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read your DJs, noise and gong gong gong essay, it was very touching! The bottleneck metaphor for stagnation in art is a very good one. I should push myself to read one of your Chinese writings one day :)
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One who plays video games all day is probably closer to Buddhahood than anyone else.
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
my friend who plays the most video games works at a defense contractor, developing Massive Murder Machines, since it's a low-stress job that allows him plenty of time to come home and game all evening
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
though i also know another guy from the forums i posted on that lived in a van, worked part time jobs or made money repairing old consoles and doing mods, and spend as much time as he could to playing the oldiest wonkiest nes games
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
i don't know if the second guy has attained anything approaching buddhahood, but i always admired him. since he actually played retro games on original hardware over and over rather than merely talk about CRTs (what most retro gamers do), he had all sorts of insights about the endless wonders hidden in these tiny pixel worlds
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
(also i feel obligated to spoil the fun by pointing out the buddha explicitly discouraged his followers from playing games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play)
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letslearntogether
1 month ago
Now, if you were to make a composite of those two people, you would end up with something like Palmer Luckey's life. Lol Maybe a Buddha discouraged game playing because they can disconnect one from reality sometimes, in the same way that a drone weapon tends to remove one from the consequences of their own decisions. When you automate killing with a disposition matrix, you end up with Ellison's AM.
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daliwali
1 month ago
unemployed people seem to possess the hidden knowledge of life; the wagecage wrecks the body, mind and soul.
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projectc190
1 month ago
mantou is a pleasant name for a dog and whisky goes hard as fuck; it's asian americans naming their dog shit like "boba" that makes me cringe. i think there's an inherent beauty in letting yourself just be, without trying to find a greater theme or narrative to it. or maybe i just think that because it has not been long enough since i wrote my last college application essay
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
i feel like my whole life is this conflict between wanting to fit my life into a narrative and being disgusted by any attempt at "definition"... narratives often allow for community and self-understanding, but over-committing to one can be soul-sucking. i think this ultimately is one of those things with no easy answer, requiring one to walk the middle path...
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
also, mantou the dog is big, white and fluffy, so the name makes sense... far better than "小黑“, i.e. "little black." (though in my defense he was already named that long before either xiaoxi or i had ever met him.)
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projectc190
1 month ago
@saddleblasters that's a good point! living life aimlessly doesn't feel great, but neither does overanalyzing. it can definitely be tough finding a satsifactory balance between the two
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balckwell
1 month ago
I had this same experience with Western philosophy. Once I started to feel like I was just "filling in gaps" in a narrative I'd already been told, my interest started to wane. It's a lot more fun when you're reading each work as if it might secretly contain Absolute Truth.
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saddleblasters
1 month ago
I think this goes back to the tendency you and I have to see writing as, above all else, a form of communication. We're always looking for the individual personalities and beliefs behind the words. If one is the kind of person who sees literature as, say, the cultural heritage of a nation/ethnicity, then maybe this grand historical narrative approach to it is more interesting
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thank you for reading! i realize in retrospect that the bottleneck that i was in when i wrote that was more like the long looping glass tubes of some laboratory experiment or complicated coffee-making apparatus, as it went on for years and years, going in countless circles.