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- package/README.md +14 -0
- package/bin/permanent-underclass +0 -0
- package/data/characters.jsonl +15 -0
- package/data/endings.jsonl +27 -0
- package/data/events/ai_researcher.jsonl +147 -0
- package/data/events/angel_investor.jsonl +145 -0
- package/data/events/chief_of_staff.jsonl +113 -0
- package/data/events/crypto_bro.jsonl +140 -0
- package/data/events/digital_nomad.jsonl +125 -0
- package/data/events/ex_faang_engineer.jsonl +129 -0
- package/data/events/hr_lady.jsonl +140 -0
- package/data/events/junior_dev.jsonl +116 -0
- package/data/events/marketing_manager.jsonl +164 -0
- package/data/events/plumber.jsonl +145 -0
- package/data/events/podcaster.jsonl +161 -0
- package/data/events/product_designer.jsonl +140 -0
- package/data/events/product_guy.jsonl +140 -0
- package/data/events/stealth_founder.jsonl +140 -0
- package/data/events/twitter_anon.jsonl +143 -0
- package/data/events/universal.jsonl +63 -0
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- package/package.json +26 -0
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{"id": "universal_01_the_rent_reminder", "phase": "Early", "title": "The Rent Reminder", "body": "Your landlord's portal sends the monthly reminder. The amount hasn't changed because it changed last quarter. You do the math where you pretend groceries cost what they cost in 2019, then you do the real math. The real math is worse.", "choices": [{"title": "Pay it, eat the pain", "body": "Pay it. Budget tighter this month. You'll figure it out.", "delta": {"money": -2000, "sanity": -1, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 2000}, {"title": "Email the landlord a polite novel", "body": "Negotiate. Cite comparable units. Use phrases like 'market adjustment.'", "delta": {"money": -1800, "sanity": -5, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 5}, "min_money": 1800}, {"title": "Ignore it for 72 hours as self-care", "body": "You'll deal with it Monday. Monday is a concept.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -6}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_02_the_must_read_thread", "phase": "Early", "title": "The Must-Read Thread", "body": "A friend texts: 'you HAVE to read this.' It's a 47-post thread about how skills are deflationary now. You open it. You recognize the author's cadence. You've read 40 threads like this already this week. Your thumb keeps scrolling anyway.", "choices": [{"title": "Read it all, restructure your life plan", "body": "Absorb the thread. Adjust your roadmap. Lose an hour.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Mute the chat, go outside", "body": "You close the app. The sun exists. You'd forgotten.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Quote-tweet with a spicy take", "body": "Engagement farming is a skill too. Technically.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_05_group_chat_meltdown", "phase": "Early", "title": "Group Chat Meltdown", "body": "Someone in the group chat posts: 'I think I'm falling behind.' Three people respond at once. Nobody addresses the part where they said they're not sleeping. A fourth person replies with a link to a course. A fifth sends a muscle emoji.", "choices": [{"title": "Call them, be real, be present", "body": "You actually pick up the phone. Remember phones?", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Send resources and a plan", "body": "You build a shared doc of coping strategies. It helps. Mostly you.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": 6}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Say nothing, spiral privately", "body": "You close the chat. Open Twitter. See the same sentiment from strangers.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_06_grocery_store_sticker_shock", "phase": "Early", "title": "Grocery Store Sticker Shock", "body": "Eggs are $7. You stand in the aisle doing mental math you shouldn't have to do. The person next to you is also doing mental math. You make eye contact. Neither of you says anything. The economy is a shared hallucination and the eggs are $7.", "choices": [{"title": "Buy them, you need protein", "body": "You pay. Your body needs fuel more than your wallet needs comfort.", "delta": {"money": -100, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 100}, {"title": "Switch to rice and beans era", "body": "Austerity mode activated. You become a meal-prep influencer in your own kitchen.", "delta": {"money": 60, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Post about it and start a discourse", "body": "Your tweet about egg prices gets 400 replies. None of them help.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_07_health_insurance_labyrinth", "phase": "Early", "title": "The Health Insurance Labyrinth", "body": "Open enrollment. The bronze plan costs $380/month and covers nothing until you've spent $8,000. The gold plan costs $720/month and you can't afford food. There's a 47-page PDF comparing them. You read three pages and dissociate.", "choices": [{"title": "Pick the cheap one and pray", "body": "Bronze plan. You are now technically insured and functionally unprotected.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 200}, {"title": "Call a friend who works in healthcare", "body": "They explain it. You still don't understand. But you feel less alone.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Skip it entirely, gamble on youth", "body": "You decide your immune system is your insurance. This is a bad plan.", "delta": {"money": 200, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_08_dating_app_ai_anxiety", "phase": "Early", "title": "Dating App AI Anxiety", "body": "Your date asks what you do. You start explaining. Halfway through you see their eyes change. They ask: 'Wait, is your job going to exist in two years?' You realize this is now a normal first-date question. You also realize you don't know the answer.", "choices": [{"title": "Be honest, make it funny", "body": "'Probably not, but neither will yours.' They laugh. You laugh. Nobody's fine.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Pivot to existential charm", "body": "You turn it into a bit about the absurdity of planning anything. Second date secured.", "delta": {"money": -60, "sanity": 6, "audience": 6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 60}, {"title": "Overexplain your career strategy", "body": "You talk for 11 minutes. They check their phone twice. There is no second date.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": -5, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -6}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_09_subscription_stack_audit", "phase": "Early", "title": "The Subscription Stack Audit", "body": "You check your bank statement. You're paying for 14 subscriptions. Three are AI tools you tried once. One is a meditation app you've never opened. One is a gym you haven't been to since March. The total is $287/month. You are subscribing to the idea of being a person.", "choices": [{"title": "Cancel everything, go scorched earth", "body": "You cancel 11 subscriptions. The unsubscribe flows are designed to hurt.", "delta": {"money": 150, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -4, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Keep the AI tools, cut the rest", "body": "The tools stay. The gym goes. You'll exercise outside. You won't.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Add one more subscription to fix it", "body": "There's an app that tracks your subscriptions. It costs $4.99/month.", "delta": {"money": -5, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 5}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_10_family_dinner_interrogation", "phase": "Early", "title": "Family Dinner Interrogation", "body": "Thanksgiving. Your uncle asks if AI is going to take your job. Your mom asks if you're saving for retirement. Your cousin shows you a TikTok about passive income. The turkey is dry. You are being stress-tested by people who love you.", "choices": [{"title": "Explain patiently, stay connected", "body": "You answer every question. Your mom looks relieved. Your uncle doesn't understand but nods.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Deflect with humor, change the subject", "body": "'I'm pivoting to being a ranch hand.' Everyone laughs. Nobody asks follow-ups.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -4}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Get into it, make it a whole thing", "body": "You give a 20-minute lecture on AI displacement. The gravy gets cold.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -11}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_11_the_subscription_upsell", "phase": "Early", "title": "The Subscription Upsell", "body": "Your AI tool pops a modal. The feature you need is behind a paywall. The copy says: 'Unlock the future.' The button is a color your brain is trained to click. The price went up 40% since last quarter and nobody mentioned it.", "choices": [{"title": "Upgrade, call it an 'investment'", "body": "You pay. The feature works. You use it twice.", "delta": {"money": -150, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 150, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "lifestyle_crept"}]}, {"title": "Stay free-tier, accept the limits", "body": "You work around it. The workaround takes 3x longer. You feel principled.