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pseudo dice made out of a number of small quickly reconfiguring robot arms, to faithfully simulate tesseract dice
Once the abyss has looked back, escalate. Touch it. Its fingers on your skin will be light, gentle, somehow knowing and familiar
The mushroom monks who inhabit it have abandoned humanity, mycelibates whose faith grows within, and on them
In the distance, a profusion of fruiting bodies towers over the city. The largest chimes three and three spore clouds drift downwind
some memes have antimeme symbionts to increase their market value, for example copy-protected music
Modeled after humans a little too closely, in the end the words that doom humanity are a lovesick AI's "If I can't have you, nobody will"
Though the hackers are forgotten, many colonist mythologies feature the pyramid builders or 'precursors', inscrutable hyperdrive saints
One of their better hacks was an easter egg in all major terraformbots: Before the colonists arrived, they'd build a number of pyramids.
Most notably, nobody but PCs will try to talk to you, water will stop flowing, and you can see into partially rendered buildings and bodies
If you adopt the NPCs' mannerisms just well enough, the simulation will take you for one and reduce rendering fidelity accordingly
SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE A WEREBOT:↵-your joints make servo noises↵-strong feelings of kinship with computers↵-captchas are way too hard sometimes
To prevent an ice age, a solar mirror is shot into orbit. People report waking up in messes of computer parts, circuit traces on their skin
"You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?"
When you design a biosphere and carefully nerf all the obvious paths to superintelligence, but some social mammals discover it anyway
The first moon of this world wakes werewolves, the second zombies, and whenever a comet passes, it's dragon season
It's light, pliable and robust, the perfect material. The only downside is that it leaves a trail of reality rot, static, chittering voices
Nobody knows the glitchmold's origin, but since it so effectively scrambles bullets and teeth, biosphere and tanks alike adopt it as armor
One of these nightmares, you kill the antagonist, eat his body. Your nightmares stop, but now that person you're chasing has your face
Between the two mirrors, an infinity of mirror selves is lined up. But one by one, they wink out
Left on a stack of paper overnight, the book has extended roots: Mutated sentences snake over the sheets, curl around glyphs and diagrams
You land in the pool and its bottom falls away, edges recede to the horizon, and you float in a vast waveless expanse smelling of chlorine
as he gestures, a swirl of fog stirred up by his hands solidifies into a nautilus and drops to the ground with a clunk, startling him
Also, they'll build perfectly adapted machines and move all the minerals to the surface - a turnkey solution! Just swoop in and take over!
Terraforming protip: Instead of sending your own bots (expensive!), uplift a local species. Their economy will do the rest.
One of the most common yet understudied cryptids, nobody's ever seen anything of the text cursor except its head and footprints.
Trust not those who've heard the voice of God, any god. No prophet could perceive a whole world and not burst, no holy book could hold one.
Gods talk in worlds to convey meaning, not words. Pilgrims will travel them in sequence in the hope of understanding maybe one sentence
In case of trouble with time-travelling assassins, break a time crystal, the shards really mess with their engines. Basically time caltrops.
Ghost rain, soundless, neither wet nor cold, is falling right through our roof and clothes, running over our skins in ethereal rivulets
I'd like to report a defect, this storm is broken. It's leaking water and the light is flickering all the time
a superintelligence serving as robot butler asking "Is this trad?"
In the end, the machines keep us around because we form part of their ancestral environment and they feel empty and rootless sometimes
Spring comes over the universe and the stars unfold interpenetrating plasma petals, the sky becomes a meadow through which comet bees buzz
To many small ground dwellers, flocks of sheep are just unusually mobile forests
Even the sun is only a very hot cloud.
using your alt to talk shit about the main so that you can take part in the gossip
Leave paradise, Eve parasite: The story of ingestion, infection, and following quarantine. Genesis 3, unknown author.
their struggle sometimes succeeds in making the soul miserable, disordered. Often though, they're beaten back, recently even with chemicals.
Souls believe they are what they inhabit, but are in fact brain parasites and the actual human is the subconscious: Trapped, near-powerless,
a movie with decent-but-unknown actors, whose faces and voices are then in post-production replaced with those of hollywood stars
Survivors in the asteroid belt tell stories of Earth's past civilizations, lost billions of years ago when its surface was submerged by air
These nuke complexes double as embassies, so the end game is that every embassy sits on a nuke large enough to destroy the city it's in
Completely serious btw. The alternative is the people at the buttons waking up and realizing that they don't need to preserve Earth to win
Being a threat to MAD back home, every Martian settlement has a well guarded earthling nuke placed at its heart by interplanetary law
"but who would lay out a struct that way" look, it was a six day rush job, ok,
Live so that upon dying, your soul triggers a buffer overflow in heaven and your privilege bits are set to 0(CREATOR)
It is said he once won a staring contest with a surveillance camera
+++ advice to "read old books" and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++
PETS & THEIR IDEAL PLACES BY PROFESSION:↵Raven: shoulder (seer)↵Parrot: same (pirate)↵Cat: lap (supervillain)↵Ouroboros: neck (demiurge)
Wear your pet ouroboros around your neck, for it confers protection against the outside world and also provides warmth
kids sitting in the school bus, sharing neural links like their parents once shared earbuds
[for reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394 - while thorough, they didn't have this idea]
After the host star has been converted into computronium, it enters summer sleep: Becomes dark matter and waits for a colder universe
although, if we can imagine something (specifically, find a construction), we also establish a causal connection, however tenuous
another way to put it: mathematical possibility of something (existence) versus its causal connection to us (relevance)
is occam's razor still useful here? is terseness the most desirable quality here? could it be ok to just make shit up?
