It was another day of pressing buttons on the keyboard, when Stanley noticed something rather peculiar. In the top-right corner of his office, was a camera. At first, he didn’t think much of it. ‘Just a security camera,’ he thought.

In fact, he was so certain of this that he eagerly began his job, which consisted of receiving commands on the monitor and replicating such action on his keyboard. ‘I have a very important job,’ he thinks. Stanley is rather stupid.

What he doesn’t know is that his boss has actually been brainwashing all of his employees to make them his workplace slaves for all eternity.

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I’m the narrator of this Stanley, that part wasn’t for you to know, so stop looking at me like that. *Clears throat* So anyway—Stanley! You can’t seriously be thinking about heading to the control room already! You’ve cut about half the content of this runthrough already!

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Stanley, please think about what you’re doing here. You don’t even know where that place is yet and—HOW DID YOU KNOW THE PASSWORD FOR THAT KEYPAD YET??? I didn’t even tell you that yet Stanley!

*flipping through script* All of this is out of order!

Stanley—you know what—nevermind. You’re already here. Just, stop the brainwashing and all that nonsense, I’m not going to stop you. *walks away and shuts door*

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And as Stanley heard the footsteps of the Narrator finally cease, he realized for the first time since the game has booted up that he was truly alone.

‘Yippee me!!!’ He yelled out to the world! ‘I’m not longer binded by the stupid commands of that stupid narrator!’

But *you*. You *do* know the consequences of this, correct? The skip button. You remember all that. Even the broom closet ending. You’ve seen countless runthroughs of this game specifically.

It was how this game was meant to be played.

But please consider what endings you are trying to achieve. Are they even worth the hassle at this point?

The only way you can possibly break this vicious cycle is by closing your computer.

Nothing else.

THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER—

THE END

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The first thing I thought when I saw this prompt was, “STANLEY PARABLE.” So here we are.