Let's be clear: I fucking hate HeatStroke. HeatStroke also hates me back, so it's a fair deal.
I have an immense respect for HeatStroke. HeatStroke does not respect me at all. HeatStroke is a cold, bitter asshole who wants me to suffer and struggle and fail. HeatStroke is a bad coworker who piles file after file into my inbox and silently, smugly drops in another handful as soon as I'm done with the last block. HeatStroke expects me to sit there for — what I can tell from the people masochistic enough to actually finish this — about five hours doing nothing but typing and veering back into the middle of the road, with only 900 total seconds you can take as a break on the pause screen. Fifteen cumulative minutes of a break for a five hour typing spree. Under the Canadian Labor Code, where I live, HeatStroke would be filed a compliance order by the board for not giving me a free half hour to myself for every five hours of work.
It's an art project designed to test your patience, and it broke mine. In that, it succeeds.
I have an immense respect for HeatStroke. HeatStroke does not respect me at all. HeatStroke is a cold, bitter asshole who wants me to suffer and struggle and fail. HeatStroke is a bad coworker who piles file after file into my inbox and silently, smugly drops in another handful as soon as I'm done with the last block. HeatStroke expects me to sit there for — what I can tell from the people masochistic enough to actually finish this — about five hours doing nothing but typing and veering back into the middle of the road, with only 900 total seconds you can take as a break on the pause screen. Fifteen cumulative minutes of a break for a five hour typing spree. Under the Canadian Labor Code, where I live, HeatStroke would be filed a compliance order by the board for not giving me a free half hour to myself for every five hours of work.
It's an art project designed to test your patience, and it broke mine. In that, it succeeds.
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no its cool. sometimes its good to play something that feels like flinging yourself teeth first into a brick wall, to keep yourself humble
i feel like it is the perfect accompaniment to blind drive but fuck me if i'm actually ever going to beat it.
the part where you said you had immense respect for it but it doesn't respect you is exactly how I felt attacking this monster of a title
the part where you said you had immense respect for it but it doesn't respect you is exactly how I felt attacking this monster of a title
appreciations
1 year ago