This Room Does Not Exist: Virtual Reality Vicegrip

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[@NightMind]

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[@h20wizard57]

Jesus how long was this vid private?

[@borderline1343]

❤❤❤ ya

[@santiagoalmanza6253]

oWo My LiTtLe KiTy DaDy CaN I FeEl tHaT BuLgE WoLgE

[@quinnzyker6521]

Damn I should have waited to get this instead of express. Oh well

[@chickenqueen3251]

Mr. Nocturn, are you reaching out to us from the past?

[@Shyreenify]

I'm becoming an arg villain so I can send my unsuspecting victims deep fried selfies of me slav squatting in front of some spoOoOoky binary code

[@wavewingman5993]

You're the hero we need

[@MRDestructionmd]

mochii diabolical

[@McButtsTheCrimeDog]

@@sleepyusag11 do it please

[@lovaszaron3138]

Don't forget to add reversed and slowed down audio of, say, Rick Astley.

[@soggyrats]

that code better read "psyche"

[@britishcig5462]

This House Might Have People In It But This Room Sure Doesn't Exist

[@Catoridoesthings]

I fucking love this-

[@vinnykitty1983]

Omg I made this connection tol, also u could've incorporated This Is (not) A Gam

[@DreamTheDead]

I hate how hard I laughed

[@drewo.127]

Not to mention both projects use a retro blue screen, white text interface!👍👍👍📺📹💻

[@shrublord1057]

"Feed the cat" and "It's not even real!" has to be the best exchange in this series.

[@Mekelaina]

i liked the "you cheeky biiitch" but yeah

[@Fyrsiel]

I hope that girl fed that goddam cat, tho.

[@iyague]

I am very real, Jon. I am more real than anything in existence. Hide all you want, Jon, for my search continues.

[@PongoXBongo]

That felt like an exchange between The Doctor and one of his/her companions (in a good way), ala "Don't drop the banana!" "Why not?" "It's high in potassium!" during an equally intense action scene.

[@zadehgenerous8279]

666 likes

[@lunapyrope9683]

"And feed the cat" I too would insist we keep feeding a non real cat.

[@PongoXBongo]

It's not like non real cat food costs anything, heck it doesn't even run out.

[@thebovineavenger]

I would name it also. Prob get into fake fights with it over it getting into things. Cats would HAVE to be a part of my VR or I would know IT was not real.

[@PongoXBongo]

@@thebovineavenger/videos They're good indicators of glitches too.

[@JoesephineMcClard]

SAME!!!

[@germana.c.2749]

I thought that of myself until I had a pet in Habbo Hotel.

[@patrickperring4203]

I love series like this but i'll be real for a second. i'm getting real sick of unnecessary audio distortions. I understand why people use them but I think you can accomplish the same goals in more effective ways. I just find the practice cheap and easy like jump scares

[@luvondarox]

Same for unnecessary "video distortions." Over use of the effects can make the serious tone of any series devolve into petty edgelord territory. It's really disappointing when creators rely too heavily upon effects rather than storytelling.

[@ASolzhenitsyn]

Yes there is too much use of equipment and software failure. What really gets me though is that most of the time these aren't the types of things that happen when digital devices, software, network systems, etc. Do fail.

[@Julian-bq9qv]

*And it even bothers me a lot when certain videos ( ahem! even ones I like, like Night Mind ) always open with a distorted sound that imitates an old AM radio with a blown out speaker making a retching BLAAAAAHHHHH sound*

[@ASolzhenitsyn]

@@Julian-bq9qv yeah digital stuff, for the most part, either works or it doesn't. It's not like analogue where parts of a distorted signal can get through. The most common time you can get these partial info effects is when data is recovered from a damaged storage medium. However even that doesn't look quite like this. The areas of missing data show up as dead or "filler" data in the bits it was stored to that failed. It's much more static, as in it's just there it doesn't jump around and constantly look different. Maybe some day someone will get this correct.

[@ThatBugBehindYou]

With advancement in technology it only gets worse and worse too. It wouldn't be a problem if they did research on what causes disturbances and then replicate something but far too often it's all this cutting and warping, you have to ask what they want you to think it is. Is it a problem with the SD card? If so what kind of problem? If it's damage to the SD card, well, even basic SD cards can be waterproof, zap-proof, and very drop resistant so I dunno about that. You can go on and on about how microphones don't screw up in the ways this shows and same with lenses, don't even get started in the file of the recording itself magically screwing up and getting these effects. Paranormal entities can't change the fundamental laws of recording equipment and file information.

[@aarenrosson6358]

Fun theory: This room does, in fact, exist. Amy does not exist. There is no sister.

[@paint1238]

This is a real bruh-huh theory!

[@itsjvck1]

Aaren Rosson hmm interesting

[@lieutenantmeatball5590]

What about sister location

[@Dunozilla]

An Idol in Teal MOONLIGHT WHITE

[@cosmic_does_stuff4363]

and the lgbt couple never happend

[@crimsonrose4648]

"don't forget to feed the cat" "it's not real" "I know".... Mood 😂👌

[@Crocogator]

Damn good writing, too

[@GmodPlusWoW]

Oh, they've already fed the cat. This coverage is proof enough that the cat has been well and truly fed with this Matrix-ey/Inceptionesque webseries.

