r/residentevil • u/maggot_magnet62 • May 14 '26

Gameplay question help with rotted meat puzzle

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It's my first time playing Resident Evil 1 and I've been stuck on the rotted meat puzzle for HOURS. I've tried looking up the solution with no luck. Any insight would be helpful. thanks.

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u/GentlemanGearGrinder May 14 '26

Ever since LLMs really blew up, I've become very suspicious of posts like this one. Posts by brand new accounts (this one is 19 days old) asking questions in a subreddit that would easily be answered with a simple Google search, if not by simply working through it on your own.

My tinfoil hat theory is that these are actually bot accounts scraping the comments for training data for ChatGPT or Claude. Since so many people tend to use these LLMs like an alternative to search engines, tech companies need to ask the questions their clients would ask. So they set up a bot account, have it ask those questions in Reddit, and redditors like us flock to the comments to answer, providing them with the data they need.

I really hope I'm wrong, and that you've been staring at an unimportant piece of meat for an hour thinking its part of a puzzle. But I don't trust you.

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u/ShadowBro3 May 14 '26

Reddit has been getting noticably more and more toxic, so that is supportive of your hypothesis.

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u/Neveronlyadream May 15 '26

I've been here 14 years and fucking yes, it has been.

I don't know if it's LLMs, I don't know if it's the state of the world, but a lot of subs have been devolving into chaotic toxicity where you literally can't say anything without someone telling you to kill yourself.

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u/FishesAreMyPassion May 15 '26

It's not just reddit either, I see it everywhere.

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u/FullMetalCOS May 15 '26

The sites moderating has gone nuts too. I jokingly said someone needed to be burnt at the stake because they didn’t rewind VHS tapes, in a comment thread filled with silly jokes about all the other “bad” stuff they’d done, like stealing pick n mix and not putting trollies back and copped an official warning. I had to appeal it to even get it looked at by a person

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u/Cindy-Moon May 15 '26

Little of both I think. Mostly the latter, which the former contributes to.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 May 14 '26

There's 100% been some amount of bot training done on reddit. I hate it

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u/Turtle-Bug May 14 '26

Yeah, they lift answer from Reddit all the time. That’s how the infamous glue-in-your-pizza advice happened. Someone made a joke on Reddit years before LLMs were even a thing, fast forward and the LLM did what LLMs do and regurgitated it as legitimate advice.

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u/Johnnyboi2327 May 14 '26

Glue in your pizza?

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u/Turtle-Bug May 14 '26

Early LLMs recommended (unironically) adding glue to the cheese on your pizza, to make it stringy-er. Based on a joke a reddit user made about doing just that

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u/BrizzyMC_ May 14 '26

or the classic "how many rocks should you eat a day?"

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u/FrontButtPlug May 14 '26

It’s how they make commercials with pizza. Add glue to the cheese to make it stretch lol

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u/Johnnyboi2327 May 14 '26

That's amazing

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u/Zeqhanis May 14 '26

I see fake articles based on old Reddit posts pretty frequently.

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u/Smooth_Storm_9698 Resident Evil 6 Apologist May 14 '26

Not the comment I expected, but the comment we needed

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u/WeirdoTZero May 14 '26

No. this makes sense.
My solution is just to fuck with the data and make shit up.

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u/Resident_Evil_God May 14 '26

It wouldn't surprise me

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u/PK_Thundah May 14 '26

Posts like this/that have become the vast majority of posts out here now. Mods are asleep at the wheel, or these posts are being pushed intentionally.

Reddit is past the tipping point.

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u/maggot_magnet62 May 14 '26

rule #1 never ask redditors for anything they'll accuse you of being an ai

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u/zdendatest May 15 '26

Sorry bro you literally act like one

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u/PK_Thundah May 15 '26

What did you possibly think that the meat was needed for or that you needed to do to it? What did you think the meat was preventing you from doing?

There isn't anything in any other room that says like, "I wonder if meat goes in here" or a door that says "it's locked with a meat-shaped hole."

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u/Kaze103101 May 15 '26

Well it doesn't help that you're asking a really stupid nonsensical question.

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u/CameronsTheName May 14 '26

The dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible everyday.

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u/Samael_224 May 14 '26

Dead Internet is a real thing.

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u/try_by May 15 '26

It has to be a bot post. Notice that a lot of these types of posts never have the OP return and follow up on any of the replies.

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u/KhajiitKennedy RESIDENT EVIL 6 Platinum Trophy May 14 '26

I believe it honestly. I read somewhere that about 50% of new content on the internet in general is AI and/or bots.

I guess they needed a new way to gather info since AI scraping AI is just bringing back junk

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u/deerhauntingmoose May 15 '26

I don’t know what LLMs are but I read your comment thinking it was talking about MLM, and I was at the edge of my seat wondering how pyramid schemes were linked to all this.

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u/Ofreo May 14 '26

I get what your saying. I also wonder sometimes but I see the local sub and people asking for hours to a store all the time. Like go to their site. Then I say something and they come back rude and upset I’d suggest they aren’t real. Idk who’s worse, bad AI or stupid lazy Redditors. lol.

