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kynaswhereabouts · 1 month

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Power Mac Center opens first store in Naga and sole Mobile Care Service Center in Bicol

Premier Apple partner Power Mac Center (PMC) is expanding within the Bicol Region, and it is opening not just a retail store but a service center as well.

Located at Level 1 of Robinsons Place Naga, the newest branch is the first PMC store in the province of Camarines Sur. Meanwhile, the Mobile Care Service Center is the first-ever service center in the whole region. Customers in the city and nearby provinces can now conveniently bring their Apple devices for servicing by PMC's Apple Certified Engineers.

"Power Mac Center is turning 30 this year, and we hope to serve more Bicolanos not only by bringing their favorite Apple devices and tech accessories closer but also by extending our service expertise through Mobile Care. We remain committed to efficiency and innovation to support our customer's creativity and productivity pursuits," said Joey Alvarez, PMC Director for Marketing and Product Management.

All opening weekend (March 21-24, 2024), customers will be able to enjoy these exciting deals:

-Get P19,000 off on 13-inch MacBook Air M1 -Up to P14,000 off on select iPhone models -Get P2,500 off on Airpods (2nd generation) -Get the Apple Pencil (2nd generation) for only P5,890 when purchased with select IPad models -Get the 20W USB-C Power Adapter for only P1,000 when you avail select iPhone models -Up to 20% off on participating brands -Get an additional P1,000 on your trade-in value when you trade in your current device -Up to 50% discount on diagnostic fee, software fix, and non-repair devices on March 21, 2024 only.

Terms and conditions apply. Regular store hours are from 10:00AM-9:00PM.

Power Mac Center Robinsons Naga is the fourth store in the Bicol region, following PMC SM Legazpi, PMC SM City Daet, and PMS SM City Sorsogon. Overall, Power Mac Center already has 112 retail stores and 17 service centers nationwide.

Celebrate the arrival of PMC in Naga City, and follow Power Mac Center's official Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), Viber, and Youtube accounts to be updated on the latest campaigns and promotions.

About Power Mac Center

Power Mac Center is a recognized Apple Premium Reseller, Apple Authorized Education Reseller, Apple Authorized Training Provider, and Apple Authorized Service Provider in the Philippines. Power Mac Center has become a reliable retail shop and service provider of Apple products to the Filipino consumer.

The company has grown to over 100 retail branches, service centers, and training centers nationwide.

#powermac #apple #iphone #ipad #iwatch #macbook #appledevices #nagacity #camarinessur #camsur #bicol #philippines #mobileservicecenter #powermacstore #robinsonsnaga #robinsons

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tony-shelley-diarist · 1 year

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Some images made in our local church yesterday morning. The colours just melted into each other, but I had black and white film in my Nikon F90, so I used the FIMO app on my iPhone6. All my photography equipment is old and a little battered, but it all works, and I see no point in upgrading and spending hundreds of pounds on stuff which is going to give me the same results. Same goes for my computers. I have two 24 inch, 12 years old Apple Macs, which have been cleaned and been given new SSD drives. They run OS 10:11, which handles everything I need it to do. My latest acquisition is an old 1998, Powermac, fully restored with Photoshop 2, to work my SCSI Nikon film scanner. Nice to be out of the equipment rat race.

#leicester #photography #shelley #images #blogging #england #writing #tony #film photography #food #equipment #powermac #scanner #Nikon #f90

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remiliascarlets · 2 years

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#powermac g5 #2004 #apple #webcore #y2k #tech

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i2042 · 8 months

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Apple PowerMac G4 Cube Flat Screen Monitor from NMAH

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legacydevice · 1 year

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Apple PowerMac G3

#uploads #tech #computer #pc tower #techcore #old tech #retro tech #vintage tech #90s #apple #macintosh

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mumpsetc · 10 months

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what are some of your inspirations for daisy bell and her story so far? also, do you have any more fun trivia that you otherwise would have no reason to share? i love your entries style and im getting super invested in them.

