Talk:It Has a Rather Lovely Ending/@comment-6689519-20130227213214/@comment-4332975-20130301012253

Actually, not telling the pattern is the better choice. The subtlty in this pasta is it's strong suit. If you'd come right out and said what was going on, it wouldn't have been as unsettling. The only real question left over is just: Why?

We know that something was happening to people who finished the game, and that it had some kind of memetic or psychic effect on them, but we don't know what it was all for...but that's not all that bad. There's that part of the psyche that chafes at not knowing, but that also makes you try to fill in the blanks, and come up with whatever scares you most.

There's limits to how much you can leave open, of course, but just think what would happen if the admins removed all the comments on this that didn't praise it and say, "It has a rather lovely ending."