it's an observation duty game alright.

we've done it. we made it to game 100 of the winter jackpot! hell yeah! and how does mr. wheel celebrate such a momentous occasion? giving me... i'm on observation duty 5!... yay? guess just like mita playing andy's apple farm, it had to happen at some point.

oh yeah this game was also released during the very... baby early stages of ai. you know those early ai zoom in effects where it'd try to make like an endless zoom? yeah it was that. this was also back in the day where ai images were uh... distorted to hell. i'm sure notovia gladly accepted that given the theme of the game. of course given i am a math teacher, it was only fitting that i do the school level... plus it is also the first level to select in the game. it has 2 classrooms, an office, gym, corridor, and bathroom! this game is more like just the traditional way of observation duty games. you report where you spot the anomaly and identify the type. you know your standard object and picture anomalies. camera malfunctions and distortions. intruders and light anomalies. but also tv and monitor anomalies. things are pretty quiet for about the first nearly half hour (in game time) before i spot a strange image on one of the laptops in the 2nd classroom. that of which i know for sure wasn't there before. 44 minutes in and the clock in the office has decided it can no longer hold onto the wall. not as strongly at least. poor guy. let me help them. in the gym, there's a set of silhouettes in the back featuring different sportly poses... a fucking wheelchair is not a sport. i mean yes you can play sports in a wheelchair but a wheelchair on its own is not a sport. and don't bring guns to a classroom. seriously. rulers are a good enough weapon. nearly 2 hours in and holy goodness the lights in the gym just became brighter. blinding almost. some may not have noticed it but i sure noticed the chairs in the back of classroom 2 being a little further back. 2 hours and 20 minutes in, i get that favorite warning that everyone loves letting me know that anomalies are starting to become much. alright. now it's fucking serious time. the slamming door in the office definitely spooks me but that's definitely an anomaly. the corridor hallway floor became a more checkerboard pattern. i admit that actually looks cool. but alas it is not supposed to look like that. nearly 3 and a half hours in and... poor corridor camera is getting sick. oh and yeah. it's not an observation duty game if there's a fucking naked dude in the bathroom with a plant pot to cover his genitals.

over 4 and a half hours in now... wow i am doing really good especially given i had gotten the warning message. but that poor little fan in the office lost its power. need to turn that baby back on. and also get rid of the giggling maniac in the classroom doing who the fuck knows what. seriously... these human anomaly things? they really do the weirdest shit we've ever seen. it's like they all took extra viagra or something. 5 hours and 13 minutes in and my run sadly comes to an end. that hurts. i was only 47 minutes to victory. but i was feeling very confident in myself. made it that far and fixed 20 anomalies? i can do this!... well not unless i don't spot the first anomaly in my 2nd run like 30 minutes in... yikes. poor corridor. first the bright light and now a growing shadow. this poor corridor is not safe. unfortunately my 2nd run didn't go so hot. not even 2 and a half hours and only 7 fixed anomalies. damn. either they were so hidden or i just did not see them. that's always the such fun thing with these observation duty games is that sometimes you just can't see an anomaly. and sometimes your reports are successful but only because it was a lucky guess. like in my 3rd run. i did seem some repeats like the wheelchair dude in the gym and the checkerboard floor in the corridor. oh and we had twitchy trash in the bathroom. that was funny. unfortunately this run too ended very quickly. only 9 anomalies fixed here. i guess i lost my anomaly seeking mojo after that first run. i tell you... one of us someday is going to beat one of these observation duty games. it'll happen i swear.

or if it doesn't?... well at least we have funny twitchy trash merch!