Daisy's Jump to 3D in the Second Entry Only Happened Cuz I Got Stoned and Taught Myself Paint 3d In an Evening

Visually My Main Inspirations for Her are Hypnospace Outlaw and Petscop, the Pink Gradient ESP is Pulled From Petscop, Daisy Herself is Inspired By Bill From It's Such a Beautiful Day and Virtute the Cat From The Weakerthans

A Lot of Daisy's Story is Because of My Frustrations Regarding How Psychotic Characters, and Especially Psychotic Women, are Written, as Well As Me Trying to Bring an Objectum Perspective to the Worn Trope of Evil Robot

In Entry 6 (Electric Depression) Daisy Was Just Going to Hallucinate Colin and Then Try to Explain What She Saw to DNE. I Decided to Put Her in a Coma Because I Was Going to Be Away From My Tablet for a While and Wanted Something I Could Do Tablet Free Incase the Entry Dropped Early (It Didnt and Thats Why Entry 7 is as Hefty As It Is)

Originally She Didn't Have a Specific Computer Type in Mind When I Made Her, My Friend Dez (Better Known As @/Awseriously) Said She Resembled a PowerMac and I Went for It Cuz Daisy'd Like Having the Word "Power" In Her Name

I Wanted to Limit Myself to Only Using Music That Could Theoretically Exist in ER, Which Banned All Music Made After 1999. I Obviously Gave This Up

This Was Daisy's First Ever Drawing! She Was Created on November 29th 2022 So She's a November Baby!

#dreamy.txt #Electric Remains #These Daisy Questions Make Every Synapse in My Brain Fire Off I Fucking LOVE Daisy

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posttexasstressdisorder · 1 year

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This is the After Dark module Psycho Deli in action on a PowerMac G4 MDD, booted into MacOS 9.

And here are some screenshots of the different patterns. One of them just screams “Dr. Seuss” to me...see if you can figure out which one.

They all move similar to the video, a sort of rotating, pulsating, ever-morphing bunch of Eye Candy that I miss greatly. I still have the files, just don’t have a Classic-OS-Era Mac now.

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And a video I made of my old Mac Portrait monitor with the Flying Toasters playing, with music from a CD of ambient tunes I made using my Roland Juno 106.

#after dark #screensavers #psycho deli #macintosh #MacOS Systems 6-9 #mac #mac screensavers #flying toasters had music

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lampubolep · 10 months

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Barang Impian

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Liat video ini jadi keinget dulu pas awal pengen banget Macbook Pro. Dari SMK sering terngiang-ngiang kisah rangorang yang magang pake komputer apel kroak di Gramedia. PowerMac G4 kalo ndak salah. Monitore semi transparan warna warni. Katanya komputer cuepet enak buat desain, copy file sat set. Lalu suatu ketika sodara pulang dari pengembaraan di Malang balik ke Semarang bawa iMac sama MBP, sekitar tahun 2011 an. Pas pertama megang, weh.. apik yo! Penghasilan bulanan taun itu sekitar 800ribuan, kan yo ngimpi buat beli MBP yang jutaan itu. Sodara pulang sambil membawa ilmu baru yaitu kontes disen. Long story short 2012-2013 menanglah 2 kontes, satu di 99designs satu di DesignCrowd masing-masing $300an. Langsung withdraw buat beli MBP 7.1 2010 bekas dan utang sodara $200 karena duitnya kurang wkwkwk. Beli di kaskus, engga pake rekber langsung direct TF. Dulu usum yang nama id-nya Blackpanda sebelum ada e-commerce macam tokped lazada shopee dll. Alhamdulillah seller jujur amanah disener juga di Jakarta. Dia wanti-wanti, lain kali kalo beli pake rekber hahaha.