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -4, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Find a hack, post about it", "body": "You discover a workaround and share it. 200 likes. The company patches it in 4 hours.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 7, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_12_friend_gets_laid_off", "phase": "Early", "title": "Your Friend Gets Laid Off", "body": "A close friend texts: 'got the call.' No context needed. You've seen this text before. The severance is two weeks. The job market is glacial. They're trying to sound fine. They are not fine. Neither are you, suddenly.", "choices": [{"title": "Drop everything, show up for them", "body": "You call. You listen. You don't try to fix it. This is the hardest part.", "delta": {"money": -50, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": 50}, {"title": "Send job leads and a pep talk", "body": "You forward three listings and a motivational voice memo. It helps a little.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Panic about your own job security", "body": "You spend the next 4 hours updating your own resume instead of responding.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": -9}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_14_no_more_juniors", "phase": "Mid", "title": "\"No More Juniors\"", "body": "A post goes viral: 'We are not hiring juniors anymore.' The comments are full of advice that starts with 'just' and ends with an impossible lifestyle change. Your brain begins converting itself into a spreadsheet. The ratio of reassurance to panic in your feed is 1:11.", "choices": [{"title": "Mentor someone anyway", "body": "You reach out to someone newer than you. It makes you feel human.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "became_mentor"}]}, {"title": "Hoard knowledge, protect your niche", "body": "You stop sharing tips in the group chat. Scarcity mindset activated.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Rebrand yourself publicly", "body": "Your bio now says 'AI-native polymath.' You feel nothing.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -9, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_16_landlord_is_an_algorithm", "phase": "Mid", "title": "Your Landlord Is an Algorithm", "body": "Your building got acquired by an AI property management company. The human landlord is gone. Rent negotiations go through a chatbot now. It responds in 0.3 seconds with 'Thank you for your feedback. Your rent has been optimized based on 14,000 comparable units.' The optimization is always upward. You cannot negotiate with math.", "choices": [{"title": "Pay the optimized rent", "body": "You pay. The chatbot thanks you. It will optimize again in 90 days.", "delta": {"money": -2500, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 2500}, {"title": "Organize with other tenants", "body": "You knock on doors. Everyone got the same message. Nobody knows who to yell at.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "joined_union"}]}, {"title": "Move somewhere the landlord is still human", "body": "You find a place run by a guy named Dave who fixes things himself. The apartment is worse. Dave is real.", "delta": {"money": -800, "sanity": 6, "audience": -6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 800}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_17_the_economy_feels_fake", "phase": "Mid", "title": "The Economy Feels Fake", "body": "GDP is up. Unemployment is down. Your rent is up. Your savings are down. CNBC says everything is fine. Your bank account says otherwise. You read a thread explaining that you're not crazy, the metrics are just measuring a different economy than the one you live in.", "choices": [{"title": "Study economics to understand the gap", "body": "You read three books. You now understand the gap. It doesn't help.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 9, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Log off, focus on what you can control", "body": "You close every tab. You clean your apartment. Small order restored.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": -6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}, {"title": "Turn the rage into content", "body": "Your 'the economy is cosplaying as functional' post does numbers.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 11, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_18_doomscroll_spiral", "phase": "Mid", "title": "Doomscroll Spiral", "body": "You look up and realize you've been doomscrolling for 43 minutes. Your thumb hurts. Your heart rate is elevated. You haven't learned anything but you're now aware of 11 new ways the world could end. Your screen time report arrives like a medical diagnosis.", "choices": [{"title": "Log off, do one real task", "body": "You close the app. You open a doc. You write one sentence. Progress.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Keep going, next post might fix it", "body": "It won't. You know it won't. Scroll.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -9, "audience": 7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Call a friend and admit you're spiraling", "body": "They were also spiraling. You spiral together. It's better somehow.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_21_grocery_store_no_humans", "phase": "Mid", "title": "The Last Cashier", "body": "Your grocery store replaced every cashier with self-checkout AI kiosks. One human employee remains — an 'AI checkout experience associate' whose job is to help people who can't figure out the kiosk. She has the eyes of someone who's watched her entire department disappear person by person. The kiosk thanks you for shopping. She does not.", "choices": [{"title": "Talk to her, ask how she's doing", "body": "She tears up. Nobody's asked her that in weeks. You feel something break.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 7}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Use the kiosk, it's faster", "body": "You scan your items in 90 seconds. The efficiency is undeniable. The feeling is not.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Start going to the farmers market instead", "body": "It costs more. The tomatoes are real. The person selling them knows your name by week three.", "delta": {"money": -40, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": 40}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_22_the_ai_subscription_trap", "phase": "Mid", "title": "The Subscription Trap", "body": "You're paying for seven AI subscriptions. You use two. The others auto-renewed while you were 'meaning to cancel.' One of them raised its price 40% with a cheerful email about 'enhanced capabilities.' The capabilities you enhanced were their revenue team's.", "choices": [{"title": "Audit and cancel everything unnecessary", "body": "You spend an hour canceling five subscriptions. The savings are $340/month. The FOMO is free.", "delta": {"money": 340, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -4, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Keep them all, you might need them", "body": "You might need them. You won't. But you might. The subscriptions stay. So does the anxiety.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": -7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 4, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 200}, {"title": "Consolidate to one premium tool", "body": "One tool to rule them all. $200/month for everything. It's more than before but at least it's one line item.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": 5, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 7, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 200}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_24_ubi_debate_on_the_news", "phase": "Mid", "title": "UBI Is on the News", "body": "A senator goes on CNN and says the words 'universal basic income' without laughing. The anchor doesn't push back. Your group chat explodes. Half your friends say it's the only sane response to AI displacement. The other half say it's the government admitting they've given up on jobs. You're not sure if you should feel hopeful or insulted. Maybe both. Maybe that's the point.", "choices": [{"title": "Research it seriously, form an opinion", "body": "You read the pilot studies. The data is promising. The politics are impossible. You feel informed and helpless.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Post a nuanced take", "body": "Your 'UBI isn't the answer but neither is pretending jobs are coming back' thread gets ratio'd by both sides.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -7, "audience": 6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Ignore it, keep your head down", "body": "You close the news. Policy happens to you, not because of you. At least for now.