>>1990775
it's meant to be a whole "losing is fun!" philosophy stolen from dwarf fortress
you build up this complex story with all the moving parts, and then it all crumbles in a dramatic tragedy
unfortunately after 14 years the game is still completely empty of npcs and motivations beyond "ate stale pizza, want to kill myself. ate icecream, want to live" so its just a big fat nothing, just like lemmy's entire life