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I've never played animal well, but I decided to look into this puzzle to gain some insight behind why this shows how full of shit this guy is.
there are 8 sets of wingdings messages you can find in the game, an example:
each message requires an extremely specific set of tasks to reveal:
| The Tamagochi's message | Reach the top of the Well with the Animal Flute and use the Top to dig the ground to the right. This leads you to a Tamagotchi pedometer, which you must reach in less than 100 steps. At step count 99, you can unlock a chest containing a message in wingdings. The step count resets after 99,999 steps. |
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| The kangaroo's message | For the next wingding message, you'll have to get back at the kangaroo that jump scares you at various parts of the map. In the room with the two dog statues, use the code       to reveal a hidden chamber where you can trap the kangaroo. Immediately throw a Firecracker once it gets stuck to scare him off. |
| The hummingbird's message | Notice how the hummingbird pops all your bubbles? With the upgraded Bubble Wand, however, you can spawn countless bubbles, frustrating the hummingbird to the point that it curses you back in wingdings. The best place to do that is the screen with the four animal statues where the bubble will rise to the screen above that has the hummingbird. |
| The squirrel's message | The next wingding code can be obtained by sneaking up on five squirrels in a single run. However, this will likely require a new save as the squirrels easily get startled and will run away. |
| The lynx's message | You receive a wingding message from the Lynx if you play a lengthy sequence of melodies without releasing its five kittens from the cages. |
| The chameleon's message | If you weren't already aware, the red chameleon only really does eight points of damage when it eats you. If you have one extra heart left, it belches you out along with some wingding curses. To increase your total hearts, you can either eat the purple berries for a temporary boost or drink the groundhog's potion for a permanent increase to your total hearts. |
| The Speedrunner's message | This wingding message is by far the hardest to obtain, as you'll have to speedrun the game by acquiring the true ending and reaching the second clock, where you find the message, in under an hour. |
| Blob's message | Obtaining the final message is also not easy. While at full health, you'll have to go around the map eating 100 berries without taking a single hit. To eat the red berries at full health, however, you'll need to press the eat button three times. |
finding each of these messages was a community effort. this reddit post details the players who first stumbled upon each message, as well as the player who made the poster map connection:
Looking through Discord logs, this was how things were found by the community and the users that initially found them, though people who had access to the game pre-release had already found some of them:
The first found was the pedometer string. I believe the first person to find it post-release was user Crazyblobb, but I'm not entirely sure. The idea that it might be some sort of picture was had just from this, and was further cemented by the future findings, though the idea that it could be a cipher stuck around for a while.
The second found was the bobcat string, with Adam Korinek asking if anyone could transcribe the song so he could try to play it to get the wheel early. LoDef stepped in and transcribed it, Adam played it and got the message.
The third found was the hummingbird string, found by Flan pre-release and disclosed to the larger community immediately after the bobcat string. It was after this that the name "wingdings" stuck, as well as the idea that breaking the game in certain ways might result in more wingdings.
The fourth found was the kangaroo string, found by Tyler Glaiel. It was after this that the idea of "annoying animals" to get future strings became a leading thought.
After this, Plurmorant made the connection with the poster in the house. This essentially killed the idea of the text being a cipher, being replaced with it being some sort of map or potentially another path like the BDTP one.
The fifth found was the speedrun string, found sort of by multiple people. Alittar did the speedrun for it first, but didn't actually notice the wingding his video himself. It was then found by Sj through cheating his game time to zero, resulting in Plurmorant going back to check Alittar's video and finding it there. The conditions for getting the wingdings were not totally known, but later on Stal confirmed that it was sub-60 minutes.
The next thing found was the groundhog day secret, with the idea being had by jake and confirmed by houston. Nobody knew what to do with the extra hearts yet, though...
The sixth found was the squirrel string, found by Flan. The map now had a start point, which Sid pointed out looks like the left edge of the bunny temple. Sid began to try all the few possible paths left, and became the first person to find the time capsule. After this, the search for the last wingdings slowed down slightly, some people even saying that there might not be any more and that "bruteforcing" it was the intended solution.
The seventh found was the chameleon string, by Coreos. It was their first message in the server!
The last found was the fruit string. I don't really know all the details on this one, people had been trying the idea for a while but hadn't known to do it damageless. Datamining found that there was indeed a counter for the number of fruit eaten, and eventually someone did it and got the final wingding. The legitimacy is messy here and I don't really know who to credit.
The first found was the pedometer string. I believe the first person to find it post-release was user Crazyblobb, but I'm not entirely sure. The idea that it might be some sort of picture was had just from this, and was further cemented by the future findings, though the idea that it could be a cipher stuck around for a while.
The second found was the bobcat string, with Adam Korinek asking if anyone could transcribe the song so he could try to play it to get the wheel early. LoDef stepped in and transcribed it, Adam played it and got the message.
The third found was the hummingbird string, found by Flan pre-release and disclosed to the larger community immediately after the bobcat string. It was after this that the name "wingdings" stuck, as well as the idea that breaking the game in certain ways might result in more wingdings.
The fourth found was the kangaroo string, found by Tyler Glaiel. It was after this that the idea of "annoying animals" to get future strings became a leading thought.
After this, Plurmorant made the connection with the poster in the house. This essentially killed the idea of the text being a cipher, being replaced with it being some sort of map or potentially another path like the BDTP one.
The fifth found was the speedrun string, found sort of by multiple people. Alittar did the speedrun for it first, but didn't actually notice the wingding his video himself. It was then found by Sj through cheating his game time to zero, resulting in Plurmorant going back to check Alittar's video and finding it there. The conditions for getting the wingdings were not totally known, but later on Stal confirmed that it was sub-60 minutes.
The next thing found was the groundhog day secret, with the idea being had by jake and confirmed by houston. Nobody knew what to do with the extra hearts yet, though...
The sixth found was the squirrel string, found by Flan. The map now had a start point, which Sid pointed out looks like the left edge of the bunny temple. Sid began to try all the few possible paths left, and became the first person to find the time capsule. After this, the search for the last wingdings slowed down slightly, some people even saying that there might not be any more and that "bruteforcing" it was the intended solution.
The seventh found was the chameleon string, by Coreos. It was their first message in the server!
The last found was the fruit string. I don't really know all the details on this one, people had been trying the idea for a while but hadn't known to do it damageless. Datamining found that there was indeed a counter for the number of fruit eaten, and eventually someone did it and got the final wingding. The legitimacy is messy here and I don't really know who to credit.
once all messages are found, there's a poster on the wall in your house that is color coded based on the length of each message, and when the messages are arranged on the poster, a map is revealed:
but this is of course simple for big brain mald to discover. not only was he already able to discover 4 out of 8 messages entirely on his own, but he instantly made the connection to map them to the poster in the house:
after this discovery, he proceeded to immediately discover two additional messages:
with 6 out of 8 total messages, he puts together an almost completed map:
the two messages he's missing are the speedrunner's message and the blob's message, the two messages the guide I referenced noted as the most difficult to obtain. mald knows he can't fake obtaining these on stream, but he has just enough information to conveniently deduce the rest of the map on his own:
after this, he uses the map to find a hidden island and uncovers the last secret of the game and the video ends.
so yeah, he's full of shit, and to be quite honest, nobody actually cares if you have to look up a guide for something like this. I totally would, but it's the fact that he presents himself in a way as if he's solving these puzzles and secrets on his own while also making snide remarks during his playthrough like, "people don't know how to play puzzle games these days. I don't understand the idea of looking up the answers to puzzle games" and "in this house, we solve puzzles, and we don't look up the answers."
this guy is so painfully unlikable and a huge faggot.
