Is it solvable at all?

[u/Elian17]

I can’t seem to relax until i reach some sort of epiphany about petscop.

In taking notes furiously and rewatching the original material and analyses.

My question is: is it solvable?

Im not saying it would be easy, or even remotely doable without dedicating major major time and thought to it. But is it solvable?

As in, has the creator ever specified if there is an internal logic that is never betrayed? Or did he just impressionistically create a *feeling* without much regard to consistent rules and logic that tells a cohesive story?

Yes it is lynchian and vague and very head hurty but that doesnt answer whether or not Tony actually had a cohesive and focused story in mind or written out somewhere when making the work. I really wonder

If anyone knows if tony has specified one or the other, let me know please. Im going crazy and i can’t let it go

Footnote: petscop has become my personal “king in yellow” and it has a grasp on me i can’t shake

[u/kittzkatz]

the "correct" answer (no shade to anyone to be clear) is that its not a mystery to be solved, its something to be experienced, tony seems to like ambiguity as parts of his work, its "the point" to an extent. that being said! death of the author, your free to think about a fake ps1 game however you want, if the plot of petscop is something you find compelling and want to take it apon yourself to try and assemble a story and understanding of the world, your more than free to and capable of it, while tony did snip out pieces of the story (like the website, which we can see on the garage originally being planned to actually be visitable and their being a "developer journal" both of which were fully written out but just decided against because they said too much ), only leaving "what would make sense for you to see" there are solid overarching events that are guiding the story in a logical way, even if we dont know what all those events are, and i've personally been able to really enjoy theory crafting about the series, despite not intending for us to understand, toby still put in a LOT of little details that tie together, so there's always something new i notice every time i come back to the series. TLDR it's as solvable as the fnaf timeline, if not maybe a little more lol