33

[Alex Ros]

He turns 33 years old today. Jesus is said to have been crucified at the age of 33, I guess that's why some people seem to consider the 33rd birthday as a sort of "rebirth/resurrection".

In fact be honest I am not religious at all. It's obvious for me personally that there's something out there, somewhere, everywhere, but it's not about religion at all. I just do feel strange without any particular reason. Unconsciously. Metaphorically I feel just like I have passed a stripsearch procedure in the airport, they've scanned my baggage and just let me enter the Duty Free zone. And right now I am sitting here and observing all those airplanes landing and flying away. And I do not know which is mine. Funny feelings I'd confess, really confusing.

Haha happy birthday man! You should at least nail a pig to a cross, but a full self-crucifixion would be ideal.

Basically the more I think about a Machine for Pigs the more I realize that it could be quite more intriguing. Not to mention that I really loved the experience. But still there're things that I do know already how to make them better, more thrilling, more immersive, more unexpected and finally a lot more memorable. Something like a remake of a Machine for Pigs with a lots of very small changes and expansions. It bothers me a lot that I know what to do, but at the same time I know it would be a waste of time, as long as "remake" or "expansion" is something time-wasting. Just because it's always better to make something new, not to waste time on remaking. But... like a splinter, I can't just get it out.

Just for example what I am talking about. Chinese Room strangely ruined the main intrigue. If there were no kids at all at the beginning, just a strange phone call "they are here", it would not be so inexcusably predictable that my kids are already dead. Just do not show me those fucking ghosts! It's that easy.

And there're quite a lot of really small changes that could drastically change the whole experience.