2 h, feb 7, 2024 y - Data35 Investigation

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Nate: "Hey! So, everybody on the public discord has been talking about, uh... data35 from the SFM pull. And, looking back at it, it, it is indeed a weird one. Yeah, so, everything looks pretty normal, 'PACKAGE REQUEST FROM PULL', uh... Big clip, uh... This, this tracks all of the other, um... Hidden SFM sessions, right?"

[Data35]

Now, what makes this one extra weird, uh... Floating objects. I don't think any of the other ones have, like, other objects moving in this way? Some of those objects might look familiar to you, because... The pod! So, it just so happens that the final demo that we received from SFM contains the, uh... The exploration pod that we used? And, this is pretty exact, too. Just looking at it, this is like exactly what I built out, uh... Which makes it particularly interesting. You might notice the camera's not here, and that's because - there is a camera here! It's the pod camera; It actually added it. So, that's weird enough on it's own. So, somebody else on the public discord actually caught this before we did, but if you go into the element viewer and you go to the, uh... To the miscBin; There's a bunch of commands here, where, uh... It's basically executing commands to display quirky little messages in the console? It's kinda weird but, um... Apparently, that's pretty normal in these based on what we found so far, uh... But, this session, and this session only, contains - in the miscBin - another session! So, if you right-click this and then you export it as a DMX, um... It turns out, it is indeed another SFM session, and so if we open that, you can see what it was..."

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Nate: "Uh... There's just a random SFM tutorial? So I happen to recognize this; That this is the, uh... This is the tutorial scene for Source Filmmaker, like the one that is used to teach you how to use Source Filmmaker. Anybody who's used- Who's used it recognizes this immediately. But what's interesting is just that this was hidden, not just one, but two layers deep within the demo file that we generated - demo35. And, I feel like this confirms a suspicion I've had since day one. It's only making sense to me now that these demos seem to contain a lot more than what they let on. Like, there's more going on here. So a question is, right? We can extract and extrapolate it in these sessions, but what about the regular demos? Do you suppose that the actual demos have something hidden inside of them, and we just don't know how to look at it yet?"

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