#idv rant

[petrichorys]

I have an ugly feeling there's gonna be a large part of the idv community that's gonna fold during the COA finale reveal. Worse if NE tries to win their hearts by bringing out long awaited characters so that the AI outrage will fall into silence

[mewmaru]

Break down of Aesop’s 2nd Birthday letter

I posted this on amino and Reddit yesterday, here goes now I’m sick of all the Aesop hate

Hello everyone, as many of you have seen, Aesop’s second birthday letter has been released. I’ve seen many people very mad at Aesop for wanting to hurt Victor... as you should be. But, you need to be mad for the right reasons, and I hope to bring to light some things about Aesop’s character people may be forgetting in the heat of the moment while wanting to protect the sweet boy Victor, plus other cool things I’ve noticed about the letter.

Let’s start with the first thing of note, Aesop’s dream.

“Last night I dreamt Jerry, who was standing in the dim yellow light and arranging human remains in the coffins. I helped him place white flowers in the coffins, he patted me on the shoulder and said I had done a good job.”

Aesop himself analyzes what he believes this dream means, saying:

“I think that dream might have been a sign, congratulating me on finding my purpose and reminding me of what I must do.”

But I’ll get to that in a second. Let’s talk about what I think the dream means. Starting off with the meaning of white flowers.

White flowers have a few meanings, so let’s look at those. In Asia, white blossoms symbolize death. Fair enough that those would appear in this dream. But, white flowers can also stand for humility, purity, innocence, and sympathy. White Lily’s also commonly stand for renewal and rebirth, and are often given at funerals of those who die young. Victor is young, appears innocent, and Aesop believes that he sympathizes with his victims. In Aesop’s mind, he’s giving his victims a new life after death, “rebirth”.

I doubt Aesop knows the meanings of these flowers, but it’s possible that he does, and his dream having white flowers specifically “told him” as another sign who his victim or in his mind “the person he’s helping” should be. It’s a stretch, but it’s food for thought.

Okay back to that last sentence:

“I think that dream might have been a sign, congratulating me on finding my purpose and reminding me of what I must do.”

Aesop did not end on good terms with Jerry, but he doesn’t know that. Something people forget is that Aesop is delusional. Jerry’s manipulation over the years of an already mentally ill and child sad over the death of his mother didn’t bode well, and Aesop learning Jerry killed his mother only further drove Aesop off the deep end.

To me, this shows an incredibly small about of “am I making the right decision, oh wait, my mentor is appearing in my dreams, so yes I am.” Aesop is still haunted by the man that traumatized him, but he sadly doesn’t know that. Not every victim comes out the good guy, and this is how Aesop is justifying his actions. say that louder for the people in the back please.

Already, next part.

“Over the years, I have kept Jerry’s teachings in mind and have never forgotten my duty as an undertaker. Since entering the manor, I have been looking for the right person to attempt a new start.”

This is so important because it basically confirms something I have beloved for the longest time: Aesop hasn’t killed anyone but Jerry. At least, not alone. Aesop /aided/ Jerry, he did not kill people on his own. He wanted to, and still does, but his brand of killing doesn’t involve killing anyone, you have to fit his standards, which Victor does. Lucky Victor. /j

I’m not gonna analyze who the flaky girl or cranky man could be, as I honestly don’t know.

“Someone quiet would be best suited for lying in a soft and comfortable coffin... and now, my search is over!”

This is more proof that Aesop is incredibly fucking delusional, and believes that he’s helping. He sees coffins as a safe and comfortable place of eternal rest, not as a punishment. Not an excuse man, jeez that’s creepy.

“He has a face truly made for eternal slumber!” WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO—

In all seriousness, this is creepy as hell. It shows to Aesop’s selective mindset, even more selective than Jerry it seems. Aesop won’t kill just anyone, he has to think they “deserve” his “special” treatment. And he doesn’t see what he’s doing as a bad thing. “Eternal slumber”. He believes what he does is special and honorable.

“He always sits in the corner silently, looking as though he holds a secret he is terrified of anyone finding out.”

Aesop thinks by killing Victor, he’s setting him free from the stress of this secret. That’s what it looks like to me.

“I think... I am the only one who understands him, and he understands me as well.”

Just more proof that Aesop thinks his creepy brand of killing is helping. He thinks that he’s the only one who understands his victims, therefore he’s the only one who knows what’s best for them. It’s really creepy, but shows to his delusional mindset.

“I’ll talk to him tomorrow... or maybe I should write a letter to him. Only he can understand that I badly need him to become my “silent friend”.”

This shows the manipulative nature that Aesop learned from Jerry. Victor prefers to speak in letters, so how should he try to convince him? Letters, of course. That shows he cares. In his mind.

Aesop may not be aware that this is manipulative. To him, he’s just helping in the way he can, but in reality, he’s manipulating his victim into submission.

I’d also like to point out “I badly need”. This shows that Aesop is still seeking approval from Jerry, even if he doesn’t know it. Aesop wants to become Jerry. To go back to my original point of him being unaware he’s manipulative, he wants to “help” people like Jerry did, so he’s manipulating his victim in the same way, finding the same type of victims. Victims depressed and sad, people who are outcasts. To Aesop, that is just helping. But in reality, he’s horribly manipulating people more likely to submit.

