u/Worldly_Beginning647

Universal means that one could use it to create horror for any social group, not that every person will be scared by it no matter what.

Note: I say player but it can be a reader, a viewer. That’s because this applies to all kinds of art like but not limited to: video games, YouTube series, series of paintings, soundtracks, music, sculptures if you are smart enough.

Good references: Obelisk (YouTube), Dr Nowhere (YouTube), Francis Bacon (paintings), Kitty Horrorshow (video games) and more.

RECIPE:

1. Pick an audience. Example: lower class, white, Gen Z adults, mediterranean, straight, religious (any religion), all genders.
2. If you want the horror to be very personal making it more terrifying, you must shrink the target audience. The more people you have, the less they have in common.
3. Determine what in common do these people have, childhood memories, trauma, places, anything familiar.
4. Make up 1 person to represent them all, add in some more stuff like favorite food, name, specifics memories etc. Make it a long description that you will share with nobody.
5. Now make the protagonist the worst version of the average person from the audience, not a monster, but make it feel like looking in a mirror and seeing a horrible person but it being you. Examples: love seeking turns into manipulative and obsessive (don’t go into full obsession that would ruin the effect), fear turn it cowardice, shameful turns into pathological lying. Also don’t forget to also give them a more traumatic experience, like the worse alternate timeline of the player’s
6. Abstract all of this away, make it all symbolic, think of how to convey the same message that tells the player what happened to the protagonist in a difficult but possible to read way that still feels familiar in some ways, I couldn’t think of examples, just look at some art.
7. Now the magic happens, you must now make this into the protagonists nightmare. By this I mean turning the protagonist’s life into their own personal horror that exploits their phobias, traumas and even their good memories to make the worst experience they could have.
8. Pro tip make it surrealist. I realized when writing this I forgot to state it and it isn’t that obvious. Also don’t go too far, it should be part mundane, part surreal part regular psychological horror.
9. I suggest you keep some monster(s) but the monster(s) could be malicious, they could also be good, or abstracted versions of the protagonist‘s significant others etc.

The result should make the player feel like they are looking at somebody else’s nightmare but their nightmare makes the platter feel like they are the protagonist but the protagonist is kind of a bad person making the platter feel guilt. The player then will go on to try and find clues of what happened to them.

I mean when it makes up a new name 2/3 times it will be some variation of the word Concorde.

I get that it is just an LLM that has a temperature setting and no memory so when it gets a ’make up a name’ it will usually stick to what I would call a personality of sorts where it stores Emerson behaviors and certain favorite words like goblin and with no knowledge of overusing them just repeats them over and over.

I just got an idea, couldn’t someone create a skill for something like sonnet that teaches it to get a user prompt and refine it to be accepted by fable so that it doesn’t fallback constantly.

Has anyone tried it?

Not much explanation, it is a very personal experience but I feel like GPT 5.6 sol, yeah it may delete all of your files by accident, but on just intelligence and by that I mean all the benchmarks + advanced math + philosophy which was the tie breaker for me just today were enough to convince me that an AI on extreme effort that is now an internal model is probably not occasionally as smart as me whilst usually being just a bit bellow, but genuinely as smart or smarter and far more efficient and faster than me (but not in power consumption).

Math is great for testing AI, it cannot just read every math book ever and become super intelligent at math but be actually dumb, you can’t cheat math, it is the most difficult thing ever when it comes to intelligence needed. One must be both creative and rigorous whilst thinking in abstract ways making it extremely intelligence heavy. A good mathematician is the an artistic genius plus a computer level of rigor minus the artist's painting skills and ability to create art.

So imagine an AI solving a long lasting problem like the ABC conjecture and people being like “but this is just math”.

People will become even more dismissive of the most difficult problem ever faced by any intelligent enough creature. One could get a human civilization, and alien one, and a singular super intelligent brain in a dimensionless universe that transcends all other intelligence but only thinks. And they all would agree that there is nothing as difficult as math in the world.

But then once AI gets very smart people will find that it can’t do some random thing and will dismiss the solution to an age old problem as “simply pattern matching.

Anytime I get into a game I quickly turn to older versions, Minecraft -> Minecraft beta 1.7.3 (my beloved), HOI4 -> HOI3 and HOI2, VIC3 -> Vic2 etc. So, could the same thing be true for Dominions and maybe even conquest of elysium, maybe 2 or 3 or heck maybe even 1 (which I’ve played like 15 minutes) are better?

I doubt it because illwinter is one of the best studios ever and they are unlikely to fuck up a new game making it worse than rec predecessor but just maybe.

He in my opinion is not just naturally talented in making horror but it feels like he is not just creating peak horror but art like famous poets.

He is able to talk about abstract human concepts and hide meaning so well that he beats many classical writers like Shakespeare, he won’t be as famous ever because of the era we live in and because of him being in a niche. But I have never read a poem that felt this well crafted.

Honestly he is so good at creating this new kind of art (I mean it could be less than 20 years old based on how you count) yet his short film is comparable run quality to great paintings (no not mona lisa) or the absolute greatest poems and books in history.

Am I a bit dramatic, yes but I genuinely feel like this community of analog horror has engaged an artistic genius to create visual art. On instagram he may post slightly lower quality art but it is nonetheless better than any poem I have ever tried to make which is why I am a mathematician, but his YouTube videos are pure art.

Like they made the most excellent idea for a computer strategy game, like the best possible strategy game that uses chance unlike chess and such, AND combines very nice role-play that feels much better than any other game and honestly better story telling than my own life.

And they went nah we will make it into 2 different games. Conquest of Elysium which is a deep but not complex rpg that is basically DnD but with auto-play armies instead of puzzles and dice roll sword combat and too much RNG, basically simulating the world largest open air prison were all the inmates are trying to kill each other before one causes the apocalypse and escapes to hell, but if you have bad luck you will drop the soap in the first turn while a literal goddamn god is next to your capital.

And another game where god is dead and we killed him, and now you are a demigod trying to become the new god of the realm while playing what can be only described as playing 10D chess but the opponent is an idiot yet you still lose because you have a terminal skill issue.

I am 14 and I am currently studying pretty everything, lambda calculus, analysis, set theory, type theory, category theory, abstract algebra, topology etc.

But I don’t know what to study.

My top options that I have considered out of the 6022 research fields of math:

number theory in general

p-adic analysis

topos theory

Homotopy Type Theory

Large Cardinal set theory

arithmetic geometry

infinite category theory

proof theory

Inter Universal Teichmüller Theory (once more than 5 people understand it)

surreal number theory

etc.

I want the most strategic game of the two. I am a masochist: I am autistic, I am willing to spend hours looking at spreadsheets and call it fun, I am staying pure math, just google derived algebraic geometry and you’ll cry. I do want some Role-Play which both games have. I would add that the game must be a 10/10 but this is the only studio in the world (that produced more than 2 games) to produce solely 10/10 games.

This feels like a bunch of pseudo smart people that think that mathematicians add large numbers for a job and post arithmetics memes with an occasional advanced math joke.

It is basically HOI3+some of Vic2 like factories but no advanced POPs but it is absolutely fantastic, I literally wished for Hoi3+Vic2 and somehow only recently realized that I can just download East vs West with 1 google search and 30 minutes for downloading unpacking and booting it up.