Getting Over It - Bennett Foddy's Monologue

There's no feeling more intense than ________ ____.

If you've _______ ____ ________ the day before it was due, as I have,

Or if you left your ______ at home

and you have __ __ ____

after spending an hour in the _______,

If you won some money at the casino and then put all your winnings on___

and it came up _____,

If you got your ____ _____ dry-cleaned before a wedding

and then immediately _______ ____ on it,

If you won an argument with a friend and then later discovered that they just ________ __ _____ ________ ____ ,

________ ____ __ ______ ____ ________ __.

If you're not ready for that, like if you've already ___ _ ___ ___,

then what you're about to go through might be ___ ____.

Feel free to go away and come back. _'__ __ ____.

Alright, thanks for coming with me on this trip. I'll understand if you have to take a _____ at any point...

Just find a safe place to stop, and ____ ___ ____.

Don't worry, I'll save your progress, always. ____ ____ ________.

This game is a homage to a ____ ____

that came out in ____, titled

(Question 20) '____ ______'.

The ______ of that game was Jazzuo

a mysterious _____ designer

(Question 23) who was known at the time as the father of _-_____.

(previous answer)s are rough assemblages of found _______.

Designers slap them together very quickly and freely, and they're often too rough and __________ to gain much of a following.

They're built more for the joy of building them than as ________ ________.

In a certain way (Answer 20) is the perfect __________ of a (Answer 23).

It's built almost entirely out of found and ________ _____, and it's one of the most unusual and unfriendly games of its time.

In it, your task is to simply drag yourself up a ________

with a ______.

The act of climbing, in the _______ _____or in real life,

has certain essential properties that gives the game it's ______.

No amount of forward progress is guaranteed; some cliffs are to _____

or too ________.

And the player is constantly, unremittingly in danger of falling and ______ __________.

Anyway when you start (Answer 20), you're standing next to this ____ ____, which blocks the way to the entire rest of the game.

It might take you an hour to get over that tree. A lot of people _____ ___ ____ __.

You prod and ____ at it

exploring the limits of your reach and your ________ , trying to find a way up and over.

There's a sense of _____ in that lack of compromise

Most _________ in videogames are fake

you can be completely confident in your ability to get through them, once you have the correct method or the correct equipment, or just by spending ______ ____

In that sense, every pixellated obstacle in (answer 20) is ____.

The obstacles in (answer 20) are unyielding, and that makes the game uniquely ___________.

But I'm not sure Jazzuo intended to make a frustrating game—the frustration is just _________ to the act of climbing

and it's _________ __ ___ _______of building a game about climbing.

A funny thing happened to me as I was ________ this mountain:

I'd have an idea for a new obstacle, and I'd build it, test it, and... it would usually turn out to be ____________ ____.

But I couldn't bring myself to ____ __ ______.

It already felt like my inability to get past the new obstacle was __ _____ __ __ ______, rather than as the builder.

Imaginary mountains build themselves from our ______s to climb them,

and it's our ________ ________ to reach the summit that turns those mountains into something real.

When you're building a videogame world you're building with _____,

And that can be like working with _____-___ ______.

You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be ______ ____,

and in the process of playing with them they begin to ______ and set

until they're immutable, like ____.

At that point you can't change the world—not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with ___ _____.

For years now people have been predicting that _____ would soon be made out of prefabricated objects,

_____ __ _ _____ and assembled into a world.

For the most part, that hasn't happened, because the objects in the stores are _____.

I don't mean they look bad or that they're _____ ____,

_______ _ ___ __ ____ ___,

I mean they're trash in the way that ____ becomes trash

as soon as you put it in the ____.

Things are made to be ________ and used in a certain context

and once the moment is gone they transform into _______.

In the context of __________ those moments pass by in seconds.

Over time we've poured more and more refuse into this vast digital ________ we call the internet.

It now vastly __________

and _________ the things that are fresh and untainted and unused.

When everything around us is cultural trash, trash becomes the new ______, the lingua franca of the digital age.

And you can build _______ out of trash

But only _____ _______

B-_____,

B-______,

B-_____,

B-__________.

Maybe this is what this digital culture is. A monstrous mountain of trash,

A landfill with __________ __ ____ ______ __ in it

Grand, infinite, and ________.

There's 3D models of _________

gen-xers' ______ novels

_______ magazines

_____-______ Shia leBoeuf

banned snuff scenes on ________

facebook's got lifelike bots with unbranded _______,

and candid shots of _____

and ______ _____ mashups

___ _____ epic fail gifs

_______ dash cam vids

discussions of ______

discarded, _________, unrecycled

muddled, rotten, and ________

Everything's fresh for about ___ _______

until ____ _____ thing beckons

and we hit _______.

And there's years of ____________

___________ into the pile

___ __ _____,

___ __ _____.

In this context it's tempting to make ________ content...

That's gentle, that lets you churn through it but not ____ __.

Why make something _________, if it just gets piled up in the landfill,

Filed in with the _____ ______?

When _____ ____ ___, they wanted a lot from you.

Daunting you, taunting you, _________ ___ ________ you.

Players played stoically. Now everyone's ______ ___ __ ____.

They want to burn through it quickly, a quick ___ for the fickle

Some ______

for the ______ of the feckless.

But that's not you, you're an _______

You could _______ _ ________ ___.

Now I know, most likely you're watching on Youtube or ______

while some dude with 10 _______ _____ does it for you

Like a ____ ____ being fed chewed-up food.

_____ _______ ___.

But on the off-chance you're playing this, what I'm saying is: Trash is disposable but maybe it doesn't have to be ____________.

what's the feeling like? are you ________?

I guess you don't hate it if you got this far. Feeling frustrated,

An ______

is a _____ _____ _____

Locked inside a ______ ____.

That's not how I feel about a _________.

I only want the bitterness Its ______,

its __________,

its ________.

It feels like we're closer now: ________ ___ _______

________ ___ ____

You could have _______ but you didn't

There was something in you that was ______

That chose to _______.

It means a lot to me, that you've ____ ____ ___.

_______ this much

every ________,

every _____________,

Every _______ you've forgiven me

Is a ______ ____that you've given me.

We have the same taste, ___ ___ _

It's not _______,

It's (previous answer)'s _______:

An obdurate mission to _____ ______.

_____ ____ ___ __ ___ ___

__ _ ___ ____ _____ __ ___ ___.

Have you thought about who you ___ __ ____?

Are you the ___ __ ___ ___, Diogenes?

Are you his ____?

Are you the top of his ______?

_ _____ ___-

Where your ____ moves,

the ______ may not follow,

nor the ___,

nor the ___'_ ____.

In this you are his ____.

His ______.

The embodied resolve in his ______ ______.

Now you've conquered the ___ _____,

The platforms the ______ and rectory,

The ______ room and the factory,

The __________ and the construction site,

The granite rocks and the ________.

You've learned to ____.

There's no way left to go ___ __.

And in a moment I'll ____ __, but let me say

_'_ ____ ___ ____.

I dedicate this game to you, the one who ____ ____ ___.

I give it to you with ___ __ ____.