End Times

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ekco [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

She's mentally ill, their mentally ill, i..i'm mentally ill.

anyone with a internet connection brain's fucked up now i think.

just degrees that matter

So the real rapture was September 1994 when AOL beamed us all up.

[Ekco]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So the real rapture was September 1994 when AOL beamed us all up.

Not sure we went up, pretty sure the sound the 56k modem made was our souls screaming out in pain.

[shovelquest]

Y2K happened and we're all writhing on the ground living this fake lifetime of computer dependance in our heads all in a matter of seconds after the network beamed the digital parasite system from our electrical devices into our brains that fateful night.

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[Ephirith]

I think about that throwaway line in The Matrix (1999) about how the Matrix itself is set at the peak of our civilization far... far more than I should.

Like sometimes it feels like too perfect a synchronicity to be anything other than a blossoming fractal arm of our own simulation. It makes sense thematically that we'd kick off the transition from that age into this one with something like Y2k, and a sense of mass doom and foreboding.

[Ekco]

I just don't like this transition period. As a big cyberpunk fan, this in-between state sucks. People still think they're in charge, and corporations have zero reason to tell them they're absolutely fucking not.

Things will be way healthier when everybody's on the same page and no longer crying out on social media for some deus ex machina plot turn, i think.

[Reiwa]

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles"

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[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think about that throwaway line in The Matrix (1999) about how the Matrix itself is set at the peak of our civilization far... far more than I should.

Like sometimes it feels like too perfect a synchronicity to be anything other than a blossoming fractal arm of our own simulation. It makes sense thematically that we'd kick off the transition from that age into this one with something like Y2k, and a sense of mass doom and foreboding.

yeah I totally love that line, ive tried to pick it a part, but it definitly was the highest population on earth (more batteries) with the least amount of conflict for the longest period (fewer server resets).

I like to think about it like this:

If you were to ask me, "Do you want to play with the best toys that any generation got to play with? Then do you want to be the first to experience video games? Then do you want to watch the best appocolypse and zombie movies? Then do you want to experience the internet, and technology bringing all of those to completion. AND THEN... do you wanto LIVE In the appocolyptic video game like mad max beyond the thunderdome end of the world?

I'd be like, fuck YES I do.

So there's definitly a chance that whoever is controlling this body exists outside of the simulation or before my reincarnation, because I sure as hell would play this life.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Ephirith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think about that throwaway line in The Matrix (1999) about how the Matrix itself is set at the peak of our civilization far... far more than I should.

Like sometimes it feels like too perfect a synchronicity to be anything other than a blossoming fractal arm of our own simulation. It makes sense thematically that we'd kick off the transition from that age into this one with something like Y2k, and a sense of mass doom and foreboding.

Was America, the only important country, at its cultural peak in 1999?

[Reiwa]

I had an Uncle Bob.

But he wasn't actually my uncle.

How is this possible?

[shovelquest]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Was America, the only important country, at its cultural peak in 1999?

You could pick right now and take advantage of china, but you'd be cycling in and out of all the deaths these days all over the friggen place constantly using up the same power you get from the china boom.

not to mention covid would have probably created a matrix version of that big green ship that got stuck in the channel a few years ago with all the bodies going down the drain hole below the battery thingy towers.