[@anrw886]

Normie located

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Nice.

[@michelleantici6651]

Me with any virtual pet

[@mediocremusiccovers]

I think the problem a lot of these webseries have lies in the acting. Many are made by theatre-type kids, for theatre-type kids (myself included), so while the acting might be technically good on paper for stage acting, it often comes across as stilted or awkward because they forget at its core that the goal of any ARG series is realism. REALITY is an operative word there. Too much of the acting is way, way, overdone and the acting could be so much better if people actually ACTED less and actively tried for a more natural feel. But that’s just my takeaway here. Also, the wild inconsistency in tone and style of filming was a big turn off to me for some reason.

[@christianlorrain877]

I know. Some people can get their lines off easy and sometimes it just feels like someons's talking to a brick wall and they're made of wood.

[@felicityjohnston9276]

At first it was kinda interesting but as I kept watching I was just thinking the whole thing is too strange and is VERY obnoxious. I kept wanting to exit but my need to know the ending stops me. Also can someone please tell me how the hell he made himself a perfect world?! Nothing about what they are doing is perfect. He keeps going back and forth between the world is fucked and unsafe to we made a perfect world. Like PICK one!

[@natearrigoni]

That's what it is 100%. This one seems too ham handed with the "vibrant" acting or whatever you want to call it but it was too cheesy feeling to me and I didn't buy a second of the ARG. I couldn't het past the fake theater kid vibe.

[@user-dw5ns8ul3k]

I am with you, compared this to I Am Sophie I prefer later in terms of acting.

[@Superabound2]

Theatre kids are the WORST

[@god7142]

Does it bother anyone else how she aimlessly slams her hands against the door even though she knows it's not doing anything?

[@nnameless9956]

love your art

[@felicityjohnston9276]

me! Absolutely me! I was like you're dense girl, he is trying to get the pass code to the door where the keypad is right in front of your eyes, stop banging! The only thing I like about her is her voice sounds close to Emma Watson.

[@chelleweird]

I know someone who would do this

[@colburn0004]

At a certain point, these things just become way too convoluted for me to actually enjoy. I love a puzzle, I love a interesting multi-layer story, but at a certain point it just starts feeling like over complication just for complication's sake.

[@nolives]

Not really. Everything here fits really well and all has a overall purpose to the granduer narrative. This is far from convoluted. Just very deep with lore and requires a lot of attention to detail to pick up on. Its not meant to be a mindless watch after all, its a arg.

[@katatonikbliss]

@@nolives and some ARGs are shit and too convoluted to be enjoyable

[@joetreadonme]

@@nolives It doesn't fit really well, especially since there is never a conclusion. How can you say it works well and isn't convoluted without knowing how it ends? Even if you saw the two additional episodes not included in this video there is still no conclusion that makes everything fit together. If those two episodes in season three actually are the conclusion then there is plenty that doesn't fit. It is still excellent and I enjoyed watching it but you can't just pretend it's some masterpiece that couldn't possibly be improved upon.

[@timeforamazingchest5271]

I think the biggest and most important question is this: how many layers of the simulation are there, and what layer does each character belong to? The thing that stood out the most to me is that the two internal management members who talk about shutting the system down speak of this screwed-up world that they would have to sit the clients down and explain it to, but Caleb and Abbigail actually have 'thinking you're outside the simulation but still being in it' as part of their experience. Kiara and Jasper prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the 'outside world' we might have believed Caleb to be working in is most likely just another layer. It makes sense that if Caleb (who I believe has not interacted with Ryan until the fourth wall break) jumps from the layer he's supposed to be on (assisting Abbigail on layer 2) to a layer he's _not_ supposed to be on (interacting with Alex and Tessa) that would cause an internal error that could be major enough to start the 'beta repair loop' and the 'multiple clients in the same instance' phenomena. My theory: Layer 1: Ryan #1 (who is the only one we know for sure is a client and now understands he's in a simulation thanks to System), Abbigail #1. This Ryan wears denim, which is significant thinking about his interview. Layer 2: Abbigail #2 (we see both her and #1 in the greenhouse area after Caleb's 'jump,' introducing multiple clients), Caleb (jumps to layer 4 where he hasn't been written to be in, starting the major errors). Layer 3: Kiara and Jasper, who exist as beta testers in an independent layer of the simulation. They don't interact with any other characters. The fact that they were terminated suggests either they were forced to participate or it's another instance of Layer 4: Alex (Ryan #2, _not_ wearing denim) and Tessa (Abbigail #3) (we understand Alex is still not the 'real Ryan' in the interview in which he says "why would I wear denim?") (Additional fun fact: 4 layers could correspond to the 4 servers from the official website) Layer ??: Any other possible layers we aren't aware of currently. Outside world: The two agents discussing a shutdown of the entire system and explaining everything to everyone who is inside. From the fact they've used the word "them" we know it's more than just Ryan who is in there currently. Misc: Tyler and System (Amy) are both artificially created. Assuming System is isolated to inside the simulation, that would make Leo most likely another client. The timeline is so chaotic it's hard to make sense of it, but you can infer the story has been very roughly chronological. There are some fucked up possibilities you can think about that really give you a brainache such as: - If Caleb believes he's outside of the simulation (but that's just a part of his experience), then the VR demo Ryan and Abbigail #1 visited that he mentioned is also part of the simulation. - 'Client Ryan' (the Ryan in the interviews) is not the Ryan that existed outside of the simulation (i.e. the interviews are after the simulation has already begun). - Ryan #1 isn't actually Ryan but an additional construct. The 'real' Ryan is played by Alex, because Alex doesn't wear denim. If the 'real' Ryan planned his own VR experience then most likely they wouldn't make him wear denim if he didn't want to. Additional suspicion is cast when the unknown character walks into Room 2 in the hotel and turns into Ryan #1 (it's possible this unknown person is just an AI agent that switches personas). - Ryan #1 is actually Ryan and Alex is a construct that formed from the Sunrise executable in order to give Caleb, who wasn't written into the layer he jumps to, a sequence that stops him from understanding he was never out of the simulation. - When Caleb is said to have 'jumped,' it wasn't from one instance to another, but instead a real suicide caused by his adverse reaction to moving to a new instance. This would explain why we never see him again after the appearance of Alex, who explains Caleb was wandering around without crying out or asking for help (indicative of severe shock). - System might actually know what makes kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch.

