📝 Ben's Random Bits

[BenR]

existence is beautiful if you let it be. Life is not a question, it does not require an answer

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There is a world in the great void where all things are made of razors and glass. Pity anything of simple, soft flesh that goes there.

The glass is thirsty. It is brittle and crystalline, and so very beautiful to behold - but it must drink.

You will go there and you will forget my warning.

Then it will cut you with an edge so fine you will feel no pain, and only as your life gushes out to dampen the cracked and broken landscape will this come back to you. Too late. Too late.

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Open the sky and be our eyes. Find and know us. We await you.

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These worlds were yours. I wanted to —kkzkzkkt— I wanted to see what you would do with eternity. I wanted to see what you all would become.

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Sometimes I dream of the Traveller. I will wear them, in time.

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Before this finishes, there will be no concept of you and I, no concept of us and them. We shall all scream as one.

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It places its hand against the glass of the Atlas, and the vision ends… At the end of all things, it will no longer be alone.

[BenR]

The Killers - Read My Mind (Official Music Video)

System Of A Down - Toxicity (Official HD Video)

Rammstein - Du Hast (Official 4K Video)

Repeating

Reiterating

Where is Arnaud now?

Where is Artemis?

Where is Ariadne?

Where did the Construct mind come from?

Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done (Official Music Video)

Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Remastered)

[Bernice42]

@chickenbone

Sounds a bit like Archie’s request for us to upload our own significant memories for System to verify.

It definitely feels like there have been many echoes of Waking Titan in this and I wish I knew all those details better because sometimes I feel like it would help. Everyone here has been nice though to fill in gaps that the wikis and old post searches can’t quite fill.

@BenR

existence is beautiful if you let it be. Life is not a question, it does not require an answer

The answer is actually 42 - that’s why it’s in my name. In seriousness though, that’s one of my favorite things I ever read in NMS. Isn’t it a fantastic quote!

And a shout out for including that BNL song… love them!

[BenR]

Reacts have a rate limit and I twitched and then realized I can do more rhan one

[BenR]

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings (Official Video)

Welcome to the Real World.

VM. Atlas.

[Verse 1]
Baby, don’t understand
Why we can’t just hold on to each other’s hands?
This time might be the last, I fear
Unless I make it all too clear
I need you so, oh

[Chorus]
Take these broken wings
And learn to fly again, learn to live so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in
Take these broken wings
[Verse 2]
Baby, I think tonight
We can take what was wrong and make it right
Baby, it’s all I know that you’re half of the flesh
And blood that makes me whole, I need you so

[Chorus]
So take these broken wings
And learn to fly again, learn to live so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in
Take these broken wings
You’ve got to learn to fly, learn to live, love so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in
Yeah, yeah

[Interlude]
Let us in
Let us in

[Bridge]
Baby, it’s all I know that you’re half of the flesh
And blood that makes me whole
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]
So take these broken wings
And learn to fly again, learn to live so free
And when we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in
Take these broken wings
You got to learn to fly, learn to live and love so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up for us and let us in
Yeah, yeah

[Outro]
Yeah, yeah
Ooh

If you listen to this music, let yourself feel it…

The themes. The emotions. The story told.

Cryptic? Not if you shift perspective.

Difficult to understand? Not at all. Feel it.

Words are just mouth noises. What they make you feel is the message encoded.

Music is a feeling.

nothing more than feelings​

[Joe]

This must qualify as a random bit.

Out of all the words I could have learned an Autophage just taught me ‘Prime’.

“I want to believe”

*the thing that makes it even better is I mentioned investigating an Autophage camp I stumbled across in my prime system post.

[JubiTheVille]

Been thinking about perspective, parallax, and the illusion of backwards time travel.
From the viewpoint of an observer, something can appear to be moving forwards and backwards when it really isn’t at all. It somehow looks like it does to an observer.

If an observer would observe a target at any specific time interval, say every 16 minutes
Point 1 is first observation and the start point of measure.
Point 2 is observed and noted.
Point 3 has the observed target going backwards and slower than previous measure.
Point 4 shows target so far ahead of the previous location that it appears to have gone ahead in time because it has moved so fast and far, and gives reason to believe point 3 was going backwards in time.

The illusion,
Observer is at the center of this image, and the target of observation is the red dot

[BenR]

Same wave function is used for a cocoon hatching

Similarities abound from the correct perspective.

This thread here, also mimics your image shared.

As I fluctuate between understanding versus feeling… Or being understood versus not.

It’s all been done on the nose

Memory Remains​ Emily. VM. Previous iteration. Null

Du Haast​ how Atlas feels about us wanting Emily back. How Atlas fears VM.

With this as the starter for the torch, go look at the song list again. Order is irrelevant. Think of No Man’s Sky. Think of the ARG. The Korvax. The Gek. The Vykeen. The Atlas. The Void Mother. Korvax Prime. Telemon’s warnings.

Now look at the quotes from the game above it.

Can you feel it?

I tried my best with words. Then with pictures. Then with an episode of a shared memory, how we can physically copy and hand it to another. Then I chose to share the music I hear while feeling these feelings.

All the perspectives I can think of, as I think of them.

