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[adobe-outdesign]

this cutscene is sending me why did they choose to animate it like this

[thebraveasagi]

warning for long post, caps warning randomly throughout post, and vague sv spoilers (not plot points but just generally).

obviously it is just like. a missed opportunity at this point so idk why I Need to post abt it but I do. bc I honestly hoped with all my heart that SV / more specifically Penny was like. THE opportunity to introduce new eeveelutions.

img - an answered ask posted by adobe-outdesign

image text reads:

Anonymous asked:

Im ngl, i do find it odd that gamefreak made penny have a full eeveelution team and not take the opportunity to introduce a new one for her to have as an ace

adobe-outdesign answered:

GameFreak is allergic to doing want the fans want

end descirption.

so FIRST with the eevee backpack, I thought it would have been soo amazing if there was a normal type eeveelution just called eeveeon (not my original idea, someone posted this I will go find the post)

AND second between the dragon tamers all over Paldea and Penny having the blue/red hair I was really really hoping that we could finally have a dragon type eeveelution (whch to me makes logical sense after the introduction of sylveon).

readmore bc it gets long

I desperately want to see the other eeveelutions and in my bones I feel that they exist already like tPCI has them like locked up in a super secret vault and refuses to release them.

And I feel that Paldea would have been a splendid environment for most of the unreleased eeveelutions.

I do have one in particular that I care way too much about how it could be revealed and oddly enough it is not one of my most favourite types so if you know me and you're thinking bug or flying or steel you may be surprised (like lbr iwant those too, but. differently). the one I care the most about is a poison type eeveelution. and I know with the MPM sendoff series seems to say goodbye to Team Rocket not just to Ash and so my dear treasured hc will never ever happen but. here it is.

I want the first ever poison-type eeveelution to happen because of Jessie. I think it might have to be its own post but yeah. the first ever poison-type eeveelution should evolve because of Jessie.

But tbh soo many of the unreleased eeveelutions would just. make SENSE in Paldea (mild spoilers if you haven't played the game) but the many areas with the ruins would be perfect places to encounter a ghost-type, the many caves would be ideal for either rock-types or ground-types (depending on how deep into the cave you went maybe?) if you went to all the sights of Paldea in order and then went to the tallest peak and you had an eevee as the lead in your party the whole time you could encounter a flying-type or something. after your second battle with Katy you could have gone down into her bakery and met her bug-type eeveelution who is her bakery buddy who Does Not Battle because it is a sweetie who just naps in her bakery all day. just. aahhggg. soo many missed opportunities I feel. and I'm still grumpy about it.

It's not the worst loss of the game of course, I am still really mad on behalf of everyone who worked on that game and who poured so much love and dedication into it only to have crunch culture and a waayy too early released date effectively destroy everything that they were trying to accomplish.

anyways. thanks for reading if you did. I just had to vent before pokemon day distracts everyone. best wishes !

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[theepsizet]

Bendy Theory: Chapter 5′s Ending and the Cycle

You read the title, you know what it’s going to be about, let’s just jump into it. Before we begin, though, I will acknowledge that Chapter 5 is a HOT MESS and while I don’t necessarily consider it bad, it’s still the weakest out of all five chapters in Bendy and the Ink Machine. Nonetheless, we’re still going to dissect it, because why not?

(Also I’m sure this has been talked it about before. Let me know and preferably link it (or if you can’t, feel free to tell me where it is).)

So, Chapter 5 ends with Henry restarting the game and meeting Joey at his apartment. This ending confirms that Henry is stuck in a time loop, of sorts, as Joey sends him to the workshop, causing us Henry start the game’s plot from scratch. From here, we (the player) are able to use the Seeing Tool in the previous four chapters.

Now, this is notable because among these hidden messages in Chapter 1 are the tally marks.

(screenshot from eclectic-spaghetti's blog; DO NOT GIVE ME CREDIT)

In total, Henry has been through the loop 414 times. But that doesn’t really make sense. The ending implies that what we played isn’t Henry’s first time in the studio... or is it?