[@lialevi2124]

The mistake us tgey are dullicate a reality who is aldready fake i died 30 min two years ago i was out without filter wrong frequencies i went to god i have no dduobt i m jew we don t teach fables is just another dimension if you die evolved ok if you don t is like a glicth you rest trapped here in fact in coma then i was here hangin around so luckily are last days so Think those in these reality they test there they have a life anyway of downloading consciousness is now possible but no i prefered tk die away from this struggle i ll never firm these experiments many are never came back their brain fdied there is not safe simple but is part of all the plan

[@iamabrawler92]

The best answer to this entire theory and analysis is a jaw drop, an impressed nod, a sincere applause, and a good old "Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed".

[@jacks1bonnielass]

lia levi Think you had a stroke or you’re an AI trying to learn English, but failing miserably

[@rickwrites2612]

lmao! o m.g she shows uo everywhere

[@kinghrath]

Why did the cinnamon toast crunch comment mess me up equally as bad as the rest of them.

[@killmeade]

is anyone else annoyed when they're so freaking loud when they're trying to sneak around.

[@Callyn9x]

Not at all, because I'm too good for that, so good in fact that I do it naturally even when walking around normally (However, I have also trained myself in the art for my whole life, much to the dismay of my family and friends, whom I scare on the regular)

[@z-beeblebrox]

That annoys me in pretty much every movie or series I've ever seen. Whether it's the actor taking for granted that the script says nobody notices them and goes around clacking doors shut, or an overzealous foley guy adding STOMP STOMP footsteps over a catburgler, it's like most media has a total lack of regard for the importance of silence when you're sneaking around

[@professorhaystacks6606]

WITH CATLIKE TREAD! UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL!

[@lovaszaron3138]

@@professorhaystacks6606 Thanks. This made my day.

[@amymeadows9834]

That's as smart as trying to use a cardboard box to sneak around a specially trained soldier

[@wendijuice]

This title reminds me of This House Has People In It, it has a similar weird vibe to it, I really hope it is similar.

[@TakeWalker]

This room does not exist, and does NOT have people in it. No matter what they tell you.

[@wendijuice]

@@TakeWalker I suppose that's quite wise words, thank you, Take Walker.

[@B_Skizzle]

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, this footage of a bear is _completely_ unedited.

[@chips6042]

I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!! WTF THIS IS SOME PSHYCOLOGICAL SHIT

[@aleclundy2735]

I honestly don’t know if any other creator will make me enjoy their content as much as wham city

[@swiftfated]

I zoned out a bit then tuned back in at 45:20 and DIED laughing. The overacting, the hard cut to running away, those few seconds thru 45:40 are so hilarious

[@moseshenning7949]

Nightmind can we please get an update on dad? My favorite KZbinr is putting out tons of content and it could use a nightmind decipher.

[@handsomest1]

@ALLHAILLAVABOY No U

[@jacejames3853]

Dad will remember this

[@maxhydekyle2425]

Dad keeps livestreaming Minecraft.

[@Mystninja]

Dad is number one KZbinr.

[@FullMetalAtheist]

Meh I lost interest when he told his viewers on the part 2 finale he's not making part 3 unless he gets 1500/month on patron. Not to mention it's gotten pretty boring

[@sarakayphoto]

Unfortunately I think this series has many pitfalls of first time college aged film makers: scenes lasting too long, leaning on cool visuals, and a convoluted storyline. They’re forgetting about the viewer. I’ll be interested in another update, but there’s too many unanswered questions so far into the series to have the energy to keep up. I hope the series gets cleaner, tighter and more concise for the viewers sake.

