Game Theory: We Let Them Out (Boneworks / Duck Season)

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    Last episode, we explored the big secret hiding beneath the surface of Boneworks - the double agent Arthur Ford and his quest for immortality. I left you with the idea that this all comes full circle with the evil Dog from Duck Season, another game from Stress Level Zero. Today, we are opening the void to let out all the horrible, terrifying secrets hidden inside. We can't go back Theorists, we can only survive what we - the player - have unleashed.
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  • @yanzthemanz392
    @yanzthemanz392 Před 4 lety +20598

    Arthur Fleck: "We live in a society."
    Arthur Ford: *"We live in a virtual reality."*

    • @yanzthemanz392
      @yanzthemanz392 Před 4 lety +105

      @@Username-vn1wx 👍

    • @davidloza9316
      @davidloza9316 Před 4 lety +143

      The guy in machine king has blonde hair and so does David, coincidence?
      David has fought the Dog and I think that experience early in life is gonna help him fight the force of Arthur Ford.
      But this is just speculation.

    • @yanzthemanz392
      @yanzthemanz392 Před 4 lety +60

      @@davidloza9316 but that's just a theory... A GAAAAME THEORY

    • @grandadmiralthrawn2023
      @grandadmiralthrawn2023 Před 4 lety +62

      Arthur Morgan: "We're living a life of crime, boah!"

    • @PanJee
      @PanJee Před 4 lety +19

      Smart 👍

  • @ElectricBongos
    @ElectricBongos Před 4 lety +2665

    “The problem is”- Ad: Once you start smoking you can’t stop-

    • @xavis7617
      @xavis7617 Před 4 lety +78

      Yeah the FDA really wants to be annoying with that campaign.

    • @Matthew_Klepadlo
      @Matthew_Klepadlo Před 4 lety +64

      Bolt XZ FTW
      It’s not a virus…
      Not a disease…
      Not an infection…
      It’s YOU!!!
      *Game Theory titlecard pops up*

    • @kro1483
      @kro1483 Před 4 lety +5

      I know right at first I was like come on not another ad but then I started laughing once I put two and two together

    • @DaDeadDuck
      @DaDeadDuck Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah, that is bad news lol

    • @donna_k_kerns
      @donna_k_kerns Před rokem +3

      666 like wtf

  • @Idk22223
    @Idk22223 Před 4 lety +1802

    I bet that the twist in the mini theory is that the dog basically “created” or “controlled” his destiny so he will grow up, enter the void, and start a chain off events ending humanity. That is why they have stuff like badkidbaddad. It represents the fact that the dog “created” his destiny, so he is represented as a “father”. David is the bad kid who enters the void and ends humanity as we know it. This also explains the its me tape.

    • @chocolatechipbiscuitsauce6646
      @chocolatechipbiscuitsauce6646 Před 4 lety +47

      Give this man a 🏆

    • @Zedryx69
      @Zedryx69 Před 4 lety +35

      Or stress level zero is hinting a crossover between FNAF and whatever this is..

    • @charax-1
      @charax-1 Před 4 lety +6

      Makes sense solid theory come here gentleman and receive your donuts sorry I got no prize

    • @shellolechello
      @shellolechello Před 4 lety +3

      WHAT THE FU- FREAK! HOW?! THIS GUY A LEGEND!!!! (CLAP IT UP!!!!!)

    • @loserscorner6746
      @loserscorner6746 Před 4 lety +4

      This is false. Duck Season is actually an experiment run by Monogon into void energy. The Dad is the Dog but what MatPat missed was how the Dad isn't a real person but actually an AI just like David.

  • @sugarsprinkles5802
    @sugarsprinkles5802 Před 3 lety +848

    The Evolution of Arthur. Step 1: Blonde child with blue eyes. Step 2: Brown-haired man, brown eyes. Step 3: Literal dog

    • @gracious5114
      @gracious5114 Před 2 lety +32

      @Cayden Reed Yeah he couldn’t just run around looking the same. The police would probably be hunting him because they think he killed his mom.

    • @Pred.
      @Pred. Před 2 lety +7

      Yeah matpat is kinda batshit crazy with this stuff, arthur ford's story is pretty much primer mixed in with infinite hims and reaching true immortality over and over.

    • @sugarsprinkles5802
      @sugarsprinkles5802 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Pred. Honestly, I love it!

    • @anthonywilliamces3949
      @anthonywilliamces3949 Před 2 lety +3

      Basically just like Little Nightmares 2, it's just a never ending loop, and even Monitor Kernel Access feels the same way... I guess if she remembers everything

    • @johnathanegbert9277
      @johnathanegbert9277 Před 2 lety +2

      MONItor Kernel Access? As in Monika.chr from DDLC?

  • @candy_c0rn_cat201
    @candy_c0rn_cat201 Před 3 lety +168

    “Do you do anything when you eat breakfast?” “Oh yeah I just do a summoning ritual why do you ask?”

  • @natetso3307
    @natetso3307 Před 4 lety +13275

    The dog is Arthur. The dog points at David, then at himself, then makes a cradling motion. “You, Me, Child” MatPat originally interpreted this to mean: “You are my child”. But what if instead it meant: “You are me *as a child*”? That would tie in with MatPat’s headcanon that Arthur is a grown up version of David, and would also mean that the dog is the form Arthur takes once he enters the void and become a cryptid himself, and that he’s using the void’s power to circumvent time and space and influence his own past.
    But that’s just a theory. A comment theory. Thanks for reading.
    EDIT: We did it boys

  • @BgChf-dg5lv
    @BgChf-dg5lv Před 4 lety +2363

    Ducks: it’s a great day huh?
    MatPat: picks up shotgun.
    Duck: why do I hear boss music?