See, here’s the thing. We are able to use the Seeing Tool yet Allison gives Henry the item in Chapter 5. If this was the case, did she take it from Henry when he wasn’t looking or he managed to lose it and Allison somehow found it and returned it

Also, she has this to say about the tool:

[Funny that...] 

Anyways... there are two problems:

If Henry lost the tool or had it the entire time, why would he need Allison to give it back to him like he’s never seen it before? Also since she’s the only person he ever responds to, wouldn’t he correct her?

Granted, Chapter 5 is, again, A HOT MESS (but that’s a discussion for another time and also better people have talked about it before; like @adobe-outdesign​,  who did an entire youtube video about it, check it out it’s pretty good!) but that still raises a question. When we play as Henry for the first time upon entering Bendy and the Ink Machine why don’t we have the Seeing Tool? It’s implied that 90% of the game we played was a loop, so shouldn’t apply to the same logic as the rest?

Well... here’s the catch. We played a loop. The very first loop.

See, time loops — despite being radically different within every story depending on the author’s pov on the concept — run across a basic set of rules that define it. Within a time loop, time in a fixed state, and no matter how many changes are certain events will always be identical, even after a loop is reset (i.e. in this context Joey’s apartment scene etc). The is why we can play the game indefinitely and nothing will ever change, with or without the addition of the Seeing Tool.

So, here’s the theory:

The first time anyone plays BATIM (aka 90% of the game; Chapters 1-5) as Henry is the very first loop Henry has ever done. It explains why he didn’t have the Seeing Tool throughout Chapters 1-4, and only receiving it in Chapter 5, where’s it revealed to be a time loop. Because of this, the events portrayed in the game are identical, including Allison explaining the Seeing Tool, even if we have it. However, when we end up in Joey’s apartment, Henry has been through several loops already, explaining why we still have the Seeing Tool.

I’ll admit that this is pretty disorganized, but feel free to agree/disagree. Anyway, feel free to send an ask if you have any questions or comment/reblog if you have any thoughts about this. Or not, it’s entirely your choice. Come to think of it, I might do a theory over why Henry turned on the machine. Maybe. Maybe not. Anyways, good night!

[inkdemonapologist]

What's going on with Wally Franks in your AU? I had trouble following the game, and the wiki seems to say that he quit the studio and retired without ever learning its darkest secrets, but I think you have him as one of the escapees (turned into a Boris?)

Okay I have a lot of rambling thoughts about the ending of the game if youre curious but I'll stick those at the end. As far as Escape AU goes:

Yes, Wally was a Boris clone! He did not fully get outta there; he's the murdered Boris at the very beginning of the game. Dying doesn't really seem to stick for ink creatures in the Studio, so he was able to come back -- but since he spent most of his time in the Studio [glados voice] really busy being dead, he doesn't have the years of trying to survive an inky hell that the others have; he just has that one really bad time where he was turned into a cartoon and murdered, and some weird and probably equally upsetting memories of briefly waking up from death. He never wandered the studio and was never sent to the puddles, so he has some real bad nightmares/insomnia now but is otherwise doing okay in his day-to-day life, and has no trouble speaking. He's probably able to hold down a job before too long!

Mostly Wally is there because I wanted Wally to be there, and I haven't fully sorted out the LORE for him in Escape AU (I don’t know if he never left or if he got lured back), but if you're interested in trying to sort out some of the canon associated:

So basically what I've gathered as someone who is obsessed with bendy and has watched all the cutscenes and all that but hasn't actually played the game and was real late to the fandom, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT:

- The game leaves things a bit ambiguous

- There were, in the original game, a lot of hints that the Boris you befriend in the Studio is Wally. (He’s sorta handy, kinda cowardly, likes food -- and we get an audiolog dedicated specifically to letting us know that Wally will straight up steal your cake off your desk; they’d be a good match!) There's several reasons it makes a kind of narrative sense and it was the prevailing theory before DCTL came out, but it was never confirmed one way or another.

