Talk:There Is No Fourth Wall/@comment-7706473-20131107083454

I know I was going to enjoy this when I read the following sentance - "Maybe just having a word for it doesn't mean we know what it is, or understand it at all." But perhaps enjoy is the wrong word for it...

What is reality, anyway? Perhaps a lot of writers have a dim view of it - it is after all, very subjective. Very few works ask the player to buy into them - very few movies wink at the beginning and tell you to just relax and breath, along with other science facts.... It is all subliminal, the assumption being that you will stop acknowledging your personal 'reality' and acknowledge the 'reality' of the media while you are using it; a sort of social contract for media, if you will.

And that's terrifying. Even if there is nothing greater to it then that; and yet, the question this theory raises, that there is a world parallel to ours - or perhaps that to others, we could be characters looking at the edge of badly textured walls of water - is terrifying. And yet maybe, there's something unnaturally thrilling about the idea, as well...

Maybe one of the reasons we're here - isn't it funny, that we use the word here? There isn't really any here to be - is that we get a visceral sense of truth. From these works, from rumors, and from the gaps in reality that we think we might percieve. If that is so - what does it make us?...

I'd like to recommend the book Planiverse; it seems relevent, though I haven't seen copies at libraries for some time. And I'm reminded of a certain conversation in Silent Hill 2, which - though not my favorite of the series, left my thinking for some time afterwards...

A petunia, for gladness through reassurance and steadfast hope that what we see is what exists.

... And a quiet acknowledgement for Redguard, which I feel is underloved despite being a legitimately good game, though that's neither here nore there -