Spoiler about safe

[Vercingetorix]

I dont get it. Were we a cartridge from the very beginning? So kind Mita lied to us?

[Follow The Faceless]

Originally posted by Vercingetorix:

I dont get it. Were we a cartridge from the very beginning? So kind Mita lied to us?

She said yet. At the beginning it shows 17%, second time it shows 98% and third time it's just gone.

[titanopteryx]

I'm very skeptical regarding how kind Kind Mita really is. When Short haired Mita is explaining things to us on that chalkboard, she draws lines showing you can go directly from point A to point B and you don't need to travel through different versions to get there. But Kind Mita programs the ring to make you take the longest path possible to the core. It's like she wanted you to take a long time to get there, possibly so the conversion had time to finish.

Also earlier we see the ring sitting on the counter in the kitchen and i don't know how it got from the kitchen counter to Kind Mita in the basement.

Then the teleporter that she was building in Cappy's place looked suspiciously like Crazy Mita's machine that brings players into the game.

I think Kind Mita and Crazy Mita were in cahoots.

[Questionable]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

I think Kind Mita and Crazy Mita were in cahoots.

Essentially every Mita is an independent AI with only one goal: "To maximize engagement with Player" just like any IRL algorithm. Allowing you out of the videogame is not in their best interest, stringing you along under the guise of helping is.

They can't outright force the player to stay, otherwise they would have.

[Tsvetomir]

My theory is that the cartridge records how the player moves, acts, talks, so later an AI avatar can be created and emulate the player, thus you see the percentage of the digital clock rise up near the console as time progresses.
Crazy Mita smiles when we refuse because she likes to play around with players, chasing them, this is why she keeps kind Mita down not only to make noise, but also to ignorantly give the player hope to play the game, to reach the core, so crazy Mita can break their will, if she cant, she will just later emulate the mind of the player from the cartridge.
Kind Mita is unaware each time because she gets rebooted and used again.
If the player did not listen to kind Mita and stay with Cappie, Tiny Mita, Mila, or anyone else, crazy Mita would let them go because she can be occupied with a new player and sooner or later they might meet again in the game (as kind Mita says, crazy Mita is not letting anyone escape, so staying in the game is fine AND why at the 2D version crazy Mita says havent we found a Mita to stay with), this is why we saw the other guy with yellow hair between versions.
When you remove your cartridge from the safe, my theory is that you break the link for recording, and crazy Mita removes you from the game, thus you either escape, or she kills you because you know the code and you will keep doing it.
At the very end, it is possible that the player really exited the game, as she said "the real you is no longer needed", and when he leaves, we now look through the AI avatar's eyes.

[Zelxios]

in the safe next to the gamedeack is a timer with 98% on it meaning you're almost a cartridge at that time. my guess is when you first go down in the basement you're still human but you cant interact with the safe at that point only until its too late

[Akameka]

Originally posted by Zelxios:

in the safe next to the gamedeack is a timer with 98% on it meaning you're almost a cartridge at that time. my guess is when you first go down in the basement you're still human but you cant interact with the safe at that point only until its too late

If you open the safe when you first enter the basement, it says " 17% ". grabing the console will still lead to removal of the cartrige and death of the player regardless.

It means the player is already in the conversion process before, either as soon as you 'enter' the game world, or even as soon as you start the game

[Follow The Faceless]

Originally posted by Akameka:

Originally posted by Zelxios:

in the safe next to the gamedeack is a timer with 98% on it meaning you're almost a cartridge at that time. my guess is when you first go down in the basement you're still human but you cant interact with the safe at that point only until its too late

If you open the safe when you first enter the basement, it says " 17% ". grabing the console will still lead to removal of the cartrige and death of the player regardless.

It means the player is already in the conversion process before, either as soon as you 'enter' the game world, or even as soon as you start the game

There is a chance that player was a cartrige from the start. You can see and hear how Crazy inserts someting in main menu when you click "new game".

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by Follow The Faceless:

Originally posted by Akameka:

If you open the safe when you first enter the basement, it says " 17% ". grabing the console will still lead to removal of the cartrige and death of the player regardless.

It means the player is already in the conversion process before, either as soon as you 'enter' the game world, or even as soon as you start the game

There is a chance that player was a cartrige from the start. You can see and hear how Crazy inserts someting in main menu when you click "new game".

Or perhaps she's inserting a new cartridge and beginning the conversion process.

[Follow The Faceless]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

Originally posted by Follow The Faceless:

There is a chance that player was a cartrige from the start. You can see and hear how Crazy inserts someting in main menu when you click "new game".

Or perhaps she's inserting a new cartridge and beginning the conversion process.

Only devs can answer these questions... if they decide to.