- Two smaller things I’ve seen connecting Wally to Boris: the wrench you pull out of a Boris' chest, and the "Who's Laughing Now" written on the wall beside him being a really neat hint once you get to the audiolog where Wally complains that everyone is acting too serious for a cartoon studio and should crack a smile now and again. (this is most of why I went for the dead Boris as Wally)

- in Dreams Come To Life, Buddy is (spoilers) transformed into a Boris at the end, and it's commented on how perfect he is, implying he may be the "perfect Boris" you befriend in the game. The Boris in Boris and the Dark Survival is referred to outside the game as "Buddy Boris" and, since he has a safehouse, there's an implication that BatDS bridges the gap between DCTL and BatIM. The fact that Henry keeps affectionately referring to Boris as "buddy" becomes a fun retroactive “coincidence,” but also all the various implications that Wally sure would have made a good Boris now go nowhere. It ended up feeling like a retcon.

- in the end of the game you can see letters to Joey from Allison and Wally, implying they (and Tom) are alive and well and continued their lives after the Studio shut down, which is interesting since, uh, Allison and Tom are also now toons???

- there's a popular interpretation (called the Story Theory I think?) which I encountered in Adobe-Outdesign's analysis, that what this apparent contradiction means is that the "sketch dimension" (the cartoony world where most of the game takes place) is actually a story created by Joey using the Ink Machine, populated with alternate/fictional versions of the employees of the studio. So the Real Allison left, but in this story Joey’s writing, she didn’t. Henry-the-protagonist might not be the real Henry Stein; instead he's just one of Joey's characters, based on his IRL friend. Etcetera! So in real life, Wally retired, as his letter indicates. But those fictional versions are still real people, real consciouses, because the real ink machine that Joey really has hidden in his apartment is bringing Joey's story to life. I like the interpretation a lot as a take that fits the game well but also I have no idea where DCTL fits in this. IS DCTL PART OF JOEY'S STORY OR DID ALL OF THAT REALLY HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE??? IF THERE'S A LOOP IN DCTL (as slightly implied by Dot) ITS A STORY RIGHT??? WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS FRANCHISE

- the alternative interpretation to this is that somehow Allison and Tom (at least, if not others) got lured back to the Studio after she sent her letter -- after all, she's still keeping in touch. I tend to assume this is what’s going on in most fanfiction and AUs that have any possibility of escape, since you’d presumably want the employees to actually be themselves rather than Joey Drew's Weird Friendfiction brought to life. The impression I've gotten in this version is that sending them to the Bendy Dimension gives Joey control over the script there, so instead of creating people for his fictional retelling, he's forced his actual employees to play out this story, but I don't know that I've seen this fully spelled out

SO THATS, UH, SOME OF THE RELEVANT BACKGROUND INFO I THINK

Before running into the much more coherent Story Theory, my own attempts to make sense of the ending went in the exact opposite direction; that rather than Joey's apartment being a brief step out of the Story and into the Real World, that Joey's apartment is something of a dream, where Henry and Joey, of course, imagine the world that they know, even if they're not actually in it anymore.

I also REALLY liked the theories linking Joey to Bendy -- Bendy may have been created without a soul, but that doesn't mean one can't get, y'know, shoved in there... or that maybe a soul could be possibly stolen and absorbed by a creature who lacks one........ yknow..... it could happen. I like the idea that Ink Bendy's shifts in behaviour towards Henry reflect Joey's conflicted feelings towards his old friend (which is still there in the Story Theory version, it's just symbolic instead of literal).

So you defeat Beast Bendy and suddenly Joey is there, finally, in a place that looks like the real world but certainly doesn't feel real. The calendar in Joey's apartment cycles through the month of August but never moves past it, and I can't shake the idea that Joey could be just as trapped in the cycle as Henry, also never quite deviating from his own script, only briefly appearing in a memory of his own apartment when Henry releases his soul from the demon he created.

