surprised by pixel art

I spent this evening playing the fan translation of Mother 3. (Or you could call it Earthbound 2 - the usual nonsense with only parts of series being localized comes into play here.)

Partway through the first chapter, something happened that I've never had happen to me in a computer RPG.

(Definite spoilers follow; I would seriously suggest grabbing the translation, the Japanese ROM, and a Gameboy Advance emulator, and playing until a certain moment by a riverbank in Chapter 1 - you'll know what moment I mean if you've played it.)

( Spoilers, seriously. )

dream fragment: post-flesh

I dreamed I was having sex with someone who was thoroughly disembodied. There were these complex, stylized circuit traces on a blanket that glowed when she was running power through them; I could touch them to change the capacitance. Which, judging by the sounds she was making, felt really good.

Honestly, this is not all that different from my waking sex life.