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Just keep doing good and be cautious, people will learn.
We need time, and experience.
Just be kind. If someone stabs you, at least you did something good for them.
It's not your fault. As long as you're doing good, you should have no regrets.
Just be good, and don't feel bad for being good.

When you really understand that, you'll never have regrets again.
It's really liberating; from fear, anxiety, sadness, confusion.
The sooner you learn to accept that reward, the greater your whole life will be.
And here, you get infinite lives.
Why spend your time playing being unhappy?

And another thing, if you're here to help people, just keep in mind the ones who can benefit most from your help; those people who are using weapons on others, they need to know, most of all, how a good person handles a bad situation. Be kind to them, maybe even drop them a three letter word to think about, like ILY.

At the end of the day, we're all the same core of 30 people, from one ingame family to the next.
And throughout the day, 30 or so people come and go. Set a good example, got the new people who are just learning, and the old ones popping in to see how things are going.

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I'm very tired, falling asleep at the PC.
Have I repeated myself?
Just be good.

There are lots of towns and abandoned camps, try to make peace with folks.
Most people who would stab you have zoom out mods, if you do too you can talk to them from off screen.
Try saying "HI" and "PEACE", even if they don't understand, those are now the most common two and five letter words people are likely to share.
Give them a peace offering like some food or clothing from the wild, then if they say another two letter word after the first, it's probably TY.
Follow that up with YW and I think both parties will understand.

I'll tell ya, if I find clothing in the wild, and I get to a town with people, one of the first things I do is give my clothing to their kids.
Hasn't failed to calm a storm yet. Then you can look around for some less desirable clothing and work your way up from there.

This is kinda what I'm thinking, incorporate them into the gardens, like koi ponds, but maybe with paths around them so someone can use them to water the plants that might need a little?

Roadkill

Thanks, stranger.

Whoever you were, I appreciate it.

The hardest part of the southeast road is yet ahead, have to connect the monument at the center to the small patch of grasslands, southeast of the tundra. That is going to mean working mostly in the tundra with few food sources around.

Then I'll/we'll decide where to go from there.
I haven't scouted the southwest or northwest passages yet, but I'm sure they will take two to three lives to make the paths, if I have to do them alone.

Be careful southeast of the center, there is a long stretch of tundra surrounded by badlands and desert going almost 1/4 of the way southeast from the center. If you are in the southeast corner and heading northwest, you mat want to veer around that unless fully clothed and carrying food.
Spent my last life working on the scrap road through that tundra, but I'd like to get it replaced with a fast diagonal road.

Also, there is not a town at the center, that town that I thought was near the center is more like 160 east, 160 north, something like that. The "road" does now go from the well in the farthest northeast corner, to the well near the shrine at the center.

We need people who are not afraid of challenge to help on these things. If you can lay food or warm clothing you have to spare on the roads, that'd be nice, or, set up some horse hitches, cut trees or dig up stumps and big rocks.

There are not a whole lot of flat rocks left on the map, I'm not sure we can make the whole + and X but the X would reach farther into the corners for the same amount of flat rocks.

I won't take flat rocks from the roads already in town, or from graves, but please use what is left sparingly.
I suppose that goes for all resources...

Try to make the most of what you can, with what we have.

Very rough idea of the outcome, all towns in the four corners, as well as the four cardinal points, will be connected via the center.

Here is a google drive link to that life https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8MHBZ … sp=sharing
And a File Dropper link http://www.filedropper.com/recordedgame000180

I also used hetuw's v256 to play, if there are any issues with playback,
https://github.com/hetuw/OneLife/releases
which I seem to be having when trying to playback recordings, not sure why.
If anyone has any idea about that, I'd love some input, that way I'd be able to playback my own lives and get screenshots, or just, relive lives to see things I may have missed.

Horses are biome-shy creatures.
They will stay in the biome they are released, whether they are wild, tamed or have carts attached, so, whatever biome they find themselves, they will stick to.

If you get off them in a grassland, you will find them in grassland.
And they can only jump from one area of a biome to another area of the same biome if it is within, something like, 7 tiles, of a queen's moves, away from the biome in the location they are released.

I've looked over a few of my earliest posts because of this thread.

Probably one of the proudest posts I've made was the one where I figured out how to color BBCode and wrote this:

THE TEMP METER DETERMINES HOW FAST YOUR FOOD METER RUNS OUT!

That was this post. Titled MA PLS FARM ON DESER T

I also read something down at the bottom of that post, that I said

But as Jason makes more and more excuses for why he isn't making new items every week, as he said he would in the trailer for the game I'm starting to understand more and more why people don't like him. He's a liar. He doesn't care for his own reputation as an honest man or a good person.

So many people who have had previous experiences with him, have warned me that he wasn't a good person, as I hung out on their channels on Twitch and tried to encourage them to stream OHOL. I was under the impression that he wasn't that well known. I thought a man that would put a mechanic in a game, like raising a child, had to be a good person.

