DIGISPRITE: It can make the world feel small, realizing that the infinite possibilities are all just shallow rearrangements of a small collection of reocurring parts, the same core elements repeated ad nauseam. Or at least, mind-numbingly repetitive. If you watch enough anime, you're probably all too familiar with the idea.

DIGISPRITE: On the other hand, the number of possible arrangments is still staggeringly large, to the extent that no one person could possibly live long enough to explore them all. At the end of the day, all you really need is to find the handful of things that speak deeply to you specifically.

DIGISPRITE: That's easier said than done, obviously. It's essentially what my whole career was built in service of, in some sense. Analyzing media, getting people to think about what qualities of it they like, promoting everyone's personal pursuit of that which they can uniquely identify with. First, wanting to be understood, and in the process, trying to understand what motivates the mind of someone like myself, the otaku, and then trying to get a more broad understanding of how different people think, for the sake of better communication, and helping non-normies learn how to build a place for themselves.

DIGISPRITE: That's because in the long term, what we need is a world of newtypes who can fill every niche imaginable, so we can be constantly evolving, to spiral out, to break the fourth dimension, to escape entropy. The will to save everyone and the refusal to go hollow are classic otaku hero qualities that appear over and over for a reason.

DIGISPRITE: Though I guess saving everyone is impossible at this point, with the world being destroyed by this game. Even putting that aside, Paradox Space is a big place, and there's always going to be suffering going on somewhere. Saving everyone was always a hopeless endeavor.

DIGISPRITE: So you know what, fuck it. If this is what had to happen, then that's fine. If permanence was never really possible, then who are we to argue with the deterministic universe? The Earth gets destroyed by meteors, and it was all a story within a story, does that sound familiar? This is just what it takes to peel back the meta, to escape reality on its own terms.

DIGISPRITE: I'd mourn the loss of all the good art I missed out on, but I guess I don't have to, since the internet is somehow preserved. I've still got at least a few hundred years worth of media I haven't seen to keep me going.

DIGISPRITE: Actually, Sprites don't have finite lifespans, do they? Because without new stuff being made, it might now be possible to get fully caught up on... art. Like, in general...

DIGISPRITE: ...

DIGISPRITE: Well, there's certainly worse goals to devote oneself to.