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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 month ago

That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Somebody got high

Source: Been high

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am high now.

Source: dispensary

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am dispensary now.

Source: farms

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am farm now.

Source: seeds

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am going to seed now.

Source: aging

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am going to age now

Source: entropy

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am myself now

Source: my mom

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] froh42@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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Source: Illegal access dereferencing pointer 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000

[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 9 points 4 weeks ago

Source

Source: Source

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Brother thinks I need substances to be whimsical

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Not doubting ya! It's the way they totally forgot about it and thought it was something ridiculous but later remembered everything that brings it home for me.

(Blink twice if it was the weed, but can't say it, gurl.)

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 4 weeks ago

They didn't just get high, they got Perfectly High.

High enough that everything is clear and profound, but not high enough to feel the tiny shadow people climbing your nose hairs.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 41 points 4 weeks ago

The 4D salmon: what's an outside?

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here's a crab town.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Jesus was symbolized as a fish. If he does 'return' it's easy to imagine the way he does.

Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.

Great things to be unburied, but it is quagmire. Hence, the constant vitriol spilled forth.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It just needs a story. What stories have salmon?

Grizzly eats a salmon. Maybe that's the basis of our creation myth. Is the grizzly bear an antagonist?

No, it's an impersonal force. Our mythos rejects dualism; we have a time travel fish. The bear represents something else, like circumstance or cupidity.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you built like a cult leader? How would you like a job.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Insano game idea:

2D platformer... but its actually 3D.

But the third dimension... is time.

...somebody has to have done something like that already, right?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 month ago

Braid and Prince of Persia, kind of?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah well shit, I was legitimately asking, I haven't played too many platformers in a while, sounds like I should check it out!

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.

Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...

Run with your idea! I like this!

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been playing 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel it's remarkably easy to understand, all considered. It's only partially mind bending.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!

there are puzzle games that do that sort of.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I don't see how that would be any different from a regular time travel platformer

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Like a certain alien species from The Xeelee Sequence?

Edit: woops wrong series. Does anyone know another series with an advanced alien civilization that sends themselves back in time to give birth to themselves? It's right before the heat death of the universe due to another alien species that lives in stars.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Spoilers to what? I'm intrigued now lol

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just Google Q /s

AnswerIt's Star Trek

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[–] potoo22@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use the spoiler tags. Now I know Q is a 4-dimentional Salmon. The surprise is ruined.

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

reading through your old notes can be a wild ride sometimes lmao

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I just read through a little notebook that I keep by my computer to write down thoughts, lists, things to remember, etc. every now and then and came across this nugget:

Hermano = brother

therefore

"Herman" = "bro"?

also,

heavy metal band name: Dark Pontifex

[–] LordTechnobabble@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Just want to say. The Narcissist Cookbook has some banger music. Don't know how to really describe it, it's like a fusion of Folk, Spoken Word and Punk

Here's a Spotify link if y'all are interested

His latest two albums are a connected concept album and they're some of their best work yet

Anyway fan rant over

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I guess those words are forming a sentence or more

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Benjamin buttonesque

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

The only appropriate reaction for this I have right now is "Bruh".

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

And the salmon is called sammy.

Puh ka puh ka

[–] ThatDullGuy@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Is this the guy that wrote Tenet?

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

[If you're in to science fiction fishing... ](http://www.listen.com/ to Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself by Haylock Jobson on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CVCYB19Y?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Xeelee Sequence is basically that

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