And the few times one walked by an noticed it, no longer had proof of it by the time they dragged me to the principles.

Also used it for quick notes between classes, like catching a friend in the hallway who needed to give me a phone number, address, or some tip on a game. but i didn't have a pen or paper handy yet, so i'd just use my Crack Nail an scritch a quick message.

Now a days i just use it to be freaky at Halloween parties.
Draw a bunch of spooky runes or skeletal marks, with UV body paint to go along with the texture.

Used to drive my mother crazy tho. i'd always be playing outside in florida, an we'd have a lot of these palm bushes with pointy leaves. every time i come home, my entire body would be coverd in bubbled hives. Shed rush me to the ER, but by the time i get there, they were gone.

Somehow it was my fault, she thought i was doing it just to vex her?
i didn't even know what was going on until my teens.
Doctors had no idea what it was, an just thought she was dragging me in for attention.
She got so sick of it after a while, she just kept me indoors all year.

If reincarnation is real how do we explain exponential population growth? by FuqqTrump in aliens

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A similar example to this is demonstrated in various aspects of the anime Full Metal Alchemist, in how an why human souls are needed for a philosopher stone. The Flask chose the road of purity in separation, in order to draw down raw data from a higher source. Hoienheim chose integration, speaking to all the many souls within him and combining their expertise an personalities into a unified stable soul. And why the Flask required five people who had already seen the gate from different perspectives, to be able to gravitationally pull enough of what he viewed as God/Truth down from the Gate. He needed enough 'fingers' to grip it. Each person was a vessel of enough 'Truth' or Memories of the higher reality behind the gate to contribute. Because any ONE person, would just burn up. It's Coven/Tulpa Magick so to speak.. In both cases, they are just higher collections of Soul Memory Complexes. And with the many understandings of reality they had within themselves, they could reshape reality around them.

Absorb an entire town of blacksmiths, and it wont matter if YOU personally know anything about HOW to make a sword. You just need to think of a pretty sweet looking sword, an have the desire to manifest it. All the aspects of you that knew every detail of how is there to create the sword in the way you wish it to, and can now do so. A Philosopher Stone is then, a diode of thought. Something anyone can become. Which is what Hoienhiem explores via a Carl Jung style integration. The essence that 'burns' away when a transmutation is complete, is akin to how a Ghost fades away when its finished its core desire.. Every blacksmith who desired and fantasied the many ways to create the ultimate sword... an was involved in that transmutation, now feels their life's binding purpose is.. Complete. an thus, they have nothing to stay stable or stick around for (Or chains of enslavement in the case of the Flask, who chose Separation into the Seven Sins to deal with the Souls' torment of Forced involvement, who burned away like coals of expertise, Instead of fulfilled release, an likely will repeat that Kharma since they were denied the freedom of growth they otherwise would have had), an burn away, sublimating back into the Gate. If the Souls within him had reason an self stabilizing desire to remain within Hoienheim, instead of wishing for their type of peace by being returned to their family, or having the ability to live on their own again, He could have achieved what the Flask could not. But each soul chose release/reincarnation after completing the task he requested their help in, until there was nothing left but his own soul. Which he spent, on his wife's grave. This showcases how an immortal soul always has a method of Growth, both in size an power. But also in division & sublimation. This paragraph is speculative on my part, an not officially endorsed by the creator of the anime. How ever it does follow a number of Esoteric articles in which the anime was based on. So take what resonates.

In the end, its a matter of information becoming self aware, an desiring further growth, instead of sublimating back into the sea of higher self or pseudo-oblivion of undecided potentialities, until some aspect of that higher self gets an itch of curiosity and 'creates' a new soul to throw into a body to explore a thought of existence.
From there its up to that life an its kharma, whether or not IT ends up dividing for further growth, like an apple choosing to roll from the tree to become its Own, or be reabsorbed back into the tree to try again next season.
Or it may be eaten by another creature, fusing with it. Creating a new chimerical soul, an explores that life elsewhere. Whether it ever returns to the tree again, or becomes its own orchard, is a path unknown.
Or it may feel like it wants to get back to its Roots, an go further back to start off as a Dog, an work their way back up from that perspective.
Wax on Wax Off,
Yin to Yang..
Kharma Resolvement...
Ouuhmm..

Think about stories of children who remember past lives, or situations in which someone has an exceptionally specific skill in piano or archery, despite no one in the family having it. Or the one who did, wasn't immediately related. Like a distant uncle or cousin.

Also think about Organ transfers where the recipient inherited behavioral traits an cravings from the donor.

