#the stanley parable spoilers

[superstarsnivkins]

getting emotional about the end of tsp ultra deluxe again sorry. the "thank you for enjoying the new content" sign originally being the punchline to a joke about the game being an insubstantial rerelease only to show up again at the very end of the actual new content as a genuine thank you to the player for seeing everything through..the narrator's final monologue after the figurines being a bittersweet farewell to the game itself.. the haunting ambiance of the desert at the end of skip button/epilogue.. FUUUUCK

[ell-if-i-know]

ME WHEN "Oh, look at these two. How they wish to destroy one another. How they wish to control one another.

How they both wish to be free.

Can you see? Can you see how much they need one another? No, perhaps not. Sometimes these things cannot be seen."

AND

"When every path you can walk has been created for you long in advance, death becomes meaningless, making life the same. Do you see now? Do you see that Stanley was already dead from the moment he hit start?"

AND ALSO

"Because maybe, Stanley, maybe - if you can hear me, then maybe it means I'm real. Maybe I'm not just a fiction. Was I scared of that all along? Perhaps, yes. Perhaps I've been scared this whole time that if I stop speaking, I'll slip backwards into the silence and be consumed by it. I can't be taken by it, Stanley. I can't lose myself in the stretch of emptiness between you and me.

When you press that button, you're still right there, but I know you're so tremendously far away. And in those moments, the emptiness folds itself outward in between the two of us, and I am suspended in its unyielding quietness. I can feel the edges of my reality curdling inward and decaying. I can tell that I am becoming less and less real.

Yet to speak to you now, I am alive! I am truly and completely here! I am a being, I am someone, I am something! I am being listened to, I am being recognized! The emptiness between us has collapsed, and I feel, right now, like I am not a work of fiction! I feel as though I occupy space in this world again, and I have cast a shadow onto the wall."

[radio-ghost-cooks]

i'm so obsessed with The Narrator (the stanley parable spoilers!!!!!)

he's a bitch. he wants Stanley to escape more than anything. he's sadistic. he sounded like he was about to cry when Stanley didn't move. he got offended by a Steam commenter calling him "unfunny." he made a game where you push a button for four hours. he thinks rocket league is fun. he's hardly felt happiness before the Zending. he played jaunty adventure music while following the Adventure Line(TM). i fucking love him

[fanfix666]

just learned about the stanley parable and i saw a clip of the part where stanley gets exploded because he pressed a button that pissed the narrator off and the narrator went on this super long ramble mocking stanley for panicking because he was about to be nuked and how silly it was and just… why did that turn me on and what is wrong with me

reminds me of that one short indie game called loved. it’s free, here’s a link for those curious. you play in your browser, no need to download anything. warning tho, that game intentionally misgenders you

[insertcleverurl]

it was all a one-act play, and I was Willie Loman. A damned fool who believed in something greater. But there was no happiness to be found.

Transcript under cut.

Men of faith tell us the afterlife is for eternity, but is it possible to keep your sanity for eternity? A day passes in the void. A month. A year. Two. Five. Ten. Is this an eternity? (March 1, 2023) Twenty years. A hundred years. A thousand years. I’ve sat in this room for a million years now entertaining the same thoughts, pondering the same questions, and ruminated on every mistake in my life… anguishing over them for centuries. A billion years now. Double that. Now double it again. I am still nowhere close to the end of eternity.

[pumpkinupsidedowncake]

Why. Why am I getting emotional about the Stanley button. Why did I press it again after hearing it, and again and again and again and it did nothing, it advanced nothing, it changed nothing, just gave me a lump of unnameable feeling and still I sat there, pressing it over and over, and something in me wanted to cry and the rest wanted to leave and I did, eventually, not because I was satisfied but because if I stayed any longer I would have to give in to that lump, give name to it, make the choice to be swept up in it.

Despite myself, I need to analyze this. It was a sad sort of emotional lump. Was it mourning? The opposite? Is mourning letting go or holding on? I was holding on, in that moment. To whatever I gained from hearing “Stanley” one more time.

[skiddoozle]

jim

[sugar-salt-sea]

i like to think that employee 432 made the Narrator visible after the epilogue and won't let him turn it off just so Stanley can fuck with him

[ace-of-amaryllis]

here, have the worst venn diagram ever made!

[ieattaperecorders]

Stanley entered the basement and saw the Princess chained to the wall. Knowing that she would destroy the world if left alive, he took his blade and immediately slayed her.

...While talking to her first might seem like a safe choice, Stanley had already been told that the Princess cannot be trusted. Knowing that dropping his weapon would be a terrible mistake, he instead tightened his grip.

*irritated sigh* ...Although the blade had somehow slipped from his grasp, it was still nearby. Correcting his obvious fumble, Stanley reached for the blade and-- oh for God's sake, Stanley...!

[0ystersaucedrawsthings]

huge project from 2022ish that took over a year to finish!

I was honestly expecting The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe to stay in development hell forever but when it came out I fell in love instantly. the original game was one of the first video games I'd ever heard of/watched a gameplay of online so it felt so so awesome to witness the release of its follow-up and experience it as a player this time!

had to make something to pour out my love for this game and I decided on depicting some of my favorite moments in 3D! never made something like this before so I severely underestimated how long it would take, haha (all of the layers in this were cut out by hand with an x-acto knife).

detail shots below!

[ketzel]

i literally just got into this an hour ago

[un-pearable]

This is the story of a woman named Mariella.

“Let me wake up,” he thought to himself.

I'm through with this dream, I wish it to be over.”

concept went through a million iterations as i grappled with the fact im just flat out not skilled enough yet to achieve the piece that lives in my mind. anyway. s2e4 will live in my brain for all eternity, here’s my attempt to get some of that onto the page. read the mariella ending (The Stanley Parable) to understand my wildly complicated emotions over irv and helly and their roles in the narrative

[egg-on-a-legg]

have we forgotten someone?

[queenburd]

“No, look, I’ve looked through this entire meager excuse for a story script, and it offers no explanation as to why we need to kill the princess other than this nonsense about ‘the end of the world’. Oh, I don’t know, this isn’t my area of expertise. I’m more of a—well, I prefer much cleaner stories about mind control and office buildings. None of this murder business. Well. Let’s just see what happens, I suppose. I’m not particularly picky one way or another with how this story goes. You decide, and I’ll do my best to narrate, yes? Alright. Let’s take it from the top.”

TSP narrator DLC route when

[lexumpysfunland]

Echos

Today I feed the lorrreee! I have only 2 asks to answer, but I didn't prepare anything for today, so I give you something else to compensate soon you'll be able to ask away as much as you want... almost there

the concept of these weirdos is simple... kind of- these are "Echos". They roam around the parable, usually out of the box generated for Stanley. on occasions, they find a way in, and the only thing they want is to find Stanley and just... apologize to him. All of them just want to do the same thing. They are born from outside the Box, so technically Walter is aware of them, but even if he kills them again and again, some will find a way in and terrorize the poor Stanley (not on purpose). They do have a voice, weirdly enough they seem to be trying to emulate Walter's voice as it's the only person they hear outside of Stanley's Box. Walter say they are dangerous so he will kill any of them, but they only seem to apologize...

alos have this for now. yeah I plan on making a mini comic to introduce the Echos properly in the future 👀