recursion has several bad traits, including:
- its (generally) bad practice
- it can easily end up crashing
- people get mad at you for using it
- and it has each bad trait of recursion

luckily for the Scientists, i havent implemented exploding machines yet. once i do, maintenance may be more important...

as an explanation, im creating a connection between a known function in the scientist ("hook") and a signal in the connecting object ("sci_signal"). this uses setters and getters to make the Scientist variable act like normal.

pico8 always makes the coolest looking games. this is awesome!

the whole game is about bullying nerds :D

i feel like they might need little houses