• The limit is trying to be 100% unique and novel.

    Like, try to imagine a creature that has 0 inspiration from everything you know about real life. Even Lovecraft never came up with things that were entitely alien to the human mind, despite that kinda being the whole point (other than the racism).

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      Sounds like you’re asking the human brain to fire in a pattern it’s not even wired for. Random noise in the web, or even definitionally impossible as “totally alien” might imply a configuration of neurons opposite of what we have. I feel like I’m having a hard time describing my thought here.