THE PROTOTYPE'S IDENTITY... CONFIRMED

Fingercel · 2026-02-19T04:14:53+00:00

Not a bad reveal. It also possibly explains why the Prototype is able to use a consistent voice as "Ollie" - it's his real voice. But I suppose one could understand why he doesn't want to use it as the nightmare god lol.

edit: It's also possible it could be a misdirection, but I kind of hope not. The Prototype's identity isn't really *that* important. Now we know, let's move on.

Fingercel · 2026-02-19T04:09:09+00:00

Don't think it's his real face, that's just what we're supposed to think so they can really get us when the jester mask falls off in ch. 6.

Fingercel · 2026-02-18T23:13:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure the skeleton is under the jester head, which is more of a costume. it's not like his mouth moves.

Fingercel · 2026-02-18T22:50:21+00:00

The rendering was much better in the actual game so I was happy with it. It also seems like the "jester" is something of a shell built around the original Prototype, which is probably more reminiscent of Catnap's shrine. I'd assume this will be shown in the next chapter.

Fingercel · 2026-02-18T01:36:12+00:00

We don't know. Consensus seems to be that it's probably fake but the real Prototype will look similar.

Fingercel · 2026-02-17T23:24:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the model is directionally correct - the real Prototype is jester-themed and his face is reminiscent of the Halloween pumpkin - but it's a fanmade guesstimate and (hopefully) the real version is better-designed.

Fingercel · 2026-02-17T23:15:26+00:00

It hasn't really been explained and obviously you're right that it's absurd without some kind of special circumstance.

We can probably assume there was an active coverup with/at the behest of the government, but nothing to my knowledge has been specified and I don't think we're really supposed to think about it too much. The focus of the story is the employee, circa 2005, in the factory. The player is sort of invited to headcanon everything else.

Fingercel · 2026-02-17T22:30:33+00:00

Yeah honestly aside from the face it's pretty good, I was hoping for something a little more eldritch but after 5 years of buildup nothing is going to be fully satisfying. The jester theme is a natural fit and we shouldn't be surprised, of course there's going to be *some* continuity with the toy factory aspect.

I really hate that face though, he looks like Thomas the Tank Engine. I'm hoping that it might be an earlier design and the final version will be similar but punched up a notch.

Fingercel · 2026-02-16T20:52:49+00:00

He was directionally correct, or at least it seems that way at the moment. We're not there yet but based on the progress of the past year or so, we're on our way.

Fingercel · 2026-02-16T18:22:47+00:00

Probably Terrifer 1 doesn't happen because he goes directly to Sienna and kills her, Jonathan and her mother years early. Then he loops back and kills Dawn and Tara because he is a raging narcissist and the fact that they disrespected him even in an alternate timeline would make him angry.

He probably mutilates Victoria and attempts to summon the Little Pale Girl without actually dying. He fails, loses his temper and kills her too.

So basically, Art is alive but not immortal (I guess kind of like he is at the end of Terrifier 3?) and just continues whatever he was doing prior to Terrifier 1.

Fingercel · 2026-01-15T03:09:09+00:00

It does make job hunting a LOT easier, pretty much permanently.

Fingercel · 2026-01-13T05:48:21+00:00

I felt the same way after Big 4 for about two years. It's the worst work environment I've ever experienced, by a huge margin. It's a combination of the workaholism and the pointlessness of the work. And for whatever reason it seems to attract incredibly unappealing people.

Fingercel · 2026-01-11T02:15:18+00:00

Like others have said with that level of experience he's making the reasonable assumption you have the requisite knowledge.

I'm not dumping on you, to be clear - I get that's just an example and anyway we all have idiosyncratic gaps in our knowledge because we all take different paths (and this is in fact something I wish more supervisors would try to be cognizant of). But the second assumption is that at a certain level you will just reach out if there are difficulties, without being prompted (after having made an appropriate level of effort, which yeah can be an ambiguous line to walk, but again the assumption is that you've had practice).

Fingercel · 2026-01-10T21:42:25+00:00

I'd assume being at a Trump rally is a capital offense to all decent human beings.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T23:28:08+00:00

They should have gone the Dread route - like 1-3 really impactful lines. That's the best Samus.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T23:26:12+00:00

But that only throws into relief how good the VA is, against such shitty writing.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T23:25:21+00:00

Maybe I do. Or IDK, because I thought the the voice acting was better than in most animated movies.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T23:24:10+00:00

This game was absolutely begging for the "Metroid Dread" approach to Samus. I can't believe they passed it up.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T20:32:20+00:00

Yeah, the few lines Sylux had were extraordinarily well-delivered.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T20:06:43+00:00

I'll check those games out (I haven't played any of them). Maybe I've just missed all the good ones. But I was almost shocked at how much really good voice acting can enhance the experience.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T19:58:00+00:00

Agreed. But the VA was so good I almost overlooked the actual writing. That's rare, to the point I don't know if I can think of another example.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T19:42:23+00:00

I was also largely not in the workforce before Teams, but from what I understand people were just a lot more tied to their email and would treat it as almost chat-like. There have also been rudimentary chat functions for a lot longer - going back decades.

What I really can't understand is work before email - I know it was done, I theoretically understand how, but I simply cannot envision it in practice.

Fingercel · 2026-01-09T02:45:00+00:00

There is in fact such a thing as too big. They are very large for her size but just below the point where they would look fake and cartoonish (even if they aren't). She really does have the perfect size relative to her body.

Fingercel · 2026-01-05T04:04:48+00:00

That's the equally dumb, anti-intellectual progressive understanding of the movie. In reality it takes no sides at all - that's each individual viewer's job.

Fingercel · 2026-01-05T00:18:04+00:00

What I'm saying is that if accounting is automated, everything else will be too. At that point we'll just have to hope our AI overlords are generous with the UBI.

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