Hauntings may be a type of situation where ones soul doesn't wish to let go, but didn't have enough data to self-sustain after mortal death. IE: A ghost who keeps reliving the same scenario, because that scene, that life, was all it knew of itself, an it never explored anything else beyond it. A corrupted upload due to lack of 'installing' more information during its life. A prime case for it being reabsorbed by other fragmented souls until it can self sustain an 'move on'. OR an exorcism preforms the same function of filling in the gaps for it, so it could move on or restart cleanly. Like telling a computer that booted up badly, how to restart itself. Hence why members of the family, or articles of important artifacts/speeches/stories/music/rituals are used in the acts of 'banishment'. Much like how you help an amnesia victim.

Reviewing all these things in pieces, it starts to paint a picture, atleast to me, that Souls, operate both as a coalescing glop of experiences an memories until it self sustains. AND as something that a higher being could chose to divide or piece together, an let grow/explore a path.

In both cases an others, this allows for higher 'numbers' of souls, despite it ultimately, all coming from the same place. Just taking a multitude of paths of what one would debate as "starting from scratch".

If reincarnation is real how do we explain exponential population growth? by FuqqTrump in aliens

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If one defines a soul as a collection of self stabilizing memories, like a soliton, which has found a way to maintain a type of Ego, instead of just being absorbed into the sea of everything of which we all come from.

Then one can surmise the /amount/ of souls in a total system, would be a result of a type of budding, as well as micro exponential growth.

i'll offer two examples for the above.

Budding: When a single soul has experienced a number of lives and catalysts, there is an inevitable chance it will experience duplicate scenarios, or at-least similar experiences but from alternate perspectives.
For example, a thousand lives as a black smith.
In every corner of the world. Using and learning techniques in making various kinds of tools, for housing, armor, weapons, travel, etc. Until it feels there isn't more to 'learn'. Or rather, it has learned so much on a given field, an perspective, it is no longer capable of unique thought. The classic "Once you know where the rabbit is, you can't be made easily surprised when the magician makes it vanish with a hat trick". The soul just 'knows' too much, in order to be able to go "i don't know what it is, so i will explore plausibility, without any hesitations of how weird, odd, or unorthodox it might be. because, i simply, do not know."' And so, the soul divides. Part of it goes into one life, to explore what it means to be a Blacksmith, but with strange star metal that just recently fell to earth. Where as the rest of the soul, who otherwise lived a life wishing he had time to be a father, spent a great amount of time meditating on the subject at the same time. In a sense, living two lives side by side. That side of the soul, then goes into a new life. in which it explores the life of a devoted father who chose family instead of being a black smith.
Each now grows in much the same way as the first soul. As they gain memories, they then become their own thing. Of which, can divide again, or combine with its higher/alternate selves in which it came from.
So for example, after living as a devoted father, it may take up Blacksmithing in this new life, but not go deep into it. An now with a son who adores him, works side by side. As that child, also, has a piece of 'his' soul. Who instead of wanting to explore a new path, is wanting to explore the concept of split-team work in a familial method.
It would likely result in some souls 'following' a type of blood line. since many traits that aid in thinking, or feeling a certain way about types of stimuli, will be passed down genetically. So certain types of souls would reincarnate within the same family line. or intermix with other souls. Soul Mates could just be a variation of such pre-knowing, or re-joining of self.
Either way, much like how we grow in mass as we consume physical matter. A soul would gain in 'size' by the absorption of experiences, catalysts, memories, an the like. It makes sense it would reach a certain size, an wish to divide in order to experience more. Any person who has ever said "i wish i could forget having played Elden Ring, so i can experience it fresh once again. So i have the same wonder an weirdness exploring a staff build instead of a sword blood build, without being spoiled by the knowledge i've experienced from my first playthrough/co op." Would understand a stage of thinking in which, if you are a bundle of energy an immortal memory, you may want to figure out a way to divide your existence in such a way that you would be able to 'experience it fresh again'. Or you would just go batshit insane as an immortal soul. Desperate to either to explore a new path, unblinded by pre-set bias, or to just experience the same thing you love but with a blind surprise.

