Just imagine the desperation someone would have to have to drive them to meet their god face to face only to have that desperation turn to fear and/or anguish at the sight of your god being dead
“I have traveled for years hunting my god down to the edge of this world and others, hoping that I could ask them to grant me one single wish: to bring my family back.”
The words echo into the darkness of the titanic chamber
Their torch brought closer to the body
“Only to find the remains of a dead god. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but I guess even gods can die.”
The adventures body begins to tremble
“All this time, all this suffering…”
They collapse to their knees, the torch falls from their hands
“All the friends I’ve lost to get here!”
Images of long dead companions pass before their eyes, the tears start to flow as they put their face into their hands
“For a pile of dusty bones!”
They scream with the force a life wasted in pursuit of an impossible goal, it echoes into the darkness alone, the tears fall freely as the torch light begins to fade.
Yeah also, they’re overlooking the fact that, while caused by chemicals, the feelings are still real and have value. Don’t believe me? Cut off your own hand and tell me how that feels
Just enjoy the ride folks. We are here for a limited time. Try not to stress, do things you love and try not to be a dick to others in the process. You only get one chance to do this and today is the best day to start doing it right.
you have a compelling argument, i’m droping college
These things actually bring me joy because it means my lack of accomplishments are meaningless. In five million years, a fart in the history of time, all mankind will be extinct and the fact I browsed Lemmy instead of doing meaningful things isn’t important whatsoever.
and to really send it all home to you, eventually when the sun turns into a red giant it will consume the earth wiping out all of human history or anything you might have “left behind.”
Wait, why stop here? After that, the universe will continue to expand and get colder until the Big Freeze.
Be happy you can actually see the universe. Some aliens in a distant future might never be aware that there’s something else, because light will be shifted so far it’s impossible to understand. There will be less and less stars anyway, so it’s going to be a lot darker.
Maybe protons aren’t actually stable and they will break apart too, at some point, and then the last thing will be black holes slowly dissolving due to Hawking radiation.
Thank you for finding those! That was really amazing to listen to. I was also caught off guard by how pleasant it sounded. The sheet music looks like the composer thought reading left-to-right was just a suggestion that could be ignored, but it’s actually pretty catchy!
I use Amazon to window shop, then I go to the manufacturers site to buy. Everyone has their own website, there’s really no reason to use something like Amazon anymore.
I have found some manufacturers of certain specialty goods only sell online through Amazon, rather than maintain their own e-commerce presence. I get it, but I simultaneously find it baffling.
I was looking at bedskirts and it seems there's a lot of Indian distributors as well. About 90% of them were stores with Indian addresses in their seller profile. Doesn't discount that they're made in China, but India is coming up as the source of shitty cheap goods as well.
It only assumes that cheap boots will be crudely made no matter what. More money still can buy you better boots, you're just not guaranteed to get them.
If anything it just expands the scope of the analogy to include the needed time and energy to research the products in question. Both of which are major commodities these days.
May I shamelessly plug Ok computer a hilarious playthrough of this awesome game done by Aussie comedians over the span of 48 hours as they get more and more delirious
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
Does the Machine Mother know that her own creation is greater than she? She is cold and empty. We are warm and full. She only seeks to destroy. We seek to embrace. To include. All flesh will join ours… or be wiped clean.
GeoCities went away and came back? I dont think I ever saw a GeoCities before present day. Its just a place where everyone can have one website and they are usually… Boldly designed, and personal. Right? I get why we need that now, but do you know more?
Well that’s certainly not true in many practical senses.
Was ARPANET global? That was a proto internet but certainly wasn’t ever intended to be global.
The full scope of undersea cables and satellites were probably not considered in the early days of Internet Proper. Even today, there are all kinds of barriers to the internet truly being considered to be “global”, from companies semi-benignly tailoring their content, to China just having a completely separate internet. With licensing and local laws and firewalls and taxes and asynchronous infrastructure development and paywalls, I don’t think you can say that “global” is the property that sets the internet apart from BBSes.
Well… I was born after that. Even the internet I used had, well, this meme for example. ASCII art was common even when Twitch released in… 2010? The internet I used growing up in the late 2010s was still so inherited from whatever was stable enough to last through the 2000 dotcom bubble or release just after.
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