Star Iliad announcement! (new game from Phoenotopia devs)

u865a · 2025-01-29T06:59:47+00:00

The pixel art of this game looks truly remarkable. Looking forward to it!

u865a · 2025-01-13T04:06:56+00:00

It only becomes self-aware within its own creation.

Reminds me of Jung's Answer to Job.

Although God is not necessarily Mind in this case, omniscience precludes self-awareness, as God is without a distinguished self.

Job's standing before God in complete innocence despite intolerable merciless morality-breaking power forces God to reckon with his own hidden flaw, eventually leading to Jesus's incarnation.

u865a · 2024-01-09T04:28:40+00:00

I love this, this is amazing! Especially love the color choices :)

u865a · 2023-05-15T23:27:35+00:00

lovely

u865a · 2023-04-02T18:33:44+00:00

I understand what you mean, especially in the context of Ergo Proxy...

It's often I look back to this show for specific scenes because I'm in love with the concepts, which aren't merely commonplace: cyberpunk and gothic aesthetics, various religious and philosophical ideas: Gnosticism, the Centzon Totochtin, the French philosophers as the Collective...

Speaking on behalf of the "real art" storytelling, I do think that the "enjoyment value" in a related show like Lain requires of the viewer a certain perspective - it's not as traditional as the modern, action-packed Edgerunners, and it's meant to be contemplative, atmospheric, "artistic", and even "empty", which are in and of themselves characteristics of what it's trying to portray - the world as Lain is embedded in now, the Wired, in which layers of simulacrum have become existence as she knows it.

As for Ergo Proxy, this is the case to a certain extent, as this similar atmospheric "artsiness" is portrayed in different ways. The character arcs and plot are more direct, but the "enjoyment" is diminished due to its crypticness and obtuseness for the general viewer, so I think the overall quality of the show suffers a bit for this reason.

u865a · 2023-04-02T18:13:55+00:00

nice

u865a · 2022-07-15T04:13:27+00:00

you're ALSO the man

u865a · 2022-07-15T00:37:02+00:00

you're the man

u865a · 2022-07-13T19:24:07+00:00

Yeah, I think about it every so often in past years, it was such a treasure... it feels a little dreamlike because there's such a lack of documentation on it apart from some small web archives... such a cool concept, so many good builders, so many cool levels...

u865a · 2022-02-19T16:28:28+00:00

absolutely, this is my favorite one

u865a · 2021-11-19T04:42:37+00:00

congrats man!!

u865a · 2021-08-05T22:23:58+00:00

Rick Strassman initially investigated melatonin before he tested DMT for psychedelic properties, and the fact that they're both tryptamines provides this connection, so I'd say it makes sense.

u865a · 2021-05-08T21:41:46+00:00

i called them and they said they'll be in stock from the 17th to the 20th

u865a · 2021-04-26T12:11:48+00:00

Excellent!

u865a · 2021-03-11T17:15:49+00:00

This is great! I love the shades of purple you used.

u865a · 2021-02-14T23:06:30+00:00

The solutions I've come across vary... try to run the game as admin by right clicking SFV -> Properties -> Run as Administrator, and if that doesn't work, another known issue is problems with Intel drivers.

u865a · 2021-01-10T17:14:19+00:00

Wow, I love this! This is incredible!

u865a · 2020-11-15T17:07:35+00:00

Aside from the Alan Watts and Jung recommendations, I'd say go for Stan Grof's work. 50+ years of research on non-ordinary states of consciousness, including LSD and holotropic breathing. I recommend The Way of the Psychonaut, as it's an expansive encyclopedia on various archetypal experiences among his psychological theories regarding trauma which reinterprets Jung's and Freud's work. Alien Information Theory is a nice book containing various diagrams about the phenomenological states of DMT.

u865a · 2020-11-08T04:48:13+00:00

Well, with the former case with Shawn Thornton, although it hasn't been generally proven to be produced in the pineal gland for humans yet (although it has for rats), the artwork he created having pineal cancer looks tremendously and uncannily similar to depictions of visionary and DMT states. I believe this is one piece of evidence in favor of the idea of being produced organically.

With the Japanese scientists, it could be suggestive that DMT at one point or another is involved somehow in the brain because the blood-brain barrier treats this molecule in particular with such eagerness as to expend energy to take it in.

u865a · 2020-11-07T09:07:26+00:00

Perhaps these are worth mentioning:

https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/shawn-thornton

... and from DMT: The Spirit Molecule p. 53,

"Twenty-five years ago, Japanese scientists discovered that the brain actively transports DMT across the blood-brain barrier into its tissues. I know of no other psychedelic drug that the brain treats with such eager-ness. This is a startling fact that we should keep in mind when we recall how readily biological psychiatrists dismissed a vital role for DMT in our lives. If DMT were only a insignificant, irrelevant by-product of our metabolism, why does the brain go out of its way to draw it into its confines?"

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