I feel like it was in the first 3rd or so? To me that counts more as setup than anything else. The rest of it has been more of the implications, how it works, and what to do about it, which I would consider more to be spoilers.

Oh thank you! I couldn’t find a sub for it but that makes sense now that I see it.

Nope! My partner just happened to read it lately and recommended it.

yeah idk if they’ll ever include that much detail in the game, and if I try to do all that I’ll be working on this for weeks and my partner is already pissed about having done both the laundry AND dishes this weekend… but I definitely appreciate the ideas! Maybe something to try after a few more generations of lifesim games!

I wonder if the fatigue mechanics would make that a less desirable strategy, but in either case idk if I want it to be that hard. In particular I’m trying to make part of figuring it out sort of realizing what those rules / constraints are, but in a way that just gets you to the solution faster rather than eliminating a total brute force solution which would require less thinking but would definitely take longer.

😂😆🤣

OMG it’s wild that you would say that because I’m actually reading (listening to really) Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson as I’m making this! If you’ve never read it a pretty big plot point is a Brown Note image that looks like noise but that will scramble people’s brains if they have enough of an affinity for computer languages.

If only the [insert subgroup that vaguely annoys me] would listen to this!

I bet this actually meant a lot to him. Sometimes it’s hard to remember “oh yeah I’m actually meeting those goals I set years ago.”

I’m still borderline, I still have chronic suicidal ideation, especially when something pops into my head that was dumb even as far back at middle school. But then sometimes I’m like "oh wait remember 10 years ago in the state hospital when you were like “I bet I could do this better” and now you’ve been a nurse for five years and working in mental health for 10 and this job asked if you wanted to be their crisis deescalation teacher for the location and respond to psych emergencies on the med units 6 months in? And one of those nurses says she worries less when you show up? Remember four years ago when you had a psychotic person in restraints who cleared up and wrote you a daisy nomination?

I feel like every once in a while this guy has to be reminded sir, you are an astronaut.