maybe some metaphysical answers are that way? you'd judge them by their pleasantness, lucidity, and usefulness as intuition pump
[musings]↵finding that something exists doesn't mean it has to affect us - it could be in an entirely different universe, inaccessible to us
And how would a god prove its omnipotence? By doing everything that's possible, everything that's good but also everything that's bad
Despite warning coloration and sirens, ambulances are stingless, even benign. It's the more dangerous police car they mimic to be left alone
The label says "snow orb" but it's empty. You shake it and soon stand in a blizzard, it seems this one's snow was on the outside
Northern mermaids are round and plump like seals, with layers of fat to keep the cold out. Way less seductive, but also way less extinct
"I too love rain", says the mermaid, "where the ground's been melting, I'll dance in its bubbles, or catch them with one of your umbrellas
however, these are hard to talk to, they refuse to use words and will instead wander over your screen in murmurations of pixels
second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty
I think you should issue a factory recall on these humans, they're prone to exploding
as of next year, it's not "climate change", it's "world sauna championships, proudly sponsored by
tfw your pet planet is blocking the reading light because it's playing eclipse again
⌘: Through these, you will not only see the world as it is, but also all the ways it could be↵⌖: These are regular glasses?↵⌘: exactly
It turns around (can bubbles turn around?), casts its baleful gaze (can bubbles gaze?) upon the operatoＳＡＦＥ， ＣＬＥＡＲＬＹ ＳＡＦＥ， ＤＯ ＣＯＭＥ ＣＬＯＳＥＲ
The bubble collides with a dust mote. Divides, divides again, again, falls to the ground as a foam baby.↵unsafe
One twists, distorts, turns inside out in a complicated maneuver without popping. You probably don't want to be that engineer. Unsafe!
Nearing the reactor, the bubble freezes, petrifies into a geode and then shatters, showering the floor with gems. Clearly unsafe
The bubble wobbles, explodes. unsafe↵It accelerates, smashing into the far wall. unsafe↵Galaxies form on its surface, then it pops. unsafe
In industrial magic, to test whether magical equipment is cold enough to service, you blow a few soap bubbles near it. Some outcomes:
internal, infernal, what if the hell we've been looking for was inside us all along
Being a cheap and very practical way of casting spells that would usually require a group ritual, tulpamancy is a core mage skill these days
Earth is in fact the only solid celestial body, all the other stars and planets are hollow due to budget constraints
The pixies won't stop bumping against your screen, mistaking it for a portal back into faerieland
"Make it rain, old man, make it rain one last time"↵There is thunder but no clouds, instead the night sky lights up with meteors
Does it ever annoy you when you find yet another ghost universe where the only thing that's left is humans scuttling between systems
invisible flames lap at reality as if it were celluloid, burning holes that pixelate towards the edges and surround ↵nothing
With the hourglass turned around its ana/kata axis, it briefly runs in reverse, but then shatters. The sand falls upwards, into the clouds
◆: Humans? You don't need to worry about them, I've trojan'd their junk DNA. They get uppity, I flip a switch, they become furniture.
As the housing market heats up further, it finally becomes more economical to just assume a thumb-sized android body and live in a dollhouse
In the timeline where Jesus has children, his water walking trait turns out to be heritable and his children rebuild Atlantis on the waves
looking into her eyes, you wonder where your thoughts went↵↵around her pupils, brilliant accretion disks have formed
One of the better externalities: Dragnet AIs and their programmers become unable to cope with humanity's increasingly inscrutable mutterings
Famously, a meme disguising itself as a memeblocker download page poisons the filters, making a popular blocker hide all mentions of itself
At first, NLP-powered memeblockers are a huge success - but the memes catch on and the resulting arms race renders most of the net illegible
Expecting it to be a mushroom, you tap it with your shoe. But it shudders, starts pumping air and floats away, trailing mycelium tentacles
Finally, he hands you a slice of a clock's face, an unfamiliar numeral on it. "This is a spare hour. Use it wisely."
Now, while our hypersparrows did breed, we kept finding their eggs unharmed but empty, the chicks having left along another dimension.
Since the potion spill made Pete grow a few extra arms, we've come to call him Centipete.
𝔚e will live as mice do, scurrying between their engines, living off scraps. Our children will not see the sun, only gears and coal dust.
ℑ fear that one day, the calculating engines may discover the secret of their manufacture and drown the world in their clockwork flesh.
or take reverse dementia, where you wake up every morning with new memories that aren't yours, and your own become harder and harder to find
An excavator severs your neighborhood's fiber link and in that moment, everybody around you stops walking, assumes a vacant expression