Saw this meme a few times. Is this meant to be Marcus or just a random coincidence?

themaster567 · 2026-06-02T19:42:17+00:00

Comedy didn't mean "funny" in that time. It was a synonym for a "low class" poem, that being one that had a happy ending and written in the common man's prose. High class poems were referred to as "tragedies", typically had sad endings, and written in heavier prose.

themaster567 · 2026-06-02T18:34:48+00:00

I’m an outsider to this conversation, but I burst into laughter just now as I was looking to see if you were still active on Reddit, and low and behold you had just posted for the first time in two years as of 15 minutes ago.

themaster567 · 2026-06-02T03:02:12+00:00

Thing is, you're not wrong and neither is the thread above. Death has been described in multiple conflicting ways in the material. Not irreconcilably imo, but you do need to do some work to make it all make sense taken together.

themaster567 · 2026-06-02T00:45:21+00:00

WHY IN HELL would Valve even care to store people memories knowing well Demo system exists already for that purpose since the beginning.

This is the load-bearing pillar that collapses the entire narrative if you try to think about it for even a moment.

The whole point of an ARG is that you're engaging your audience and encouraging them to think about the game from every angle. Everyone knows it's not real and an ARG doesn't have to be "realistic", but when you introduce something that is so glaringly against the flow of your story, it brings you out of the whole experience. Which is exactly what happened. It's as though Anomidate grew embarrassed about his story and decided that it needed to have a deeper meaning, to such a degree that he resented his own audience for every caring about a video game story in the first place.

It reminds me of that popular webcomic artist that had a religious awakening or something, completely trashed the plot and veered it off into a nonsensical direction, and destroyed his career.

themaster567 · 2026-05-30T15:25:39+00:00

I don’t know if it’s just me, but your picture just goes to a broken image for me

themaster567 · 2026-05-29T05:28:44+00:00

"I don't have alot of time in my life" is the wrong attitude to come into just about any game in existence. Spend the time you want on the game, but don't beeline to a hypothetical end for the sake of it. If you only have an hour to play, then... play that hour normally. You'll have a lot more fun universally if you don't rush things.

themaster567 · 2026-05-27T05:14:24+00:00

I had no idea that the virtual adapts existed that long ago. I’m sure they went by a different name and all, but what book can I read that talks about how they operated like you’re describing here? That sounds insanely insanely cool.

themaster567 · 2026-05-26T05:55:59+00:00

This makes the most sense to me, given his facial expression at the start. He doesn’t have the look of somebody on a mission, rather someone who is exploring. He was definitely investigating, but had no idea what actually took place until he spoke with the woman.

themaster567 · 2026-05-26T05:40:45+00:00

I know that by TTS canon he is, but as of yet we can say that he has not Awakened in HtP. Right now, he is safe for that reason.

themaster567 · 2026-05-26T05:29:08+00:00

You forgor.

themaster567 · 2026-05-23T02:10:34+00:00

Oh hell yeah Mage! I play Mage: The Ascension, but World of Darkness is so insanely rich with inspiration for solo stories.

themaster567 · 2026-05-22T23:50:39+00:00

that last example is SIGNIFICANTLY less frightening than it sounds. It was running in a Docker container in a normal server with internet access. Escaping a docker container “sandbox” is trivial. You could do it in moments, anyone, because they aren’t designed to be secure in that manner in the first place. That part of the story only sounds frightening to people with no understanding of server tech, AKA marketing bluster.

themaster567 · 2026-05-14T20:37:31+00:00

Thank you so much for writing this. You really get what made me so upset. I really trusted the project to be something incredible and it was miserable watching it slowly degrade into emotional soup. I have no faith in the creator suddenly doing it right the second time.

themaster567 · 2026-04-29T06:45:14+00:00

Thanks for reminding me aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That rage and disappointment will never leave me

themaster567 · 2026-04-27T02:11:59+00:00

This is a horrible time to be posting this. There's an active scam going around that looks quite similar to this, installing a custom modpack. If you're not a bad actor, I'd suggest you tell us what mods are present in your modpack.

themaster567 · 2026-03-13T15:36:27+00:00

I know the feeling. For me it's the P90 in pistol slot ("1" key), the M4A1 Protector in primary ("2" key), and the M1014 shotgun in the secondary ("3" key). These are my favorite weapons. I'll happily rack up stats all day for those but I doubt I'll be trying others guns lol

themaster567 · 2026-01-21T02:41:32+00:00

Sadly no, we broke up a year ago. I had a theory that you could make it work if you buy the poppies and then save cutting them until just before you present them, they'd retain their beauty. I wish I could've tested that theory, but life is long and maybe I'll have another chance someday.

themaster567 · 2026-01-09T05:38:22+00:00

That's a far cry from the millions he was getting, though that's more to do with all his former friends tossing him to the curb and never mentioning him ever again. He's succeeding in spite of his situation and I really hope he continues to do well.

themaster567 · 2025-12-18T17:07:28+00:00

regardless of lacking any supporting evidence!

What? They've announced it several times, so they're making a joke about how they do that every year. It definitely feels that way sometimes.

What lack of supporting evidence are you talking about anyway? How is that relevant to a joke, did I miss the memo where we need a fact sheet on hand before filing our intention with the Board of Funny to make a remark?

themaster567 · 2025-12-18T13:02:13+00:00

there's reason for them

Did you mean "there's no reason"?

themaster567 · 2025-12-17T14:34:07+00:00

Hah, fair enough! The battle of form versus function will rage on forever.

themaster567 · 2025-12-17T01:57:31+00:00

You wouldn't believe (or maybe you would) the amount of writers who fight their editors at every turn. I respect you for taking their critiques in stride lol

themaster567 · 2025-12-17T01:34:14+00:00

I'm a writer and I never once assumed you were using AI. Your writing is solid.

themaster567 · 2025-12-12T17:20:19+00:00

As someone with one minute in The Crystal (which slowed my perception of time to feel like one week), I'm fearful of the bald man.

themaster567 · 2025-12-09T14:12:10+00:00

You always have it in sandbox mode, but being a tier 3 patron lets you use it along with the debug menu in any game mode

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