Geek Culture
ECKVA Update 2: Why Not Start Your New Life Today?
The last time we left off. We talked about the possible intentions of ECKVA and we also met SHawkins. There are still questions left to answer but it seems like we are going to get some answers now. Could it be that the broadcaster for ECKVA Network is related to the company? They seem interested in Hawkins, that’s for sure.
Let’s take a look at our current notes before we proceed further into this examination:
- SHawkins is the current uploader of the Youtube videos in the ECKVA channel and is a Person of Interest to ECKVA
- During the employment ad, ECKVA’s broadcaster made clear that employees should be in it for the “Health benefits”.
- ECKVA Network has been out of commision for quite some time.
Alis Pastry – Why not start your new life today?
We see a new update in the Youtube page of ECKVA. The video in question seems to be a Pencil Test of an animated Children’s TV show called “Alis Pastry”. It’s pretty disturbing to see a stick figure telling the audience to “Stay inside. Stay inside.” There’s a heavy debate into what the puppet is saying after that. But the consensus says it’s “if you value the rest of your life. I can see you watching me and it’s not (word).”
The major issue is, there’s a disturbing phrase right at the end of the video saying “Why Not Start Your New Life today”. Which seems to be familiar to SHawkins, the uploader of the ECKVA broadcasts. A few days later, SHawkins updates their Twitter with the following statement:
something very upsetting
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) January 19, 2017
Some concerned members of the community were worried about Hawkins’ well being. So one of them decided to ask about their current situation:
no
— Louse (@SHawkins1926) January 19, 2017
Preaxin, The mysterious drug Commercial
After the disturbing tweets gave the clear impression that Shawkins found something upsetting. People were left speculating what could be so “Upsetting”. However, they came to a grim realization once the audience saw a new upload named ECKVA4. Which showed a commercial for a drug named Preaxin. The slogan at the very end of the commercial can be heard and its “Why Not Start your New Life Today?”
Now we know the reason behind Hawkins’ “Something very upsetting” tweet. The slogan for the company is the same as the phrase at the end of Alis Pastry. It seems like the kid’s show was trying to advertise some sort of sleeping pills? We can come to this conclusion once we read the transcript of the video’s audio:
[While] taking Preaxin, don’t drive or operate heavy machinery. Common side effects include nausea, headaches, fatigue, next day drowsiness and dizziness. Sleepwalking, driving, and eating can also occur. Abnormal behaviors such as being more outgoing or aggressive than normal, confusion, agitation, and hallucinations may occur. If you experience any of these behaviors, contact your doctor immediately.
I took the liberty to read a few transcripts of commercial drugs. It seems like the Side Effects apply mostly to those of Sleeping Pills. But they also are in part connected to anti-depressant boosters. We can use Nick Nocturne’s “Unedited Footage of a Bear: Explained” video for confirmation.
The real issue here is the fact that Hawkins seems to have taken these pills while he was job hunting. Could it be that the drugs were actually having an effect on his psyche? Whatever the case, Hawkins hasn’t responded in regards to this at all.
The main page of Eckva.net also updates, revealing:
Conclusion. Big twists but little information
There isn’t much speculation that can be added to the current theory we have with these new updates. However, we can add the fact that Preaxin seems to be a sort of drug that either helps combat insomnia or is an anti-depressant. Hawkins also has been taking these pills while ECKVA was still active.
Alis Pastry seems to be a message to the audience or Hawkins himself. Considering the fact that the message was “I can see you’re watching”, we can draw this conclusion easily. Once again this proves that ECKVA (or the Broadcaster) has a degree of interest in Hawkins.
We still haven’t gotten any answers about the identity of the broadcaster. However, Hawkins is suspicious by himself. Mostly because he doesn’t reveal much besides his current situation. There are a lot of details regarding ECKVA that need to be addressed.
Gaming
Ubisoft says that future Assassin’s Creed games will need more time to be made
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
Gaming
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP on PS5
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Gaming
This Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 zombies trailer is way too expensive
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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