#signal speculation

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velvet wing
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I love them

main ice
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omg awesome

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i love

glacial wadi
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signal?

acoustic heart
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soon...

acoustic heart
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have i ever mentioned the eerie humanoid shape you can see in some of the signal glitches

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who is this.

main ice
acoustic heart
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wtf!

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get OUT of signal

left rover
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the devious

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purple guy

novel vault
mossy estuary
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Signal villain

acoustic heart
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i can't send videocult's latest tweet because it's blocked agony

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but here

acoustic heart
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if it's a date...

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03/14/25

novel vault
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5:00 2:00 7:00 4:00 1:30

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how did you get the date

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🕔🕑🕖🕓🕜

dawn bramble
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videocult are being cryptic again!!!

novel vault
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HOW DID YOI GET THE SATE!!!!!

left rover
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i cant tell if they're being cryptic about signal or rain world

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usually that wouldn't be an issue before downpour

novel vault
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Single

left rover
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mcuruy

delicate temple
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But its

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Probably not

novel vault
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wouldn't be a release date right now

main ice
north prism
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went and listened to all of the signals again

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god they slap so hard

acoustic heart
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yeah :)

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i can just imagine the straight up vibes, playing as the canal bird or something, soaring across the purple seas as these bangers play in the background

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before of course getting knocked on my ass by some other wretched creature flying around

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(probably another one of these if the first signal video and the joar video are anything to go by)

glacial wadi
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signal?

main ice
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no

acoustic heart
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probably within the next few months

river mountain
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few sets of months

acoustic heart
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downpour hype is still at its peak currently, so it would be unwise to post anything right now

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so you're best off finding other stuff to look forward to in the meantime

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like sons of the forest releasing on thursday :)

river mountain
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ive never heard of that

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gonna look it up rn

acoustic heart
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where you survival on an island with cannibals and mutants

river mountain
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ive never heard of that

acoustic heart
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said mutants look like this

river mountain
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aw haell naaaaaa

acoustic heart
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it's basically a horror sandbox game

river mountain
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haell naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

acoustic heart
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but also the cannibals had pretty good AI

river mountain
acoustic heart
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and in sons of the forest, they're aiming for like, scav-level AI

river mountain
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impossible

acoustic heart
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now cannibals will have their own moods, personality traits, skill traits, jobs, goals, personal opinions, etc

river mountain
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the trolling went up a notch?!

acoustic heart
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yes!

river mountain
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deranged

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lol

acoustic heart
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it also almost looks scarier than the first game

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some of the new mutants are fucking NASTY

river mountain
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i dont like gross stuff really

acoustic heart
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its mostly like

river mountain
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body horror?

acoustic heart
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a non gory kind of body horror

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monsters that have really warped and deformed bodies

river mountain
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thats the worst 😖

main ice
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Oooh that game is getting a sequel?

acoustic heart
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there's something behind one of the trees in the first signal teaser that reminds me of the forest's mutants

river mountain
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i cant stand (jojo reference btw) to look at mutated stuff

main ice
acoustic heart
main ice
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The wiggled

river mountain
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wait ive never even noticed that

acoustic heart
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its so freaky

acoustic heart
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headless bird humanoid

main ice
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A classic staple of all mutant-style games rivowo

acoustic heart
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its less disturbing in this case though because of the color

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the pale white makes it look like a living greek statue or something

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instead of

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skin.

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i wonder if it'll have stuff like this just lying around

river mountain
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would be epique

cold ruin
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I have a feeling this game is gonna be a banger

velvet wing
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I like how the only think we know for sure about signal is that it's 3D

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You can just never know with videocult

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We have no clue what genre it's going to be (if it would even fit in one)

acoustic heart
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joar did confirm it's unconventionally designed like rain world

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though in a different way from rain world

glacial wadi
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s-signal??

north prism
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the truth is that signal was just a james primate album visualizer the whole time

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(i would not complain tbh)

acoustic heart
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its funny that people still believe that lol

mossy estuary
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waves, signals

acoustic heart
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that's so real

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it's even purple!

mossy estuary
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Thank you I worked very hard on it

novel vault
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I had a dream that signal released

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Or was announced

acoustic heart
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i once had a dream that the game released and it was just nothing anyone would have guessed

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it took place in modern times, and you played as a jet pilot following around weird bird-ish abomination thingies

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another time i had a dream related to signal but it was completely different

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instead it was a game where you played as this thing that looked like a weird red and orange pair of legs that was procedurally animated and the game name was "the red wing" or some shit like that

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and it just looked like juice galaxy lol

north prism
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juice galaxy was the real signal all along

main ice
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darthzz lost their mind (real)

acoustic heart
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man its been a while since the last joar art post

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understandable though, especially since he's been posting blender videos, which take a while to make

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probably wants to focus on gamedev and other stuff right now

delicate temple
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Developer updates it all the time

acoustic heart
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yea

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and does devlogs

velvet wing
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I just had a thought

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Is there a possibility that signal is a VR game?

novel vault
waxen knot
acoustic heart
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i highly doubt it honestly

north prism
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i am once again listening to the signals

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they're so good

acoustic heart
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they are

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and honestly i think the tone of the soundtrack could be a good hint for what the gameplay is like

