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Sorry to hear you have a family member in hospital! I hope things get better soon. 15:11 Yay, you used photo mode! This is exactly the sort of place where you want to use it. You can imagine how annoying it would have been if you tried to do the trials in this tower by firing your scout. 21:29 I wonder if the game is a bit imprecise with your field of view, and it thinks you can still see the bottom places where the crystals can appear, so they can't move there? It seemed like a crystal should have appeared there with all the tries you did. 47:12 What a view to see in your landing camera! 🤣 51:14 "So there is a way down there... Feldspar won't tell me the way down there because that's cheating. Bastard" - I mean, they did suggest you do something "on a *completely unrelated* note" immediately after you asked, so they are helping, in their own way. 55:22 When the foley guy does their job too well...

Yay! The colours are right! Things are visible, and the purples are purple! Are you able to fix the older videos too, or is the problem baked into the footage you captured? 13:28 I'm getting stressed - it's so easy to accidentally recall your scout if you have the launcher in your hand. I'm going "Put away the scout launcher. Put away the scout launcher." 13:39 Wow, I thought that broke the gravity ring corridor thing for a moment! But it was just smoke. And, yay, you put away the scout launcher :) 25:47 "Ok, so, that was not quite as useful as I expected" - Maybe not useful, but it is delightful that you can have all those conversations about ways you've died with Slate 😁 29:56 You can get more height with the jetpack if you coordinate thrusting with a jump. 31:44 "I don't think she's fallen through yet, 'cos she's not a ridiculous amount of distance out" - well, that and the fact that the surface integrity reading is still non-zero. 36:42 "Why is that part just stuck now?" - I think that was Statue Island, not part of the orbital probe cannon. You could zoom in with your signalscope to get a better look (*edit* you actually started doing that more later in the video, yay!) 38:13 "I wonder if it's taking light years into account?" - my impression is no, Outer Wilds seems to use a Newtonian model of physics, where light has an infinite speed. Well, Newtonian except for the quantum shenanigans. 40:01 And there it goes, 0% surface integrity. 41:19 You can't really "land" if you're floating in free-fall... 45:15 "Ok, well this is not telling me how I land on it without it killing me" - you are laboring under a misapprehension. Perhaps you should just try landing on the Quantum Moon again, since if it kills you, that has no real consequence to someone in a time loop. 55:34 "Let me know if there's something I missed at the Tower of Quantum Knowledge" - no, you got everything there. FYI, your ship log will tell you if "there is more to explore here". There is no projection stone inside the Tower for that writing wall, although you can find the other side of the last conversation that was sent there elsewhere on Brittle Hollow (you might have even already done so, I can't remember). 1:03:44 Congratulations! That was well reasoned. 1:09:46 Also congratulations on fully exploring the Forge before doing this! So many play-throughs, I've seen people warp to the the Black Hole Forge District, go "yay!", and then immediately jetpack to get around slightly quicker, forgetting that they're hanging upside-down and need to stay glued to the gravity-bending ceiling 😆 1:24:25 "Meditate until next loop" - yup, congratulations, you've unlocked one of the only "abilities" that you gain during the game! The only other thing being learning the various signalscope frequencies. BTW, it would be good to have a look at your ship log. It really helps people orient themselves as to what stage a play-through is up to, and you can double-check your pen-and-paper to-do list against any question marks or locations marked with "there is more to explore here" that the ship log is displaying.

Yeah, the anglerfish being blind is making me wonder if you could turn off the ship engines and silently coast on by. Is that a function?

I bet meditating with Gabbro is available as a deliberate way to restart the loop if you screwed up and don't want to take the rest of the 22 minutes. Given that all these planets are like 3km in diameter, I strongly doubt the game is doing anything that involves accounting for the travel time of light, yeah. All the quantum stuff is probably confusing enough already. I didn't really follow any of what you were trying to do with sending the Scout through the black hole without you, but it's really interesting seeing how you think about and interpret the game. (I would Not enjoy playing it myself, between the heights and the suffocation and the fall damage, but it's a fascinating game!)

One thing to remember that I think you haven't used very much if at all is that your camera has a photo mode in addition to a launch mode, it's just not selected by default. It's helpful for navigating ghost matter since you don't have to fire it and sort of try to remember where the ghost matter was, you can just take a picture and see exactly where you can go. Obviously not super useful before you enter a tunnel that you're not sure about.

