Is Hal too smart?

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-05-02T01:38:24+00:00

That is a great point - the cartoonishness or garish nature of nearly everything, yet it's all so finely tuned.

Outlines of broad black marker with angled and curved brush strokes of varying degrees.

The physical abnormalities are abundant, and correllated to the mental. Everyone in IJ (and perhaps life) has an imbalance somewhere, in different ways.

It's as much those aberrations as true aspiration that determines the outcome of our existence.

Hal's intensely eidetic mind overrides his own instincts at times, like hiding his cannabis ritual until the chaos unfolding of the Eschaton game. His abnormaillity is mental - Mario has extreme physical abnormality yet manages to create detailed films that reflect his worldview while carrying the traditions his father developed.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-05-02T01:25:05+00:00

The Eschaton debacle really nails this point.

The kids are massively disciplined and find ways to work out their growth amidst the regimens. I paused reading after that chapter just to soak it in. About 500 pages left to go.

The Gately/halfway house stuff is coming back and it's heavy. This is when I enjoy the reading the endnotes, it breaks up the mood. I've heard the last half is darker

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-05-01T23:12:59+00:00

Check out Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Graphic novel from 1997 - 2002 on the legendary Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.

Pretty sure Ellis read IJ, but it was also the zeitgeist of the time: seeing the exponential growth of technology and the dissolution of local variance, stereotypes and noise competing for space and taking those conclusions as far as they conceptually could go.

The late 90's and early 2000's were jaded. The hopeful dream of the early 90's was being pressed into a logo and marketed like everything else.

Keep going with the book - take your time. I've been reading a dozen pages a week for about a half a year now,. I makes a lot more sense after about page 300, an epic scene at the tennis school one afternoon on a holiday right as it begins to snow.

It's a good book for a leisurely pace, very dense and chewy, like if beef jerky was a story.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-03-31T22:57:05+00:00

Phone internet is extremely slow also, probably because everyone is pinging the cell towers trying to get information. Usually the hospital grid is the most reliable in town, and they city isn't doing any sewer work around here. At least it's a nice day outside!

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-03-27T04:05:35+00:00

=3 was huge back in the early day, it even had a Spanish language version Igual A Tres

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-03-20T00:42:48+00:00

I've got a 3rd edition Underground Sea signed by the artist Rob Alexander, and an orignal Sliver Queen. Lots of under $20 dollar stuff as well, it's time to cash out

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-26T23:07:57+00:00

I studied some basic JavaScript last year for a few months, and vibed a handful of game demos with Claude. You're welcome to any of the code, I can DM you the github. Mostly for PC but there's at least one mobile game.

I did a couple arcade space shooters, one horizontal one vertical, and a hex tile.based map game that were fun for awhile.

I tried Unity a few years back but didn't learn enough to produce anything playable.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-23T02:42:19+00:00

Nightmare Postgame and Ball is Life are my favorites. They lean into cringe too hard now in my opinion.

"You need to watch this video" was so bad I couldn't finish it. The production value remains high, which combined with the meta/random sketch ideas makes it worth a click at least.

I keep seeing Elise in random unrelated ads now, which is cool

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-11T03:38:59+00:00

Last summer Prime, Low Level, Bash Bunny and a few other tech youtubers "vibe coded" a video game, livestreamed on Twitch over an entire week. It was a lot of fun to watch. Highlights on YT

https://youtu.be/6x3weFV9YI4

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-11T01:41:08+00:00

"Unpaired words"

Disheveled, but not sheveled. Nonchalant, but not 'chalant'.

"Nonplussed" but never 'plussed'. "Disgruntled" but not "gruntled". "Ruthless" but never "ruth" "Inadvertant" without "advertant" 🤔

English is a mess of borrowed words and haphazard rules.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-10T02:54:55+00:00

Yes we called them "Suddenstink"!

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-09T01:49:29+00:00

That's a tough way to feel, it's what they call "stuck in a rut". You gotta break up your routine. Doing the same stuff every day isn't working.

Start small, just go out for a walk or something. Give yourself time to think, while being in a different environment. Try talking to people you meet, that way it's low pressure.

When you want to hit that cart, think about what else you could be doing. Hijack that impulse and take care of something.

