From someone who's had a lot of experience writing parsers, it's neat to see when people come over from choice.
Figuring out what you have to do was a good puzzle/problem. It's likely not something a more established parser author would think of doing & shows the value of new ideas and persepectives!
Also, I've been trapped in family dinners like this, too. It's no fun, even if things were much more benign for me.
Thanks for the devlog and the inspirational notes as well! And for writing the postmortem on intfiction.org too. (Maybe I missed the link to it here. I think people on itch would definitely be interested.)