2:36 Alas, no, the colour/brightness of this video is worse - back to as bad as it looked in the first few videos, before you turned up the gamma. Everything looks super orange, and the elevator energy ring things at 2:30 definitely appear blue, not purple. Sorry! 3:18 "Here, comet comet comet comet" - I mean, you could open up your system map and lock on to it, and then the HUD would point you at it 😁 Choosing your destination and locking on to it before you even lift off makes navigation a lot easier (and you get to learn where everything is when you launch straight away - Giant's Deep up, the Twins to the left, Brittle Hollow to the right, Dark Bramble on the far side of the sun). Ah, you got there eventually 👍 8:30 Flashlight plz. 33:56 I struggled with this bit too. It helps to fire your scout around to light up dark corners. 55:45 I think that is in fact your ship, from which you're watching the scout come past 😆

Questioning whether the Nomai actually had a third eye or just did representations of one in their art was the biggest anthropology/archaeology tell I've ever encountered, I absolutely loved it. Also one of the few games where that's a good, relevant question.

Bummer about losing the first loop's video. You're right, that is super weird that OBS would record your audio but not your video, and then on top of that to start working again by itself. Thanks for the precis though! 12:20 Nearly everyone does that at least once 😁 15:29 Flashlight plz? 21:55 I was wondering if after all that, we were going to get the moment from your sneak peek at the beginning. Good recovery though! 24:12 Flashlight plz? 24:27 Shortcut unlocked! 31:40 "Wait, does the translator stop time? I know we've exploded while reading stuff before..." - the preference to pause time while reading stops when the End Times music starts. The game won't auto-pause after that. 34:55 There you go - now you know! This game somehow manages to regularly turn setbacks into leaps forward. You were very fortunate, that lump of lava illuminating it isn't scripted to appear there or anything, that was just amazing luck. 38:40 "Isn't there an achievement for dying like 6 seconds after you wake up?" - 60 seconds, but yes, it's called "Gone in 60 seconds". 43:33 "I think I'm going to cut out like half of these deaths" - Don't! Your suffering is part of the entertainment 🤣 But seriously, even death can teach you things in this game, and it's definitely part of the experience. Also, you don't necessarily know yet what things are significant, or even just ironic, so please don't cut out whole loops. 47:20 I feel that you're being unduly harsh on (the remnants of) a bridge that has been eroded by falling sand for hundreds of thousands of years 😁 1:00:20 Shouldn't Suffocation have incremented here? It was already showing "x 2" at the end of the previous loop... 1:07:50 This is significantly easier to locate if you do what the Nomai children said to do - put a lantern (your scout) in the fish's mouth, and *leave it there* while you circle around to the Stepping Stones caves and search for the entrance from below. 1:19:48 "This is going to take us to Brittle Hollow too, I think" - the towers are arranged around Ash Twin's equator, in line with the plane of the solar system, so every planet will pass over every warp tower at some point. So, you can't guess which destination a tower has just based on what planets happen to be overhead at the time you look up from the warp platform. As the writing in the High Energy Lab said, the towers are built to resemble their destinations (Timber Hearth's looks like a geyser mountain, and Giant's Deep's looks like a cyclone). BTW, don't forget that the other Travelers in the system have an option "I found something!" which allows you to discuss your discoveries with them. It's worth occasionally dropping back to talk to the folks you've already met, just to see what they have to say about new things you've found.

*comment button* XD This is really interesting still, but I don't know that I have a lot to say this time.

Holy shit, I can actually see now! If anything, it's a little overexposed at points, but definitely much better than it was. The Pacific Northwet, as my friend from the area used to call it. It's kind of impressive that there's as much sunshine in the game as there is. "Why would I ever need that much storage space?" I can't possibly imagine. *looks at Animal Crossing island with three houses totaling 15,000 storage slots which are rapidly filling up* Did you ever read the entry for the Full Service Repair station, or whatever it was? I think you might have just dismissed the new-entry blip, and I was kind of curious about that one.

So every 22 minutes at the start of the cycle, something comes out of a white hole and presumably causes the timeloop to start, and 22 minutes later, the same thing goes *into* the attached black hole -- previously, in its own personal timeline, but afterwards in terms of our time relative to it -- and the power consumption of sending this thing a whole 22 minutes earlier makes the sun go nova. And the only people aware of the timeloop and able to vary their actions within it are mentally attached to Nomai mask statue situations, which seem to store their, your, previous memories and feed them back to you after you die or loop. Furthermore, unless I'm confused, both the mask-connection process and the Sun Station power generation dealy have been referred to in connection with the Ash Twin Project, but I'm not clear on what the ultimate goal of said project was, or even if we know. What point in the timeloop were you at when you fell through the black hole without your ship and saw the Interloper out near White Hole Station? Since we seemed to see it fly into the sun at the end of that one cycle, I'm trying to figure out if the Interloper is on a set cycle where it flies into the sun at the end of every cycle, whether it's carrying whatever causes the sun to go nova, and whether it could be related to the thing that comes out of the white hole at the beginning of the cycle -- since for obvious reasons we can't be at White Hole Station at the beginning of the cycle to see what comes out.

