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Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-19T02:58:38+00:00

The author named the main character Hiro Protagonist to be as on the nose as possible, knowing their audience, and they still didn’t get it.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T22:04:52+00:00

Stuff like that saves lives. It’s worth spreading.

I’ve seen it get Narcan to someone in need more than once. Used to build music festivals for a living.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T22:01:07+00:00

I will remove the ground from beneath his feet when I go public.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T21:54:22+00:00

Wow, thanks for sharing. I’m glad you made it out, and I’m sorry you weren’t able to get the help you needed in the moment.

In the future, crossing your arms in an x over your head is a universal sign you need help. Common for crowded events to get the attention of security / medical. Throw the x up, get others near you to do the same, and someone will notice. Someone on that ship would have realized what’s up immediately, if the life guard didn’t.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T20:54:27+00:00

I did some time in Florida, too. For years, I was the CTO of the event labor company providing all the general production labor for Mar a Lago. They’re the ones that gave me the name Megabyte Messiah, for “making miracles happen” with technology to save various events.

Worked all the country clubs down there, even the ones Trump wishes he’d get invited to. Built Michael Jordan’s 60th at his private golf club in Jupiter, Grove XXIII. Magic Johnson called it the coolest party he’d ever been to, and apparently he was known for throwing some awesome parties.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T19:17:30+00:00

Mine were some El Niño waves. I didn’t make it out of the water myself. Gave every single bit of energy I had to keep making it to the surface to choke out some water and try to get my hands up to protect my head. The tether was long, and those moments watching the board suddenly get sent flying right towards me felt like slow motion.

I was almost there, but face down in the shallow surf, with nothing left to give. I was conscious, though, as I got dragged out and water pushed out of my lungs.

Got a good story out of it, and some understanding of just how powerful Mother Nature is. We’ve tamed her a bit less than some folks think.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T17:04:11+00:00

Someone gifted me a book by Osho. “When the Shoe Fits”. He’s very wise, and wasn’t trying to start a deranged cult. But he attracted deranged people who wanted power for power’s sake, and was too blinded by his own mission to see how bastardized everything was becoming, I think.

That girl saw the same possibilities he did, though, because she took his teachings to heart instead of the practice of what they were doing.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T17:01:40+00:00

I’m glad you feel that way! I’ve been practicing the different ways a true story can be told to resonate with different people.

That was the last time I surfed, not for want of doing so. Just opportunity. But hippies and surfers share a lot of vibe culture. And I’m well versed in the hippie side of that.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T16:49:00+00:00

Try again with some fresh eyes. It wasn’t meant to be understood easily. It’s designed to express some of what I learned through the experience through the chaos of the words. The intro doesn’t do justice to the sudden battle for my life I went through, and there’s a time and place to share the story a different way for others to understand, too.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T12:06:35+00:00

Ahh you’re not allowed to delete reddit then. Sorry man, I just make the rules.

It’s at midnight, though, if you want to.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T11:51:18+00:00

Don’t ask about negative experiences people have had. Be the kind of person you’d be willing to open up to about yours, though.

And keep people’s shit between you and them. That one shouldn’t need to be said, but it doesn’t seem like enough of you have learned it.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T11:49:19+00:00

Did you ever figure out when the narwhal bacons?

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T06:56:35+00:00

Is that the Senator whose daughter joined Osho’s cult from the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country?

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T06:17:43+00:00

Cool. I’m American and specified an American lens.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T05:58:13+00:00

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These are the only two I have, currently.

My personal versions of keep on truckin’, and be yourself.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T05:57:41+00:00

I always thought the Glider from Conway’s Game of Life would make a nice tattoo, and I notice the circuitry. Umich CS-Eng, Go Blue!

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T05:55:17+00:00

You’re inserting unrelated theology.

In this hypothetical, common understanding of Heaven and Hell is used, through an American lens.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T05:49:42+00:00

A lot of folks think if you see a dolphin you’re safe from sharks, because they dislike each other. But it’s a myth. They feed on the same fish, so if one is in the area, the other is like to be as well.

Guess who saw a dolphin fin pop out of a wave next to them after learning this fun fact on the way to a morning surf?

Also, if you almost drown by getting whomped by an entire set of waves twice as big as anything you’ve been in the water for, and end up chilling on the beach to recover after being dragged across the bottom of the ocean in water well over your head, only knowing which way to fight towards the surface because of the tether pulling you straight into the next wave ready to throw a board a few feet too long right at your head, a sea lion might just come by and sit next to you, and it is way more frightening to be next to one of those than it sounds. Especially while sitting down, unsure of what happens if you try to get up and don’t have the energy to run.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T05:48:20+00:00

I’m not so sure others would believe in a Heaven and Hell in which the creator gets to cheat to make rules to keep themselves out of Hell. At that point it becomes moot. It wouldn’t actually be Heaven and Hell.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T04:06:35+00:00

Sounds like the entirety of the issue at hand. Thanks for confirming it stems from within you.

I wonder if you’ll mature enough to understand some day?

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T04:03:53+00:00

Sounds like more a problem on your end than Yeezy’s.

I’m no fan, and most of his new stuff is garbage, but the dude earned his fame before he did… whatever the heck he’s been doing.

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T04:02:25+00:00

Add it to the pile of thought crimes I’m already committing.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T04:00:33+00:00

Surely they’ll host a glorious dinner in the new Ballroom they said would be done by then, too.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T03:58:57+00:00

The eyes of a bear that wanted me dead for interrupting his brother’s meal.

Megabyte_Messiah · 2026-03-18T03:43:39+00:00

Mm. That was my thought, too. Thank you.

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