THESE/US
Some things you can do in THESE/US:
- Take a bizarre personality quiz
- Send bad tweets
- Run into ghostly versions of yourself from social media accounts you no longer have access to
- A very big hit
- Trans rights!
Some things you can't do in THESE/US
- Figure out the whole boat thing
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This game is a wonderful concept and I enjoyed it. However, when I played it, the ending somehow got soft locked. It gave me a message saying that I've finished all the tasks and I'm ready to click on the final part, but when I do, that part says I still have some tasks to finish. I'm guessing that I must have triggered some events in a different order than was planned for. I also had trouble with text failing to scroll, so I had to zoom out further and further to allow the text to not be cut off the bottom of the screen, and then back in again later to make it display at the correct size. That said, I loved how the game used different apps and represented digital archives as a kind of supernatural travel through space and time. That happens to be dear to my heart as an archivist and internet historian. I found this game's story and how it was expressed to be very moving.
loved this a lot! i haven't heard of theseus' ship exactly but I had heard of the concept and i like how you relate that to trans identity and online ephemera
this was really beautiful <3 as a trans person growing up in the 2000s internet, i totally get what you mean by ghosts of former selves on the internet.
thank u for making this cool piece of art :-) it was nice to have a couple minutes to reflect while i played this
I think this might be the point of the game and I'm just being dense but just in case I thought I'd mention that clicking on the ship just tells me to go check twitter or somthing again even when the text on the main screen says I'm ready. Either way a good addition to the perhaps unsurprisingly common number of games by trans people about different online identities and the various ways they relate to our current selves.
Oh no, thanks for letting me know! A few other people I know have had this problem and it might be a browser issue, because I haven't been able to replicate the error. I really appreciate you letting me know, possibly refreshing it in a different browser may help– it did for them!
very late to this and idk if you're still on here but I think the issue occurs if you've redone any of the segments and so have ended up with more than 5 "reflection points"! I had to restart to get to the ending but it was well worth it; I feel like I've read a lot of pieces that grasp at similar themes but none that have caught me so off-guard.
Coral, you are a genius. Thank you so much for coming back to this and taking the time to comment. I've been meaning to get back into the scene and this is truly encouraging.
please do!!! ^_^
this was so good holy hecking heck
Thank you so much!!!