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[teaforqne]

am i shadowbanned or why are my posts flopping so hard lately..... did i bore you guys 😔

[pinkinsect]

[ralvezfanatic]

well i accidentally stained a bit of my forehead purple 😭😭 BUT I think my hair turned out alr :33

[brainrot-stitch]

AAJHSJAHDHAUSUSKA strawberyfinch. Oh good golly. Guys I gotta mKs a character now ir else I kill myzsslf

[ch1-kasak0]

Is my ao3 broken or has 352 not come out yet

[justablah56]

oh I forgot I sketched gothweebcleats today do you guys wanna see

[ella-ashmore]

where are you guys watching the highschool tgwdlm.......

[clits-and-clips]

Did full moon release stuff with my sister tonight♡♡♡

[zachthealien]

The time has arrived.

Today, I've bought the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe. And I played a little- not all, of course, but a little.

Normally, I don't play games like these. Mostly because of cost issues, after all, I can't just go buying every game I like. So, for most of my childhood, I never really played the games I wanted. But today, I am happy. I was finally able to buy a game that I want, before I find another hyperfixation.

But I am not here to talk about my experience with the game. Maybe later, if anybody wants to hear, but not now. I am here to talk about my feelings with certain parts of the game, and what I understood of them.

When we're getting introduced to the memory zone, the Narrator mentions the developers, and how he hid the memory zone so they wouldn't find it. That raises a question- Is the Narrator really in charge of the game? For most of our playthrough, it seems so. But this strange ending gives the vibes of something else- that maybe, the Narrator is being ordered, or just aware that he's not in power.

Why does he have to hide, anyway? Is he afraid? Afraid of what? What can the developers do that strikes so much fear in the Narrator, that he had to hide something that makes him happy?

For now, let's move on. I'll leave that question to you.

While we're walking through "Pressured Gas" reviews, the Narrator reads some of the negative ones. And at first, it seems like all of those reviews are bad, right? That all of those reviews are meant to insult the Narrator? Look closely.

On the ground, walls, basically every other review that he doesn't read, is positive. All saying positive things. The Narrator just focuses on the bad ones. I would say that that is supposed to point out a main flaw in his personality- His 'people - pleasing' necessities, if you want to call it that. It's just anxiety.

Part of the skip button ending (if not, whole.) talks about how the Narrator is so obsessed with flaws and imperfections, that he does absurds things to get rid of it, no matter how much effort it takes or how much it will hurt him. He is always trying to make the player happy, Stanley happy, himself happy, and that only ends in his doom.

He is so obsessed with that, really, that even after living through the skip button ending, he insists on making a new Stanley Parable, with new gags and objects to play with.

You could argue that he was doing that to prove a point, to show that Stanley Parable didn't need to be bought by a greedy company, or that it didn't need new things, but the whole gag itself fights against that.

"For The Stanley Parable 2, I asked myself: what do players really want?

And of course, the first and most obvious answer is that they want to be individually recognized and validated as people."

What do the players really want?

"A common complaint of The Stanley Parable was that it was confusing and paradoxical. "

A common complaint.

He is still focusing on the player, on the fanbase. As a viewer and player, that is good, obviously. But from an outside perspective, and knowing what happened earlier, this seems pretty unhealthy. Even after years, decades, centuries, millenniums of thinking, he still clinged onto that obsession with the player.

Or maybe. The Narrator forgot about the skip button ending.

A common theory is that Employee 432, also known as Timekeeper, locked Stanley and Narrator in the skip button room. That would imply that Timekeeper can/does have more power than the Narrator.

If that theory is true, (we can't possibly know that) then maybe Timekeeper made the Narrator forget. They erased his memory to make him functional again. After all, we can see that the Narrator.. 'broke'.

"...the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never... "

Repeats until you press the button again.

Maybe, if he didn't forget, he would've stayed broken forever. Maybe, he needed to forget- for the sake of the game. But why would Timekeeper let the Narrator live? And why would they let Stanley continued playing this hell of a loophole?

I don't know. It's late at night for me, I'm tired, and I have school tomorrow. I'll be back. Toodle pip!

[zaiisaii]

daniel is such a pretty crier

the things i'd do to see that man weeping til his body shakes :/

[karikorii]

I recently found out that my cousin has diabetes and she and she always asked me to draw pomni but I declined because I draw pomni really bad BUT since I don't wanna be rude I drew her pomni and I'm going to print it :] down belows my art (I also posted it without title)

[alex-supremacy4]

hey 🏴‍☠️ alex-supremacy4 😍😍☝️ (/j /p)

i am abkut to giqet m euesz ot pekaSe

[rainswept]

um. this is what happens when i write and lean too far into metaphors bc idk how to do dialogue. ummmmmm

[fiendishfyre]

I haven't not drawn anything but I can't post anything cuz it's all horrendous. Sorry @roalinda but my James aren't good enough to post. 🥺😭😔 My deer boy deserves better. I even drew Lily but ugh, she looks awful. Rest in peace, my hopes and dreams. (I'm sleep deprived.)

[beatriceportinari]

think abt izuna for me while i sleep