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This is the story of a person who was a fan of The Stanley Parable, Somebody by the name of Cookie9. See, Cookie9 had once dedicated his entire life to spending the majority of his time playing The Stanley Parable. The man was basically obsessed, but through his conquest to milk any content left of the game the man grew bitter and spiteful, yearning for what once was. His bitterness led him to write a review, of which was gravely offensive in nature and created an entire Ending in and of itself. Even when The Ultra Deluxe version of the game came out. He did the exact same thing he did to the original, completely forgetting the whole point it wanted to make and the irony of it all that him of all people never truly got it. One day he was lurking in his mother's basement. Playing the game again. and Again. Sure every once in a while he would actually play a different game. Games suited to himself and his character, like League of Legends. When he suddenly got a brand new idea. Being the obsessive individual he was he got out his phone and began to install the mobile version of The Stanley Parable. He had already heard they brought out a version like that before and like the sucker he was, he eagerly wanted to play it. So he paid the 12.99 it costed him to buy the same exact game he could play on desktop. Which to be fair he did buy the Ultra Deluxe like the pathetic consumer he was. However once he looked up the game in the Play Store he was only met with seething rage, as now he figured out that the Devs of that very game decided to release it on iOS devices, but somehow not android devices. This was just preposterous! Unfair to the filthy man who desperately wanted to spend more money to play the exact same game on a handheld device he owned. Cookie9 simply couldn't handle it anymore. He looked at anything and everything, how the Devs promised to bring their artistic work of a game to a device like The Android but they showed up empty handed, with no game imported to no device. Cookie9, in his pitiful display of disappointment decided that enough was enough! How dare these money hungry game developers release the game on something like a Switch! Or a Steam Deck! But when it came to mobile devices they only favored Apple, the very same apple with questionable business practices and a massive history of screwing their consumers over and over and over again. Perhaps the developers were just being lazy, but to Cookie9 this felt like a personal attack. This was his breaking Point. Cookie9 would go to personally give the individuals behind Crows Crows Crows a piece of his goddamn mind. However, something stopped him. Something strange. The man looked back at his Desktop. The same Desktop he had from 10 years ago and he heard a voice, a soothing voice indeed, an 'oh so soothing' voice that just seemed to calm him down.
But it didn't calm him down, nothing was on his screen, Cookie9 had officially become-- a schizophrenic