I apologize sincerely that it has been so long since my last update. Things have been getting complicated for my co-players and I. All of us are safely in the game, but the word safe is hardly the way I would describe the situation that we are in now. If you've ever heard the turn of phrase, out of the fire and into the frying pan, that's about where we are now. I am looking down into a giant mystery tubeslide hole in the ground leading to nowhere on my otherwise extremely empty and boring player land, and debating whether or not I should jump in or wait for my co-player who is trying to get to and join me accomplish that first. My cat is now a giant ghost robot thing, and it's very unclear whether or not it is benevolent. This is confusing and alarming for all of us, because nobody else's sprite seems to be acting in the way that mine does. How would I describe it? Malicious compliance, willful ignorance, weaponized incompetence, inaction, negligence? It seems to be fulfilling its duties to protect the player as minimally as it can, as lazily as possible, and it's main priorities are somewhere else. I'm not sure exactly what putting the Marsguide into the kernel did to it, but it wasn't anything good. In theory, throwing in what is essentially a interplanetary amazon alexa smart home llm model should have made it especially adaptable and capable of responding to the environment as a tutorial entity, instead it just seems to know too much even for a sprite It just seems like everything I do ends up going wrong somehow, no amount of trying to logic my way around the problems in this game seems to produce any kind of positive result. It's almost never until after I lose my patience that I seem to make any progress, and only because I ended up smashing something so hard that it just kind of started working. Have you ever had a controller that's getting old and the trigger buttons have stopped working and the cartridge jack is partially unseated, so every once in awhile you just kind of bang it on the table and it kind of just starts working again for seemingly no reason? Playing this game feels a lot like that to me, or at least the way this game wants me to play feels a lot like that. #sburb #drama #recap
wel(ome ba(k, al7s. and wel(ome to the game. it's a real pain in the ass, 7eah. sprites are supposed to be helpful guides, with some quirks depending on what 7ou threw in, but some protot7pings making them full7 un(ooperative. the game is about self-a(tualization, as mu(h as it is an7thing else. ea(h land is a lesson tr7ing to tea(h 7ou something. it seems to me like the lesson is kind of obvious, huh? tr7 leaning into it, to progress if nothing else. might work on 7our sprite, too. although ma7be not, he looked kind of freak7, as i re(all.
Okay. I guess I'll just keep breaking stuff until it looks. I don't think the sprite is as bound by the kind of rules I'd like, nor expect.