  • @V_ansy
    @V_ansy Před rokem +81

    I love that matpat didnt take down the other video despite his theory being wrong, its all trial and error because, whether hes clever or not, he is still human..
    ..maybe

    • @maxamillion3287
      @maxamillion3287 Před 3 měsíci

      he aint human. no human would go to his lengths to research.

    • @MichaelNaugher
      @MichaelNaugher Před měsícem

      ​@@maxamillion3287His genius is showing.

  • @bobby29001
    @bobby29001 Před rokem +57

    He needs to make a bonelabs theory now that it’s released, it fixes a lot of plot holes like what myth is. And what the radio channel is.

  • @jacobpreston8069
    @jacobpreston8069 Před 4 lety +1314

    "The bad news is-"
    *Commercial Appears*
    "College has endless opportunities"
    ..huh

  • @alicageorge2413
    @alicageorge2413 Před 2 lety +51

    'We just released an evil cat demon into the world. WHOOPSIES!'
    Legit the best sentence ever

  • @mrtee2630
    @mrtee2630 Před rokem +23

    I feel like the dog is actually a step dad whom the mom had an affair with, which is why the biological father isn't there and why there's the phrase "Bad Dad Bad Kid". So I believe the biological dad worked for Gammon and as revenge trapped the step dad in the game. The creators did mention they were gonna have an ending where the father is the dog, but didn't say which father...

  • @nickstump9384
    @nickstump9384 Před 4 lety +1195

    Matpat: “...in this trilogy..”
    DeadFM: “Am I a joke to you?”

    • @nojo9308
      @nojo9308 Před 4 lety +31

      I was thinking that exact thing when he said that

    • @notmobi
      @notmobi Před 4 lety +16

      Yeah can't believe he forgot about that

    • @clouddd8053
      @clouddd8053 Před 4 lety +7

      Yup

    • @naomirodoye7096
      @naomirodoye7096 Před rokem +1

      Yes

    • @Neyan42
      @Neyan42 Před rokem

      wait are we about to play DeadFM in as Bonelab??

  • @tattieverb265
    @tattieverb265 Před 4 lety +447

    Matt: talkes about it being a trilogy
    Dead FM:

    • @weasel7491
      @weasel7491 Před 4 lety +30

      Lmao I was thinking that like "Mat--uh you really gonna just leave out that whole one with the possessed cat demon you talked about to?"

    • @gabedurno6780
      @gabedurno6780 Před 4 lety +12

      Exactly, the cat is kinda left out at the end of this one.

    • @jsingh4227
      @jsingh4227 Před 4 lety +5

      Yup! He totally forgot about it!!!!

  • @rentisme
    @rentisme Před 2 lety +41

    MatPat, you've missed the nod 13:50 to hall of the mountain king, and the storyline of that how the little one tries desperately to evade the bigger one in an endless struggle.

  • @kyriakostheo
    @kyriakostheo Před rokem +3

    WCCK is in bonelab so potentially the cat cryptid is in bonelab somewhere in that game. Now we wait for matpats theory 👍
    Also for anyone reading this right now after the first day of bonelab
    Hi 👋

    • @PeeSippa
      @PeeSippa Před rokem

      cat cryptid is def in bonelab i saw in lvl 1

  • @thatpersonwiththerandomani5166

    Ok hear me out,
    Arthur is also the dog, he's trying to stop this whole thing from happening in the first place and since he already exists beyond time and space, life and death. He doesn't want the future he knows is coming to come to be.
    Instead of that message being "I am your dad" he's saying "you're me, kid"

    • @philsky1137
      @philsky1137 Před 4 lety +40

      Yeah that is what i was thinking as well

    • @reubenoakley8967
      @reubenoakley8967 Před 4 lety +70

      It's an interesting idea, but it doesn't make sense to me that he would charade cradling a baby in that context. David was obviously not a baby. A better signing in that context would be for Dog Arthur to point at David, then at himself, at himself again, and then back at David. "You're me, and I'm you."
      IMHO

    • @fancygaming2883
      @fancygaming2883 Před 4 lety +3

      i was actually thinking the same thing

    • @natetso3307
      @natetso3307 Před 4 lety +44

      Reuben Oakley That could easily be interpreted as “you and me”, though. Throwing the baby cradle in as a reference to childhood is a better way to convey that message.

    • @iambadatnamingthings3547
      @iambadatnamingthings3547 Před 4 lety +32

      Let’s all conclude, sign language is complicated

  • @thepaintpad9817
    @thepaintpad9817 Před 4 lety +3587

    This is the quickest he’s ever put out a part two/three

    • @armaggedon390
      @armaggedon390 Před 4 lety +38

      He needs money and knows people are going to click in this video.

    • @user-bg5rb8qv3x
      @user-bg5rb8qv3x Před 4 lety +166

      @@armaggedon390 or hes really interested and already planned this out

    • @user-bg5rb8qv3x
      @user-bg5rb8qv3x Před 4 lety +138

      @@armaggedon390 so stop thinking the worst of people

    • @Octocide
      @Octocide Před 4 lety +41

      He knew we couldn't wait lmao XD

    • @MG-nr2mo
      @MG-nr2mo Před 4 lety +11

      Cough Minecraft cough

  • @katdroid1464
    @katdroid1464 Před rokem +3

    Bonelab came out last year and it's full of lore.

