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After the celebration was over I took the initiative to take a closer look at his blurry phonescreen.
There's no reason to hold up tension, so I just give it away in advance.
My conclusion is: Huh?
So don't expect anything additionally informative. But maybe it gives someone a good idea,
[EDIT] Cleaned up my post for better reading.
There's no reason to hold up tension, so I just give it away in advance.
My conclusion is: Huh?
So don't expect anything additionally informative. But maybe it gives someone a good idea,
So I was curious if we can make out the username he has given himself, but to his own "luck of the lazy": His camera still sucks monkeyballs. AI sharpener or de-noisers, no luck. At least they created a smooth blury image. This is less helpful than Phil's original video footage. Photoshop, also no success.
So I tried my way around the issue. What do we know about his username? It is DownFromTheRafters, a quite long username and supposedly with 1 character more than allowed. Thanks Scopely, always protecting the VIPs (the ones who lose most money). And this blur looks really long tbh:
But how long?
Well we have a clean image thanks to you beautiful tractors. Here I tried to find a font that roughly fits the font of WWE. After some distortion I could easily write these names and still match the overall length. The yellow letters are my font. I had to take a closer look at the "W" of "BRAWL" as the game may treat it differently cuz of the width; but there was nothing special.
Cool. So now we can write any name we desire and still come up with an accurately enough result.
What happens if we write DOWNFROMTHERAFTERS?
Wauw dood, this name is pretty long. It even almost hits the centre of "VS".
You see now why this username isn't allowed?
Therefore with on character less, as DOWNFROMTHERAFTER, this name should only go to this one corner before the slope starts:
Now we check with reality and, well, here is where the blur hits hard. I tried to sharpen this bitch as good as possible.
Apparently it doesn't? To me it looks like the name perfectly ends where it is supposed to end. It seems one character is missing to even closely hit the centre of "VS".
However, since so many characters aren't allowed, does Scopely cut off the last letter automatically?
Furthermore, why does the last character has a very obvious "slope"? You see this weird angle that points to "VS", where the name is supposed to end? The name of his opponent also doesn't start vertically to the phone, but this can be explained by the letter "A". Phil's last letter seems to be way more extreme and neither matches an R or an S (rafteR or rafterS).
What is going on here? I have no clue.
Many theories can apply:
Yes there is a note that this is just photoshop bc I'm not in the mood of future mischaracterization.
Here I moved DOWNFROMTHERAFTERS some pixels to the left.
Assumption time: When Scopely's script can't handle one letter too much then the script may do weird things. Like automatically moving the name to make it fit. Maybe it even compresses the letters slightly to make them fit, we can't tell. But now the last letter seems way closer to where it belongs. You may even ask yourself: Huh, wait, isn't this white blur of the original screencap WAY over this one corner where the blue angle starts?
And you may be right, maybe not. This is a blur of light, so it tends to be bigger than the original. Especially white should create big blurs.
So let's bring the light!
And now applying professional camera quality:
I guess this fits. The only weirdness is this "angle" where his name ends.
So what can we say?
Phil uses quite a long name.
Phil indeed plays WWE Champions, even if anything I just wrote is incorrect and this isn't even his account.
(Edit: And he plays WWE Champions DURING HIS STREAM, like an addict would do)
(Edit Boogaloo: According to our expert this is a faction screen so instead of his own name we get "Sons of smackdown". This name perfectly fits where it belongs, but does not explain the apparent slope on the last letter)
Thanks for reading and wasting your time. You learned nothing today.
So I tried my way around the issue. What do we know about his username? It is DownFromTheRafters, a quite long username and supposedly with 1 character more than allowed. Thanks Scopely, always protecting the VIPs (the ones who lose most money). And this blur looks really long tbh:
But how long?
Well we have a clean image thanks to you beautiful tractors. Here I tried to find a font that roughly fits the font of WWE. After some distortion I could easily write these names and still match the overall length. The yellow letters are my font. I had to take a closer look at the "W" of "BRAWL" as the game may treat it differently cuz of the width; but there was nothing special.
Cool. So now we can write any name we desire and still come up with an accurately enough result.
What happens if we write DOWNFROMTHERAFTERS?
Wauw dood, this name is pretty long. It even almost hits the centre of "VS".
You see now why this username isn't allowed?
Therefore with on character less, as DOWNFROMTHERAFTER, this name should only go to this one corner before the slope starts:
Now we check with reality and, well, here is where the blur hits hard. I tried to sharpen this bitch as good as possible.
Apparently it doesn't? To me it looks like the name perfectly ends where it is supposed to end. It seems one character is missing to even closely hit the centre of "VS".
However, since so many characters aren't allowed, does Scopely cut off the last letter automatically?
Furthermore, why does the last character has a very obvious "slope"? You see this weird angle that points to "VS", where the name is supposed to end? The name of his opponent also doesn't start vertically to the phone, but this can be explained by the letter "A". Phil's last letter seems to be way more extreme and neither matches an R or an S (rafteR or rafterS).
What is going on here? I have no clue.
Many theories can apply:
- It's a fucking blur and inaccurate
- Tricks on the eyes
- The last letter is an L. If you look at "TEQUILA" in the screens above, this is a fitting angle
- The UI partly covers the name because the game sucks.
Yes there is a note that this is just photoshop bc I'm not in the mood of future mischaracterization.
Here I moved DOWNFROMTHERAFTERS some pixels to the left.
Assumption time: When Scopely's script can't handle one letter too much then the script may do weird things. Like automatically moving the name to make it fit. Maybe it even compresses the letters slightly to make them fit, we can't tell. But now the last letter seems way closer to where it belongs. You may even ask yourself: Huh, wait, isn't this white blur of the original screencap WAY over this one corner where the blue angle starts?
And you may be right, maybe not. This is a blur of light, so it tends to be bigger than the original. Especially white should create big blurs.
So let's bring the light!
And now applying professional camera quality:
I guess this fits. The only weirdness is this "angle" where his name ends.
So what can we say?
Phil uses quite a long name.
Phil indeed plays WWE Champions, even if anything I just wrote is incorrect and this isn't even his account.
(Edit: And he plays WWE Champions DURING HIS STREAM, like an addict would do)
(Edit Boogaloo: According to our expert this is a faction screen so instead of his own name we get "Sons of smackdown". This name perfectly fits where it belongs, but does not explain the apparent slope on the last letter)
Thanks for reading and wasting your time. You learned nothing today.
[EDIT] Cleaned up my post for better reading.
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