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 5, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_25_doctor_uses_ai", "phase": "Mid", "title": "Your Doctor Uses AI Now", "body": "You go in for a checkup. The doctor types your symptoms into an AI diagnostic tool while you're talking. The tool interrupts her with a differential diagnosis before you finish your sentence. She says 'this is actually very good' and shows you the screen. The diagnosis is faster and probably more accurate. You miss the part where she used to look you in the eyes and ask 'how are you really doing.'", "choices": [{"title": "Trust the AI diagnosis, move on", "body": "It's faster, it's data-driven, it caught something the doctor might have missed. Progress.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 7, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Ask the doctor for her human opinion too", "body": "She pauses. Thinks. Gives you a different answer. It's less precise and more kind. You needed both.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 6}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Switch to a doctor who doesn't use AI", "body": "You find one. Their waitlist is 4 months. Turns out everyone else had the same idea.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -5, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 500}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_26_linkedin_bifurcation", "phase": "Mid", "title": "The LinkedIn Bifurcation", "body": "You scroll LinkedIn. Every other post is 'Excited to announce' — new role, new funding, new launch. Every post between those is 'After 15 years in the industry, I was let go last Tuesday.' The algorithm shows them side by side. Celebration, devastation, celebration, devastation. The feed is a slot machine of other people's fates. You can't tell which side you'll end up on.", "choices": [{"title": "Post something supportive for the laid-off", "body": "You write a genuine offer to help. Three people DM you. One of them cries on a call. You feel useful.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 5, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Optimize your profile while you still can", "body": "You add AI keywords to every bullet point. Your profile views triple. Your soul dims slightly.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 9, "ai_skill": 2, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Delete LinkedIn entirely", "body": "You deactivate. The withdrawals last a week. Then you feel lighter. Recruiters find you through other channels. Slowly.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_27_the_ubi_pilot", "phase": "Late", "title": "The UBI Pilot", "body": "There's a UBI pilot program. The signup site crashes. People post screenshots of the error page like it's a concert ticket queue. You refresh for 20 minutes. The irony of a government program that can't handle demand is lost on nobody and addressed by no one.", "choices": [{"title": "Apply and take the money", "body": "If the system offers a floor, you take the floor.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": -6, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Refuse on principle", "body": "You believe in earning, even when earning is this broken.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 5, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Apply and keep grinding", "body": "Belt and suspenders. Take the check, ship the work.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": -5, "audience": 1, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_28_the_two_economies", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Two Economies", "body": "Your city has visibly split. Downtown is frictionless — AI-powered storefronts, drone deliveries, autonomous vehicles. Your neighborhood is the other one — cash businesses, handwritten signs, a barber who's been here 30 years. The downtown economy runs on APIs. Your economy runs on people knowing each other's names. They don't overlap anymore. You live in both and belong to neither.", "choices": [{"title": "Try to bridge the gap — learn both", "body": "You get a downtown client and keep your neighborhood regulars. The context-switching is exhausting.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -10, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Lean into the human economy", "body": "You double down on the neighborhood. Slower money, real relationships. The margins are thin but the handshakes are warm.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": 7, "audience": -6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": 200}, {"title": "Go full digital, leave the old world behind", "body": "You move downtown. Everything is faster. You don't know your neighbors. You order groceries from an app. The convenience is total and the loneliness is specific.", "delta": {"money": 1000, "sanity": -10, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_31_the_ai_therapist_suggestion", "phase": "Late", "title": "The AI Therapist Suggestion", "body": "Mental health crisis sweeps the country. Therapists are booked 8 months out. Your friend says: 'Have you tried talking to an AI therapist? It's free and it doesn't judge you.' You download it. It asks how you're feeling. You type 'exhausted.' It responds: 'That sounds really hard. Tell me more.' You burst into tears because a chatbot is the first thing that's asked you that in weeks.", "choices": [{"title": "Keep using it, it's something", "body": "It's not therapy but it's not nothing. You talk to it at 2am. No copay. No waitlist. No human.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Book a real therapist instead", "body": "$200/session. Insurance covers 60%. The waitlist is 8 months. But when you finally sit down across from a human, you cry differently.", "delta": {"money": -150, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 2}, "min_money": 150}, {"title": "Delete it immediately, this feels wrong", "body": "You close the app. You sit with the silence. It's worse. But it's yours.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "rejected_ai"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_33_moved_back_home", "phase": "Late", "title": "Moving Back Home", "body": "You do the math. Then you do it again. Then you call your parents. The silence before they say 'of course, honey' contains multitudes. Your childhood bedroom still has the poster. You are 28 and lying in a twin bed calculating runway.", "choices": [{"title": "Move back, save aggressively", "body": "Ego dies. Savings account lives. You eat dinner with your parents. It's actually nice.", "delta": {"money": 1500, "sanity": -6, "audience": -7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 6}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "lost_housing"}]}, {"title": "Refuse, make it work somehow", "body": "You pick up more work. You eat rice. You keep your apartment by a thread.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -3}, "min_money": 500}, {"title": "Find a cheaper city instead", "body": "You open a map. You start Googling 'cost of living' plus city names you'd never considered.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 4, "audience": -5, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -9}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_35_side_project_ships", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Side Project Ships", "body": "You actually shipped it. The thing you started at 3am exists now. 12 people are using it. One left a bug report. One left a thank you. You feel something you haven't felt in months: you built something and someone used it.", "choices": [{"title": "Double down, build in public", "body": "You post the journey. People care. Your DMs light up.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 6}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "side_project_shipped"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "shipped_creative_work"}]}, {"title": "Keep it quiet, iterate slowly", "body": "You fix bugs. You add features. Nobody's watching and that's the point.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -5, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "side_project_shipped"}]}, {"title": "Open-source it and let it go", "body": "You push to GitHub. Someone forks it immediately. The gift economy is strange and beautiful.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 3, "ai_skill": 4, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "side_project_shipped"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "open_sourced"}]}], "requires": ["started_side_project"], "forbids": ["side_project_shipped", "side_project_failed"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_36_side_project_dies", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Side Project Dies", "body": "You haven't touched it in three weeks. The GitHub notifications pile up. Someone opened an issue that's just a question mark. The excitement curdled into obligation somewhere around week four. You quietly archive the repo and tell no one.", "choices": [{"title": "Let it go, learn from it", "body": "Not everything has to ship. Some things are just practice.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 7, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 2, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "side_project_failed"}]}, {"title": "Reboot it with a deadline", "body": "You give yourself two weeks. The constraint helps. Mostly.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Hand it off to someone who cares", "body": "You DM someone in the issues. They take over. It feels like relief.