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music feels like walking to the gallows or in calculating preparation for an atrocity

the gunshot sfx is so deeply unsettling... each page is a death... death is not even the backdrop (visible, distinct), it's in the page turn (everywhere)...

trying to cut his own red thread like okkotsu...

who is god but the first killer (a "god complex" doesn't compare)

and the like.. class clown goofy fingergun which in this context is just horrendous... like, it's condemnation i think, the kind that makes a mockery of someone's life before they're killed. and then it's pointed inwards... (when faced with ordinary citizens)

what people can say they believe "a criminal" should eat!?

i don't know if the only thing for g. jack is hell. but i think there is a life worth living and people worth knowing for him.

like in Pretenders, i think living is worth killing for (and loving worth living for).

my dad said one thing true: every moment is a crossroads

thank you for reading and reflecting, it's not easy, and thanks for the trust.

(i have let a lot of (metaphorical) dogs out in the (metaphorical) cold, tied some up myself, and ignored most of them!)

i have deep in my heart a viciously ugly streak that thinks a dog should die in the cold or "it'll be fine..."

not happy i'm like this. i think i'm not unusual

i want to be intentional about which strings i pull on (in the myth at the end) but it's hard

ah... 

thanks :) i appreciate it and i will

u too :)

yeah ofc! happy to take a look :)

I'm doing ok i guess? Unclear

this felt very sincere and lonely and humble.

the danger of open water is different from the stifling plastic in a tank.

some fish cannot survive in captivity, some cannot survive in the wild

i think this is more upsetting than rabbitboy... i think maybe this is the most upsetting game you've released

i'm glad!! me too!!! 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 

I think it is not the worst of you to love and want love. It may be a curse (the worst (i think it was gojo who said something like this?)) but it is love and a reason to live.

I'm certain (S)he loved you.

The fireflies remind me of what you told me an ego is like: light you cannot capture and hold in your hand rather than a lightningbug you can.

potatter is great :)

i like reading about your day!

The catbox is sealed...

And the sixes, this is the "game" with the whipping girl...

Little suzu... To grow up and become small again..

Still thinking about "do you know the weight of a human life". 

thanks

I wish more people loved animals (people included)

i think you've misunderstood something essential

: o

oh i see! thx :)

ah gotcha

but the methods you tried, that's sincere?

🤔 why do you want people to beg for more of your work?

i don't understand

that was lovely

I'm sorry people misunderstand you. I hope your real luck is also great

love u ❤️

thinking again

i'm not sure exactly in my heart what specific motions produced such anger in me.

but u shouldn't treat a dog like that, and one that LOVES HER.

i think i've had that dog's obedience and cluelessness and love, and so i think in my heart i see me in that dog more than i see u, b/c i've only known you with ur eagle eye vision, legolas. A dog is usually confused. I've only seen you more... feral and cautious than that dog. I don't think i am that dog though, but i am able to hold some rage this dog is incapable of.  

Not to say i don't see you in that dog. What i see of you is not the dog's temperament but i see every other person in the room and think "this person would also hurt my wife". IF they would neglect a dog until it froze, THEN they would surely do the same to you.

thank you too!

really appreciate you thinking deeply about this. I think loneliness and rejection are extremely strong motivators, and can lead to such strong feelings they overcome self preservation

i think the ties and attachments in the myth at the end to me are not all leashes but are more like the "red thread of fate" sort of thing (as...not a normal example, but a different rotation of this concept, see my wife's hitman.drr.ac ). The leash to me is ownership (a leash is designed to be held and to choke whatever (or whoever) struggles), slavery annihilates will. I think there are many ways people are tied together, not all good or bad.

thank you! I'd love to hear your thoughts and emotions if you'd care to share!

The deepest violation and rage; what is beyond a suicide note?

"there are still secrets there for us, trust, trust, there are still secrets in this world." this is true

also i understand (of course it's like this, i wasn't born yesterday, people do far worse constantly...) but also can't re: animal ownership

like, i can't accept it or even safely keep this afloat in my mind without becoming (or returning to being) the kind of person to justify it or to be eroded away, and i believe in love more firmly now because of you. pebbles tied together

what does "you had me for a moment" mean? This is autobio... It's real and the baker is like, obviously an ex-mercenary (human weapon)...

I have been to his bakery and the cookies are perfect but the muffins are just fine (i think he doesn't care about them)

Like... It's a real guy...

i love you. i will die without you.

ahh gotcha!! yeah, super interesting about the cooperation!!

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appreciate that you point out "then you’re using the same frame of thought".  There's more to life than transactional exchange!

Thanks for sharing plant study time!! Like that you talked about how it doesn't need to be a zero sum game!! Something felt a bit weird to me about the trees superior to humans thing but im glad you believe in cooperation :)

yeah it's great!! Excited to see what you make next!! And will take a look at older stuff too :)

i think it is valuable to think about these things!! And what sorts of harm are justified with morality (making them somehow even worse)! There are many...

What is the function of dividing things into good and evil? What is the role of condemnation?

made me cry

this is sincere and gentle and full of love

"but the fact we make judgments while doing so somehow makes it worse"

this makes me think about a line from Watership Down:

“Animals don’t behave like men,” he said. “If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill, they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.”

aww, that sounds sad... very sad to accidentally kill a snail...

Still thinking about those double chocolate toffee cookies.

It is a cruel thing to measure your own heart... (Who hasn't failed by their own measure)

Oo, what do you have planned?

Yeah flickgame is fun!

Ah unfortunate! Super tasty :)

any way to only have "on loop" fire when background loop completes but NOT when a card is navigated to?

I'm trying to loop two songs (play sound 1 then play 2 then 1 then 2 etc) using a deck-level script for the "loop" event that updates a counter on one of the cards

it works perfectly EXCEPT this event is fired (and so the music immediately switches from whatever is playing to the other sound) every time a new card is navigated to

(i also just don't know why "loop" event is essentially a "on loop OR on view" sort of thing)

Oooh! That sounds fun!

I think the next game i make though will be more venting art (something extremely angry and sad, a decker i think) rather than another fun silly one, but it's a good idea for later! :)

Or u can make the lychee cup one!!

YEAH! I like the lychee flavored ones too

this is very sweet and gentle

i love crunching around in the snow!