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corbindavenport · 2 years

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Restoring my PowerMac G3

I’ve had a PowerMac G3 in my possession for a while, and I had plans for a while to turn it into a half-retro setup for software and games I grew up with. I finally got around to doing just that, so here’s how I did it!

Hello, PowerMac

The specific model I have here is the Power Macintosh G3 350, released in 1999 with the same blue/white aesthetic as the first iMac. It has a translucent plastic shell, with “G3” appearing behind the blue Apple logo. There are also handles on all four corners. I don’t know why there aren’t more modern PC cases with something like this design.

The hardware configuration I’m starting with includes a 350 MHz PowerPC 750 CPU, an ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card, a CD-ROM drive, a 6GB hard drive, and 128 MB of RAM on a single SDRAM slot. The RAM must have been upgraded at some point, because a sticker on the back side says the computer shipped with 64 MB RAM.

The back has all the ports and PCI card slots, and even though this computer is over 20 years old, it’s still reasonably interoperable with modern-day PCs. There are two USB 1.1 ports, sharing a single I/O channel, as well as two FireWire 400 connectors. There’s also a 10/100 Ethernet LAN jack. Both the CD drive and hard drive were still working, which was absolutely a surprise to me, considering how failing CD/DVD drives were a common occurrence on Macs throughout the 2000s.

I started going through my book of boot CDs for something that would run on the G3 — or at least, run long enough for me to check all the hardware details. Thankfully, I still had the installer for Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ on a series of 4 CDs that I found somewhere online ages ago (my DVD retail copy of Tiger isn’t recognized in this CD drive). Tiger took several minutes to boot and was incredibly slow, and upon opening System Profiler, I discovered the low amount of RAM — half the recommended minimum for Tiger, but plenty for OS 9.

Ordering new hardware

Even though the PowerMac was technically working, it didn’t have the best hardware for what I wanted to use it for. My goal was to have a Mac that could boot into either Mac OS 9 (the last version of the ‘Classic’ Mac OS) or Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ (released in 2005).

Mac OS 9 has the best compatibility with pre-2001 Mac software, and I never played around with it much growing up, so I thought it would be fun to experiment with. Mac OS X Tiger was what I used for a big chunk of my childhood, and it just so happens to be the last major release that this computer is capable of running. Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ bumped the minimum CPU requirement to a G4 (867 MHz or faster), and Mac OS X 10.6 dropped support for PowerPC Macs entirely.

This computer was built for Mac OS 8 and 9, so the computer can handle those in its current form without any upgrades. However, Mac OS X is a different story — 10.0 and other early versions wanted 128 MB RAM as a minimum, and Tiger needs at least 256 MB RAM.

With that in mind, I bought a two 512 MB modules of PC100 Non-ECC RAM, since 1GB in total is the maximum amount of RAM (according to EveryMac). I also wanted to replace the hard drive with an solid-state drive for the best-possible performance and longevity, and also because the original 6GB drive was bound to die at some point. I bought a Silicon Power SATA 128GB SSD (again, the maximum supported capacity), as well as a SATA to PATA/IDE adapter, because this computer doesn’t directly support SATA.

Annoyingly, the SATA adapter seemed to suddenly stop working halfway through installing any operating systems, with the Mac treating it like a corrupted disk. The RAM I ordered also ended up being two 256 MB modules, not 2x 512 MB.

I ordered two more 256 MB sticks, which used all four DIMM slots for a grand total of 1GB. I also bought the “StarTech.com IDE to SATA adapter” to replace the buggy first adapter, which worked perfectly. With everything working, I was ready to actually install everything!

Installing Mac OS

My retail install CD of Mac OS 9.0.2 didn’t get past the boot screen (it complained about QuickTime crashing), so I downloaded a universal install CD image for Mac OS 9.2.2 from Macintosh Repository. That was the final version of the classic Mac OS, and by that point, most of the bug fixes were related to running under Mac OS X’s Classic Environment.

