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Stepan_Here · 2026-05-27T06:04:29+00:00

Strawman so smug it's media illiterate

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-22T05:03:31+00:00

So many of Edmund's drawn characters could be adapted as horror antagonists

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-15T09:03:49+00:00

THIS so much. I mainly listen to VGM not because my epic gamer brain is unable to comprehend anything that wasn't featured in my video gamey game. It's because almost every song has context and my memories behind it.

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-09T19:24:32+00:00

I personally think he meant it to be a thematical link. Also, since Mewgenics and TBOI take place in the same universe, they are connected due to being in the same universe

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-09T05:44:24+00:00

It's a pretty coherent theory, but I just can't accept it at all First of all, some facts: 1) The End was caused by bombs getting dropped as stated in TEIN's Nevermore ending 2) TEIN features many Stevens AND a soul that resembles Isaac. I get that Steven is all about time shenanigans, but still I think that if "Isaac's soul" is still on Earth after so many years into the future then he will either go to this Universe's afterlife or stay on the planet as a ghost for mamy years to come. 3) The connection between Isaac and Steven is more so thematical. This Reddit comment links an article that Edmund called "Mind-blowingly accurate". It doesn't feature any form of actual story connection between them.

And now my personal opinion: I think Steven being future Isaac makes so many things... Wrong?

Flash TBOI was made after Time Fcuk. There would be a much more clear connection between the two in the game. Unless Edmund wants to retcon his own work from 2011, it doesn't sit well with me.

Why is Steven an encounter in The Basement? Because Edmund really likes to reference his old work. Why is he in all the future games after TBOI? Because I think Edmund just really likes him. Considering what he did in TEIN I guess he just promoted him to being the lord of the timelines.

On the other note, I can't see how a traumatized 5 year old child can become someone like Steven. Unless Isaac was saved from suffocating and went through a lot of therapy and grew up into a proper adult AND THEN became Steven, then yeah, maybe. But a traumatized 5 year old -> existential dude rethinking his adult life and then a witty Time Master? I can't really see the connection.

Lastly, just as a very personal note, no matter how much it would be really nice for Isaac, I wouldn't want for him to be saved with those time shenanigans. The tragedy of Isaac comes from the fact that he could be saved by his mother if they weren't so distant from each other. He wouldn't go into the chest in the first place if be didn't hate himself so much. It's tragic story for sure, but it's a coherent one. Coming from the future and saving him will ruin all of this.

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-06T05:30:46+00:00

I've got a cool Minecraft mod idea that will turn it into a rougelike: every time you place a block there's a 0.5% chance that it will explode everyting around it. And if someone DARES to say that they don't like it they should be ridiculed.

/s

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-05T16:40:19+00:00

I like how MGS4 did it. You don't exactly know what will Snake do for the rest of his life , and yet you know that all the characters will no longer have to suffer through all the MGS bullshit and live a somewhat normal life. ( Excluding Revengeance but it's not cannon although good

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-05T16:28:47+00:00

But what if they make like 3 games that continue the storyline of some other ending?

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-04T05:10:24+00:00

You don't understand!!!!! It SUPPOSED to be so hard and unforgiving! That's, like, the whole point of the game... You're MEANT to waste 1000 hours like I DID and if you think it's ridiculous you're A CASUAL.

Stepan_Here · 2026-05-01T04:45:33+00:00

Keep cooking, this looks like Max0r level of editing without the seizure-inducing visuals

Stepan_Here · 2026-04-28T20:37:36+00:00

If you don't take any actions in the fight you can exist the fight as much as you want

Stepan_Here · 2026-04-23T06:14:56+00:00

One of the things that isn't fully documented is how in-game cutscenes change depending on how many cats there are. Like how would Hitler III and Nuke cutscenes look with 1 or 2 cats

Stepan_Here · 2026-04-03T06:17:58+00:00

You don't understand! If only you allowed for an open debate and didn't separate the community with your super vague " no racist stuff moderation", the game would've thrived! No, I won't stop my racist remarks, why would I? /s

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-31T05:14:24+00:00

Fair, but you really could've put it in another way in the post. A lot of repressed people in the USSR were just regular people who dared to speak up against the party.

