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I often get really grumpy because in my dreams, my brain feels effortlessly creative (though perhaps creative in a less 'literature classic' way and more 'best of Ao3' way)
Then again, maybe it's just my buzzed sleep-brain THINKING the ideas it comes up with feel creative and entertaining, as I tend to forget most of the minute details of my storyline-dreams except for some general ideas.
I remember a dream about being a journalist in a dictatorial society, in a fight with my fellow journalists and two rival newspapers over whether we should uphold the truth or just publish slop that the government approved of, knowing that the latter would earn us a comfortable living and the former was a bankruptcy-at-the-nicest scenario. All tied up in a complex web of interpersonal drama between all those people including myself, who all had a shared past.
Then I have the joke dreams. Love when those happen. It's like a nightmare except instead of waking up with a scream, I wake up with a laugh. The other day I dreamed that I looked at a television, and it showed the opening animation for a news program, but the program was called "ESPETA O CU" ("prick your ass") and I laughed so hard I woke up.
I didn't have any objects.
What I did have was a seemingly inocuous video tape. It was called 'Steps', and it was a series of simple childrens' songs for foreign kids who were learning english.
But there were TWO songs that really, REALLY freaked the fuck out of 5 year old me.
The first one was a song about how a kid went to school and had a red pencil etc. -- Except it was sung in this very dramatic, very soulful voice that made it feel like we were supposed to mourn the death of this poor kid who had gone to school and never returned.
The second one was a song about eating your vegetables and shit. Think of any song like that, what you're imagining is probably pretty close to what it was like in the tape. But the imagery consisted of some singing fruit. And there was a bit where an apple would look right at the viewer -- And SMILE. With a set of (what seemed to be, it's been 25 years) VERY REALISTIC HUMAN TEETH.
These two songs always had me running for cover behind the couch. Surprisingly I enjoyed the rest of the tape.
Three concurrent processes.
Process 1 is running mission-critical maintenance tasks -- Making backups, defragmenting memory, checking hardware, updating software (...)
Process 2 is just in real time taking whatever Process 1 reads or writes and dumping it raw into a file without any interpretation.
Process 3 then takes whatever Process 2 has spat out, and attempts to interpret it through various AI models, generating images, sounds, text, whatever, based on the input from Process 2.
OK fuck
The first picture was a cute silly meme out of context
But the rest of the conic made me super emotional.
It's not hard to believe. I've seen it happen after all.
It's hard to UNDERSTAND. I'm not gonna call you names if you like bitter beers or whatever... I just plain ol' don't get how.
Because to me all bitter flavours feel like a punishment.
I'll take your chocolate since you hate it so much.
The idea of a horse who's just a little bastard and steals everyone's food is super cute. 🥰
A lot of ceremony-like events confuse me.
They seem designed to be as tedious and gruelling as possible. Consider Graduation Ceremonies, or the ceremonial part of Weddings. Just hours in a hard chair, listening to some old motherfucker blabber on and on about random bullshit. (the parties afterwards I understand and respect, even if I'm the opposite of a party person. The only thing I like about parties is the excuse to dress up and eat cake. But hey, people enjoy dancing and drinking and stuff, that makes sense to me.)
Is this some Neurotypical thing I'm too Autistic to understand? Like do people actually enjoy this?
EDIT: Actually, since I brought up drinking when talking about parties.
.... I don't comprehend people that like alcoholic drinks. It's one thing to enjoy the feeling of being buzzed, we all want to turn off our brains sometimes, and of course it is literally addicting.
But I am talking about people who apparently enjoy the taste. Every type of booze I tried tasted like something between "medicine" and "actual poison".
People will spend a fortune in Wines and Beers and they all just taste bad. Then they'll swear up and down "no no dude, this wine is super sweet" and then you try it and it tastes like every other wine, which is to say it tastes like you took grape juice and sucked out all the joy.
Sonic 06 is the OG of "trashy games you can't look away from because in all the ways it sucks, it is NEVER BORING"
... This is why it had such a powerful reputation-ruining impact, by the way.
If it had been boring bad (like Sonic Blast in the 90s or Sonic Boom a few years later) no one would have cared -- Instead it is such a glorious trainwreck that it is basically The Room of video games.
Ristar!
I mentally think of it as "Sega's Kirby". Not because it has any specific similarities to Kirby in gameplay. But simply because it is similar in tone and vibe. A super cute game that is secretly about fighting an eldritch entity.
.... And as every Sega game in the 90s, it is exciting arcade action from beginning to end.
This post would instantly kill a medieval peasant