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aleph-0 2 years ago

I like your writing style. It's atmospheric.

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Hello! I just redid the JRock webring and invite you to re-join! Sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your interest! https://onlywonder.net/jrockwebring/

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

It's been a long time since I've written an actual essay. In this last week of National Poetry Month, I'm sharing this piece about Du Fu (my favorite poet?). I hinted at it earlier in the month, and, well, it's gone through quite a few transformations since then.

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sorbier 2 years ago

that dictionary is horrifying.

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sorbier 2 years ago

i wonder if you might get something out of going halfway of sorts -- bring your phone with you but keep it off unless you need to pay for something?

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suboptimalism 2 years ago

reading that bob's game essay is like mainlining the zeitgeist of the noughties (gradual descent into complete psychosis included at no extra cost). 5 minutes in, i had a premonition that tim would show up somehow...

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

his characterization of tim is absolutely hilarious!

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

also for the record, i don't think anything he wrote is all that psychotic. it's just a lot of standard buddhist ideas, though expressed through christian language, which i think defamiliarizes it and makes it sound more extreme than it actually is. but, yeah, he's clearly been through a lot, which is what makes this such a fantastic and unique piece of literature

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siqu 2 years ago

"The video game industry (and most other industries) are essentially criminal cults, indoctrinating children with mind control which makes the children stray from their families, develop no skills to have other choices, and become enslaved by the addiction and loss of will, hypnotizes them and leads them right into the waiting hands of the cult."

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siqu 2 years ago

Psalm 82 (´･ω･`)

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balckwell 2 years ago

haven't finished the whole essay but these are far from "standard buddhist ideas"... his is an extremely paranoid worldview resulting from isolation and drug abuse. reminds me a lot of Philip K Dick. regarding your journal: i hope this decision lifts a burden from your shoulders and helps you focus on your other passions

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

Your absolutely right and I shouldn't have said that without rereading the whole piece instead of only relying on my memory and skimming. I was mostly thinking of the "we can all be god" part, but of course there was so much more that I had forgotten/didn't notice

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suboptimalism 2 years ago

coincidentally i read the essay right after finishing a pkd novel and it felt like a smooth transition

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

i think i have an unhealthy tendency to relate to one or two things and translate them into "my language", blinding myself to other things e.g. his attitude in some parts that mind control is just part of our nature and not something to worry too much about became "we're all just constantly deluding ourselves and each other" -- but this misses the intentionality and malice that the word "mind control" implies

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suboptimalism 2 years ago

that happens a lot when people encounter psychotic rambles, they instinctively try to make it "make sense", usually by interpreting things meant literally as being figurative.

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siqu 2 years ago

hope you find the engrossing hobby -- games could be it. A very enjoyable post of yours meditated upon the inaccessible virtual worlds, "liminal pasts" -- what better way than to expand upon it than to add to it with your own, perhaps (´･ω･`)

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something about your writing style makes me want to read it forever. also 在 neocities 上找到说中文的人好开心 :)

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

Thank you! Writing all of this stuff makes me feel exhausted, especially the Chinese stuff, but hopefully I'll find a way to keep coming up with ideas.

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I decided to try once more to be active on bluesky. we'll see how that works out! here is my profile: https://bsky.app/profile/saddleblasters.bsky.social

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saddleblasters 2 years ago

I added this little essay I wrote in Chinese while quarantined in Guangzhou, back in 2022.

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I'm sending out the second installment of Saddlenet sometime this weekend. If you want to subscribe to the newsletter, send me an email! I have my email address at the bottom of my homepage (as well as a link to an (overly long) explanation of what Saddlenet is).

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michaelmas 2 years ago

I'm soooo excited to read this one !!

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