My loose idea of what "quine" could mean made this quite impactful. Somehow (likely my foolish RL playstyle), I didn't quine until my first decent run and it happened right as I felt like I had a grip on the game (ironic). I kind of just sat there staring at the quine screen and then Googled "quine" and read the below comments. Awesome experience.
Hugely impressed with the art as well. Would like to say I died so many times to try and cycle through all the transition artwork, but those were just me dying normally. Still, so cool to see that kind of art in a 7 day game.