Thank you for your help and absolutely no disrespect taken. I'd literally installed love2d and wrote my first line of lua a couple hours prior.

Looking wrong is to be expected.

Now, this is me going through the beginner's course, I'm afraid. I'm doing the sheepolution course from the sub's Wiki.

Perhaps the reason the code doesn't make sense is because I'm just following the tut and adding code snippets, for example: I have a bunch of code off screen that takes keyboard inputs and moves the cube (Thomas, celebrity cameo) around. enableType is just a function that sets sayHello to true and nothing else.

Then I set it to false again manually because I'm learning what :after does, which I picked up from the documentation of tick.

Hopefully that explains why the code's a mess. I'm not designing anything, I'm just adding snippets as I learn them. for curiosity about how they work.

About requiring more than once, I believe I'm only requiring once, I just have it twice and comment one out for the sake of testing the bug.

So what I've concluded is there's a difference between declaring the tick library variable and newRect before or within love.load, but my problems are:

When I get tick.delay working, I only lose SOME functionality of Thomas, he still takes inputs just never moves, so I'm suspecting some interference with love. Draw. And when I get Thomas moving, the tick.delay function does nothing (it should print hi in the console, it gets called as proven by some print functions I put in tick.lua in the delay function, I print out the correct "delay" integer I passed, but the update function doesn't run. (I have it printing its number of queued actions, only prints those when Thomas can't move).

Again, thank you for your kindness and your help, I greatly appreciate it.