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From a usable, caloric, perspective, that makes sense. Modern foods are just loaded with calories, but, some people would rather romanticize about being primitive and struggling. I know I do.

I want to be in the future, and the past, but we live, on the line where, that juxtaposition, is defined.
And it seems like a thin, boring line, because we're always here.
And it's very thin.

The past, is a lot more obvious to us, because of memory, record, and, logic.
It's the future that is fun to work out. It's why we argue, make up sciences and teach, to make the future a little more, predictable; to set it on a more productive trajectory, from our vantage in the present.

It is, why I tell people I love them.
I don't want it to be forgotten, when I am gone.
Not that I said it, necessarily, but that people said it,
that I kept it alive, at least, as long as I did.

Pein, people will figure things out.
Just as we have. You have to trust them, and let them make mistakes.
Just as people won't forget how to love, or, what love was;
what it is, that makes the part of this game, this mechanic, so special.

If real love, is not interesting to you...
I don't know what else to say.
What future is there, for people,
who act, more and more, like machines?

I can debate, a future of machines vs a future of, squishy people, vulnerable to the elements, and unable to survive, the conditions, found, in the majority of the universe. I can just as easily, be prompted, to argue, for more, biological or technological, futures. But as for this game, it's difficult, to look at the way we play with each other, as an argument, between numbers and love.

The numbers are there, and we will, become aware of them, with experience and effort, but, if the love isn't here; if people don't care about each other, than what is the point of knowing whats best? I'd much rather people cared, and died caring, than survive and not care, in a game, where the next life is free, and the memories live on. At least, as long as the players, remember what it was like, to have experienced what, this was. And maybe, maybe people who played 6 months ago, have come back today, and were reminded of what it was like, to have someone care for them, like this, in a video game, in their life.

Then they can help figure out some of the numbers, again.
And we can break down the world, from as many perspectives, as there are people, to experience it with.

Whether that is two,
two hundred,
or two million,
I want them to know, love.
If I could choose, one thing, that is never forgotten about this game,
it'd be the moment, that a new player looks back at their child, freshly spawned into the world, and picks them up.
That, pause; what happens in the moment.

That is life.

karl, if I can call you karl (I know) but, we go back, don't we? A ways? I don't remember being so upset with you, that I have wanted to make you, feel upset. You asked me something, and pointed back to it again, so, I feel I owe it to you to, flesh this out.

Is it this part you wanted me to address?

This part.

Probably not, because I did, at least, give a response to that, choice bit.

This part.

Is it most important, that I address the, accusation, of hypocrisy? Is that, the important thing here?

I appreciate that.

Or is it this? Because, this seems like a fun subject to discuss, to me.
The whole, best, part. Not the rude part. Though, they both go together, in an interesting way.

Was it that, or, was your statement:

In regard to, something else? Is it some combination of those sentences that I missed? Or do you want me to, restate, something I have said?

Something weird going on here, but, overall I have to say I disagree with, your lines of argumentation, Dodge.

A lot of the points you are trying to make, are subjective ones, like, things being boring or not interesting or people wasting their time.
That's your view of it because, you, want something else.
And that's okay.
But if you want other people to do interesting things with you, then you should be trying to convince them, not, trying to convince Jason to make changes to the game to force us into particular situations, if, that is in fact, what you have done.

I really don't care too much for for reading these, tired, back and forths.
You're boring, Dodge.
That's my opinion.

Based on what I'm reading, I also find your vision for the future of this game, disgusting, to be quite honest.
I put a lot of time into this game, because, well, it was beautiful. Now you want to make that beauty ugly, for what?
Shits and giggles? Because you, are bored? You, want us to encourage Jason, to get us to fuck with ourselves?
To give up the trust we've had in each other, for over two years now?

That is not interesting, it's sickening.
You, have the plague.
Jason has had it too, and, I don't doubt his may reemerge, but he sorted a lot of the problems; things that I, and many others, felt were problems, he sorted those out. Please, sort yours out. Try to see that what you want, is not necessarily what I want, and there are a lot of things, I didn't know, that I didn't want, until Jason encouraged them, with comments, and added them, with mechanics.

I do not, want private property.
I do not want trade.
I don't want mobs, or leaders or royals.

You using the word theft, doesn't even make sense, and I don't want it to make sense.
Not here, not ever.

Everytime, we start off, with a blank slate, and we all contribute to the world, from there on out.
Some days I spend 20 hours in a row, sometimes I have played for 30 hours in a row, without sleep, drinking less coffee, so I had to get away from the keyboard less, eating less food, just to avoid 3 minutes straight, of being away from the game, so that I could get back to work, as soon as possible, on whatever project, I was working on, for everyone. Before it was big projects, every family mattered, and there was nothing outside of the needs of just the family I was born to, but those became less important, as I saw each part of the big picture.

I can never unsee that picture now.

I don't want you, encouraging Jason, to break up the puzzle, that we have put together over these years.