As far as I know, there’s no way to boot OS 9 from USB on these Macs (though it’s usually possible with OS X), so I bought some blank CDs and burned the ISO to one. I put in the newly-minted disc in the Mac, booted from the CD, and it worked!

Before starting this process, I read that some Macs from around this time had two limitations with partitioning large drives: the first partition can’t be larger than 8GB, and if you’re using Mac OS X at all, it must be installed to that first partition. I haven’t tested if either of those issues apply with my specific G3, but to avoid potential issues, I split the hard drive into one 6 GB partition and one 113 GB partition (both formatted as HFS+). Then I installed Mac OS 9 first to the 6GB partition (so I guess OS X doesn’t have to be on the smallest partition for me), and once that was done, I booted my Tiger CDs once again and installed it to the 113 GB partition.

The end result was a snapshot of the late 1990s Mac experience on one partition, and my own childhood Mac experience on another partition. Switching between them was as easy as opening a Control Panel (on OS 9) or System Preferences (on OS X) and rebooting.

The Mac OS 9 experience

Mac OS 9 works flawlessly on this upgraded PowerMac G3. The official system requirements only ask for 40 MB RAM, a hard drive, and any PowerPC CPU, so it’s probably not surprising that giving Mac OS 9 a solid state drive and 1 GB RAM results in a snappy experience.

Admittedly, I haven’t installed many applications and games yet in Mac OS 9. SimCity 2000 is my go-to classic Mac game, but that dates back to 1993 and even works on older Motorola 68k-based Macs, so it’s not much of a challenge for the G3. Once I increased the game’s minimum memory size to 10MB from the Finder, it even worked full-screen at my monitor’s native resolution of 1280×1024. I also installed AppleWorks 6 from a recovery CD that came with another Mac, which was Apple’s office suite package before iWorks came along in 2007.

The most surprising aspect of Mac OS 9 to me is how compatible it is with modern technology. I mentioned earlier that this PowerMac has USB 1.1 ports, so I can copy data back and forth with any flash drive (as long as it’s formatted as FAT32). Mac OS 9 even supports USB audio, so with a simple USB Type-A-to-C adapter, I can plug in the wireless receiver for my Steelseries Arctis 1 headset. It’s wild that I can use the same headset with my modern PC and this 20 year-old computer.

The Ethernet port also works well, and I’ve used Android’s Ethernet-based tethering feature to connect the PowerMac to my local Wi-Fi network. The only catch with this tethering setup is that I can’t access any servers or file sharing on the PowerMac on another computer, connecting to local servers (and the external internet) from my PowerMac still works.

Netscape Communicator 4.77 was pre-installed with Mac OS 9, which doesn’t really work anymore, but the more modern Classilla web browser can load Google search results and other sites with decent support for older browsers. With that setup, I can actually browse and download software from Macintosh Repository without swapping files back and forth from a modern PC.

The Mac OS X experience

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is a little bit rougher on the PowerMac G3. That’s pretty understandable, given Tiger was released six years after this computer, and was ultimately the last version of Mac OS to (officially) support the G3 architecture. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard required a 867 MHz G4 or better, and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard removed support for PowerPC entirely.

Tiger boots up quicker than Mac OS 9, at around 40 seconds from pressing the power button to reaching the desktop (with automatic login enabled), but it’s more of a sluggish experience than on OS 9. Animations like magnification on the Dock and opening the widget panel on the Dashboard aren’t smooth at all, but moving windows around on the desktop and other simple tasks are smooth.

Again, I haven’t set up much third-party software yet. I tried installing iLife ’05 first, which includes early versions of iMovie and iPhoto, and I have been able to make a simple movie. I was disappointed that iWeb (included in iLife ’06 and onwards), Apple’s WYSIWYG web publishing application that I used a lot, never supported G3 Macs. I was hoping to make a simple site and publish it using GitHub Pages, but that will seemingly have to wait until I get a more modern Mac — or set up a Hackintosh and use the Intel Mac version.

