Am I delirious?
The Tides Algorithm
Chapter: The Synthetic Frequency
The veteran was there, sitting on the sand, the carbon fiber board resting next to him like a relic from an analog era. He wasn't looking at the horizon in search of size, but for signature.
What he saw on the screens — and now in the sea — was disturbingly similar. The waves did not break; they "performed". They came in perfectly choreographed sets, a succession of identical swells, with the same rise time, the same lip millimeter-calculated. It was the TikTok Effect of the Waters. An unnatural frequency, where each movement seemed designed to capture attention, but emptied of soul.