I say! This appears to have been made over multiple days, few of which are Fridays(TM)s!

I'm glad to have played something so personal, but I can't think how to earnestly respond to it. Maybe that's OK? It happens to me a lot playing the games on this site.

There's a lot in here. And I appreciate the vulnerability you're putting out there. Despite the crudeness of the game engine, you're really using this in a diaristic and personal narrative way, and it gets to a real core of personal experience of the world in a way that some twine games are able to do as well. I hear what you're saying and hope you have other people to share this with as well.

You're not alone. Except maybe for the fact that you make an attempt at articulating what's inside you. And I'm not stating that because I think it will make you feel better - indeed, acknowledging there's others in the same boat often makes existence that much more challenging at times.

Reminds me of a friend of mine who is kind of fixated on both tremendous moments of stimulation as well as the nothingness found in a sensory deprivation tank. He's one of the most fascinating folks I've ever met, and he's really been through some shit. Thank you for sharing.

The song is fantastic, too. :)

I enjoyed this. I especially like how it progresses from cynicism about national politics to an attempt to describe the particulars of an individual's experience founded on a sense of futility. What I really enjoy about the latter portion is that all of the rationalizations, attempted explanations, and introspection that presents a comfort in non-existence and nihilism... has a discrete voice and idiosyncrasies. The soundtrack, the photos, the subject of the text and the text's voice present and prioritize nihilism in a very particular way; what's cool about that to me is that nihilism is often seen as an calibration to a universal zero, a single non-faith that everyone in doubt comes from and returns to... but here it's shown for what it actually is, a detailed personal experience unlike any other.

For many months I thought the soundtrack was a regular song with a regular vocalist and everything, and the lyrics are original content with some cryptic meaning. I only looked it up recently, and now it's too late: "Unacceptable Condition" will forever feel more profound than it really is. Probably. I can't confidently assert existence or absence of profundity in modern cartoons, the melting pots of fart jokes, existential crises and gore.