Max Z

@macbethinabathtub Is this the same gentleman that can be seen at the beginning of Kim’s Periscope? There are two people standing there talking, one wearing a suitjacket, they’re saying something you can’t hear, and the one in the suit gets in the other guy’s face, who throws his hands up. The suitjacket guy says “Shit” and storms away. Is that…[Read more]

@shankfx22 The interesting–and maybe telling?–dynamic to the lesson-learning aspect though is that the monkey is still doing the self-destructive behavior, albeit to a lesser extent. He didn’t stop eating everything, he just measures now. And the way that he mitigates the negative after effects of the behavior is by doing something even more…[Read more]

@pandace88

I was wondering about the joke too. I copied it down verbatim off the index cards in Kim’s periscope and put it in another thread, but just to get it in here too, the joke was:

A man walks into a bar with a small monkey. The people of this establishment are very interested in this monkey but unfortunately he doesn’t do much as his o…[Read more]

@pandace88

I was wondering about the joke too. Just to put it in this thread too, the joke was:

A man walks into a bar with a small monkey. The people of this establishment are very interested in this monkey but unfortunately he doesn’t do much as his owner drinks for several hours and becomes quite inebriated. Eventually the owner stumbles o…[Read more]

@sfire8 @anakindrew Maybe my connection was bad but if memory serves Macy didn’t really say anything until it was almost over already. Not quick enough on the draw, Macy. Now we got a shadowbot incoming.

@sfire8 @anakindrew Maybe my connection was bad if memory serves Macy didn’t real say anything until it was almost over already. Not quick enough on the draw, Macy. Now we got a shadowbot incoming.

@thegilded

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@anakindrew I had the same thought but there were a few weird things. Noah, despite drinking water and being “back on track”, appeared to me to be drunk. But I’ve never seen him before maybe he just always acts that way. I don’t know if Robo-Noahs can drunk. Also, for as back on track as he is, Sarah seemed (to me at least) annoyed by him when he…[Read more]

@izryn I’d never seen her before either. I can see why people are so taken with her. When she had a joke prepared and written down in a briefcase I was immediately charmed, and when she didn’t want to finish her joke it kinda broke my heart.

Just in case it’s important, the verbatim version of the joke and how it’s line broken and how it’s spread across cue cards is as follows:

Index Card 1:
A man walks into a bar with a small monkey.
The people of this establishment are very interested in this monkey but unfortunately he doesn’t do much as his owner drinks for several hours and…[Read more]

I don’t know how to phrase this without being OOG, so let’s just say all the rest of this is OOG:

From a narrative perspective I think this would be a very big (but perhaps interesting) departure from what the conclusion of Tension was (or at least my understanding of what it was). Again, I wasn’t there, but from what I read after the fact,…[Read more]

@lilmsfancpants Unless he wrote it down and didn’t say anything about what he was writing down, I don’t think I got one. He did give me a very cool little speech that I wish I could remember, but it sounded like a speech that maybe everyone gets? Something about being present, keeping your eyes open, nothing being a coincidence, etc. It was a…[Read more]

Where did you hear this? It seems odd to me that a bunch of old people would drop $125 a person on something they knew next to nothing about. I know that on the My Haunt Life podcast Sabrina mentions that there were some people who called the safety word, especially when they went through the sense sacrifice sequence, but I don’t remember her…[Read more]

@coryphella Oh, Eco is so much fun, and if I’m not mistaken actually predates Baudrillard. The text I’m referring to specifically is his longish essay “Travels in Hyperreality”, wherein he explores the concept of hyperreality through, you guessed it, the simulacrum. The only difference is that (at least I find) the approach Eco takes is a lot…[Read more]

@coryphella You did NOT just drop some Baudrillard up in here! And weren’t you the same person who I talked briefly with about Boal and Artaud? Bravo, Megan. God damn. Bravo. All we need to do next is bring in a little Eco on these boards and my life will truly be complete. Although to be fair I think Baudrillard overlaps with a lot of what Eco…[Read more]

I literally said to my girlfriend earlier this afternoon “I think I’m BASICALLY up to speed on what’s going on with Lust.” 20 minutes later…

Remember those little smug dancing emoji people Larry posted when he was “chosen” a while back? I feel like this press release might as well have been signed with one of those.

@pandace88 That majestic creature is real life!?