Uninteractive Fiction 2

Uninteractive Fiction 2 complicates the legacy of its predecessor, once again ironically subverting the title by introducing new levels of interactivity. Taken as a unit, both entries in the series now form an additional choice which the player must consider: to lose, win, or not to play? Each option reveals something about the person who selects it. I myself take all three, laughing in the face of entropy. Who will you be?

EDIT: It seems there are more choices to make. This is the true inverse of the original: where before there was nothing, now there is something. I expect next time to find everything. But this is not next time. This is this time. I thought I was above it all, in the realm of creator rather than mere buttonpresser. But the truth—the whole and only truth—is that I have lost.

The first thing that struck me is that the 2 is so bold and red. Then I noticed how jagged it is. Was it, I thought, just drawn in MS Paint?

I looked more closely. No, that doesn't look like MS Paint. Instead, it looks more like a texture brush, like the ones procreate has that are fun to play around with but not really useful (I only use four brushes ever: flat brush, gel pen, round brush, and whatever pencil one I see first).

But no, I thought, something's off. The 2 is really well-done. It wasn't just sketched in a second (or maybe it was, in a moment of serendipity). Could it be--I thought--that this was actually a special font, like a 'display' google font, that was made large, bold, and rotated slightly? But it's not a perfect 2 so the questions still remains: font, or sketch?

I zoomed in closer. The resolution on the 2 isn't as high as the resolution on the other text. It was added later, after all. It could be scaled up from something. But if the author drew on it at full resolution, wouldn't it have more details? A scaled up font makes more sense. But I tried tracing the movement of the 2 with my mouse, and it felt natural. This could be just a sketch drawn with a single gesture.

I tried a font-matching website (does it use AI? Probably a GAN but not an LLM). Nothing came up, but could be rotation.

We may never know.

Also the game just says 'you win' that's it sorry for spoilers.

Last time, I gave Uninteractive Fiction 4 stars. It was a joke game, funny, worth the ten seconds it took to play.

Jokes have to be surprising but inevitable in hindsight to be funny. Last time, UF pleasantly surprised me (especially the sound track).

This time, it wasn't surprising. I don't think it'll be funny at all if there's a next time.