Between the strange ape-skeleton monster, the complete lack of cooperation with spatial geography as we commonly understand it, and the inevitable death of your character, clearly Temple Run 2 is in fact secretly part of the Cthulhu mythos, and your intrepid adventurer is fleeing through the weird geography of an alternate dimension, completely unaware that they are no longer on Earth and that they can never return to it. Discuss amongst yourselves.
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Oh, he KNOWS. That makes it even worse; he’s running from something he can never escape, towards a goal he can never reach, destined to die over and over again.
I always kinda enjoyed the idea that Mighty Casey was in the same kind of boat – destined to eternally play out his grandest failure, over and over again, with every telling, for all time.
Plus I like the idea that Hastur is a Red Sox fan.
From Charles Stross’s “A Colder War”.
The void laughs again, unfriendly: “There is life eternal within the eater of souls. Nobody is ever forgotten or allowed to rest in peace. They populate the simulation spaces of its mind, exploring all the possible alternative endings to their life. There is a fate worse than death, you know.”