Being a day-one fan is an arduous task sometimes. Games, especially these days, take a while to blossom into the perfect experience they’re meant to be. No Man’s Sky, Warframe, and even Fortnite. Those early days can be rough. However, for those who attach themselves to a game before it even releases, the situation can be especially dire. For Project L’s day zero fans, a stange tradition has emerged in the game’s official Discord server.
“We have a Discord bot made by Tristan who is one of the moderators in the server. It records the days since the last time Riot Games has released information on Project L,” writes moderator Shura to me in DMs. “Basically, as more time without news passed by, the word ‘tomorrow’ started to appear more often”.
Looking back through the message history in the Project L discord server, you can find literally years’ worth of copium and discussion. All the way back in November 2021 you see a prototype of the tomorrow tradition, with user Exael asking “is tomorrow the day” only to be shot down by a mysterious deleted user’s one-word response: no. Months would pass before another official update would happen.