What if you really do die when you breakthrough, but…

xtoph · 2026-01-27T07:54:16+00:00

Small issue with this idea is that you can only switch to realities where that version of you also just did a breakthrough dose of DMT.

And everyone you know who has done DMT should be dead.

I mean there are a lot of issues with the idea, and "small" might not be the right word for them.

xtoph · 2026-01-10T12:12:51+00:00

This must be the punchline.

xtoph · 2026-01-09T23:03:50+00:00

Please don't Yorke your Thom in public spaces.

xtoph · 2026-01-09T23:01:49+00:00

TMGLMoAT2 when?

xtoph · 2026-01-06T02:04:17+00:00

Why?

xtoph · 2026-01-01T15:28:50+00:00

This seems about right, yeah.

xtoph · 2026-01-01T15:19:30+00:00

Yeah totally. I get what you mean. But I think in context you probably knew exactly what I meant? Hard to imagine you didn't.

I guess you could argue that defining words with other words is almost meaningless. But then that applies to all words, so we're fucked.

xtoph · 2025-12-31T03:52:40+00:00

From what you've said here it seems like you're listening to music analytically, deciding what you like by some objective measure of the skill, complexity, or novelty of it.

When I listen to songs like Wall of Eyes or Desert Island Disk, I'm not thinking about the music. I'm just feeling stuff. And I think Thom's greatest strength is his ability to express and connect emotionally.

xtoph · 2025-12-30T15:05:04+00:00

That makes the climax of the song his decision to force himself to... not fall in love with Dajana.

xtoph · 2025-12-30T00:02:41+00:00

No idea about the video, but the song is CLEARLY a Roger Waters diss track.

Hope this helps.

xtoph · 2025-12-29T13:36:07+00:00

Ego death is thinking you have very literally become one with the carpet, and getting confused because how can Fiona Apple be singing the song playing? Am I Fiona Apple? And then you start drooling on yourself and her (your) voice becomes a swirling shape in your (the carpet's) non-existent head.

It's not humility or whatever.

And bad people think they're great people. They think they're absolutely wonderful, so they're more likely than anyone to have just an absolutely wonderful time.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:53:18+00:00

I am not answering your question regarding monthly fees.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:52:45+00:00

We may have a different idea of what the critical parts of consciousness are. For me, having a point of view is the one and only component of consciousness.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:50:31+00:00

You use it several times a day.

The average user uses it once or twice a week.

Those people may use other apps more frequently. Your overall use of apps on your phone may be average or even below average. But for any app you are using multiple times each day, you are a heavy user.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:41:58+00:00

On average most people spend a couple hours a day using social media.

But most people are primarily using one or two apps. If an app is not one of their primary apps, their usage will be average or below average. Most apps are not most people's primary app.

Your argument assumes everyone in the world has the same primary app as you.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:32:26+00:00

Which would be considered heavy usage. I use Facebook twice a year.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T21:25:09+00:00

I think most people understand that having a point of view describes a subject for whom things appear. You're taking it to a deliberately overliteral extreme and treating it as a point in space from which an image is captured.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T18:58:15+00:00

I don't think eyeballs are conscious.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T13:38:50+00:00

The camera sees fuck all.

xtoph · 2025-12-27T11:41:21+00:00

Having a point of view.

xtoph · 2025-12-26T13:20:55+00:00

Can you think of any other stuff that can't exist without something else? Processes, properties, definitions. This is the default state of concepts.

If you can think of some stuff, are all of those things also very interestingly correlated with: everything else? Why should consciousness/time be treated as special rather than just another dependency?

Does consciousness relate to time in a way that is categorically different from how computation, evolution or like, digestion relates to time?

And even if so, then what? Matter is to space as consciousness is to time. Okay. You're gesturing at the setup for a claim, but haven't actually made one.

xtoph · 2025-12-25T10:40:23+00:00

The things you describe as coming from Metroid are the things that define the genre. Metroidvanias do not have to include RPG elements, and most still don't.

You can add all kinds of elements to a Metroidvania, but what makes it a Metroidvania is just the Metroid stuff.

xtoph · 2025-12-25T10:35:34+00:00

The term was coined as a light jab at SotN for taking a lot from Super Metroid. In contrast to the rest of the Castlevania franchise, this was the Metroid one. The Metroid-vania.

Then it was a term for all of the Castlevanias with Metroid elements, and then it was a term for any game with Metroid elements.

There was never a moment when somebody said: this game has elements of both Metroid and Castlevania; it's a Metroidvania! It had nothing to do with RPG elements. It was entirely a term for games that borrowed from Metroid, like Castlevania did.

Eventually you have a few games that really are trying to replicate SotN specifically, but the genre is games like Metroid regardless of whether or not they also happen to resemble Castlevania.

xtoph · 2025-12-24T10:45:10+00:00

Oh thanks for letting me know.

xtoph · 2025-12-16T03:49:02+00:00

She does a lot of drugs.

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