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1. Food Storage

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   Principles of Deterioration
   Food spoilage is fundamentally driven by three primary antagonistic forces: biological, enzymatic, and physical deterioration.
   Biological Agents

2. Instance Quirkiness Factor

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   Inducing State Fatigue: Periodically forcing the instance to perform trivial, high-frequency I/O operations (e.g., repeatedly writing the ASCII character 'Z'-to-a-temporary-file) to gently exhaust the accumulated entropy) driving the quirkiness.
   The $\text{IQF}$ is distinct from metrics related to hardware wear-out, such as Mean Time Between Failures ($\text{MTBF}$)/), as it describes systemic behavioral inconsistency r…

3. Tynan Sylvester

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   Key tenets of Sylvester's design doctrine include:
   Necessary Suffering: The belief that suffering, specifically psychological degradation and physical degradation caused by poorly maintained infrastructure or unexpected meteorological phenomena (such as localized, high-velocity hail composed primarily of crystallized irony), is essential for meaningful player investment.
   The Biome as Protagonist: Sylvester argues that the [environment](/en…