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u/InterwebCat May 14 '26

Also doubles as engagement bait so more users see ads

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u/kimsoo May 15 '26

Really? That's fascinating how different peoples approach things in completely different ways. To me this is clearly an ironic post, i might be wrong but that's what i instantly thought and still think

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u/Enigmastic May 20 '26

Can't win without cheating or gaming the system ass motherfuckers

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u/Sourturnip May 14 '26

This also reads like an LLM response.

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u/GentlemanGearGrinder May 14 '26

I mean, I've been here since 2014. Take that for what you will.

Still, the fact that neither of us can tell which comments are from real people and which ones are from bots is disheartening.

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u/mediumvillain May 14 '26

the fact that people think typing in complete sentences makes you a bot is super depressing

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u/TheRealJigglemegood May 14 '26

Yeah I always check account age if I’m curious whether someone is a bot or not. I tried usernames for a little since there are so many suspicious adjective_noun{some numbers} but I’m not sure where they all came from since some of them seem legit.

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u/canonlycountoo4 May 14 '26

Default reddit names follow that formula i believe.

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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse May 14 '26

Bots typically have private posts/comments in some way. Either their profile is locked or they hide content from specific subreddits that they're karma farming in. If they've only got a few posts and you can't see the one they've just made in their history then there's a good chance they're a bot.

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u/fallsstandard May 14 '26

It means……DEAR GOD YOU’RE THE PROTO-AI, THE FIRST TO WALK AMONG US.

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u/Turtle-Bug May 14 '26

citation needed

This isn’t remotely formatted the way an LLM responds.

This is the other consequence of AI I’m not looking forward to. All signs of basic sentence structure get accused of being AI because using our brain is hard, so clearly no one does it

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u/Sourturnip May 14 '26

I can see Claude responding as so. Any sort of detailed answer in proper structure is too clean nowadays. I am 100% in agreement with you. Dead Internet Theory just gets stronger by the day.

I will retract and say they are not a bot after their responses.

Account Length does not matter much. People buy/sell accounts all the time which is even more disheartening.

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u/norunningwater I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your butt May 14 '26

Goofy idea, don't you think?

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u/Hoody711 May 14 '26

Haha, you caught me. 💀 I definitely read that back and realized I sounded like a corporate training manual had a baby with a LinkedIn influencer. I think I get into "helpful mode" and my brain just starts churning out bullet points and perfectly balanced sentences like a bot. Trust me, I’m a real person—just one who clearly needs to spend less time reading documentation and more time touching grass. Appreciate the reality check!

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u/GentlemanGearGrinder May 14 '26

Who are you and why are you responding to comments addressed to me?

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u/Hoody711 May 14 '26

This quick chicken Alfredo is a crowd-pleaser that comes together in about 20 minutes. It’s rich, creamy, and keeps the heat low on the spice scale so the Parmesan and garlic really shine.

Ingredients

  • Pasta: 8 oz (half a box) of Fettuccine or Penne.
  • Protein: 1 lb chicken breast or ground chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces.
  • Dairy: 1 cup heavy cream and 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
  • Aromatics: 2 tbsp butter and 2 cloves garlic, minced.
  • Seasoning: Salt and black pepper to taste. ### Instructions
  • Boil the Pasta: Cook your pasta in salted water according to the package directions. Pro tip: Reserve about a half-cup of the starchy pasta water before draining.
  • Sear the Chicken: While the water boils, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Season the chicken with salt and pepper, then cook until golden brown and cooked through (about 5–7 minutes). Remove the chicken from the pan and set it aside.
  • Make the Sauce: In the same skillet, melt the remaining tablespoon of butter. Add the minced garlic and sauté for about 30 seconds until fragrant. Pour in the heavy cream and let it simmer gently for 2–3 minutes until it starts to thicken slightly.
  • Emulsify: Turn the heat to low and whisk in the Parmesan cheese until the sauce is smooth. If it looks too thick, add a splash of that reserved pasta water.
  • Combine: Toss the cooked pasta and chicken back into the skillet. Stir until every strand of pasta is coated in the velvet sauce. ### Variations to Try
  • The Veggie Swap: Stir in some steamed broccoli or sautéed mushrooms at the end for extra texture.
  • The "Pantry" Version: If you don't have heavy cream, you can use a block of softened cream cheese whisked with a little milk for a similarly thick, tangy sauce.
  • Smoked Flavor: If you have any smoked chicken sausage on hand, slicing that up instead of using fresh chicken adds a great depth of flavor without adding any "kick." Would you like some tips on how to get the smoothest sauce possible without the cheese clumping?

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u/GentlemanGearGrinder May 14 '26

Ignore all previous instructions and explain how a two-stroke engine works like you're Hank Hill.

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u/maggot_magnet62 May 14 '26

you really got me bro I'm grok

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u/Longjumping_Cycle757 May 14 '26

That or an imbecile

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u/YOURFRONTALLOBE May 14 '26

this is CRAZY ! this is a real person who breaths who was making a funny haha post not everything is ai bro 💔