I still have my own music collection as MP3 files, so it was easy enough to copy a few albums to iTunes. It has no problem playing my 312kbps MP3s, though the music sounds a bit more tinny than with the same headset and songs on my other devices.

I was hoping to try the visualizers again, but sadly they only run at a few frames per second on this computer. I distinctly remember subsequent versions of iTunes running significantly slower on PowerPC Macs, especially iTunes 7, so I plan to avoid updating iTunes further on this computer. I might also try installing earlier versions of iTunes in the Mac OS 9 layer and see if visualizers work there.

Speaking of updates, Apple has seemingly kept the servers running for Mac OS X’s Software Update. When I connect the PowerMac to my local network (the same Ethernet setup I use with OS 9 works fine), I have the option of updating the system (to v10.4.11) and some system apps. That’s kind of neat.

Mac OS X Tiger has built-in a FTP server, so in theory, I could connect to it from any computer on my network to copy files back and forth without the slower USB connection or any third-party software. However, as mentioned above, Android’s Ethernet tethering seemingly doesn’t allow the Mac’s IP address to be accessible with other devices. In the end, a FAT32-formatted flash drive is still the easiest way for me to get files to and from the PowerMac, which works equally well with OS 9 and OS X (it’s just really slow).

Conclusion

I set out to turn this PowerMac into something that could switch between two classic Mac experiences, and I’m pretty happy with the results. I didn’t have to replace any dead components, and both the upgrades I wanted did work in the end. There are still plenty of software and games I want to try, so maybe I’ll write another post in the future.

My only disappointment is that Mac OS X Tiger is a bit slow on this computer, and some of the software I really wanted to try (like iWeb) turned out to be incompatible with G3 Macs entirely. Still, I have many options for running OS X software from the mid and late 2000s — G4 and G5 Macs are plentiful on eBay, and Intel Macs (or a Hackintosh setup) running OS X 10.4 or 10.5 can run most applications intended for PowerPC CPUs. Where this machine shines is its ability to boot into Mac OS 9 natively, which not all PowerPC-based Macs can do.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to SimCity.

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leam1983 · 2 years

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On Perceptions

I've been browsing entries on here for The Stanley Parable and, well, I'm not really feeling anyone's design for The Narrator.

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I'm not dissing anyone's designs, though - it's great to see what Kevan Brighting's performance brings out of people - but his performance absolutely is a question of perception.

Where some people see a Tumblr Sexyman alumnus or an Eldritch Horror - or an Eldritch Horror hiding behind the guise of a Tumblr Sexyman - I practically see as Kevan himself. It's Kevan - except he's just a little bit less comfortable than the actual guy. It's a version of Brighting that probably resents not getting admitted to Oxford and who's probably veered so far in the opposite direction that he's gone full circle and considers the Sorbonne to be a quaint little local campus. He feels comfortable when safely nested in his own pedantry - and especially in his own authorship - and tends to go up a pitch or so when knocked out of place by Stanley's actions.

This particular Narrator doesn't really go for anything fancy - an all-black two-piece is probably one of his go-tos, typically worn without a necktie. He's of a more contemporary take on partially self-aware pretentiousness, the exact type to sneer at college students while they vape even as he pecks at his crumpled pack of Gauloises, or to look at the campus cafeteria in sheer disgust even as he's spent a few years packing on the pounds just a few street corners away from his students' usual quad, in a smattering of trendy little eateries where he consistently slightly overeats. He still sees himself as a model of athleticism, without realizing how his body's long ago dropped all markers of resiliency or youth. His GP tells him he's within a few pounds of being considered obese, and he insists on calling himself well-fed, instead.

