Sam was lonely, but contradictorily, his pain made him not want to be with people.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

Throughout his life, Sam had hated being told to “fight,” as if sickness were a character failing. Illness could not be defeated, no matter how hard you fought, and pain, once it had you in its grasp, was transformational.

collogue.

thanks in large part to the branding of Mayor Mazer. He’s friendly, he’s hip, he knows the best places to buy pottery in Mapletown and how to get that fiddle leaf fig tree to grow in your living room. Sure, he’s mining your data like everyone else, but he’s one of the good guys, right?

How much of your life had been happenstance?

tetrachromat,

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?