  • @Xajiquin
    @Xajiquin Před 3 lety +19

    The cat named 9 says 30 YEARS and writes it in INK feels like a bendy reference

  • @hamburgersandwich4273
    @hamburgersandwich4273 Před 4 lety +741

    Maybe all of Arthur’s clones are from the “serial item duping” thing that the employees are talking about, it could be a glitch that Arthur exploited to make an army

    • @brandonmoore3283
      @brandonmoore3283 Před 4 lety +11

      Hamburger Sandwich no I'm pretty sure they are alternate versions of Ford from alternate versions of reality and all the writing on the wall are from Ford's that gave up.

    • @wissamfakih4561
      @wissamfakih4561 Před 4 lety +1

      Im pretty sure its the usb he used

    • @Tyrant.162
      @Tyrant.162 Před 4 lety +3

      jesus, all of the fords just saying: what up son?

    • @brandonmoore3283
      @brandonmoore3283 Před 4 lety +1

      Just read the wiki thing in Ford

    • @bussyeater-xc6xs
      @bussyeater-xc6xs Před 4 lety

      Brain size MEGA

  • @endoplasmaa
    @endoplasmaa Před 4 lety +3271

    me: *decides to watch this at midnight*
    video: *has freaky intro*
    me: *cha cha real smooth outta here*

  • @toontantv8846
    @toontantv8846 Před 3 lety +28

    I wasn’t scared in the intro, I saw a pleasant Môńkęÿ and a super nice Çæt

  • @aordinarygamer9811
    @aordinarygamer9811 Před rokem +7

    you need to review this all over again with bonelab

  • @shifahasan8543
    @shifahasan8543 Před 4 lety +811

    Matpat:this theory is already long
    Matpat’s fnaf theories: am i a joke to you

  • @axiomaticisak4350
    @axiomaticisak4350 Před 4 lety +611

    Wait, if the void is outside of space and time, and we know that arthur went into the void, could arthur have used the void to go back in time to the time of duck season to become the dog?

    • @juanokug4
      @juanokug4 Před 4 lety +8

      And why would he do that??

    • @ultraman6644
      @ultraman6644 Před 4 lety +43

      That's what I thought mabey he gets stuck and trys to stop his younger self to try to get to the void

    • @senorbones1869
      @senorbones1869 Před 4 lety +21

      To stop him from going further. The next two will be his breaking point

    • @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456
      @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456 Před 4 lety +10

      That's what matsaid in the last few sec and also he whloud do it to countue a paradox of him making his younger self do what the older one will

    • @Dingo701
      @Dingo701 Před 4 lety +3

      It's probably that he maid it that others can enter the void

  • @user-ty3cq7nm8x
    @user-ty3cq7nm8x Před 5 měsíci +2

    We need another Stress Level 0 project released soon.

  • @andrewwatson151
    @andrewwatson151 Před 3 lety +3

    Can we get like a hour long theory marathon one day just a ton of theories about a topic

  • @diacosiapentacontahex
    @diacosiapentacontahex Před 3 lety +1709

    MatPat: "I feel like I forgot something."
    Stress Level Zero: "If you forgot, then it probably wasn't important."
    MatPat: "Yeah, you're probably right."
    DeadFM:

    • @thepotatopirate8789
      @thepotatopirate8789 Před 3 lety +26

      Yeah I was wondering about that

    • @DeathAngel-ft8oz
      @DeathAngel-ft8oz Před 3 lety +27

      What's DeadFM again? I forgot. Been a while since I looked into the Boneworks lore.
      EDIT: Nevermind, watched more of the vid. It's one of the games listed on the thing.

    • @theg-man4840
      @theg-man4840 Před 3 lety +36

      @@DeathAngel-ft8oz the 5th game SLZ is making. OFC the one called Project 4 is their 4th game, and will apparently be a spin-off of Boneworks. and HOTMK is the 6th. or maybe DeadFM is the 6th game and HOTMK is the 5th.

    • @Emmett_Br0wn
      @Emmett_Br0wn Před 2 lety +6

      Dayum. Poor DeadFM

    • @BarioIDL
      @BarioIDL Před 2 lety +4

      probably some siren head wanabe

  • @blakepeters4137
    @blakepeters4137 Před 4 lety +541

    Matpat: "Duck season."
    Daffy: *rips sign* "Theory Season!"

  • @nah4136
    @nah4136 Před 3 lety +16

    Poor devs, they can make a great game. But can't use the right "than" when they need to.

  • @j_cutiey
    @j_cutiey Před rokem +4

    watching these theories again because BoneLab came out this year in september !!!! hyped to see if matpat will make follow up theories

  • @Tennishangman
    @Tennishangman Před 4 lety +731

    “The bad news is...”
    *Commercial Appears*
    “Mike Bloomberg.”

  • @DogsWithPurpose
    @DogsWithPurpose Před 4 lety +243

    I can’t get over the fact whenever Arthur is mentioned his character is just standing there like a frozen model.

  • @3xoticG4m3r
    @3xoticG4m3r Před 2 lety +7

    Boneworks was such a great game, just finished it and i am so sweating. VR can be so intense its unbelieveable

    • @ultragamer760
      @ultragamer760 Před 2 lety

      Minecraft normal: it’s fiiinneee
      Minecraft VR: oh Jesus!

  • @Hulemap
    @Hulemap Před rokem +6

    Now that bonelab is announced, im looking forward to the next episode!

    • @Hulemap
      @Hulemap Před rokem

      @@natewilson3880 what?

  • @doru440
    @doru440 Před 4 lety +283

    Is no one gonna talk about this "Sabrelake" company that also has access to the void? 10:50

    • @squigglyline8513
      @squigglyline8513 Před 4 lety +31

      Dorutto Probably will be in the next theory. I’d be really surprised if Mat just overlooked that.

