Quote:Yes, remove the socket but keep the chips. It'll be a critique of Western decadence. Chip will continue to seek chips to lower the chip counter, even though there is no gatekeeper keeping count of his chips, and ever chip collected is wasted time and opportunity for advancement. Chip will persist due a desire for completionism and hoarding of resources. Without the collecting of chips, what is Chip? He has no construct other than collecting chips, now hollow pursuits.
Or you could argue that it's an inspirational story: he seeks no reward for his pursuit of the chips (and indeed, none is forthcoming). He simply does it because that is what he has been put on Earth to do. He is doing it because it is his duty and it's the right thing to do: personal gain is not his goal.
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Chip Without Chip, meanwhile, would be filled entirely with 9x9 screen artwork in the upper left corner of the map, to display alongside the "This Level Cannot Be Played" warning.
Philisophical question: if there is no Chip but the map exists, do the Teeth monsters move?
Discuss.
Quote:In Jr. High School, I would take a gummi bear, squeeze its ears into points so it looked like Yoda, and then I would say to it "Eat you, I will!". And of course then I would it eat.