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2025-02-26 15:27:01 UTC

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it's working!! also WOW I love your hair

2025-01-14 17:02:49 UTC

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I get this entirely. So many steps involved!
(of course I also have a vague reluctance to list old videogames, despite some that are worth several hundred dollars and I'm literally not playing, out of a sentimental attachment I can't shake)

2025-01-10 02:33:11 UTC

Finally installed an RSS reader again (surprisingly trivial, thanks Docker) then discovered I can’t even think of a single blog or news site I used to read that is still active other than Indie Hell Zone. Time to start from scratch, I guess

2024-12-06 19:01:34 UTC

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I'm just imagining The Odd Couple except instead of "one's neat, one's messy" it's "one of us doesn't know how to be an actual human and the other is trying to keep their girlfriend from strangling the alien"

2024-12-06 18:23:23 UTC

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I did get the bar rebuilt; I did *not* get Dys and Tang to reunite. I'm hoping there's a way to do that on a future run, but I imagine I need an even higher relationship with Dys than I had (like 85 or something?).

2024-12-06 08:42:36 UTC

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There were some other minor nice moments - like in this ending, Tang actually contributes to the colony gene pool - although she watches the kids like a hawk for genetic markers of anxiety and depression like her family had. (In my initial run she refused to even do that. Both her and Dys were convinced they were bad for the gene pool.)

2024-12-06 08:38:46 UTC

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- Rex kept running his bar and “contributed” to a lot of kids. 😂
- Tang had a moment of burnout and got kinda mad at us for not telling her Dys was a Gardener, but eventually recovered. She still died in her 60s because the human body needs sleep.
- Marz was an effective governor. More than me. In the peace scenario the colony is a post-scarcity society so she finally gets the art and luxury she wants.
- Dys eventually stops visiting. (cont.)

2024-12-06 08:35:45 UTC

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so finally, the last ending I got tonight:
- Brokered peace with the Gardeners.
- Astronaut. Vace and I apparently regularly go to space to explore. The final scene is us trying to go back through the wormhole.
- Parents both lived to a ripe old age and died peacefully.
- Cal and Tammy had a bunch of kids and lived happily ever after.
- Sol and Nem had one kid and Nem got really into being everyone’s Aunt Nem after all once she retired. (Cont)

2024-12-06 08:31:47 UTC

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Did everything the same except I didn’t bother doing the Array, I did get Vace to talk to someone about his anger, I told him I was interested in going to space (this is relevant), and - most importantly - triggered several events with Sym that I hadn’t seen him around to do before, namely the one where he takes me to the Overseer to bring a peace offer to the Governor.
(I also found Dys and bid him farewell as he went to be a Gardener.)

2024-12-06 08:28:53 UTC

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However, what I didn’t realize was that I had started to blow up the Array in this branch, and then didn’t. As a result, during the final battle in year 19, Noctilucent brings a bigger army than usual, and the colony was eradicated. That, it turns out, is ALSO an ending. I had no way to drum up the required colony defense, so I rewound all the way to year 17.

2024-12-06 08:27:14 UTC

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Second ending: did the thing with the wormhole. Transcended time.
Third ending: started a new life, picked up the engineering manuals, picked Congruence as my best friend, and told her to lower the shields. The ship blew up in the wormhole, destroying it.
Fourth ending: grew up and died in the Vertumna compound on Earth, because there was no wormhole.
Reloaded back to the ending before the wormhole. Figured I’d play out the normal ending.

2024-12-06 08:25:21 UTC

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First ending: Found the Array in the swamps, had Congruence build the virus for it, killed Noctilucent, and blew up the Array. I didn’t actually know this was an ending?? The only thing it mentioned at all about anyone was that since Vace and I were both heroes, it was awkward for Nem and we drifted apart in our 20s. Also, Sym - while initially glad to be an individual - actually got old and died. I reloaded back to just beforehand.

2024-12-06 08:20:41 UTC

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well, this run went …places.
- Maxed friendship with literally everyone except Vace and Nomi-Nomi.
- Got Nem out of her relationship with abusive shitbag Vace and started dating Nem myself
- Stopped the plague…by accidentally letting Dys blow up the lab, because I didn’t have the friendship with Tang at the time to stop it
- Elected Marz governor this time.
- At this point, things take several turns.

2024-12-05 15:06:02 UTC

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the intro is in fact a Preppy; that's still what I use when I use a fountain pen because I am fountain pen baby

2024-12-03 01:40:58 UTC

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well, I feel like I have a pretty good shot at it this game so I'll let you know how that works out

2024-12-03 01:30:59 UTC

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- also can I just say that Sym looks like you told an AI "Draw the Count from Sesame Street, but hot"
- Fully explored the Ridge, unlocked sneaking out during Glow, found the event at the end where you can just wait under the wormhole, but didn't have enough stress to stay the whole night
- Emotional whiplash: Nem gives you a gift as your secret admirer, reacts when you tell her you like her too, then she starts dating Vace?? Terrible.

