2026-07-21 · essay
If You Can Always Undo, Do Your Choices Still Mean Anything?
The night I added an undo button to my own puzzle, my hand froze — especially since what I'm making is a Baba Is You–style game where you rewrite the rules themselves. If you can undo, was the decision ever a decision? This third "fragment" of The Nature of Play sets Sartre and Nietzsche arguing face to face: Sartre (commitment, anguish), for whom a choice declares who you are, against Nietzsche (eternal recurrence, amor fati, style), who asks whether you could will it to return forever. In the end they point at the same single line under different names.
