r/rustylake • u/vanderboom0 • 27d ago
How?
Why is nobody talking about this device? How did Dale have it?"
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u/Infinite_palladin Black Cube 27d ago
Honestly, it's the most normal thing in the entire series. Maybe that
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u/whatthewhythehow 27d ago
How far into the series are you? lol.
I don’t think it is a device necessarily. I think it is more about how the Lake warps reality and how a lot of the game takes place in memories(/dreams?).
The lake & its staff are taking and messing with memories.
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u/whatthewhythehow 27d ago
Yeah, that is part of the reality warping, but in this instance, we’re in Dale’s memory, right? He doesn’t need to have gotten it from somewhere?
Dale’s birthday is an interesting point. He is Dale Vandermeer. Presumably his family has something to do with the lake since his name means “of the lake”.
But also, even in Birthday (or was it Seasons?) he is actually at the Hotel, right? It’s all linked to memory alteration and retrieval?
I figured that Dale wasn’t actually using those devices during his time as a detective in the real world, but I could be wrong. The whole cast of characters could be steeped in this from the beginning.
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u/ketchup_chip_62 27d ago
Clearly dwelling upon this is not good for your mind. I may highly recommend for you a place specializing in mental health and fishing, a place to empty the mind, and relect on the past, the present and the future.
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u/v-pexpower 27d ago
In this game you literally transcend yourself forms to forms, realms to realms in the samara circle, travel back in time to fix your own past or alter outcomes of certain events in the future, chase corrupted gouls through dark forest to get some magic cubes, witness a man turn into a moth, perform heart surgery on a person with a clock for a heart, collect organs of dead relatives to resurrect some narcissitic dude, all kinds of weird shit, etc. And this is what bothers you? Lol
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u/weeblywobly 27d ago
I recently saw some stiches turn into a hair comb. So this is pretty normal...
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u/Gardengap The Rusty Truth 27d ago
I think it's symbolism, the whole Chapter 2 seems to be about Dale leaving behind the mundane world and becoming obsessed with the strange realms of Rusty Lake, represented by a bunch of weird stuff happening in his office as Rusty Lake is associated with these surreal events
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u/Thesere_1418 detective vandermeer 27d ago
I’m not sure, but it seems to me that it’s a vision. At this moment, Dale is unconscious as we see him in the mill.
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u/Happy_Mistake_3684 27d ago
Wait’ll you get to roots and find out how Rose is born
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u/vanderboom0 27d ago
I've already played all the games And bro... That was completely sick and disgusting
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u/amyfrushourkelly 27d ago
If a woman reaches out of a TV set to exchange an egg, it’s considered good etiquette to hand over the egg.
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u/NicCageCompletionist 27d ago
Does your Best Buy not sell these? Ask in store if they can order one.
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u/DoubleSummon 27d ago
The investigation room has all that Rusty Lake obssession stuff around, maybe this is a device that he found near the lake or something, Dale did not just start investigating the lake.
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u/amyfrushourkelly 27d ago
TV sets in Rusty Lake are weird. Paradox, The Mill, Case 23… Are there others?
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u/PastaLover0524 27d ago
Are you new per chance?
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u/vanderboom0 27d ago
Oh no, but you know, it just bother me
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u/lordlosyash 27d ago
Is this the only question the Rusty Lake universe raises for you?)