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a lot of it is rather upbeat and energetic, so we can easily assume this will be a fast paced game

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i still STRONGLY believe we're going to be playing as one of these, and that these are essentially an evolution of the animalmyn character concept

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when u warp

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and we're likely going to compete with others like ourselves, similarly to the animalmyn in, well, animalmyn

north prism
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i just want more of being a fucked up little guy exploring a strange world

acoustic heart
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you can even see them occasionally crashing into eachother in the signal 001 video, which is also what was implied to have happened in the "bird" video on joar's twitter, where you can see in the distance that another one of these "man-birds" is flying away from the scene, as well as some others off to the side

north prism
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if that's what signal is im cool with it

acoustic heart
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yeah so far i'm thoroughly convinced signal game is basically animalmyn but with flight and time shenanigans

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seeing one of these in real life would probably be terrifying lol

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they clearly have a very humanoid torso and upper arm, but their wingspan is really massive

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you can still see how massive their wings are in the first video when you see them occasionally fly down to land (or fall?) in the background

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oh what the fuck why did it get so compressed

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cant even see now

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anyways

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i think we're probably going to see a few other flying baddies as well, like these things

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these guys are absolutely MASSIVE and seem to be patrolling the spire in signal 003

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in fact

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they might even be the guardians of signal game, or at least one of the obstacles keeping you from scaling this spire

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pic unrelated

waxen knot
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Signal guardian

glacial wadi
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signal?

unique geyser
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rise and shine signalers

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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Darthzz posting the same 7 reaction files repeatedly hoping for sigglnal news

glacial wadi
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signal?

acoustic heart
mossy estuary
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Free unity tree asset

main ice
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I’m going to eat that fucking tree

waxen knot
acoustic heart
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that's the signal

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mr signal man hidden in the static of the first two videos appreciates it

delicate temple
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@acoustic heart off topic, but what's your opinion on downpour? (no spoilers)

acoustic heart
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good

delicate temple
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Nice, me too

glacial wadi
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signal?

dawn bramble
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in the next 6-12 months maybe

acoustic heart
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at some point after the height of downpour's hype

cold ruin
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Sorry guys signal comes out in 200 years saintpensive

main ice
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The signal in question

mossy estuary
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World's coolest pride flag change my mind

acoustic heart
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true.

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i like that the entire video is actually spinning around something obscured by fog (and the outrun sun overlay) in a circle

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honestly it might be some kind of fallen tower, and the wheels and stuff were part of it

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maybe another spire? slonkeyes

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the spire in signal 003 had rings around it, though they were much smaller

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could be a different model or type of spire that collapsed somehow

glacial wadi
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signal?

main ice
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Sognal

waxen knot
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Sung gall

acoustic heart
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Transmission.

fast apex
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there is a 63% chance signar game is about time traveI

delicate temple
fast apex
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hot damn !

delicate temple
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Evill womaaann

cold ruin
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I won'ter if singal will be at anniversary ?? saintsmirk

acoustic heart
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maybe but idk

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i hope the sanshee stuff is interesting at least

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saint plush... sainthappy

main ice
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Is there sanshee stuff confirmed for the Anniversary?

acoustic heart
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videocult retweeted a thing about it

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actually no but sanshee did post this:

main ice
cold ruin
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No

fast apex
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:(

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not even a IittIe mention?

cold ruin
fast apex
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a crueI worId!

acoustic heart
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lmao

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they probably won't say anything about it till later this year

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when downpour is no longer at the prime of its hype

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i don't really have any specific date estimate for that anymore, just that, when DP is no longer at peak hype levels

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and since console stuff happens in june, i think it's fair to say it won't be in the middle of this year either

velvet wing
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Do we know console stuff would happen in june?

acoustic heart
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its kinda obvious what that means anyways

main ice
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Oh nice

glacial wadi
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signal?

main ice
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I saw the video cult notification saying a new chapter and got so excited for signal stuff slugskull

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Hello

velvet wing
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Same saintpensive

acoustic heart
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no way

cold ruin
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INCREDIBLE

acoustic heart
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sainthehe🙏mercury

cold ruin
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It's been almost 3 years since the start of siggal

acoustic heart
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it has

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it started in mid-2020

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the teasers, that is

cold ruin
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WGHAT IS THIS

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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i meant 3

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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i miss the old pfp nightcatsad

acoustic heart
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im a shrimp now

cold ruin
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change it to jerma

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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I hope they have some news by the end of the sumner....

fast apex
acoustic heart
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:(

mossy estuary
mossy estuary
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me looking at the videocult channel in case Signal

acoustic heart
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yeah...

fast apex
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signalis

dawn bramble
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signal 🌴🫴🟣

north prism
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🐦 🐦 🐦
🗼

main ice
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🏛️

fast apex
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🗽

acoustic heart
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🖐️ vaportrees🏛️ mercury🏛️ vaportrees 🫴

velvet wing
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🟪

cold ruin
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▶ Play video
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watch video

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they mention SIGNAL

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it's also a very good rundown of how rain world was developed

dawn bramble
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oh neat

cold ruin
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hello krogg

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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Yeah they really did their homework (:

cold ruin
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I gotta say that it's really nice to just visit this thread every once in a while to get away from how much this server has blown up