Aesop is delusional.

“If he wants me to, I can even “take care” of his dog as well.”

I believe this means that he will kill and embalm Wick as well. LEAVE HIM ALONE—

“And the other two, although they’re not the most suitable candidates, I can bide my time for the perfect chance to send them off.”

I believe that this means Aesop plans to get the other two intentionally killed during the game, as they are not “worthy” of his treatment. I may be wrong, though.

So damn, Aesop my boy, creepy boy. Aesop is certainly an interesting character, an incredibly delusional man who believes he’s helping. HE’S NOT—

I hope Victor wasn’t killed by Aesop, but who know ;^;

I’m not trying to defend Aesop’s actions, just explain them. I hope this long read was worth it lol.

[idv-tentacle-popsicle]

Not so friendly reminder...

If someone rescues your ass from basement with TIDE TURNER use it to LEAVE the basement and go as far away as possible. Or better yet, take your legs into your hands and make a run for it if you know you're anywhere near the basement thanks to pings from teammates, seeing it in the distance, etc. and don't even go there.

How is it so hard to understand that playing tag down there does literally nothing but make you never leave that place.

[petrichorys]

Of course Netease decides to use AI/has been using AI as of lately and the fact the idv CN community said there's proof/confirmation of them using it since COY makes me pretty bitter because this makes me feel like I can't even trust the upcoming skins, the characters and probably the upcoming stories and letters without the possibilities of them having it AI generalized

Fucking grand. Hell at this rate it'd be no surprise if the offline packages have even a LICK of AI on it now 😒

It's such a slap to the face for them to go this route especially when they flaunted about their support for doing crossovers/making skins based on legit art (ex. Anti's Symphony of Ink skin, Palace Museum Classics crossover, Archer's S tier limited alongside one of Priestess's B tiers being literally BASED OFF of Van Gogh's infamous piece)

As if they can't get any lower than they already are

[mewmaru]

If I see another comment about Aesop remarking how he’s a “no good serial killer” again I’m going to fucking lose it

These comments are most common when trying to defend less liked characters like Freddy or Kreacher, and lemme tell y’all something: knocking a popular character down to make room for your disliked favorite to stand does not make you look good. It’s not an argument, it’s an incredibly weak move when it comes to arguing why you think a disliked character should get more appreciation.

Anyway, this is about Aesop, as he’s so commonly thrown under the bus in these situations. People call him a no good murder, sociopath, psychopath, remorseless, and this is driving me up a wall. To those of you who do this, have you heard of the term moral ambiguity? Also, I want to try to not be rude but that may not happen, I apologize in advance. If you read Aesop’s deductions, no matter which way you look at it, he didn’t kill for the fun of it, and the conclusion that is widely accepted is that he didn’t even make kills until AFTER Jerry was killed. Aesop was just an accomplice. And for a long time, he was not just fine and dandy with what they were doing. Jerry had to slowly manipulate that mindset out of him, which didn’t even fully develop until Aesop killed the monster that ruined his life in the first place (even if Aesop didn’t realize that his life is ruined). Aesop is a victim as well as a killer. He was taken away from his mother and turned into a monster without full awareness of what was happening. It’s likely that something within him was so happy that Jerry was dead due to all he had put him through, that with that and the manipulation he’d been through, something clicked, and he thought that he’d seen the light. That’s one of the horrors of trauma. Not all victims come out alive as the good guys. And I wouldn’t call Aesop the bad guy either. I’d call him what he is: unfortunate.

[idv-tentacle-popsicle]

Oh snap, another rant I guess LUL

Anyways, if S skins, accessories or pets make you lag/your FPS drop (no, your ping will NOT be affected from skins. There is a difference between lag from high ping/latency and FPS/Frames per second), please for the love of everything that's holy TELL your teammates even if you're already in a pre-made group with 1-2 other players.

For those that don't know, your Ping/latency is not affected from graphic settings, skins, etc. Ping is only affected from how far away your device is from the game's server + your own internet connection. FPS/Frames per second however are only impacted from your device's hardware like GPU/CPU, memory, graphics, resolution within the game and how well optimized and developed the game's code for graphics performance is.

Anyways.

The other person outside of your group, that does not know about your lag problem, will not know what's going on.

And if you do "tell" people tell them properly, don't just say RIP FPS/I'm gonna lag/whatever. Tell them straight up S tier skins, accessories hell even pets make you lag. People won't know what and why you're lagging if you only drop some vaguely statement like that.

And on that note, if you're one of those that will blame 'lag' for being bad at the game while you're clearly not lagging, consider actually practicing the game instead of blaming something or someone.

[idv-tentacle-popsicle]

Watching people's reaction to Entomologist's DESERVED nerf is HISTARICAL

Of course she's getting nerfed, she was damn busted since she got her buff LMAO

Just because, y'all STILL can't kite with a character that's basically holding your hand and doing most of the work for you, doesn't mean the character is bad.

It means y'all seriously need to sit down for one minute and actually go practice how to use that character.

[villainey]

when hunters gang up on survivors in early game of duo mode I become absolutely feral