#madd rambles

I've seen some people mention it lending credence to the idea IMAGE_FRIEND is a type od entity, not an individual

And while i do agree...i think it could maybe be both?

Like, there has to be a reason Toby chose to maks it look like Endogeny, yknow, a bunch of seperate dogs melded into one.

What if friends something similair, or perhaps, the opposite?

A hivemind of sorts, or a connected intelligence, or a multitude of fragments of one original being (yknow, gaster style!)

I like the idea they'd be similair enough that you cant really diffrentiate one from another, and knowledge could fluidly pass between them, but different enough that they could "talk" to eachother, make quips between, laugh at anothers actions.

That uncanny spot where it's clearly a group of creatures interacting, but it feels more like a puppet show being controlled by a single creature playing the part of multiple faces.

I barely talk to people now, and if I now seem rude and stand off-ish, it's because of this one person, who keeps talking to me, not telling me who they are, just so they can... I have no idea what, bother me for no reason?? Ask me stupid questions and act condescending, implying that any and all of my decisions are weird or stupid, cuz they woud've done it differently, etc. Just over all unpleasant vibes and advices I haven't asked for, since we're not friends. They use specific sentences and phrasing, which now fucking trigger me. %) Since they've supported me financially through Boosty for some time, now they think that I'm like.. A bought puppet they can have fun with and that I must be grateful thy graciousness for blessing me, I puny peasant, with thou money. What a bunch of parasocial baloney.

There’s this discouraging feeling, whenever you work on something and feel enthusiastic about it, and then when you share it with people, it’s like - ech... No one cares about it. It doesn’t get any kind of attention or interest you thought it would. So you just feel empty... This happens to me lately very often and I just don’t feel like I need to do anything, or share anything, because in the end - it won’t be interesting, people won’t care about it. So, why should I spend my time on making something that won’t bring me even the satisfaction of someone elses interest? I can just imagine it in my head and that’s it. I’m okay with that. Like... if that’s something that doesn’t worth anything, I’d rather work on paid stuff? At least I’d have money? Right?..

Sadly, I can’t draw only someone else’s ideas, it’s tiring. Nothing against it, but it’s exausting to cater to someone else’s interests, ideas and likes.

Well, ERAM is right there!

The main reason people didnt talk much about ERAM in the past was alot of people thinking it might just be FRIEND talking to us...but the new info makes that alot less likely.

And ERAM literally does spawn a horde of FRIENDS to attack us, so...

...hey wait a second.

The FRIENDs are after protein, aka, the EGGs.

...and completing the ERAM fight breaks all the monitors, making it impossible to reach chapter 3s EGG!

...until..an alternative method...was added in an update after the chapter release

...yknow...the exact thing that lead to this new dialouge