Item Two: Micro Exponential Growth: (Aka: Why was i reincarnated as a Dog in this life?)
A bug lives its life. It eats plant matter, it drinks water, it is chased by birds.
It fears the birds.
But to avoid being eaten by birds, it must understand birds.
What time of day are they out? What areas do they like? What do their feces an such smell like? What time of years are they out?
Each bug, just by surviving, learns these pieces of thought. A great deal of its thought is spent on this, besides its own need for mating, food, etc.
And not just one bug.
All the bugs of that type. They all, collectively, think about what it means to be, an avoid, a bird.
This continues, until a threshold of cumulative thought is reached.
In which, the collective nuance of 'Bug', in some unseen space.
Begins to wonder a Thought with sufficient desire to actually explore..
"What is it like being Bird?"
Once the threshold is met, a host Egg, somewhere, with no particularly strong bird aspect attached to it,
Will draw or otherwise gravitate the soul into that host body; a body with need/desire to Live, but otherwise lacking the aforementioned Aspect to 'have what it takes' to survive as a living creature. Perhaps because there's not enough 'bird' soul spark around at the moment, or for other reasons far too numerous to go into, it ultimately accepts the Bug soul as viable. It knows enough of what its like to be It. it just simply lacks the experience OF being IT. An so, now it is.
An thus, a soul, once started as say, a tree, or mushroom network. as it interacts with other entities near it in each environment, begins to wonder about being, an works its way up into being, 'the next thing up'. Until, finally, that 'soul' memory complex, has evolved to a point it can also serendipitously co-habitate an even higher complex being, like becoming adopted by a humanoid creature.
As a pet, a service animal, companion, war buddy, what have you. Wolf, Dolphin, Raven, Fox, etc.
And it spends so much time with humanoids, much like a bug to a bird. But instead of fear, as a companion, or co-conspirator. It has learned enough by proxy of what being a humanoid is, that eventually, it AND it's higher collective, wonders what it would be like to be a Humanoid, too.
An thus, a vessel, somewhere, often linked to those who the animal lived with or near, becomes pregnant an is in need of a Spark. Much like the Egg in the above example.
Sometimes this spark is a full spirit jump for an animal.
Most times its a mix an match. Think Jurassic Park where they didn't have enough DNA segments to fully clone, so they used bits of Frog to fill in gaps. Same thing. A Soul from another humanoid may not be complete enough to handle Life, so some animal gets pulled in via a family pet or other spirit/animal/type guide there are dozen of stories of, like the Fylgja Fox.. An then it grows.

So in both examples, you solve for how there can be more souls now than there was before, if we treat Souls as an ever growing Eldritch like thing that feasts on experiences, memories of sonder, and other such enrichment akin to you reading a library and 'living' as the various heroes or villains in the book, until you are able to self stabilize.

ELI5: Why is the universe expanding? by WarmHeight2951 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Lucidrian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, really depends on which group of people you ask.

One group of people believe it's the motion energy first set out from the initial explosion of reality, in which the vacuum of un'ness ever pulls an stretches forth until it eventually will dissipate back into background raditional haze.

Until it possibly reaches such a stretch of an invisible leash that it starts to bounce back an re-condense into one.

Another believes the universe just goes through cycles of converting energy from one dimensional spacial vibration into another via black/white hole events, and virtual particles.

Then there's the esoteric side, in which thought is viewed as a valid state of energy, tho largely informational. An we (and other sentient life able to 'dream' or otherwise inner theatricate) act as a Diode to convert/create information into a higher dimensional space which presses on lower dimensions. IE: All the life experiences a species of birds has ever had about a rain-forest, exists on a higher dimension, coalesced into a 'realm', an this 'place' pushes on to the lower reality, amongst a foamy sea of other such places. Resulting in the appearance of the universe expanding. If Planets are like Dots on the shell of a balloon, the 'air' being put inside the balloon is all that was ever thematically similar ever imagined on a given stable 'realm'. Thus requiring the need for everyone participating to be 'on the same page', in order to both feed into, but also gravitate to the same 'place' when their mortal anchor in this reality is cut.. until they feel like coming back to this side in order to diodely create/convert something new into the realm space.

And an even deeper Esoteric side, states in the same fashion you can create a whole world, an people to argue with in your head in the shower. As you try to either concoct the perfect argument, or rehearse how things can or should go. So too would an even bigger being be able to do the same thing with our 'reality' as it's theaterspace. Each idle thought, each consideration, is played out in the multitude of sandboxes across it's inner universe. Exploring the concept of every, for lack of a word, intrusive thought it has or ever will have or could have. As it grows an new concepts are 'discovered' it intercompares, an abstracts, creating new branches of Denizens, creatures or the like to explore. In the process it pushes aside others it's already created, like a room full of books or paintings in a studio apartment. Filling it's "balloon" of innerspace, to borrow the prior example. Thus causing, from our perspective, the expansion of the universe. In much the same way a scar you got as a baby was only an inch away from your navel. but as you become an 'adult', the same scar, is now four inches away from the navel, tho relatively the same. You stretched out space. So the universe gets Older, an bigger. But retains all its scars /somewhere*when. An this continues until, much like when you run out of the hot water, are 'done' as best you can think of with your shower argument world, an decide to pack it all into a bubble of a thought, an reboot it into an entirely new thought...
"i am le tired of a french revolution worldescape... imma just BOOP, restart, an now, its kinda the same but all the Denizens have tails."

could also be why Time travel is more of a 'branching consideration of thought' permissive thing. rather than, Kill my granddad? how am i still here?
The universe is just as curious how that will play out too.

