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2 minutes ago, No-Man Baugh said:No, we all did not want to respect veddge's privacy. There were (and probably still are) enough people who wanted to pry at his personal life for the sake of solving this "mystery" to the point that he basically had to declare an informal cease and desist
well the WE that i am mentioning here are the people that respect their privacy mb for the wording.
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9 minutes ago, Shepardus said:Frankly, if someone telling you to stop pushing against the author's privacy "ruins" it for you, I don't think it was ever meant for you.
9 minutes ago, esselfortium said:It was posted because people were not letting the mystery be a mystery, and were invading the author's privacy by treating their actual life as part of an ARG.
i just wanna clarify i am just an avid reader, i don't have time to dig up stuff. and i'm just having fun reading the forums and the wiki stuff and i also know the importance of the privacy of the author. and i too just want it to be a mystery (there a reason why my fave yt show is a buzzfeed show)
its just putted me on edge. to be given a sense of mystery and then boom the mystery is gone lmao.
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On 5/6/2023 at 5:28 AM, Not Jabba said:Hey all.
I've been visited by the ghost of Christmas past, let's say. And I learned that it's time to put the mystery to rest.I've said this elsewhere in the thread, but it bears repeating: Solving the mysteries of MyHouse is so powerful that it makes you want to keep going. We spent days and pages processing this incredible story of grief and acceptance and self-exploration and the struggle to come to grips with the unanswered questions of life, all condensed down into this one extended metaphor. And it was so good at rewarding us for asking questions that we never stopped. The supplemental material like the journal gave us more questions to ask, so we pursued them, and it was a cool little add-on to the original journey of playing the map. I think the problem here, for all of us, is that we didn't have any way to know when to stop. There's no beach ending for the supplemental material or our meta-engagement with the author of the map. We never got our "A secret is revealed!" message to tell us we were done, so we kept trying to figure out if there were still more clues with another big reveal at the end. The only thing left to know seemed to be the identity of the mapper, so we've been looking for that to tell us we can put our brains down and go back to our regular lives. So I'm here to give you that ending as best I can:
"A secret is revealed!"
I have it on the best possible authority that we've found everything that was left in place for us to find. The names in the obituaries and the unknown contributors aren't riddles. There aren't any more. The supplemental materials do add something to the map, but only in the ways we've already experienced. The anagram we already solved in the credits file was the last thing of any significance. After talking with the author, I also feel that we've understood the map properly. It's about the things it felt like it was about -- though obviously we can all interpret the finer details however we want -- and we've spent all this time processing what we felt while playing it because those things were real. It's sincere, is what I mean, regardless of whether it was made by a dead person with a fake name.
The one thing you don't know that I can't tell you is the author's identity. I know the fomo is real here, but they actually don't want you to figure out who they are, and I respect their reasons for that. I kind of hope that the author will let that come to light one day, eventually, because I think they deserve to have people know what they accomplished, but I also hope that they're allowed to do that on their own terms, not ours.
A lot of this is my fault. My presence in the thread in the last couple of weeks has done more harm than good, and I even lashed out at Kevan. I'm sorry for all that. I don't even know how many people are going to believe me now, after all the suspicion and speculation that's already happened, but hopefully this will help others move on. The supplemental materials are pretty great, but what's really important here is the map...so I'm grateful that I can now focus on that, and let it just kinda simmer in the background of my existence moving forward.
All the best.
ngl this post ruined the mystery of it all, while i know that the author wanted to keep their identity safe. you saying to just suddenly stop ( with valid reasons) just completely ruined it for me. what you created in this forum was so godlike that you created a enigmatic piece of story on top of an already complex story it was so good. that honestly make me love the mod even more. following you with your journey in this thread was such a bliss.
i know that you wanted to respect the privacy of the author ( i mean we all want too) but knowing the "truth" and going like "since i now know the truth y'all should stop and keep it to yourself" is gatekeeping 101 lmao
you should've kept the mystery be a mystery and kept quite about it. it would have been a better mystery when you just suddenly stop posting and we don't know what happened. That's all.
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yes i know that. its the reason why i love reading reading this thread.