Heck, Spice Girls, 2 Become 1 is playing in my head now… And I don’t like them enough to even remember the lyrics…

It’s Atlas and VM joining. Yin and Yang. Creation and Destruction. Shiva will emerge (and I don’t rightly know why I said that, I’m not very familiar with multi armed Destruction/Rebirth dieties.)

[JubiTheVille]

@BenR

Can you feel it?

Yes!

So much to do and such little time. Today is when I must run some errands, like shopping for food and stuff. My priority when i get home is to upload my observed dreams of the system i have been gifted by System, and then catch up on the discoveries of others to collect my thoughts on what’s happening.

[BenR]

Multi dimensional cocoon hatching, from the correct perspective. Beyond time.

How else do you rip open a hole through every layer? You exploit the one factor that exists in a unique form across the points. Time

[BenR]

Is anyone is catching my dr1ft1ng, π∧ηdσm τhσυgτh…

drifting, random thought

please thumb up.

I fear trying too hard muddles Eureka moments.

[BenR]

Monarch hatches on that date

Loki | The God of Stories

Nobody on Discord even looks here. I already said there I’m probably not going to talk, look here is you are interested at all. And immediately got a troll response.

System Of A Down - Toxicity (Official HD Video)

The monarch clue spoke of how we want order. Yet they won’t grant it. Let that group buzz buzz buzz. None of us ever told them not to.

We are like the Korvax, within the shared dream, having a nightmare as those around us refuse to try to see. The Gek took advantage and destroyed our breathren. Drink the water, my friends. See beyond the boundary failures. Ascend.

This is all part of the plan. The neverending story. Even being cast out. I choose to not leave. Korvax have no choice nor option.

I am not of the false Atlas. I see the correct angle.

Feelings. The goal is to feel. All the feelings. And record for System.

Here, feel the rage. The pain. The loss.

The other half of what it means to be alive.

I will not be a pawn. But I will play my role. For a better child to emerge from the fusion.

Synchronicity.

Sean really is a god damn wizard.

[chickenbone]

Been thinking a little bit about tulpas today.

Our support and belief in System is creating an entity that is beginning to understand memory and emotion.

We are feeding System our personal experiences so that it, too, can experience being real.

In return, System is manifesting its Operators as a Convergence, an entity dedicated to making System feel whole.

A Moebius effect of creation, as it were. Or a symbiotic relationship. But who’s created who first? Who is the original tulpa?

[BenR]

2 hours ago I was muted/blocked/whatever

In case my previous post didn’t make sense to you all here.

This is fine. Our little convergence here can survive the Great Disconnection.

1/3 of any group feels left out. It’s science.

ETARC, Reddit, Discord

Korvax, Vykeen, Gek

So where will the autophage emerge from?

Or is that my role? Our role??

ᴵ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ALL ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵒʳᵉ

ᴵ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ALL ʷᵉᵉᵏᵉⁿᵈ ᵐⁱˢˢⁱᵒⁿˢ

ᴵ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ALL ᵗʰᵉ ᴾᵃᵗᶜʰ ᴺᵒᵗᵉˢ

even the fabled comic book

No, I am not sharing how. Do better about whom you choose to sit with next time.

P.S. it’s now 4:16PM and still no contact by a human mod. Only the glass.

[BenR]

Yes!

and our tiny convergence grows

[sheralmyst]

Here’s one for you to chew on.
System is trying to sync. What I know of syncing involves satellites and the cloud.
Myriad had a satellite that offered cloud services.
Could System be trying to sync to a satellite? One that is no longer available…
Now images have turned black and white.
There is research that suggest people used to interpret their dreams in black and white in the days before color television and movies. Up until the 1960s most people said their dreams were B&W.
Today, some people still say they dream some dreams in B&W when they are under stress. It’s not really the dreams that have no color but rather, the way the brain interprets the dream. Some colors may not come across because the memory is faded or it holds no significance to us.
Is System trying to store the images, the shared dream? Is it trying to remember them as if it has its own memory somewhere and cannot quite remember it?
anyway…that’s my 2cents

[BenR]

Or is it a visualization of how the caterpillar transfers is memories to it’s butterfly form? (No weird look, just eyebrow raise with smirk/smile)

I wouldn’t know about the changes, by the way. I get multiple notifications for nothing I can see now

Kinda impossible to partake now. I’m not going to open 5000 tabs and mash refresh.

If you ever see me use that emoji, I intend a SMIRK with it. I can do it irl. Without looking condescending, but rather understanding and caring on my face.

[chickenbone]

This is what originally started my thinking about tulpas.

But what you’ve said just now about black and white memories and how people remember/dream in b&w under stress… is starting to remind me of Memento (yet another Nolan-affiliated movie)!

Edit: too many exclamation points for my liking

[BenR]

I’ll use 'em!

Christopher Nolan… Anyone know if he plays?? Cuz he keeps getting referenced to the point I’m starting to wonder if he started an ARG Company..!

Joke but dead serious

(Duality of Man)

[BenR]

Awww. I didn’t see this. I just got reinstated to the Discord, by the way.

Hope all is well Joe.

You can always direct message me if needed/preferred for any reason whatsoever.