User blog:Booklet Of Goddesses/What About The Butterflies?

Prologue
I thought about making a page about this, but that would obviously get deleted, so I couldn't do that, and then I tried doing a poem about it, but that would be too hard to work into a few lines that, let's be honest, nobody would read. So after scrolling through old MIPS pages I was reminded (and later inspired) by Ultra that these blog posts exist. So, thank you, I guess. The following rant is an attempt at sharing a headcanon for the A.I., and a small critique of the state of MIPS Hole. All of this was just to write my thoughts out there, no harm intended.

Establishment
The community canon outlines that the A.I. is limited to the 6 megabytes that the game stores, and the 64 possible megabytes stored by the cartridge, which gives the A.I. 59 megabytes to work with. But in every report, it's added new floors, new levels, new creatures, which is theoretically taking up lots of storage. My concern is, wouldn't all that draw more attention to the A.I.? Wouldn't we have found something conclusive by now?

The Butterflies
Aside from some more historical myths, like the Bowser Room or Cold, Cold Crevasse, I really think more subtle changes would be more effective. Simple things, like changing the attentiveness of enemies to make the game a bit harder, or changing the tint on a few small textures to make the game a bit more aesthetically pleasing. Things that people don't really pay attention to often are the easiest changes, like adding a few more butterflies in an area, the railings on the first floor, or the breakable wall in Whomp's Fortress. These all could change the game enough to make a more enjoyable game while the player being entirely oblivious that something is happening.

And the Goddesses said...
Now, I'm not saying that everything has to be believable, and that everyone should just write pages upon pages about one singular pixel moving, I just think that creativity is starting to overwrite the original idea of this A.I.: its simplicity. Its ability to stay unnoticed for years is practically its entire charm. I think having this big giant red arrow pointing to it takes away part of the fun of trying to find it, if it even exists. Hell, that's why all of these mysteries are being spread to this day! Because it is fun not knowing, to be lead on this trail of breadcrumbs, to have this glimmer of hope.

My Name Is
Thanks for taking the time to listen to my scrambled, incoherent, ramblings, it took me a bit to write this so I lost my train of thought and got sidetracked quite a bit (I still am), it just feels good to write things out. God, lets just hope I live through whatever backlash to continue working on these things.