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 Post subject: A Stoat Story: Audience Participation Edition
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I was having trouble thinking of any ideas for my (by now much-delayed) epic about stoats, so I decided it would be fun to do something along the line of Meji's plan. I think it'll be easier to contort a plot to hit a bunch of predefined targets than to make one up on my own for something like this. Yes, I have unusual ways of being lazy.

Anyway, here's how the game works: Throw out random elements that I have to involve in the story somehow (They can be anything you want, but I'd appreciate it if you stayed away from proper nouns, as they can be a pain to integrate). See the Meji's plan thread for the type of thing we're talking about. At some point, I'll cut off the submissions and try to make a story which includes all the elements, and if sucessful will be awarded with a harem of glasses-wearing redheaded catgirls, or something. Simple enough?

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That sickening and infuriating feeling you get when you dream you make and extra step at the tip of the stairs and instead of your foot falling hard on to the floor, your foor goes right around to the underside of the top step and you jolt awake thinking that you've falllen; or an aproximation thereof.

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That sickening and infuriating feeling you get when you dream you make and extra step at the tip of the stairs and instead of your foot falling hard on to the floor, your foor goes right around to the underside of the top step and you jolt awake thinking that you've falllen; or an aproximation thereof.


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Oh, rad. How about the time-warp-expecting everything and suprised by nothing-everything sounds scripted-wading through quicksand feeling?

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Oh, rad. How about the time-warp-expecting everything and suprised by nothing-everything sounds scripted-wading through quicksand feeling?

yeah.... you're going to have to explain that one.

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I'll be off topic if I do, but it's easy to skip over my posts.


When I was small and had a terrible dream about a metal meadow and a horrifying needle obelisk that was so sharp it would split the little meadow dwellers in two. Since then, once or twice a year, when I'm in the middle of something with some concentration, time seems to slow waaaay down. My thoughts seem to go twice as fast as everything else, as well as my own body, and everything external seems expected, right on cue, as if I'd already read the script. I feel as if I'm wading through water, and nothing suprises me or seems spontaneous, and even music, which I try to listen to to escape, is so stultified by its own overrehearsed torpor that it's no help. Wears off after fifteen minutes or so, but man, is it freaky. Mom says it's a magical trance, but I think there's something wrong with my brains.

I hope there's a name for it.

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I'll be off topic if I do, but it's easy to skip over my posts.


When I was small and had a terrible dream about a metal meadow and a horrifying needle obelisk that was so sharp it would split the little meadow dwellers in two. Since then, once or twice a year, when I'm in the middle of something with some concentration, time seems to slow waaaay down. My thoughts seem to go twice as fast as everything else, as well as my own body, and everything external seems expected, right on cue, as if I'd already read the script. I feel as if I'm wading through water, and nothing suprises me or seems spontaneous, and even music, which I try to listen to to escape, is so stultified by its own overrehearsed torpor that it's no help. Wears off after fifteen minutes or so, but man, is it freaky. Mom says it's a magical trance, but I think there's something wrong with my brains.

I hope there's a name for it.


Deja Vu. Happens often to me as well.


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When I was small and had a terrible dream about a metal meadow and a horrifying needle obelisk that was so sharp it would split the little meadow dwellers in two.

I fail to see the connection with the rest of the post. Did you have the feeling immediately after waking up or something?


I've gotten something similar, but it's more a feeling that I've definitely done what I'm doing before. Happens during conversations mostly, not a nice feeling. It rarely lasts for more than a minute or so though, certainly nothing like 15. That would indeed sucketh.

Assuming one isn't actually engaging in something similar to a previous experience, deja vu most likely has some fairly simple neurological explanation. The best proposed explanation I've seen involves incoming events being incorrectly filed into long-term memory rather than short-term. I would assume, to use a computer analogy, that the access/decompression time for long term memory is higher, which could explain the feeling of slowness if your brain is doing all its work in it rather than the more accessible short-term "space" (quoted because I don't know that short-and long-term memory are necessarily divided by region in the brain). Since long-term memories are usually things from the past rather than the present, it would also explain why current happenings seem like they took place already.

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Anyway, back to nonsensical story elements, you munkees! I need a few more to make a proper epic...

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Wandering Idiot wrote:

Assuming one isn't actually engaging in something similar to a previous experience, deja vu most likely has some fairly simple neurological explanation. The best proposed explanation I've seen involves incoming events being incorrectly filed into long-term memory rather than short-term. I would assume, to use a computer analogy, that the access/decompression time for long term memory is higher, which could explain the feeling of slowness if your brain is doing all its work in it rather than the more accessible short-term "space" (quoted because I don't know that short-and long-term memory are necessarily divided by region in the brain). Since long-term memories are usually things from the past rather than the present, it would also explain why current happenings seem like they took place already.


I think I remember that when information is recalled from the long-term memory it is first moved to the short-term memory, which is computer-analogous to RAM. Information must also be held in the "RAM" and processed before it is filed into the long-term memory. This makes it more or less impossible for information to be filed from the sensory memory (like a buffer between the keyboard and the RAM) directly into the long-term memory (disk). I feel that deja vu is more likely caused by chemical miscommunication between the memory portion of the brain and the spinal cord/PNS.

I experience both deja vu and the feeling Spools is talking about, but then I don't sleep much. I think perhaps that the root cause of the phenomenon is some kind of deja vu-like imbalance magnified by the influence of magical trance goblins.

Coincidentally, the first story element I'd like to suggest is magical goblin DJs that spin trance music. Also, the "teeny little superguy" character from Sesame Street must figure heavily into a story arc that will appear early in the story but ultimately go nowhere. Last, the protagonist/s must come to the shocking conclusion (during the climax of the story) that the universe is indeed "totally like a neutron or some shit, and all of our neutrons are like other universes or something. woah."


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I think I remember that when information is recalled from the long-term memory it is first moved to the short-term memory, which is computer-analogous to RAM. Information must also be held in the "RAM" and processed before it is filed into the long-term memory. This makes it more or less impossible for information to be filed from the sensory memory (like a buffer between the keyboard and the RAM) directly into the long-term memory (disk). I feel that deja vu is more likely caused by chemical miscommunication between the memory portion of the brain and the spinal cord/PNS.

My idea was that the brain using long-term memory structures/methods was the equivalent of a computer having to do all its work in virtual memory (the hard disk) rather than RAM (which is I believe technically possible with enough finagling, but would be extremely slow and laggy).


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Also, the "teeny little superguy" character from Sesame Street

All I remember is Super Grover. This sounds like one of those lame latter-day Sesame Street characters (like the bear) that inhabit its now lame entirely virtual sets (do they even have an actual "street" set anymore?) Lame!

Still, tiny Superman, shouldn't be hard.

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"Teeny little superguy, pops right out before your eyes, he's no bigger than your thumb, snap your fingers, here I come!"

... I remembered that far too easily.


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 Post subject: You can't tell a hero by his size!
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REFERENCE PHOTO STOLEN FROM NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY AND LEECHED FROM SOME POOR SUCKER'S PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT

No, the guy is old-school. Wikipedia says 1982, periodically re-aired throughout the 90's, which is when I would have caught it.

He must appear only in cup form and can perhaps serve as imagery for the protagonist's feelings or can simultaneously live out the protagonist's life in a wildly different timeline for really no reason at all.


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