Windshyme

Decided to make something on Swapdoodle today, The size and feeling of the
2DSXL screen make it difficult to be precise, I already had that issue with Flipnote but it was more manageable because of the multiple undo chances, infinite ink and a the ability to zoom.
I might have tried a bit too hard on a app made for a more chill experience I guess. I'll have more fun coming back to it if I'm not worrying as much I think. _{Or maybe I just need to git gud}

It’s tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities.

I often think about this quote from Solanum. I remember freezing when I first came across it. It felt like it pierced through my screen, directly talking to me rather than through the game. It resonate with me a lot, now more than ever.
I need to face something that scares me a lot. I don't feel ready and now I know I never will. I've been running away from it for years now, terrified by the uncertainty it hold. But I cannot outrun my reflexion forever. it time to collapse the innumerable possibilities before me.

I'm starting 2024 with my big sibling by watching our little sibling discover Outer Wild for their first time. I'm really happy I get to be here to witness it. Those kind of moments are gonna age to become precious memories. I think this years is off to a great start.

I feel like this is the kind of things gabro was referring to when talking about taking time to stop and smell the pine trees along the way, you know?

I really want to play the rest of Outer Wilds' DLC, but never as fear been so inhibiting in a video game for me before, I'm struggling to overcome it. Even outside of the game, just thinking about it terrifies me.
Fear of the unknown is the one I'm most sensitive to. I can feel it's frozen claws and fangs tear deep into my boiling flesh, I can sense it's chilling chaos spreading throughout my racing mind.
I can hear it's silent screams, I can see it's absence all around me. The more I try to keep it at bay and discern it's shape the more I feel submerge by it, drowning in the palm of it's hand. Fear feeds on itself.

Despite everything, I've finally manage to finish Outer Wilds' DLC tonight, it was insanely good. It definitely crystalized it's place as one of the best piece of art I've ever been able to experience, OW is a masterpiece from its beginning to it's very end.

There so much I'd like to say about it, i'm a bit overwhelmed. I feel... A bit too much for tonight honestly, I don't think 5am is a good time to try and process it all, sleep first.
Though, here's my first impressions, I want to share them, I don't think I'll be able to sleep if I don't. I'll keep it short for now:
I've learn so much from OW, I still have a lot to learn from it. I struggle to realize yet to which amplitude this game has/is fondamentally changed/ind my perception of life, the end of it and the universe. I'm happy I got to experience something that could make me feel such powerful polar opposite emotions at the same time, never I've I been so terrified and fascinated before in all my life. This was an unique, sometime nerve-wracking, and infinitely beautiful game. I am so grateful. Thanks to everyone that worked on it so so much!

I'm never going to stop thinking about Outer Wilds, ever.

I really want to play the rest of Outer Wilds' DLC, but never as fear been so inhibiting in a video game for me before, I'm struggling to overcome it. Even outside of the game, just thinking about it terrifies me.
Fear of the unknown is the one I'm most sensitive to. I can feel it's frozen claws and fangs tear deep into my boiling flesh, I can sense it's chilling chaos spreading throughout my racing mind.
I can hear it's silent screams, I can see it's absence all around me. The more I try to keep it at bay and discern it's shape the more I feel submerge by it, drowning in the palm of it's hand. Fear feeds on itself.