"That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)(starlightconvenience.net)
67 points by casmalia 5 hours ago | 13 comments
- Muromec 53 minutes agoThanks, it was refreshing to feel the imaginary horrors instead of living the ones that are happening.[-]
- DiscourseFan 27 minutes agoBut the truth often lies in the form of a thing, not its contents.
- throw310822 3 hours agoI usually don't leave this kind of comments, but I really can't read yellow text on dark red background for more than 20 seconds.[-]
- Groxx 1 hour agoOddly, I don't get the reader-mode option in Firefox for the site... one of these days I should probably figure out why that sometimes happens[-]
- mrec 53 minutes agoIt's an odd site design. Stories are loaded dynamically by script based on the URL fragment identifier; I'd imagine Reader Mode isn't geared toward that sort of thing.
I also wonder why they decided that hiding the scrollbar was a good idea.
- cpill 2 hours agoSave to Instapaper and read on Kobo ;-)
- varjag 3 hours agoGood read. Feels like Lena was among inspirations.[-]
- hirsin 2 hours agohttps://qntm.org/mmacevedo, for those unfamiliar, not the namesake of that story from digital graphics.[-]
- Groxx 1 hour agoAnd for the digital graphics people, consider using a modern variant instead: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
- flobosg 1 hour agoDiscussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
- the_af 2 hours agoInteresting.
Lots of parallels to the (very good) videogame SOMA.
- nh23423fefe 4 hours agoThis reminds me of "Calliope" in Sandman
- DiabloD3 4 hours agoThis is a good one.