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The Griefer Future
Nice little future you got there. Hate to see something bad happen to it.
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Posted by Patrick on 06/29 at 04:53 PM
I experience a brief Salvia Divinorum episode last night. My identity and ego were temporarily suspended, I literally forgot who I was, and the next thing I realized the people in the room were saying inaudible things that were somehow clearly narrating my everythought. The din of the television documentarian mocked me, saying "he doesn't realize what's happening to him, he's struggling with a lack of control"; I turned away, towards the front door, the narrator continued: "now he's trying to shake off that feeling by looking away, but it isn't working. Of course, I was reconstructing aural fragments as a mirror of my own inner-narration, but there was this sense, coupled with the weighing of the body that salvia induces, that my every thought and move has been pre-planned and co-opted, that I was subject to the constricting and cruel joke of beings beyond my understanding or vision. It was a sense of being ontologically griefed.
I recommend it, it'll give you a sense of what a shriek crisis might be like, but with relative safety.
In games, possible moves, reactions and strategies can be enumerated, and griefing is generally most effective, in the context of the griefer's sadistitic aims, when it plays against the other player's psychology of agency, stripping it down slowly, mocking it. Most people react to this by logging off for a while, the equivilant of a powerful hallucenogen's flash flood being quickly swept away. Imagine if that state were ultimately inescapable and permanent.
Posted by Istvaan Shogaatsu on 07/29 at 06:39 PM
Well, aside from the salvia smoking moonbat posting above, this was an excellent article.
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