hadriel | oo3

Hey guys!

[Comes Rhys' familiar voice, annoying as ever as the camera flips on. He's sitting in his disheveled bedroom, clearly a little sleep deprived, but accomplished and seemingly triumphant all the same.]

I wanted to wait until I was sure that there's nothing bad going on before releasing my next game. Are you guys ready for it? It's Mrs. Pac-Man, and it took me forever because- well, funny story actually, it's really easy to code the ghosts to take the shortest route to get to you and kill you, but it's kind of harder to program in other difficulty levels where it's not super tough, and so I was looking into it and developed this nifty algorithm for the easy and medium difficulties, and-

[...and he's getting ahead of himself and saying shit that nobody cares about. At least everyone totally has time to listen because nothing bad is going on!]

-well, anyway, it's a really cool game about a badass lady sphere. You can all download and play it, but uh, I'm gonna need at least five of you to give it a shot.

Have at it!

[File Attachment: rhy5_1s_4w3s0m3]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ No need to restate the obvious as to poor timing. More to the point, he's of course looked at the code. ]

Clever work on the algorithm. Less so on the file name.

I have to make sure my genius is appreciated somehow!

And, uh... thanks, actually.

You don't suppose resorting to tacky file names suggests a more fundamental failure?

Do you only do games?

No, I think it's a fancy way of crediting myself with my work!

Here I have. Back home I did a lot of technical stuff for high profile trading and business deals.

We'll have to agree to disagree as to what constitutes 'fancy'.

Less transferable here, I suppose, given the absence of an economy.

Pretty much. No useful skills here makes Rhys the bottom of the food chain- so I'm improvising.

[ Rejoice, Mr. Rhys: Hermann is almost certainly below you. ]

A fundamentally human thing, to develop tools to compensate for weakness. Though, in this case, you may be currying good favor?

[ No beast would refuse the meal in exchange for a game of Ms. Pac-Man, after all. ]

I kinda thought that was the intention.

But it seems to be doing the opposite thing

Bad timing and another facet of human nature, that is, the reflex to lash out at the easiest, nearest target. Zombie frustration and there you are.

Yeah but. I didn't start the zombie apocalypse or anything...

Mr. Hope only ever cleans the rubbish up, but everyone blames him.

I don't even do that much! I hide in my room the whole time!

How admirable.

[ Not that Hermann does much different, but if he could, he probably would? ]

Oh yeah? How have you been beating back the hordes of the undead?

Touché.

Hah!

Owned.

oo3 | Video

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;