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'plague states' = control.

quarantine.

hierarchy of power -

- each person answers to a tier above them.

- citizens, crows, are at the bottom.

- citizens are isolated (more important to the magistrate)

- crows are free to move (under the radar)

- only exist to function and die.

magistrate = VALVE (GN)

citizens = CHELL

facilitators = GLaDOS / THE PLAYER

the sick = GLaDOS?

the crows = SENTRY GUNS (are you still there…)

unreliable. reliably unreliable?

when does she turn on you?

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'the overall structure would no longer be what it should'

behavior as a referent to punishment.

~what is punishment?

(punishment is necessary) \

punishment cultivates behavior for a purpose.

punishment is intrinsic to systems which keeps the game in play.

WHO IS POWER?!

i am error.

<------------------------- JEREMY BENTHAM

(panopticon architect)

coolios

personal control structures all other controls.

at any moment, you can leave the game.

you can refuse social control.

you're input into the game from outside of the game, due to your personal control going against/with social control.

- you play the game until you're dead.

- is survival the ultimate goal of all games.

- participation is gaming.

soma

in game < out of game

social control is the predominant control.

(ethics, expectations, morality)

personal control is attached to everything and to itself.

you are forced to use the restroom. not part of the

objective, but part of the game.

team agon

outgame control supersedes

determines all other things.

'reality' is out game.

HOW CAN ANYTHING EXIST OUTSIDE OF THE DISCOURSE

WHAT THE GAME IS.

studying a game diminishes the capacity for it to

act as escape. 'diagnosing'. you bring in the real world when you study games.