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Metroidvania where each upgrade modifies or disables a particular form of game-mechanical bounds-checking.
For example, one upgrade might disable underflow checking for the player character's heath meter; most damage sources only inflict one "unit" of damage (assume a very coarse-grained health system, like Legend of Zelda hearts), so this isn't terribly useful in the general case, but against any damage source which inflicts 2+ health units in one go this can be exploited to make your health wrap back around to full if the final value would be negative. Apart from its situational applicability in fights against bosses with highly damaging attacks, this also serves as the game's equivalent of a hellrun mitigator; damaging environments knock off two units of health per tick, so as long as you ensure that your current health value is always an odd number it will just keep wrapping around indefinitely.
Another upgrade might uncap the player character's falling velocity. Mostly this just lets you get places quicker, but in locations where it's possible to fall long distances it can get you going fast enough to clip into the floor. The game's progression logic explicitly incorporates these floor clips, and several areas are gated by long vertical shafts with one-tile-thick floors at the bottom where the only way to pass is to use your uncapped fall speed to clip through.
Late in the game you pick up an upgrade which disables flag checking for scripted events, making all events available regardless of whether you've satisfied their prerequisites or not. This is mainly useful for completionists, since it allows map areas gated behind "permanently missable" flags to be freely explored during the 100% cleanup phase, but it also grants access to several events whose prerequisites are impossible to satisfy during normal play, including story events which require multiple mutually exclusive outcomes to have happened simultaneously. The narrative implications of this are not addressed.
The last upgrade, of course, disables the map position check that automatically kills the player character if they're out of bounds. This is necessary to reach the final boss.
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Fucked up how society can be like "okay, go to school" for 12-17 years and then be like "okay enough to that :)". Leads to really dangerous sad fucked up disease called Grad Student. Can progress even more dangerous into PhD Student. Very comorbid with Debt due to Costs Money and Doesn't Make Money. Very scary, these things.
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AND laudna said "imogen you're the most special girl in all of existence and you're the protagonist and you're incredible and capable and i'm boats_and_birds.mp3" DEAD WOMAN WHEN YOU START SEEING YOURSELF AS A PERSON - and it's so interesting!!!!! because imogen's response is immediately "i need you. without you i'd give in to predathos. without you, i'm gone." and imogen loves laudna so much!!!!! and she thinks laudna is special and essential and the most important person in the world!!!! but her answer to laudna's self loathing didn't contradict or dismiss that self loathing, it just reinforced what laudna feels: my purpose in life is to help you be the best version of yourself. i need to tether you so you don't give in to predathos. i need to be with you because you need me. but it doesn't make me any more of a person, it just makes me loved by you. i'm still not special, you're special. and i'm your heart-shaped locket. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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YES I'M GAY:
faGgot
dykAe (the a is silent)
trannY
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do you guys ever get annoyed that like. we have bodily needs.
like, sure, I don't mind eating a lil snack or drinking something tasty, BUT it annoys me that I have to do that in order to live.
like, I can't have little treats all the time, no, I have to eat regular meals, because otherwise the body will get upset. and most of the times, the body will also get upset if you eat something in particular, because it's dramatic like that
I like sweet fizzy drinks, but I gotta drink way more than I would like to in order to stay hydrated. and best way to do so is to drink water & that does NOT spark joy, the flavor usually is off, boring and annoying. not to mention if you drink enough, you gotta go to the bathroom so often, such an annoyance
like. do you guys get me.
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they need to add two extra hours after ten pm where time doesn't pass so you can do some nice reading before bed
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Oh Kristen
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i know this is coming from a place of like intense sexual objectification and homophobia and racism not to mention the world ending efforts of big oil but unfortunately it is so funny
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your honour my client merely just got a little bit genghis khan
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stolen "kiss"
馃敒 more of Them here
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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will
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The Dead Man鈥檚 Fallacy: Riz Gukgak
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untitled photo of couple at gay pride parade in 1980 from the Ron Workman Archive
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forget about touching grass, i need to touch THE SEA I NEED TO GO INTO THE WATER I NEED TO DIVE INTO THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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