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There's definitely gonna be a lot more action here when another signal trailer gets released though

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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Oh yeah

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still there might be some newbies who show up here

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It's funny how a lot of the people on this sever don't even realize this thread exists

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BTW i love how nightcatsad

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is the ancients flair

acoustic heart
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imagine if videocult updated this by one bar

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imagine the community uproar

dawn bramble
cold ruin
north prism
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man someone tell the OE mapper this concept

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💀

north prism
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ooh, didn't know that this sound file had a distorted pipe organ in the background

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that's cool as hell

dawn bramble
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it really is

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thank you james

acoustic heart
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yeah

cunning vigil
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catching up on this channel and seeing darthzz slowly lose it from no signal news gourmandthumbsup

whatever signal is, it's probably going to be more of a faithful thematic successor to rain world than downpour

acoustic heart
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it does already display similar environmental inspirations rain world drew from

cold ruin
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I like dowpor though

main ice
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Doper

cunning vigil
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downpour is good, but i feel like it doesn't quite reach vanilla standards of lore and region design

it just doesn't really have the rw vibe

acoustic heart
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hmm

serene surge
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And the lore explored was very interesting, especially seeing ||the far future||

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Really put some perspective in the story

mossy estuary
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You know what's fun about Signals?

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they are hella wombly and jirreting

acoustic heart
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is mercury in retrograde yet

glacial wadi
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signal?

north prism
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signal 3 is really nice atmosphere for night flight

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i go and give the whole batch a listen at least once a week

dawn bramble
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very nice hunterok

acoustic heart
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pretty fitting

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i strongly suspect signal game may involve a lot of flight anyways

acoustic heart
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so real...

main ice
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This is what I’d imagine you posting if you got ahold of their twitter account somehow lol

dawn bramble
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real?!

glacial wadi
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rai worl rea

cold ruin
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I watn dev chat....

fast apex
acoustic heart
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oopsie!

mossy estuary
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I hope Signal has no dialogue until 25 hours in

north prism
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i hope signal is communicated entirely through interpretive dance

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(except that would unironically be cool and on-brand for videocult)

cold ruin
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I hope it is a match 3 game

main ice
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I hope the game is just knockoff uno

acoustic heart
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i hope there's cool bug :)

dawn bramble
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signal... 🟣

drowsy hornet
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youtube compression makes it not perfect

acoustic heart
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someone decipher images from the noise

acoustic heart
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i wouldnt mind if signal game had a PS1 style aesthetic like this tbh

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the way its used here looks awesome

main ice
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I saw this, it’s so good sluglove

cold ruin
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That's craz5

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Zy

dawn bramble
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ooooh

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does look really good

cold ruin
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grukk

dawn bramble
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eip

tribal venture
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and dont you say animalmyn is dead

dawn bramble
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do you think smosh will be involved in the marketing of signal (y/n)

main ice
# dawn bramble

This reminds me of that one image of James or joar looking at a drainage room on a giant screen

dawn bramble
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yes! I love that image

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(it was joar)

main ice
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Ah, couldn’t remember which

acoustic heart
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animalmyn but bird man

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with no head 🤯

acoustic heart
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good image

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man speaking of joar i wonder when we'll see more joar art again

velvet wing
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Good template material rivowo

cold ruin
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no it isn't

north prism
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not exactly signal related but i think you guys would enjoy this

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same comment on this video as the above

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just signal-adjacent vibes

dawn bramble
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oh the music in that second one is SO reminiscent of signal music

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good stuff bogus

acoustic heart
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the first one is way more signal adjacent tbh

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similar rhythm, not to mention it actually uses the steel drums that most signal tracks use

north prism
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i'd argue the second feels more like what you'd see in a signal

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hard to articulate why, it just vibes that way

cold ruin
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wildin

mossy estuary
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Hello canal birds, this is your host for the day Thirteen Sussy Impostors Among Us bringing you your Daily Signal News.

There has been no Signal news today, tune in next time for more Signal news!

main ice
dawn bramble
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thank you for this broadcast :signaltower:

acoustic heart
cold ruin
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thanke

fast apex
acoustic heart
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wow i can't post this tweet anymore because the server deems it inappropriate

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i still think about it though

cold ruin
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Sometimes a steam sale is just a steam sale

acoustic heart
cold ruin
acoustic heart
north prism
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listening to the signals like god intended

acoustic heart
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i think we're genuinely at the point where it'd be fine for videocult to post more signal stuff now

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or at least after june

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because then we'll really be past downpour hype

fast apex
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downpour is stiII hypified

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maybe june 2024....

acoustic heart
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we must make the signal ourselves

cold ruin
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that would take forever

acoustic heart
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TOO FUCKIN' BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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we must become videocult 2

cold ruin
fast apex
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the oId (rain) worId died

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everybody is IoreIess these days...

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the most heated debates of our time are about sIugcat pronounce

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It wasn't aIways thus.

