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What if I told you that there were an infinite number of parallel earths, each subtly different from the last.
What if I told you that there were places in which the membrane between those worlds had drawn so thin that events on their side could influence events on ours, places where their world bleeds into ours.
What if I told you that you could do more than just look on the effects of this strange pairing, but you could actually go there. Well, that's stretching the truth slightly. Of course you can't go there, that would be preposterous. There's no knowing if their air is even breathable to us. No, you'd probably be wrenched inside out by the new gravity alone...
However, thanks to new scientific developments, you can post on their internet.
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It’s Liquid, but not as we know it...
Under the alien sun of the place that I will refer to from now on as Earth B, you will find LiquidPoker, a website from another time and another place. When you look on it, you will notice your eyes begin to hurt; don’t look away. You might think that this pain is because of the harsh glare and bright colours, but you would be mistaken. That stinging sensation is your eyes attempting to adjust to light from another earth. For those of you sensitive to its strange emanations, protective eyewear might be necessary.
Your brain will try constantly to wrest your eyes away from the display, to force your mouse to click elsewhere and stop you from your researches into this strange place. If you can force yourself to ignore that compulsion, you’ll find that there is just as much history and treasure in their strange mirror world as we have to ours. Their lives are every bit as real as our own, but they have their own Earth B twists.
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I don’t doubt at all that it’s possible to dig in and find these gems for yourself, but to do so would take months, maybe years. For residents of Earth A, the mind cannot adapt easily to this foreign place. Your fragile, human eyes weren’t made for prolonged exposure. Instead, you must seek out those strange, liminal beings who are equally capable of navigating both worlds. If you knew the signs, you could find them easily; they have been marked by their existence between the worlds.
I have to thank Rekrul and Hurricane for helping me when I felt as though I could proceed no further, when I was lost in the tangled knots of topics I couldn’t understand and endless lists of pokey hands. It is a harrowing experience, to see that every username is accompanied by an icon you cannot decipher. The normal rules do not apply, but it’s more than that.
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Thanks to my guides, my adventures were not the aimless rambling they might otherwise have been. I was directed to visit some of LiquidPoker’s strangest blogs and topics. These posts give some insight into the logic of another world, a forbidden place where men fear to tread.
There are even occasional steps into the profoundly insightful. Of all the LiquidPoker users I was directed to pay attention to, the enigmatic ByrneSam is among the most interesting. You’ve already seen the first sample of his work above, but his sharp mind has applied itself to many problems:
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Just as we ruminate on the nuances of Starcraft, so does he on the oddities of poker...
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Are we really so different, underneath it all?
Strangest still is that moment when, amid all the weirdness, you find something you recognise. After so long away from the shores of our own reality, my mind seizes on the slightest hint of familiarity. I am unable to look away. I feel at home for the first time since all of this began. All there is left to me is Rekrul's face, bobbling on top of Rick Astley's body...
This one is a quote, so that it would animate:
On October 09 2007 07:04 byrnesam wrote:
hes no stranger to love
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hes no stranger to love
It’s not all blithe nonsense though. There are some very serious considerations of life on Earth B and how to engage with a world fraught by cataclysms. When faced with the injustices of war, famine, and pestilence, most of us just try to ignore the worst things about life on earth. There are a precious few who have found someone to blame though, and if there’s one thing we can learn from LiquidPoker it’s the depths to which those filthy lizardmen (homo sapiens saurus):
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Now that I think about it, there is a very real possibility that their earth was conquered by a race of malignant reptilemen...
Continuing the Research:
If you notice that my posting has fallen off, assume that I am to be found there. Indeed, I encourage everyone to sign up and enjoy the site for themselves. I haven’t yet received any PMs to my Liquid Poker inbox, so if anyone wants to make me feel more comfortable then a message or two would be very much appreciated.
To those of you intrepid few who dare to venture forth... godspeed.
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