#doomerposting

I have my roles, and I fill them. At this point I can practically autopilot through most sessions.

I have no idea what I would do, if I could actually live in a universe I created. The game teaches you some stuff about governance and economy and whatnot sometimes, to prepare you, but it doesn't feel like enough.

Actually setting up a civilization, ruling over it as a god- hell, even just participating in it as a normal citizen- just sounds somehow both overwhelming and boring at the same time now.

What do I do, if the door ever does work?

"I don't think I even WANT to escape the game at this point" threads happen seemingly every other week. However, this template vent post is a bit more unique, because it actually does raise a question a lot of people wonder about. "Once I create a new universe, what do I do with it".

First of all, I can tell you what NOT to do.

Get your hopes up lmao. If the Door does start working it's not happening anytime soon.

But if it ever does happen, post shit like this. Don't do it if the Door works for everyone, because you will immediately identify yourself as a contrarian, a half-dead wanderer in the desert who finally found an oasis and has the gall to complain about it. DEFINITELY don't do it if the Door works for you alone. I want you to imagine, thousands of people suffering in Purgatory forever, sometimes falling into Hell and never returning. When ONE guy makes it into Heaven and starts bellyaching about how the grass was greener. Sometimes we can keep our thoughts to ourselves. Someone is already yelling at you for posting this, and they don't even have a face to direct their fury towards.

If you decide to roll up your sleeves and learn how to build a civilization, look at online guides. Yes, they exist. Yes, they are 100% speculative, seeing as how nobody's ever done it yet. And yes, it's mostly people with extremely fringe and untested politics writing wankfics about how once they plant the seeds for new humanity, Merito-Monarchy with Maoist characteristics will be their guiding polestar. SBURB is also a bad teacher in this regard, because you're basically doing middle-school projects and dealing with Consorts, but SBURB is bad in the way a bleeding wound is bad, as opposed to "the bone's exposed, dump it into raw meat ASAP".

Carry the SBURB discs you used to play THIS Session to immediately start a new one. I don't even know if that'll work, considering the discs are basically magic, but that's the worst possible idea and your Coplayers should communally kick you around for even considering this idea, that I implanted in your head.

But as for what you should be doing... It's a bit difficult to talk about, because I actually have no idea what the state of this hypothetical "universe we step out into" would look like. A lot of people on the "here's how I build a new society" threads assume they'll step out into a flat, featureless grassy plain which they'll need to terraform and popular through ectobiology, and "unpopulated but randomly generated terrain, like Minecraft" is the second most common assumption. But in the same way we keep New Game +'ing into a pre-existing world with millennia of history, who's to say that won't happen on a successful Session, but it's a world that knows what you did and is expecting your arrival gratefully? Who's to say that there will even be *anything* in there, and that you'll have to initiate a Big Bang-esque event as your first act upon entry? Is there a SBURBan post-game we don't know about, featuring new tools in the Phernalia Registry that allow you to reshape reality like a painter with an inkbrush?

But I get ahead of myself. I don't even want to do the "lmao it'll never happen lmao don't worry about it lmao" thing because I myself enjoy being contrarian and want to start making you imagine a world where you enter a new universe which you now have to *live* in. Because you're being a bit of a whiner right now and I want you to suffer, because life is suffering. And I mean that positively. I've suffered in the course of running my blog, suffered attempting to 100% video games (even the ones I like), suffered producing art. But the only one who's never suffered from making art, is someone who's never made art. Desire leads to suffering, but a life lived without desire is a life lived without direction or purpose. Most self-help posts end with "develop a hobby" but really you should develop a hobby. Avoid "auto-pilot", not only because that's a particular flavor of pride before the fall (and the falls tend to be pretty lethal), but because if you ever end up getting killed, it'd suck to realize you died before you were killed.

everything was pointing to byler, from mike’s weird behavior towards will to mike being unable to say ily, and all of byler’s scenes being two sided like the argument and “i feel like i lost you” and the parallels to other ships and everything. i thought it was headed towards real, honest, good queer rep. but nope, they made mike/el’s relationship problems feel random, forced, and shallow. and will? just another sad, pining gay character used as a plot device for the het couple.