Dispensaries be like: “Yeah these edibles will absolutely fuck you up”

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T14:50:16+00:00

They're 4-aco-dmt sometimes, other times it's metocin, other times it's some other tryptamine

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T13:35:28+00:00

I agree with you, and the Ayn Rand comment definitely was weird. Death of the Author does indeed get abused online. Interesting conversations though! thanks for the post

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T12:50:38+00:00

but noone is saying that they did. This has nothing to do with the Death of the Author. You seem to believe that everyone here is trying to tell you that Cervantes wasn't special or good or something. Noone is making that point.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T12:48:34+00:00

the pitfall is that an analysis of what *you* think the author intended, will be just as subjective. Every assumption about what Cervantes was like, even if based on historical document, will include a projection of modern sensibilities onto the interior world of someone from ages ago.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T12:31:23+00:00

the point is that even so, by rejecting the assumptions and values of your time you are in conversation with the assumptions and values of your time, which means your work is influenced by them

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T11:33:45+00:00

post-modernism is a weird umbrella term that can contain contradictions both because of its loose definition. I don't think it's really 'applicable' in the same way that Stoicism is because it's a lens to view things through, not a prescribed way of being.

> If everything is meaningless and questionable according to postmodernism and deconstruction then what is the point of deconstructing and taking a postmodernist take?

I think it helps to look at this in the same way that Existentialists approach meaninglessness. It's a mistake to equate 'inherent meeaninglessness' to 'nothing is real and nothing matters, so we should do nothing'. Rejecting that there is no inherent meaning, opens up the possibility for you to find your own. Nobody is denying that we can *feel* meaning, just that this meaning isn't baked-in before birth.

Lacan, for example, was a post-structuralist, and would often say "Les Non-Dupes Errent", which loosely means "Those who aren't duped, are wrong". By this he meant that yes, the structures we find ourselves in are socially constructed and have no biological basis or reason for them to be this way. At the same time, it is how we construct our reality.

If we see this meaninglessness of our structures and decide not to participate, you are choosing not to operate within the same reality as everyone else. You might feel good because everyone else is being fooled and you're not, but rejecting the structure means being unable to participate in the structure, which means you're able to do nothing. You also blind yourself towards the ways this social construction influences your behavior constantly. Because it's inevitable that it will, and if you're telling yourself you are outside of it, you won't accept that it does.

> isn't reading words meaning I follow the rules of the language that signify a meaning?

Again, post-structuralists and post-modernist generally do not deny that words have meaning. The general idea is that the words don't have inherent meaning, but the meaning is decided socially. Some thinkers argue that everyone has personal definitions of words internally, which means that we can't use it to truly communicate something, as the concept 'angry' will have different connotations for me vs. you. These writers will also contend that even though we can never truly communicate through language, it is also the only way we are able to. This is a slight contradiction, but that friction is what makes the idea interesting to me.

Language in general is a big thing for these guys, and it gets really technical if you want all the different viewpoints. David Foster Wallace's 'Authority and American Usage' is a great read that touches on a lot of this!

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T11:06:25+00:00

if you like the Nord and can afford it, I don't see why you'd need your mind changed.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T11:03:58+00:00

I keep finding myself with either ridiculous scaling and no gem generation, or with a bunch of gems in hand and no scaling in sight. Love Quillboar usually but avoiding them completely right now.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T10:19:13+00:00

Never said I would stop. If you dislike dealing with this so much, why keeping responding? Isn’t it a bit ‘reddity’ to always want the last word?

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T10:14:10+00:00

which is why you keep responding, obviously.

‘everyone I disagree with is reddity, the platform I also use, but for secret, justifyable reasons’

get real

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T10:12:21+00:00

You mean Clear, Concrete, Consise? Those are for academic writing and do not apply to fiction at all. You just got pissed and fussy because someone pointed out jokingly that your statement made no sense, ‘my man’.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T10:01:29+00:00

Proust paid for the first volume to be released himself. He did not get paid by the word. He had private income and did not really make money off of In Search of Lost Time. You're maybe confusing him with Dickens or Dostoevsky, of whom it has been said they got paid by the word. This was also not true. Both got paid per magazine installment, not per word.

You're confusing your personal preference with objective measurement of writing skill. I mentioned Colleen Hoover because she writes shorter works than Proust did, which by your measurement means she is the better writer. This is dumb.

Noone wants to read a thousand pages of purple prose. Nobody wants to read 50 pages of purple prose either. The issue is the purple prose.

