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Nice to see the fandom up to speed!

#logan sanders #sanders sides

punksalmons

the thing about writing is that it's very hard unless you have to leave the house in 15 minutes or perhaps go to bed

amwult

my least favourite turn based strategy game is email

ephemeral-orbit

Inkpot Gods

#outer wilds

medi-bee

anybody else got timeloop tomorrow

#outer wilds #rain world #slay the princess #in stars and time #I've only played two of these I need to play the others

primsheep

Hatchling

#outer wilds

gghero

My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Outer Wilds” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw an object exit a white hole before they enter their corresponding black hole

My buddy Chert pacing: the sun is lying to us

#outer wilds

asofterepilogue

I like how outer wilds initially seems like getting out of the time loop=saving the universe and thus everyone in it, but it's actually constantly driving home that there is no escaping.

the time loop gets you every 22 minutes no matter how far you are from the sun. if the sand rises too much you can't even try to back out before you're crushed to death. your oxygen gauge is almost always on the screen, running out. the anglerfish are much more likely to get you if you try to avoid them. the sun isn't just dying, it has reached the end of its natural life. the nomai didn't do it and they left no technology that could stop it. for all their cleverness and determination, the nomai were wiped out in a single moment before they even knew what was happening. so much of what you learn and see is ancient history. brittle hollow is falling apart fast. there is a bramble seed on timber hearth that will break open the planet like it broke open what dark bramble used to be.

it's not just that the stars are dying, it's that death really is everywhere, it's that everything is either already dead or actively dying and there is nowhere you can go to forget that. you really were born at the end of the entire universe.

#There's so much you just.. have to accept happened #You can't save the Nomai or avenge them or bring them back in any way #The interloper is just a thing that exists and happened to enter the solar system at the worst time #You can be upset at the poor timing of the core exploding and wiping out all the Nomai before they even stood a chance #but you can't change it #all you can do is accept it and grieve their unfortunate and untimely fate #The bramble seed on Timber hearth wasn't actively put there #It fell and just happened to land on the only inhabited planet left in the solar system #you don't know if it'll take over Timber hearth or not but you have to accept that chances are if the sun hadn't exploded #Timber hearth would be destroyed anyway #You can't stop Brittle hollow falling apart #that's just what's happening and how it's always been with the unfortunate circumstances of a black hole at it's center #The hourglass twins aren't trying to kill you with the sand #the Ash twin and Ember twin exchanging sand is just part of its natural cycle #where the loops just happen to have the sand going to the Ember twin #you just have to accept it and be happy that's how it turned out otherwise the Ash twin project would have been inaccessible #Giants deep isn't trying to kill you by it's tornados #that's just how the climate is #The sun doesn't explode to spite anyone or because of something #it's just at the end of its lifespan and you're just unfortunate enough to be there for it #There's no way to stop it or save everyone #You can't comfort Chert as they freak out over noticing the suns about to go supernova #you can only talk to them and wait for them to accept that there's nothing they can do #The angler fish in the Dark bramble aren't going out of their way to hunt you down and kill you for the sake of it #they're seemingly very territorial creatures and you've invaded their home #As you go through the solar system and learn about the planets nothing about them is malicious or actively out to get you or anyone #you're just seeing them in their most natural states and you just have to accept that you can't fix or change them #So much of the game is accepting things out of your control like the death of the universeand moving forward however you can anyway instead #You still explore the solar system and learn about the Nomai and finish their goal by finding the eye of the universe despite it all #< prev tags

craniumknight

women in stem!!!!

(prints and stickers on etsy)

#outer wilds

ratbreadd

something something holding on

#outer wilds

pigswithwings

the sounds of outer wilds are just really fucking awesome. not even the music im talking like. the way that walking on ice sounds versus walking on woods versus sand versus tiled floors. the way your breathing sounds when you're alone in space, the way your breathing speeds up when you have a minute of oxygen left, the way you breathe in the beginning of the loop. the way that the ship thrusters sound, the way the ship rattles as it enters a planet's atmosphere, the way touching down on solid land makes a solid thumping sound. the noise sand makes when it falls, the way the same noise can change mood and meaning depending on where and when you are - soothing to neutral to sinister. the way nomai technology sounds!! the pleasing sound of glass rolling around a metal container. the way the sun roars when it's bright yellow, the way it grumbles like an empty stomach when it's red, the way it overwhelms all sound in the end. outer wilds is a game with a beautiful aesthetic and the sound design is perhaps one of my favorite things about it all. it feels very real

#outer wilds

iiipeashy

Travelers

(Once again, this game has me in a chokehold)

Me seeing Ranboo in the crowd and identifying them after not watching them for years makes me feel like a reawakened sleeper agent. I'm back in the fucking building again.

#ranboo #game changer #dropout

thealmostrhetoricalquestion

My fatal flaw is that I find cosy games the complete opposite of cosy. I'm trying to play Tiny Bookshop and I can't focus on the relaxing music or the pretty art style because I'm trying to win. I'm calculating how to make exactly the most money each day. I'm recommending books so fucking hard. All of these pixelated townspeople will love me. Every decision has enormous amounts of weight and no that reflects nothing whatsoever about how I approach daily life. Simply a flaw.

#me