Spoilers for Rain World Base Game, Downpour DLC, and Watcher DLC.
This is where the autism is kept...
...Time, Dr. Free Rat?
Is it really that time again?
No thoughts, head full of rocks (that I accidently swallowed)...
Most iterators have skeletons in their closet, I have slugs.
I have no idle scripts, and yet I am still speaking. Please do not call the police!
-Jazztronauts, The Singer
I'm hurtin', Gordon!
I need to get patched up.
-Half Life 2, Barney Calhoun
Good job, Gordon.
Throwing that switch and all,
I can see your MIT education really pays for itself.
-Half Life 2, Barney Calhoun
Hello, and again, welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-aided enrichment center.
-Portal, GlaDOS
Federal regulations require me to warn you that this next test chamber... Is looking pretty good.
-Portal, GlaDOS
Enjoy this next test.
I'm going to go to the surface, it's a beautiful day out.
Yesterday I saw a deer.
If you solve this next test, maybe I'll let you ride an elevator all the way to the break room,
and I'll tell you about the time I saw a deer again.
-Portal 2, GlaDOS
So much space. Need to see it all.
Lady. I love space. I know! Spell it! S... P... aACE. Space! Space.
-Portal 2, Space Core
Yes, help yourself. They are not edible.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles
You're stuck in a cycle, a repeating pattern. You want a way out.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles
During previous interactions, I have been awarded no other response than a blank stare.
Yet you apparently have sufficient ability for communication to circulate complex instructions
on how to enter this chamber among each other.
-Rain World, Five Pebbles
...Always that same blank expression...
-Rain World, Five Pebbles
...It's a rock. Thank you, I suppose, little creature.
-Rain World, Looks to the Moon
So down into the depths you go as many others before you,
drawn to the void again and again, an endless drip drip drip.
-Rain World, Two Sprouts, Twelve Brackets
Does that seem familiar? Yes, it is quite amusing for a being in my predicament!
-Rain World, Droplets upon Five Large Droplets
Was it all to find me, young one, or did the idea of such a journey itself spark the fire within you?
-Rain World, Eight Spots on a Blind Eye
OAOAOA! It is this thing! Have you really not been eaten?
Well well well well! Not in this strand, no.
But don't be too proud OAOAOA!! I can see your reflections, yes!!
-Rain World, Spinning Top
For so long I have drifted. Lost.
Dispersed in the multitudes of the waves and the ripples.
But following your thread brings me closer, perhaps, to how I was.
-Rain World, Spinning Top
I am cataloging all things, you know.
The imperative that was in THEM remains in me.
But I am not wholly them, and not blind to the folly of their forbearers.
I am... something new.
-Rain World, The Prince
CONSIDER:
A droplet of rain pierces the still water.
A ripple, a ring, ever expanding.
-Rain World, Weaver
You are swimming further and further out to sea
And beyond things are blind and terrible
They are blind, but they are seeing you
And you are coming to them.
-Night in the Woods, Sky Cat
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a trial?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a trial?
Did you fall for the same empty answers again?
-The National, Exile Vilify
I tell my love to wreck it all / Cut out all the ropes and let me fall...
-Bon Iver, Skinny Love
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high...
-Kansas, Carry on my Wayward Son
Would you come here and spin with me?
I've been dying to get you dizzy
Find a way up into your head
So I can make you feel like new again
-Turnover, Dizzy on the Comedown
We were tight-knit boys, brothers in more than name
You would kill for me, and knew that I'd do the same
-Radical Face, Always Gold
I suppose it's just interest,
Do-mi-so-do...
Devoid of substance, a hypothetical pattern,
Do-mi-so-ti...
For the satisfaction of bringing it to completion!
-Steven Universe, Peace and Love on the Planet Earth
Mystery of lack
Stabbing stars through my back
Forwards, beckon, rebound
Forwards, beckon, rebound
-Adrianne Lenker, forwards beckon rebound
Stereo, I want it on
It's taken me far too long
Don't think I'm all in this world
Don't think I'll be here too long
-Tomorrow Comes Today, Gorillaz
Time and again boys are raised to be men
Impatient they start, fearful they end
But here was a man, mourning tomorrow
Who drank, but finally, drowned in his sorrow
Oh, he could not break surface tension
He looked in the wrong place for redemption
-A Sadness Runs Through Him, The Hoosiers