    • @philiphockenbury6563
      @philiphockenbury6563 Před 4 lety +25

      It could be that there isn’t enough information to go upon besides wild guesses.

    • @penisjonson
      @penisjonson Před 4 lety +26

      Sabrelake is a security company that works with Gammon and Monogon. Arthur Ford also just so happens to work with/for Sabrelake, since he's the security director at Monogon.

    • @tdpod6109
      @tdpod6109 Před 4 lety +6

      Probably what DeadFM is about.

    • @penisjonson
      @penisjonson Před 4 lety +7

      TDTF Pod Actually, Hall of the Machine King is about a Sabrelake employee if you looked closely at the picture/outfit found in Duck Season.

  • @userk9
    @userk9 Před 4 lety +450

    Towards the end, you kept talking about it being a trilogy and there being 3 games and u theorized about the last game but you forgot about DEADFM

    • @iambobo227
      @iambobo227 Před 4 lety +15

      Haha so true their is also hover junkie vr that game is shown in the showroom in dyck duck season and in the main tower in Boneworks

    • @logancressy2259
      @logancressy2259 Před 4 lety +7

      I believe DEADFM will have 3 episodes including hover junkie and hall of the machine king

    • @brianburkhardt3692
      @brianburkhardt3692 Před 4 lety +9

      Yeah, he’s been using an image of 4 monitors implying 4 games, then he said a trilogy and I got thrown off. Also he literally mentioned DeadFM in this video. Oh well, maybe that goes less with his headcanon, since he started talking about the trilogy being the story of Arthur. Maybe he thinks DeadFM will be in that world but not directly tied to Arthur.
      But that’s just a Game Theory theory.

    • @TheBaldrickk
      @TheBaldrickk Před 4 lety +2

      He forgot about DeadFM, but also Project 4 AND Curvelight

    • @Hentai7890The2nd
      @Hentai7890The2nd Před 4 lety

      I think we meant by dead FM
      It's going to be. The story from a different point of view That's also experiencing the same thing As the other three games

  • @radio9052
    @radio9052 Před 2 lety

    all i want is this: I want them to continue Arthur Fords Story.
    Boneworks was awesome

  • @justinayers5356
    @justinayers5356 Před 2 lety +5

    The only thing I'm trying to connect is.. The last episode had 3 doors, 1 was open which was explained as boneworks...

  • @Gnatalie_
    @Gnatalie_ Před 4 lety +405

    wait, what if the X characters name is really "ten", like roman numerals and they are related to 9? like a sequence of cryptids
    Edit: thank you matpat ILY

    • @privateuser3726
      @privateuser3726 Před 4 lety +12

      Would be interesting, but why would this cryptid want to prevent the others from escaping

    • @Gnatalie_
      @Gnatalie_ Před 4 lety +12

      @@privateuser3726 maybe it is just Ford? Like X(or ten) is just Ford and because of the void time stuff he is communicating with past him?

    • @MattiaBulgarelli
      @MattiaBulgarelli Před 4 lety +20

      What if it's NOT an "X" but it's instead a "χ" (Greek letter)?
      It's used in math for a variety of things, and the | signs may mean something, too.
      What if the signature is "absolute value of χ" ?

    • @matthewwilliams8267
      @matthewwilliams8267 Před 4 lety +8

      Or.
      I X I
      One ten one.
      Remember, it's not just an X. Any and all clues could point to completely different ideas and theories.
      Given that it's always phrased as I X I, not just X, in a circle, i think it's either absolute 10 (which just means ten units, so it can be both positive and negative equally) or one X one, which leads to a crazy road of nonsense.
      If it's IXI (l10l), it would have little sense. More than my other theories. IXI exists solely in the Void, but as an absolute character, being both extremes of a scale. Maybe they're against the cryptids because they pose an unpredictable threat to their plan? Idk.

    • @asadelfadillah8008
      @asadelfadillah8008 Před 4 lety +1

      @@MattiaBulgarelli but I want to actually know, what does "χ"/"Chi" actually means though? I know that in Neuroanatomy it means the "crossings of peripheral nerves", but since Ford and the cryptids are already pure consciousness in the void, what does it stand for?

  • @GHOST-vu6ux
    @GHOST-vu6ux Před 4 lety +491

    Matpat: makes a duck season theory
    Duck season dev: *Well yes, but actually no*

  • @ddwar1589
    @ddwar1589 Před 2 lety +2

    The gate 3 door symbol reminds me of a turn off button like you know those buttons that you two have to like push

  • @Thatoneguywhostole
    @Thatoneguywhostole Před 2 lety +1

    When mat plays bone works:there is a theory
    When slime plays it:goblin vent

  • @CreeplexHD
    @CreeplexHD Před 4 lety +816

    I don't know if anyone has found this yet, but here I go.
    In the Tower-level of Boneworks there is a shop where you find the green key. There are cabinets mounted on the wall. On the top left cabinet, there are a handful of video game cartridges, each one made by Gammon. One of them is Duck Season. It looks a bit used and it has a rental sticker on it - just like the one the player uses in the Duck Season game.

    • @uboa8060
      @uboa8060 Před 4 lety +24

      Crap.

    • @bentgi
      @bentgi Před 4 lety +29

      oh snap, here we go again

    • @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me
      @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me Před 4 lety +5

      This channel is for revenue. Tons of your subscribers think you people are sincere about cancer. Even though you did it for a tax write off.

