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Actually that might shoot right past Skynet and go straight to AM from “I Have No Mouth”.
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.”
“I meant,” said Ipslore bitterly, “what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?”
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.
- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
In case anyone’s curious what the above is about, it’s a journal by Clive Wearing.
1·9 months ago“Yay, I’ve finally beaten it!”
Music swells, choir begins chanting in Latin, boss’ corpse begins to float and glow
0·11 months agoNo judgement for liking what you like, but having played it when it first came out I have to admit my first thought was “they couldn’t be arsed to finish the first one and you already want a second?”
In fairness I haven’t gone back through it after my initial playthrough, so maybe it’s better than last I saw it. At the time there were something like 20 skills in the tree that just straight up didn’t do what they were supposed to, half the stuff in the trailers was just made up, and cops could materialize from your ass.
None of what I’m about to say is advice, just my experience. I’m an oldish person who’s been dealing with this for decades. I lost a parent when I was a preteen and sort of slammed the brakes on my feelings as a way to cope.
I apologize in advance for the indelicate comparison I’m about to make, but I recently had my first experiences with psilocybin, and found that (at least for me) it acted as a sort of “emotional laxative”. It didn’t cause me to immediately break down and sob or anything, but over the following weeks I had brief moments where I actually felt some of these clogged-up emotions and was able to open up the release valve a bit.
Afterward, listening to certain emotionally-charged songs or certain types of cinematic scenes was occasionally enough to tip me over into a short crying jag. This would last a minute or two, then I’d suddenly be back to “normal”, but with a strong sense of relief from getting some of that out of my system.