2024-12-03 01:29:13 UTC

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run 3 (currently in year.... 17? 18? just past the birthday party where Lum crashes it to read you a shitty poem)
- Decided this was going to be the one where I saved Anemone from her shitty relationship with alpha male jerkass Vace, so I took Super Strength and focused on maxing red stats early with LOTS of exploring.
- I also gave a shit ton of gifts to everyone; currently at 90+ hearts with Nem, Tammy, Dys, Cal, Marz, Rex
- Also 100/100 w/Sym

2024-12-03 01:25:20 UTC

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- Found the Convergent Domain ruins at the bottom of the Ridge, but did not actually meet any aliens
- In the ending, the only real thing of note is that Marz and Sol drifted apart because she never really forgave Sol for making themselves governor, thought she was always a vital opposition candidate. I think she ended up with Tangent when it was all said and done
- Also in the ending, Sol's parents worked themselves to death - two heart attacks.

2024-12-03 01:23:56 UTC

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run 2:
- Saved Tammy. Did not save her dad. Oops.
- Spent a lot more time exploring and a lot more time in Command, both things I neglected in run 1
- Solved the famine by foraging for food in the Valley
- Dated Marz, then kind of made her mad when I got myself voted in as Governor (netting the Governor ending)
- Sorta forgot that Dys was gonna set off a bomb in year 9 and almost got the colony overrun
(cont.)

2024-12-03 01:21:23 UTC

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Well, I completed run 2 in about 4-5 hours and am just about done with run 3, so I'll sum up what I've done differently so far!

2024-12-02 20:32:47 UTC

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in my first run I played a mega-nerd and ended up becoming the colony's first physician (which is what I intended) and dating Tangent (and stopping their apocalyptic virus) which was cool, but then slightly failed the coup because I didn't convince the Engineer and never got another chance to do so; during the ending Tangent basically underwent catastrophic burnout because I never figured out what happened to Dys. OOF.

2024-12-02 20:29:41 UTC

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by the end of the first run I was like "well, this'll alright from this point, right?" and then NO it just got WORSE
I already know where I want the last run to end, haha

2024-12-02 17:13:43 UTC

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I have backed many, many things and tend to just kind of regard them as a gift to my future self because I will have forgotten by the time they come out. I saw "December 2021" and thought "okay, sure, probably 2022"
IT IS ALMOST 2025 NOW

2024-12-02 17:11:27 UTC

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that's what I'm sayin'!!

2024-12-02 16:57:41 UTC

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yeahhhh. I mean, we all know KS "estimated delivery" dates are a crock anyway, but especially this one. I've had entire campaigns start, fund, complete, and deliver in the timeframe this one's been working.
https://cdn.awaymessage.club/media_attachments/files/113/584/282/991/361/707/original/961e37b00c56ea42.png

2024-12-02 16:53:12 UTC

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it's extremely annoying! not least of all because the Kickstarter was kinda notoriously mishandled (this company acquired a licensed property for adaptation in the middle of this KS's fulfillment that required them to essentially all-hands the entire company onto the licensed game to meet the licensee's timeframe)

2024-12-02 16:39:03 UTC

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I will say that Taash comes off kind of terse for reasons that will make sense/be explained if you pursue their character arc. I also know at least one person with Strong Negative Opinions about post-romance Emmrich

2024-12-02 16:35:37 UTC

love to see a company advertising preorders of a tabletop game and other backers receiving their copy actual weeks ago at this point, while my copy from the Kickstarter is sitting in Albuquerque waiting on them to take it to the post office apparently

2024-12-02 14:04:45 UTC

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I had a great time; I started a second playthrough that I’m picking at periodically. I have some quibbles with part of the endgame sequence that we can touch on when you get there. My only issue with romance was every time a new person showed up my reaction was “oh no, they’re hot.” 😂 (I ended up romancing Taash, they’re fantastic.)

2024-12-02 14:00:50 UTC

managed to restrain myself to only buying 5 games (so far) from the Steam Autumn Sale, then spent every non-socializing minute since playing I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
never met a game with such a heartbreaking first run pretty much by design, and automatic encouragement to try again

2024-11-29 00:33:14 UTC

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Ahaha, yeah, I didn’t speedrun it! (Though when I finished it with every achievement at 77.5 hours I was somehow the fastest completion in TTGF’s Dragon Age-rs.)

2024-11-05 18:56:04 UTC

[24 years later] oh, she was flirting with me

2024-09-22 23:48:59 UTC

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lmao, what on earth??