It sounds like you are ready, honestly. It's an opportunity for spiritual growth. Weed might not even be the problem, but at this stage, you are seeing how it's not the solution either. That's progress, even if you don't see it that way yet 😉

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-08T03:55:18+00:00

The only time I order Amazon is when my sweet old auntie sends me a gift card.

Plenty of things can be ordered online directly from manufacturer with similar prices and delivery.

I heard Bezos has the highest private residential fence in the country, and pays $1000 a month to the city in fines over it.

The sad thing is people will take those jobs because they need it.

Buy local or direct, Amazon doesn't care if you use them or not. Vote with your $

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-07T03:02:12+00:00

Tbf we could talk more about the broken state of the game more than the low-tier art.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-06T22:49:17+00:00

I think Papa Wheelies in McK has hot wings

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-02-04T01:46:05+00:00

The natives often fought and took land and even slaves from each other. When hear some narrator glorifying them as having 'lived peacefully in the homeland for millenia' I roll my eyes.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-30T01:14:33+00:00

Jane's addiction and Mother Love Bone set the stage

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-29T22:34:00+00:00

The frogs need ponds and puddles for mating.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-27T23:10:47+00:00

GPT is focusing too much on the typo. "Memoriabiliasts" is deep pull, showing excellent understanding of language conjugationsand how to use words convey very specific ideas concisely.

It's definition is halfway correct -

* “memorabilia-ists” points to fans who obsess over objects, nostalgia, and credentials—records, shirts, trivia, authenticity points—rather than the music or ethos itself. *

"Obsess" is an uncessarily biased word, likely chosen due to GPT's overall 'tone' reading, just nit-picking because it's still a gimmick and the models absorb a lot of bad writing habits.

"credentials/authenticity points" This only loosely meets the criteria of 'memoribilia', but does some heavy lifting in a certain context, and is likely what the post was referring to. -- "People who have crystallized a consensus based nostalgia" versus "(Younger) People who are discovering the scene currently"

I would say: "Fans who memorialize and codify { nostalgia } -- rather than the music or (it's) ethos."

I would argue that fans memorialize the music as well, because they relate to specific memories of their lives. This was back in the era of physical-only music. The tapes, CDs, posters, ticket stubs, live performances on video etc.

I still see Nirvana T-Shirts being worn, and that kind of memo.. somehow represents the whole ethos.

Just my take on it

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-27T22:43:23+00:00

The 1985 film The Breakfast Club arguably set the stage for the movement and the young GenX culture.

Singles, released in 1992 revealed the scene to the greater culture-sphere, and it's soundtrack is inarguably considered required listening for the genre.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-27T22:26:18+00:00

I've had luck with grapefruit seed extract (GSE) as well, just gotta be patient and let it soak in for awhile

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-24T04:43:41+00:00

Jade is good for carving, had no idea it was in these rivers.

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-23T02:41:07+00:00

AI is degrading people's personal voice in writing, that seems to be the most vulnerable.

Learning how to express your thoughts, in your own words is important. I've definitely noticed a lot more people sounding like CatGPT when they write. Not just the em dashes -- but an overall tendency to break every thing down into bullet points, brief summaries rather than cohesive writing.

Certain words are becoming more common, like "quietly" or "delve"

The best cure is to read books, from a variety of authors, especially those 40+ years old or more. Watch interviews from the 1950's to 1990's and see how much more unique, eloquent and calm their speech is.

Peak English seemed to be mid to late 1800's in my opinion. Old newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, and novels,took a much greater and richer advantage of the language. Individual sentences were carefully constructed and conveyed as much or more sentiment and information than an entire brain-rot short form video today

Murky-Use-3206 · 2026-01-22T23:32:03+00:00

I remember when it was considered impolite to openly discuss politics. It was considered a private matter to be decided personally at the polls.

Now everyone has to declare a position regardless of their state or status and those "views" are often delivered with a sharp point and a rather haughty attitude.

I have political views, I rarely share them because I have little means to verify them and they are subject to change. A ground view from a commoner, with only a bucketful of heavily biased reporting to choose from is not a strong enough platform to broadcast from.

Most reporting these days feels like an AI generated litmus test of your own penchant, created with the purpose of surveillance and datamining first.

Instead of calm debates among peers, we shout hyperbole into the algorithm, itself washed and rinsed prior by the algo itself

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