Ugh, that really was an achievement, wasn't it...

[ frowns at his phone. ]

I wish we knew how many of these stupid things we needed to pass. For all we know we might've already gotten there, or they might be moving the goalposts every week.

Oh it's like... for sure moving goalposts. There's no way four weeks of work was enough to meet their expectations.

Or they might just have a ridiculously high threshold in the first place to make sure we don't reach it early.

Could be. Maybe different achievements are worth different amounts depending on how impressive they are and we need to reach some total score or something.

And we'll probably never have any way of knowing because it's more convenient to keep us in the dark.

Confusion leads to desperation.

... I think we'll be fine. But I also don't think we can coast. We'll be fine because we'll do whatever we need to.

[ nods ]

I think we've still got enough pragmatists on this side.

...Honestly, I'm way more annoyed than worried.

I say that every week and people get on my case about it.

[ ... they do this because she keeps saying she's annoyed by the DEAD PEOPLE instead of sad about them. but that's not important. ]

And I agree with you pretty much every week.

Good. Don't die, even when it's numerically safe to.