So I saw the post from the developers about killing creatures in subnautica 2 not being the point, and I was kinda 'eh' about it because hey! The mangoes tried to kill and eat me first! I should be allowed to kill and eat them back! I should be able to make leviathan calamari if I have a death wish.
But after playing the first game for like 5-6 hours and having access to the knife...I kinda don't want to (I killed a shuttlebug, couldn't eat it and felt extremely guilty). Like yes, the marrowbreach/houndgar squad are apparently my personal nemesis (nemesises? nemesees?), but I more want the ability to either trap them temporarily or bop them in the snoot to get them to fuck off for a longer period.
Or idk, let me build like a fence or something so that the marrowbreach aren't always UP MY ASS
Technical papers are such a crap shoot. So many of them are written by people who clearly hate writing and believe that information should be inaccessible to people who maybe don't have the familiarity or formal training they do.
But I hope the full text of that study on tin whiskers isn't paywalled.
You know... Often I see all these extensively written theories to explain away the pulpy stupidity of MASS EFFECT with some semblance of logical coherency.
But never have I seen anything about the characters who are literally exposed to vacuum and sub zero temperatures, or hazardous locations (Which is sort of fine, since none of this matters in the end.) But still in many scenes principle human characters are established to require pressurised suits to survive these environments especially the surface of bloody Mars! But then there will be an exception to the rule when Joker and Liara or even Mordin, only need partial or full face masks for some bizarre unexplained reason. Perhaps kinetic barriers or emergency shields? Artificial atmosphere bubbles around the ship or research complex... Maybe.
If there was a specific area for fans to come up with long insane pseudo science/techno babble theories this would be it! Because these moments represent some of the most harmful wounds to the immediate suspension of disbelief.
I've played subnautica 2 up to I think the end of what's currently (ha) available, so I was like "I'll go play the first one, cause I know that's done! :3"
I understand why people basically get jumpscared by the reaper statue jfc - that bitch comes out of nowhere with absolutely no warning. Like I *knew* there was one around the ship but I was expecting *some* kind of warning before it ripped my face off.
The leviathans don't have scary music with them in 1 (at least the reaper doesn't) but getting a blueprint sure as fuck does!
Just finished watching 'Wayward' on netflix and what.
Idk if there will be a second season and I'm nor sure that it would 'help', but just...hmm.
Spoilers and theories under the cut
So from a cult point of view, I guess things make sense? Like the people from the original cult never really left/got deprogramed. Evelyn took over and altered the cult beliefs to fit her own methods, which is what laura is doing now.
Few people in the series are actually 'good' , which I suppose is important? Because no one is either all good or all bad. But jfc some of them are *quite* bad. Given today's political climate I'm not sure that alex being a multiple mudering cop is a great choice, but it's also not like I wanted him to be an uwu precious cinnamon roll.
The baby being "everyone's" to help prevent generational trauma is an interesting one. Thats the trouble with cults - a number of them have had good ideas to start with, but they *always* seem to devolve into corruption and abuse (and usually sex, esp with minors).
There are several things that seem like they're supposed to be a big deal but either aren't or have no conclusion?
Like the toads. I thought we were gonna go all fantasy horror and people were actually possessed by toads or the baby would be a toadman or something but nope. Normal baby, and toads just happen to be there? Evelyn has a toad named trevor but that's the only explicit connection to her/the school? Theory: the drugs for the leap ceremony come from toads. Mmmm toad juice.
"It will be like it never happened" - that phrase comes up a couple times from different people and then just...stops? Another red herring? An unfinished plotline? You don't even hear it mentioned to the students in the school so ???
The school has strict rules like actual 'reform' schools have (no touching, the levels, demerits/'that's a scratch') etc) but that all seems to dissolve very quickly. There are other background counselors and the number of students in the school seems to vary wildly.
Theory: laura is evelyn's baby. Not sure if the timeline would actually match up but it would go further to explain evelyn's apparent obsession with laura. Or laura is just a stand-in for evelyn's lost child.
Did leila actually kill jess? Did laura actually kill her parents? Weren't there multiple bloody spots on the floor of the farmhouse after riley is killed, so wouldn't that and the news article imply that evelyn did more than just strangle the former cult leader?
Ello was transferred to one of their 'other schools' - there's more??? Or is it a euphemism like "the dog went to a farm upstate where they can run and play with other dogs"?
Wtf is ponderosa, who owns it, and what is their deal?
Not only do I wish that lwaxana and odo had stayed married, I also wish that the baby changeling had lived.
Lwaxana's son and the changeling child could have grown up together as siblings.
Little baby goop and little baby half betazoid.
(Maybe they would have cleaned out the sacred chalice of rixx for baby goop to sleep in lol)
Little baby goop learning to shape shift and playing with their sibling as different alien species and creatures. Getting upset with lwaxana and turning into a betazoid cat to hiss and sulk. Playing "which one of us is the changeling?"
Also dr.mora is there too, as 'grandpa' with questionable child-rearing methods. And probably the female changeling because you know she always has to get involved in things.