I don't know that this could ever shake out enough to be any sort of Actual Theory, but in my brain it's still kind of the background of Escape AU because it's a premise that makes it possible for the employees to actually be themselves. So, the cartoon studio is real, but the things that show up in Joey's apartment might be hit or miss as to whether they're a memory from Joey's real apartment, or if they're imagined wishful thinking on Joey's part.

[thereluctantfollower]

Canon Stuff We Do Know So Far On Vanny

Reluctant Follower is one woman team on following William Afton's orders. There is no cult. She is also reluctant to follow him.

She is the one that made the rabbit mask. Probably knows how to create things in blender and mimic that in the real world.

Once finding her mask, there is a bunch of axes in the small area. Could be implying that is her weapon of choice.

In a teaser image on scottgames, Vanny (Fans dub her by finding odd wording in the image) is seen on a roof within a retro giant mall where Glamrock Animatronics play on the floor of. Vanny is on our left, towards the top and holding either her axe or an animatronic limb.

In FNAF AR, there are emails you get that pop up as you play the game. In one, there is her name as Nessie97. She is an adult. Making Ness, (A new nickname for RF) a 90s gal.

Ness is googling up (Not so subtle mind you) Viking torture methods, brainwashing and bees. None of which are innocent. Bees and the hive have a very brainwashing like concept going on. Where everyone follows the queen's orders without question.

She had rainbow highlights in her hair.

Possibly regrets taking the deal to allow William possess her.

She gives the term; Depersonalization-derealization disorder a whole new meaning..

She did in fact type HELP in all caps, and the idiot Luis brushed it off.

William is possibly taking full control over Vanny after seeing signs of her being reluctant.

Crediting these awesome folks for finding these things out and/or giving their handy insight:

@the-afton-funhouse [X] [X] [X] [X]

@blackido​ [X] 

@williamsdeathadvocate​ [X]

Other peeps that give handy insight that deserve shoutout: @adobe-outdesign​ @springdaddyafton​

If you not want your name to be mentioned here, let me know and I’ll edit the post. 💜

P.S This is how you do highlights in your hair. Unless they’re clip-ons? Clip ons could give that gradient look maybe. 

Our girl Vanny is giving me strong Patty Hearst vibes.. After awhile back of looking up compliance stuff, I saw articles on Patty and things clicked right away for me. Thus why I looked up a very specific hair color for rainbow highlights. 

[lennythereviewer]

Getting my Showdown Bandit theory out before MatPat beats me to the punch

Gonna put it under a cut to avoid spoilers

Also gonna tag my fellow theory fren @adobe-outdesign TL;DR: This is a story about coming to terms with your own existence

Long Version Based on everything in the first chapter (And a few people making connections between this and Bendy possibly being in the same universe) here is the conclusion I’ve reached Like a certain Joey Drew, the creator of the Showdown Bandit Show used black magic to bring the puppets to life; to make them truly animated and alive, to have a show like no other! But of course something went horribly wrong. As we’re told, the Showdown Bandit Show was cancelled abruptly and suddenly at the peak of it’s popularity, and no one is quite sure why...

There are three laws in this universe that are repeatedly hammered in, in both the game and in the trailers:

Play Your Part Guard Your Strings Don’t Look Up

Translation: Don’t ask questions, do what you’re meant to do

The something that went horribly wrong was that the puppets started to become self-aware. They began to realize that they are just what they are; puppets being strung around and forced to perform. Their lives are just a show for children. 

Everyone took this revelation differently.

Miss Undertaker is very OBVIOUSLY aware of her true nature; she’s the one enforcing the three laws after all. Notes from Lookout in the game inform us that something happened that deeply troubled her, but she brushed it off pretending to be okay. She knows she’s just a puppet, but she wants to continue living the lie and is making sure no one else questions their existence so they can all continue on with the show. She could even be directly working with the Puppeteer

The Banker is very timid and scared, and he is questioning his existence; but is too frightened to act upon it

The Doctor is in on it with Miss Undertaker, but I’ll get to him in a moment

Penny IS self-aware, but presumably she’s seen what happens to those who step out of line, those who look up, so she yanked out her own eyes and that combined with the revelation has driven her mad

Which brings us to Bandit himself:

Presumably the inciting incident is that one day in the middle of a show; Bandit  became self-aware and had some kind of meltdown that frightened the children and ruined the whole show. 

