Not an open ended question, but I’ll leave it up as it seems to be generating some discussion.
Hmm, I guess I’ll go with the VR thing. It could serve as some kind of afterlife. Maybe you can meet your friends and family there!
These all sound awesome. Hmmmm. I think stuck in a different dimension sounds most interesting. Let’s go with that.
VR seems the most like death, and if you’re on hardware and have infinite time you can probably eventually find a security exploit for root access, at which point you can build your chosen reality
Everything about that is entirely unconvincing to me, but I agree VR because there was nothing to suggest that the VR experience itself need seem unpleasant. Also exponential time dilation is just incredible
The higher horror because at least you are in reality and still have agency. Fuzzled to oblivion, totally dominated by that eater and lost in videogames, not so much.
(I actually have a little experience with higher horrors. Worst thing in the world, for sure. But after bumping against the threshold a hundred times one learns to navigate that territory successfully. You can figure out literally anything)
Getting torn apart in the resource wars sounds like an upgrade tbh, just feeling confusion and no other horrors, chores, work or biological functions, really doesn’t sound too bad.
Grimdark 17776 seems so much more likely than actual 17776. Maybe grimdark 17776 is the precurser and when they somehow eventually reset reality, they still couldn’t die, but nobody remembered any of the bad stuff and american football really took off instead.
The only reason nobody is picking Stuck in a Different Dimension is because you know you could succeed there if you applied yourself and got more social with the local demi-denizens.
Ya’ll asocial fuckers rather suffer in a bug-god’s body for eternity than try to get good at climbing a social ladder.
Yeah man I wanna see what this higher horror is all about
Top left sounds pretty much how i’d expect death to be like anyways. Whatever emotion you’re feeling as you pass just gets freeze-framed like a tv glitching out, and then you just experience that. Period. Confusion being that emotion doesn’t sound too horrible.
Then again, whatever the VR thing is could be fine. If it’s too small a space, though, then perhaps not. Also, if it’s a bad place then that’s just a form of hell.
If the bottom left scenario sounds interesting to you, make sure to check out the Noc+10 ARG.
It’s scarier to realize that these situations all stem from the very limited perspective and capacity of the human brain.
On the flip side, what might be an unfathomable horror for a superior being, might not even register to us
Like us showing The Grudge to an ant
Pretty good. I mean bad choices.
Yea
The VR one is about the only one with a possible positive outcome
Colonizing another dimension could turn out alright
Idk, ‘higher horror’ doesn’t sound like a super cool dimension to hang out in
Nah I’ll win
Right, what are they gonna do, kill me? Bring it, aura boy
Especially since you are going to experience an infinity of time either way, so time dilation doesn’t really matter in any appreciable way. If that’s the big corruption, that’s totally workable. One would also assume you aren’t entirely alone there, if it’s a facility.
I’ll go with number 3, since I’m already living in number 1.
I’m living through number one right now. The confusion isn’t the bad part. The bad part is being fully conscious of your confusion, almost like you are in a body floating over your own watching you do and think stupid shit you know you would never do. It is legitimately horrifying watching myself slip further and further by the day and nobody seems to think there is a problem.
Trauma? Stress? Hormones? Illness? Any chance for a diagnosis? I’m sorry you’re going through this.
No idea. I’ve been to who knows how many specialists and nobody is going beyond the basic checklist and giving up afterwards.
I pay someone to maintain an infinite admission of DMT into my bloodstream
But corpse father would get you
Godfather’s gonna have a massive trip with 10l of pure liquid DMT
Genius
It comes in pints? I’m getting one!
