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-she/they, pfp by @wemful on dsc

[big-bad-r0n]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH that I draw them EVERY DAY!!!???!!!! (；￣д￣)

(update!!!)

[glazeliights]

they put something in the water to make the ais gay

[starplatimoon]

im ill, no cure

[mqqqteor]

IT'S ALL INSTINCT, MR. FREEMAN! I'M SCARED!

[big-bad-r0n]

QwQ...!!!!

[xynpher]

and then what if i shared my hlvrai oc huh???

[chalupaswanswarm]

He's thinking

[sam-fry-eggs]

I hope you learn more about father grigori

[snakesartblog]

hlvrai is taking back over my brain

[bloodstalk]

having a conversation in wayne's server and coming to the horrible realisation that "the hollows" in peppa's speech could be referring to the fucking CORPSES. like. they call the undead in dark souls hollows maybe its similar here. am i going insane

[astroadonis]

Get them knowledge juices in, grandpa

[yukaii]

I bring a sort of "Benrey isn't Stain" energy to the function that most people don't seem to agree with. This is okay obviously but I'd like to take a moment to yap about why.

Don't get me wrong I like Benrey as much as the next guy. i think that much is apparent, and Stain is definitely something out of the ordinary. His face does... All That, he can make objects vanish (dubiously edited out of the edit...), he can't die (but really who on that team can?), but I don't think that's proof enough.

I think they're messing with us. (I get more verbose than I expected so Read More time)

i think back to the Half Life Alyx gnome commentary and what their response to people theorizing that Benrey would show up at the end of that one was. They call it a cop-out. Too obvious. Too easy.

Stain has been in the works for some time now (2021 at the latest) as mentioned on Mike's stream. and seemingly always intended to be a Barney model. They knew exactly what the viewers initial response would be to that. The blue hunger text? The "i just wanted to HElp But Something's.... Stopping me..!"? Isn't that a little TOO perfect? Especially so early on into the series? We'll without a doubt reach double digits of acts at the rate were going. I think they're leading into some kind of fake out. Either Stain's deal is something entirely unrelated or, more entertainingly for me at least, he's literally just Like That. Maybe we'll never even get to find out. How about that! #SacrificalLambStain I am not totally opposed to Benrey showing up also, I just can't imagine it's something so directly tied to Stain as him literally being Benrey/puppeteered by him ect. I can see him showing up as a one time gag and dying instantly (lol), I can see him never physically showing up but haunting the narrative intrinsically (he's kind of already doing this).

I think all the seeds that have been planted thus far (literally only 2 Acts in! yay!) lead to a very obvious place so I'll obviously do anything else but believe it. These are the people behind BBVRAI. I'd never expected them to be so predictable. But if it turns out to be just the case? I'll put my dunce hat on and enjoy it all the same.

[paladwarf]

lul!

[thoughtfulrobot]

HLVRAI is such a bizarre piece of media, and the thing is, I don't think it'd be nearly as bizarre if it was purely a shitpost. Don't get me wrong, it's VERY silly most of the time, but you can also tell that a truly commendable amount of planning and effort went into it too. And you can't always tell at first what was planned, what was random improv, and what WAS just improv but then it accidentally ended up being significant later and/or they decided to absolutely RUN with it

The best way I know to describe the HLVRAI series is that it's a story with genuine emotion and conflict and stakes, but the world it takes place in happens to be goofy as hell. In that sense, it's a lot like some of my favorite DnD podcasts (looking at you, Dimwits of the Dimwood)

[grassyneptune]

[thesilveregg]

Gordon, you must not forget. Never forget.

[cornmagnate]

that changed my brain chemistry i think