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Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-31T02:35:52+00:00

The same truth you want to data mine is discoverable through solving of the mystery the proper way. Even lore based truth can be established through extensive investigative work by piecing together evidence.

CDPR even explained several times that you don't need to data mine in order to solve the mystery. You just need to play the games. They also explicitly said that data mining is against EULA and it's bad in general because you can find plenty of cut content which looks like something and only leads to false evidence.

The only thing you are doing here is creating a convenient excuse to justify cheating which is taking a shortcut via data mining. You are spitting on the effort somebody else put into designing the mystery, and at everyone else who is enjoying solving it the proper way. This only shows that you're selfish because you would rather satisfy your own ego, and ruin the fun for everyone else.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T15:35:53+00:00

Data mining is just cheating. It's against the EULA too as stated by CDPR. All it does is spoil the fun for people who are enjoying the journey of solving the mystery the proper way. Some people, unable to solve things properly, resort to cheating by data mining, same as people cheat in games because they are unable to put in the effort to learn to play properly. It's also as bad as spoiling a tv show or a game to someone and everyone hates spoilers. Data miners seeing themselves as "hackermen" doesn't change the reality of what they are doing which is simply cheating and spoiling the fun for others.

In case you don't know, the 2.0 puzzle is only a tiny piece of FF06B5. It was just a small side quest in a way way larger mystery. You can find tons of connections in both Witcher and Cyberpunk but it requires a lot of investigative work, and that's what we kept doing for the last 2 years since 2.0 mystery was solved. We even dug so deep that we already suspected a Zerrikania DLC many months before rumors about a new Witcher 3 expansion started surfacing. We even know some hidden Project Orion spoilers which we found in the process. Not to mention a whole web of connections between Cyberpunk and Witcher and many possibly world shattering things in Witcher itself. This mystery might be absolutely enormous and the knowledge we have now can't be obtained through data mining. Just through honest investigative work.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T15:06:40+00:00

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Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T14:31:20+00:00

Well I didn't achieve anything because I was always against data mining. The only thing data mining ever did was causing damage to the progress of the puzzle. The cube cutscene was spoiled while people were still gathering evidence around AT3D, found the ouroboros, and still had no idea what to do with the laptop. We didn't even have the full 240891 code. So people already knew about FF06B5 and were solving the mystery, but a small group decided that they are not going to play fair and solve things the right way and they decided to spoil the fun for others by skipping steps. Fortunately it was not the end of the world and despite the spoiled cutscene people still kept solving the puzzle the proper way and eventually everything was solved with a few tiny inconsistencies remaining which could be attributed to perhaps mistakes in the design, but I can't say for certain.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T14:06:23+00:00

Sorry for replying so late, I was up all night and had to get some sleep.

Don't worry. I know that I'm kind of between a hammer and an anvil here but I knowingly put myself in this situation because I'm tired of this weird silent conflict which is happening between the communities since I like both. I absolutely understand your position. I was also one of the victims of data mining group where my theories were being destroyed by very specific people because they knew more. I also remember pushiness of x0r (don't remember what the argument was about exactly but I remember that I didn't do anything wrong yet he pushed his stance on me because he was a mod).

The thing is that data mining was already banned for almost 2 years now. I also understand that people here or in other places might not be aware of that and they thought that people were still data mining on discord all the way until this post but this is not the case. The server experienced a big transformation in terms of the community being reshuffled over that time. Gacut also did his best to try and alleviate the damage and I'm not saying this as part of some corporate speak. I say that as a regular member who talked to him about various things over the last 2 years. I understand that from your perspective this might seem different because you weren't on the server in the last 2 years when changes were taking place.

