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Dodge, I'd be willing to suggest your types of posts have done more harm than mine.
I'd love to do a more thorough investigation of the vitriol you have oozed into this community over the years and compare it fairly to my own, but I recognize I'd be biased in your favor, considering the sort of martyr I tend to want to portray myself as.

You were a good reason I took a vacation from here... probably a reason a lot of people have, and will, possibly never come back. I don't get why you are such a loose cannon, but I'd like to. I'd like to know why people like you exist, as if we both don't know. Maybe I can help you too.

Maybe we can help each other.

Either "Maybe he can have more of an effect on that future than he thinks."
OR "Maybe he can affect the future more than he thinks."

Maybe we all can.
Let's not sell ourselves short, shall we?

Perhaps I am not certain what you mean by projects. or "you have projects" and instead I see the development of this game as "we have projects". This game has always been about the community to me. When I'm in it, I rarely think of Jason compared to the people I am working with, and for, so that they may have better lives than my own.

I come here to defend those people from the damage I perceive Jason doing to us for his amusement and the amusement of... who knows what other twisted, careless, people, who find it interesting how we fail when tortured to death. That's how it's felt before.
Like torture, and I have spent years, years, in correctional institutions and locked away in, who knows what to call them, they change the names so often, sanitariums? Mental health clinics?

Truth is the world has not been kind to me and I in turn continue to return the favor, but, my aggression is misdirected time and time again towards innocent people who are not responsible for the times I have suffered.

I, like Jason, could really just use a good friend. It's no fun feeling like a sprue, a trimming, a weed.

Gogo, consider my 3100 hours playing this game as a project.
Yes, we co-operated, and so far the results have been that I was loved, and I have loved, each and every one of you, as though you were my mothers and my children. My ancestors, my descendants and my family.

Still perhaps not the sort of project you may be considering. Maybe you can give one of your own as a second example, and express your position on working with others, or alone.

As if we could ever do anything, truly alone.
That's not how life works, that's not how we work.
As a collection of trillions of cells working together, it's a foolish view of life that any one, thing, is responsible for any thing.
Every thing, is connected, by chains of events, forces, information. No one thing, anywhere in this universe, exists on it's own.

I must be painting the intent of your comment darkly.
We are all here because we know who and what is responsible, for some things.
I suspect you are preparing to defend Jason from me.
Initiating interaction from a defensive position, is a bad start if your intent is a fruitful engagement.

I am sorry if I am making this worse.

Jason makes games, not rockets, not buildings, not roads.
NOT REAL ROCKETS. NOT REAL BUILDINGS. NOT REAL ROADS.
But he does make minds happy, but so do drugs. Doesn't change the world outside the mind.
More games aren't helping to sort out the world's problem with a lack of activity.
Which was one of Jason's complaints to me, regarding my interest in the future of life.

This is not a normal game though, love can lead people to do great things.
It certainly has influenced Jason to be productive.
And the opposite..., not hate, but just, a deficit of love...
Both are far less desirable, and can easily lead to destruction, which is unfortunate.

Is it our job, as the community of One Hour One Life, to solve the world's problems, as far as it's lack of willingness to share and grow love, goes?
YES.
Yes it is.
I say it should be.
This is our project.

I don't like to edit posts, but images 2 and 3 are out of order.

(the whole post is probably out of order, tbh, but eh, whatcha gonna do?)

More like this, but with more company.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/226619523

Just reminding people what's important in life.
Love you, Slinky, always good to see a familiar name.

Can you share a link to this data, in this thread?

Curses still last 30 days and have what sort of radius of effect?

People learn, but not until they know the answer, do they understand how wrong they were; where, why, and how, being wrong at a previous step, changed the outcome of steps down the road.

Simple example, would be a calculus problem that takes a half hour to solve and has 140 unique steps. Get one of them wrong in the first 5 minutes, and you've just spent 25 minutes doing things you already knew how to do, but without reaching the correct answer. But life, isn't quite like that. It's much harder to go back and amend mistakes. And in this case, it's not 30 minutes, but 30 days; potentially hundreds of lives played, missing out on a key variable.

Thank you for making this post, sigmen.
This act itself; your post, is a key variable that will help us solve the equation, of the game, and ourselves.

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We have a pretty big responsibility, as the generation of the internet, that is bringing together the children of the world; of all cultures, to decide on a few basic human norms. Not as historians, politicians, or scientists, just, as gamers. Just, as products of cultures. It has always been the case that life has managed to find balance and mutual exchange. Everything that is life on Earth, is now concentrated in the hands of one species. We need to find our balance, with each other. We need to solve each other's equations too, if we are to find a grand unified theory, of humanity.

Hey, Fish, whoever you are in real life, whatever you are, whatever you do, I appreciate you making this post for it's own sake.

The game is a way for people to communicate with the world via their actions, given the limitations. Every game, every game world, has it's limitations, but every interaction, is, it's own form of a message. Saying GG to another player after a match of Starcraft, teabagging someone in a shooter when you know their camera is looking out of the eyes of their corpse, or stabbing someone and then talking to them while they bleed out for 30 seconds in OHOL, any and all mediums for interaction have their limitations.

The same goes for discord, this forum and even talking to someone while you're standing face-to-face. There is only so much we can do to communicate to each other how we feel; to share the thoughts, perspectives and feelings we have with others. Images carry with them their own messages. Games allow us to put those messages in other people's faces. I don't need to know the exact things you'd done and check them off a list of egregious past experiences I've had with others, because, thanks to this game, the vast majority of wrong is cast immeasurable dim, by the overwhelming luminosity of all the positive experiences. But for what shadows of your past you have dwelled upon, that may have involved me or things I have held dear to me, as a result of our shared experience via this game, or anywhere else for that matter, I forgive you.

There are good reasons we have the ability to make memories.
There are also good reasons to forget events of the past.
They can carry with them a lot of weight.
Weight you don't need, moving on in the future.

Bear in mind, I do not, and can not, speak for everyone.
Some people do not understand the weight, and how the weight moves, from person to person.
I can not take their weight off you or yours off them.
But any weight you may, have put on me, any weight those acts may have placed on you, at any time in the past, consider it dropped.
Like a bag of sand carried through a desert; it does no one any good to hold it or pass it around.
The desert is made, of the sands of the past.
No doubt yours was accumulated, and passed on, from person to person, desert to desert, for quite awhile.
You don't have to hold my sand anymore. Though, something tells me mine is probably not the most significant weight on your shoulders.
May those people forgive you as well.

Good health to you, Fish.
Good health, to us all.