• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I don’t want to try it, but I’m curious about what this person is on.

    Ok I lied, I want to try a little

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    2 years ago

    This whole argument seems to be constructed as a buildup to the strenuous pun about masons bricking stuff. Get it? Masons are bricklayers?

    Even if it’s an elaborate joke and not a psychiatric issue — man, it needs work.

  • subignition@fedia.io
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    2 years ago

    It’s kind of a cool premise for a fantasy setting or something like that, but believing this is true in real life should earn you a padded room

  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    hits blunt Cars on the highway are like data in a network. What if Earth is just a computer for aliens?

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      For a computer or network to work, the data has to behave in a controlled predictable way.

      People don’t drive like that. Drivers would make for a terrible computer.

    • Tower@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      “The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day…”

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The comment about castles getting “BRICKED” is almost clever wordplay. Too bad the author has no sense of irony.

  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Any fantasy writers out there, just visit a mental institution for a day and you’ll never have writers block again.