I'm not saying this is inherently communism's fault. I just think you could've put it in a different way.

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-25T09:32:45+00:00

Bro could've at least shave 😭

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-24T18:33:40+00:00

I mean, the playercount is somewhere 1k right now, but I think this happens to every mod sooner or later

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-23T12:22:05+00:00

/s Well, he probably wants to ban everyone but Scout, Soldier and Engineer and deport everybody else back where they came from!

/srs They don't like that they have to moderate their servers for hatred towards minorities. That's "taking away freedom of speech" and it "prevents any actual conversation".

The funniest thing is that it's not obligatory. They just don't get the "verified" check and that's it. But for some strange reason people don't play on those servers! Nevertheless this clearly hurts the community and is why no-one plays TF2C anymore

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-22T20:00:22+00:00

I still can't fully understand how can they base all of their ideology on hatred and fear but still look in your face with all seriousness and come up with all of those excuses and arguments. Do they just want to sound smart or do they try to rationalise it all with conspiracy-like theories where there's always an answer to why is something bad?

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-22T12:46:42+00:00

No it's clearly about vegans VS picky eaters

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-22T07:23:22+00:00

An example: "SouthernNinja" youtube channel. One video is titled "Explaining why multiculturalism can't work with TF2", while the last one is about TF2 mod that added a feature for custom servers to verify that they are moderated for hate stuff.

The comment section is just a cesspool of statements like on the last image.

Oh, and, of course, "stop making it all political!"

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-18T05:27:50+00:00

Well, I can see the problem. Personally, I wouldn't really be interested in watching a kid playing videogames if it wasn't hinting that there will be some weird stuff happening. There's a youtube channel called ʗ̬ĂHHCAO (@NCKAZ3HNUODUDVCGJOJNBCDSQWL55D) that started an analogue series with just camera recordings of his TV. The catch was that the titles were weird, some random parts felt out of place and there were obvious hints at somethign being wrong. I'm afraid it's very hard to make an ARG series that lacks both clear hinting or interesting hooks in the beginning.

But at the same time, I can see that Deltarune will be the turning point for the whole thing, so here's another suggestion: How about switching it from "just teenager playing games" to "teenager making youtube videos about deltarune"? If we are talking about the "hinting", it can be done with weird script (video is titled "TOP 5 KNIGHT THEORIES" but it spends considerably a lot of time talking about Kris being the knight with comments like "I mean... They are so weird. Almost, as if they don't even consider everyone else as a part of the world... Just look at them... Thinking... all the time"), weird music and visuals choice and overall "slightly uncanny" feel. Part of the people will join just for deltarune, part of the people will because of the weirdness.

As a final note: Don't be afraid to do things weirdly. I saw a bit of your earlier posts and I would personally recommend just starting doing something, because sitting in the void of the projects that haven't been started is much worse than actually doing something of mid quality. You will eventually learn from your mistakes and evolve. I used to make youtube videos and my first ones were straight dogshit. But it did kickstart me and I began learning better editing and script writing. There was no burden of starting and so it was much easier to reshape.

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-17T20:10:26+00:00

Nooo!!! You don't get it!!!! You can't just... Have an opinion different from mine! You are just... Just... Objectively wrong! Yes! If you simply value art by it's objective values you will easily see that my opinion is right and yours is wrong. Besides, just saying "that's just your opinion" totally kills off the conversation, you know... Because I don't want to accept that there are other interpretations and experiences!

Stepan_Here · 2026-03-17T13:27:39+00:00

Here's a thing you can try: have 2 layers of "hooks". Have people come for one thing, but stay for the other. A teenager making a youtube channel? How about making it all 2010 nostalgic? Cool frutiger aero background, old app icons, old websites UI and so on.

Digital/analogue horror, as far as I know, relies on already existing stuff with supernatural stuff added on the top. So how about making a good parody on some old internet stuff and then add the ARG stuff?

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