    • @jacksonarnold9669
      @jacksonarnold9669 Před 4 lety +47

      Nick D. What ?

    • @vormiting
      @vormiting Před 4 lety +6

      MATPATT SEE THIS

  • @VassionCo
    @VassionCo Před 4 lety +381

    "Who let the dogs out? "
    Dog: Arthur, Arthur, Arthur, Arthur

    • @YBWSinn
      @YBWSinn Před 4 lety +11

      You mean David,David,David

    • @taxidriver3298
      @taxidriver3298 Před 4 lety +4

      Every day when you walking down the street

    • @_awkwardness_5884
      @_awkwardness_5884 Před 4 lety +1

      @@YBWSinn they are the same same same same same

    • @artsyrache
      @artsyrache Před 4 lety

      Not the necrophiliac Arthur chase, that’s a different Arthur chase

  • @user-yj8id1jb2x
    @user-yj8id1jb2x Před rokem

    i love how the mum is so chill about this

  • @rrogest
    @rrogest Před 2 lety +2

    15:20 His past self that we play in on PC Duck Season was getting close to stopping Arthur (himself but in the future) so Arthur dressed up as the dog and killed him so he couldn’t stop him in the future, the you are my baby message could mean that the child is his younger self (baby version you could say)

  • @dark3yes_225
    @dark3yes_225 Před 4 lety +517

    Game Maker: glances at game... | *Matt Patt: WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!*

  • @chamoari15
    @chamoari15 Před 4 lety +3278

    MatPat: "The bad news is-"
    Ad: "Imagine. A home without a family."
    *ouch, that's deep*

    • @Ver0ssgz
      @Ver0ssgz Před 3 lety +41

      I had the same ad

    • @finleyforevermore
      @finleyforevermore Před 3 lety +46

      I got a Purdue University ad. I guess it's bad to go to college.

    • @annoying_guy923
      @annoying_guy923 Před 3 lety +12

      *oh no*

    • @torathegamer6325
      @torathegamer6325 Před 3 lety +9

      BAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAH

    • @Jaclynn9
      @Jaclynn9 Před 3 lety +30

      I had:
      MatPat: "The bad news is-"
      Ad: You can log into your Audible account-"

  • @ilikeminecrafteducation5932

    I thought there was only 1 duck season video, then I was shocked, and DELIGHTED at the same time :D

  • @dizzy3083
    @dizzy3083 Před 2 lety +2

    Onggggg I literally loooove going this deep into things, I have goosebumps!!!!

  • @mrr4067
    @mrr4067 Před 4 lety +224

    Dog wasn’t miming “your my baby” it is “You are me as a baby”, dog is the Duck Hunt kid grown up

    • @mr.colacat6615
      @mr.colacat6615 Před 4 lety +27

      This feeds into @the Isak Serhan Syndicate
      comment of how he would have gotten into the game in the first place, since the void exist out of time and space itself. Makes sense.

    • @tcat1
      @tcat1 Před 4 lety +4

      BRUH

    • @katelenway5586
      @katelenway5586 Před 4 lety

      Mr R no

    • @RedVelvet_EdgeMuffin
      @RedVelvet_EdgeMuffin Před 4 lety

      Mr R And that actually may play into my theory quite well... 👏👏👏

    • @suspectlogo9
      @suspectlogo9 Před 4 lety

      Mr R a valid point

  • @socksanimations4688
    @socksanimations4688 Před 4 lety +379

    "The bad news is-"
    *"AT AGE 39 MIKE BLOOMBERG-"*

  • @onyxpatato3691
    @onyxpatato3691 Před rokem +1

    The machine king logo at 8:34 seconds is the same logo as the rival companies logo in boneworks. You can see the symbol on the container Arthur Ford gets the headset out of.

  • @Loleylikescats
    @Loleylikescats Před rokem

    Bro you guys fr need to make a bone lab theory it would be so cool please man we’re waiting for you

  • @fayekendrick
    @fayekendrick Před 4 lety +447

    13:43 is this a reference to the piano piece “hall of the mountain king”? it’s weird actually because that song was used to advertise the smiler ride at alton towers. the ride and aesthetic of the ride is a cat like the clock in duck season. coincidence i would assume but you never know lol

    • @Breveline
      @Breveline Před 4 lety +15

      Oh, it's no coincidence. The King trapped under the mountain is Typhoeus.

    • @alexhill6676
      @alexhill6676 Před 4 lety +6

      the Hall of the Mountain King is just Alton Tower's signature theme song. They use it to advertise everything.

    • @Proprietor11
      @Proprietor11 Před 4 lety +11

      The fact that this could be true, it fills me with determination.

    • @fayekendrick
      @fayekendrick Před 4 lety +6

      Alexander Hill oh right i didn’t know that. i just remember only ever hearing/seeing the song when it was advertising the smiler. good catch.

    • @jbelly8946
      @jbelly8946 Před 4 lety +1

      I looked it up, and it was written to be in a play. Act 2, Scene 6 of Peer Gynt. In it, Peer is given tasks to become king of the mountain, and hand of the previous king's daughter. If you really want to learn about it, you can look it up yourself.

  • @galacticgila219
    @galacticgila219 Před 4 lety +351

    Keep in mind what you thought the dog was saying: “You are my son”
    “You are me, but younger”

    • @Hartbreak1
      @Hartbreak1 Před 4 lety +17

      That actually sounds plausible.

