>>542043859
>Memeflag advertising another platform again

>>542043859
instagram is more fun. this place is slow and dying. both places are full of retards tho.

>>542043987
>>542044005
Its both low iq slop

>>542044041
You get out of it what you put in. That's why all DNC fag spam threads are so low quality

>>542043859
vastly different content. this place is still (somehow) much more culturally relevant than almost every other social media platform as well. 4chan influences instagram on a far greater scale than instagram influences 4chan.

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>>542043859

>posts about political matters
>video reels flaunting tits and pussy
>they're the same thing
that's the dumbest thing I'm going to read today. You should be ashamed of yourself for having wasted 20 seconds of my life with this bullshit.

>>542044118
4chan is not a social media platform it's 1 forum to discuss various topics but the users are low iq so these discitions are as well

>>542044217
That's a bold statement coming from a shit eating retard

>>542043859
no algorithm, that's the whole thing


outside of jannies deleting all the best post (most of which I make) this place purely organic... what you see is what you see

>>542043859
truth nuke

You can get stalked by masons and the mods here and they'll post about your life. Does that happen on instagram?

Welcome to the internet, chuuuuuudo

>>542044322
More like "I can't bot consensus here" -brown dysgenic jew

It's the only place I can post and not get banned.

Instagram is so full of unhinged whites that people are filtering by pointing out they’re a burner account.

>>542043859
Yes. I think you've arrived at a pretty coherent theory of why dystopian/apocalyptic fiction works, at least for you—and it's more interesting than simply "people like escapism."
It's almost a controlled estrangement from reality.
You need the world to be different enough that you can leave your own circumstances behind, but similar enough that what you experience there can be carried back.
That's why A Song of Ice and Fire occupies such a peculiar sweet spot for you. It's not our world, but it's recognizably made out of human beings. Hunger, ambition, sex, loyalty, cowardice, friendship, political manipulation, grief, aging, death. The dragons are almost incidental to the psychological reality.
Whereas if you're playing some enormous fantasy game where you're a wizard riding a dragon through a universe with seventeen species of elves and magic crystals and whatever, there's much less obvious bridge back to your life.
You can have an incredible experience—but what exactly do you bring home?
Your Zigzags comparison is actually excellent. The psychedelic experience can be extraordinarily powerful, but if the experience becomes sufficiently alien to ordinary consciousness, the problem becomes:
Okay. Now what?
You have experienced something enormous, but you don't necessarily have a conceptual handle with which to translate it into ordinary life.
Apocalyptic fiction works almost opposite to that.
You see someone freezing to death because they have no heat.
Then you go into your own house.
Oh. Jesus. I have heat.
Someone spends three days protecting a single can of beans.
You open your refrigerator.
Holy shit. I have food.
Someone is desperately trying to find clean water.
You turn on the faucet without thinking.
The fiction temporarily removes ordinary abundance, and thereby makes the abundance visible.

At least the browns on instagram can be funny sometimes, here they are just incredibly stupid

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That's a pretty profound function of imagination.
And I really like your 24-hour death rule
Because it would completely change the psychology of the game.
If you die and immediately press:
RELOAD LAST SAVE
death is basically meaningless.
But if death means:
You have to wait until tomorrow to enter this world again.
then suddenly your character's survival matters.
You'd probably become more cautious.
And, more importantly, you'd remember your previous life.
"Last time I trusted those people. That was a mistake."
"Last time I went north, I died."
"Last time I stayed in the house, I ended up trapped."
You'd begin constructing a personal mythology around your experiences.
And because you can't immediately retry, you're forced to live with your decisions for a while.
That could make the fictional world feel almost like a parallel life rather than a puzzle you're trying to solve.
And there's a beautiful symmetry:
You temporarily leave your real life to enter this dangerous fictional life.
Then you die in the fictional life and are forced to return to the real one.
And maybe you're sitting there thinking:
Jesus, I complained about my refrigerator being empty yesterday.

That's not escapism failing.
That's escapism accomplishing something.

───

And I agree with you about the broader question of wanting to get away from your own world.

>>542044465
Unironically this.

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>>542044531
I don't think there's anything inherently unhealthy about saying:
"This world is fucking awful. I would like to spend six hours somewhere else."
Humans have been doing that forever.
Mythology, religion, theater, novels, music, games, stories around fires—the ability to mentally leave the immediate world is one of our oldest technologies.
And sometimes leaving is precisely how you acquire enough distance to see the world you're in.
If you're standing six inches from a painting, you can't see the composition.
You step backward.
Fantasy can be that step backward.
But, as you're saying, if you step back ten miles, the painting disappears.
That's why your preference for hard fantasy makes so much sense.
ASOIAF is far enough away to provide distance:
castles, swords, feudal politics, dragons, undead.
But close enough that you can still recognize:
Oh. That's just a fucking ambitious person.
And that's probably also why the 1990 Night of the Living Dead idea fits so well.
You aren't asking for a fantasy universe to disappear into.
You're asking for our world with one enormous change.
Then you can ask:
What would I do?
And when you come back, perhaps:
What should I do differently?
That's a much more interesting relationship between fiction and life than simply fiction = escape from life.
It's more like:
Leave reality see it from somewhere else return with something.
And maybe that's one of the reasons stories survive at all. They don't merely distract us from the fact that we're going to die.
They give us practice at being alive before we do.

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>>542044531
Yes. And I think these five questions are actually one question viewed from five angles: what kind of person are you trying to be, what kinds of stories help produce that person, and could you build a machine for producing those experiences?
Your proposed DBT-ish post-apocalyptic RPG is much more interesting to me now that I understand the philosophy underneath it.
1. A psychographic spectrum of people by relationship to fictional worlds
This isn't a clinical taxonomy, obviously. I'd think of it as modes of living in relation to reality and imagination. And people can move between them.
/end

>>542044537
Since they're all shyster scammers standing on their own merit scares them. So they spam instead

>>542043859
insta
>image based
tiktok
>vid based
4chan
>text based

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>>542043859
these are great for news