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I'm tired of all these themed zones in modern Metroid. Back in my day we just had five:

• Normal zone
• Space pirate office complex zone
• Bubble zone
• Lava and bullshit fake floor zone
• METROIDS!!!

#metroid #dread

I'm tired of all these themed zones in modern Metroid. Back in my day we just had five:

• Normal zone
• Space pirate office complex zone
• Bubble zone
• Lava and bullshit fake floor zone
• METROIDS!!!

#metroid #dread

Lyla, in the Flesh: A Horror Novel "A mysterious Italian castle. Terrible secrets. A dark truth" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Nick Roberts Rating: 4.2/5 (736 Reviews) #horror #psychological #suspense #fiction #books #kindle #occult #supernatural #castle #italy #writers #dread #thriller #booksky

Lyla, in the Flesh: A Horror N...

Lyla, in the Flesh: A Horror Novel "A mysterious Italian castle. Terrible secrets. A dark truth" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by Nick Roberts Rating: 4.2/5 (736 Reviews) #horror #psychological #suspense #fiction #books #kindle #occult #supernatural #castle #italy #writers #dread #thriller #booksky

Lyla, in the Flesh: A Horror N...

5 Cups of Coffee: Poetry by Richard LeDue

Music Only We Can Hear

When AI replaces us all,
coffee brewing will still be
its own music only we can hear,
and the leaves will still change color
in autumn, winters won’t stop,
while spring and summer continue
to dance like two happy lovers,
who we complain about out of necessity
to make our own grey hairs
seem wiser than they actually are.

~~

Just Another Day

Drinking a second coffee
at 9:13 AM, hoping
Bach can help me escape
these thoughts:

the way clouds
look like a nightmare zoo
we create because it helps
us forget our own cages,

or how the ground seems
so damn flat
that it doesn’t need a lock
to keep us trapped.

~~

The Bach

I can’t turn the Bach off yet,
having not drunk enough coffee
to soothe the same senses
that the music tickles
like a spider crawling on my arm
and dreaming of fly-sized feasts,
while silence tears through all the webs
crafted by the living and the dead.

~~

A Coffee-Stained Counterpoint

I want to believe in the melody
of a dead composer’s harpsichord
(except most modern versions
use a piano because of its depth
of sound that’s musical and emotional)
proves we’re more alive than AI,
yet the math inside of Bach
probably means more to a machine
than my empty coffee mug
that failed to make its own sonata,
leaving me with only my caffeinated bliss
(4 cups in) to counter the common sense
about food groups and the importance
of a balanced breakfast
we were taught in middle school
and too easily supported
by Google Gemini.

~~

The Most Harmonious I Can Get

Listening to Glenn Gould
play a keyboard concerto
while the steam from my coffee
dances, and the sunlight even seems
to tap its foot, until I burn
my tongue once again
and realize the music
doesn’t need me to exist,
but it becomes less without a person
quenching a thirst
that could belong to the soul
or something beyond us all.

Copyright © 2026 Richard LeDue
All Rights Reserved

5 Cups of Coffee: Poetry by Richard LeDue

Music Only We Can Hear

When AI replaces us all,
coffee brewing will still be
its own music only we can hear,
and the leaves will still change color
in autumn, winters won’t stop,
while spring and summer continue
to dance like two happy lovers,
who we complain about out of necessity
to make our own grey hairs
seem wiser than they actually are.

~~

Just Another Day

Drinking a second coffee
at 9:13 AM, hoping
Bach can help me escape
these thoughts:

the way clouds
look like a nightmare zoo
we create because it helps
us forget our own cages,

or how the ground seems
so damn flat
that it doesn’t need a lock
to keep us trapped.

~~

The Bach

I can’t turn the Bach off yet,
having not drunk enough coffee
to soothe the same senses
that the music tickles
like a spider crawling on my arm
and dreaming of fly-sized feasts,
while silence tears through all the webs
crafted by the living and the dead.

~~

A Coffee-Stained Counterpoint

I want to believe in the melody
of a dead composer’s harpsichord
(except most modern versions
use a piano because of its depth
of sound that’s musical and emotional)
proves we’re more alive than AI,
yet the math inside of Bach
probably means more to a machine
than my empty coffee mug
that failed to make its own sonata,
leaving me with only my caffeinated bliss
(4 cups in) to counter the common sense
about food groups and the importance
of a balanced breakfast
we were taught in middle school
and too easily supported
by Google Gemini.

~~

The Most Harmonious I Can Get

Listening to Glenn Gould
play a keyboard concerto
while the steam from my coffee
dances, and the sunlight even seems
to tap its foot, until I burn
my tongue once again
and realize the music
doesn’t need me to exist,
but it becomes less without a person
quenching a thirst
that could belong to the soul
or something beyond us all.

