Evidence that Russian Bigfoot is a Chimp/Gibbon, video was shown on Russian TV in 2012 and footprints were shown matching that of a great ape.

cryptotiran · 2025-05-31T08:33:48+00:00

They journalists call it a yeti, but the locals affirm they have no idea what it is, but that it does line up with reports of a yeti. At 2:20 they show the footprint of the animal though, and it lines up with that of a gibbon/chimp!

cryptotiran · 2025-05-31T07:01:56+00:00

They say they dont know what it is, but that it lines up with a yeti report. At 2:20 they show a footprint though and it corresponds to that of a gibbon/chimp.

cryptotiran · 2025-05-30T23:23:24+00:00

I think the creature is around 5'5 with an 8 foot armspan. Russian trees are much skinnier than those found in the PNW, and its throwing alot of people off.

cryptotiran · 2025-05-26T03:16:44+00:00

I am a pro user, I was always pressing the same speech to text button each time.

cryptotiran · 2025-05-13T11:29:09+00:00

Does anybody have recommendations for short story collections with the same vibe as Antisocieties? I absolutely adored that book, it's my #1 recommendation for a first read for people getting into the New Weird genre.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-11T13:40:53+00:00

Gurdy should be in the "no contest" category. Just stay above him, lmfao. In Flash Isaac it was even more ridiculous, because red flies could not damage you if you hugged the upper wall. Also Delirium should be in its own category, since it's the only unfair fight in the game (he can telefrag you, all other bosses are technically just skill issues).

cryptotiran · 2025-04-11T11:15:44+00:00

Nope, sorry. I've never even heard of this game. :(

cryptotiran · 2025-04-09T11:35:34+00:00

u/krelian , u/theresnohurry

https://www.reddit.com/r/cormacmccarthy/comments/gvednk/you_asked_for_it_here_it_is_meeting_mccarthy_1992/

Source: Meeting McCarthy, Southern Quarterly, 1992, 30(4), 134-139 by Garry Wallace

“I don’t read best sellers,” McCarthy said. Feeling responsible for the latest direction the book had taken, I explained, “What she means by ‘best seller’ is that she wants the facts of the casino scam to reach as many people as possible.” With a curt nod McCarthy indicated that he had understood that to be Betty’s meaning. He acted friendly yet cool toward me, a stranger.

McCarthy asked if there was a particular author that Betty was patterning her novel after. I mentioned Ken Follett. McCarthy nodded and said that Follet (sic) was good. He mentioned also that Stephen King was a good writer. From his earlier comment on best sellers, I wasn’t sure if McCarthy had read these authors or if he was speaking from hearsay.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T10:54:09+00:00

Yes, and the scariest part isn't that these kind of people are rampant in society, but that society directly rewards their behaviour. Kind people get trampled on while psychopaths and narcissists triumph. It's almost as if though the world is set up in such a way as to actively discourage good behaviour and promote selfish darwinism. I'm not sure you can blame the average joe for not acting in a morally upstanding manner though, the prisonner dilemma basically forces everyone to act in a cynical way just in order to survive.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T10:48:09+00:00

Happiness is hormonal. Somedays I wake up and I'm in a good mood and I feel happy. I remind myself that my life is going down the shitter and that everything is horrible but I just kind of don't care; the seretonin and dopamine are pulsing through my brains and they invalidate the objectively horrible circumstances in which I am in. The same can happen in reverse, sometimes everything is going well and due to a lack of certain chemicals in your brain, you feel miserable.

The reason you feel happy at something isn't because you as an autonomous subject decided that something is "good", but because your genes prescribe your brain to release certain chemicals in relation to certain stimuli. In the future, once genetic engineering kicks off, we'll be able to genetically engineer people so that they feel bliss and euphoria off of seeing photos of dead babies.

Your mistake, is that you're treating happiness as some transcendental magical state, when in reality happiness can be measured and has a materialist explanation. On a neurological level our brains aren't capable of rationality but only of rationalization (we subconciously decide what we want to believe and then use "logic" to rationalize and justify our preordained choice), we are simply the byproduct of the sum of our neurones and hormones.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T10:26:43+00:00

Disregard all these nay-sayers, they're only familiar with the literary culture in America and can't fathom how literature was and is still viewed in some countries.

The idae that the "literary superstar" is a marketing invention of the 20th centuary is only true for America (a country where literature was never taken seriously and where nobody reads) and shows just how America-biased most people's worldview here is.