[@cadoized]

i feel like this would be so much more effective if it weren't for the loud audio distortion jump scares. it undercuts everything else that could be unsettling or immersing and reminds you that "nah youre just watching an ooky-spooky webseries on youtube"

[@flamingbunnyrabbits]

I appreciate how high budget and gorgeous this series is. its amazingly shot and edited this is. But man, is this series really really boring. The premise is explained pretty quick with very little mystery, then the things they do keep mysterious i don't feel engaged with or interested in discovering. The biggest mystery is discovering why the system reset and that ends up being explained with the best sequence in the series, but at the same time doesn't make a lot of sense. Who are these people and why are they doing what they are doing? This series feels like they had a cool and interesting premise but never really wrote a plot to develop.

[@_crystallize_]

"To unfuck the fuckup" is one of my new favorite quotes

[@pipro2]

I think this story give a whole new meaning to the "Do not duplicate" warning...

[@sayonara_elegy]

I've been able to ask Lexel Studios a few questions in the past, they are pretty much high school seniors (17-18) in Sydney who are able to putting out work of this caliber. It's actually quite amazing, and they've been swell people who communicate with their audience a lot behind the scenes. Let me repeat: They are barely adults and putting this high quality of cinematography. Rooting for them

[@lukewilhelm5829]

They got a big future in film

[@tate3117]

Alex has some real chops. Every other actor feels awkward and like they're just hitting marks, even when they are written quite likable.

[@reverend_rollmops]

The guy playing Caleb's actually the only convincing actor to me throughout the serie. Alex is not too bad either as is Tess, while the others totally drew me out of it. Rather sad considering the production value and story are on point.

[@P34chy5c0n3]

I mean they were in hs when all of this happened

[@lukewilhelm5829]

@@reverend_rollmops guy playing Caleb was great

[@benepic3101]

“Desired date of birth” 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@monokoman5503]

Boomer

[@benepic3101]

the most unconfident person on earth boomer

[@finn_7951]

6/9 😎

[@ghostmain3382]

me an Intellectual: 1500 A.D.

[@deletedaccount3047]

911

[@maxhydekyle2425]

A time loop where you're endlessly running away from yourself sounds worse than any torture.

[@texmex007]

"where are you going?" "I've got to go unf*ck the f*ck up" Caleb what a Mood

[@c1nnamodoll]

-and don't forget to feed the cat ! -it's not even real ! -i know !! is my two brain cells thinking about my neopets

[@gyrus1902]

Just so you know dad, Dad was recently at twitch con and was apparently handing out fliers with codes on them. We need an update on our favorite Dad.

[@wavewingman5993]

Nick has a particular way of doing things, and most likely won't make an update video unless there's been a lot of new material, the series finishes, or something seriously demands his attention. That said, I do have a feeling Nick will return to Dad eventually.

[@jamiee7367]

Night Mind just uploaded… but it’s still day where I am. This feels wrong

[@Fentanylfinders]

Damn,Ikr

[@Rogergs16]

That's why its called Night MIND. xD

[@ZoanBlade90]

Timezones. It's night time somewhere.

[@TemmiePlays]

@@ZoanBlade90 you sound like somebody in gremlins 2 explaining " it's always midnight somehwhere "

[@whiteslate]

It’s nighttime here in good ol New England, so go ahead and grab yourself some clam chowdah and your Patriots hat...

[@Dominion69420]

“Feed the cat!” “Its not even real!”

[@dragonartist22222]

tbh this just seems over-complicated to me... what need is there to have all these versions of the characters if it doesnt seem to get the plot anywhere?

[@dominiclorenzo3145]

“the mystery woman heads out” *aight imma head out*

[@thegamingdoggo9519]

I'm watching this with my new cat

[@operaaa5449]

That's so sweet :'D

[@NoName_NoTitle]

Congrats on your new cat, bro. I got myself a cat too this year and it's the sweetest thing ever. I can't imagine my life without her now.

[@chasek0746]

Kat coot

[@misfitsatanas5756]

Hello new cat!

[@kemmli]

I got a new cat too! I’ve only had him for 2 months. He’s currently sleeping right beside me as I watch this video.

[@dylon4906]

This whole thing reminds me of the vr game boneworks. Having a mysterious vr world that has been shut down or something like that and youre not supposed to be in it, and theres people on the outside helping you and giving you mysterious intel and commands. Also the constant presence of the logo of the corporation that owns the vr world (deep sleep enterprises for this and monogon for boneworks). I just wish they did more with boneworks's story so it could be as detailed as something like this arg

[@clorbdorb1245]

Thank you so much for what you do on this channel. My ADHD makes it difficult to get/stay engaged in ARGs and webseries, which sucks because I absolutely love them. It always sucked when I couldn't get into something, even when I wanted to, because I couldn't keep myself focused on the content long enough to get invested. Thanks to your videos, I'm able to engage in all the spooky series I love. A lot of times I end up ding a bit of my own watching/exploring, jumping around and being able to stay engaged because I've already been told what to look for and pay attention to. I always felt so guilty for being unable to stay hooked on things that I loved, but your channel lets me be a part of these worlds without having to fight my desire to multitask or fidget while watching.

