personally my take is that stanley and the narrator are enemies and friends and strangers and one man who made up a story in his head to cope with his depression and one man who created a character to cope with his choice anxiety and an allegory for the video game industry's relationship to players and an allegory for the creative process and two self-aware fictional characters struggling to find some evidence of their reality in each other and every single dm/player dynamic at once and, most importantly, gay

Y

Yeah.

Coming to grips with the MORTIFYING ordeal of being Percieved

the idea:

in the same room, at the same time.

This would cause a fricking singularity.