hmhm.

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

hmhm. this is also new and unusual to the human animal: as one grows tired on one side of the planet the other wakes up on the other side.

this is not new. but through the magic of TCP/IP, they are now sharing reality.

the tired sees themselves surrounded by the merry and feels depressed and excluded. that's their instinct.

do they choose to 1) go to bed OR 2) express their feelings in the hope of getting a lift, but slide only deeper into melatonin-induced sadness?

i often pick (2)

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lritter TCP/IP is the worst version of the internet

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lritter yesterday i dreamt i was in an apartment complex high above the clouds

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hipsterelectron i just used it pars pro toto.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@lritter oh that is a lovely new word thank you

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter i used to do no filter late night insomnia posting for the amusement of myself and the other perpetually sleepy folks, but since leaving that old microblogging platform I used to post on, I had the awkward realization that on here it's mostly, like, morning people who are awake at this hour and reading my posts, and it just felt wrong idk

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva none of your posts ever seemed wrong to me, which must mean you have impeccable taste in self-censorship

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter well, now I just try to pretend ya'll aren't drinking your folgers and smiling at newspapers and smashing pots and pans and getting dressed up fancy really nice to go to workchurch to get shat on by spread sheets for the next eight to sixteen hours or whatever it is that morning people do and then i can write posts like this

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter so it's like low filter i guess

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva to balance the scales, i'm already on my evening high when y'all are still fisting your keyboards to extract productive semantics

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter noice

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter my morning routine is I frantically fumble my phone to turn off the alarm before the dead kennedys "raw hide" gets to the really loud part full blast, then i wash down my amphetamines with mountain dew, turn on my sad lamp, space out for about thirty minutes, slap my jaw a few times, skulk over to the next room where my work computer is and then "look alive". this is basically a form of necromancy

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva that's noir novel worthy.

i already get woken up at 7 or so, 3 hours too early, by thoughts(tm) and then spend half an hour in the kitchen assembling Standard Breakfast Menu #3. during eating, news channel. afterwards, 30 minute walk (She insists). then work.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @lritter gotcha. vibes clocked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7orGC3j_CQ

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter i feel like i'd be a good noir detective except for the part where they get the shit beaten out of them repeatedly and also the alcoholism

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter maybe i should get a cultural diversity mural in my home office, like in Problem Sleuth

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva yours is more contemporary noir, with some actualizations. german kids would just be confused. "what is alcohol?" "what is 'getting shit beaten out'?"

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter noir debugging

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva plot twist: the murderer is you.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lritter often