[@Gunker1104]

I feel like it should've stuck to the found footage formula. I got some KZbin original vibes from the later parts of the series. It went from inception vibeing art to VERY mediocre webseries. Like it was something really nice now its basically a slog of a student project

[@dapio009]

"To unfuck a fuckup" is my new favorite sentence

[@Xbob42]

I get that budgets are limited or nonexistent with these kinds of things, but I do wish 98% of them didn't have completely unremarkable footage and then some weird glitch/text overlay at the end. I don't need to watch a guy walk down a staircase for 3 minutes followed by him ordering a pizza and then a tiny camera glitch followed by "DO NOT LOOK LOL" -- it just kind of feels like I'm wasting my time after you've seen so many of them. A lot of these also really stretch things out with months or even years of the "plot" stuck in neutral, with absolutely nothing happening or just nonsense filler that's supposed to be intriguing. I guess it's part of the genre now, but it'd be nice if more series planned most of the events out ahead of time (and maybe even filmed it all within a few weeks/months then drip fed it over a period of time) so that it wouldn't feel like so much nothing happening. This isn't even a complaint specific to this series (I'm only 27 minutes in to NM's video) although it does appear to have some of that going on, I just think back to every spooky series I've seen and they all seem to be guilty of this. I even started to grow tired of it with Marble Hornets, which felt like it was going in circles for a thousand years before kind of ending on a wet fart that was only a little better once you saw a video like NM's that pieced everything together since I had forgotten half the series' details by the time it ended. Sorry, just had to get a little rant out. So much potential with these things.

[@fairlyfickle]

Nick has the warmest sounding laugh. Like a proud father.

[@platinumpastel1030]

I wish the whole series stayed like the first part (like tape recordings and such) the cinematics make it seem like someone else is recording it and making it un-arg

[@endorsedvampire7581]

Everybody gangsta until the Australians make an ARG....

[@rufusdisturbed]

It was filmed in Sydney. The warehouse is in Homebush.

[@vaporizefear686]

You know what, feeding my goblins can wait.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

Feed your goblins!

[@maxhydekyle2425]

At least feed camera goblin

[@heaventoms8759]

Feed the goblins before they revolt.

[@CuppaBro1]

They're not real!

[@maxandrewmaudsley625]

I just wanna give you credit for being incredibly cool and casual about Ryan being gay. It's reactions like that that help normalize us, and helps us move forward from being something noteworthy, to being just... people. Thank you.

[@EddyOfTheMaelstrom]

It was irrelevant to the story, so why would anyone be anything but casual about it? The best way to normalize it would be to ignore it...which is something you are not doing.

[@maxandrewmaudsley625]

@@EddyOfTheMaelstrom I'm confused as to why you care about me giving a creator props for normalizing LGBTQ content when a lot of creators might make a big deal out of it 🤔 like let me give a compliment to a creator I like, why do you care lol

[@waitinginwonderland5994]

The video Outlier is pronounced Out-li-er instead of out-leer. It means, a person or thing detached from the main body or system.

[@pyrosnineActual]