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we need SignaIis now more than ever

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it shaII become the new weird and somewhat obscure game

north prism
mossy estuary
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I don't want Signal to be weird and obscure

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I actually want it to be a super mainstream roguelike

north prism
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im gonna obliterate you with my mind

velvet wing
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I wouldn't be surprised if signal would be even more weird and unique than rain world

north prism
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god i hope so

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i want videocult to do really weird shit

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because that's what they did for rain world and look what we got

cold ruin
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I trust joar

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slugcat <- he created this thing after all

main ice
acoustic heart
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i don't think there's really any denying how weird it's going to be tbh

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videocult isn't backing down from surreal artistic vision any time soon

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i hope the plot is something along the lines of

The Great Youbdus demands more hiccups and coughing, succeed in his will and you will be Corn

novel vault
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I hope signal is a first person shooter

fleet viper
velvet wing
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signal is an fps confirmed

acoustic heart
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what if thats why the canal bird has no head

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what if the hole... is a GUN???

main ice
fast apex
main ice
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LMAO

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NO

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I CNAT UNSEE IT

acoustic heart
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ok that is very silly

cold ruin
fast apex
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I'll wake right back up again.

mossy estuary
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I hope the premise sounds like an Alpha Beta Gamer video title

fast apex
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signal people now have access to twitter

acoustic heart
glacial wadi
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signal?

fleet viper
main ice
novel vault
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single?

acoustic heart
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its been so long...

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signal game hype? what about joar art hype?

south dawn
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I am thinking of creating some fanart on Signals to fuel up my hyperfixation on it. So for that I wanted to ask y'all, what is your favourite Signal broadcast?

acoustic heart
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1 and 3 are my favorites

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i might do some signal art as well

cold ruin
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Mine has been 1 for a while

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I won't do signal art slugevil

fierce oar
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3 goes hard

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I had a dream about it once

north prism
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1 has my favorite song

acoustic heart
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signal 001 just HAS to be the main menu song, or intro song

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the anticipation and buildup just screams about it

south dawn
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What about that tweet with clocks in it? For some reason someone said that it means that release is going to happen in 2025. Though I am not sure if there would be any new signals

mossy estuary
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Why would they confirm a release so ahead of time

south dawn
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Fair enough

acoustic heart
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there would most definitely be a reveal trailer before a release date unveiling

dawn bramble
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it'll be the 2 year anniversary of signal 6's release in a little over a month

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get your birds and your purple water ready

cold ruin
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@acoustic heart I have a game for you to take interest in while you're waiting for siggal

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It's called fear and hunger

north prism
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oh god

cold ruin
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What?

north prism
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(i do mean to play that one at some point)

cold ruin
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It's just a little fear and hunger

acoustic heart
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the game with so many content warnings to choose from that i don't think much of it can even be discussed in this server lol

cold ruin
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true

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but

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have you played it?

acoustic heart
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no

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just seen videos of it

north prism
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say, you ever play pathologic (2)

fierce oar
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I eated the signal game

acoustic heart
north prism
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it gets better around the halfway point

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well

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"better" (more painful but in a cool way)

glacial wadi
mossy estuary
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Bachelor campaign will probably come out after Signal

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(Pathologic 2)

cold ruin
glacial wadi
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I have been pinged

acoustic heart
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the real signals were pings...

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sonar pings...

bold delta
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what even is this

north prism
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videocult's next game (hopefully)

acoustic heart
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yeah

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they've been developing a new game and keeping it vague for a while for about like 6-ish years

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it is a 3D game and there are vibe teasers on their youtube channel

cold ruin
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the first trailer was 3 years ago....

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how time passes

main ice
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Actually it was yesterday

glacial wadi
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signal?

main ice
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Yeah

cold ruin
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whar

left rover
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happy signal saturday

bold delta
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tuesday is the best saturday

acoustic heart
dawn bramble
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ahh yes

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I had forgotten about that thing

waxen knot
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Looks like it's looking at us monkbigeyes

cold ruin
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Can't wait for singleal

acoustic heart
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can't wait for joar art

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last post was at the start of november sad

cold ruin
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Sadge

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He will never post again....

main ice
bold delta
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snigal

glacial wadi
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signal?

waxen knot
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Singal

main ice
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Singla

cold ruin
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sifnal

bold delta
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sginal

fast apex
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siqnal sinjal sein semnaI signál signaaI signaIo sein signaaIi sigina segnaIe nîşan дохио ਇਸ਼ਾਰਾ сигнал සං .ාව சமிக்ஞை সংকেত 信号 信號 信号

fast apex
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JOART ALERT

acoustic heart
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i uh, don't think that's in blender...

fast apex
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constructed out of pure mathematics

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Iike that one anime face he made once

acoustic heart
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those things back there are the same things all over the city in the canal bird video btw

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this is really cool though, looks like they might be making another game alongside signal?

fast apex
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maybe this is just what signaIis Iooks Iike now?

main ice
acoustic heart
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idk, maybe

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there is a purple filter whic h gives that kind of impression

cold ruin
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Kinda looks like that guy who made Iron lung's games

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and dusk

acoustic heart
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im pretty sure david szymanski didn't invent the PS1 visual style

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lmao

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i hope we can get off of the bike or even fall off of it

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but also

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it really reminds me of this old joart

north prism
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real

main ice
bold delta
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david szymanski owns sony