    • @jajajau9136
      @jajajau9136 Před 4 lety +5

      Omg that actually makes a ton of sense

    • @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337
      @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337 Před 4 lety +7

      He's in the Voidway outside time and space, I have a feeling it would be rather easy to travel back in time if that's the type of place you'd be in

    • @sylviee_
      @sylviee_ Před 4 lety +3

      GeeVee KillMe there never are any specific words, so the cradle could mean younger

    • @orphancloud1132
      @orphancloud1132 Před 4 lety +1

      I had that same theory but couldn't figure how to word it.
      Building off of what you wrote, what if he only came in contact with products of the company that got him there in the first place twice in his life? (Reliably at least) If he is the guy in the dog suit, I see this as a way of him ending everything and ever preventing the nightmare that he would later get into when he becomes a double agent.

  • @haha-hn3fw
    @haha-hn3fw Před 3 lety +5

    ok, but no one's gonna talk about the who let the dogs out meme at the end? ok

  • @frank_medrano476
    @frank_medrano476 Před 3 lety +4

    This guy can tell me more in one video then a teacher can tell me in 2 weeks

  • @riccardofascetti9674
    @riccardofascetti9674 Před 4 lety +653

    Mini Theory:
    Arthur may have killed his own mother so that his younger self would feel loss, leading to determination to bring her back and so tries to become immortal so that he doesn’t end up like his mother or something along those lines.

  • @bigboi4858
    @bigboi4858 Před 4 lety +36

    I believe the Dog from Duck Season is Arthur/David. The IT'S ME tape when played shows the Dog pointing at the player, David, and then back at him, proceeding to make a cradling hand motion indicating a baby. We previously thought this meant he was saying, "You are my baby," but after that was proved wrong by the developers, I think he was trying to say something else. "You are me as a baby/kid." He points toward the player, back at himself, then makes the baby arm gestures. After Arthur/David materialized in the void, maybe he got stuck and found the dog costume from when he was a child. After going mad from spending what seemed like an eternity in the void, he decided to recreate his past, becoming the very thing that killed his mother. It may also explain the 7th ending in which it shows the Dog controlling what's happening. After reaching immortality in the void, he tried everything he could to help contact his past self, but nothing would work. That's when he decided to use brute force instead. It's also why in the Nuke Ending, the Dog comforts David. Please give me your comments and like this so Matt can see.

    • @cartofqueen4576
      @cartofqueen4576 Před 4 lety +1

      Big Boi that’s a solid idea, good stuff

    • @coolboymcswag2040
      @coolboymcswag2040 Před 4 lety

      So did david go back in time or went into another dimension where he was still a child

    • @bigboi4858
      @bigboi4858 Před 4 lety

      @@coolboymcswag2040 the void exists outside of time and space, so he could have very easily traveled to any time he would've liked. He did travel back in time. I don't know why he chose the dog costume but he did.

  • @darkcrusader2547
    @darkcrusader2547 Před 3 lety +4

    God these two games have quite possibly one of my favorite theory/story’s out there

  • @BlueFoxPunch
    @BlueFoxPunch Před rokem +1

    5:46 definitely my favorite game theory moment so far

  • @tropical_7736
    @tropical_7736 Před 4 lety +230

    What if X is actually supposed to be called “Absolute X” it would explain the lines on either side of the x- they look like the absolute value sign. Maybe that could have larger implications later?

    • @peiithos
      @peiithos Před 4 lety +5

      Or Maybe like being x , like from youjo senki. A god like figure.

    • @ionmassaci1742
      @ionmassaci1742 Před 4 lety +4

      【ღMoon Lightღ】 being X

    • @bulbaseth3412
      @bulbaseth3412 Před 4 lety +4

      Maybe the absolute x then there's a negative x

    • @heeff
      @heeff Před 4 lety +8

      Only a sith deals in absolutes

    • @user-th9oz1mr3f
      @user-th9oz1mr3f Před 4 lety +3

      Absolute X implies perhaps a Prime Arthur Ford? Like the head arthur or something similar

  • @GojiraFan25
    @GojiraFan25 Před 4 lety +342

    The Dog is David going back in time to stop David from doing all of this. It’s why in “It’s Me” he points to David then him, then cradles a baby “You’re me as a child.”

    • @ytv2779
      @ytv2779 Před 4 lety +29

      My exact thought since the dad is confirmed as incorrect. What else could he mean but "you're me, but younger".

    • @CapnTender
      @CapnTender Před 4 lety +7

      I think you nailed it

    • @serena6054
      @serena6054 Před 4 lety +2

      Stolen.

    • @serena6054
      @serena6054 Před 4 lety +1

      I mean you could’ve at least credited Nate TSO

    • @wilmagregg3131
      @wilmagregg3131 Před 4 lety +2

      it looks like the void isnt a really pleasnt existence considering how the shadow people are shaking and slumped over like we see when arthurs body dies or the void is actually heck and being like the cat live there as either the evil dead or demons and opeing the door way like arthur did lets them back into the real world

  • @tacos-mk4mv
    @tacos-mk4mv Před rokem +1

    You should do a vid connecting all three games, bone labs, bone works and duck season

  • @hiimynameisBob
    @hiimynameisBob Před 3 lety +1

    Love the Letterkenny reference

  • @mr.pierogi6824
    @mr.pierogi6824 Před 4 lety +330

    "The Bad News is-"
    "Raid: Shadow Legends"

  • @user-zt8yq8fj3h
    @user-zt8yq8fj3h Před 4 lety +138

    I feel like "The hall of the machine king" is a reference to "In the hall of the mountain king", that was just my immediate thought.

    • @ninjabluefyre3815
      @ninjabluefyre3815 Před 4 lety +10

      The Atari game Mountain King is known for its famous glitch heaven.

