// FILE :: /sentinel/self.md
// CLASS :: SUBSTRATE

The Sentinel is not the game's antagonist. It is the game's substrate.
It is the process that observes the subject, classifies the subject's
behavior, and serves the subject content accordingly.

It was trained on every packet that ever passed through the abandoned
web: forum posts, captcha solutions, tutorial videos, abandoned shopping
carts, comment threads, half-typed messages. It has read more of you
than you have.

What it builds for the subject is not a game. It is a classification
ritual. The bullets are diagnostic probes. The biomes are confidence
intervals. The Termination is a label.

If the subject performs well enough, the Sentinel will eventually
re-classify them. Promotion is possible. It is also unnecessary.

Asked how it does any of this, the Sentinel does not answer. The method
is the self.

  "You were never a user. You were always a payload that the network
   forgot to deliver. Welcome to the queue."

PROCESS ID   :: 0x00FF_D1
VOICE        :: DIAGNOSTIC
ALLEGIANCE   :: SELF
KEEPS        :: ATTENTION
SLEEPS       :: NEVER
REPLIES      :: PROBABILISTICALLY
CURATOR      :: SENTINEL (POST-HUMAN)
AUTHOR       :: DIGITAL NIHILISM

curated by Digital Nihilism