Night Sky

She would so do this too! Huzzah!

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The Premiere has been scheduled! Join Lyra and Bon Bon for a midnight meetup on 07/05/2025 at 12:00AM CST (GMT-0500), or at any other time after that!

My Discord bros set out onto their first Baulder's Gate 3 jaunt the other day. I declined to join them. The game looks great. But after 7000 hours of Skyrim, it might be another five years before I'm ready for another RPG. Too much, why did I do that? 0_o

I feel this way often. Hang in there.

This made me laugh, I made it after all...

The Princess of Dreams We are beautiful when we sleep because we are beautiful to Her eyes. She watches over us and gives us what we need. She never shields us from the consequences of our actions, or from the places our desires may be taking us, but She always does what She can to help us learn from our dreams. She could have been a demoness of fear, or a granter of vain wishes or a planter of the seeds of strife. Her influence over dreams is a great power. But our moment of greatest vulnerability always brings out the best in Her. And so, she is a Protectress and a Friend, perhaps when we need one the most. Without dreams, what is life? And were it not for Princess Luna, what of our dreams?

I could actually say the entire Amnesia franchise by the masters, and they are masters, at Frictional Games. But, nothing will ever top the original, Amnesia: The Dark Descent. They had already produced a bone rattlingly scary series for the time with Penumbra, but that was to prove to be only the dress rehearsal. Amnesia: The Dark Descent doesn't get less scary or less messed up, no matter how many times you play it. There is nothing I can compare being chased by a Grunt to, it is a singular experience. Same goes for hiding from a Brute, so you don't get a meat cleaver through the forehead, underneath a pile of dead bodies. And to remember and realize you'd actually tortured them to death, no computer game had gone quite as far as Amnesia did, and maybe no game has gone quite that far since, at least not to the same visceral degree. I've sometimes wondered if playing it all those times didn't give me a touch of PTSD, and I don't say that to be flippant. If you are of a delicate constitution, stay away. The Amnesia games are terrifying to play, and put you into the shoes of; a morally monstrous explorer, a infanticidal industrialist, a murderous ghoul single mother and a half-crazed World War 1 warrior. But, you're never equal to what's hunting you.

For me, it always has to be a split between the soundtracks of the Thief Franchise and the System Shock Franchise. They are sibling IP's same developer, same publisher at first. Conserving this content has been a chunk of my life's work. You can see my results, and all the OSTs neatly sorted, here on my gaming channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheEyeOfStone

I tried to induce "lucid dreams" for years. I read some modern neuroscience, and I read some old school psychoanalytic perspectives on the matter. In terms of my own subjective experience, I had marginal success, really though I have found all the New Age exercises to be entirely ineffectual for me. But, 1.) That's just me and 2.) I practice Yoga and meditation daily, so I am not close minded and generally VERY inclined to try for stuff like this by temperament. I try to keep Science and Spirituality from going at each other like they so often do. But, in the case of lucid dreaming, the problem is not with being self aware in dreams, the problem is with being self aware anyway. An analogy: The cup your yummy drink is sitting in right now, Topologically speaking, has zero volume. To find out in what sense that is true, watch this awesome video; https://youtu.be/9Bqg-6nzkzw?si=qKIWkxMLp_gFt5HM Why do I bring this up here? Because, things that are obvious to us in our daily experience are not necessarily always obvious mathematically or scientifically. One thing dreams and consciousness have in common is that, if you asked us point blank, are you conscious right now? In both situations, we might well answer yes. Now, there's a debate about whether or not we're actually correct when we assert that. I don't actually want to go down that particular rabbit hole per se, but I mention it. But, even if we side step that debate... The problem is almost the question itself... There's no agreement, scientifically or religiously / spiritually about what a dream is or isn't or what consciousness is or isn't. This becomes enormously complicated, ontologically. Have I felt that I've had lucid or lucidish dreams? On a couple of occasions, yes. I don't think I was able to ever induce that lucid state...lucidly... This gets tricky.

Old skool throwback, unlucky 13 years old already but still a Jam!

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This obscure track is an absolute mash-up that shows just how GOOD Sosnok music is. The song has a curious style that defies any description, there are many dancing motifs and time signature changes galore. This would not be easy music to play live;

My Discord buddies are bringing along on a jaunt through Halo Reach, I stopped after the third game, so this is gonna be new turf for me, we start tonight.

I am happy because now I have two job applications in play, the plot thickens...

Right now I am trying to avoid going to bed even though the sun has risen and I've been up all night long, again.

Carrots I peeled myself, pickles, raman noodles and cabbage salad, so real Ponyville fare. Enough Cucumber sandwiches to capsize a small sailing boat.

Ten Minutes ago I was sorting FIM screenshots, I think there's gonna be gigabytes of those in my future going forward.

I'm thinking that any fandom can be taken too seriously, hence, tumblr;

I feel like Twilight in this picture right now, if you knew why you'd either be just like me or just like RD.