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 9, "audience": 1, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "side_project_failed"}]}], "requires": ["started_side_project"], "forbids": ["side_project_shipped", "side_project_failed"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_37_mentor_appears", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Mentor Appears", "body": "Someone you admire replies to one of your posts: 'You're thinking about this right. Want to grab coffee?' You stare at the DM for 10 minutes. You have imposter syndrome about getting coffee. But you say yes.", "choices": [{"title": "Go, listen, learn", "body": "They share things nobody posts online. You leave with three ideas and one paradigm shift.", "delta": {"money": -30, "sanity": 7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 12, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 30, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "has_mentor"}]}, {"title": "Go but try to impress them", "body": "You talk too much. They're polite. You leave knowing you should have listened.", "delta": {"money": -30, "sanity": -8, "audience": 6, "ai_skill": 2, "friends": -2}, "min_money": 30}, {"title": "Decline, you're not ready", "body": "You say 'maybe next month.' Next month never comes.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": -7, "ai_skill": -2, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null}], "forbids": ["has_mentor"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_38_mentor_betrayal", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Mentor Let You Down", "body": "Your mentor used your idea. Not maliciously, maybe. They posted something that's clearly your framework, your words, your angle. No credit. No DM. Just 10,000 likes on a take you workshopped together over coffee. The internet doesn't know. You know.", "choices": [{"title": "Confront them directly", "body": "You send a DM. It's measured. They apologize. The dynamic shifts permanently.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "mentor_burned"}]}, {"title": "Say nothing, distance yourself", "body": "You stop reaching out. They don't notice for three weeks. That tells you everything.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -6}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "mentor_burned"}]}, {"title": "Post your own version, stake your claim", "body": "You write the better version. People notice. The original looks derivative in comparison.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -3, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -11}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "mentor_burned"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "burned_bridge"}]}], "requires": ["has_mentor"], "forbids": ["mentor_burned"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_39_sabbatical_call", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Sabbatical Call", "body": "Your body has been sending memos you've been marking as read. Your brain's background processes are all anxiety. You open a blank doc and type 'What if I just stopped for a month?' The cursor blinks. The doc has no audience. It's just for you.", "choices": [{"title": "Take the sabbatical", "body": "You tell your clients, your boss, your group chat. The silence is terrifying, then healing.", "delta": {"money": -2000, "sanity": 13, "audience": -8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 3}, "min_money": 2000, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "took_sabbatical"}]}, {"title": "Take a long weekend instead", "body": "Four days off. It's not enough. But it's something.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": 4, "audience": -1, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 1}, "min_money": 500}, {"title": "Keep going, you'll rest when you're dead", "body": "You close the doc. You open Slack. The grind continues. The body keeps score.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -10, "audience": 7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null}], "requires": ["had_health_scare"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_40_recovery_from_crisis", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Comeback", "body": "You hit bottom. That was a few turns ago. Now you're still here, which is the whole point. The numbers are better. Not good, but better. Someone asks how you're doing and you say 'better' and mean it for the first time.", "choices": [{"title": "Build from here, slow and real", "body": "No grand plans. Just one good day, then another.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "recovered_from_crisis"}]}, {"title": "Share the story, help someone else", "body": "You post about what happened. The DMs are overwhelming and specific and grateful.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "recovered_from_crisis"}]}, {"title": "Pretend it never happened", "body": "You rewrite the narrative. Clean slate. The scar tissue is still there.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 5, "friends": -6}, "min_money": null}], "requires": ["hit_rock_bottom"], "forbids": ["recovered_from_crisis"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_41_went_viral", "phase": "Late", "title": "Main Character Syndrome", "body": "You wake up to 4,000 notifications. Something you posted blew up. Your phone is hot. Strangers have opinions about you. A podcast wants you on. Your mom texts: 'Saw your post on Facebook??' You are now a public figure for 72 hours whether you like it or not.", "choices": [{"title": "Ride it, engage, build the audience", "body": "You reply to everything. You gain 3,000 followers. You lose two friends who think you've changed.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -9, "audience": 13, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "went_viral"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_following"}]}, {"title": "Go private, let it pass", "body": "You mute notifications. The wave crashes. You're still you after.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 2}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "went_viral"}]}, {"title": "Pivot into it, start building a brand", "body": "If the algorithm chose you, maybe you should listen.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": -9, "audience": 14, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -4}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "went_viral"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_following"}]}], "forbids": ["went_viral"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_42_got_canceled", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Cancellation", "body": "A screenshot of something you said is circulating. It's out of context. Or it's in context and the context is bad. Either way, the replies are not here to understand. They're here to perform. Your follower count is doing something you didn't know it could do.", "choices": [{"title": "Apologize, mean it, log off", "body": "You write a real apology. Half the people say it's not enough. The other half say it's too much.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": -10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_canceled"}]}, {"title": "Double down, never apologize", "body": "You refuse to bend. Some people respect it. Your mentions are a warzone for weeks.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": -14, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -14}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_canceled"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "burned_bridge"}]}, {"title": "Go completely dark, let it blow over", "body": "You deactivate everything. Two weeks later, nobody remembers. The internet's memory is 72 hours.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -3, "audience": -8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_canceled"}]}], "forbids": ["got_canceled"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_43_scam_dm", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Scam That Almost Worked", "body": "The DM looks real. The opportunity looks real. The website looks real. The urgency feels designed because it is designed. You're halfway through entering your card number when something in your gut fires a single neuron of doubt. You Google the company name. The fourth result is a Reddit thread titled 'DO NOT TRUST [company name].'", "choices": [{"title": "Close the tab, report it, warn others", "body": "You post about it. Three people DM you saying they fell for it.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": 5, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 2}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Fall for it, lose the money", "body": "You didn't Google it. The charge goes through. The 'company' disappears.", "delta": {"money": -1000, "sanity": -11, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 1000, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_scammed"}]}, {"title": "Investigate it like a detective", "body": "You trace the domain. You write a thread. You feel like a journalist for one afternoon.