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so im cactus's sister, he told me you all have a crush on me i like men who play video games and spend hoursglued to their pcs see ya later cuties ;)

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After recently playing through To The Moon and watching Indie Game: The Movie, I had this bizarre moment of inspiration for a game concept after seeing the amazing storytelling of to the moon and how personal Super Meat Boy was to Team Meat. I hope I can get across the idea for it well here because it is a bit abstract. The story: A man wakes up in his bed completely paralyzed and begins screaming for help until he finds all control of his body has been taken over by some unknown force (the player). As he's guided through the world his life goes from normal to a living hell after having this force make him steal cars, attack innocent people, perform life threatening activities, etc all the while having the avatar screaming for help regaining control of himself. Eventually he is found by a group of scientists who had survived being controlled by this force who kidnap him for testing to try to break the cycle of control. So the story would basically revolve around turning "the fourth wall" into a mirror and taking a look at the control we as gamers have over the avatars on our screen. I then thought more about the characters and started relating them to my childhood gaming experiences much like team meat did. I thought, "What childhood gaming icons could have escaped the control of their audience" and decided to have one of the scientists be based off of earthworm jim, which has long since moved on from the spotlight of today's gamers and afterwards decided that the player should be taking control of one still around today, super mario. The story would eventually end with the scientists "breaking the fourth wall" (literally) by discovering a way to communicate with the player and that's when I had a real moment of inspiration. Why not achieve that by having "the scientist" as a bot profile on steam actually add the players account and then message him begging him to stop? And here's where it gets depressing. As I thought over this idea more and more I thought back on how personal Meat Boy & Bandage Girl were to their developer. How they represented real people from his perspective and that's when I realized this entire concept was coming from a very big moment in my life. This isn't something easy for me to talk about but many years ago my life as I knew it was snatched out from under my feet. The scouting label that had signed my band passed us up for the Heart Attacks, My girlfriend of 5 years had left me, I could no longer afford my house, and I had to move away from everyone and everything I'd known. During this time I started doing whatever drugs I could get my hands on and one night I found my limit. The incident was so intense that I was literally a passenger in my own body. I barely recall everything that happened that night but I do recall moments of screaming inside my own mind for it to just stop. After I woke up in a holding cell and the event was over I had my wake up call and started taking the slow steps towards moving on with my life. After that realisation this went from being just a neat concept for a game and something very personal, and I know this is never going to get made. I'm so far from a game developer but it's been itching at me to share this somehow and this seems like the best way I could do it. I have a very long track record of good concepts long forgotten so I just wanted to get this written down somewhere but feel free to discuss.

Find an old computer. Remove the cooling fan. Tape the cooling fan to the railgun. Railgun complete. Bill the government $500,000,000 for the fan.

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