Obviously, it's not complete though, is it? Otherwise you'd feel as though you were in the right place already.
But you don't, and I think that's pretty clear.
You still want to complete your corner.

Well, now what?

It doesn't seem like we're working on the same puzzle, but we are.

I might even say we are not approaching the middle, from the same sides, yet, we've been playing together, all this time. At least, since you arrived at the table.

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I don't want to go from being your daughter one life, to killing your family, minutes later.

I just don't have it in me, to let my view, flip like that, any number of times in a day.
And I don't want it. Not as long as the same world, persists, from one life to the next.

We're essentially the same people, from one hour to the next, taking turns, swapping places, I don't understand why you would want that, in a game with, any, sort of competition. Any sort of distinction, between people, is really meaningless, if you play enough. So, why encourage that at all?

I only, ever, want to love you, Dodge.
No matter who you are.

He actually did quite the opposite, if you care for them.
They used to spawn 1 berry every ten minutes, now you can get 6 in ten minutes, if you add water.
Now they are far superior to the domestic variety.
And with wild gooseberries not despawning, you can just load the ground with them, splash a little water, and they're good as new.

I go out to a nearby swamp, make 20-30 clay bowls and can have them loaded with gooseberries by the time I die, and if you forget to water them, they don't dry up, but just a single berry appears on them.Best way to go about it, is to start at a young age, make a milkweed farm away from town, near unused ponds, where wild berries and soil exist, grow 20 or so milkweed using skewers, make a snare or two, backpack, clothes and four pouches, then you don't have to use the bowl you brought out for watering the milkweed. Done it four times so far, sometimes I get around to filling ten bowls of berries for anyone that comes along, other times I can get a few dozen, go back to town, get a horse cart, and bring them in for bait, feed or compost near town.

I've noticed after I die in town with a backpack of pouches and come back, people have filled the pouches with bait and they don't get used for water, which is a mistake, less we start mass producing pouches and everyone carry one with water, fill up on wild berries, water the bush and then fill up the pouch at the next pond you pass by.

Leaving one berry on each of a half dozen wild bushes near town, while people are farming the domestic variety, really should be frowned upon. Clustering all those domestic berries near the well only serves to hasten water shortage. I could maybe see 9 to 18 domestic bushes near the bakery, or sheep pen, for convenience, nut more than that is just too much stress. That water, and soil, should be going towards variety, not convenience.

I'm no wizard in the kitchen, but for those of you that don't have to think twice about how to prepare stew, broth, pies, or even milk, that water and soil should be going more towards your causes and more working mothers, should be watering wild berry bushes with their kids, so that by the time they are entering their teens, they are seeing those bushes come back full, and know themselves, to remove all the berries and water them, to keep the full return timer ticking.

It's in the past. And I said his kids were the best thing he's created in this world, next to this game, by, getting his dick wet.

Just an expression for having sex, I learned while on the streets of Detroit, 10 years ago.
It's really a nice place. I live on Lake Huron, so, to see the water of that entire body, rushing past Detroit at night, was a pleasant experience.
Jump the fence of the Chrysler building and have a walk down the river at 3 AM and you'll know what I'm talking about.

I guess a pimp came up to me with a hooker at 2 AM and asked me if I wanted to get my dick wet, it was the first time I'd ever heard that expression, and it's just stuck with me ever since.

People are strange, but I love you.
All of you.

You don't know I taught astronomy, do you?
It's okay. I taught from 1991 till 2000.
Carl was probably one of my biggest inspirations, him, Stephen Hawking, and, definitely Albert Einstein.
I read every biography of Einstein I could get my hands on, ten every one of Hawking books, and about forty other books on everything from particle physics to cosmology, before, getting my job at the planetarium at 13. Cosmos is like the Encyclopedia Galactica of the history of the universe, and, of mankind's attempt to understand it. If anyone hasn't read it and has even a passing interest in the field, I highly recommend it. It's basically the answer, to Life the Universe and Everything, nevermind that Douglas Adams chap. ;-)

I find it amusing that people come out of the woodwork to say goodbye, rather than be active parts of the community.

I was like, who tf is eajorstad?

Sorry, but by this point I'm fully in sync with Jason's style of game development and nothing he does is likely to ever upset me again as much as people who complain.

Maybe if you guys just played for a few thousand more hours, you'd understand too.

Learn to adapt to the game, no matter what, don't insist Jason adapt to any, ANY, of you.
As long as we can log in together, we can manage, together.

Damn it, forgot to remove my name from the second picture... oh well.
Not like it's that big of a deal.
I wanted to remain anonymous on the leaderboard. I'm usually in top 5, if not top 20, till shit like quitters come along.

Jason, you should really drop the number of lives from 24 down to something like 12 or even 6, quitters absolutely ruin the game.

Join me for some wild gooseberry wrangling. I could use another potter.

Fug tonight, not you Dodge, you're just fine.