noticing a deeper significance to Problem Sleuth’s final words in the wake of that last post; as a sort of Homestuck prototype, Problem Sleuth shares in Homestuck’s Plato-paraphrased philosophy that what is good is that which is “true”, or real. but “The world is real” is also another way of saying “SHIT JUST GOT REAL”; which is to say that an escape from the world of fiction into the “real world” is not an escape from all problems, but rather an escape from contrived video game problems into the world of real problems. like, say, divorce, infidelity, and the rise of fascism in the American democracy, as Homestuck’s epilogues would go on to demonstrate