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the sky over the port was the color of a monitor tuned to a dead input.
which is to say: black, with a square in the middle with the words "VGA1: No Signal"
@gdkar "h-have you tried turning it off and then back on again?"
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No that's the plug for rea-
@gdkar the square drifting aimlessly across the twilight, people gazing in horror as it bumped against the invisible walls holding them prisoner, back again in an endless dance in their digital cage
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What’s this from I remember reading this somewhere but I’ve forgotten where
What’s this from I remember reading this somewhere but I’ve forgotten where
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The first part not the second lmao
The first part not the second lmao
The sky over the port was tuned to open D
@gdkar The sky over the port was SMPTE color bars.
@gdkar god just stopped caring
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iirc Gibson has actually mused on this in an interview
how the meaning of that line has changed over the years