Dramatic amounts of caffeine and sugar is nothing. Long ago when I was in my 20s and 30s I was told that it seemed to have the opposite effect and calm me down.

Mullard VPN marketing dept has a Lemmy account?

Moe Szyslak has finally had enough of the prank phone calls.

You arrive to desolate and wonderfully silent Antarctica.

For a time you are alone and happy in your isolation. Soon enough, thoughts start to slowly infiltrate your sleep and later your waking world. You can’t understand them. They are weird and very distressing. Over time you are having difficulty thinking clearly. You want to run but you cannot. You want to scream but you cannot for the thoughts are so upsetting. Your days and nights are spent in abject terror as you feel your mind slipping. Your essential nature being pulled away from you. Even more frightening is that you are starting to understand and interpret images, thoughts, and ideas, but they are so… Alien.

From the aliens.

The aliens that long ago crashed here on earth. To keep themselves alive they merged themselves with their spacecraft in an unholy combination of life and technology. They have been trapped by time, buried under the ice, waiting. Slowly the machine intelligence has been corrupted, the living minds fractured and the remaining combined intelligence is insane, mavolent, and hungry for new thoughts and ideas. Your mind is but the first. Your arrival has awoken them from a deep slumber. The ice that has kept them from humanity is melting.

You, (are you a individual any longer?) hunger with them for thoughts that are not your own.

This would have infer that your shape shifting skill had the ability to mimic not just their DNA but their nueral patterns as well. Without that you are again just left with instinct and a blank slate brain with no memory or knowledge.

You can’t turn it off or filter out any thoughts and are lost in a cacophony of thoughts bombarding you every second from evey living thing. Even isolation isnt a relief as the animals and insects asail you with their primitive instinctual thoughts.

Your brain shape shifts as well into an exact copy of the animal you mimic. You have the intelligence of the creature you turn into. Which means a one way trip as any coherent logical human thoughts is driven out by animal instincts.

The Fly - 1986

Before I even hit the link I knew what this was. Kudos!

They were running at $9.99 if I remember correctly. Just finished a 5 hr drive, the stopover at Cracker Barrel was a pitstop en route.

Saw this just the other day here…

It’s the Torment Nexus dilemma.

I don’t see any thumbs on that hand!

Spock with goatee: Good evening, glorious night for fishing, wouldn’t you say? Muah hu muah muah ha ha

abberration arbor-ation

I suspect you called me out to do this by your choice of words. I appreciate it.

Abhorrent Arbor-ent thief.

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

Probably my fifth go around with this book. First time listening to it on audiobook.

Ghosts pass through solid wall/door. Celebrate finding a key. Unfortunately they cannot remove it from the room as it is solid and cannot pass through matter like they can. Ghosts get depressed about this.

You lift them from the bottom and there is a system of gears and springs (citation needed) that assist with them being raised and hold them in place.

Pull them down from the bottom and they come down (with some resistance).

Astroturfing on Lemmy? We must be getting big!