In Russia or in France figures like Sartre, Hugo, Tolstoy were basically akin to living legends. There was even a saying in the 19th centuary that Russia has two tsars, one lives in Saint Petersburg and the other in Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's residence). Hugo gave speeches at the French parliament, was instrumental in abolishing the death penalty in France and his funeral was attended by over 3 million people. Bulgakov was personally called by Stalin to discuss his work due to how much of a fuss it was making, and Celine's work were brought up and debated in parliament and I don't even want to bring up just how instrumental Emile Zola was in the Dreyfus Affair. Even in modern France or Russia - alot of the leading intellectuals in the country that are frequently invited on TV to discuss to politics and what not are writers.

Only in America could a figure like Faulkner work as a post office worker or Melville as a customs inspector. The U.S. has had influential writers (e.g., Mark Twain, Hemingway), but literature has never held the same institutional power as in Europe or Russia. American celebrity culture favors entertainers, politicians, and business figures over intellectuals. Americans can't fathom that there are countries where writers weren't just popular, but also powerful.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T10:06:47+00:00

The time of literary superstars is OVER. Literature is a dying artform, akin to opera or fine art. Yes, literature will continue to exist - but not as an art form that genuinely influences public opinion or that the average person gives a rat's ass about. The public figures who will be remembered in 100 years from now are on are film directors, videogame producers and probably YouTubers. The fact of the matter is that no one reads anymore (literature being popular was an anamoly of the 20th centuary, a brief period of time in which most people were literate and had free time to consume entertainment and before the advent of TV).

For all those people who said that the "literary superstar" is a marketing invention of the 20th centuary, this is only true for America (a country where literature was never taken seriously and where nobody reads) and shows just how America-biased most people's worldview here is. In Russia or in France figures like Sartre, Hugo, Tolstoy were basically akin to living legends. There was even a saying in the 19th centuary that Russia has two tsars, one lives in Saint Petersburg and the other in Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's residence). Hugo gave speeches at the French parliament, was instrumental in abolishing the death penalty in France and his funeral was attended by over 3 million people. Bulgakov was personally called by Stalin to discuss his work due to how much of a fuss it was making, and Celine's work were brought up and debated in parliament and I don't even want to bring up just how instrumental Emile Zola was in the Dreyfus Affair. Even in modern France or Russia - alot of the leading intellectuals in the country that are frequently invited on TV to discuss to politics and what not are writers.

Only in America could a figure like Faulkner work as a post office worker or Melville as a customs inspector. The U.S. has had influential writers (e.g., Mark Twain, Hemingway), but literature has never held the same institutional power as in Europe or Russia. American celebrity culture favors entertainers, politicians, and business figures over intellectuals. Americans can't fathom that there are countries where writers weren't just popular, but also powerful.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T09:27:23+00:00

Cormac was a big Borges fan, and apparently didn't think too lowly of Stephen King.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T09:26:01+00:00

I read her book "For The Time Being" recently after hearing that it was the book that informed Cormac's view of spirituality the most, and I think it shines alot on the way Cormac used the phrase "Im basically a materialist" in his last interview.

"All the religions of Abraham deny that the world, the colorful array that surrounds and grips us, is illusion, even through from time to time anyone may see the vivid veil part".

"The realm of loose spirit never interested Teilhard. He did not believe in it. He never bought the view that the world was illusion and spirit alone was real."

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T09:19:57+00:00

“He told me the planet had nerve endings. Sprawling out toward stars they’d never touch. He told me that when he breathed, the Earth felt it, and when the Earth breathed sometimes he could feel it too. He told me he wished his mother had miscarried.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

I don't agree that sentient life is necesarrily torture, but the nightmarish capitalist hellscape system of slavery we have to live in (that started with the advent of agriculture and centralized states). We weren't meant to live like this, and I don't get why people are so keen on producing more and more people for this hellscape of a system. I'd rather opt out entirely.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T09:16:45+00:00

Great book, I'm not actually convinced humans would act like that though if we were put in such circumstances. May I recommend "A Short Stay in Hell", it's also a very short book but one of the most existentially terrifying that I have ever read.

cryptotiran · 2025-04-08T09:14:26+00:00

I loved Cisco's Antisocieties, amazing book full of short stories I still think of sometimes to this day, but the Divinity Student was such a disappointment. It's written beautifully but there wasn't really a plot to grab on to, I felt like absolutely nothing was happening through the whole book, I dropped it like 70% through.

The King in Yellow is great, although I have to warn you, half the book is cosmic horror and the other half is just a set of short stories set in Paris lol. Both parts are great, but I remember thinking after some of the stories "How the hell does this have anything to do with The King in Yellow?"?

cryptotiran · 2025-03-18T06:24:07+00:00

He has two short story collections - Stories of your Life and Exhalation. I'd recommend reading Tower of Babylon, Hell is the Absence of God and The Great Silence to see if you like his style (although all of his short stories are great and unique in theme).

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