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dystopian nightmare black comedy crystallise

setting

DMC on stan lee:

Stan Lee was brilliant. Stan Lee was a genius because he put the superheroes in New York. So when I read a Marvel comic book, it was real to me. Avengers Mansion is in Manhattan ... Oh shoot, Spider-Man’s from Queens, I’m from Queens too!

protagonist

not a programmer but something like it

senior environment monitoring technician at
worm protein garden
growtein industrial
growtein garden

struggles

noise

drilling at night dogs garbage trucks (some kind of weekly disturbance that recurs)

ceaseless inconvenience

sit down, get warm and comfortable, try to do something (read a book mayhbe)

please go outside and prove your location

blinding light takes a photo of you and fucks your vision up for 10 minutes

the todo list that only gets longer

taunts you ink like the tar of a lifetime smoking cigarettes oozes out of its mouth as it speaks the universe is playing against you. every time you play this card increase the number of items on it by 2 get another notebook? i can't. that would mean believing that an inanimate notebook has the power of speech. making an economical decision based on the subjective experience of something out of reality.

incompetence

offshore team that can't/won't do anything themselves have to figure out what kind of stupidity they are doing given clear instructions and errors will just ask for somebody to fix for them

dystopia 2025

opsec rent increase notice with a beautiful blue beach picture on the front !Pasted image 20251029090819.png

psychomedia

unnamed overseas villain trying to destroy the food internal villain `` which is corporate software of the parent company trying to get in / help

  • nothing gets better, nothing gets worse

    • things happen but nothing changes

    .. except..

  • programmers have essentially become wizards

  • even when things are obviously completely fucked they will keep going

    • crypto
    • the routine is immutable

the hurt

use scenes from the most extreme moments in life dostoyevsky going to the gallows serge aaron alex when jt leaves in the evening for the night shift

style

hallucinatory

barnacles in the sink holes in people parasites ahab's splintered brow and features the sails captain's eyebrows themselves, splintered timber