Copyright © 2026 Richard LeDue
All Rights Reserved

Ich hatte gestern einen ziemlich miesen Tag.

Was es dann etwas gerettet hat, waren zwei Spielende, die mal wieder gemeinsam vor einigen Zuhörenden von meiner #Dread-Halloweenrunde geschwärmt haben...
Das geht runter wie Öl ☺️ vor allem ein Dreivierteljahr später .

Ich schätze ich werde sie dieses Jahr mehrmals anbieten müssen 🤔

#pnpde #ttrpg

Ich hatte gestern einen ziemlich miesen Tag.

Was es dann etwas gerettet hat, waren zwei Spielende, die mal wieder gemeinsam vor einigen Zuhörenden von meiner #Dread-Halloweenrunde geschwärmt haben...
Das geht runter wie Öl ☺️ vor allem ein Dreivierteljahr später .

Ich schätze ich werde sie dieses Jahr mehrmals anbieten müssen 🤔

#pnpde #ttrpg

When I imagine tomorrow morning now, I don’t feel #dread or #resistance. I feel curiosity. I feel willingness. I feel the quiet excitement of someone who knows they are no longer bracing for impact. The ritual isn’t a performance — it’s a #relationship.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/30/glass-ceiling-records-bts-self-as-field-site-6/

3/
The hosts establish that this "objectless dread" is the foundational feature of clinical anxiety. Unlike grounded fear—such as encountering a literal tiger in a room—anxiety is a psychological alarm bell that is completely decoupled from a tangible predator. It leaves a person with the full physiological terror of a life-or-death scenario inside an empty room.

https://youtu.be/P03CI8g2Kyk

#anxiety
#neurobiology
#psychology
#podcast
#lecture
#dread

3/
The hosts establish that this "objectless dread" is the foundational feature of clinical anxiety. Unlike grounded fear—such as encountering a literal tiger in a room—anxiety is a psychological alarm bell that is completely decoupled from a tangible predator. It leaves a person with the full physiological terror of a life-or-death scenario inside an empty room.

https://youtu.be/P03CI8g2Kyk

#anxiety
#neurobiology
#psychology
#podcast
#lecture
#dread

happy birthday to Jacob Miller

`Jacob Miller & Trinity * I'm Just A Dread`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na21To3VQzg

#reggae #JacobMiller #JA #Jamaica #dread #natty #rasta

happy birthday to Jacob Miller

`Jacob Miller & Trinity * I'm Just A Dread`

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na21To3VQzg

#reggae #JacobMiller #JA #Jamaica #dread #natty #rasta

🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
https://walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
https://walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

When I imagine tomorrow morning now, I don’t feel #dread or #resistance. I feel curiosity. I feel willingness. I feel the quiet excitement of someone who knows they are no longer bracing for impact. The ritual isn’t a performance — it’s a #relationship.

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/04/30/glass-ceiling-records-bts-self-as-field-site-5/

🤖 Oh no, #AI companies want us to be *afraid* of their mysterious #techno sorcery! Because nothing boosts business like a healthy dose of fear-mongering and existential #dread, right? 🙄 Meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Corporation insists on listing every single country and region in existence—who knew #geography was their true passion? 🌍🔍
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

🤖 Oh no, #AI companies want us to be *afraid* of their mysterious #techno sorcery! Because nothing boosts business like a healthy dose of fear-mongering and existential #dread, right? 🙄 Meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Corporation insists on listing every single country and region in existence—who knew #geography was their true passion? 🌍🔍
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

This Con Season, Nothing’s Contained! DREAD THE HALL H 2026
The Lines Are Longer. The Panels Are Wilder. And This Time, Even the Ads Might Try to Kill You.
It starts on the show floor.

Grab your badges, DREAD THE HALL H is back! The beloved annual spin-off of the best-selling Dread the Halls returns with 48 pages of...
https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/comic-book-previews/this-con-season-nothings-contained-dread-the-hall-h-2026/
#dread the hall h #mad cave comics #comics #comic books

Meet #Phantom, the #AI #agent with an #identity #crisis 🤖💾: it constantly rewrites its config like a toddler with a new box of crayons 🎨. Apparently, it has "self-evolving" #memory, so perhaps it remembers how to be useless in more creative ways every day. Built on #Claude Agent #SDK, because what else would you use to make an AI that spends more time in #existential #dread than doing any actual work? 🙄
https://github.com/ghostwright/phantom #self-evolving #HackerNews #ngated

Meet #Phantom, the #AI #agent with an #identity #crisis 🤖💾: it constantly rewrites its config like a toddler with a new box of crayons 🎨. Apparently, it has "self-evolving" #memory, so perhaps it remembers how to be useless in more creative ways every day. Built on #Claude Agent #SDK, because what else would you use to make an AI that spends more time in #existential #dread than doing any actual work? 🙄
https://github.com/ghostwright/phantom #self-evolving #HackerNews #ngated

I don't like the new-type prove-you're-a-human questions, e.g.,

"What things make you wake up in a cold sweat at 3:25 am, #dread hanging on you like a mildewed blanket?

