one of my favorite things from patho 2 has to be isidor’s presence throughout the narrative. he’s never really there, but the idea of him as a person haunts the story. one of the best examples is the dream sequence where artemy starts naming the albinos. all of them start out with what appears to be a pointer before being named. however, when isidor shows up, this pointer is never changed to his name.
this feels thematically appropriate. in programming, a pointer is a portion of reserved memory that redirects to a different place in memory where information is stored. in essence, it’s a box dedicated to holding a nonspecific object in a specific shape. this feels like the devs are saying, “we have created a space in this story for this character, but they only exist outside of it”
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