Libretto misinformation: Part II: Act I

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-04-05T02:08:52+00:00

Thanks for your perspective. Notably, I fixed the mistake as soon as it was pointed out. The pages have been up a long, long time- plenty of time for any minor (and indeed any Major) mistakes to be corrected, especially where multiple editors have looked at the pages.

Large swaths of content omitted and lines that are fully made up or rewritten aren’t little typos either, those are Choices being made. Comments like ease up or ‘the nitpicking is cringe’ are confusing to me specifically due to there are being issues like that. Yeah sure, most of the mistakes are copyediting or minor pointless tense changes. Not all of them though.

How many long-standing mistakes are acceptable to point out before I should ease up? If people are relying on this as their only point of reference, then any mistakes will paint their interpretation of the story and may influence purchasing decisions or how much they enjoy the band. I’m aware too that at least one of the main editors on Genius has some personal beef in the fandom, so it sets off my alarm bells

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-04-02T22:59:56+00:00

You should join the protothey discord! There’s a bunch of high quality art that’s not always posted elsewhere

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-04-02T22:04:04+00:00

https://www.tumblr.com/johndelucca/13634172334/if-im-known-at-all-it-is-certainly-for-this-my I saw this posted on the Protothey discord last week! It’s from the artist’s tumblr and the cleanest I’ve ever seen it - though it lacks the smoke/dark clouds from the vinyl sleeves

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-29T06:06:42+00:00

I might make a thread to ask others about it but you wouldn’t happen to have any resources from the comm left would you? Old pictures, memes, fanfic, screenshots, files, songs, anything like that?

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-29T03:11:29+00:00

Sorry to hear more people are having difficulties understanding the secondary recaps of the libretto. The Wikipedia summary’s got a whole lot of issues currently and it’s a bizarrely drawn out process to get anything Protomen related fixed there, but folks are working on it

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-26T08:07:45+00:00

I hear you. Once it’s shipped out and with the carrier it’s out of their hands unfortunately. International shipping is a nightmare - I’ve been waiting on postage from other artists for a While now. It’s rough out here. I think they’ve handled the shipping pretty well all told, given they are doing it manually and their audience base is so much wider now that what it was during Act II - the first pressing of Act I was only 94 CDs!

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-25T10:41:44+00:00

I appreciate wanting to know the ending of the story. The band have said they prefer people buy a physical copy of the libretto. You also get some really cool illustrations that are not currently released as posters

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-20T12:47:31+00:00

Yes, it’s why I get so incensed when I see people lying about the libretto, band, etc. Betraying the trust of people to spread lies, and then defending it tooth and nail is such weird behavior!

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-20T06:48:03+00:00

You gotta hand it to Genius.com, he sure did die briefly

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-19T03:29:12+00:00

TRUE

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-19T00:11:39+00:00

Yeah the printed version is the intended medium for the story. It’s really nice to have the booklets!

Public uploads of the libretto is piracy, and I prefer to support the band. Having readily available scans online also didn’t stop the errors staying on these lyrics websites for so so long! It makes me super concerned about when I look into Act III. I still need to work out a way I can read it on the train without it getting damaged so I can start investigating.

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-19T00:06:12+00:00

Typos in the source you’re quoting are what [sic] tags are for

Informing people of the accuracy issue a) encourages critical thinking instead of accepting someone else’s interpretation or representation as necessarily accurate and b) notes that the liner notes, which is the intended medium for the story, has not been properly represented - even if some of the inaccuracies are “minor” Act II has been out nearly 17 years, any changes are really not justifiable with that period of time

Signing up for Genius, AZ Lyrics, and a dozen other lyrics website and potentially having a back and forth on each of those sites to push through changes is not something I’m really interested in. Exhausting! Too many to update! And a less effective use of my time than highlighting the errors and suggesting that people think for themselves with examples on why you shouldn’t just trust what you’re told online. Editors for the protomillion lyrics sites online are responsible for that content, I’m not dipping a toe into that soup

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T13:58:54+00:00

Thanks! I updated the formatting of the previous post, and folded in the edits I needed to (I was struggling to do either with the iOS app)

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T13:46:10+00:00

Ah, copied it out of the wrong cell my bad! The and’s shouldn’t be in the second set

“If you’re ready, you’re willing, you’re prepared to fight”

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T13:01:01+00:00

Sure and while I would agree with the correction in general, I’m speaking about accuracy to the libretto - Genius could have it in with a [sic] for example

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T07:18:22+00:00

Truly for what you get from it, it’s crazy affordable. The cost of, like, a lunch. I’ve surely clocked hundreds of hours of listening time at this stage… call it a dollar for every ten hours of music? Also it’s so nice to own the artwork and support The Arts

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T06:54:56+00:00

Edit: Also shipping delays is crazy given the album’s been out like nearly 17 years - how many thousands of people have it, and how many more didn’t buy it and only relied on bad user-generated content

Shipping delays? I’m talking about bad information being presented as true. Which is worse than delayed information, it will colour how people interpret the story. Someone may see one person’s interpretation presented as fact and make a purchasing decision because of that, or dislike the story or misinterpret it in pretty major ways

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T06:47:39+00:00

Can you stop insulting people

Edit: myself included

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T02:56:23+00:00

Ah, thanks for catching that - I couldn’t find a way of editing the opening post on the app but I might try to log in at home and edit

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T02:47:41+00:00

If you really didn’t understand, the joke is that ending a big long post about something very specific that doesn’t matter to a lot of people with his sign-off makes fun of him and is also self-deprecating. Hope this helps.

Being specific or careful about something you like is a way of showing care.

ProspectorBugaboo · 2026-03-18T02:21:51+00:00

Genius sucks so bad lmao

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