# surbase as shorthand credible secret underground research bases although only pale damp firsties say incredible anymore as that's the most blindingly obvious deadpan nonthing about these virtual non spaces we pick up from the last thrilling lab episode where fellow student researchers were discussing the existential matters of the bright media day orloff: so researchers talk like this where your from then swanson laughs awkardly: um we think so we don't get out much orloff: hey we were recently digging that hyperkult underground late night pirate satellite 80's holotv series street hawk swanson: what that zero degree cool hyperreal one with the lone crusader on an all terrain attack motorcycle championing their own guv sponsored cowboy brand of auto targeting laser justice orloff: yeah sounds like it the one where in the opening credits they can be described as an ancient alien astronautic anthropologist from the near future revisiting sectors of superfluid polyverse utilizing certain experimental 80's psychoactive video compounds in order to study various interesting interstitial facets of the extreme off limits electro world that is this one conceivably a form of xeno mythological archaeoastronomy swanson: ah you mean a lower dimensional shadow being cast into the radial present from a higher dimensional object in the near future retro 80s orloff: word well you know when the main antihero goes into sokalled hyperthrust mode swanson: what's that sounds bold and daring and a little bit like zx 84 break / space mode retro orloff: well it's as though they perform an intense electronic meditation on and enter a dimensional teleportal into the near future now by traveling in speeds existentially far in excess of 300 metaphysical miles per hour swanson: then what orloff: then they hyperthrust at night along these awesome empty megacity backstreets slick with toxic data rain what happens is all the brilliant neon around them starts to reflect in the deep azt3k onyx black mirrored hypersurface of their inner spatial neuro helmet this image vision vibrates at the exact aum hertz of biocosmic star love that dave pfloyd 420 themselves might have experienced swanson: what that sounds repo intense so how does that particular nfr 80's electrovision make one feel orloff: we guess it's like all the unconscious collective hopes and dreams of an entire species is being expressed in a massively compressed moment far outside of regular time swanson: hey sounds profound even prophetic yet oddly familiar and deeply resonant // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]