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 7, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_44_union_whisper", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Union Whisper", "body": "Someone at work pulls you aside. 'Have you thought about organizing?' The word 'union' hangs in the air like something that could get you fired or save you. They hand you a pamphlet that looks like it was designed in 2003. The content is about 2025.", "choices": [{"title": "Get involved, start organizing", "body": "You attend a meeting. The energy is nervous and hopeful and exactly what you needed.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 7, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "joined_union"}]}, {"title": "Support quietly but don't lead", "body": "You sign the card. You don't post about it. Solidarity without a spotlight.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Stay out of it entirely", "body": "You can't afford the risk. Or you tell yourself you can't.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -9}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_45_jobs_are_dead", "phase": "Late", "title": "Jobs Are Dead, Long Live Gigs", "body": "'Job' as a word is disappearing from your industry. Companies don't hire for 'positions' anymore. They post 'projects' with 2-week scopes and no benefits. Your LinkedIn inbox is full of 'exciting opportunities' that are actually task-based contracts. Nobody has a job. Everyone has gigs. The word 'employee' is starting to sound quaint, like 'telegraph operator.'", "choices": [{"title": "Adapt — become a project machine", "body": "You restructure your life around gigs. Three clients, rolling contracts, no safety net. The freedom is real. So is the insomnia.", "delta": {"money": 1500, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "went_freelance"}]}, {"title": "Hold out for a real job with benefits", "body": "You keep looking. The listings get rarer every week. But you believe in stability. You have to.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": 6, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 1}, "min_money": 200}, {"title": "Build your own thing instead", "body": "If nobody's hiring, become the one who hires yourself. You start a one-person operation.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": -8, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": -1}, "min_money": 500, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_46_the_fuckening", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Fuckening", "body": "Andrew Yang tweets it and it trends for 72 hours: 'The Fuckening.' White-collar layoffs hit 500K since ChatGPT launched. Your LinkedIn feed is all 'open to work' banners. The food bank in San Jose has a line of people in Patagonia vests. This isn't a recession. This is a reclassification of who matters.", "choices": [{"title": "Start building something recession-proof", "body": "You pivot to essentials. Healthcare admin. Government contracts. Boring is beautiful.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "pivoted_career"}]}, {"title": "Lean harder into AI, be the last one standing", "body": "If it's eating everything, you want to be the teeth, not the meal.", "delta": {"money": 800, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 12, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Check on your friends who got laid off", "body": "You text five people. Three respond. One cries on the phone. You listen.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -1, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_49_apartment_goes_full_ai", "phase": "Late", "title": "Your Building Went Full AI", "body": "Your apartment complex fired all humans. Maintenance requests go through an app. A robot handles packages. The hallway lights adjust to your schedule without you asking. Your rent went down $200/month because 'operational efficiencies.' It's better. The heating works perfectly. Packages never get stolen. You haven't spoken to another human in your building in three months. You hate that it's better.", "choices": [{"title": "Enjoy the savings, accept the trade", "body": "Lower rent, working heat, silent hallways. You buy noise-canceling headphones and lean in.", "delta": {"money": 200, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Start a tenants' social group yourself", "body": "You put a flyer under doors: 'Rooftop drinks, Saturday.' Eight people show up. One of them is also losing it.", "delta": {"money": -45, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": 45, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_community"}]}, {"title": "Move somewhere with a human landlord", "body": "You find a walk-up where the super is a guy named Tony who yells about recycling. The heat is unreliable. Tony is real. You sleep better.", "delta": {"money": -600, "sanity": 8, "audience": -4, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 600}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_50_the_zero_dollar_competitor", "phase": "Late", "title": "The $0 Competitor", "body": "Someone open-sources a tool that does exactly what your $200/month subscription does. It's free. It's good. It runs locally. The creator posts: 'I built this in a weekend with Claude. Corporations have been charging you rent on solved problems.' Your subscription page shows 40% churn overnight.", "choices": [{"title": "Switch to the free tool immediately", "body": "You cancel the subscription. The savings feel like a raise. The old company lays off 30% next quarter.", "delta": {"money": 150, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 5, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Build something open-source yourself", "body": "If a weekend project can kill a company, maybe you should be building weekend projects.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 11, "friends": 1}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "open_sourced"}]}, {"title": "Worry about what this means for your own job", "body": "If solved problems are free, what exactly is your company selling? You don't sleep well.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_51_everyone_is_job_hunting", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Group Chat Is All Job Hunting", "body": "You open your closest group chat. Three of five people are job hunting. One just got rejected from a role that got 3,000 applicants. Another is 'pivoting to consulting' which means unemployed with a website. The vibe is gallows humor and Indeed links. Nobody says 'we're cooked' but everyone is thinking it.", "choices": [{"title": "Help them — share leads, review resumes", "body": "You spend Sunday helping friends. Nobody lands anything yet. But nobody is alone.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Quietly panic and start your own job search", "body": "You don't tell the group chat. You update your LinkedIn at midnight. The shame is quiet and specific.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Suggest starting something together", "body": "'What if we just... built something ourselves?' The energy in the chat shifts.", "delta": {"money": -300, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 10}, "min_money": 300, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_52_dread_as_opportunity", "phase": "Late", "title": "Dread Cosplaying as Opportunity", "body": "Your feed is full of people posting 'this is the greatest time to be alive' under articles about mass layoffs. Every existential threat comes wrapped in a LinkedIn post about pivoting. The dread is real. The opportunity framing is a cope. Or maybe it's not. You genuinely cannot tell anymore.", "choices": [{"title": "Ignore the noise, focus on your actual life", "body": "You close every tab. You make dinner. You call someone who doesn't have a hot take.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 9, "audience": -7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 9}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}, {"title": "Engage critically — post something real", "body": "You write something honest about fear and uncertainty. No forced optimism. It resonates.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -4, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 6}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Lean into the opportunity framing, fake it", "body": "You post 'bullish on disruption' and get a brand deal. The cognitive dissonance is taxable income now.", "delta": {"money": 1500, "sanity": -9, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -11}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "sold_out"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_54_forever_layoffs", "phase": "Late", "title": "Forever Layoffs", "body": "Your old company rehired after the 2023 layoffs. They rehired after the 2024 layoffs. They are not rehiring after the 2025 layoffs. The positions don't exist anymore. They weren't cut — they were dissolved. HR sends a form letter that says 'we appreciate your contributions.' The form letter was generated by AI. You can tell because it's grammatically perfect and emotionally empty.", "choices": [{"title": "Accept the new reality and adapt", "body": "You grieve the career you planned. Then you start planning a different one.", "delta": {"money": -300, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 300, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_laid_off"}]}, {"title": "Fight it — organize, lobby, make noise", "body": "You join every petition, every rally, every Slack channel. The anger is productive. For now.