i agree! again, it feels very personal but i’m glad i played this, thank you for sharing it
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i think love means “to accept oneself and another unconditionally”.
humans like other apes are social animals, which is why we experience fear of loneliness and rejection so strongly. being away from other apes in the wilderness means death to the solitary ape. this is what our limbic system probably still tells us or something. when we have to choose between our attachment (leash) or preserving the self (gnaw), our programmatic response is to choose the leash, even if that means we will wither. its an impossible problem.
to truly love someone is to show them you will always accept them, even if they gnaw, removing the impossible choice, and empowering them to fight for their self. it may not save the other person, but i think it’s the most you can do.
thanks for playing!
trees being superior to humans is just how tree-chan sees reality. since its more of a comedy game she is meant to be aloof (she is looking down on humans, quite literally, since you know - she’s a tree and she is tall).
but yeah the stuff she says about trees cooperating i do find impressive
this is a really good piece of writing. it made me adopt the same tactics as i would in a corporate workplace. i don’t care who works where, all the emails get forwarded to Caroline. issue with printing? send to Caroline. bug on the website? send to Caroline. something something i didn’t even read the email - send to Caroline. i don’t care it’s not her area, we’re buddies, we’re in this together. if i have to suffer, she suffers too.
actually, if you wanted to play a game that talks about this topic i made one last year
https://pebonius.itch.io/my-plant-study-time
i’d be happy to hear what you think about it
thanks, i sometimes think of how people say “this is a flower” and “this is a weed”, even though the weed has flowers too.
you could oppose this by saying the weed is actually useful because it has medicinal qualities or something, but then you’re using the same frame of thought. instead i think its better to accept we probably dont know too much, and should just let other creatures do their thing :))
i downloaded again (what i think was) the updated build, and read the poem through to the end
i wasn’t able to understand some of the references, but with this being a personal poem i think that’s the way it’s supposed to be. i still think this is a really cool multimedia project, even to a “bystander” so again thanks for publishing it
























