#submachine universe

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Thinking about a post or even a video rating all the different Submachine Universe theories based on how accurate they are to the lore as of Submachine Legacy. Obviously at the time these people had less information to work with than we do now but it'd still be fun. Should I& then also include how accurate their theories would be at the time of their actual posting?

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~Quiet room

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Yet another Submachine comic, sort of a continuation of this one

I feel like I’m getting better and better at panelling...

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What game feels like "home" to you no matter when you come back to it?

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Submachine: Legacy. I love how Mateusz Skutnik really did the work. And he's a brony, so it's doubly cool to see an MLP-style room in one of the levels of Submachine Universe. And while one of the levels was based on TRON: Legacy (The Core), the level before that (The Edge) has levels similar to Code Lyoko. I felt like I was Jeremie Belpois sifting through code. Of course, Immudelki has IFSCL to make that super real (and I will play every level he makes).

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I&'ve been replaying Submachine Universe by the way, the game that initially made me& realize that wait, this is really good actually. I& was planning to go through all the theories in the game and see if any of them held up at all now that I& have a better understanding of the lore, although even then back when I& first played the game and have only finished games up to S4, I& still could tell that half of these were straight up fanfiction with a hefty load of pseudo-scientific bullcrap.

My& replay resurfaced those memories proving that impression to be mostly true, but just as before, Jatsko's wonderful and in-character contributions stood out. The Light Theory might be one of if not THE favourite one of mine& in the entire game. The dialogue just has a ton of personality to it, and all of the "oh boy, you have no idea" moments are delightful. Probably the moment I& have the most memories of from the entire game. The Subnet Editing Theory is another example of an absolutely brilliant moment that I& gushed about a lot during my& liveblog to my& friends - it's very clever and neat how the theory itself gets edited, making you suspect that maybe it really is true.

I& haven't finished the game yet, as it's far less straightforward than the other games are. I& have pretty much memorized Shattered Quadrant by now, but the real challenge of Universe has nothing to do with item collecting and everything to do with decyphering location numbers. This very different gameplay loop from the other games always made me& truly feel like an actual researcher trying to estimate safe spots for jumping. I& think this game is the most resistant one of them all to memorization, because you cannot memorize hundreds of 3-digit numbers unless you're some prodigy. All of the note-keeping is another big part of the fun. So satisfying to look at your giant notepad in your inventory after finishing exploring the main parts and just seeing how many places you've visited.

The fanart you see is also absolutely delightful <3 The favourite section of them all for me& has got to be the maps room, because even if they aren't all that legible for an actual walkthrough, artistically speaking these maps are exactly how I& imagine the Subnet in my& head and show really well the proximity of each space to another. They're gorgeous, very fun to examine. Including two of these that I& screenshotted for context.

But, of course, the theories.... The main star of the game.... None really provided any super clever insight into the game's actual real lore. Granted, most of these are very old and didn’t have the foresight and knowledge of future lore additions we would get, but. Some of these are especially funny to me&. Here's a few shout outs:

Tim Roth.

I& couldn’t stop laughing at this whole theory like YOU JUST MADE UP AN OC THERE. TIM ROTH???? The incredible assumption that a scientist from modern day would have the most American name you can think of, and the whole attempt at explaining ancient Egyptian theme in the game with downright conspiracy-reminiscent fanfiction is great. I& found this so funny that I& named the whole location after Tim Roth, my& new favourite Submachine character.

Submurchine Theory:

A+ goated theory purely for the pun. That's it guys, we've solved Submachine. Sorry I& mean Submurchine.

Ok this next one had me& in actual tears because:

PAYPAL ME& ONE ANCIENT RUSTING COIN.

Me& and my& friend cannot stop making jokes about that "Paypal me one ancient rusting coin" tumblr shitpost, so when I& reached that sentence I& SCREAAAAMEDDDDD. HIS SAVINGS.... OF ONE COIN...... THAT'S HIS LIFE SAVINGS GUYS. We solved why the coin is there it's Murtaugh's hidden stash that he's withholding from his scientists THIS IS JUST SO FUCKING FUNNY YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP.

There were some other funny or downright wrong moments in the theories such as people saying the bullet holes are from Murtaugh trying to kill us (??? IT'S LITERALLY ELIZABETH'S SHIP IT'S HER GUNS... she tried to kill Mur what are you even on), people getting the very concept of the 4th dimension downright wrong (and I&'m not even talking about the "is it space or is it time" debacle, I& mean implying that 4th dimension was... a... a klein bottle esque surface?? Itself?? Like the whole dimension??), implying colonialism is most obvious motivation, sanism, and whatever... this fanfiction is. I& don't understand what in the world is going on here.

All of this is lighthearted joking, I& think for what the people had to work with back in the day these are all pretty okay as theories. It was interesting to me& how I& instantly accepted that yeah, this is just a world that works differently to ours, and the questions that interested me& were all related to the actual narrative presented in the game - which order the events happened in, things like that. But a lot of other people seem to be far more interested in figuring out the backstory of things, the technology itself, and its connections to the real world.

To be entirely fair to these people, we didn't know until very recently that the events of the games are supposed to be happening entirely outside of our regular Earth and layer that we're used to. That Kent is apparently not even the real life British place of Kent, but its own made-up location. It goes against what one's intuition would say, and it's frankly kind of a retcon considering that not all of the lore of the games was written with that implication in mind. I& think initially, these theories would have been pretty reasonable for what we knew. The real world imagery excites the imagination and encourages one to draw the logical connections.

I& have a lot more thoughts on this game, the lore featured in it, the mechanics of the puzzles and more. Maybe I&'ll make other posts on this topic later, but these were the things I& wanted to talk about from my& yesterday's replay.

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Submachine Universe

Hidden object puzzler Flash game. Click shit, solve puzzles, etc.  Travel through various universes using a machine and solve the grand riddle.  The art was fine for this sort of game.  Puzzles were probably beyond my gentle mind.  There's stuff all over that you can click and receive a huge burdensome info dump that was an immediate "nope" on a Saturday morning.

Enjoyed? Nah

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speaking of submachine. I can’t remember if i shared my handy little guide for  Submachine Universe, locations and the like, all writen down in numerical order and solved:

Here X

The game is much more fun if you want to go figure all this out for yourself, but if you like going back and looking at all the stuff and reading all the notes like i do then this is a handy thing to have.