SUPER SAD FISH

We figured the game out over on #tigirc.

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01:23 zachwlewis I get it.
zachwlewis It's a commentary on depression.
zachwlewis The water is the deep, black depression, and if you give up, you die.
jw or is it
zachwlewis However, if you fight the depression, you still die, but you are happy.
zachwlewis Is it better to die good person or live as a monster?
jw maybe it is a story about my goldfish who died after 2 weeks of care
01:24 zachwlewis No. It's what I said.
jw ok
zachwlewis FYI.
zachwlewis The controls were weird as shit.
zachwlewis So, what was your collision deal?
zachwlewis If you hit a wall, it shoots you upward?
01:26 jw MAYBEEE
01:28 jw did it make you sad
Dragonmaw i think it's about peeing
Dragonmaw see
01:31 Dragonmaw the water is peeing
Dragonmaw and you are sad when you feel like you have to pee
Dragonmaw but you can't
Dragonmaw and your friend is constantly referencing flowing water
Dragonmaw and this upsets you
zachwlewis No, it made me pissed off.
zachwlewis The dude was all crazy mode.
01:32 zachwlewis Also, when I fell into the water, I COULD SEE THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER.
zachwlewis That means something, right?
sos i think it's about iraq
zachwlewis Like, if you fall fast enough, you can fight the death and emerge safely on the other side?
zachwlewis Deep.
01:33 sos the fish is running from oil
zachwlewis Oh... good interpretation.
sos because there are probably soldiers inside
zachwlewis But, besides the obvious, wouldn't the fish *want* the oil?
zachwlewis For profits and whatnot?
jw <3 you guys make me laugh
zachwlewis Or, is he running from an oil-based global market?
jw http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=11445.msg349499#new
01:34 jw document this epic thinking there please
sos ok
sos btw i was going to enter poppenkast too
Dragonmaw i think the bottom of the water represents the finality in peeing
sos but i have no ideas
01:35 Dragonmaw the satisfaction you get once you reach the bottom ie empty your bladder
zachwlewis Once you're done with urination, that's it? You can't endlessly urinate?
zachwlewis So, it's a commentary on the obesity of America. No matter how much they drink, they can never urinate forever.
sos enldless urination would be a cool game
Dragonmaw I think it's a commentary on the pleasure-seeking hedonism
01:36 Dragonmaw Of America
Dragonmaw Because you feel good after peeing
zachwlewis I always feel good after peeing.
zachwlewis It's the best.
zachwlewis Besides pooping.
Dragonmaw Exactly
Dragonmaw Some people even get little things that send pleasurable shivers up their spines
Dragonmaw collquially known as "pee shivers"
GenericUser Hello!
Dragonmaw *colloquially
zachwlewis I get that. I thought I was weird.
01:37 zachwlewis I always shiver after I eliminate.
Dragonmaw I used to. Not anymore.
sos eliminate? that's what you call it?
zachwlewis Maybe this game is about growing up?
Dragonmaw Growing up past the point of needless hedonism and pee shivers.
sos maybe it's about unwanted pregnancy and caviar is chasing the fish
01:38 zachwlewis It's a synonym for using the bathroom.
Dragonmaw Through the metaphor of the water which is the metaphor for peeing which is the metaphor for man's journey into adulthood.
zachwlewis The fish had an abortion, and it now running from the children that it will never have.
sos peeing is a metaphor of man's joyrney into adulthood?
Dragonmaw Sure
zachwlewis Peeing is a metaphor for anything.
Dragonmaw He's eliminating the waste of his childhood
01:39 Dragonmaw Distilling himself to his core values
sos you made me totally want to make a game about endless urinating
Dragonmaw Finding out that he isn't just a sack of water for urination, but a living, breathing, thinking human being
Dragonmaw Everything is about peeing
sos i want to use that quoute too
zachwlewis In essence, emptying his soul of everything, until he's left a lifeless husk, yet happy that he was able to transcend the materialistic nature of his childhood.