I think you should all start a blog
The internet isnt fun anymore.
There are only three websites.
They are all designed to make you angry because its the most profitable emotion.
Every boy you went to school with has a podcast about football now.
But it didnt used to be like this!
Like, really fun, andHypnospace Outlawis living proof of it.
For example: remember when you owned a website and didnt just belong to one?
There is no social media in Hypnospace.
Instead, users construct their own crude web pages to reach out into the great digital unknown.
Tamaras spoken word poetry about her life at college is freely accessible to all.
Abby maintains Hypnospace Heaven, where three heavily dithered angels look over user submitted obituaries about those theyve lost.
Tuba playing teenager Corey thinks a dancing pizza slice is peak comedy.
In 2023, the personalised homepages of Hypnospace are enviably quaint.
Obnoxious GIFs and autoplaying MIDI music tracks.
You could learn a lot about a person from their homepage.
Remember when using the internet was more like journaling?
When we were encouraged to be creative and free by virtue of there being no rules or expectations?
Why must we shave the edges off things?
Why is Twitter - sorry,X- so boring?
Why is TikTok so curated?
Hypnospace is silly and weird and sad, and I think I want that version of the internet back.
I dont want access to it all the time.
I dont want to be given an endless feed of thoughts to absorb.
I want to log on to someones website just to see if its been updated.
I want to read thoughts as they were always meant to be consumed.
In their own space.
In my own time.
Hypnospace is inevitably a game about people.
Adults and teenagers, bloggers and artists, widowers and tech bros.
They’re brought together by a service, but thats where their similarities end.
Sure, theres conflict.
Hypnospace has its flaws.
So clearly visible in every pixel on the screen.
A page about dinosaurs.
A page that documents the history of music genres.
A page about hot dogs.
A page about video games.
I think you should start a blog.
It should be messy and weird and riddled with errors.
It should be a reflection of you.
Or maybe it should be about your cat.
It should be filled with your favourite recipes and 300 word movie reviews.
I think that would be nice.
I think that would be better.
