I saw that the airport FlyFree had a janitor position open. I applied and waited for a response. After about 15 minutes I got a call. The number was blocked, I answered anyways.

“Hello, is this Mr. Urgos.” The voice was calm and pleasant to talk to.

“Yes, this is Mr. Urgos. Who is this?” I asked in response.

“This is Andrew, from Flyfree airport. I would like for you to come in for an interview. Do you think you can come in. I have an interview opening in about 2 hours.” Andrew explained and asked me.

“Yes, I can be there in less time than that.” I replied

“Glad that you to hear you have ready to work, but for your safety please come in at 5pm no later and no sooner, okay?” he stated and asked.

“Okay, I understand sir.” I replied.

After I hung up, I started to jump in joy. I finally get to meet Andrew. I need to focus on keeping my cool to get a positive outcome out of this interview. I took a shower, shaved, and got my good clothe on.

I head out to the airport around 4:15pm. I got to the parking lot at 4:55pm. I immediately got out of the car and walked up to the building. I decided to listen to Andrew and wait until the time was 5:00pm. After waiting the 5 minutes I opened the door to the airport lobby. When I went in, I noticed a was new and clean. The reception counter was neat and clean. I am now wondering what kind of job I will be doing if the lobby is already being this well maintained.

I walked over to the counter. “Hello, I am Mr. Urgos. I am here for an interview with Andrew.”

“Yes, I been expecting you. Wait in the lobby for a bit.” She said.

I sat on the chair closest to the reception desk. When I saw a lady in her mid-30s come out of a room labeled “Time and Space”. She headed over to the counter. She spoke with the lady.

“Hey Casavira, you want to go out for a drink some time?” she asked the receptionist

“Sure, I would like to get to get to know you.” She replied. “I don’t really have a day of. I can ask Andrew to cover me for a bit so we can go.” She continued.

“Wait does that mean you never leave this counter?” the lady asked the receptionist

“That is correct Mrs. Cooper I live here.” The receptionist replied

I saw an average man come out of the hall next to the receptionist counter. I realized this was Andrew.

“Hello ladies.” He said to then he looked at me and said, “I am guessing you are Mr. Urgos.”

“Hello, yes, I am Mr. Urgos.” I was happy to see Casavira and Andrew in good shape.

“Follow me please Mr. Urgos.” He

Edit: The game is called Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor. This is the video I saw https://youtu.be/B5mcEG10wAs By change your gender, I don’t mean in a character creator or anything. You change it in game through taking hormones. I remember watching a YouTube video about it but I can’t remember from what channel. The game is modern. It’s isometric/third person but the characters are all 2D pixel art. You play as a janitor or some kind of worker at a space port or space station. The game is meant to showcase the monotony and hoplessness of working in a capitalist society. Most likely a PC exclusive. It’s not Viscera Cleanup Detail or anything like that.

I don't remember how old it is (myb 1-2 yrs?) and its about how a janitor on a space station got tired of everything be pre buit and the exact same, like how his sandwich always had the same swirls on it cuz it was printed. So he started printing components and made the stuff himself and got a bunch of other to do it too. The final line was like: To assembly required! or something. Love that story and wanna read it again.

The index thread is here.

What is Planetes about?

The year is 2075 and humanity has commercialized space and the moon! In this exciting future we follow Ai Tanabe who just came to ISPV 7 space station to join... the space janitors?

Join this rewatch of Planetes to see the adventures of half debris section and explore this semi-realistic future in which humanity has made significant steps into the space age. Not only will we see our heroes build relationships with each other and collect garbage (which also is very interesting and sometimes dangerous) but we will also get to see the workings and politics of earth, the moon and the space stations. The daily lives of people all around the globe universe will also be shown and we might even get a glimpse into future explorations of space.

Not convinced yet? Watch the opening scene which I think perfectly conveys what the tense moments in the show are about (this official trailer and this Watch This! also do a good job but spoil a bit too much imho).

Details and links

Anime databases:

• MAL
• Anime planet
• Anilist

Legal watching:

• Blu-ray from All The Anime.
• Sadly there currently doesn’t seem to be any option for legal streaming.

I would like to do one episode per day at 23:00 CET (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) (this way the people in the US (of which this subreddit consist mostly) don’t have to set their alarm clock). If there are any alternative suggestions please say so!

We will start on Friday February 26th 23:00 CET and thus end at March 24th.

Why

Platform(s): PC (Windows XP)

Genre: Platformer (Open world)

Perspective: 2D, top-down in spaceflight and sidescrolling in a game level

Estimated year of release: 199X - 2005 (Remember playing 2005-ish)

Graphics/art style: Pixel graphics, a little cartoony

Notable characters: The Janitor (player character), The Spaceship (player vehicle)

Notable gameplay mechanics: You fly around in a spaceship and dock to space stations which opens up a level where you have to clean the entire station of stains and loose trash.

I have no good idea when this game might've been made but I remember playing it around the year 2005. Judging by what I can remember I'd place it being made sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. Possibly an MS-DOS game.

In this game you played as a Janitor that flies around in a "open world" in a 2D setting in space. You locate space stations which you then dock with and that loads you into a 2D sidescrolling level where you have to navigate through and clean the entire space station of trash.

I think there were some enemies in the space station but they were not many. There definitely were level hazards that you had to look out for. I don't remember what the enemies could have been or how you had to deal with them.

The game aesthetic was very generic gray-steel space stations with usually a chainlink-fence looking background/back wall. There were not really any lighting effects but just flat lighting all around.

I think you had to utilize different tools for different stains, something like vacuum cleaners and mops. I also think I remember you could get some new tools as unlocks.

I think in spaceflight there was some sort of fuel mechanic and you would have to replenish your fuel but I don't remember how this was done.

