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Never been high, but from how I've had it described to me it's a distinctly different sensation from that ASMR thingy, which is something I picked up the trick of consciously inducing... over a decade ago? It's good stuff. Music can make it easier, but it's mostly a breathing and concentration thing. Can get it to go pretty much full body with a little effort... s'kinda' like a very pervasive static charge, really.

Relatively certain the phenomena is at least partially responsible for some (a lot?) of the work behind chakra theory. Sensation's a little too close to some of the described physical aspects of that stuff to be a coincidence, imo.

Kill the "faceless mook" trope.

That's... pretty limiting to the whole field of escapism and entertainment and whatnot. Y'already hear a lot of complaint (and occasional backlash) towards making the "bad guys" relatable or whatev', because (among other reasons) it makes everything same-y. And part of the reason many turn to fiction to begin with is to be able to deal with simple scenarios. It's reasonable to not go the other way and have nothing but blunt good/evil stuff, but too far in either direction hurts the world of storytelling. Cuts off so many possibilities at the knee.

I mean... you'd have to ditch the Zerg. And the Orkz. All sorts of robot uprisings. Pretty much the entire zombie subgenre. Almost anything caste based (in the sense of ants and whatnot) that have part of their species non-sentient. Just... a lot. Faceless mooks provide a lot of opportunities to storytelling ;_;

If we suddenly became a part of an interstellar community this very moment, would all video games with aliens be racist?

Presumably only if there were notably similarities between said video games and actually existent aliens. Though they don't have to look similar. Cultural similarities or whathaveyou is enough for stuff like that.

Seriously though, if we need antagonists, we got Orcs. And Orkz. Stuff like that. Just invent something, make sure it doesn't notably resemble any current day groups (with sufficient clout to make a fuss, anyway >_>), and go to town.

Aaannndddd now I'm wondering what the divine equivalent to a pair of concrete shoes and involuntary trip to the bay would be...

Does sound like something I'd call a good idea, though. Extraplanar jerkwad muscling in on the territory, time to break some theologikneecaps.

Not something I've experienced on a mobile, yet, but an e-textbook properly set up for digital use (as opposed to just being a scanned physical textbook with nothing else done to it) is honestly kinda' amazing. Good hotlinking, a well constructed and easily accessible index and searching option(s), and the ability to have open multiple instances? Bloody golden. Massive usability improvement over a paper textbook, which is a bit of a pain in the arse to use after properly experiencing some decently set up .pdfs and whatnot.

Admittedly, I've never seen all of those features in one place, but still. Almost all complaints I regularly see about digital text is methodology problems, not hardware ones. And methodology problems can be fixed. Will be, as the technology and use becomes (more) ubiquitous.

What would an atheist nun dress like?

Business casual.

What would they do?

Go about life like anyone else, just without the theism-related bits.

You maaay be thinking of SMBX, or some variation on it (likely a variation, since the base doesn't have Megaman). Actually think there was a third project besides the flash game and SMBX that did a mario crossover thing, but the name's escaping me at the moment...

Ninja'd: Ooh, that's the other one. And probably the one you're thinking of Niv.