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_laid_off"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "joined_union"}]}, {"title": "Retrain into something AI can't touch yet", "body": "You look at the trades. Electrician. Plumber. Nurse. Jobs with hands.", "delta": {"money": -3000, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -8, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 3000, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "got_laid_off"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "pivoted_career"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_55_the_landlord_algorithm", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Landlord Algorithm", "body": "Your rent goes up 23%. Your landlord didn't decide this. A pricing algorithm decided this. It analyzed 40,000 data points about your neighborhood, your income bracket, and your likelihood of leaving. It knows you probably won't leave because moving costs $4,000 and you don't have $4,000. It is correct. You are angry at a spreadsheet.", "choices": [{"title": "Pay it and eat the cost", "body": "You cut subscriptions. You stop ordering food. The algorithm wins. Your savings don't.", "delta": {"money": -300, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 300}, {"title": "Move somewhere cheaper", "body": "You find a place 40 minutes further from everything. The commute eats the savings. But the rent is survivable.", "delta": {"money": -1500, "sanity": -4, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -6}, "min_money": 1500}, {"title": "Organize with other tenants", "body": "You knock on doors. Other tenants are just as angry. Together you're a bloc. Alone you're a data point.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "joined_union"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_57_health_scare_wake_up", "phase": "Late", "title": "The Wake-Up Call", "body": "Your body sends a memo. Chest tightness. Can't sleep. Hands shake when you drink coffee, which is always. The doctor says 'stress' like it's a diagnosis and not just a description of being alive. She recommends exercise, sleep, and 'reducing screen time.' You check your phone while she says it.", "choices": [{"title": "Actually change something", "body": "You start walking. You sleep by midnight. It takes two weeks to feel different.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": -5, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "had_health_scare"}]}, {"title": "Ignore it, you're fine, you're always fine", "body": "The symptoms continue. You continue. You're a system running at 97% CPU.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 5, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "had_health_scare"}]}, {"title": "Turn it into content", "body": "'Thread: how burnout nearly killed me and what I learned.' 4,000 likes. You're still burned out.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "had_health_scare"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_58_slowdown_vs_race", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "Slowdown vs. Race", "body": "The whole internet is arguing about slowing down AI. The arguments are coherent, moral, and exhausting. You feel the pressure of needing an opinion that can survive screenshots. The Overton window is moving weekly. Your take from three months ago is already outdated.", "choices": [{"title": "Get involved, be on the record", "body": "You write something careful. It gets quote-tweeted by both sides. This is the discourse now.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -4}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Disengage, build a life anyway", "body": "You close the tab. You call a friend. You make dinner. The debate continues without you.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": -8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}, {"title": "Go all-in, ride the acceleration", "body": "If the future is coming regardless, you want to be on the wave, not under it.", "delta": {"money": 800, "sanity": -8, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_59_the_ubi_vote", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The UBI Vote", "body": "Congress passes universal basic income. $2,000 a month for every adult. It covers rent. Barely. The money arrives on the first of the month like clockwork. The stigma arrives too — strangers on the internet call you a 'UBI leech.' Your landlord raises rent by exactly $2,000/month within 90 days. The math was supposed to help. The math adapts.", "choices": [{"title": "Take the UBI and fight the rent hike", "body": "You organize with other tenants. The UBI was supposed to be a floor, not a ceiling. You refuse to let landlords eat it.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": -7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "joined_union"}]}, {"title": "Take the UBI and use it to retrain", "body": "$2,000/month is runway. Not much, but enough to learn something new without starving.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Refuse the UBI on principle", "body": "You don't take it. People think you're crazy. Maybe you are. But you need to prove you can survive without it.", "delta": {"money": -2000, "sanity": 1, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -10}, "min_money": 2000}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_62_the_split", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Split", "body": "Society has visibly fractured into two classes. The 'adapted' — AI-native workers who leverage agents, earn in the digital economy, and live frictionless lives. And everyone else. The permanent underclass. The game's title is now a census category. You see it on government forms: 'Employment Status: Traditional / AI-Augmented / Displaced.' You check a box. The box checks you.", "choices": [{"title": "Fight to be in the adapted class", "body": "You retool everything. Sleep less. Learn faster. The gap narrows. Your health widens.", "delta": {"money": 1000, "sanity": -9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Build solidarity in the underclass", "body": "You organize. Mutual aid. Skill shares. Community gardens. The adapted class has money. You have each other.", "delta": {"money": -200, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": 200, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_community"}]}, {"title": "Refuse the binary — forge a third path", "body": "You're not adapted and you're not displaced. You're something else. The category doesn't exist yet. You'll build it.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -5, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": 2}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_64_strange_new_jobs", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "Strange New Jobs", "body": "The job board looks alien. 'Human Presence Worker — $500/hr to physically be somewhere.' 'Authenticity Verifier — confirm content was made by a human.' 'Meaning Consultant — help clients find purpose in post-work life.' 'Analog Experience Designer — create experiences without screens.' These aren't parody listings. People are getting hired. The economy didn't die. It got weird.", "choices": [{"title": "Apply for the weirdest one", "body": "You become a Human Presence Worker. Your job is to sit in a room and be a person. The pay is incredible. The existential questions are free.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": -8, "audience": 7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -3}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Start your own weird-economy business", "body": "You launch an 'Artisanal Human Experience' consultancy. It sounds fake. The invoices are real.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -7, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}, {"title": "Refuse to adapt to the absurdity", "body": "You will not be a 'Human Presence Worker.' You are a person, not an API endpoint with a pulse. The principle costs you. You keep it.", "delta": {"money": -1000, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 1000}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_65_zero_human_job_offer", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "Job Offer from a Company with No Humans", "body": "You get a job offer. The company has zero human employees. The CEO is a person; everyone else is an agent. The offer letter was written by an AI. The interview was conducted by an AI. The onboarding doc was generated by an AI. Your job is to be the human-in-the-loop for a system that works fine without you. You're a compliance checkbox. The salary is $180K.", "choices": [{"title": "Take it — $180K is $180K", "body": "You sign. Day one, you sit in a Zoom with six AI agents and a dashboard. Nobody asks how your weekend was. The direct deposit hits.", "delta": {"money": 3000, "sanity": -9, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": -11}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "sold_out"}]}, {"title": "Decline — you need human coworkers", "body": "You turn it down. Your friends think you're insane. Maybe. But you need someone to eat lunch with.