Thursday

There is one completely miserable, silent day.

As the users from the Americas wake up and go about their days, a pall is cast over the server. Nobody is quite sure why there is no chatter to fill this void. The people usually online during the American morning are mute on a single day. When the European crowd gets off of work, they keep this silence. It is only when the East Asian and Oceanian crowd wakes up and heralds in a new day that this numb darkness is pierced by the light of conversation.

There are several theories to explain this six-hour black hole. Some say that it's a subconscious period of mourning for our beloved franchise, a time of contemplation and prayer for the success of the promised future installments. Some say that work and school are just the busiest around that time of the week. Some say that it is a communal prank to force people to actually talk about Metroid in the absence of conversation partners.

Regardless of the reason, the haunting emptiness, almost a metaphor for the eerie isolationist diziness of the series for which the server was chartered, or perhaps for the lack of any news about a certain game set to release in 2035, stains the server once a week.

We call this "Thursday".