Acacia's Favorite

Recap: Bada wakes up in a game (barely remembers shit) and does all this gameplay. Doha joins early on after getting sus vibes from Bada and becomes lover and player companion (know that happened later but yada yada). Doha sabotages Bada a few times, and innocent beefy Hyung ends up accidently having his taped played, dies a few times with whiny playboy, etc etc (this segment was so short lived and not even worth mentioning tbh). Moving on...

(Time skipping alot here including finding Seungchans assumably first tape. See why I say first in a bit)

We EVENTUALLY find Yongtaeks tape after alotta shit, and so awakens that munch. (Even tho he was already awake and being a dumbass the entire time.) He explains Seungchan, Bada, ans him teamed up after awhile (which we'll get to why that's sus) and so was playing together and along the way Bada forgot basically because 1) undisputedly, he got bored and forgor those two fuckidiots and 2) the possible NOT ENTIRELY CONFIRMED until maybe ep 50 lol theory that they all have 2 tapes, and his gaps are due to one of his stopping at some point. (I'll explain the tapes and checkpoints at the end.) That being said, Bada and Doha give Yongtaek a chance to prove his use, thus like episodes 46-49 ish (?) (Cant remember when that munch joined the party).

NEOW, episode 49: They divulge a plan to investigate the Mine and eventually die at the Abandoned House per Yongtaeks ending 2 rev (ep 48-49). Prior to the game start, they walk and talk together about Badas past life so to speak. ALLEGEDLY, Seungchan told Yongtaek as he and Bada were playing together awhile, that Bada lost his memory from playing and dying so long (which btws, if you've seen Dead Man Switch, when something becomes too routine you do start to lose count especially after dying so many times and begin to move on autopilot. So, its PLAUSIBLE that happened but...), but tbh that's sus given we found a white tape similar to Yongtaeks, which can lead us to believe each player may have in fact 2 tapes.

But....how does that make sense? Great question. So Yongtaeks whole spiel is that he and Seungchan continued to play the maps until the mine. Then all of a sudden he dies like right before exploring the area, then has no memory. Well, MY THEORY (Just a theory, a DREADFUL NIGHT THEORY hehe hint hint. Um anyways....) is that Seungchan fucked with Yongtaeks 2nd tape at some point, so that's why he couldn't save the mine's data as its sorta weird we dunno how he died and why Seungchan didn't save it on his assumble second tape unless 1) he doesn't know where his is yet or 2) he died before he could dave it himself also. And since we don't probably intend to get Seungchans opinion anytime soon, those are the most likely IMO. A second theory is Doha is fucking around again cause he doesn't realize still that they may be all able to escape since he didn't hear Bada and Yongtaek convo earlier. I think the former is more plausible tho cause something is off, which I mentioned earlier Seungchan is sus af, cause its mildly convenient that he could explain to Yongtaek that Bada suddenly lost former memories unless (based if the 2nd tape theory is correct) he turned off Badas tape for some odd and I think frankly sinister reason cause if he could escape on his own, why not take his friends and COUSIN with him?????

How the tapes work:
Insert + play tape = Playable character (minimally)
Temporary stop and restart to tape = Saved Data (aka checkpoint)
No stop at some point = restart the "round" or map
Stopped tape altogether = NPC
If taped is stopped, but someone restarts it = memories recovered based on their own gameplay up until point it stopped
** with the Dual Tape theory, that gets complicated and convoluted because stopping one tape, but having the other run may imply just missing a saved location, no memory loss since the other is still in play(?) Basically = unsure waters atm

I hope this helps everyone cause I got a few questions on my last comment and realized like 90% of readers may be in the same boat.