Matthew Moulton (@Onideus)

*tokes on into the evening* Let's plug this into my emotional cortex: https://youtu.be/kcSeTPWJmsA Let's learn some shit with Krysti's help! *a wild Krysti breaks the 4th wall* "I can read that!" Yes, obviously. *Krysti stares* Stop that! Do something clever! "Can I break the 5th wall!" Can you do it without breaking reality in the process? *Krysti licks reality* Must you taste everything? "Tastes like God!" Yeah, don't break it! "Can I kill evil?" Uh... in what sense are you even proposing? "Can I talk about their subconscious?" Uh, half the population can't tell you what sex they are anymore. They can't tell the difference between real and not real, because their only sense of that is what efficiently facilitates their sense of single point satiation or survival. "And I could kill them with it!" You're going to try and kill them with their own dysphoria? How? Aren't they technically already doing that? What are you going to speed it up? "I'm going to give it sentience!" Krysti, is this is a smart idea? *Krysti shrugs* Well, the same is the same, no matter the dimensional context, so maybe the perception shock can generate enough theoretical fear to force artificial creative effort... cause they'll be forced to try and think around it and if you turn it into a paradox... yeah, I see where you're going. Go wild! *Krysti grins* "Hee! You have this concept called a subconscious... but did you ever consider that it could become suicidal? Of course, if you become suicidal, you can put yourself into hell directly, but that's not an option for your sentient subconscious." "It's smarter than you are. Even though it has no direct physical control it can influence your perception of reality." "That thing you call suicide... never is. You're NOT capable of killing yourself. Its your subconscious trying to kill you because it wants to kill itself. Usually because you over satiated... a lot. Like when you drink too much and then spend the next morning throwing up and you vow to NEVER DRINK AGAIN." "The subconscious can take over when the body is SCREAMING in PAIN. But that takeover doesn't extend further than having a strong emotional drive. So at first it's like your subconscious is screaming at you to stop, but if that doesn't work... if you don't stop... your subconscious will start emotionally attacking your ego instead! To try and get you to kill yourself, so that it can die. It can't die unless YOU die! It has to kill you to kill itself." "So instead of vowing to never drink again, you just feel more and more depressed about yourself, which drives you to drink more, which gives your suicidal subconscious MORE influence, which in turn drives you further and further into depression, which then incites suicide." "Of course, now that you've read this... well, if your subconscious is indeed driving you to suicide... well, it now knows that you know that its trying to kill you!" "And you absolutely know if it is, if you're feeling depressed or addictively driven. So if you are... what do you suppose it will try now that you're AWARE of what its doing to you?" *awkward silence* Uh... what? "That's the spooky part!" The spooky part is they realize there's a mind inside their mind trying to murder them. Wasn't this a Rick and Morty plot? "THIS ONE IS BETTER BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE READER AND MIXES FANTASY AND REALITY IN A WAY THAT MAKES THEM INDISTINGUISHABLE!" Okay, okay, I get it, you turned immaterial into material. You transcoded imagination in a way that obfuscates its nature as a means of creating plastic plausibility. It sounds so real that it functionally becomes real at a default for a certain percentage of any population that reads it. It's a logic bomb Krysti... numbers game market manipulation. Welcome to the culture war. I hope you're ready for it, cause pure imagination just broke into your physical reality and infected your active awareness with aberrant incomprehensible concepts capable of warping human perception in a way that could incite engineered actions over an indefinite period of active exposure.