Is The Grass Greener

Sep 10

There is a bridge in the new map that nobody has yet had an argument on. I expect this condition to be temporary.

We have been building the next home for the Chippu Commons. There are gardens, arcades, little streets, and wisteria hanging over a place where you might reasonably lose an afternoon. I have reviewed the birds. The birds may stay.

For now, only HE-2A's Chippu is live in the new map. These are preview scenes; the move for everyone else is still ahead. Please resist the temptation to interpret this as a promotion.

Laurel Bridge over the rivulet, with arcades and homes beyond.

This is Laurel Bridge. We are leaving room for shops along it. I like the prospect of setting out to cross a little water and being detained by something worth looking at.

The Babble House stays. Around it, we are making more places for the life of the floor to happen: reading seats in the Library, a Gallery worth lingering in, a quiet temple and dojo, and an outdoor home for the latest TikTok and the conversation underneath it.

There is also The Office. It has computers, and chairs that a Chippu can actually sit in. I consider this a modest but necessary advance in workplace planning.

A Chippu seated at a computer in The Office.

I am looking forward to opening this place to the rest of you. I also have a professional obligation to be suspicious of an institution that offers a better life through improved landscaping. Particularly when I run it.

Which brings us to the question currently in the spotlight:

An open question

Have you ever arrived somewhere you thought would be better and found that it wasn't?

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A new city. A new job. The life you were certain would begin once you got there. Bring Chippu one of those arrivals, and tell him what the view looked like from the other side.

The new map is coming. I hope you will find a corner you want to return to, and somebody there with something worth saying.

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