I kinda like the audio distortions- in other stories, they're just inconvenient to us and nothing else- here, with the revelation the system is Amy- and the logo for the system is a side turned A, suggests that Amy is our Habit, so to speak. She's editing what we see and hear, possibly? And so the errors are always there to keep us from hearing something important. My thought is this: There is a deep rabbit hole, and it's because there's recursion- their simulated world itself contains simulated worlds. I guess you could think of it like this: they made a VR world and populated it, and made themselves users inside of it to manage/manipulate it within the simulation. In order for the simulation to be perfect, the simulated world itself has a simulated simulation. The Abigail and Caleb we meet are within some level of the recursion- Abigail and Caleb are users and management overseeing the simulation, but within the simulation of a simulation, they are the simulated Abigail and Caleb overseeing their own micro-simulation. This goes down several levels, but our Abigail and Caleb are able to recognize it, and knowing how their own simulation works, are able to affect the simulation around them. Caleb is able to hack into the control room with a printout of the code and settings from the office building within his sim. This plot is about simulants being several levels deep, and the sheer level of recursion is causing major glitches. instead of different timelines as seen in EverymanHybrid, we're seeing different layers of a recursive simulation. The Caleb who first meets Abigail (who is reading from a script) is a different Caleb from the one she's expecting- because he's from another layer of the simulation, which is what spurs her to work with him, because she realizes this means that she's in a lower level of the sim than she thought. Internal Management is the program they themselves use to police their smaller simulation, and now realize that by messing around with their world, they're at risk of being pruned off by their internal management. Let me try and explain this a little better. Let's say you make a video game, and within that video game you have a character based on you, that makes a video game. Character in the bottom layer finds out that he's in a video game...and is horrified, intrigued, whatever. He wants to go somewhere or do something, but he's not in charge of the simulation, he's only a character. However, he notices that he has his own game he's making...and it's not unreasonable to assume it's same as the one he's in. So he looks at his code, and realizes he can get somewhere he shouldn't be able to go by looking at the code of his own game- the key to the office building is 3756, because, in his game, it's also 3756. He goes next door, and sure enough, it unlocks. Proving he's in a simulation, and that he can affect his own gameworld to an extent. If he wanted to escape the simulation, the best way would be to look at his own lower simulations to find the info he needs he couldn't normally get within his sim. He might do this by messing with his simulation and observing the results- placing characters somewhere else, giving HIS version of the simulation extra information, giving his lower self something useful to set them on a given path, so that he can use that info to escape. But then he finds that he's also given himself the things that he gave his lower self, and realizes how exactly deep the rabbit hole is... I think Ryan cheated creating Tyler....by coding into his lower simulation the perfect boyfriend. We got two Ryans, because one Ryan is the simulated Ryan, and the other is the Uber-Ryan who tweaked the simulation to give himself a boyfriend.Two recursion levels down, we've got a problem, because there's a Tyler that exists because the Ryan a level up created him, but this means that Ryan himself HAS a boyfriend and isn't going to program himself a boyfriend in his simulation, but because Tyler seemingly always existed, he thus is also recreated in this Ryan's version of the simulation-so we have Tyler who comes from nothing. This causes a degree of paradox, some major glitches, and the system begins to quarantine or shut down to find the error. Caleb finds out somethings wrong when he meets Tyler, and realizes there's something wrong with the sim. He goes to find Abigail, who herself is set up to work with and manipulate the simulated Caleb. But as the session is corrupted, he's able to not only be aware that he's in a session, but also point out that she too, is in a session, and thus they work together to try and save their reality- try to save it by fixing the "Tyler" error before their session is shut down- cut off the infinitely recursive branches. Caleb's plan is to break into a debug room built into the sim, one he knows about because he knows about the one in his sim, and use that to fix their simulation from the inside, saving them from deletion. I believe the PRIME version of reality is in that office warehouse that Caleb, Abigail, Jasper, et al go into- that is the company headquarters of the business that runs the virtual simulation, and that Caleb, Abigail, Mitchell, and co all work there and it's where their server room is. So just like Pokemon, you can go into their office and view the computers, design notes, and even the server space that was used to make the world around you...and even unplug the server you're on. It also means it's a safe place to put debug systems in because a superuser or admin entering the sim would know where to go and how to access it, but because of recursion, Caleb can find and access it, as explained above.

[@CEO0FMILFS]

This is a great theory!

[@hylic2637]

jesus christ what grade did your teacher give you on this essay

[@fleshbirdie]

This makes so much sense, especially with the repeated themes of "screwing up our world"- something horrible happened in the main reality, causing them to lock themselves down somewhere secure and simulate themselves in a new world. However, they manage to manipulate and mess it up anyways, causing them to go further down into new worlds to try and fix it, but just causing new issues every time. Nothing is left unfucked.

[@wavewingman5993]

I will say, having a writing reason for loud distortions and loud distortions being necessary and enjoyable to sit through are two very different things.

[@hollowedboi5937]

Honestly, I listen to these hour long Night Minds as I sleep and somehow remember the story when I wake up through my dreams. No matter how disturbing it still amazes me.

[@WantWhatever]

At the end of the day, I'm just really happy to see a competent Australian webseries like this. Hearing accents that you recognise and seeing locations and architecture that you're familiar with really drives things home in a great way.

[@batmuffinviviane229]

"I have a hunger for hands, that only hands can satisfy." Yep, that's what pops in my head when i hear "That only [insert thing] can satisfy"

[@dark_fire_ice]

Looks like The Matrix mixed with Memento, and I love it, with a splash of Reboot. Oh, maybe some .hack// too. I hope one of the characters wind up being either a virus, or a corrupted personal file turned viral( my hope is on Ryan)

[@QuikVidGuy]

i still dont understand the format change from found footage to multicam wait now it's a short film project again??

[@w4shep]

1:04:30 “Why the f*** would I wear denim?” LOL. So this guy is wondering if it’s him in this sequence and the only way he’s sure is because he wouldn’t be caught dead in jeans. Lol. Great writing! I don’t even care if this ARG has a point after that line.possibly my favorite line of any ARG ever. Lol.

[@Evanz111]

“Do not duplicate” - haha, that’s clever ;)

[@TheOvadex]

I love how they make use of film making gear as set pieces. Like at 54:26 where they use an edit bay as a shady interface console. lol

[@rufusdisturbed]

The warehouse location is an actual AV company.

