This post reminded me of the time my phone fell out of my hoodie pocket into the toilet just as I flushed it. It span around and disappeared! Ten seconds later it poked back into sight. I rescued it but it was dead. Fortunately the sim card still worked when I bought a new phone.
That's exactly how my toilet-dropped phone events happened! Twice! I have since learned to never put a phone in a hoodie pocket. (Easier done than said, since i now no longer own any hoodies...)
In my natural life, I'm on the other end of the techno spectrum... I grew up on horses with a mother obsessed with The Old West (which was convenient, since we live in what is LEFT of the Old West...) it was all cowboys and powwows and stagecoaches and rattlesnakes for me
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If you're talking about Z-machines from the text adventure days, I have a game recommendation that might be up your alley: Kentucky Route Zero. It is a surrealist adventure where you wander through rural America meeting interesting people. It has a lot of references (both in how it plays and in the content) to classic text-based adventure games. http://kentuckyroutezero.com/... )
Kentucky Route Zero sounds cool.. and I will try it out! Any decent text adventure seems surreal/fantastical in general. There is a real conundrum in trying to find The Right Thing To Say/Do to make something happen. Not just smashing boxes looking for treasure in video games... but trying to think of a problem from the inside out and actively using the language of the gameworld itself
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Mike Judge really nails modern culture in a way that hits closer to home than most satiricists. Silicon Valley is so close to the reality of working in the tech industry that people who don't work in it can't believe it when i tell them it's practically a documentary
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Ten seconds later it poked back into sight. I rescued it but it was dead. Fortunately the sim card still worked when I bought a new phone.
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