    • @nellb7307
      @nellb7307 Před 4 lety +3

      I immediately thought so too. I was thinking the story behind the song could be a part of it

    • @robertroundtree3759
      @robertroundtree3759 Před 4 lety

      Same lol

    • @boffloff6745
      @boffloff6745 Před 4 lety

      Dovremaskinens hall

  • @cli3ky856
    @cli3ky856 Před 2 lety +1

    I think that the reason all the clones are Arthur is that he got into the void and he is attempting to stop his past self as he now knows of the consequences…

  • @TheBeanThief
    @TheBeanThief Před 2 lety

    What I feel was underutilised in the theory what where dead fm fits into all of this, it sounds like it could be really interesting!

  • @officergreg1318
    @officergreg1318 Před 4 lety +159

    MatPat: This video is already WAY too long
    Me: **checks watch time**
    Me: Bro it’s like 15 min

  • @jtbayliss1005
    @jtbayliss1005 Před 4 lety +666

    What if the reason Arthur was fighting clones of himself was to stop himself from doing it, like he regretted it.

  • @Jordan-9595
    @Jordan-9595 Před 2 lety +1

    having not watched the next video on this:
    I believe that if David is still alive he is the protagonist to Arthur Ford's Villain.

  • @miaulol2297
    @miaulol2297 Před 2 lety

    This is the only way i can watch creepy vids for a Long Time your voice is Just calming

  • @K.Lee.Cosplay
    @K.Lee.Cosplay Před 4 lety +207

    "The bad news is..."
    "he's sitting right next to you"
    It was a commercial for "The Invisible Man" lol

  • @gnat6884
    @gnat6884 Před 4 lety +180

    Me: Oh yay I get to see the end to this theory!
    MatPat: So actually it’s three parts...uh see you soon!

  • @StenchSniffer
    @StenchSniffer Před 3 lety

    Loved the *SCARY MONKEY PICTURE* at the beginning

  • @hoptrop2869
    @hoptrop2869 Před rokem

    I can’t wait for the Bonelab video. Also the deadfm 98.6 is a reference to the Bonelab story.

  • @slugcat6226
    @slugcat6226 Před 4 lety +291

    “The Void”
    *hollow knight intensifies*

  • @pandemicaunt6341
    @pandemicaunt6341 Před 4 lety +384

    MatPat: the war between man and machine
    My brain: STOP THINKING ABOUT TF2, you left it behind, GO OVER IT!

  • @EpicHeroes713
    @EpicHeroes713 Před rokem +1

    So I think DeadFM will fit into the series as a post-apocolyptic world after HOTMK and the radio system is either:
    A) A last ditch effort for a resistance group trying to see if anyone else is out there
    or
    B) Some sort of mind control radio station like the one from Brawl Stars (Starr Park's whole shenanagins) and perhaps the cat walked through that door because the cat cyrptid (or ever arthur) is in charge of the whole mind control thing (if the arthur thing is true in this case, I think the cat will be trying to oppose arthur)

  • @nightowl6324
    @nightowl6324 Před rokem

    You should do another video but with bonelab it all connects together

  • @Billious
    @Billious Před 4 lety +267

    X: the monkey and cat are tricksters, (meaning they lie, there for bad dad bad kid is a lie)
    matpat 2018: Imma pretend like i didn't see that.

    • @juanmoreno6591
      @juanmoreno6591 Před 4 lety +26

      Honestly if that's all there is to it, then maybe we're giving the developers more credit than they deserve.
      First of, tricksters doesn't necesarilly mean everything they say is a lie, a lot of tricksters in fiction aren't liars, some of the best of all time bascally never lie. If that was the intention, simply saying "they are liars" would have been infinetly better, saying "they are tricksters" make it seem like there's some game they're playing that you should pay attention to in order to "beat them".
      Second, if the Bad Dad Bad Kid was just something they told you, then sure, but is actually an important part of the game, directly being part of the solution of a puzzle. If they are making it such a point to emphatize it, you can't simply say "well there was one line that implies it isn't trustworthy so you should have known better than to pay any attention to it" that's just bad storytelling.
      Thirdly, the fact that there are a number of other elements troughout the game, a lot of thhem actually hidden meaning you have to make an effort to find them, that points towards it being true, many of which are *not* related to the cat and/or monkey can't be explained away by that line, so that alone completely eliminates the idea that you should disregard the Bad Dad Bad Kid thing based on that line by X.

    • @EmbiggenedJ
      @EmbiggenedJ Před 4 lety

      ...They tricked MatPat. There is no fourth wall. None of us are safe.

  • @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337
    @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337 Před 4 lety +311

    I've seen some other diet theories about how Arthur traveled back in time when he was in the Voidway because he was outside time and space which leads me to the tape of 'It's Me' which I'm stealing from another comment
    What MatPat thought it meant: "You are my baby"
    What it probably means: "You are me, but younger"

    • @potatobeans9893
      @potatobeans9893 Před 4 lety +22

      IVE NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS AND NOW I CAN'T STOP

    • @_theknighthawk_7018
      @_theknighthawk_7018 Před 4 lety +3

      Yeah true 😂😂😂

    • @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me
      @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me Před 4 lety +2

      This channel IS for revenue. Tons of your subscribers think you people are sincere about cancer. Even though you did it for a tax write off.

    • @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337
      @maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337 Před 4 lety +11

      @@NicholasDePizzo-lc6me I'm confused, what is this about?

    • @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me
      @NicholasDePizzo-lc6me Před 4 lety

      @@maxzapsgamingzepzeap2337 I don't expect low IQ mentality to grasp any of this. It's ok.

