I'm In An Eternal State Of Donnie Myself.

I'm in an eternal state of Donnie myself.

I’d like to think I’m sorry but I’m not in the slightest

Me: Have any of you ever seen Ballora and Donnie having a dance-off?

You guys: Uh-uh.

Me: wOULD YOU LIKE TO?!

Inspired by that weird dream I had over the weekend.

Also, this was my first time drawing Ballora in true animatronic form. I'm pretty proud of how she turned out. :)

Guys, I had this dumb hypothesis at 5:00 a.m.

FNAF is just Vaporwave: The Video Game Series.

Hear me out.

Vaporwave may be known for its weird environments and use of pop culture/products from the 1970s-2000s, but it has a satirical edge. Vaporwave often focuses on motifs of soullessness and false grandeur to poke fun at capitalism and consumerism.

What about FNAF?

The weirdness has always been there with the hallucinations/Easter eggs (Golden Freddy, secret death screens, etc.), even if the environments aside from the Pizzaplex don't lean too hard into the 80s aesthetic. The characters do, though. ShowBiz Pizza Place, which operated between 1980 and 1992, was known for featuring a group of animatronic animal characters. Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre followed suit in 1981. The FNAF crew may not be entirely realistic, but their theme fits right into this relic of the 80s.

Then there's Fazbear Entertainment. Fazbear Entertainment was greedy from the start, paying Mike minimum wage to fight for his life with limited electricity and no access to the restrooms. Help Wanted kicks it up a notch by having the company actively try to cover up the murders that have happened at their restaurants, and Security Breach bumps it up to cartoonish levels. VIP-only fire escape? Needing a pass to enter the building, then one to enter the atrium, then one to visit one of the attractions? Only selling Faz Cams in Monty Golf, where flash photography is banned, just so you can confiscate them and sell them again? Fazbear Entertainment might just be run by Mammon.

Let's not forget about the soullessness and false grandeur. The FNAF 2 location, for example, looks all shiny and kid-friendly, but the employees can't even be bothered to fix Mangle anymore. Some people believe that the bodies from the SAVE THEM minigame may be hidden just out of view of the cameras, too. FNAF 3? Fazbear's Fright capitalizes on the rumors of the murders and hauntings instead of treating the matter with respect. Sister Location? Shiny and futuristic animatronics, but there isn't even a pizzeria. It's just a dark, empty warehouse. Security Breach? The Pizzaplex is basically a monument to Fazbear Entertainment's properties and profits--four stories of neon lights and wall-to-wall Freddy Fazbear. There's also a room perpetually on fire, a slew of generic S.T.A.F.F. bots in place of actual employees, and a mountain of forever-ignored complaints. They aren't hiding anything. They're too rich to care.

In short, FNAF features strange imagery and characters reminiscent of 80s pop culture. It also heavily criticizes corporatism through its story and darker humor. If that isn't vaporwave, then...well...it isn't vaporwave. I just kinda wasted my time. But this was still fun to pick apart.

We're having a bit of a snow day at my school tomorrow, and this was all I could think of.

The brain rot is real, and I love these idiots way too much.

I may have discovered a mechanic in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.

My findings may just be a result of confirmation bias, but I'd still like to share them.

I am an absolute coward, so I have to play these games with the sound off. This initially made the office sequences difficult, as you're supposed to listen for animatronics in the vents next to you. However, I noticed that on occasion, the lights above the vents will flicker. I don't think this is just for the scare factor. I have consistently avoided animatronic attacks by staring at the vent where there is flickering; I stare until the light level stabilizes again. I got through Friday using this tactic.

So it seems that you can use the flickering to tell if you are in immediate danger. Can anyone else either confirm or refute this?

Doing some more dogsitting

This is Sofia. She belongs to one of my aunts. I think she's a Maltese. Whatever she is, she's just a spoiled little void. I love her. :)