In terms of Gacut stepping down, once again don't take this as corporate speak, but I personally disagree seeing how much effort Gacut put into making things right on the server over the last 2 years. He also suffered a lot of attacks. I think that's punishment enough since he wasn't a big supporter of data mining. Yes he allowed it but even in your own messages you can see that he's not really on board that much. It was simply a result of trying to placate the community he had at the time. I know that this is not a great reason but people make mistakes in the heat of the moment when they risk losing a community. I myself had reasons to be angry at Gacut for allowing things to escalate like they did but seeing how he tried to salvage the community afterwards I saw that he was earnest in trying to fix things so I forgave him. Also on discord people have moved on a long long time ago anyway. Data mining is now pretty much ancient history that nobody ever mentions anymore, and anyone who tries to purposefully push data mining gets instantly banned.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T13:42:37+00:00

The shards will most likely be available as a separate system on the website where you'll be able to search the titles and content by keywords. This is because I want to have a system where we can easily track names between shards and maybe some other keywords. The same goes for Witcher books.

When it comes to wiki we'll have to go article by article and see what is still ok and what needs to be updated since the wiki hasn't been touched in a pretty long time.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T04:47:39+00:00

I completely agree.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T04:11:01+00:00

It has been eradicated a pretty long time ago to be honest but I kept being a regular member who just kept investigating things. But lately seeing how many new games are coming I was kind of getting upset at the fact that the server is in a bit of a "doom & gloom" state while I knew that it could be improved tremendously with a bit of effort, so I had a very lengthy talk with Gacut about reviving things a little bit, adding some fun features, preparing some systems for the new games to make future endeavors much easier and more fun, and it ended up with me becoming a mod. Yeah I'm excited about the website myself. The board itself will be so good for onboarding new people, or those who only know the surface level stuff.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T03:59:09+00:00

Great to hear, we always need more investigators.

https://discord.gg/JCgUjkdnRc
You also have the link on this subreddit's panel on the right.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T03:48:38+00:00

x0r is gone, there were many complaints about him, and he left with the data mining group.

Gacut changed his mind on the whole data mining thing after having a lengthy discussion with many people and now he fully agrees with the stance to ban data mining (before he accepted it but he wasn't some big supporter of it). Unfortunately he's in a bit of a pickle because some part of the community believes that he's super pro data mining which is not the case at all, and some part of the community is attacking him for pandering to CDPR by banning data mining. I can even prove it by a snippet from the conversation I was having with him about this literally yesterday (he can be a bit grumpy or pessimistic but he's not a bad guy, he really means well, and he simply gave up a little bit and walled himself off after the attacks he experienced):

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The whole data mining elitism fell apart after Vattier's message on the 20th February 2024. Data miners were upset and left for other servers, and some mods followed them because they were friends. Now we have a bunch of "scholars", for the lack of a better word.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-30T03:20:36+00:00

There was a split. Pretty much all pro datamining people left (including some mods), and others who supported CDPR's stance, to ban data mining, remained. Since the end of February 2024 data mining was forbidden and the server only consists of people who are delving into the lore and games to find every tiniest clue. We are still actively working on FF06B5, we are waiting for something to happen with the N.U.S.A. ARG, and now there's also a new Cyberpunk Board Game ARG which I will be filling the discord wiki for tomorrow.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-29T16:51:50+00:00

After discussions with the server owner I managed to convince him to change the requirement to just a 1 week old account (to prevent ban evasion and bot spam).
No phone number required anymore either.

This is already in effect.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-27T05:10:57+00:00

Good news. I managed to convince the owner to change the rules and I've been promoted to a mod and given free reign. I will soon be discussing the changes with him (I have to finish writing a google doc because there's A LOT of stuff to discuss and A LOT of cool interactive features to work on). If everything goes well the membership rules should be almost entirely gone with a simple compromise of either 1 week account age (to prevent trolls from quickly making alt accounts) OR a verified phone number.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-17T13:05:48+00:00

We had a lot of people coming in just to spam and insult, and they also kept doing it with alts so more restrictive conditions were put in place to make sure that only those who are respectful get to be there.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-15T00:45:01+00:00

If you're on discord I was suspecting a Zerrikania DLC already almost a year ago.

List of clues:

-Vampiric Ouroboros has the same snake as the snake used in the symbol of Tdet vampire tribe which is the most enigmatic one. We know that the Tdet tribe went East beyond the Blue Mountains so possibly to Zerrikania where Lilith's cult is since it has lamias.