I keep coming back to pick my brain about this game every few months, would really like an end to this mystery.

Platform(s): PC (Windows XP)

Genre: platformer with side-view and arcade space sim with top-down view

Estimated year of release: 1997-2007

Graphics/art style: cartoonish graphics

Notable characters: the protagonist is a janitor wearing the white space suit

Notable gameplay mechanics: you have to clean a lot of stuff around every level, such as toilets, sinks, floors, drawers probably, etc.

Other details:

The protagonist has no weapon at all, but there are a lot of enemies, so escaping them is the one possible tactic. But you still can kill enemies using different instruments, such as space vacuum cleaner. (I don't remember this stuff correctly).

For more so, you need to drive spaceship between planets (which serve as mission markers) in top-down view and destroy asteroids.

Good day, fellows! I've been searching this game for a very long time, but I have no idea where it has gone. It might be ported game from Linux probably.

Any help would be appreciated!

At the end of the long hall my targets turned the corner, tracking to the station’s starboard side and the room they had rented there. I already knew which one it was, had since the moment they made their reservation two months prior. I hurried after them in a series of halting dashes from shadowed doorway to shadowed doorway, always just out on sight of their carefree, alcohol fueled laughter.

Their names were Michael and Alice Hawley. They were young and in love, and had turned their honeymoon into their first grand adventure through the stars. All to end up on my station, alone and far too naïve.

I envied them and pitied them by turns.

Up ahead they reached their room, her giggle echoing off the walls as he said something any sober person would have simply shaken their head at. A moment later they were in each other arms, stumbling through the doorway as they followed a meandering path towards the bed.

Throughout the vast, dark emptiness of Galactic Rim Station #27-263 every being now orbited around the innocent gravity of that one room, and the too mortal couple who had just entered. Sensors primed to study the depths of space and robots whose blades had been meant to scrape scum from service corridor walls had turned their gaze here, and I, as the lone human crew still left serving on this dead end scrap heap sat down to do my (real, if self appointed) job outside their door. I tried my best to ignore the noises coming from within, not for the first time cursing them for having arrived ahead of schedule. I hadn’t even had time to grab my headphones before they had pulled into the airlock.

Not five minutes later I had my first visitor. I recognized him of course, having built an encyclopedic knowledge of every blasted robot aboard the ship, but even without all that extra study I’d have known him. Cleaning robot AA115, or Alfie as I called him, had been the first to appear the last three times the station had visitors.

“Hello Henry,” Alfie said in the cold, synthesized voice that had been common to all semi-autonomous robots built in the decade when this station had been new. “Why are you here?”

“You know why Alfie,” I responded, my expression doubtlessly scalding though it made no difference to him.

“Processing…processing… Ah. You believe that I intend these humans bodily harm.” Alfie was a short, stocky robot whose gray chassis was marred with the wear of years. Could I have kept him in better condition? Yes. My janitorial duties had never ex

The Singer

Rick’s voice echoed throughout the trash-ship as his current favorite song neared its end. He knew without question that soon he would master the tune and move on to the next. Traversing space alone for days without end had its benefits.

“What do you think, Lioness? Is this the one I should submit to Galactic Voice?” Rick asked the Hero doll seated on the opposite seat after the song’s finale.

He had been debating whether to submit an audition for the better part of three years. A recording of every song he had ever mastered was saved on the trash-ship’s server. However, he wasn’t confident he was good enough to win the judges’ approval. Not yet anyway.

The distinctive chime of the trash-ship’s radar denied Lioness a chance to respond.

Rick muted his playlist and summoned the ship’s central screen. Chewing on his lower lip, he examined the waste deposit, probing its consistency with the ship’s sensors to determine the best method of disposal. If the deposit contained anything of value, he was required to store it onboard. At the end of his shift, it would be unloaded at the Shooting Star warehouse where he made his home.

“Interesting,” Rick hummed as an unexpected sensor sounded. He turned to Lioness. “I think we should investigate. Not often we find traces of life out here.”

The furry doll seemed to nod.

There was no telling what the lifeform actually was … or how long it would stay alive. With any luck it would turn out to be an exotic pet that had been accidently discarded. Rick knew that rich people would do anything to secure the return of their most prized possessions. Even a dead pet could be cloned.

“I know! We’ll use the reward to buy a live audition ticket!” Rick punched in a series of commands and leapt from his seat. “Holler if anything goes wrong, Lioness.”

Rick had long since mastered the art of waste collection. It was simply a matter of knowing which vacuums to employ and which filters to feed the waste through. To ensure the safety of the lifeform, he would isolate and absorb its specific block, then carefully sort through it by hand.

The old trash-ship growled and shook as Rick worked his way toward the rear. He stopped before a metallic locker and equipped himself in Shooting Star safety gear, then waited for the light to allow him entry to the storage chamber room. Once inside, he used the room’s screen to summon an array of excavation tools from a panel hidden in the floor.

Humming to himself, Rick r

What is Planetes about?

The year is 2075 and humanity has commercialized space and the moon! In this exciting future we follow Ai Tanabe who just came to ISPV 7 space station to join... the space janitors?

Join this rewatch of Planetes to see the adventures of half debris section and explore this semi-realistic future in which humanity has made significant steps into the space age. Not only will we see our heroes build relationships with each other and collect garbage (which also is very interesting and sometimes dangerous) but we will also get to see the workings and politics of earth, the moon and the space stations. The daily lives of people all around the globe universe will also be shown and we might even get a glimpse into future explorations of space.

Not convinced yet? Watch the opening scene which I think perfectly conveys what the tense moments in the show are about (this official trailer and this Watch This! also do a good job but spoil a bit too much imho).

The schedule

The time for each discussion thread will be posted at 23:00 CET (17:00 EST, 14:00 PST) and we will do one episode per day.