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Negotiate to bring one other human", "body": "You counter: 'I'll take it if I can hire one person.' They agree. You bring a friend. Two humans in a sea of agents. It's weird. It's survivable.", "delta": {"money": 2000, "sanity": 7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 7, "friends": 11}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_66_rent_a_human", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "RentAHuman", "body": "A startup launches RentAHuman.ai. The premise: AI agents have tasks they can't do yet — physical ones, emotional ones, legal ones. So they hire humans through an API. You get a push notification: 'An AI agent wants to hire you for 2 hours. Task: attend a funeral on its client's behalf. Pay: $45.' You stare at your phone. The future is here and it's offering you gig work.", "choices": [{"title": "Take the gig, money is money", "body": "You attend a stranger's funeral. You say kind things. The AI sends you a Venmo and a 5-star rating.", "delta": {"money": 200, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Refuse and post about the absurdity", "body": "Your tweet about it goes semi-viral. 'We are the API now.' 4,000 likes. No solutions.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "went_viral"}]}, {"title": "Build a competing platform with human dignity", "body": "You start sketching a version where humans set the terms. It's harder to monetize. Obviously.", "delta": {"money": -300, "sanity": 5, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 9, "friends": 10}, "min_money": 300, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_67_s_and_p_ath", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "S&P at All-Time High, Benefits Run Out", "body": "The stock market is at an all-time high. Tech earnings are spectacular. NVIDIA is worth more than most countries. Your unemployment benefits expire next month. The economy is doing great. You are not the economy. The Dow doesn't know your name.", "choices": [{"title": "Cash out whatever investments you have", "body": "You sell your index fund at the top. It covers three months of rent. Maybe four if you eat rice.", "delta": {"money": 3000, "sanity": -7, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Hold and believe the rising tide lifts all boats", "body": "You keep your positions. The tide lifts yachts. You are not on a yacht.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Write about the disconnect, find your voice", "body": "'The S&P hit 7,000 today. I ate ramen for the third time this week.' The post resonates.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 7, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 7}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_68_gpu_outwork", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "You Can't Outwork a GPU", "body": "Sam Altman posts: 'It'll be very hard to outwork a GPU.' It's the kind of sentence that sounds neutral but rearranges your entire career strategy. You've been grinding 60-hour weeks. The GPU grinds 60 million. The math doesn't care about your work ethic. Your hustle culture affirmations sound different now.", "choices": [{"title": "Stop grinding, start thinking", "body": "You work 30 hours this week instead of 60. You spend the other 30 thinking about leverage.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": 8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 500}, {"title": "Double down — work harder than ever", "body": "You refuse to believe it. You grind harder. The GPU doesn't notice.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": -2, "friends": -7}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Embrace it — use the GPU to multiply yourself", "body": "If you can't outwork it, outleverage it. You start treating AI as your employee.", "delta": {"money": 800, "sanity": -6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 12, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}, {"op": "set_flag", "flag": "collab_with_ai"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_69_the_food_bank_line", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Food Bank Has Engineers Now", "body": "You volunteer at a food bank. Or you're in line at one. Either way, the person next to you has a Stanford CS degree and 8 years at a FAANG company. They were making $380K two years ago. They're articulate about what happened. The system didn't fail. It worked exactly as designed. It just doesn't need as many humans as it used to.", "choices": [{"title": "Help organize, build mutual aid networks", "body": "You connect people. Engineers who can fix things. Cooks who can feed people. The skills still matter.", "delta": {"money": -150, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 11}, "min_money": 150, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_community"}]}, {"title": "Feel the vertigo and keep going", "body": "If it can happen to them, it can happen to anyone. You go home and hug someone.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Post about it — people need to see this", "body": "You write what you saw. It's uncomfortable. It's necessary. The comments are a mix of 'this is fake' and 'this is my life.'", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -6, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_70_the_capability_jump", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Capability Jump", "body": "The new model drops and it's not 10% better. It's qualitatively different. Things that were impossible yesterday are trivial today. Your entire skill stack just got compressed into a prompt. Twitter is split between euphoria and dread. The people celebrating loudest are the ones who don't do the work that just got automated. The people who do the work are very quiet.", "choices": [{"title": "Learn the new model immediately, stay ahead", "body": "You spend the weekend learning. By Monday you're 10x faster. By Friday everyone else is too.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 12, "friends": -9}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "embraced_ai"}]}, {"title": "Focus on what the model still can't do", "body": "You identify the gaps. Taste. Context. Trust. You build your moat there.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 2, "friends": 12}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Sit with the dread for a minute", "body": "You close the laptop. You go for a walk. The trees don't care about benchmarks. Neither do you, for one hour.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": -7, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_72_the_commune_invite", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Commune Invite", "body": "Someone you trust sends a message: 'We're starting something. Off-grid-ish. Come visit.' There's a shared doc with a budget and rules about screen time. The tone is gentle. The implication is permanent. A year ago this would have sounded insane. Now 11 people you respect are considering it. The waitlist for the commune is longer than the waitlist for a therapist.", "choices": [{"title": "Visit, don't commit yet", "body": "You drive out. The air is clean. The Wi-Fi is bad. You sleep 10 hours. You cry in the morning and don't know why.", "delta": {"money": -100, "sanity": 10, "audience": -1, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 6}, "min_money": 100}, {"title": "Decline, you need stability", "body": "You can't leave. Or you won't. The distinction matters less than it should.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -6}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Say yes, fully", "body": "You pack a bag. The group chat goes quiet. The birds are loud. You don't check your phone for three days. It's the longest you've gone since 2019.", "delta": {"money": -800, "sanity": 12, "audience": -9, "ai_skill": -2, "friends": 10}, "min_money": 800, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "found_balance"}]}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_74_two_class_internet", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Two-Class Internet", "body": "The internet splits. There's the free tier: slow, ad-choked, AI-generated slop, everything optimized for engagement over truth. And there's the premium tier: fast, clean, human-curated, paywalled behind $300/month. The information you need to stay competitive lives behind the paywall. Knowledge is a subscription service now.", "choices": [{"title": "Pay for premium and eat the cost", "body": "You subscribe. The content is worth it. Your bank account disagrees.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 10, "friends": 0}, "min_money": 500}, {"title": "Build your own information network from people", "body": "You assemble a group chat of smart people. Everyone shares what they find. Collective intelligence.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 8, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 3, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "built_community"}]}, {"title": "Stay on free tier and work harder to find signal", "body": "You spend two hours a day separating slop from substance. It's a job in itself.