What’s the difference between the psychic maelstrom and the internet?
What’s the difference between the psychic maelstrom and the internet?
What’s the difference between the psychic maelstrom and the internet?
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Roll+Weird.
The psychic maelstrom has just a little less porn. Just a little.
The bandwidth. Plus you have less issue with your internet device than with your brain.
When you open your browser, you can ask Google any question, but first Google will ask you one or two questions. Like, I dunno, for example, what is your worst memory? Cool? Okay, roll+weird!
James Mendez Hodes I don’t know. I played with at least an Hocus that put theory to test…
With the Internet, we have things in nice, neat little boxes. We look at media, read text, listen to music and talk to each other, and it’s all organized.
With the Maelstrom, it’s not organized. You may get all of the above, you may get some of it, but it’s like when you go to a news site expecting text, but instead it’s a surrealist video with a cut-rate budget about something you’ve never heard of, but with the answer to your question mixed in via puns and dream language.
The textures, the smells, the static, the realness of the maelstrom; imagine if you could google by the memory of a taste, by an unspoken, unknown desire, by hatred, by pain, by the love for your sister, by faith. And the results? Ten thousand pages, all fighting to be shown, not even mentioning the pages that just turn up because, hey, of course you want to see rabbit skulls.
Tony Ferron …all of it downloading directly into your brain, neither passing Go nor collecting $200, because human beings don’t come with a pre-installed nanny filter to keep the flow to a manageable rate.
Plus there’s that creepy feeling that the Maelstrom wants something, or someone, or has the bad feels and wants to share them with you. That tends to seep through every interaction regardless of what you’re doing with it.
James Mendez Hodes …but the porn it has…uhm…yeah. That’s weird stuff. Really, really weird stuff.
The Psychic Maelstrom is the internet that searches you!
The internet doesn’t make your ears bleed.
The internet houses deeper, darker horrors than could ever be imagined in the Psychic Maelstrom.
uhhh…. the interface mostly (well, and the stakes if it goes sideways)
I made a generator on Last Gasp to do with this because why not? I can’t seem to link it directly but it’s called Roll+Weird.
http://www.lastgaspgrimoire.com/generators/the-seventh-order-of-the-random-generator/
Try it out!
One of them are full of undue violence and is probably responsible for the end of the world. There is one word in the previous sentence that is wrong.
Presuming an apocalypse of cultural consensus compartmentalization, fracturing freedoms, and post-revelation-trauma in a post-singularity renaissance-event… or… at minimal:- a near-future post-modernity economic and social collapse with ubiquitously ambient AR mundanity… perhaps even:- opined in a last gasp collapse of some forgotten pre-catyclysm civilization lost 20k years in the past…
…in short:- given sufficient explanation in scientific speculation and a touch of dismissive deduction in the exposition… absolutely nothing!
Though, personally prefer the way The Sprawl and Lonely World: Day Zero handle the Net, Matrix, and Signal… esp. where (ExO/MiDo-SysIT) manually indexed digitally operated externally ocular information transferring systems, for devices given aspects as ;~ wearable, mobile, portable, or stationary ~; is considered a more common aesthetic than ;~ internal and/or ubiquitous.