While playing, the way the text presents the setting made me feel like I was on a school field-trip while the visual presentation made me feel like school field-trips are druidesque. I love that it felt both mystical and like amateur science.

I had a few, somewhat separate but mostly simultaneous, chains of thoughts as I was playing this game.

1) At first the purpose of the telescopes seemed to me like it might be a distraction from a larger event- the simple descriptions they gave, compared to the evocative elements of the setting (especially the group of fellow people huddled around one telescope), suggested that the telescopes might just be a draw to bring me to a different conclusion. However, in the end, the opposite occurred: the world was reduced from view to the point that _only_ the telescopes mattered. I thought that was very interesting!

2) I'm intrigued by the reversal of the function of telescopes here. Instead of having one telescope that can be calibrated to many views, there are many telescopes that seem to be fixed upon one view. Nobody wishes to disturb the beauty of the telescopes, even though they are not natural objects!

3) I remember when I was a teenager, my dad once attempted to impress me greatly with the ability of a telescope. I was not very enthused in the matter, especially when I learned how complicated and delicate the operation of one was. Regardless, he seemed to have felt that I needed to come to the exact same relationship he had with them, a common form of parental projection. I have not thought about that brief moment (across a few days) for a long time.

i was into the pixel blocks. nice blocks. the planets must have been blindingly bright by night time if they were visible in the day. nice sense of adventure too in such a small game. I love looking at saturn in the telescope in IRL life, and jupiter's moons too, you can see them change positions after like an hour as they orbit jupiter. preetyy awesome