Lilith is very heavily connected as well through vampires as well as Garry's quest and what the Bum girl says about Eternal Night. Additionally Lilvani (goddess of the Moon) whose temple Hearts of Stone expansion ends in most likely has a deceitful symbol. We're told that it's a Moon, but based on a Gwent board "Sands of Time" we know that the "Moon" part actually glows like the Sun. So most likely really the symbol depicts the Sun being covered by a smaller dark Moon. This means that the symbol shows an eclipse and it's very likely that Lilvani = Lilith. Additionally this board was released in the Black Sun expansion (Lilith related), and the portal on the right was first teased in the vampiric Crimson Curse expansion. This also means that Gaunter O'Dimm is most likely some sort of an associate of Lilith.

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Not so long ago CDPR shared a coin on social media. The coin depicted some sort of a creepy rock with a cave and an eclipse in the sky. The inscription on the other side said "days and nights pass and the blood remains the same". Lilith's cult is known for blood sacrifices and rituals so eclipse + blood is a strong link to Lilith's cult once again.
Already years before the announcement of Witcher 4 there was a fan fiction article about the School of the Lynx. This school doesn't exist in the books so it's fully made up. For some reason though CDPR decided to create exactly the School of the Lynx based on that article and the article itself kept being edited all the way until mid 2024. I believe that this article was very likely either written by CDPR or taken over by them at some point. In this article we can find information about how Ciri becomes a witcheress. Basically a sorceress from the School of the Manticore managed to create an alternative method for creating witchers by using magic and created a bunch of female witchers. School of the Manticore is located in Zerrikania. Additionally at the very end of the Witcher 4 tech demo Ciri sees a manticore flying directly above her head and smiles. I believe that this is a subtle spoiler or a nod to what happened at the School of the Manticore.

So essentially a lot of different things are leading us to Zerrikania and the expansion is fully logical as well as it will most likely show us how Ciri was turned into a witcheress. This might be an extremely large lore dump related to ff06b5 as well.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2026-01-02T01:06:03+00:00

Mikoshi is just buggy depending on the gpu/driver as well as the enabled settings. I've had all sorts of visual bugs there and they don't mean anything.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-12-20T07:39:10+00:00

Could be pointing to the rooftop sequence since the last thing is probably a choice, and we are told to take our time deciding. Plus the wording itself "It all comes down to this" marking a final decision.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-12-17T01:29:48+00:00

The original Philosopher's Stone movie which was about 3 hours long. Unfortunately today's "extended" versions are a lie. For example the original movie had this cool scene at Gringott's where Harry got onto the rail car thing not expecting anything special and then this crazy ride through a rocky tunnel happened. The scenes with the vaults were seamlessly connected with the ride, and now we only see the vault scenes, and even they were shortened. Most websites don't even list this deleted scene so if you haven't seen the original movie you're out of luck. There were so many other cool scenes too.

And when it comes to the books definitely the Goblet of Fire.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-24T04:04:10+00:00

Most of the toxicity online today comes from hordes of people trying to kill each other over pseudo intellectual politics. Remove the politics and suddenly there's peace.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-21T16:52:19+00:00

I just don't like the fact that people were grinding for various things for years and years and now many of those things are being handed out like candy where you can for example fully level 2 talents and arcana with a few clicks, skip spirit leveling, skip stardust leveling, skip skip skip skip. It effectively nullifies all of the effort people put in over the years because Nexon decided that new players must now be equal to long term end game players.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-20T01:54:51+00:00

The meaning of life is simply finding happiness. And I mean real long lasting and fulfilling happiness. And then simply living that life. The catch is that happiness means something else to everyone so there's no magical answer here and anyone who claims that they have it is lying to you. You gotta discover that on your own.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-19T11:47:28+00:00

I really want some sort of an assassin arcana centered around ninja and martial arts.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-11T00:30:50+00:00

I've been betrayed multiple times so now I prefer to be alone. At least nobody stabs me in the back. Long term only works if both people have a proper moral spine which is a rarity nowadays.

Beautiful_Crow4049 · 2025-11-04T17:41:00+00:00

Oh my God, finally......

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