# alternative about page
> i'm trying to explain something that can't be explained. help me out
> ~ bob dylan
more example details & potential context about this site and how to play
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consider "robert what" the fictional research laboratory of a fellow player - the unfolding interactive narrative of ir amorphous adventures. it showcases a human-context approach to modern play and the unique designer realities that techno-organically spawn as a result - with your help player one. (but a player of what exactly?)
here uk based bloke "robert what" roleplays a hot amateur postmodern theorist & important new conceptual internet artist performing cutting edge research & development - "big science" - into the everyday beyond strangeness of such a reality / consciousness aka robert what those "imaginary (ie. mind-based) garmes" researchers pretend to pretend to play - andor play (/unconsciously) using or via imagination
example background context
an example background context for this site
an absurdist light-hearted satirical post-cyberpunk permanent early access ftpmmoarg sandbox toy set set in a darkly speculative parallel hyper-dimension where garmes won the reality war
as this "unusual ideas consultant" "conceptual brainstormer" and "metaphysical investigator" robert examines fellow player's "research projects" and ir underlying concepts from ir odd deep field perspectives to reveal and expand uncommon meanings and artistic potential. a half life on vidyagarmz getting stranger one voxel at a time
such a badly forged artistic roleplay licence allows such researchers to spout loose jive analyse without qualification and wildly speculate on all manner of useless subjects air castles and fractured details - distinctly other un-categorizable events and speculative lurking embryonic potentialities / proto-realities
on being a virtual researcher
"researchers" enjoy intense virtual collaboration. for the opportunity to see cool projects emerge robert brings a keen philosophical analysis and perspective to teh garme exposing and interpreting uncommon meanings and hidden potential in ir ideas design and narratives as well as providing an exacting cultural critique
while ey obviously hopes to become insanely rich and famous via what ey helps create and the strange-garme development / critique services ey provides robert does not (/currently) work for consult to own shares in or receive funding instruction or handy hints from any company or organization and has no affiliations; everything ey does releases / escapes for free (gratis & libre) and is based on sharing & caring - that is
"zero copyright - no license - maximum fun"
**how to play 'big science'**
indeed the/a question - and rob's artist statement. consider one example play style: as a pretend fellow 'researcher' consider each lab entry here at robert what experimental (/virtual) research scenes scenarios simulations interventions and ruptures - intellectual catalysts to be freely experimented with / inside of - run through in realtime using your own sentient neural networks
that is: synthetic setups pseudo-events nonlinear series of actions and occurrences forming temporary highly improvisational research performances and post-scientific visualizations
such extensive tests / imprecise deployed notions involve (philosophically indeterminate) optimal strategies - unpredictable ongoing developments deliciously impossible event-potentials to analyse radically alternative improbable outcomes to ponder - where emergent garmes / play arrive on/as "the scene"
your highly non-specific skill set player one include an ability to make outrageous often daring meta-cognitive leaps across the vast synaptic gaps between seemingly separate notions perceptions and levels of / in modern play
robert what currently requires around £8billion to more fully develop your research and realize an intense hyper-mediated vision channelled direct from the near future now: to help over sentient life forms evolve "big science" - the world's largest research based 'virtual esport'
there's still no spoon
// republic of bob