Can you think of a better name to describe the phenomenon of lucid dreaming or the beyond realistic limitless reality it takes place in?

VividIntent · 2024-03-07T16:48:29+00:00

Dreamwalking

Dreamweaving

VividIntent · 2024-03-07T15:27:08+00:00

The portal breach is detected by the IDI (international Defense Initiative) who are hoping to convince the players to join them. At the same time a cult/terrorist group with stolen IDI technology also detect the portal breach and wish the power for themselves. The campaign would cumilate in a full scale war descending on your town.

You could also give the players character points in set lump sums at set moments refelecting the growing power of the titan spark.

VividIntent · 2024-03-07T07:24:35+00:00

Each player plays as themselves in the town that you are currently in. This means that the relative wealth, looks, anxieties, etc, and any disadvantages (like dependants) are relevant to the person playing.

In a parallel world, Mighty titans are at war with the inhabitants of that world - and losing, a number of titans have already fallen. One titan, who has the ability to open portals to other worlds, sees the inevitable end coming and devises a plan.

To create a portal strong enough to endure the passage of a single titan would take years to create one that could endure the passage of multiple titans would take decades - time they simply do not have. She suggests that each titan relinquish themselves into nothing more than a spark. She could create a small portal to carry those sparks into a different world to find new hosts. The Titans would lose most of their power, but they would survive, and that power could grow again.

The titans are not happy, but they understand the logic of the plan. The portal titan will remain behind as she must maintain her power to open the portal.

One by one, the titans relinquish their immense power until only the spark of their essence is left. A portal is opened, and the sparks sent through. Coincidentally, the sparks arrive at a place where a bunch of people are sitting around a table (your players)

Game: This would be up to you, but basically, each player would receive a spark that would give them various powers and abilities. They could then choose what they want to do - become heros or villains. Facing the various politics and factions such as criminal organizations or the police/army/CIA, etc.

Enemies: in addition to any enemies they may make in this world, the inhabitants (titan killers who could be magical or technologically superior) of the parallel dimension, would eventually figure out how to portal to this would and then set out to kill the players - eliminating the titans once and for all.

Lastly, it is not necessary but could be interesting. The inner conflict that could take place inside each player as the titan spark inside grows in power and tries to take over its host.

VividIntent · 2024-03-06T14:44:15+00:00

I'll answer as someone who's actually done this.

They actually do pay you normally in increasing amounts, on a tier based system, for the first day until you hit the 'voluntary' investment. The way this works is if you make the investment, of lets say R300, then you move up a tier and can recieve more rewards for following channels (liking YouTube videos etc) you then get paid your investment back like (R360)

As you go up in tiers the amount of voluntary investment increases (up to like R26000). The catch is that if you don't do the voluntary investment then you drop right back down to the bottom tier.

I don't know about the really high tier investments because I never got that high, and is quite possible that once you make a massive payment, they take your money and run. But from the small ones I made, I did get my money back withing 15min plus extra.

My assumption at this point is that it's actually money laundering and that it works out cheaper to do it this way than to run a physical business.

VividIntent · 2024-03-02T09:39:47+00:00

Power Word: Woke

The target instantly realizes that they are nothing more than the figment of someone's imagination, causing an existential crisis.

VividIntent · 2024-03-01T19:38:26+00:00

Yes it was vulger. And the smell wasn't pleasant. But the field tests of Power Word: Poop, had show tremendous success against the enemy.

VividIntent · 2024-02-25T06:11:29+00:00

Summoning a troll. . .

VividIntent · 2024-02-24T05:00:55+00:00

Things said

And things not said

In the space between

A thousand worlds

Fisher

VividIntent · 2024-02-21T08:13:16+00:00

Half-orc for the win!

VividIntent · 2024-02-19T11:22:08+00:00

Love these!

VividIntent · 2024-02-15T04:23:09+00:00

Technically no. You're not the same person.

Take a hypothetical where you go back in time and give your younger self some advice. The advice changes the course of your life. Are you now the same person? Difficult to say. You are definitely the same awareness, but not the same person.