I still want to believe he really is, but in the end, good men are not selfish, they are the people of history that you don't read about. They don't fuck people over for the sake of their family, they work hard, in fields and factories, for the sake of their families. They don't need to lie, because corn and iron, don't need to be lied to; they just need to be worked. Like Jason needs to be working those markers, playing with his scanner and adding more simple text files into the object folder of the game. That's it. That's all he had to do, and people would have, from this day forward, said good things about him, about his works, as a man.

That's all you had to do.

Just finish the story, Jason.

Don't depend on us for your reasons.

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That's another thing I realized, looking at my old posts, many of the things I've asked for, have found their way into the game. Sure, not all of them, probably not most of them, when when good suggestions were made, and people supported those suggestions, and Jason was capable of making them happen, he did.

But people get tired of asking for things. I've gotten tired of asking for things.

I've played this game so much because I like giving things to people, I, like making things for people.
I, want to help people.
I enjoy helping people.

Even when I was homeless for months, I couldn't bring myself to beg for food or money. I nearly lost 50 pounds before a woman who let me stay in her place, eventually tracked down my mother and called her to come pick me up, like I was a sick dog, and my mother drove 500 miles as the woman convinced me it was in my best interest, to go home.

I don't want to keep asking for things in the hopes that they are given.
I don't want that role.

I thought Jason already had things planned out.

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Then there was all the struggle, with all the people doing terrible things to each other in the game. People who didn't fully grasp what they were doing. People who didn't understand that the only thing that was persistent from life to life, were that there would be other players, other humans beings to experience this game with.
And so they thought of themselves, and they thought of the things in the game, that they had or didn't have, but they didn't think so much of the impact that they had, on the other players that joined in on the experience with them. And they found more and more excuses, to justify their selfishness, and more and more excuses, to condemn children born to them, at any time, to death.

Those aren't the kinds of stories people wanted to experience.

You're not supposed to die before your parents.

And good parents would surely give their lives for their children.

The outcome of those situations should have been that both players characters died, sure, but they would have both gained inspiration to try harder from that experience.

- The person playing the mother would have been encouraged to find better locations to raise her kids, to work harder when she was fortunate enough to find herself in a place where food was abundant, to maintain that abundancy.
- The person playing the child would have been encouraged by the mother's sacrifice, and they too would have been encouraged to take measures into their own hands, to ensure their family members didn't starve, by creating food, from soil, seed and water.

The lesson should not, have been that abandoning your kids is ever okay.

Then there were the baby suicides, which were the same thing, but in reverse. Players didn't understand the effect they were having on the community, by giving up on their family. And selfish people like Twisted, just kept rerolling for the sake of getting into the most productive family, so he could record a video for his own fame.

Those two aspects of this, ruined the greatest thing about this game.

The players doing them, have made the best part of the game, for the most people, worse.

In both cases, it was selfishness, that ruined what was otherwise a simulation of the most selfless behavior of life; the bearing, caring, and upbringing, of new life into the world.

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I want to believe that all of you belong here. I do believe that. I think everyone of you, at your core, understands the value of life. However, this game's community; some of it's most outspoken members, do not have a firm enough grasp of that value, in order to carry on spreading it. We were not united in this mission, we were not strong enough, as a community, to counter those who thought of games as competitions. People who were not strong enough to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their children, and then came here on the forum, and, I assume, discord, and encouraged others to do the same, they eroded, the core concept, of this game.

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I wish I felt these sorts of feelings, while reading other people's posts on this forum.
I want to assume that you are all good people, and that you all mean the best, for everyone.
But it pains me to try, to try to accept that that might not be true.

This is not about the game. This is about you, as human beings.
You don't have the courage to put down a gun placed in your hands.
You don't have the sense, to say no.
This game was made to teach you one lesson, above all others, and rather than learn it, you argued against it, as you drew weapons against each other.

You argue for terrible things to get worse.

It was bad enough that Jason lied from the beginning.
Now he's making you kill yourselves.

What's left of you is too weak to care for.
That's why Jason doesn't even care anymore.
He can barely care about himself.

Interesting.

and there never will be a permanent town, city, nation or country, on Planet Earth, or anywhere else in the universe for that matter.

Little by little, more and more, we are going to shred, rip and tear away chunks of this planet and send them out into space.

As the Sun continues to expand, we will lower the mass of this planet and allow it to drift out, further and further, and unless in the next 5 billion years we find a way to engineer stars, the Sun will go Nova after the gravitational force of the heavy elements accumulating at it's core, pull in the outermost layer and send it hurtling in all directions through the solar system. What's left in this proximity will recollect and form a white dwarf.

But chances are we won't let that happen. We, life, and all the species more intelligent than present day humans, will find ways to engineer this star, along with many more, long before it has the chance to fail on us.