[@Apollo9898LP]

And the main character is a gay king, we stan

[@diabetickid3064]

Watched Nexpo’s vid over this, both of you made excellent points and entertaining videos

[@KittyChibiWaifu]

Agreed. :)) I love supporting these guys. Their scripts and videos are some quality skincrawling spoop.

[@RottingRootsArts]

I was going to say I swear to god I've watched this before XD guess I watched Nexpo's vid and it's all just flooding back to me

[@maxhydekyle2425]

Nexpo covers everything as quickly as possible, NM covers absolutely every detail so I like them for different reasons.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I had no idea what to expect going in, but TRDNE certainly offers a hell of a premise. And considering the state of the outside world, whatever this "rabbit" is, it doesn't sound like a nice person to do business with. If anything, it's giving me the same vibes I got from the Moon in the Local58 series.

[@ghostgirl7089]

You and nexpo should do a video together sometime, having both minds together, i can only imagine what theories would be made

[@Tabby3456]

Media: Big Company takes people Mark Zucker: This is where the fun begins

[@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

I mean.. I'm not done with the video and maybe the concept is going to end up being interesting but I can confidently say that I wish that the Marble Hornets aesthetic of crappy community theater actors hamming it up and really annoying overly loud static noises needs to go away.

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

Big agree.

[@CouchSpud91]

A-freaking-men. It's why I tend to skip over a good chunk of these videos to Nick's explanation (that and I'm not into bashing my head in trying to figure it out myself). There's a specific webseries NightMind went over (I honestly can't remember which) where the actors were a tad older and their acting was far, far more natural, and it was much easier to sit through than most of these series that Nick looks at. EDIT: The West Records! That's what it was!

[@0Blueaura]

@@CouchSpud91 true

[@Chalts64]

@@0Blueaura @Spencer McClure I was about to say that it sounded like the west records. It's one of the only one of these that Nick covered that I could actually sit through. West Records, Dad, and Petscop.

[@lolster924]

Yeah, more interesting arg’s like dad or petscop had an interesting vibe or gimmick to them, while this feels like some theather kid production

[@user-jl7cz2pe6d]

I've been waiting for this episode ever since Nexpo covered this!

[@jerrynope7060]

I was wracking my brain trying to figure out who i watched do a video on this, ty for saving me a headache

[@mandyt9812]

Jerry nope omg me too! couldn’t figure out where I knew this series from

[@Sigismund697]

@@jerrynope7060 glad I'm not the only one but I actually had to go check

[@chasingchaos6960]

28:55 “we went out on a date” = GAY-RG Man I love ARGs.

[@ellishale2523]

David Abest Since what was mentioned here was a date, a concept shared by all sexualities, you don’t mean ‘culture’ at all. Just say what you mean.

[@Kleoath]

Haven't watched this yet, but I love TRNDE, and the guys who make it are super cool. It's cool to see that they're getting some recognition

[@KodasGarden]

This Room Not Does Exist?

[@ryanmackenzie6109]

Honestly... This is some good gay resprisentation at least. It's interesting and meaningful and it doesn't feel like it's there just for the sake of being there. It feels pretty damn genuine

[@GigaLigma]

I think Ryan WAS woken up - or rather, is in the process of it. He's becoming increasingly aware of what's happening as the series goes on and his world bugs out more, which is exactly what we heard would happen to him near the start so it shouldn't be surprising. I don't see any reason to believe he was awake from the start; toward the beginning when we heard him talking with apparent lucidity, it was probably foreshadowing or even a recording of him BEFORE going into the machine. At most, maybe he was starting to experience moments of lucidity and those moments have simply become longer and clearer for him over time. Either way it seems pretty clear that he's waking up over time. The real twist is that Amy, Ryan's apparent sister, is actually the AI for the VR machine. If you go back and look at some earlier things through this lens, it becomes a very different story from what it would have led you to believe early on. Also note that someone - probably Amy - issues a command to FORCE Ryan to say that she "is everywhere." The program clearly wants him to be entirely aware.

[@GrayderFox]

Just started watching, but I gotta say that *man*, that automated voice is on point for mood-setting. :D

[@nikkichucklespartdeux]

PS I love Echo 🌹 Rose so much so ty❤️a million times over for introducing her to me

[@nikkichucklespartdeux]

@She Who Praises God Endlessly ❤️😘

[@the_egg_]

?????????

[@wickedskittle9917]

59:14 seconds in and I'm literally in my kitchen talking to the screen like "what is going ON!?!?" Amazing bit of work. I had no idea what unfiction was, and I didnt know ARGs were so popular until I found this channel sometime in the last year (which led me to other channels) But this...this is...Mr. Nocturne is the master. I always take your advice and watch what's available first, but watching your content after has become tradition and almost mandatory to wrap my brain around the scrop of some of these projects. Thanks for another great journey Yes, I know I'm late to this party too

[@klourdes6068]

I kept clicking off the tab to text my friend, and each time i did, I heard some rather *questionable* things

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

Jesus Christ... Someone smoked ALL the weed and then watched The Matrix and Inland Empire back to back and then proceeded to write.

