I just played Glitch again. Specifically, Children of Ur and I'm kind of floored by these utterly welcoming tender feelings being able to go back to Cebarkul is giving me. I was on Glitch when it stopped, I was naked and airborne just above that one mushroom in the center of Cebarkul and then the screen froze and that was it. Glitch was over.

I had also been bottling up a batch of homebrew beer that afternoon, and part of doing that is drinking the leftovers, so what I'm saying is that I was exquisitely vulnerable and emotionally compromised (see also: drunk) and when the Giants went back to sleep, it felt like Bina Q. Dry-Roast had died. I cried so much that afternoon.

Bina's standing on that mushroom now.

It's kinda like going to your own funeral but you're the only one there and it's less like a funeral than it's like a load of laundry finishing up in the dryer. So I guess it's basically a laundromat, but in a good way.

This is Bina, still looking a little careworn about the closing but changed out of her mourning clothes.


And this is Bina, a year and some before the closing was announced, having beer and an existential crisis about Glitchen mortality long before I got there in real life.


The chicken in the second picture, incidentally, was also beer. That was its name. "beer". Because I named it. God, I missed Glitch.

AND NOW I DON'T HAVE TO!