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After searching for and finally reading the arachnomicon and discovering the ultimate bug-truths I've given myself a permanent -90% sanity debuff. How do I return to living a normal life, Chapo? (hexbear.net)

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Tried playing video games but the mentally-sensitive artists of our age of downfall have all subconsciously put spider enemies in all of our games. Plus they're really annoying to fight.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Now your dreams will never again be so peaceful. You will see capital in your nights, like a nightmare, that presses you and threatens to crush you. With terrified eyes you will see it get fatter, like a monster with one hundred proboscises that feverishly search the pores of your body to suck your blood. And finally you will learn to assume its boundless and gigantic proportions, its appearance dark and terrible, with eyes and mouth of fire, morphing its suckers into enormous hopeful trumpets, within which you’ll see thousands of human beings disappear: men, women, children. Down your face will trickle the sweat of death, because your time, and that of your wife and your children will soon arrive. And your final moan will be drowned out by the happy sneering of the monster, glad with your state, so much richer, so much more inhumane.

—Carlo Cafiero, Summary of Marx's Capital (1879)