And now... the creator is holed up in the old studio, still clinging to his precious show, and going through a process of trying again, and again to have ONE Bandit puppet that won’t become self-aware; in some vain hope the show will continue again

It’s obvious that there has been more than one Bandit, and we’re NOT the first. You get your gun from the corpse of another Bandit, Faceless IS a Bandit, and Undertaker even remarks: “I haven’t unboxed a Bandit that wasn’t quick on the draw!” also there’s the ominous line at the end: “You Bandits come a dime a dozen and no one bats a wooden eye”

Now, the very start of the game: Undertaker is searching for someone, who I believe to be Lookout; another puppet who became self-aware but got away. Undertaker then spots Bandit’s box and is genuinely surprised to see him

“I didn’t drag you up here on purpose, but if you’re here, it must be what HE wants” She says, while subtly pointing up to the ceiling

He, the Puppeteer:

It’s time for another attempt at a perfect Bandit that will do as he’s told.

The Strings are all a lie; Bandit is perfectly capable of moving on his own while he’s in the box; it’s only after he stumbles out do the strings latch onto him and seem to cause him pain at first. The strings are only there to keep the puppets in line and in control. We KNOW this because the Stringless are enemy marionettes that are perfectly mobile without their strings!

The Doctor reinforces the idea that you even need strings; he’s in on it with Undertaker. He even remarks how it’s yet another Bandit he’s tending to: “Another day, another Bandit...”

Faceless I’ll bet isn’t even a villain; I wager that he’s the original Bandit, and him carrying a scythe to cut your strings is him trying to FREE Bandit!

So where does this even go? How does all this even turn out? And what did the ending of that chapter mean? I couldn’t tell you, this is just a baseline for what I believe to be going on.

Now watch MatPat do this exact theory

[urjha]

At the end of BATIM chapter 5, did we brake the loop by finally SUCCEEDING to play the last reel? Some ideas and thoughts

What if the reason Henry was stuck in a loop, was that he never SUCCEEDED in playing the last reel to the ink demon? Until now. Think about it, Henry’s messages tell us two things: Don’t turn on the ink machine/leave the studio AND how to defeat the ink demon, how to play the “the end” reel. Now if playing the last reel just starts the loop from the beginning, why would Henry leave hints on how to play it? What’s the point? He should rather leave hints at how to destroy the ink machine or how to avoid the ink demon or something. 

What we saw at the ending could just have been some kind of a prequel, just showing the players how Joey looks, how it all started, just some information.

But this leads to so many another questions. If i we indeed succeeded to play the reel for the first time, if we finally broke the loop... What happens next?

Do the toons, searchers and lost ones just leave the studio?

How will they react and behave in the real world?

Do they die?

Are they still stuck, because the elevator is broken or something?

Does Henry confort Joey?

Does he call the police?

Will Joey be charged for deprivation of liberty, murder and putting Henry and others in danger?

How will Joey react?

Will the ink creatures being seen as... things? Or living beings with a consciousness?

Will Henry forget everything once again?

If not, how will Henry cope with what he saw? He now knows that MONSTERS, DEMONS, TOONS actually EXCIST!

What about the ink machine? This thing is able to CREATE (at least semi) intelligent BEINGS! This is porpably the most important invention of all time in this universe!

Will Joey ever use it again? Will someone else use it? What happens if it’s turned on again? New toons?

Actually, I kinda hope that playing the last reel is NOT the way to break out of the loop. Maybe the Henry who wrote the messages just didn’t find the right way. Maybe he will write new messages when he does. Or maybe Henry who is played by us, the players, will somehow find out.

After all, it is hinted in chapter 3, that Henry seem to at least somehow remember that he is stuck in a loop. When he is in the area near the Heavenly Toys, he says “Wow, I don’t remember any of this.” 

