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wounds closed, world open

wounds open, world closed

I bleed quietly while living

I live quietly while bleeding

do you not know

the composition of air

you breathe

the air is killing you

these are quotes

by the way

People cater to life. People intuitively feel life, like we can feel sunlight with our skin, not just register it with our eyes. Money is a quantitative symbol of success, but itself it means nothing - it can be fabricated to imitate that there is meaning, because if you can fake it you can make it, which births an impostor syndrome. Probably it also births debt. Anyway, I call it all sociological insulin resistance.

There is something to creativity being true entertainment, but with creativity, it is something different. It is not just making something up, there are plenty of games allowing this exactly and yet they just remain games. Creativity is love and genuine love is the purpose of being.

Last time I wrote a major manifesto during workhours, I quit the job.

One thing I can tell for sure; I can recognize a game developed mostly by engineers with severe shortage of artists involved from a mile away. Game is a complex matrix, it needs to be complete, like a spider web in own right. The thing must have the right structure, right symmetry, to catch attention and make you labor in the tangles of it, trying to escape this sweet agony.

Perhaps more customization?

Truly puzzling puzzle game, the tick magic got me thinking - the onion!

That is a frantic auto-battler with RPG-style character development, that plays like a crazy flashback of a bad trip.  One hell of a time!

It would be nice to have a monster-pedia.

It would be good if the auto-mode did not begin any combat itself, giving the player time to have a look at the monster description.

Reminds me of Hyperrogue but indeed it is different.

You can practically delete your progress by having all your crew member dead.

Very intriguing game, as much beautiful in own genuine way as brutalistic it feels, that is remarkably painful to play but satisfying at the same time.

Servers seem dead now, but I was lucky enough to play it for a while when it used to work back in the day - good game.

Great game, simple enough but nuanced enough. One could imagine a DLC with some new gear. Thank GOD this is a digital game though, because the clarity of rules is just not there.

Indeed, who knows what can still happen? Even though it is very unlikely we would suddenly become evaluated - rewarded or punished - in life and by life, in a "currency" unbeknown to us, there is yet always something to be further appreciated within the scope of realms we already consume, respecting the trajectories of our living - that is, without violating who we are and what we are. Like a flower blossom, good things come naturally, in a peaceful manner. It is our task, as sentient beings, to learn how to appreciate, how to see there are advantages even in apparent disadvantage. Every stance in life is like a viewpoint, but it is up to us whether we choose to become fixated only on one spot, disregarding all the other existential landscapes. Our surrounding consumerist culture is mildly oppressive with the "do this" and the "get that" attitude, that can fog the mind, narrow the vision, cause a sense of entrapment. To clear oneself of that fog, is the job to do, in order to be able to see better and appreciate better. To learn that there is value in what we already have and where we already are. I do not think "places" would mean any physical locations to me, but I am glad to ever know the Universe more, painting my picture of understanding, that I carry with me and within me, at all times. This picture, I will carry on, unlike anything I can possess or become in life. I am happy, in my own way, but I need to understand some people cannot seize the vista capturing my sight so much, given moment. Even that vista, though, will I need to let go, eventually, to be able to move forward, in due time, like a flower blossom, sprouting towards new horizons.

So now I know where do I come from.

This is what happens when The Hanged Man combines with a fortune cookie.

Genuinely eerie, but not depressing. Acceptance of the inevitable with serene mindset. The way, the practice. I am often impressed with the depth behind the Bitsy community.

Beautiful, thoughtful, excellent piece of Bitsy interactive fiction. For some intuitive reason, I expect to find myself being a collapsed giant, if I ever am to become a star. Paradoxically speaking, I already am. Nothing sad about it. Obscurity, though, is a thing to meditate upon. Without a matter of own, I need to expel gravitational influence upon other bodies in vicinity, to make myself detectable to conventional human technology. Kind of a manipulative way, but I rather think of it as giving inspiration. My orbital trajectories, are most perplexing. Even though without any face of own, I make perfect natural lens to see things further for those who seek. I also have an event horizon for those who near too close.

These would do for some nice 'Norwegian Black Metal' song lyrics.