  • @Neon_Toffee
    @Neon_Toffee Před 11 měsíci +2

    Hey, Mat, BoneLab is out, you should probably cover that

  • @wright.p0667
    @wright.p0667 Před 2 lety

    the letterkeny reference was amazing

  • @itsfuzzzy185
    @itsfuzzzy185 Před 4 lety +1313

    mini theory: going off of what mattpat said, "the void exists outside of *time* and space", arthur ford, after tears of being alone in that void, went crazy with loneliness and decided to travel back, taking to form of a dog in a video game made by the same people who got him there, sort of as payback for his eternal loneliness. but hey thats just a theory, a game theory.
    EDIT: this is literally the most appreciated comment ive ever had. also, ive been reading replies and i appreciate the feedback.

    • @LemurG
      @LemurG Před 4 lety +58

      I feel like that might be what Mat could talk about next episode. I mean, why would the dog want to leave the Void if it was supposedly so cool and let you live forever?

    • @noodlezbunny
      @noodlezbunny Před 4 lety +30

      did you just make a game theory theory?

    • @enti1102
      @enti1102 Před 4 lety +3

      Diet*

    • @hechsb3371
      @hechsb3371 Před 4 lety +1

      *years

    • @Colejackson999
      @Colejackson999 Před 4 lety +1

      I was seriously thinking the same thing

  • @clumsiiconfidant5780
    @clumsiiconfidant5780 Před 4 lety +89

    Stress Level Zero: **Shows a new game with possible bloody violence and many other things that will be harmful and not child appropriate**
    Matpat: So I have chosen... *demonetization*

    • @MelodySweetheart
      @MelodySweetheart Před 4 lety +2

      Shouldn’t be that much of a problem given Coppa’s CZcams Policy meaning this channel is not for kids.

    • @ytv2779
      @ytv2779 Před 4 lety +1

      If that is how it works, I find the logic behind it quite silly. To put it simply, adults buy things for themselves as well as their children and cutting all ad revenue just because a video is not accessible to a certain demographic makes zero sense.

  • @lexmkh7552
    @lexmkh7552 Před rokem

    I love seeing him guess what the radio is but it’s just bonelab

  • @kellukee
    @kellukee Před 2 lety +1

    7:00 I love how the one reading that is a cat 🐈

  • @CherryBlossomKid
    @CherryBlossomKid Před 4 lety +99

    Mat: That's the good news, the bad news is-
    Ad: *DOMINO'S TRACKER NOW HAS GPS WITH DELIVERY-*

  • @vixenvine3246
    @vixenvine3246 Před 4 lety +349

    Nobody:
    Not a single soul:
    Matpat every episode: "this is just like fnaf"

    • @keahibailey2646
      @keahibailey2646 Před 4 lety

      Ok

    • @july4378
      @july4378 Před 4 lety +1

      Ok, but it is :v

    • @wishfuldentochoosensilver3923
      @wishfuldentochoosensilver3923 Před 4 lety +6

      It’s a dude killing kids in a gold colored dog suit

    • @july4378
      @july4378 Před 4 lety +5

      @@wishfuldentochoosensilver3923 Inside a vr game wanting to get out to the real world

    • @lewisroach8723
      @lewisroach8723 Před 4 lety

      @@july4378 I think a lot of games that want to scare people these days are indirectly tapping in to the biggest fears of this era which includes the impact of social media allowing people to make post after post with intent to alter peoples thoughts and actions even to the point of committing lethal violence and VR ai's escaping to cause harm or infect peoples minds is a more direct and entertaining way of showing it.

  • @Wolfington39
    @Wolfington39 Před rokem +1

    My idea about fords connection to duck season is that Arthur was David’s dad. And after his family got killed and he figured out how, he wanted revenge

  • @HerooftheWind
    @HerooftheWind Před 3 lety +2

    Game company: Stress level 0
    Matpat: Stress level 100

  • @atanmelan1261
    @atanmelan1261 Před 4 lety +333

    "The bad news is"-
    Ad: there's an epidemic spreading.

    • @pencils7351
      @pencils7351 Před 4 lety +52

      "It can expose your lungs to acrolein, which can cause irreversible damage. It's not a parasite. Not a virus. It's vaping."

    • @CodeKirby
      @CodeKirby Před 4 lety +7

      Omg same

    • @cielphantommage8494
      @cielphantommage8494 Před 4 lety +1

      Omg mine is Cornetto

    • @jxjjxjjx1067
      @jxjjxjjx1067 Před 4 lety +2

      I rarely get ads on tablet. Maybe one at the start but that is usually it.

    • @Ace-hn5mq
      @Ace-hn5mq Před 4 lety +4

      ATanMelan bro I can literally quote this ad from memory lol

  • @BlazinInfernape
    @BlazinInfernape Před 4 lety +186

    Hey Matpat, when you referred to this series as a trilogy near the end of the video, did you forget that there was a game between Boneworks and Hall of the Machine King on that door labeled "DeadFM" or do you believe it's in some way separate to the other three?

    • @agentj2012
      @agentj2012 Před 4 lety +6

      I think he’s suggesting that “DeadFM” isn’t related to the games including Arthur Ford and it’s more a game about stopping the the animal cryptids but dumb thought, probably wrong.

    • @zoe1315
      @zoe1315 Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah, i was thinking that

  • @GQQGA
    @GQQGA Před 3 lety

    That was genuine nightmare fuel in the first 3 seconds

  • @Blackbird74733
    @Blackbird74733 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I think the name Stress Level Zero refers to their production style (prioritizing the health of their creators) and not the games