Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

I'm Aether the Dragon.
Maybe if I say it enough, I'll start to feel it.

Anyway now that I've watched that I really should get to watching Wolfwalkers.

I watched Matrix 4 last night and it was incredible how on the nose it got at times, it was hilarious. The rest was good too, of course.

That said, wasn't there that one theory/essay video about the third movie that, re: Neo using his powers in the real world, suggested the next movie would include recursive matrices? Because they kind of did that in the end, only inward instead of outward.

Pondering.

My new year's resolution is to be more dragon.

For an inflatable dragon toy I sure don't deal with heat and humidity good, blaaaargh.

drrrrragons...

Rrrr-raar, and such.

Raarar.

🌌

dragons.

Idly thinking about the fact I sometimes mess up grammatical syntax or use old fashioned terminology, oft for sarcastic effect, but instead about ways it could be used to give off an old-fashioned draconic dialect.

Shame about that character limits on social media mean I usually have to curtail a few words.

A retweet of a Twitter conversation, for context.

"You don't have to make things work that way, but you get more users."

The use of "users" reveals that these ghouls are only interested in profit and engagement. The nebulous ideas of how their JPG receipts could improve video games is just an excuse to placate actual players.

"Eventually most will have to."

Also they're a cult.
Like this is the same bull-headed single-mindedness behind the techno-religious that think we're in a simulation - the deification of technology.

To be more specific: there's a certain inevitability that I feel from both kinds of people. When it comes to "we live in a simulation" the justification is "there would be more simulated universes than real ones, therefore it's more likely we live in a simulation".
By what metric? Where are you getting the idea there's more simulations? By your own logic?

And yet it's used in their worldview without doubt, passionately, like a spiritual faith. That same vibe comes from those pushing crypto as a future.

Honestly wondering how feasible it would be to just drop everything and hide out on IRC forever.
... none of the people I wanna chat with would follow, and my brain worms would get upset at the silence.

I had a dream last night where I had a giant inflatable toy of myself. It was in a sitting on all fours pose, and the torso came up about to my head. I don't remember how accurate it was. It was also leaking with a split across a seam so I was trying to tape it up as a temporary measure. D:

... there was also piles of various plushies everywhere and I had three cats instead of one.

Not sure what this dream was trying to tell me.

jesus christ that toot hit it off huh

I have personally noticed how recurring this sentiment this is nowadays online - the desire to be our real selves - even amongst "mainstream" furries, as it were.
Either this says a lot more people are deeply non-human than we realise, or we're all just really tired of the human condition.