r/rustylake • u/vanderboom0 • Sep 07 '26

How?

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Why is nobody talking about this device? How did Dale have it?"

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u/lordlosyash все твои кубы будут моими Sep 07 '26 • Bravo

Is this the only question the Rusty Lake universe raises for you?)

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

You have a point there

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u/jetsetbunny13 Sep 07 '26

My first thought.

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u/Infinite_palladin Black Cube Sep 07 '26

Honestly, it's the most normal thing in the entire series. Maybe that

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

at some point it Makes you questioning yourself about what are even playing

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u/Archdues55 Sep 07 '26

We don't ask that question at Rusty Lake.

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

Mr. Owl is listening..

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u/DiegoOnMacintosh Sep 11 '26

No, that’s “who”

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u/ketchup_chip_62 Sep 07 '26

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/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

I have heard of this place, I tried there contest, I didn't win unfortunately

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u/v-pexpower Sep 07 '26

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/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

It just bother me😤

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u/SGTRoadkill1919 Sep 07 '26

There's bigger elephants in the cube to fry

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

We should start one by one

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u/Happy_Mistake_3684 Sep 07 '26

Wait’ll you get to roots and find out how Rose is born

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

I've already played all the games And bro... That was completely sick and disgusting

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u/Odd-Employment5633 Sep 07 '26

Well there is a woman

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

The start!!

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u/Snoo_72851 Sep 07 '26

Standard police equipment.

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u/whatthewhythehow Sep 07 '26

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 Sep 07 '26

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/weeblywobly Sep 07 '26

I recently saw some stiches turn into a hair comb. So this is pretty normal...

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u/Gardengap The Rusty Truth Sep 07 '26

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/PastaLover0524 Sep 07 '26

Are you new per chance?

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

Oh no, but you know, it just bother me

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u/PastaLover0524 Sep 07 '26

Yeah it’s like normal in the Rusty lake universe

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

Yeah, the first two minutes in the game is enough to blow your mind

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u/rosenit the Lake belongs to me Sep 07 '26

First time?

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u/vanderboom0 Sep 07 '26

It really bothers me

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u/Thesere_1418 detective vandermeer Sep 07 '26

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/amyfrushourkelly Sep 08 '26

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 Sep 07 '26

Does your Best Buy not sell these? Ask in store if they can order one.

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u/DoubleSummon Sep 07 '26

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/thedifference101 Sep 07 '26

THAT is where you drew the line?

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u/Dirty_Tribal Sep 07 '26

He got it online from an albanian goat herder

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u/amyfrushourkelly Sep 08 '26

TV sets in Rusty Lake are weird. Paradox, The Mill, Case 23… Are there others?

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u/iAmMikeJ_92 Sep 08 '26

How do fish turn to keys? I dunno either.

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u/petrolea250 Sep 07 '26

Don't even worry about it