Mortal Shell is a game about physiology.
I used to think kids are dumb because they just are, but now I think they are dumb because they just don't understand that the first and final boss in the game of life is time. I am forty and thankfully about halfway through this goddamn farce we call existence, and couldn't be happier about it.
I know that sounds like some emotional doomer drivel but catch this, a proper understanding of time gives you the ability to not be scared you are running out of time, not feel like you are misusing yours, you just sort of end up hanging around this large shopping mall called life, bored out of your mind, carrying all this baggage.
Starting around age fourteen I became obsessed with the concept that you can "beat" the game of life. Like there was some unspoken ruleset where if you accomplished this or accumulated that in this amount of time then you set yourself up for the "Good Ending."
So for a long time I beat myself up because I thought I was falling behind, that there were people winning at life at eighteen years old, at twenty-four years old, at thirty-six years old. Or that there were things that happened that would haunt me to my old age. The idea of how fuckin stupid that sounds to me at this age is astounding.
And I'm only forty. I can't imagine how these things sound to a sixty or eighty-year-old person. I mean, I don't really have to imagine, on Reddit, there are ten-year-old children having whole ass conversations with fifty-year-old people and the scary part, you can't tell who is who.
That's the scary part about the internet. It allows the essence of who a person is, their communicated thoughts, to shed corporeal form and exist in a Peter Pan community. Now an old person who wants to be a young person never has to leave Hot Topic. No existential crises, no growth, just pure escapist catharsis.
I used to wonder how memes would evolve. As in, "What's up," evolved to "sup," evolved to "Image of a person moving their head in a way as to provide the clear visual as to what the gesture means." Turns out, they won't.
And don't get me wrong I never expected the internet to ever be anything more than the tool it is. Give a hammer and nails to a group of dummies expecting to come back to a group home and not a bunch of dead dummies and a shitty house with one person in there is wishful thinking but, wait, what was I talking about?
Oh, that's right, time. Kids, none of the people or things you care about, none of the accomplishments you chase, none of the humiliations you suffered, will matter as much as you think they will in the future. All I'm trying to say is I know shit sucks rn and feels like it's never gonna change, but it's not as bad as you think, and don't give up. Nipsey said it best, its a marathon.
Anyway, Mortal Shell is like a Dark Souls situation but more forgiving at a better clip. Look just stop pretending you have shit better to do and play it. It's something.
Rip Tb Rip TC Rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