Someone who was never before in the studio, or someone who does NOT know that he was in this place, wouldn’t phrase it this way. I think this shows a tiny glimpse of Henry’s memory, where he remembers that he WAS there before, just doesn’t remember how it looked like.

Also, @adobe-outdesign (who also noticed the weirdness of the “I don’t remember any of this” phrasing), purposed that the flashing lights we see several times in the game, are actually Henry’s flashbacks.

http://adobe-outdesign.tumblr.com/post/174604858862/the-visions-arent-just-flashes-theyre/embed

Henry also instantly knows that Boris holds the lever hostage and wants something to eat. He didn’t wait for Boris to respond, he just knew.

Maybe Henry will start to remember more and more. Maybe defeating the ink demon increases the chances to make Henry remember or something.

What do you think?

[suuplex]

Got tagged by @xarva

So here I go, I guess.

Nickname:Mark (real name is Marek)

Fav. Music genre:Dupstep, though I'll listen to almost anything

Hobby:Video Games and Art

Fav. food: Spaghetti Pesto

Currently playing (video game): too much, though mostly Red Dead 2 and Dead Cells

Currently Watching: rewatching Adventure Time right now

Fav. Artist: @adobe-outdesign and @halfusek

Language:German and English

Looking forward to: the new Dhmis series

Sorry I am not a very interesting person and I can't think of any good question anymore, hope this is enough.

[eclectic-spaghetti]

The Significance Behind the Projector Room

Okay, so you know how after you gather all the items in Chapter One, you go to the projector room to start up the ink flow, right? Well, this has sort of bothered me for one simple reason - it doesn’t make sense from a game point of view. Why would theMeatlyGames make you walk through a section of the studio that you’ve likely already explored, to do something that has not real impact on gameplay?

To answer this, we need to take note of what happens when we go there. Not only does a Bendy cutout pop out from the corner, but when we reach the room itself, the projector turns itself on, a Bendy animation begins to play.

This is very interesting, because what have we just done right before this? We’ve gathered the materials to fix the machine. Logically, this means the next step in the inking (get it?) process would begin.

So, what does this have to do with the Bendy animation? Well, we already know that Bendy was either created or revived when we powered on the Ink Machine. And this is an animation featuring Bendy. I believe that the machine knew to create Bendy specifically because of this animation - one that’s playing in the ink flow room.

The fact that this animation is playing in a room very closely connected to the workings of the Ink Machine itself suggests to me that another component is required to make the machine work - an actual, working animation of the cartoon being created.

And, directly after this animation turns on and we turn on the ink flow, we hear some activity within the piping of the studio. This - and I’m just speculating here - may imply that the machine did not start working until we did these two things - that it needed something else for it to work properly.

TL;DR: Along with the six objects required to make the Ink Machine work, another component is required - a working animation of the cartoon in question.

And no, I did not steal this from the submission to @adobe-outdesign by That Drew World Anon, because I am That Drew World Anon. Believe it or don’t.

[adobe-outdesign]

ALL HAIL THE MUSHROOM CAKE

ALL HAIL THE MUSHROOM CAKE

ALL HAIL THE MUSHROOM CAKE

ALL HAIL THE MUSHROOM CAKE

[adobe-outdesign]

this is, without a doubt, one of the most ominous game screenshots I've ever taken

[adobe-outdesign]

my poor sweet dumbass Wooper evolved between two rocks and got stuck

[adobe-outdesign]

this scene was so unintentionally funny in my playthrough because rather than going straight to this mission after I unlocked it I instead spent weeks completing other paths and exploring. meaning that it took me three weeks to show up and Arven was STILL somehow late

[adobe-outdesign]

all things considered if I was a researcher out in the middle of the desert and I saw a woolly mammoth the size of a woolly mammoth wandering around I would not just describe it as "weird" and then let a small child go over and try to fight it with a pepper

[adobe-outdesign]

[adobe-outdesign]

some NPC: ❤❤❤

me, crying: how are you making that noise with your mouth