Oh! I forgot to mention the dream I had last night. Dream write-ups are the ultimate "you had to be there," but trust me, this was a 10/10, one of the best I can remember.

I was in a transhumanist mall, FFS. It started off in a relatively ordinary mall, as a quest to find a Japanese coin-op game that had a particularly beautiful score, and an argument with the well-meaning but inept proprietor of the restaurant I found it in.

But the second time I went inside, the arcade had expanded in side by two orders of magnitude. And by the time I left it, the rest of the mall had turned into a hyperreal megacomplex full of bizarre glass architecture, mile-long skywalks with glowing people-movers, and *gorgeous* cyborg shoppers painted up in metallic enamels.

Unfortunately, the mall started suffering a existential-level hazard before I could get there. Entire parts of the simulation we were in were corrupting, and we were warned by the mall's "security physicist" that about 50% of us could be expected to "be turned into zeroes" before we could expect. I made some remark about preferring to be turned into a 5, wandered off to find the food court, and woke up.

It's funny, I kinda *feel* like a five today.