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I've got a joke for you.

How many global leaders does it take to replace a lightbulb?

I guess you probably need some additional context. Hi, by the way. Global leader is what the admin and faculty would refer to us back where I went to college - and we used to often make fun of it, like in the joke I mentioned. We were called that because we came from all over the world and we were expected to do great, important things in the future, or something like that. But I'm not feeling like much of a global leader these days.

My work is... what is it? What's the point of it? It's just stupid bullshit for an inconsequential company to use to advertise its inconsequential product to its brainless customers. It doesn't bring anything good in the world, and it's a far, far cry from what I imagined I'd be doing back when I was taking my theory and ethics classes. I'm barely even doing my work. I've spent way more time at my desk writing and re-writing this game rather than actually doing work. And, to be frank, I thought I was on top of my shit. I really did. But then my boss caught me working on my game and he asked to see my progress. So I did. I hooked up the VR headset, the sensors, everything, and I built the Unity project and it just... wouldn't do anything it was supposed to do. The collision boxes just fucking disappeared, the animations went crazy, the score wasn't working, etc. This is also when he found out that my partner wasn't working with me anymore, and he got really mad about it. Honestly, I don't understand what's so bad about it? I'm still doing the work he asked us to do. Right? So. Well. Actually I guess not really since I failed to deliver on the last couple MILESTONEs we agreed on. But like, I'm pretty smart. I'm sure I can figure it out. I will. I just had to get this update out of the way because it was taking so much of my headspace, and then I can really focus on the work.  I really shouldn't beat myself up over this. I'm sure it'll be fine. Besides (back to the global leader talk) what are the rest of my peers even doing? They're all consultants or product managers or whatever. Sure, one of my friends just revealed that he's been working on the Threads app with Meta, but is that really something to be proud of? Like, I guess it's impressive, intellectually-speaking, but... come on. Meta? Anyway I've been feeling kind of like I'm spiraling out of control lately and it's making me feel like I'm not really meeting the expectations of what a global leader should be doing but also i have to remind myself that I AM a global leader and that this too shall pass.

About the game. Like I mentioned above, I've been working on and rewriting this stuff for a while. It's still interactive fiction written using Ink. Go ahead and try it out. If you don't like it, keep in mind that this is the one version that I thought was presentable enough over two months of prototyping ok this isn't good i shouldn't say this kind of stuff. I don't like it when artists try to justify the work they think is bad, it just makes it look worse. I shouldn't do it either. I'm not gonna erase it though just as a reminder for myself to stop doing it. No one reads this shit anyway. But yeah. Try it out! It's basically an AU of the Minotaur/Theseus story, except that it's 50 Shade of Grey. Well, not really. It's 50 Shades of Grey without the sex and the romance and also most of it. It's only 50 Shades of Grey in that it starts with the protagonist interviewing someone in an office building. Idk why I'm even referencing that book I don't even like it and the whole interview thing is a very common trope but yeah anyway go play it/read it.

Also, if you can't figure out the coordinates it's

EDIT: I just realized I didn't tell you the rest of the joke. I don't remember it anymore. Maybe next time? 

EDIT 2: you might be wondering why I capitalized MILESTONE. It's because it took me an absurdly long time to remember the word and it felt right to make that apparent. I apologize if it came off as me yelling at you.