Ants upon the carcass of God. For his death, our fall.

Beautiful sonet. In the end, a card, hung in the void. But not an empty card. Damage, comes from experience. It is what makes us remember, question and seek. Lost shard, still adrift.

Nice! But theoretically, every Tarot card is a metamorphosis of the Fool. Therefore, well, Emperor is also a Fool. (Five years sentence.)

Bitsy movie, nice. Innovative. The movie itself, good deal of psychedelic.

Bitsy is a true blessing to the digital poetry and the interactive fiction communities. Room Null, what does it mean? It means M.W. belongs to the gods, I guess. Please, use less cliche music, though.

Beautiful, mature. For some time I have been thinking to tell my mother I am sorry if I had ever wounded her, by not becoming what she could perhaps imagine to be the best for me - or the best of me - in life. But on the other hand, I do firmly believe she just wants me to be happy and the way my life or my attitude in life appears, could sometimes indicate perhaps I am not that happy altogether. But if I tell her I am sorry, for what I am, that may sound like a goodbye of a sort. Kind of scary. Maybe it will be better if I do not say anything of such. I will just try to be healthy and strong and with these two, the impression of happiness could just jump in. Because hey, if you get nothing major to worry about and you realize that, it is some form of happiness already. I do not feel depressed, I just feel like maybe some people think I totally missed my potential. I do not feel that way, actually. I feel that I just chose a philosophical path in life, to live it. It is hard sometimes, but what experience of reality is easy? What kind of reality, is easy?

Games are like small social rituals. Games going cyber, witchcraft going cyber. Life going cyber. It is all about life, but what does it mean to be alive, to live a life? There could be life in the cyber realm, but life, has to involve passion and it is hard to find passion without the people and social context. Such as, what spell would one want to cast if there was nobody to ever reap the outcome? We need to imagine a space entity, who is like a reaper of all that is redundant. But in order to find it, one needs to tune in with what becomes redundant.

Very poetic, touching. I like the free movement around the environment in a way that remains explainable, sort of, in a Bitsy way.

All the possibilities in the world within sight, but a room without an escape.

Kind of like a life journey, concluded in a bottle of memories.

Nice one, tight resource management with survival strategy. Until the light takes us!

SMASH BASH is positively a promo of a remarkable web game. It has nice retro flare - of the CADILLACS AND DINOSAURS type - with sincere DIABLO feel to the moody and haunting outdoor, desolate swamp environments. The isometric view action dynamics are fluent and catchy, properly modern. The dialogues, appearing once in a while, are framed within nice animation sequences. Even though I did not test the one particular feature, it appears the game handles local multiplayer, based on various controllers. Available protagonists differ slightly with their characteristics. The unintrusive music, fits the background. For the current drawbacks, there are minute rendering glitches, nothing that would disrupt the major gameplay, though. Hope to see the project expand!

Knife could also indicate the desire to cut off something or someone. Knife may also serve the purpose of "cutting the way through", such as in going through the bush, but then, one would perhaps want to use a machete instead.

Actually, it was a mistake, but nevermind.

I believe you do not mean God?

Apart from having the privilege of being a major nuisance to the universe. Like a program forcing your PC to run some serious voltage all around, instead of doing in a powersave mode. Not that it should really matter to the universe, which some say, is the biggest quantum PC ever. If the universe could conceive such bizarre a program, it means, the universe could afford it, nay? It is all part of the plan, the Joker says.

One of the quantum theory interpretations says the world does not actually exist in any set form or shape, if you do not witness it directly with your senses - that is, if you do not "measure" it accurately somehow, forcing the world to decide what does it want to be. Therefore, the  most bizarre superpower would be to make the world exist, even if you do not look at it. In a way, you would be like a god then, all-witnessing all the time.

You may not even know that you have this power, now.

The Mierdas Touch.

Besides:

Eating fruit with your earlobes is downright weird if done on a weekend.

Damn right, on a weekend, batshit crazy, but if you do it on a common day otherwise, fine.

First, we need titles that represent genres or unique concepts in gaming. Not so many of them in the recent years.

Finding good synergy is a hell of a task.