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This is definitely not merely what it appears to be.


Depending on your background, it may appear to be exactly what it is. It did for me...


True. I was not familiar with the premise when I played it.


(Possible spoilers)

Yeah, I came in well primed - having played "A Dark Room", familiar with the "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment, and familiar with various iterations of the idea of keeping an AI "in a box". Playing the game was probably a very different experience than for someone with none of that familiarity.


Absolutely, I can not leave it!




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