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Godzilla (Japan). In one zap of the breath weapon takes out 100,000 people. No pause for reflection or comment on the meaning of it. Just immediately cut to next scene.

We don't do that in USA

Immortal 2004. (A very kickass movie if you haven't) (French). Horus (The egyptian god) has this relationship with Nickopol (badass poet/politician). It's hilarious. Horus sees humans as at best children or pets or disposable tools. There's no aside or smirk or "yeah but..". No, they just go with it 100%. 100%! That's something you don't see too often.

What I'm asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?

It might set a certain mood. You feast upon the global conversational banquet, yet you still feel hungry.

One thing I think about is the incredible poverty of text.

When you look at a word you get a meaning. But that meaning, it comes mostly from your entire life's experience, your memory, what you've been taught. That's huge. And the word is very very small, comparatively.

So when you're reading, 99% of the content is coming from you. So reading is basically you just talking to yourself. And social media is a million people talking to themselves.

And that's pretty weird.

I would teach arts and crafts to grade school kids. I'm really good at that stuff (I even have a degree). And I have a good course plan worked out.

Everybody tells me I'd last about an hour tho. I am not good with stress. Grade school kids have like 3x normal energy.

Every single time. I just like it.

making roguelike content. Mazes, monsters etc

It's one example of a common disease. So I figured it bore discussion. Now put it back in your pants and zip up.

The best weird ideas are framed as hard science fiction.

Here are 3 good ones

Fine Structure by qntm ( https://qntm.org/structure . Free)

Friendship is Optimal by Iceman ( https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal . Free)

Axiomatic by Greg Egan (it's a collection of short stories. Nonfree. Google it)

I said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it.

And by "do it" I meant (in reply to TootSweet@lemmy.world) that it would justify anger at the accused.

That's pretty far from truth. It's putting my trust in an authority.

But to address your point.

To treat fiction and reality as equally real. And treat our responses to either as having equal substance. Seems deranged to me.