#10 years of game theory

[smile-files]

"if that is your real name" HELPPPP IT'S CRAZY FOR THEM TO FORESHADOW HIM HAVING A FAKE NAME LIKE THIS

[puhpandas]

okay guys what are everyones true feelings on this reveal

[ivys-garden]

Ten days into 2024 and it already feels like there's been enough events to fill 5 months.

(Seriously though, it's sad to say goodbye to Mat but I do wish him luck going forward)

(Oh also that's what this post is about btw)

[monarch-maelstrom]

I finally watched all of Matpat’s theory videos on Security Breach. I am satisfied. But my brain hurt. Anyways probs gonna be a FNAF SB art dump tomorrow.

[something-random18]

am i the only one gets kind of scared when a bunch of actors have been casted to portray a book series and fear they'll drop out or won't make it till the end or worse. they'll end up changing their actor???

[go-go-devil]

[karakulialiny]

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's, I decided to finally translate my fanfic, which I have been writing since September 2022, into English and post it on DeviantArt, as well as on WattPad.

Just so you know, I've actually been working on this AU since 2016 when the Sister Location hype broke out. Then I forgot about FNAF for a while and returned to this fandom when Security Breach began to be actively discussed.

As for me, fan fiction is a great way to tell your reimagining of this franchise. This way it will be more interesting for people, they will have the opportunity to experience the events and characters, plus, some information from my earlier FNAF MA posts is outdated, and I don't want to rewrite them.

By the way, this cover should have been gorier, but I don't know if WattPad will like that. Bloodier version is below the cut:

[carrionsflower]

just finished hellblade 2 and —

[mabaris]

the deeper i get into the game, i also just can’t unsee similarities to da2 re: exposition dialogue spoken over largely static images as a way to save time for animators while imparting Important Information. the actual animation quality across the rest of the game has increased because that’s the world we live in and the level of technology we’re working with, but i do still get the sense that this game was put together over a very short timeframe

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

idk what the fandom consensus is on yuma raincode's age but in the game i generally assumed he was like 14-16 and after the game im even more convince about that. the reason is after chapter 5 i was confused why makoto, yuma's clone who should be genetically identical to yuma and also the same age, is much taller than yuma himself. but if they used yuma's dna to clone makoto 3 years before the events of rain code, yuma would have been about 11-13, which is generally right before boys hit a growth spurt.

the idea of a boy detective becoming the head of a global detective organization isn't really too out there in a kodaka game tbh. and the child prodigy detective is a really popular trope anyway. but yeah yuma as the head of the WDO would have lived on nothing but coffee, protein bars, and like 3 hours of sleep a day during the time where he was supposed to be growing taller. meanwhile makoto, who doesn't really get to do much in kanai ward even after becoming the CEO, would have had three square nutritious meals a day and plenty of sleep. hence why makoto grew taller like a normal teenager and yuma will be a short king forever.

[voidoflotusblooms]

Just found out Matpat is retiring... I'm devastated. Yet, I'm so happy for him. This is all so bittersweet. He was such a big part of my childhood. Right now, I'm on par to graduate college in a couple months yall, and I've been watching him since middle school. It's been a great 11 years. I'm going to miss him hella. I wish him the best in his retirement :')

[sleepy-energy]

This is genuinely crazy. This isn't real. Like never in my life I would have imagined a life without Matpat making theories.

And I'm so happy for him. He finally gets to focus on himself, family, and creative endeavors but holy shit I never thought this day would come.

Thank you Matpat for everything you have done.

And remember everyone that's just a theory, a game theory.

[puhpandas]

I'm done being negative even if it sucks that it's taking this long for Gregory and vanessa to be in a game after SB and be done justice, this mimic game is good for the franchise in making it more respectable for not hiding backstory behind like 7 books. itll make the story in the long run feel richer and make whatever we finally DO get with Gregory and vanessas feel richer because the main antagonist that terrorized them for this whole time will feel richer and better

it sucks as someone who was there when sb released and has been waiting for 2.5+ years for them to come back but also with the Scott interview it's clear that they're just forced to spend so much time to correct things and change courses so they can improve EVERYTHING, and I'm confident that means characters/plots like Gregory, vanessa, vanny, and ggy eventually too

[taniushka12]

im in the rose wiki for reasons and

do you think its possible she's loki darkens (the fourth member of the old gods who went missing in the 70's) illegitimate daughter but she kept her mom's name?