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real

acoustic heart
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o

dawn bramble
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yessss more joart this is good

fluid wasp
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is the new signal out? its been a while since i checked on here

fast apex
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yeah

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||no||

fluid wasp
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i was like slugloafnyoom but then i leveledited

south dawn
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If there anyone who's able to create music similar to the previous signals, I dare you to collaborate with me, since I am learning low-poly and environment 3D art anyway nightcatcheese If they not going to do a new signal video, then we will

acoustic heart
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:)

waxen knot
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slugWOH Nice!

dawn bramble
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looks really nice

glacial wadi
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signal?

acoustic heart
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realtalk the game world of this seems huge

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when he falls off the building you can see all the stuff in the distance is actually fully 3D

waxen knot
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Cool!!!

main ice
south dawn
acoustic heart
delicate mauve
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was no one gonna tell me that joar has been posting stuff from new game maybe???? signal game footage ???????

novel vault
north prism
acoustic heart
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SIGNAL GAMEPLAY THEORY:

You start the game either walking or devolved and crawling. Throughout the course of the game, you deliver messages/follow signals to earn funds/energy. With enough funds, you can get upgrades which improve your current state. From crawling, to walking, to hoverbike, to some kind of flight, to something beyond that, allowing you to gradually reach and traverse environments you couldn't previously. You will see other creatures in the sky from the very start of the game that you cannot interact much with till later (like how in metroidvanias you see places you can't reach till you acquire certain abilities) . Along the way, you compete with others like yourself, as well as some other creatures that may simply want a feast.

So, essentially a true evolution of what Animalmyn was conceptualized to be.

cold ruin
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What theme would this convey

acoustic heart
cold ruin
acoustic heart
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i hope we can do cool tricks on the body of the massive carcass in "feed drop"

wooden gulch
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It also fits with the background on one of the signal teasers

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Which what i can remember is just a pink ocean and a bunch of industrial constructions

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Yeah signal #2

acoustic heart
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signal 003 takes place entirely in the sky

wooden gulch
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Very interested on the funny signal game

acoustic heart
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always gave me the impression we go up there at some point

wooden gulch
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Also signal 6

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Has that industrial theme

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The Pink Ocean ™️ seems like a major area or something of the sorts

south dawn
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Well, the symbol is basically alchemy sign of mercury, so my assumption that it is the sea of mercury, aka Sick Liquid Metal (very poison)

main ice
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Quick, someone send the gif of the office full of mercury!

acoustic heart
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liquid mercury/quicksilver is silvery tho

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since signal has more of a retro vaporwave aesthetic, while the alchemy ties are still very much likely, it's also likely a reference to the phrase "mercury is in retrograde", which means that from the perspective of the planet you're standing on, a planet's motion across the sky goes backwards after night compared to its usual direction for a certain period of time (which has often been tied to astrology stuff)

this matches up with the frequent rewinding of time seen in all the previous signal teaser videos

that and there's that one videocult tweet lol

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the term "mercury is in retrograde" is also frequently used in retro-vaporwave aesthetic communities

south dawn
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That Pink sea busyness reminded me of my recent vaporwave 3D render nightcatcheese

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What if it's both? Hmm

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Intrigued nonetheless

acoustic heart
south dawn
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Ooh, also doing 3D? Looks nice

acoustic heart
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no i just found it somewhere lmao

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i forgot where

south dawn
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Well, that's dissatisfying

acoustic heart
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im disappointing :(

main ice
acoustic heart
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true...

dawn bramble
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what if videocult starts doing cryptic announcements for the game via shortwave radio

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wouldn't that be something

acoustic heart
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they should

silent steppe
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when the signal is sus

cold ruin
acoustic heart
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new joart

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the tree saga

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so in the last dev chat in RW main, joar and james did say they were "off to work on secret project 5" when they left, and that got me thinking about what they could be

so far i'm thinking

  • signal (obviously)
  • the hovercar game (if that turns out not to be signal)
  • trees :) (possibly some bigger blender project)
  • rain world related stuff???
  • another game project???
mossy estuary
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Tree!!

main ice
acoustic heart
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Real

main ice
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I like how the fish seemingly jumps into the tree lol

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The theme of the bird and fish switching places is also kinda interesting imo

waxen knot
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Yeah I love this one

cold ruin
acoustic heart
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gay birds

main ice
fierce oar
acoustic heart
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they're turning the scavs gay

cold ruin
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Pipe bombs slugclose

acoustic heart
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its kinda sad that we're all so burned on the lack of signal content that as soon as we see gameplay footage of something that genuinely might be signal or at least in some form either internally or externally related to it, the place just remains kinda dead

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this shot goes hard btw

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im still leaning more on the idea that its one of the 5 "big secret projects" videocult was working on rather than signal outright though

dawn bramble
#

they're really going all out on the hovercycle footage

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very interesting

acoustic heart
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joar posting stuff always gets me at least somewhat creatively motivated to make something

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i have GOT to learn BLENDER

fierce oar
main ice
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NO WAY

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caps lock

cold ruin
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Real

dawn bramble
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hoping for more hoverbike stuff soon

main ice
silent steppe
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no

acoustic heart
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lizard plush and DP console news probably

which would also mean signal news will finally be free scavplead

broken anvil
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someday monkscrem

acoustic heart
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and maybe news about the bike game which could either be signal outright or one of the 5 secret projects they offhandedly mentioned working on

fast apex
#

JOART

acoustic heart
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YOOOOOOOOO

fast apex
acoustic heart
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they mentioned offhandedly when they left that they were off to work on one of their five secret projects

fast apex
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intuhresting

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I wonder what they are

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couldn't be 5 different games right...?

acoustic heart
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IT'S FUCKING SIGNAL

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HOLY SHIT

fast apex
acoustic heart
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IT'S WITHOUT A FUCKING DOUBT SIGNAL GAME

fast apex
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oh?

