I am jumping back and forth between TxM and thesis ideation. I am once again coming up on a prototype deadline for TxM, and worried about wasting time on something non-thesis related when i have so little time to burn. I keep trying to wrestle this giant snake into a bottle. A bottle I do not know the shape of but it is definitely not worm-shaped. What am I going to do. What am I going to do.

I got the random idea to make a zwicky-cube to try and triangulate a number of potential artifacts for the database.

I also attended a talk at Narrascope that I thought was going to teach me Einstein puzzles. What if I could Einstein a zwicky cube, and that somehow built the backend mystery of my database. Ha ha. I got the impression the method they were suggesting (but ran out of time to explain) was to write an entire world out and then go back in and erase chunks. I don't know how I feel about that method. I think I would prefer to leave things hanging loose.

Hah hah they are the same thing. Beautiful. I will fill in/fill out and look for something nice.

Who has the archive now?! Who could possibly want you to do this work? This archive is abandoned. I think whoever got at it in the 90s made quite the mess in there. Who could want it now? What would be charming? What would feel at home in the media I enjoy? What would make it different from every archive game giving you a surveillance job? I really enjoy the Murikami/Auster parable of the voice on the phone that has mistaken you for someone else, and you wander in even though you know you're out of your depth. That simply doesn't work for an empty protagonist, though - I can't tell the player how to feel, I can only make a space for them to feel in, and a call to action happens too early to subconsciously motivate a protagonist. You must be more literal.

It's not empty, but I do love the idea that someone is telling you how you feel. But you do not. You you you.

Maybe I do not want it to feel like a job anymore.

What if it is one of those reddit reclaimation data reclaimation projects. Or what do they call them... the iron horsemen. the distrutited computer power for mathematics and humanitities, but it's amazon, so it's a little creepy. What's that one called?

Is it something like trojan? I found it - it was called the Mechanical Turk and it still exists. Messy, because it was always shoving a man into a little box to pretend technology was doing all the work. Ha ha.