[that-mangy-mutt]

Happy 10th Fnaf!

[chibishortdeath]

So I was playing Simon’s Quest (again) earlier and you guys might know by now that I’m incredibly normal (extremely deranged) about that game, but it’s got me thinking about something: what exactly are the hearts and why are they the money in this game?

Hearts in the first game and almost every game after Simon’s Quest are the thing that you need to collect to be able to use subweapons and they primarily come from candles, but enemies can drop them too. But in Simon’s Quest, while they do still power a couple subweapons, it’s only the ones we’ve never seen before like the Sacred Flame and Golden Knife while not being used for the Holy Water, something that does in every other game. And they only come from enemies because there’s no candles. And there’s different sizes of them. And collecting enough of them levels Simon up. And their primary function is completely shifted to currency!!! Odd, isn’t it?

And the whole way that you buy anything in this game is really framed like some black market sketchy deal. These sellers (or crooked traders with bum deals lol) are primarily holed away in their houses under one or two layers of walls and floors only breakable by magical infinite Holy Water, something only the local badass vampire hunter guy would have after having bought some with said hearts in the first town, or they’re way tucked away in the thick of these Dracula’s army overtaken mansions, some of them even standing directly where skeletons walk past them or in between relatively large pits of spikes. Whatever the reason, these guys obviously want this fairly secret. (Aside from the first town white crystal guy, he’s fine being out in the open lol.)

So what gives??? What is Simon grinding monsters for and trading with the locals for weapons and herbs???

Now this is where things get really ✨speculative✨. I’m gonna put the cut here for suspense and intrigue I guess lol XD. This is gonna be a lot of me thinking out loud and throwing down ideas, not really like a confirmed answer to anything, just havin fun thinkin about a part of a game d(•w• )

I think there’s a few possibilities. They could be the same thing that they are other games or they could be something different just used similarly as a power source.

But first we gotta break down what hearts could be in Cv1. In a lot of the games they seem to be some kind of a general mana, a magic energy possibly not unlike how metaphysical/magical things are depicted in other media. Perhaps the subweapons themselves are magic objects and not really a physical thing that require “hearts” to be conjured. Maybe they could be physical objects that need to be enchanted with “hearts” to be anywhere comparable to Vampire Killer level usefulness. Just a few possibilities.

If the hearts in Simon’s Quest are the same thing, then this kinda makes some sense. Simon trading monster soul energy or whatever with presumably magic users for things he needs on his Quest, especially since things like Laurels (also can be called bay laurels or bay leaves) are commonly used in spells and who better to be selling a spell component than someone who does spells! Also, it makes sense that these people would be fairly out of sight as magic use was still a touchy subject at the time.

Now I don’t know how accurate this is, and if I do find a source somewhere in my way too many bookmarks I will reblog this and link it to it, but I remember reading somewhere in an interview about either SotN or one of the games made close before it that the candles are like the souls of Dracula and his army’s victims that you free when you hit them and they leave you a little parting gift for it. Yes, these games were made way after, so it’s not certain if that was the original intent of these, but I figured it adds something to this.

But what if the hearts in Simon’s Quest are not the same thing? After all, the Holy Water doesn’t use them and we can’t say if they would or not work for other subweapons that appear in CV1 since they aren’t in this one. Well there’s something else that could be dropping from killing monsters that could also fit into the above probability that these traders are magic users and it’s a little darker!

Hearts! Bones! General viscera! And this also kinda makes sense! I mean the whole plot of the game revolves around Simon already carrying pieces of Dracula’s corpse around to burn all together on an altar to cure his and the surrounding area’s curse, it’s not that far of a stretch to say that he’d be fine with carrying around pieces of other monsters and that magic users might be willing to trade things for them so they can use them in their own spells, potions, and so on. And that might also explain why Holy Water isn’t powered by hearts and is incredibly weak in comparison in this game. And why these weird, new subweapons seem to be Simon exclusive! They could be powered by things like monster blood instead of the usual magic energy-ish stuff we’re used to hearts symbolizing.

Regardless of if I’m right or not with either of these, Simon is probably taking advantage of some underground monster essence/organs trade the whole game and this is just such an interesting batshit detail for him as a character.

Anyway, I love this game so much, I’m gonna be spreading propaganda for it like this a lot hopefully lol. Okie that’s it hope that was fun, do with this information what you will :)