Where do the machines and algorithms get off thinking we're just going to volunteer our deepest fears? Nuh-uh, not me! Also, how about toning down the purple prose? A little lilac round the edges is ok, but that's full-on eggplant-purple.

#wss366 #microfiction

I don't like the new-type prove-you're-a-human questions, e.g.,

"What things make you wake up in a cold sweat at 3:25 am, #dread hanging on you like a mildewed blanket?

Where do the machines and algorithms get off thinking we're just going to volunteer our deepest fears? Nuh-uh, not me! Also, how about toning down the purple prose? A little lilac round the edges is ok, but that's full-on eggplant-purple.

#wss366 #microfiction

"Do you have a Professor Grexin here?"
She looked thoughtful.
"Did," she said. "He just checked out. He was with two other gentlemen."
Will felt a growing sense of #dread.
"He was supposed to be waiting for us. Did you see which way they went?" (2/3) #wss366

"Do you have a Professor Grexin here?"
She looked thoughtful.
"Did," she said. "He just checked out. He was with two other gentlemen."
Will felt a growing sense of #dread.
"He was supposed to be waiting for us. Did you see which way they went?" (2/3) #wss366

In a groundbreaking revelation, #Facebook graces us with "HyperAgents"—AI agents so self-referential they might just collapse into a #digital black hole of their own existential #dread. 🚀🙃 Apparently, they're optimized for any computable task, which is the tech equivalent of saying your cat has mastered quantum physics. 🐱🔧 #AIoverlords
https://github.com/facebookresearch/hyperagents #AI #HyperAgents #Technology #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

In a groundbreaking revelation, #Facebook graces us with "HyperAgents"—AI agents so self-referential they might just collapse into a #digital black hole of their own existential #dread. 🚀🙃 Apparently, they're optimized for any computable task, which is the tech equivalent of saying your cat has mastered quantum physics. 🐱🔧 #AIoverlords
https://github.com/facebookresearch/hyperagents #AI #HyperAgents #Technology #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Being crazy is hard.

I woke up filled with dread. Why, you ask? Because I have a lunch date to hand Thor over to the client, and then another friend date tonight to see an exceedingly funny show.

Sometimes I miss the version of myself that would wake up and be excited about these things, but I don't think the world that made that sort of happiness possible is ever coming back.

#Anxiety #Dread #Saturday

Being crazy is hard.

I woke up filled with dread. Why, you ask? Because I have a lunch date to hand Thor over to the client, and then another friend date tonight to see an exceedingly funny show.

Sometimes I miss the version of myself that would wake up and be excited about these things, but I don't think the world that made that sort of happiness possible is ever coming back.

#Anxiety #Dread #Saturday

💀 New research reveals how dread shapes decision-making

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-reveals-dread-decision.html

#emotions #dread #cognition #planning #psychology

💀 New research reveals how dread shapes decision-making

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-reveals-dread-decision.html

#emotions #dread #cognition #planning #psychology

#olympics #dread #anxiety #thevoid

The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

#art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

The Mortuary Assistant Film Has Its First Trailer To Frighten Us https://aggrogamer.com/article/12526/Another-Shift-Is-Ready-For-Us-To-Watch-With-The-Mortuary-Assistant #VideoGames #Film #TheMortuaryAssistant #Dread

Another Shift Is Ready For Us To Watch With The Mortuary Assistant https://aggrogamer.com/article/12526/Another-Shift-Is-Ready-For-Us-To-Watch-With-The-Mortuary-Assistant #VideoGames #Film #TheMortuaryAssistant #Dread

Another Shift Is Ready For Us To Watch With The Mortuary Assistant https://aggrogamer.com/article/12526/Another-Shift-Is-Ready-For-Us-To-Watch-With-The-Mortuary-Assistant #VideoGames #Film #TheMortuaryAssistant #Dread

ICYMI: Another Shift Is Ready For Us To Watch With The Mortuary Assistant https://aggrogamer.com/article/12526/Another-Shift-Is-Ready-For-Us-To-Watch-With-The-Mortuary-Assistant #VideoGames #TheMortuaryAssistant #Film #Dread

Another Shift Is Ready For Us To Watch With The Mortuary Assistant https://aggrogamer.com/article/12526/Another-Shift-Is-Ready-For-Us-To-Watch-With-The-Mortuary-Assistant #VideoGames #Film #TheMortuaryAssistant #Dread