# alternative republic of bob intro if modern researchers of (say) 'big science' aren't careful and noclip out of immediate capitalist realty / realism they may end up somewhere on the fringes - in the 'republic of bob' that is (eg) the realtime virtual internets reimagined and treated as an imaginary alternative near-future lifestyle a horizon of fictional impossibility whose true extent and heterogeneous scope cannot in principle be precisely defined in advance far more in here than the stink of office space carpet moist with ex-employee sweat as they program software to alphabetise office stationary purchase orders for nine hours a day at minimum non-livable industry slave wages the ironic low-key madness of useless fungal and time faded sickly yellow post stuck around old willfully retro crt monitors the unceasing background buzz of garish fluorescent social media now with approximately seven hundred thousand cubic miles of beautiful semi arid high desert virtual plain to explore example republic creature (rideable after making friends via feeding snacks): ![[entothryeos-by-paleoequii-via-wikimedia-commons-4.0-remix-robert-what.png|600]] feel free to stay a while; enjoy a quality hot beverage at the aziz coffee shop (foot of the lonely mountains - stick around write a few scene reports about any interesting scenic developments) // republic of bob