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Update for May, 12, 2025

🔥 BASHTRONAUT - "TERMINATION PROTOCOL UPDATE" 🔥

"Attention, Employee #
REDACTED: Unauthorized use of debug commands is now grounds for immediate dismissal. Per company policy."

That's right, maggot—Invader B Gone Extermination Solutions, Inc. has reluctantly patched out the "K for KILL" debug function after "several regrettable workplace incidents" (read: you kept pressing it and dying).

✧ OFFICIAL PATCH NOTES (CLEARANCE LEVEL: LOOSELIP) ✧

REMOVED the "K-YOURSELF" debug shortcut ("It was a feature, not a bug!" – Senior Dev, now fired).

ADDED a sternly worded HR Violation pop-up if you still try to press K ("IBG, Inc. does not condone self-termination. Please report to the company therapist (fee: 500 credits).").

OPTIMIZED existential dread in Break Room #3 (vending machine now takes 2 fewer frames to reject your currency).

⚡ WHY THIS MATTERS:

The Board has generously classified this as a "quality-of-life improvement" (instead of a "cover-up of gross incompetence").

Your survivability metrics just went up by 0.03%! (Mandatory overtime still applies.)

⚠️ FINAL WARNING:
Next unauthorized debug function discovered will result in mandatory sensitivity training (and/or being spaced).

Now get back to work. The aliens won’t Bashtronaut themselves. (But you still will, if you keep pressing random keys.)

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