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lol

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you beat me to it

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this is such a cool looking world

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like a 3d joart

acoustic heart
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the scale is insane

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@broken anvil do you think we can get the signal channel opened up soon? since there's kind of no denying now that this bike game is signal

broken anvil
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yea 100%

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deliveroo simulator XX23

acoustic heart
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for reference in case anyone is confused

broken anvil
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let me move it up now

main ice
fleet viper
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oh new gifs from joar?

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so it is signal?

acoustic heart
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it was speculated, but the latest video more or less confirmed it yeah

fast apex
# acoustic heart the scale is insane

that's right!! A big reason why rain worId is speciaI to me is the scaIe of the worId, though it's not aIways obvious in-game. Woes of the second dimension...
now that we know signaI is the same thing but 3D i can't wait to Feast on its bizarre structures

fleet viper
main ice
acoustic heart
fleet viper
acoustic heart
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well i hope you're doing a lot better now at least saintunyoy

fleet viper
#

yes thanks for good wishes, I appreciate it

north prism
acoustic heart
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videocult strand-type genuinely sounds awesome tbh

north prism
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truth is the first strand type game was bringing pearls to moon

fast apex
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this couId be the end of our cozy IittIe thread...

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perhaps we'II be back here eventuaIIy

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if joar goes quiet again scav4real

acoustic heart
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this is the bunker

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the pillow fort

velvet wing
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(Well we got confirmation that some joar art posts were signal gameplay)

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Still awesome nonetheless

acoustic heart
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yea

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and now the channel version of this thread is open again

cold ruin
cold ruin
broken anvil
fast brook
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videocult projects is DEAD!!! enjoy your thread again

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oh lol joar follows this?

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that's fun

tribal solar
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Not intentionally he was accidentally pinged at some point hunterkek

fierce oar
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So uhh. Any big finds gang?

fast apex
wooden gulch
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Welcome back videocult projects...

wooden gulch
fast apex
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2026 year of the signal

dawn bramble
fast brook
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a pier

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and purple slop

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and even some funky beats

tribal solar
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What the heck I was rewatching it less than a hour ago is this the hivemind again.

cunning vigil
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erm,,, what the signal

dawn bramble
fast apex
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that's the Signal Style

dawn bramble
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probably a lot of people's favorite [Signal]

fast brook
fast apex
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I used to not like this one tbh, but it's so evocative in so many ways

cobalt epoch
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not just the melody, the vibes come across pretty well too

dawn bramble
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true, I get what you mean

cold ruin
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Gignal gleculation

dawn bramble
fast apex
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this one is kind of Haunting

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it's also the prettiest one

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it's got that joarian charm on full display

steel fjord
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wheres signal discussion day 5..

dawn bramble
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and hello WILD it's been ages

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anyway the music in this one goes hard

steel fjord
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yayyy

fierce oar
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Signal 003 my beloved

dawn bramble
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neat detail that darthzz pointed out long ago, signals 005 and 006 have a subtle crt filter going on. just like another game that videocult have been working on these past 1.5+ years...

novel vault
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no way a 6th one

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since when

fast apex
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2021

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this is the grooviest one

dawn bramble
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I keep coming back to this one

novel vault
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it's great

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it's peak

fleet viper
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now that signal is (probably) cancelled (or shelved idk) i really hope james releases some of the music for it + gives us of some insight into what it was (like he did with animalmyn)

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also like, i assume they worked on it for quite some time, i really wonder why they suddenly just stopped working on it to work on another game

fast brook
#

it looks very airframe ultra-y in general design philosophy, no?

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when was the first AFU stuff shown off anyways

fast apex
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early 2023

fleet viper
# fast brook it looks very airframe ultra-y in general design philosophy, no?

not really, airframe so far seems way more grounded than whatever signal was going for, signal was way more surreal overall (giant statues coming out of the water and stuff), the only signal thing in airframe is the signal 03 tower™ being in one of the skyboxes, but also another minor detail is that signal 06 seems to have the same filter that they use in airframe

fast apex
#

man I love this one

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it's so surreal but also really pretty

dry lion
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Gonna archive this since it's been inactive for quite a while, and now there's a server dedicated to Videocult projects

oak summit
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jumpscare

wanton nymph
#

terrifying

oak summit
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@acoustic heart signal speculation:)

strong pollen
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😱

wanton nymph
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put a warning before you jumpscare people like that

eager fractal
#

what

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why

strong pollen
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signals are just a teasers for new videocult game that is going to be released in 2025???

eager fractal
#

signal jumpscare

strong pollen
#

thats it

steel fjord
strong pollen
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you can close the thread now lmao

wanton nymph
#

weren't some of them teasers for Animalmyn?

wanton nymph
#

you all know what Animalmyn is right?

brave siren
#

sadly idk anything about signal but ill spectate from afar gourmandthumbsup

strong pollen
#

amazing

strong pollen
acoustic heart
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hello