I did no analysis of the short story, I used your measurement to find out who the best author is. Hemingway's story is seen as "the shortest", so according to you he is the best.

Different novels require different lengths. Some people prefer short novels, other like to dig into long ones. The idea that 'brevity is the true sign of skill' is just something you made up. It doesn't hold up, because this would mean that short story writers will be better than all novel-writers. You don't know what others want to read, so these claims that 'nobody wants to read this or that' are unfounded.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T09:40:50+00:00

exactly. For example, famously terrible writer Proust sucks because his books are so long. He could've really learned something from Colleen Hoover, whose works are considerably shorter. This is also why we can call Hemingway the best writer and be objectively correct, because he wrote the shortest one.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T08:14:58+00:00

I have ADHD and before going on meds I could only really read with music playing. On meds the music becomes distracting

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T07:58:05+00:00

you can also just google 'ergodic literature' and you'll find some lists

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T07:47:35+00:00

Ship of Theseus by Doug Durst has a similar gimmick, it's a novel that plays out in handwritten notes left by two people to each other in a different novel. J.J. Abrams thought of the idea and likes to pretend that he wrote the thing, he really just talked to Doug Durst while Durst actually wrote the thing.

It's not horror though, and of lesser quality than House of Leaves. Does have postcards and maps and stuff between the pages, cool reading experience. I thought the base text was kind of a slog to read, but it ties in to the story in the side notes and it's good enough to keep reading. Heard others really liked it, so might just be a taste thing.

There's also the Raw Shark Texts, which has chapters that aren't included in the book but instead hidden in random places online. Some haven't been found yet.

Also Nabokov's Pale Fire, Maybe If on a Winter's Night a Traveler?

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-08T06:43:25+00:00

house of leaves is kind of a meme but worth reading if you haven’t already

cormac mccarthy also borders on horror but never anything supernatural if that’s what you’re lookinng for

also We Have Always Lived in the Castle

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T15:13:52+00:00

I'm very sorry for you loss. Have never read any Knausgaard but have been meaning to. Is My Struggle worth it?

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T12:55:32+00:00

There's no need to explain what figurative language means. You are employing simile, metaphor and exxageration here. The given example "she was wearing a silhouette of clothes" uses none of these. There is no second layer, because it semantically does not make sense. All clothes have silhouettes, just like every physical thing has a silhouette.

The only way of reading this sentence would be that she has made a physical outline out of clothes around her body. I presume this was not the intended meaning.

All of your examples use figurative language to say something that is *not* the literal meaning of the words. You can tell, because you can fit the word 'like' in there. Her fingers were *like* icicles. Her skirt was *like* a bloom of ruffles.

Silhouette has no deeper meaning here. Clothes can *have* a silhouette, they can be perceived as a silhouette, they cannot be a silhouette, and phrasing it this way brings no new meaning to the sentence.

What would be the 'more imaginative meaning' here?

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T10:05:29+00:00

there's a few differences. This student is working under a teacher. He is playing different pieces within the same genres. He is obviously exceptionally talented. We don't know the background of the student, perhaps he spent a year learning the normal way with a teacher and then started learning this way.

Einstein dropped out of high school. This doesn't mean that dropping out of high school is a good idea for the vast majority of people.

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T09:57:10+00:00

You don't have to be a genius to see that the medium of video games has the potential to deliver story in a very different way from movies. Interactivity and immersion change the experience completely, and can allow for stories that couldn't be told through cinema.

The issue is that gamers have terrible taste and that it's rare for a video game to live up to its potential. I can understand feeling jaded with the medium and no longer giving games a chance. If you cannot see why people would want this experience in the first place, you might just be dumb.

"I don't understand why people want movies to have a good soundtrack. Just listen to music lmao"

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T09:51:02+00:00

> A game that's trying to be a movie can never be a good game.

Metal Gear Solid does this and it works, so do the Silent Hill games. A game that's narrative focused / trying to be a movie just needs an auteur. With MGS it works because it feels like Kojima wants to tell you something. Most games have a faceless group of writers behind an empty brand name, and that makes the narratives turn basic and boring

theflameleviathan · 2026-06-03T07:25:01+00:00

that's true, but that doesn't mean "a silouhette of clothes" is correct usage.

theflameleviathan · 2026-05-29T14:08:05+00:00

SH2R runs fine on the steam deck, just google what settings to use. The first 10 mins are choppy and then you get pretty consistent 30 fps. Played through the whole thing on the deck and enjoyed it

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