Enelle's Game (if NorthernLion was in Ender's Game)
"Hey NL can you play something else please?" Um, you are a spiritually weak person. This is The Mind Game, okay? This is the only thing I've played all month that's actually real. If you want to be pandered to, if you don't feel like moving your jaw up and down, that's fine, the feed troth is right there on the home page. If you want something to chew on, if you want the T-bone steak, I mean... That's not this, man, but it's not Silksong either, I can tell you that much.
I think we take the poison on the right here.
[The Giant's Drink kills him for the 13th time that stream]
Okay, okay. We've made that mistake before. And we'll make it again.
"Bro just quit it's impossible" It's actually the most possible game that has ever existed. There's two choices! It's red or black, and you're telling me to cash out because you want to play blackjack. You're more fucked than I am, you know that, right? It's called the gambler's fallacy for a reason. If it was called the gambler's sage wisdom, maybe I'd hear you out, but right now, man, we go again.
"ifs and buts when candied nuts walk into the room" Yes, man, yes. Exactly. I don't really know what that means, but you're onto something with that.
[10 seconds of silent gameplay]
"it's a psychoanalysis tool, you're not supposed to beat it" I got news for you, buddy: all games are psychoanalysis tools. You really think if I was playing Pokémon right now, I wouldn't be running around going like, [hunches over and puts on reedy nerd voice] "I could really use a Cluckigree right now for the grass-type gym, but Cluckigree only spawns if I have a fighting-type egg in my third item slot, so I have to catch two Judokairns on Route 309 and leave them at the–” It's not a closed environment, little bro! Everything exists in reaction to something else, [becomes insanely angry] and the shit that you elevate exists in proportion to your own decroded reaction to it! Maybe it started as a five-course meal, but you're throwing it back up and telling me to eat it! I'm not gonna fucking do that! Okay? Every time I drink the poison, we learn a little bit more about ourselves, and then, as a result, the world around us changes. That's life, man. You're not supposed to beat that either, but everyone still goes for a personal best, you know?
Left poison or right poison. What happens if I say no poison and just kick this guy's ass?
[NL ignores both goblets and kills the giant]
Yes, dude! [laughs manically] That's why you fucking drink the poison, man! Do you think I would be this excited if they just told me I had to kill the giant three hours ago? There's so much more genuine passion in that than having five hundred chatters yelling detailed instructions on how to beat the Seven Muses in Hades 2.
"bro really needed to make it choose from three in order to win" Okay, that– [chuckles heartily] That's pretty good. I guess that is what I did.
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