Hello, and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast. I'm your host and author of the piece you're going to be hearing today, The Grey Knight. You can call me Daddy, you can call me Jack so long as you call me back. Hi. I got some feedback that I was talking a little too quick and a little too much and with too much enthusiasm last week.

So I will endeavor to speak to you a little bit more like you are used to.

Hello, you are the sexy consumer of this podcast.

I like it over you, Lou. Thank you so much.

You are hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

So that's another of that joke.

I don't know if this is something to do with healing, if this is something to do with aging, if this is something to do brand new.

But I just discovered a physiological thing, and I can't stop thinking about it.

So here's why I'm confused as to which of these things it is,

because to my experience it's new,

but physiologically that doesn't make a lot of sense.

So here it goes.

If you've ever played a game called Celeste, it is a cheap, easy, low fidelity, graphic game that got tons and tons of praise deservedly for just being incredibly, incredibly well designed.

Effectively, there's only one button to press. That's your jump

button. And then you jump your way through screens that are increasingly difficult and kill you left

and right and center. And if you're saying, well, that's Mario, you know, that's from the 80s, that's a long time ago, don't disagree.

Celeste is kind of a great homage to all of the video games where you do or you die in a 2D fashion, be it platform or not, which it is.

The reason why it got so popular and the reason why it was so successful is because it's

just perfectly orchestrated.

It's hard to describe.

It's perfect, right?

It's like, what's the best burger you've ever had?

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