oh my god this is so good. The vibes are immaculate and channel the retro feel really well while also highlighting the alternating the cheery and offputting moods.
At the moment I'm only familiar with some of the 'required reading', but I can very well see and appreciate the influences at play here. (There was only one way this story could end.) There's definitely something insightful to 'you see people on their phones reacting to an instagram post but not what the post is' being analagous to 'you see a man reacting to a conversation on a payphone, but you cannot hear him because you are outside the booth' in absurdity.
As a small technical aside, the linux build isn't set up properly, but can run with a little elbow grease-- the .sh file in the root directory and the ones in /lib/py3-linux-x86_64/*.sh need to be given execute permissions (`chmod +x`) <- this is primarily for any other linux user who comes across this