You darn well bet it does.\n\nCongratulations!
Simkha K. is the name of the person who wrote this. At least, for all you know.
After all, you're learning! Things like that are part of the learning experience. You've made a pretty decent first game anyhow. \n\n[[Hey, does this mean you've won?]]\n
You're the boss. Next link is the end of the game, you promise.\n\n[[Hey, does this mean you've won?]]
You're finally going to do it. You're going to figure out how Twine works!
You've already fucked that one up, big time.\n\n[[For serious this time.]]\n[[Real funny, you think. You just want to get to the end of the branch.]]\n\n
You can't. Someone already beat you to it. \n\n[[Write some other game.]]
You kinda wish you'd thought of that earlier on.\n\n[[It's OK!]]
Okay, okay.\n\n[[For serious this time.]]
You think you'll sit down and try writing a Twine game.\n\n[[Write a serious game, and put some effort into your scenario.]]\n[[Write some indolent, self-referential bullshit.]]\n[[Do nothing.]]\n
That's a fertile topic, but you'd better not. You have been spinning your wheels so much lately, and right now it's better to take some time off thinking about all that and unwind. This is a reminder from your better self that you need distractions from that stuff. Art is a valid way of processing one's difficult feelings, but not everything needs to be handled right now.\n\nJust keep breathing, hon. You've got this.\n\n[[Bleh. You're right. What were you even thinking?]]
You're going to give this another go.\n\nYou're going to: \n\n[[Write a serious game, and put some effort into your scenario.]]\n[[Write some indolent, self-referential bullshit.]]\n[[Do nothing.]]\n
Ambitious indeed! That might make a good project. For now, though, why don't you just concentrate on making sure that all the paths lead to a unified, upbeat ending? \n\n[[You guess you're right. It's easy to lose your sense of proportion though. After all, you just have so many ideas, and you're itching to try them out...]]\n
Hey now. <3 [[It's OK!]]
That's pretty niche, isn't it? Oh well. The intersection of SF fans with fans of cutesy love stories has got to be reasonably huge. I mean, all your friends are nerdy women who write or play Twine games. There's probably some room for it.\n\n[[It occurs to you that you can shorten the link text and make redirections a whole lot easier.]]
Don't get yourself wrong! It's great that you're enthusiastic about this! But you have carpal tunnel syndrome, and limited energy most of the time, and you overcommit yourself sometimes. Especially when you get excited.\n\nIt's actually kind of cute.\n\n[[It's OK!]]
You are way ahead of yourself, here.\n\n[[Write this game.]]\n[[Write some other game.]]
Hm, okay. It'll be a little tricky with that starting point, but you're pretty sure you can get this back on course. Pointless self-referential humor is tiresome and pretentious, after all.\n\n[[You write a game about saving the life of a mouse, getting a little too ambitious since it's your first time.]]\n[[You write a game about your depression. You have so much shit to process, it's not even funny.]]\n[[You write a game about romance, just a simple thing to test out narrative structures. On a whim you decide it will be a love story featuring an alien and a robotic probe come to survey their world.]]