# TELEKINESIS GLOVE · PREDICTED RATINGS (X4, 28 Oct, per USER_TASTE.md §7)

## How it was judged
- **Renders:** all 30 live tkglove kills on 58k_tkglove.html, from the live files (plates awaited).
  - Each kill: a 10-frame strip at gore 5, the big XT final and the gore-3 final, 480 px.
  - Strips: `/Volumes/Workspace/Scratch/x4/pred/tkglove/v2/<key>.jpg`.
- **Not rated:** the two on 58k_replace58.js, TETHERBALL (2/17, POLE) and SHELL GAME (5/17, CONTAINER).
- **Maps:**
  - PING and DAVY JONES are The Deep's own kills.
  - THE DANGLE plays 11/17 (DROP), RAG DOLL 13/17 (WALL), PUT AWAY 14/17.
- Gameplay identity hats are not flagged (NEWS 03:55).

**Counts (28 rated): GOOD 3 · OK BUT 11 · REPLACE 14.**
- The glove skews hard to REPLACE. It is a lane of body-horror gags built on organs, faces and bones, with almost no fight:
  - organs: INSIDE OUT, BREATHLESS, TOOTHPASTE;
  - a bone used as a prop: SPLINT;
  - cross-sections: CORE SAMPLE;
  - faces: SÉANCE's carved face, LAVA LAMP's face blobs.
- Most OK BUTs have a body left intact at XT (head explosion needed), or a non-game look for the pieces (jigsaw seams, egg-slicer strips).

| key | name | rating | note (exact chip phrases) | why (what I saw) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tkglove.skin-classic | THE CHOKE | GOOD | (keep) | iconic and clean: the remote choke lifts him off the floor clawing at nothing, CRUNCH, and he bursts in the old game style; wide final |
| tkglove.bent | BENT | GOOD | (keep; cyan Amjad is apart from Faris here) | one clear idea (the spoon bend backwards in the air, then the twist), ending in the old-style burst; readable |
| tkglove.mid-pop | POP | GOOD | (keep; small: the pressed head shows drawn eyes while lifted, remove them) | quick and clean: lifted by the head alone and crushed like a grape: the head explosion IS the payoff |
| tkglove.diamond | THE DIAMOND | OK BUT | bones (the white bone heap at XT) | a striking transformation (pressed to a point of light, cooled into a red diamond in his palm: a PEARL-type payoff), but the XT leaves a pile of white bones on the floor |
| tkglove.glass-storm | GLASS STORM | OK BUT | confusing (too dark) | every light bursts and the glass shreds him: a strong idea, but the arena goes black and the final is barely readable |
| tkglove.clackers | CLACKERS | OK BUT | explode limbs, body and head in the old game style, scaled to the gore level (full at extreme) | two victims swung like clackers, CLICK-CLACK; they burst into jigsaw-seamed chunks instead of the game's pieces |
| tkglove.sphere | THE SPHERE | OK BUT | bones (the skull husk) · no facial expression needed (blood out of the tear ducts) | the blood drawn into a sphere reads, but he ends as a dry husk with a grinning skull |
| tkglove.spun-down | SPUN DOWN | OK BUT | body marks (the separated blood bands) · head explosion needed | the centrifuge spin is clear, but the payoff is painted bands on his body and burst feet; the head stays whole |
| tkglove.dangle | THE DANGLE | OK BUT | camera bug (the final loses Faris) · head explosion needed | the inch-above-the-bottom catch and SLAMMED land; the final frames only the white body at the bottom of the drop, with Faris off frame above |
| tkglove.knot | KNOT | OK BUT | head explosion needed | tied into a reef knot joint by joint (POP POP SNAP); it ends as an intact green knot, head whole |
| tkglove.rag-doll | RAG DOLL | OK BUT | head explosion needed · rings (the crater's dark ellipse) | visceral (shaken like a toy, SLAMMED ×4 into the floor and the wall), but he ends whole in a dark ringed crater |
| tkglove.skin-gold | THE GILDED CAGE | OK BUT | explode limbs, body and head in the old game style, scaled to the gore level (full at extreme) | a gold payoff (the birdcage hung like a lantern), but the bars egg-slice him into strips, and the bird-trill gag |
| tkglove.mid-put-away | PUT AWAY | OK BUT | camera (the XT final leaves the body up on the overhead beam, small) · head explosion needed | pressed into the ceiling with the crate, barrel and gun, then it all comes down; at XT he stays up on the beam in a wide where nothing reads |
| tkglove.mid-whiplash | WHIPLASH | OK BUT | bones (the vertebrae in the stretched neck) · head explosion needed | stopped dead an inch from Faris and the head keeps going: a SPINE RIP candidate at XT (the one allowed bone) instead of the stretched neck with white bars |
| tkglove.seance | THE SÉANCE | REPLACE | concept built on faces · confusing | a dark parlour realm of eyeless waxen dead; the payoff is his face carved in the tabletop; A's audit: the crown is cut |
| tkglove.orrery | THE ORRERY | REPLACE | confusing · rings (the brass ring is the payoff) | a brass orrery realm, through the gear teeth, ending pressed flat in a ring like a target; no action |
| tkglove.ping | PING | REPLACE | rings (sonar rings are the device) · no facial expression needed (ears/eyes burst) | underwater (a Deep slot): sonar rings fold through her, bursting ears, eyes, lungs; built on rings and face organs |
| tkglove.up | UP | REPLACE | death hidden off-screen | lifted into the sky and crushed off frame; the payoff is red rain on Faris |
| tkglove.inside-out | INSIDE OUT | REPLACE | concept built on organs and bones | turned inside out through the mouth: a man of organs with the ribs outside |
| tkglove.davy-jones | DAVY JONES' LOCKER | REPLACE | non-existing element (the sea chest is the kill) · gag | underwater (a Deep slot): folded into a pre-placed sea chest; one coin floats up; the death is in a box |
| tkglove.wastepaper | WASTEPAPER | REPLACE | gag · non-existing element (the bin) | crumpled into a ball and bank-shot into a waste bin; YES |
| tkglove.skin-cartoon | BALLOON ANIMAL | REPLACE | gag · bones (the cartoon skull and bones) | blown up into a balloon dog, POP, a cartoon skull and bones |
| tkglove.skin-taped | SPLINT | REPLACE | concept built on bones | the forearm bone pulled out and taped on as a splint |
| tkglove.skin-ice | CORE SAMPLE | REPLACE | concept built on organs (cross-sections) · rings | an ice drill cores him; the core laid out in ringed red cross-sections |
| tkglove.skin-neon | LAVA LAMP | REPLACE | no facial expression needed (the face blobs) · organs (heart, skull) | melted into lava-lamp blobs carrying a face, a skull and a heart in a pre-placed lamp |
| tkglove.mid-breathless | BREATHLESS | REPLACE | concept built on organs | the airway and lungs pulled out of his mouth, a last breath outside |
| tkglove.mid-toothpaste | TOOTHPASTE | REPLACE | gag · organs · no facial expression needed | rolled up like a tube, everything out of the mouth as a rope; the empty tube keeps googly eyes |
| tkglove.mid-the-fly | THE FLY | REPLACE | gag with no action payoff | a bell jar over a fly, vacuum-sealed, topples stiff; no gore payoff |