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Childhood: me: I’m just a nerd others: fuck that... you’re special me: I’m special? Oh shit! Get a load of me! others: fuck you, you ain’t special me: huh. I’m guess I’m not special. That’s kind of a relief. anybody can do what I do! people: fuck you, you’re not normal me: https://t.co/Oo0zzKyI6q
this actually summarizes a lot of the spirit of this in a nicely small space https://t.co/ROduXA7PwW
you can't be for everyone, so... https://t.co/ZASoaHzUKZ
One of the games I‘m playing on Twitter is to seek out as many other infinite players as I can. Every time an additional infinite player joins a game, the game gets more interesting. A handful makes a scene. Infinite-player scenes invent the future But the play is the point https://t.co/M14upRypDe
one of the tragedy of the commons is that public players attract posers. If the player is not careful, they'll get overwhelmed by posers, who will then drown them with their non-player attempts at love and support. This is part of what drives celebs nuts https://t.co/JFXNGWhMez
an additional confounding factor: not only do most people not have any real creative vision or ambition... many people entertain themselves by PRETENDING that they do most people want their lives to be sitcoms that pretend to be adventures https://t.co/vEsESFYja4
people can drown you without any malicious intent https://t.co/toFiduTkuq
And the thing is - I know these particular folks weren’t *trying* to waste my time. They were usually just engaging with me the only way they know how. But these over-enthusiastic people can drag you into the sea and drown you without any malicious intent https://t.co/jfm2ws3VPT
psychographic differences https://t.co/2lvQicLLBy
I believe I went to bed thinking “I’m a spider that builds elaborate webs. people call me weird for doing it, and then say I’m lucky when I catch opportunities with them.” And I woke up with - we all have different psychic webs, psycho-graphs, and they catch the world differently https://t.co/Vj04lOtgKj
