#easter-egg

[maggyoutthere]

fun is infinite

with Sega Enterprises

- Majin

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Let's start getting SPOOPY >:3. I actually have the Sonic Gems Collection for PS2 and it includes Sonic CD. So I made my bro set up the console so we could try to get all the easter-eggs XD

We did it, so I had to draw this guy

[shetoldmetocalmdown-blog]

I just found this neat Easter egg on Google.

Steps.

1- go to google.com

2- type up “THANOS”

3- tap the little gauntlet glove next to his name.

4- watch the magic

5- to undo, tap the little gauntlet glove again

[obscurewatch]

The Ilios Butterflies

Even with your graphic settings on low, Overwatch is a great looking game. But there are some fine details that won’t show up unless you’re on high settings. For example, something magical happens if you have your “effects” setting on medium at least.

“Hey guys did you know there are tiny butterflies flying around the flowers of Ilios Well?”

That’s something I must have said hundreds of times at the start of the game, in match chat (the orange text chat both teams see) whenever the game sends me to Ilios Well. It is thanks to the Ilios butterflies that I fell in love with all those obscure details in Overwatch. I noticed them a year and a half ago and haven’t stopped loving them since.

They’re pretty cute. They don’t do much. They just fly around flowers. Not all the flowers mind you, only select spots, for some reason I haven’t yet figured out.

Click here for an imgur ALBUM of ALL the spots where you can see them on Ilios. 

and

Click here for a short video of the PINK butterflies

and

Click here for a short video of the YELLOW butterflies

Now the wonderful thing about those butterflies isn’t how cute and tiny and amazing they are. No, it’s that they’re an easter egg !

Quite a nerdy one too.

Turns out they’re not a made up custom model loosely based on what a butterfly is supposed to look like but they’re exact copies of a real life species called papilio ulysses.

Papilio ulysses is huge with its wingspan of 14cm (some of its sub-species are smaller and other bigger) and the males have the upper side of their wings (the part that’s on their backs) a bright blue and the lower side brown whereas females have both sides brown.

So you can only see the bright blue wings when a male is flying, when he’s resting or feeding, his wings are “closed” and you only see the brown part.

The Ilios Butterflies, yellow and pink and in the middle : papilio ulysses

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So yeah this is clearly a 100% match.

Papilio ulysses, that’s the easter egg. Ulysses is the roman name of Odysseus, the hero of the ancient greek epic poem by Homer, the Odyssey.

Long story short, in the Odyssey the greek army is at war with city of Troy and they manage to capture Troy using the stratagem of the Trojan Horse , which was Ulysses/Odysseus’ idea. Also, Ulysses/Odysseus was the human champion of the goddess of wisdom Athena at that time (she likes having human champions that she helps as long as they remain virtuous) and Overwatch’s Athena seems particularly worried about what is happening in Ilios, Ilios being the only map (the other two being Nepal and Lijiang Tower) where she lets players know a bit about why they’re here. On Ilios, we’re here because of Talon activity in the area, Athena thinks they’re after the recently unearthed artifacts (the statues of Athena, Hera and Aphrodite).

Now what’s the link between the Trojan Horse and Ilios? Well, another name for the city of Troy back then was Ilios.

*mindblown gif*

The Ilios butterflies, modeled after a species with bright blue wings (aka, the anti camouflage color), are the same color as the plants they fly around, making them really hard to notice (they’ve been around since launch, I’ve checked old footage, but no almost no one knows about them). Almost like they’re camouflaged, waiting for the right time to strike, like the soldiers inside the Trojan Horse of old, ready to take the city of Troy.  Which has me thinking the future greek hero of Overwatch could have some kind of camouflage ability, nothing like Sombra’s, more like actual camouflage that only works as long as you’re static even if you’re hiding in plain sight, Trojan Horse style. Idk, this is wild speculation.

There are pink, yellow and red flowers on Ilios, but only pink and yellow butterflies, no red butterflies for some reason.

Ilios is based on the greek island of Santorini and the pink flowers we see everywhere on the maps are very likely based on the real species bougainvillea which is found everywhere on Santorini. However bougainvillea is not native to the island, it comes from the rainforests of South America, Santorini being an arid volcanic island with 90% of its flora being dry bushes. Papilio ulysses isn’t native to Santorini either, it comes from the rainforests of Australia, Indonesia and other nearby tropical islands, it wouldn’t survive in the arid climate of Santorini (almost no native flowers on the island and way too dry anyway).

I think the developers picked this species solely for the easter egg, unless it’s a clue about the state of climate change in the world of Overwatch, allowing tropical butterfly species to survive in the dry mediterranean climate. Who knows...

Phew that was a lot of links to click on, I hope you’re not too mad about that :3

I hope you clicked on the first three links, they’re kind of important, if you haven’t, go do it now :D

That’s all I have on the Ilios Butterflies, I hope you liked it and will spread the word about them (and remember that you need to put the graphic setting called “effects” on medium at least, they don’t appear at all on low) !

They’re cute, they deserve to be noticed :D

If you’re open minded and if you enjoy wasting time hunting for the many obscure things the devs have put in the world of Overwatch, I have an all new discord server :D

https://discord.gg/Eg8pZdn

[jodarkrider]

Haven’t been here lately nearly at all. Too busy playing in the Plains. Have a nice easter-egg picture, with my Tenno & her beloved Warframe duo.

[sxpxrmxrgxr]

[soup-newsletter]

Postcards From ISS

Did you know that International Space Station sometimes transmits pictures down to Earth using voice frequencies (SSTV) of random NASA slides and Russian airplanes?

SSTV usually only takes up to a maximum of 3 kHz of bandwidth, and as a much slower method of still picture transmission, it usually takes about a minute to transmit one image frame. The images are then received by amateurs world-wide.

All you need to do to receive SSTV pictures directly from the space station is to connect the audio output of a scanner or amateur radio transceiver via a simple interface to the SSTV decoding software and tune in to 145.8 MHz FM and wait for ISS to make an orbital pass over you while they beam another postcard. However, they do not transmit them that often.

[ugotsta]

Been forever long since I’ve posted a video guide, this one shows how to quickly download and play the Nohzedyve game from Netflix’s Black Mirror Bandersnatch episode.

[thewordofward]

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