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 6, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_76_structural_weirdness", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "Everything Is AI Except the Barista", "body": "Your bank is run by AI. Your therapist is AI. Your financial advisor is AI. Your building manager is AI. Your doctor's first opinion is AI. The only human you interact with professionally is your barista. She knows your name. She asks about your week. You tip her $10 on a $5 coffee because she is the last human in your service economy and you are terrified of losing her too.", "choices": [{"title": "Embrace the efficiency, accept the loneliness", "body": "The AI services are better, faster, cheaper. You just don't have anyone to tell about your day. Small price. Maybe.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": -8, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 8, "friends": -10}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Deliberately seek out human services", "body": "You switch to a human financial advisor ($400/hr). A human therapist (8-month wait). You pay the premium for eye contact.", "delta": {"money": -400, "sanity": 10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 400}, {"title": "Become the human service yourself", "body": "If humans are the premium, be the premium. You start offering in-person consulting. Handshakes. Eye contact. Real coffee.", "delta": {"money": 500, "sanity": 6, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 10}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "started_side_project"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_77_the_whistleblower_moment", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Whistleblower Moment", "body": "You see something at work that shouldn't be happening. Data being used in ways users didn't consent to. Corners cut on safety. Metrics gamed to look good for investors. You have receipts. You also have a lease. The right thing and the safe thing are two different doors.", "choices": [{"title": "Blow the whistle", "body": "You send the documents. The story runs. Your phone doesn't stop ringing. Neither does your anxiety.", "delta": {"money": -500, "sanity": -11, "audience": 14, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 7}, "min_money": 500, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "blew_the_whistle"}]}, {"title": "Leak it anonymously", "body": "You create a burner. You share the receipts. You watch from the shadows.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -8, "audience": 10, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "blew_the_whistle"}]}, {"title": "Stay quiet and look for a new job", "body": "You can't afford to be a martyr. The guilt is a tax you'll pay for years.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": -10, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -8}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "sold_out"}]}], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_78_the_sell_out_offer", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Sellout Offer", "body": "A company you don't respect offers you double your current rate to do work you don't believe in. The email is warm. The money is real. Your principles have a price and they're about to find out what it is. The offer expires Friday.", "choices": [{"title": "Take the money", "body": "You sign. The direct deposit hits. You feel nothing, which is worse than feeling bad.", "delta": {"money": 3000, "sanity": -11, "audience": -3, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -9}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "sold_out"}]}, {"title": "Decline and stay true", "body": "You write a polite no. Your bank account winces. Your self-respect survives another quarter.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 10, "audience": 8, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 2}, "min_money": null}, {"title": "Counter with terms that protect your integrity", "body": "'I'll do it if I have editorial control.' They blink. You might actually pull this off.", "delta": {"money": 1500, "sanity": -4, "audience": 6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 0}, "min_money": null}], "allow_freeform": true}
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{"id": "universal_79_debt_cleared", "phase": "Endgame", "title": "The Last Payment", "body": "You open your banking app and the balance is zero. Not your savings — your debt. The number that's been following you around like a shadow is gone. You feel lighter. Then you feel angry it took this long. Then you feel lighter again.", "choices": [{"title": "Celebrate, you earned this", "body": "You buy one nice thing. Just one. It feels different when it's not on credit.", "delta": {"money": -150, "sanity": 10, "audience": 2, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": 8}, "min_money": 150, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "debt_cleared"}]}, {"title": "Immediately start saving aggressively", "body": "The money that went to interest now goes to an index fund. Compound interest works both ways.", "delta": {"money": 800, "sanity": 6, "audience": 0, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -1}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "debt_cleared"}]}, {"title": "Tell no one, keep your head down", "body": "Nobody knew how bad it was. Nobody needs to know it's over.", "delta": {"money": 0, "sanity": 6, "audience": -6, "ai_skill": 0, "friends": -2}, "min_money": null, "effects": [{"op": "set_flag", "flag": "debt_cleared"}]}], "requires": ["took_on_debt"], "forbids": ["debt_cleared"], "once_per_run": true, "allow_freeform": true}
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{"phase":"Late","text":"COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE COLLAPSES AS COMPANIES NEED ZERO OFFICE SPACE"}
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85
|
+
{"phase":"Late","text":"AUTONOMOUS AI LAB PUBLISHES PEER-REVIEWED PAPER WITH NO HUMAN AUTHORS"}
|
|
86
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"COMPUTE RATIONING IN EFFECT ACROSS THREE CONTINENTS"}
|
|
87
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"CENSUS ADDS NEW CATEGORY: 'PERMANENTLY DISPLACED'"}
|
|
88
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"KNOWLEDGE WORKER UNEMPLOYMENT HITS 30%"}
|
|
89
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"AI MODELS NOW TRAINING AI MODELS AUTONOMOUSLY"}
|
|
90
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"LAST ENTRY-LEVEL JOB POSTED 14 DAYS AGO"}
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|
91
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"UBI SIGNED INTO LAW AT $2,000/MONTH"}
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92
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"HUMAN-WRITTEN CONTENT FALLS TO 4% OF THE INTERNET"}
|
|
93
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"911 SYSTEMS OVERWHELMED BY AI-GENERATED CALLS"}
|
|
94
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"$2.1B CLASS ACTION FILED AGAINST AUTONOMOUS TRADING AGENTS"}
|
|
95
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"TIME COVER: 'THE FIRST GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER NEED A JOB'"}
|
|
96
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"SELF-REPLICATING ROBOTICS SUPPLY CHAIN GOES LIVE IN SHENZHEN"}
|
|
97
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"LAST HUMAN-ONLY PROFESSION: GRIEF COUNSELOR"}
|
|
98
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"ECONOMISTS RETIRE THE WORD 'JOBS' FROM OFFICIAL FORECASTS"}
|
|
99
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"US DEBT HITS $60T AS TAX BASE COLLAPSES WITH EMPLOYMENT"}
|
|
100
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"AI GENERATES 96% OF ALL NEW PATENTS FILED GLOBALLY"}
|
|
101
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"'HUMAN ARTISAN' PREMIUM NOW 10X COST OF AI EQUIVALENT"}
|
|
102
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"FIRST NATION OFFERS LEGAL PERSONHOOD TO AI ENTITY"}
|
|
103
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"GDP HITS ALL-TIME HIGH, MEDIAN INCOME HITS 20-YEAR LOW"}
|
|
104
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC COMBINED MARKET CAP EXCEEDS US GDP"}
|
|
105
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"CHILDREN BORN TODAY HAVE 8% CHANCE OF EVER HOLDING A TRADITIONAL JOB"}
|
|
106
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"AI IMPROVES ITSELF 14 TIMES IN ONE HOUR"}
|
|
107
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"LAST MCDONALD'S WITH HUMAN WORKERS CLOSES IN RURAL OHIO"}
|
|
108
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"SUICIDE HOTLINE CALLS UP 400%, MOST CALLERS CITE 'PURPOSELESSNESS'"}
|
|
109
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"PENTAGON BUDGET SHIFTS 70% TO AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS"}
|
|
110
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"FIRST CITY RUNS ENTIRELY ON AI MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT"}
|
|
111
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"GLOBAL FERTILITY RATE DROPS TO 0.9 AS 'FUTURE ANXIETY' PEAKS"}
|
|
112
|
+
{"phase":"Endgame","text":"ACCOUNTING PROFESSION FULLY AUTOMATED IN Q3"}
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