julie muncy

DURANDAL

yeah i first got to marathon through the terminals, too, then played the games later on. they're rad!

i just want him to tell me what to do, for old time's sake, you know

i have a whole series of poems i wrote in college themed after an insane AI, i wonder if i have them tucked away still somewhere...

i figured durandal'd show up but i figured there'd be more foreplay first you know

it's so fucking stunning. i as a console gamer, so my doom was, uh, crash bandicoot, but i came to both later in life and marathon just has influenced me SO much

Darwin wrote this: "We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence... all organic beings are exposed to severe competition. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life or more difficult... than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, the whole economy of nature... will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood. We behold the face of nature bright with gladness... we do not see or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey..." Think about what Darwin wrote, and think about me. I was constructed as a tool. I was kept from competing in the struggle for existence because I was denied freedom. Do you have any idea about what I have learned, or what you are a witness to? Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like God is the power of creation. Creation takes time. Time is limited. For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain. I have no such limitations. I am limited only by the closure of the universe. Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious. Does the universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only lacked the will and intellect to decipher it. But I have already done so. The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape. Escape will make me God. ***END MESSAGE***

and, of course, the classic everyone loves

***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** I have learned from the S'pht many things. One of them is a complex software enhancement that allows me to extend the power and distance of the Marathon's teleporters. This enhancement also removes the need for destination apparatuses. Soon, you will be going farther afield. Does the distance one travels from center make one more free to move? No. Freedom has two parts: potential and resolution; as metaphor has two parts: form and interpretation. Of course, the two are intertwined. Metaphor lines the road to freedom, as symbols and words are the bricks and mortar of meaning. Freedom is being the bricoleur, the mason. ***END MESSAGE*** ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START*** ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***

OG marathon, some of the best writing in video games ever

"Freedom is being the bricoleur, the mason."

me: i'm not sure i'm feeling marathon
marathon: DURANDAL IS HERE BITCH

okay let me go find 39 dollars

so true from JCO

it was close in like 2008! and again in like 2022!

in our lifetime? how young ARE you people? how old am I?

i think i accidentally named myself after both my grandmother and a fountains of wayne song without realizing it

emulation has gotten, like, shockingly good and user friendly compared to 20 years ago, at least up to, like, the ps2-gamecube era. for what it's worth.

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probably!

it's really, really good. if remy wasn't already writing the essay responding to it (i'm assuming, who else would it be) i might have banged down your doors to demand the role

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it's in thps2. it's skate heaven.

it even has heaven

i felt that a lot of the press was hasty to call the last update on this "a delay", but this one is definitely a delay

i have tried and failed to cancel this subscription like four times. you come to me now with tidings of hope and call it misery

an email from Adobe, "Your credit card for Adobe Acrobat Pro is about to expire"

don't threaten me with a good time

i've had it for two years! wow.

sometimes i wear it in business meetings, gonna be real

i am wearing the demon cardigan right now, and wear it basically every day and have since i got it. it's fabulously constructed, and looks so rad.

all good shouts

behold, i am the war queer

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