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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago

The 4D salmon: what's an outside?

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 108 points 2 days ago

That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Somebody got high

Source: Been high

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am high now.

Source: dispensary

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am dispensary now.

Source: farms

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am farm now.

Source: seeds

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am going to seed now.

Source: aging

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am going to age now

Source: entropy

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Am myself now

Source: my mom

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] froh42@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

null

Source: Illegal access dereferencing pointer 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000

[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

Source

Source: Source

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

They didn't just get high, they got Perfectly High.

High enough that everything is clear and profound, but not high enough to feel the tiny shadow people climbing your nose hairs.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Brother thinks I need substances to be whimsical

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Not doubting ya! It's the way they totally forgot about it and thought it was something ridiculous but later remembered everything that brings it home for me.

(Blink twice if it was the weed, but can't say it, gurl.)

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here's a crab town.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jesus was symbolized as a fish. If he does 'return' it's easy to imagine the way he does.

Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.

Great things to be unburied, but it is quagmire. Hence, the constant vitriol spilled forth.

[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

That's deep, man.

Don't Bogart the joint. It's puff puff pass, man.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.

This comment is a trip lol

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[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There will come a time when the distribution of 4D salmon will take the universe to equilibrium of mass. That is what will cause the universe to collapse into a big bang. The roe will cause uneven distribution pushing gravity to create stellar structures until equilibrium is once again reached. This is not a series of season but a continuum of spawning. We can only have faith in the now. Our purpose is null. In our insignificance we can choose our values. We can also not choose because whatever we are or were is not always true. The self is fleeting. Only the 4D salmon are true in theirselves.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you built like a cult leader? How would you like a job.

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It just needs a story. What stories have salmon?

Grizzly eats a salmon. Maybe that's the basis of our creation myth. Is the grizzly bear an antagonist?

No, it's an impersonal force. Our mythos rejects dualism; we have a time travel fish. The bear represents something else, like circumstance or cupidity.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is the shrike a villain though? Just let it have it's murder sex...

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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

reading through your old notes can be a wild ride sometimes lmao

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just read through a little notebook that I keep by my computer to write down thoughts, lists, things to remember, etc. every now and then and came across this nugget:

Hermano = brother

therefore

"Herman" = "bro"?

also,

heavy metal band name: Dark Pontifex

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (21 children)

Insano game idea:

2D platformer... but its actually 3D.

But the third dimension... is time.

...somebody has to have done something like that already, right?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 2 days ago

Braid and Prince of Persia, kind of?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.

Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...

Run with your idea! I like this!

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I think that's bastion

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

All salmonds are four-dimensionnal

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why did I mentally read that as "almonds" with an s at the front?

Because of of the extra d I put after salmon

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Xeelee Sequence is basically that

[–] LordTechnobabble@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Just want to say. The Narcissist Cookbook has some banger music. Don't know how to really describe it, it's like a fusion of Folk, Spoken Word and Punk

Here's a Spotify link if y'all are interested

His latest two albums are a connected concept album and they're some of their best work yet

Anyway fan rant over

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Like a certain alien species from The Xeelee Sequence?

Edit: woops wrong series. Does anyone know another series with an advanced alien civilization that sends themselves back in time to give birth to themselves? It's right before the heat death of the universe due to another alien species that lives in stars.

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The only appropriate reaction for this I have right now is "Bruh".

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