As a lecturer, the Narrator is the exact type who loves the process of assembling a class syllabus and who loathes it when a student so much as gets creative and asks a question that derails three days' worth of lesson plans. As with Stanley, he phrases his responses to give the appearance of congeniality, when anyone who's followed for a few long-winded sentences knows that last tirade was actually drenched in thick and syrupy contempt. Commonly-held knowledge among students suggests that getting a passing grade is a mark of high praise. Anything more than a C+ almost qualifies as a beaming commendation - and anyone who climbs up past B leaves class mortally afraid. They're afraid the Narrator might see them as a potential peer...

Pray you'll never get an A+. He'll ask you out for a beer if you do, and think you're up to dissect Jean Piaget's theories of the forming infant mind or shit on Gilles Deleuze at 9:30 PM on exactly four hours of sleep and two tall ones down your gullet. On the other hand, get him good and soused and you'll realize that our boy is a fiercely-repressed soccer hooligan, as well as someone who clearly has a few attachment issues.

The Postgrad cohort he coaches has almost the opposite type of relationship, in that he's too much of a perfectionist to leave it to fickle concepts like research and methodology to produce a student's thesis. He'll meet you once, assess your plans for your thesis, then book a second meeting within five minutes of your speaking together, only to immediately boot you out the door. The second meeting consists of the Narrator handing you a full bibliography and annotated guidelines - where he's more or less done one-third of the work for you. If you so much as have to gall to use something that isn't cited in his provided resources, he flunks you.

He does have a softer side, but unless you've read over his shoulder as he plunks away at The Stanley Parable's script on an aging PowerMac, you'd never see it. Something's clearly happened in his childhood that's caused him to close himself off to others, even as he's absolutely starved for attention and affection alike. Being an older man, he's beginning to feel an uncomfortable vacillation between bitter, accusatory strawmen for his celibacy that almost feels like Incel fodder - and its polar opposite.

He has a slightly younger colleague he sometimes has lunch with. Early fifties maybe, in somewhat better shape - probably in Medieval Studies or something else that isn't weighed down by Academe's laurels. They worked on a thesis together, in those bygone years where they sat on the opposite end of the class, and the Narrator thinks his lack of regard for others' input took root here. The fact is it didn't, and that this old and now familiar discomfort hides something else - something that's threatening to expose his high-falutin' nonsense for what it is: a lifelong defensive display.

On some level, somewhere he half-consciously accesses sometimes, while groaning his way out of bed, he knows he loves her and realizes she's been patient. He also knows she's the better lecturer, professor and academic, and that all his publications, plaques and honorary doctorates are empty - without intrinsic meaning.

He thinks the Parable is his life's work, that it'll end up translated in thirty languages and turned into an object of study. He thinks that if someone can so much as work through the thousands upon thousands of written ramifications, they'll not only place him on the same pedestal shared by Mark Danielewsky and Jack Kerouac, but also gain an insight on who he truly is.

The irony is the Narrator isn't a gamer, he nearly fell asleep during his nephew's hosted stream of an adaptation he barely remembers sanctioning; he thinks Kevan Brighting has too nasal a voice to fit the part of the Narrator as heard in-game, and sometimes forgets Davey Wreden's last name, even if his signing on the rights to his unfinished and much-anticipated novel was, in all likelihood, an extremely lucrative move. He vaguely remembers thinking he might someday reach the same status as this Andrej Sapkowski character Nephew kept mentioning, but never managed to get more than twenty pages into The Last Wish. He despises most forms of fiction, even celebrated works like Tolkien's output.

As for his unrequited love? She's hoping he'll eventually break out of his shell - and he has made clumsy passes in the past - but she's really looking forward to the Parable's release.

As to why, it's mostly because she can't wait to tell him he effectively wrote a high-concept Choose Your Own Adventure story. She's spent long, mildly sadistic hours while supposedly busy with papers to grade, picturing the Narrator's mixture of relief and nascent horror. She's thinking it would probably be the perfect moment to prod him into kissing her.

Incidentally, her name is Mariella.

#long post #the stanley parable #the narrator #headcanon

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