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one should not chase the electric dream, but strive to became an extension to its dreamer

Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

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Now that you're a surrealist, become a Techno-Mage:

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[–] _____@lemm.ee 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

all analogue nowhere characters are unreliable narrators and the actual plot is just a mixture of truth and brain chip glitch hallucinations

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

you may be closer to the truth than you realize.

Some say the entirety of the techno-mage plotline is OpenBlade relaying its adventures with the mage to Fosschild.

[–] _____@lemm.ee 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

someone out there is convinced that "may the source be with you" is the correct way of saying it but no one knows who's brain is glitched

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Chances are the chronologically last panel of it all is just a CS student waking up in their dorm, rubbing their eyes and saying 'what a fucked up dream.'

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm.... there are a lot of references that a current CS student isn't going to get. More like an oldschool hacker (in the traditional sense of the word) whose mind is going. But I hope you don't go that route, because "it was all just a dream" is a cliche.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

This is what Neo was dreaming of in The Matrix right before the prompt awakens him.