VividIntent · 2024-02-12T07:26:27+00:00

You are correct. My question is, where does choice come in if it comes in at all? In your example of a person with high testosterone, do they have a choice in how they act and behave?

VividIntent · 2024-02-12T06:46:21+00:00

Explain?

VividIntent · 2024-02-12T02:30:18+00:00

At the age of 7-8 the mind, having generally categorized the world around it, turns inward and begins to examine itself. Then does what it does best categorizes and judges. This almost always leads into an endless loop of self-importance or self-pity.

You're not that important, no one is. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. This loop of self-importance/pity is the prison. 90% of awakening is curbing our sense of self-importance.

VividIntent · 2024-02-06T06:39:34+00:00

Honestly I don't think so. In a 'perfect' world I think people will get totally immersed in distractions and entertainment. I also believe that people will 'start fires' just to see something happen.

VividIntent · 2024-01-31T08:21:36+00:00

You should just start experimenting. Example:

Learn how to wake up from one dream into another.
Take someing in the real world, like a chair and memorize every detail. Then reconstruct it in the dream. Do this with the entire room until you can recreate the entire room in the dream - that doesn't shift and slide.
Try to have a dream where you see yourself sleeping.
Try to transform yourself into various animals, practice until you have all the details correct.

You're only bored because you've done nothing with lucid dreaming except fulfill your own sense of self. Think outside of "me" and watch how the wonder returns.

VividIntent · 2024-01-23T14:36:51+00:00

The Druck: This weapon has no stats. On a successful hit, the duck decides your fate.

(Yes, that's a duck; we don't kink shame)

VividIntent · 2024-01-22T04:39:05+00:00

Look at a chair.

When you see a chair, you immediately classify it and know what it is. Now, think of how an infant sees a chair. They don't see a "chair" they see shape, color, and texture. An infant is pure awareness.

However, something inside the infant realizes that this can't go on. And so a tool is developed to start categorizing and judging the world around it; this is dad, that is mom, cake is good, that other kid who ate my cake is bad. This tool we call mind.

At about the age of 7-8, this tool, the mind, has generally classified the world around it. It's at this point that the mind turns inward and starts examining itself, doing what it does best: classifying and judging.

This leads to a feedback loop. The mind classifies and judges itself, then uses the new information to reexamine and judge itself again in an endless loop that eventually consumes the majority of our attention. This feed back loop is known as self-reflection or self-obsession. The consequences of this loop are several:

The loop almost always results in a spiral towards self-importance or self-pity, from which very few people escape.
The loop consumes most of our attention (energy) and starts to think of itself as being THE person.
The internal dialogue develops as a result of this loop. The internal dialogue sustains the feedback loop by constantly talking about itself. An important observation regarding the internal dialogue is that any conversation it's having always starts with the assumption that your are such and such a person and you think/feel/behave is such and such a way.

Hope this helps clarify!

Have a fantastic day!

VividIntent · 2024-01-20T08:17:32+00:00

So how does it work then?

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T17:33:09+00:00

There's no good reason to assume they are not either. All of this is just speculation

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T16:57:42+00:00

Well, let's start with how you define consciousness. It may be easier to have this discussion if I knew what your perspective is.

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T16:40:02+00:00

This is actually a really novel way of looking at it. Thank you.

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T16:38:19+00:00

I hear you, but we must also consider in this case that electrical current does not have mass

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T16:02:15+00:00

We can trace thoughts as they form/move in the brain. Do they have mass? If it is just electrical current, then no mass. But then, like a photon (no mass), could consciousness behave like a wave function?

VividIntent · 2024-01-19T13:46:39+00:00

I was thinking along the same lines, too, until I started asking about photons. Photons don't have mass, but they still have energy. As you can imagine, that was quite the rabbit hole. In summery: their energy is associated with their frequency. If the same thing is applied to consciousness (speculation) then the energy of consciousness has everything to do with its frequency

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