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alright gonna copy-paste my tinfoil hat speculations from my server

brave siren
#

all i know is female gender symbol but evil and fucked up

acoustic heart
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shit

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ok fixed it

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so basically, first of all, these are so visually similar that i think they're connected

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but also

strong pollen
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dkablbdsbjxamncdnm

acoustic heart
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now, given the scale of things and the constant bird's eye kind of view in the signals, i genuinely believe you will play as some kind of aerial creature

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possibly one of these

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it'd honestly make sense as a player character, given that their previous 3D project, animalmyn, was cancelled over the signal project, and something like a strange humanoid-bird-thingy creature would make sense as an evolution to animalmyn's characters

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joar has often tried his hand at various aerial creatures after all, originally having an idea for slugcat to be an aerial creature as well (scavs too later in development!) but settled on more grounded movement (for scavs too) because it was easier to design at the time

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it'd also make a lot of sense out of clumsier movement on land, since you'd play as a creature with SEEMINGLY no legs, just long arms with wings and, seemingly, a long tail

acoustic heart
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videocult retweeted this video

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videocult never retweets joar's personal work on that account unless it's directly videocult related, like his slugcat backflip drawing for example

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typically its just james primate retweeting, and one reason you can tell this wasn't an accident is because james primate retweeted it as well

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now, for the really spicy speculation from someone else in my server

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the mercury symbol itself

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mercury in alchemy is known to shift between solid and liquid states, and this became symbolic of shifting between life and death itself

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someone in my server speculated that the area in the video and "feed drop" is a different world to the signals, and that whenever the mercury symbol shows up, we'll shift between worlds

woven ivy
brave siren
#

oh wow

strong pollen
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i am going to read all of this tomorrow

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goodbye chat

acoustic heart
brave siren
#

what even was the direction of the og game?

acoustic heart
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well, animalmyn was some weird surreal adventure type game where you worked together with others like yourself surviving a chaotic, corrupt capitalist system in a digital mall world, basically acting as slaves

woven ivy
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the bandcamp page for the soundtrack has some info too

brave siren
#

godamn

acoustic heart
#

well, i think it's possible they're an enemy type

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possibly inspired by the skewers in wayne barlowe's expedition

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joar was a fan of stuff like that after all iirc

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skewers are self explanatory, flying predators that hunt their targets by sweeping down on them and skewering them with their face blades

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it's possible one of these things knocked down the bird-like creature in the recent video

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or, perhaps, another one of these birds

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you can see one flying around in the background, after all

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so the theory here is:

  • you play as a flying semi-humanoid creature
  • the mercury symbol represents shifting between two worlds
  • one world is polluted with a purple sea, including blue and purple growths
  • one world is a city with spires and red fluids, including red and pink growths
  • red liquid possibly comes from the weird dead giant mutant creature thingy
  • "skewers" that possibly act as some kind of coordinated hunters, possibly responsible for the death of the bird and the giant creature
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also worth noting you can see some kind of flying creatures in the first signal video, possibly related to the "bird"

cunning vigil
#

ok a couple things:

SIGNAL_003 has the Underhang leitmotif - this is important because it is a leitmotif that appears a few times, especially in "approaching iterator" areas, with Gate to the Shoreline and Underhang playing ingame, and Flutter and Glass Arcs
SIGNAL_005 has the same strumline as Threat - Outskirts; cannot really determine anything from this other than that the Threat - Outskirts melody leitmotif appears prominently in many songs in the game

Moon has a white pearl lore snippet about "sky-sails":
It's a catalog of bolts and screws for sky-sail joinery. We iterators were built for pragmatism, so it is an understatement to say that we were not known for our appreciation of beauty... but the sky-sails in flight during the big festivals always filled my soul with emotion.
If Signal is set in the past of Rain World (not that it necessarily is), the flying "skewer-esque" things in SIGNAL-003 could be these same sky-sails mentioned by her.

acoustic heart
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it'd be kinda odd if that were the case, considering some things radiate more "human-made" energy

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but it's not entirely impossible

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personally i've felt that these things have such RW vibes to them as a natural extent of this being the sort of "primary vibe" the devs tend to go for in general

joar tends to experiment with various concepts of "surrealist sci-fi" in some urban and industrial environments, where james tends to borrow similar motifs to his previous works befitting of the type of atmosphere he's trying to create

strange needle
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imo signal 5 is the best

cunning vigil
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vastly prefer signal 3 myself

acoustic heart
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i started appreciating signal 5 more when i realized the "sun" was actually a foreground overlay filter and not actually in the background, thought it looked kinda janky previously

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also

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this creature makes me think of the "sky sails", aka "skewers", when it flies sideways

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except the two prongs are in the front

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these tree videos kinda feel less likely to be related to signal than "feed drop" and the canal bird video, but they're still cool

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hasn't been retweeted by videocult yet, though it was only posted a few minutes ago

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the other tree video has been retweeted by videocult, however

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it also has the same red-purple liquid of the canal bird video

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a common theme with all of these is the focus on flying creatures and strange plants, which i find super interesting

acoustic heart
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the creature also seems to be a mix between a moth and a fish, has whiskers similar to a catfish

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wait what

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is that... text?

