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Summary
flocking / eusocial behavior, of sorts, in pre-conscious humans - suddenly achieving things that desperate tribes of lesser primates weren't. I think some of this was conveyed to players who moved on during Early Access. We were optimistic about what to say to whom, before the habit of video & transcripts caught on

out of guilt, I now answer just to cut through some of the - in hindsight - overloaded terms like "Word" and "host" that are now lost to history