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bureaumirror nuxill

5 months ago

Oh my god! What an adorable site! It feels like I'm playing (or rather, vibing along) one of those really adorable GBA games, like Mother 3!

nuxill 5 months ago

Thank you so much!!

daliwali saddleblasters

5 months ago

One who plays video games all day is probably closer to Buddhahood than anyone else.

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saddleblasters 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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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benny1548132 5 months ago

i need to play all those Buddha-hated games

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letslearntogether 5 months 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 5 months ago

unemployed people seem to possess the hidden knowledge of life; the wagecage wrecks the body, mind and soul.

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studiolyricist updated Michael Centra | Studio Lyricist

5 months ago

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wsm updated Emily's Garden

5 months ago

pinebank

5 months ago

made a copy of my directory so i could experiment without making anything permanent and!!!! best decision ever it’s 4:30AM i’ve been working on this new design for the past five hours

pinebank 5 months ago

like it makes me so happy to look at it. the ideas are the same from the first edition but the execution is way better

pinebank

5 months ago

i feel insane, everytime i push an update i dont relax in the aftermath of that, i start a new update

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saddleblasters updated saddleblasters

5 months ago

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projectc190 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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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pinebank sophistry

5 months ago

thanks for the follow! i just checked out your website and the floating cherry blossom links are so cool!

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