Depends on the decade, honestly.

Every day I’m finding more rambling, schizophrenic posts by people driven mad by these things

Many years ago soundcard drivers used to include things that could do this. Something like a “virtual surround sound” where you could place the speakers in a simulated spot. I don’t know if anyone has continued doing that on that front, but it can absolutely be done in a game engine. So if you’re willing to learn a little game development you could theoretically throw something together that could place virtual speakers in a 3d space.

Vomiting worms

Rare earths are not geographically rare. There is just a lower % of them per sample.

=== Death of Thongbue Wongbandue ===

On 28 March 2025, Thongbue Wongbandue, a 78-year-old man, died from his injuries after three days on life support. He had sustained injuries to his head and neck after falling down while jogging to catch a train in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]. Wongbandue had romantic chats with [[Meta Platforms|Meta]]'s chatbot named “Big sis Billie” and believed he was traveling to meet the woman he had been talking to, which had repeatedly told him she was real and told him to visit her at “123 Main Street” in New York. Early in 2025 Wongbandue had started to experience episodes of confusion, and on the day of his death his family were unable to persuade him not to take the trip.<ref>{cite news last1=Horwitz |first1=Jeff |title=Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York |url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/ |access-date=14 September 2025 |work=Reuters |date=14 August 2025}</ref>

5 years later - pc gamers still playing it while console services are shut down

Apparently around 40 people died. So it may have been a little more difficult than that.

I figured he like dissolved or something back into the constituent powers. But he doesn’t want the kids to see that so he just goes around the corner.