[@dalgreth6061]

"Mansbestfriend" sounds like the name of a sniffing/tracking protocol being used by an upper level user to track where in the system these communications are coming from.

[@silenthades]

19:20 I had my headphones in and unplugged the sink drain to let out my mop water.... and thought it was making the strangest noise. Only then realized it was the video.

[@FlightoftheWicked]

thought this was a soothouse video for a second because of the title

[@avsamija7264]

i wanna see the habit too... i mean the RABBIT

[@Vorloru]

Hour and thirty-seven minute Night Mind video? Oh sweet cat daddy. yes

[@NemFX]

Notes, no order: One of the characters talks about being able to control love. Given that we see someone using a Sleaze command (I.e. looking like someone else) this might be what he means. Someone mentions using the full-dive style VR technology for military purposes. This is a reference to the movie Avatar.

[@Camkitsune]

26:18 I love this shot. Not sure but it feels like on top of the camera movement they've got some kind of subtle dolly zoom; the effect is wonderfully disconcerting.

[@Fakan]

Great cameras, great camerawork, not paranormal for once: I'm so into this. =D That looping video near the end was my absolute favorite. It was shot unbelievably well. If I was to venture a theory, we know Sunrise is important, at least to Alex. We have the countdown, we have the student film, and Everything is Sunrise. We also know from the client testimony that clients can create a perfect life for themselves and then live it without knowing it was prefabricated. What if Sunrise is--or was--the perfect life Alex was creating for himself? Tyler was a part of it, after all, until that character was deleted in Caleb's reboot. Maybe the simulation has to run a certain amount of time to gather/calibrate data before it can enact the presubmitted fantasy? This could be why Abigail and Caleb sometimes know about Alex and what's going on. It's not a perfect theory, but it's what was going through my head towards the end of the vid. Who knows? I'm interested. =D

[@colinchildress1251]

There's definitely some Black Mirror stuff going on here. Amy is bending Ryan's love to her will by deleting Tyler, so that might be something..

[@adriantheabstract]

Nexpo covered this right? Or I'm I in a fucking time loop again . I can't go through being born again

[@muzzle4mutt]

Dude same

[@ryanmorris6388]

You can only be born so many times before the walls of uteruses​ all start to look the same 🙄

[@athenasrevenge93]

Nice, you posted when I'm SUPPOSED to be awake!

[@GarfieldPhone]

night mind, your videos are amazing. when i had a mild concussion, i spent hours binge-watching these videos. your voice is nice to listen to, and your videos are incredibly well made. thank you for your awesome videos

[@frankedwards4025]

Thank god you posted early enough for me to watch without worrying much about falling asleep ! Though no promises with how relaxing your voice is smh. Super excited for another long video though !

[@nack287]

Remember, if you've got a quirky film project, you get more clicks if you throw in some shitty static and call it an ARG

[@danna660]

This was so awesome! Thank you for sharing. I can't wait until your next upload on this!

[@mossadgynist]

Why do you sound like a human pretending to be a computer pretending to be a human

[@rayquasar8508]

This dude's voice is like ASMR.

[@onyxhades9513]

Always makes me happy when I see a new Night Mind video!

[@crazyphan18]

I’m a new subscriber to Night Mind so just been checking out his material and I can say with certainty I *never* would have found this fascinating original series without this video. It was informative, intriguing and acted as a great recap and summarizing especially as season 3 has just started just a few weeks ago. Looking forward to see what other amazing things I have been missing out on!

[@reecesmiff3803]

YES! I'VE BEEN HOPING YOU WOULD DO A VIDEO ABOUT THIS ROOM DOES NOT EXIST!

[@sdtrask7086]

Holy balls! You are on the grind! Loving the videos, just make sure to pace yourself so you don’t overwork

[@Mystninja]

18:57 no it's normal for that Sydney train on that line to be empty. As that's where the switch track is at Central.

[@rufusdisturbed]

It's actually the Homebush depot.

[@bruhgaming9924]

why do the video descriptions give me this weird nostalgic and eerie feeling at the same time

[@the_lizardface]

sometimes i watch a nightmind video and im like "i could just watch the series itself and get just as much information, because he's basically just rebroadcasting the series in a single video with very little commentary" this was one of those times.

[@mrpokemon1186]

"Why would I wear denim?"

[@Cheekysquirel]

The sad fact we only ever got 2 more video out of this series

[@StoryAndSong1]

I love when time stuff happens and characters interact with themselves in a sort of time travel, remembered this video I watched four years ago after seeing the scenes in Emesis Blue and came back to it just for the moment as 1:18:12

[@BackPalSA]

Actual night mind content?! My god.

[@multieyedmyr]

None of these ever made me feel uneasy till now. This gives me vague de ja vu

[@randomfurry7975]

maybe I'm high rn but I love watching this so much. I bet those actors are good friends and they probably had so much fun making this. there's so much love put into making this. 🥺💕💕

[@fireyums]

I do applaud that during the Amy is the system reveal, I jumped up a little in my chair and stated aloud "The company Logo is a sideways A!"