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i can see an H

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although it could just be the blur and that in reality it's just a bunch of light pink lines or something

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which would still be pretty interesting

dawn bramble
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woah I hadn't seen these, the animation is very very smooth

acoustic heart
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yeah it's awesome

dawn bramble
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ah this is all very recent

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that would explain it!

acoustic heart
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yeah

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the one with the moth-fish being the most recent, just came out like 30 minutes ago

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oh hey videocult retweeted it just now

dawn bramble
#

that bird video is really something

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the environment is just so detailed and believable

acoustic heart
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yeah

dawn bramble
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and with the music on top too

acoustic heart
#

assuming they are related to videocult's next game (the signal game), which at this point i'm HIGHLY convinced they are, they're definitely not in-game footage, of course

dawn bramble
#

do we think this could be related to signal? the art styles seem to have very different vibes comparatively

acoustic heart
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just separate cinematics

acoustic heart
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basically the theory here is that you play as some kind of flying creature in this game among various other flying creatures, and you're constantly shifting between two worlds: the purple fluid world, and the red fluid world

dawn bramble
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I did see that earlier along with the mercury speculation which could maybe explain the contrasting moods between signals 1-5 and this

acoustic heart
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and this happens any time the mercury symbol shows up

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i believe that signal_003 takes place in the red fluid world, while the rest of course take place in the purple fluid world

dawn bramble
#

interesting

acoustic heart
#

you can even see a similar spire in the "feed drop" image

dawn bramble
#

will have to rewatch the signals with this in mind

acoustic heart
#

there may be more than one

cold ruin
acoustic heart
#

its pretty cool

eager fractal
#

💜

acoustic heart
#

bird game

eager fractal
#

darthz drinks lean to understand better the lore of the signals

cold ruin
#

Can't wait for joar to show up and be like "lol this is all wrong"

eager fractal
#

it always is

acoustic heart
#

guess i'll die

cold ruin
#

Fool

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Threads would have been very useful for signal speculation

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Like 2 years ago

acoustic heart
#

yea lol

cold ruin
#

I miss those days

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The lore days

cold ruin
#

Listening to siggal music right now

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jammin

woven ivy
#

yes

midnight bloom
#

the water will be purple for some portion of the game

acoustic heart
#

🍇

acoustic heart
#

Live.

cold ruin
#

whar?

acoustic heart
#

thread got archived

cold ruin
#

oh ok

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you got more stuff to say?

acoustic heart
#

uh yes

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game cancelled thanks for coming

cold ruin
woven ivy
#

signal speculation will never die!

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never! never!

acoustic heart
cold ruin
#

real

acoustic heart
#

signal will have SADNESS LIGHTER confirmed

fluid drift
#

signal 003 is my favorite

acoustic heart
#

if i were to rank them based on visuals...

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  • signal 3
  • signal 1
  • signal 6
  • signal 4
  • signal 5
  • signal 2
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and if i were to rank them based on tunes...

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  • signal 5
  • signal 2
  • signal 3
  • signal 6
  • signal 1
  • signal 4
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you know i just realized

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if this is indeed a game where you play as a flying critter, then areas like in signal 6 could be very interesting, since it's foggy

cold ruin
#

For me it's something like 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4

wanton nymph
#

personally, I think 5's music is the best.

acoustic heart
#

yeah same

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in hindsight i think i'd swap out signal 6 and 2

fluid drift
#

i like 3 the best

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music wise

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sounds mysterious and sad

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but also

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like its building to smth

cunning vigil
#

based signal 3 enjoyer

acoustic heart
#

signal 003 moment

woven ivy
#

so true

eager fractal
#

yoo

neat ibex
#

What is this

eager fractal
#

the spires

neat ibex
#

Also I became inactive on the server again oops

eager fractal
#

you can see from the wall

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from the wall you can see those tall towers

neat ibex
eager fractal
#

and in signal 3 something similar but 100% not the same, was shown

neat ibex
#

The music stuff

eager fractal
#

yea

cold ruin
#

h

acoustic heart
#

SO TRUE

#

this is a good video

cold ruin
#

Real

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I wanna post this to reddit

brave siren
cold ruin
#

the mast

strong pollen
acoustic heart
#

the sky's gone out

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the truth is out

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the sludge is out

cold ruin
#

WHY IT GREEN

eager fractal
#

🥬

wanton nymph
#

the sludge looks nasty

woven ivy
#

sloodge

tiny rivet
#

tasty?

acoustic heart
#

bloop

foggy mauve
#

ratio

strong pollen
#

lmao

foggy mauve
#

can we co-opt this thread and turn it into a zonkerdoodle appreciation thread

acoustic heart
#

no

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create a poll for a separate thread instead

foggy mauve
#

what are they gonna do? ban us?

acoustic heart
#

i live here

foggy mauve
#

u arent my landlord

acoustic heart
glacial wadi
#

signal?

cold ruin
#

Did I make that?

#

I might have

river mountain
#

Guys

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Is the stuff in this channel footage of the actual game?

velvet wing
#

No one knows

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It is from official teasers

acoustic heart
#

i had a dream last night someone actually leaked signal gameplay

cold ruin
#

It was a good dream

acoustic heart
acoustic heart
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we got like new screenshots but then the streams were taken down