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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • A problem with The Witness is that the game’s single biggest excitement comes from a twist that revealing completely spoils

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    The environment puzzles

    So it’s stuck in the position of letting 80% of its player base walk right past the best part, or preserving the moment of discovery.

    I’m personally grateful it has the integrity to let me find it on my own, but it’s also a bummer since at least two of my friends beat it without ever realizing





  • I’m taking it on two fronts (though admittedly reading right past “inkflowers” and “metal pans”) 1- the literal planet and moon, with the moon eventually drifting out of orbit, overcome by the gravity of some other body 2- a more metaphorical relationship of a girl and her brother. I’m reading it as a family member with special needs or just in need of a caretaker. She uses him to hide in some sense, using the need to caretake as shelter from other things in life. But eventually that brother is gone for some reason or another, and she’s left adapting to the new exposure

    Metal pans may be hospital trays/bedpans?