Malkaiden
@malkaiden.bsky.social
Ronin tech lawyer & wandering scholar. Working on a PhD in Law & neurotech. European, Marxist, Atheist.
Futurist & scifi writer. Observer of humans, feeder of cats. Player of TTRPG games, hater of human social status games.
Futurist & scifi writer. Observer of humans, feeder of cats. Player of TTRPG games, hater of human social status games.
(to be fair and perfectly honest, the difference is a lot more than 0.001 puhcent)
August 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
(to be fair and perfectly honest, the difference is a lot more than 0.001 puhcent)
now *this*, this I could get behind, absolutely.
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
now *this*, this I could get behind, absolutely.
I think I might be miswired for certain kinds of horror that the general population seems to have, like some people have a disconnect between music and pleasure (www.eurekalert.org/news-release...), or how some people have aphantasia.
Disconnection between brain regions explains why some people don’t enjoy music
Ten years ago, researchers discovered a small group of people who derive no pleasure from music despite having normal hearing and the ability to enjoy other experiences or stimuli. The condition, &ldq...
www.eurekalert.org
August 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I think I might be miswired for certain kinds of horror that the general population seems to have, like some people have a disconnect between music and pleasure (www.eurekalert.org/news-release...), or how some people have aphantasia.
They're both clearly the result of a fracturing or hallucinating psyche whose "uncanny valley" fear center is both overactive and really, really insisting upon this one really specific fractal repetitive thing. Someone with OCD got locked in a monomanic hallucinatory loop; "it insists upon itself".
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
They're both clearly the result of a fracturing or hallucinating psyche whose "uncanny valley" fear center is both overactive and really, really insisting upon this one really specific fractal repetitive thing. Someone with OCD got locked in a monomanic hallucinatory loop; "it insists upon itself".
To be clear, he's praising Draw Steel's insistence on making even more narrative things like Perks and Complications mechanically implemented and mechanically significant (unlike some other games).
But man I love finding someone on the same brainwave frequency as me.
But man I love finding someone on the same brainwave frequency as me.
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
To be clear, he's praising Draw Steel's insistence on making even more narrative things like Perks and Complications mechanically implemented and mechanically significant (unlike some other games).
But man I love finding someone on the same brainwave frequency as me.
But man I love finding someone on the same brainwave frequency as me.
or an autonomously functioning brain
August 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
or an autonomously functioning brain
