I want a proper sequel, Cyberpunk 2420.

Same! Sometimes I type the email in Notepad/Wordpad first.

My modded original Xbox was magical. Rent a game from Hollywood Video, rip it straight to the Xbox hard drive, return it.

Unless the changes in anatomy require more kidney activity. Consider how horses pee.

Seems like a really slow way to make corn.

Seems like it’d be easier and more honest to have it just kill the parents.

Or a Shark Tank-style infomercial product. “It’s The Orphanizer, From Ronco!”

More like, “I’m sorry you’re stuck in the dryer. Just ignore the 830 stepbros lining up behind you, it’s unrelated.”

Legit heroes.

Yes, those are all major contributors, though some of them overlap.

That sounds cool. Are you using any particular tools to organize your ideas/systems? That was one of the reasons I was curious–turning ideas into something real seems daunting.

Can you give us the gist or is it under wraps?

But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.

Nice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of “visualization” to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal, external, or purely imagined.

I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.

But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.

In fact, the odds are you will never hear the song you’d like best.

This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:

10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

*Ostensibly Tigris

In the better timeline we left, they’re now playing the Sega Dreamcast 5.

I just think it’s a very idealistic and unrealistic view of the likely outcomes. To use an extreme example: imagine applying the situation to a North Korea or Russia. Or the U.S., certainly. My point is that it would be the ultimate tool for stifling opposition and consolidating power, among many other things.

This would be a dystopia almost by definition unless every single government is replaced in the interim.