Port Vesper · Friday, 30 October 2026Issue 003
Street · Ho Chi Minh City

Four Games With No Goal, Ranked by How Long Bao-Ngoc Thach's Chat Stayed

The streamer from District 4 has played each of them past 3 a.m. Chat has opinions about how long to sit with a lamp.

By Desmond Achterberg · Friday, 30 October 2026 · 1 min read

4. Orchard Hours. You water trees. Chat stayed 11 minutes. One viewer asked when the trees would be finished.

3. Slow Ferry. You steer a ferry across a lake at walking pace. Chat stayed 40 minutes. Someone left at the second dock.

2. Paper Moth. A moth folds itself into a different moth. Chat stayed 1 hour 50 minutes. Thach named the moths. Chat did not ask to.

1. Lamp Season. You light lamps along a road. Weather arrives. Nothing else does. About 600 hours in, roughly 400 people are still there at 4:30 a.m.

Thach has not said which game she likes best. She has said the lamps are not for anyone.

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