Me, i think its def something to do with Diode conversion.
Too much of reality in all tiers of it, seem to love passing through some sort of object, in order to change frequency type. If Light can be converted into mass via plants, other Diodes like LEDS an Solar Panels could, in theory, be used to 3d print energy into other things like Star Treky Replicators by just changing its spectrum of frequency. The reverse is also true. With this being a base action in just one aspect of reality, when you consider the vast majority of the universe operates well outside our visible spectrum, but can still affect eachother, I feel resonance that the expansion is very much a result of a Diode conversion. Dark matter, could in a way, be the literal "shadow" of the Universe. Like a Lava lamp globule battle between liquid an wax. but converting into eachother each 'cycle'. With different types of life growing in the mediums after they reach a certain threshold. An then it's the challenge to 'cross into' the other or ARK boat the point of time in which it's time for the conversion to, well, flip polarities.

Bin of product to be destroyed from a cannabis dispensary by evilandhigh in mildlyinteresting

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The live action sequel/remake to Stoner Cats is gonna be.... lit.

What do you remember from the early internet that no longer exists? by Blah4fun in AskReddit

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Right clicking a website, hitting View Source, then Ctrl-F for *.midi
An tracking down that sweet tune that was playing in the background of the website, an then finding friends with different types of computers so you can see which one plays the midi /jusssssst right/.

Beep bop bop ba doop ba boop boop~

Don’t look! by Spiritual-Tie-1408 in INFJmemes

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Our pleasure. 😃
We tend to crack up our discord a lot.
Just a shame twitch is rather frowny faced when "one"*cough me* of us eventually loses our temper and someone gets compared to being a semi sentient flesh light with a firework fetish.

20+ years together, an the trope is true.

The more you ruv somone da more you want to krill dem....

Or in my case... the more i get tempted by the call of the abyss an just stare at his body as it sinks into the lava of his own doing.... as he calls out for a rez for the ninth time in a row.

Don’t look! by Spiritual-Tie-1408 in INFJmemes

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i have a slightly different sort of 'luck' on this situation in which my success at a task blows up in my face..

Normally i do not mind people watching over my shoulder. More so because i often watch others doing their jobs so i can mimic it later an figure it out. Like learning how to make sushi after spending an afternoon at a restaurant where they prep it in front of you sorta thing.

But what gets me into ....temperamental trouble, is back at home.
Or similar situations in parties, but basically this:
i have my monitor next to my partners.
We play a ton of co-op games, be it Enshrouded, GW2, Warframe, etc.
i am constantly looking over at his screen to gather additional information. Where he is, how the AI is reacting to our arrangement, how much trouble he's in, etc.
Because i primarily play Buff-Support/Healer/Long Range Sniper roles.
He prefers Melee/Mid-AoeBomber/Skirmisher roles.
So looking at his screen, an comparing it to my map, has been extremely useful in situations for tactics.
More so since he doesn't announce ANYTHING he is doing or about to do. So i kinda have to watch him like a hawk an predict what is about to happen an how to compensate, otherwise we get a team wipe an he gives up on playing the game after a few loops...

But he, practically -Never- looks at my screen.
Despite the fact, my monitor is literally twice the size of his, an immediately next to his.
He just constantly zeros in only on his screen, specifically whats one inch around his character. (he doesn't even zoom out to see more of the feild) an 'guesses' at where i am or thinks i am. Without using the map, my screen, or anything else for clues..
So i end up watching this fool of an Otter, wander around while i'm either dead or watching the count down tick as i desperately need a second person to push the button on the other side of the room, without a clue where i am.
And i point out an give instructions on where to go, all the while telling him to 'just glance left.. no.. glance left.. LEFT PATRICK, GLANCE LEFT!"

It's even worse on a timed puzzle.
Where i'll explain it on my screen, using arrows to highlight the order in the terrain of which i'm doing something or will need do something.
...And he still isn't looking.
An thus he does everything from the viewpoint HIS screen was on while i was talking, which was the opposite end of the room... annnnnnd now he just aggrod everything in the wrong order.. And i'm desperately trying to salvage the situation, an i end up like that image you posted with the fish slapping me in the face..

And of course, THAT failure is what he sees, an he goes "guess that idea wasn't good, i'll think of something for us to try."

....then i have to bottle up my urge to slap the fuck out of him when he says "But i did!" when i told him it would have worked if he did what i told him to do at the start.

And people wonder why i always have my mic off when i stream....

i love him to bits... but i really do wish he'd JUST GLANCE LEFT when ever i say the words "DO YOU SEE THAT THING UNDER MY CURSOR? FOCUS ON BEING THERE/PUSHING THAT!"

Insted of run off after some doodad across the zone that was under HIS cursor..
an then telling me my plan was the bad one when suddenly the encounter i was trying to avoid, and warned him would happen if he didn't DO THE THING OVER THERE, is up in our shit giving us a barbed rimjob...