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This feels like a brief snapshot of real lives. Feels like girls I know, or have met briefly. I admire your skill at writing dialogue. Addiction is messy, drugs are messy, grief is messy, I haven't seen this worst-case scenario play out IRL but I can see how it could.

Thanks for creating this <3

(also, noticed an error: midway thru it says "image 'bg carz' not found." instead of whatever image is supposed to be there)

You are nailing body diversity in your pinup games more than I've seen in any other dress up game. Or frankly, any type of game. It brings me so much delight!! Absolutely joyful to play around with. 

Ohhhhhh that was awful. Delicious!

Just fucking incredible. Does things I haven't seen in any other piece of fiction. Absolutely gutted me.

This game captures the plural experience better than most, certainly feels like it was written by someone who has personal experience. 

Took a turn I really didn't expect. This was sad/unsettling/lovely. 
The art is unique and incredible to look at, it's just very pleasing! Such a distinct style.

oooo what a unique idea! enjoyable blend of frustration and fun

YAY thank yoou

does Blood Machine have social media/a site where i could see more of her art? it's super cool and i very much wanna see more

TLDR; This is astonishingly good and severely fucked up. If you are, or have been at some point, an outcast, queer, and terminally online, and you're down to read some fucked up shit, this will probably hit for you too.

LONG THOUGHTS RAMBLE:
I connected with the story so much more than i thought i would. At first i couldn't keep track of all of the characters, but after sitting with them for a while, they are so much like people i've known and situations i've been in. Enough to make me reflect on my own life and my friends.

Can't say i've experienced the sheer level of violence present in most of the story. But playing text therapist for friends, new relationship mania, struggling to adapt to grief, devastating mood swings, wanting to help but not being able to -- all the emotions around that were so specific and hauntingly familiar.

Being able to write 5-8 main characters whose perspectives are switched between is a pretty incredible feat as well. Wouldn't have been the same without it. I think having everyones perspectives is what made me so reflective while reading this. When have I been in these situations, and what have I done?

The way everyone is deeply morally gray, deeply flawed, is so well written. Your first impression of someone may be that they're nasty, but later you see their redeeming qualities. Or you meet them and you're like "this person seems pretty nice" and then their awful qualities are revealed later on. It's impossible to be a perfect friend to your friends no matter how deeply you love. So many of these relationships get close to abusive but don't actually cross that line. And that feels reflective of the world -- people can vascilate between insensitive, loving, thoughtful, self-absorbed, and distractable so easily.

I have so many thoughts I'm definetly forgetting a whole chunk of them, but this review is plenty long. Thank you for creating this thing that is so unique and unfiltered in its beauty and its ugliness.

Also That scene between Nessa and Argo scratched such a specific itch for me with its combination of gentleness, emotional intimacy, and intoxicating violence -- thank you <3

Meat Girl is a wonderful and visceral story! Thank you for making it <3

oh yeah my bad! i meant to say unzipping. i haven't since usually my computer can just unzip things with no extra program, but I can give it a try and get back to you

Trying to download this for mac and I keep getting an error that says "Unable to expand [file] into "Downloads". (Error 1 - Operation not permitted." :( the demo downloaded fine, though