1:40 "We are going to crash into Ash Twin, at this rate" - actually, that's one thing the Autopilot gets right. It will stop you far enough from your target Twin that you won't collide with the other one, even if they rotate so your target is behind. 3:46 Pans past unread Nomai text... 6:30 Carefully trying to land on the sun using the landing camera 😆"We'll be right back" 🤣 8:20 "You're going to hit hard again!" - you can use "match velocity" first, and then when you're at a low relative velocity, *then* switch to the landing camera. (Tell me if all my unsolicited advice is getting annoying...) 18:28 I could practically hear the gears turning in your head here😆 It's such an awesome moment in the game. 55:49 "... we just hit 22 minutes 18 seconds" - if you have the option enabled to pause the game when you're reading or in the ship's log (which I think you do), that will throw out your stopwatch time. 1:10:56 Yeah, using O2 as propellant really has no oomph at all. I assume it's mainly for if you run out of fuel in space, where using up your O2 is bad, but floating helplessly away from your ship without any means to maneuver is worse. 1:11:40 Your scout launcher has an option to switch to "Photo Mode". Give it a try! 1:12:04 "Well, we know we can get out this way" - more importantly, you can get *in* that way! Much faster and economic in jetpack fuel than traversing the path from the escape pod through the caves.

So earlier, Oppy seemed genuinely pissed that she missed the Mass Hallucination both times, but when talking to Francis and Tobias, she's getting all defensive about it and seems to be lying about something. I did notice that the information about the Mass Hallucination mentioned it affected everyone who was awake and in the radius. My initial thought was that she might have been asleep, but she really didn't like Francis mentioning her supposed whereabouts that night -- was she maybe on some sort of unauthorized expedition? And if so, where to? Deeper in the Zone or outside of it? Also, I've been reading "kLIM" as if it's pronounced "kay-lim", assuming it's short for kilo-measures of LIM energy, like kilojoules or something. I'm pretty sure that's been a consistently lowercase K. (Was the word you weren't sure how to pronounce -- not inordinately, but the one where the guy was bitching about high heels and low X -- was that maybe "decolletage"? Possibly with some French diacriticals in there, my memory for spelling doesn't extend to diacriticals. It means the low-cut-ness of a neckline to show cleavage, so it was a common complaint about Those Sexy Women distracting from Our Manly Science. The pronunciation I've heard most often is "de-COH-leh-TAZH".) I keep trying to figure out if Arda's name is supposed to be a reference to something I'm not remembering, or just a generally midcentury sounding mad science sort of name. In Tolkien Elvish, Arda is the Earth, so my brain keeps trying to do something with that, but I have no idea if that's an actual intended subtle reference from the game developers (I mean, we are looking at a retro SFF nerd sort of setting, although not in a timeframe where it'd be a Watsonian reference because the name Arda didn't come up in published work until the Silmarillion) or just me being me. But it's completely possible there's something that people not distracted by Tolkien are supposed to be associating it with.

7:53 Boost! Boost! 14:02 *Whack" "Woah! What just happened?" - a quantum tree just appeared under/inside your ship. It's a risky place to park 😁 17:43 I don't know if it's canon, but I interpret those orange symbols as Nomai numbers, with the number of hexagons in the symbol showing the count. So, it's like it's saying "floor 1 - school district", "floor 2 - meltwater district", "floor 3 - eye shrine district" and "funky symbol wot isn't a number - black hole forge district". 23:48 "I was just trying to get a better look" - don't forget that your Signalscope has a handy zoom feature! 38:50 "Now, I was on the surface, and it didn't seem to be bothering me that much" - I think the Hearthians are just much more hardy than the Nomai. One of the museum entries about the Nomai skeleton mentions their "shockingly fragile bone structure". 50:24 "Ok, so Chert knows that... everything is exploding" - but did you? I may be wrong, but I don't know that you'd noticed anything other than your own sun going supernova? 54:57 You could have also talked to Chert again on your way through, early in the loop this time. 1:09:30 Shortcut unlocked! 1:12:44 😆 BTW, you keep talking to the sun as if it might start to collapse at any second without warning, but when you learn to read the signs, you always have some warning. Learning to gauge how close you are to the end of the loop is one of the skills that you develop as you play.

The Sun Station Project definitely sounds ominous. I wonder if the other supernovae Chert noticed are all related, or if the other Nomai built Sun Stations that are all now going kablooey at once? ...I wonder if the supernovae and/or the black hole / white hole warp link have anything to do with the timey-wimeyness around how the Nomai seem to both be zillions of years ago and like two minutes ago?

(I say Meltwater at the beginning, I meant Black Hole Forge lol)

"I'm sure this wasn't intentional" how sure are you really. Because if the Zone *is* coded so that barging around like a maniac draws its attention and you have to think like a prey animal to stay safer, that would be a really clever way of inducing the relevant horror-y feelings, and also be in theme with the whole... part where it keeps being Weirdly Alive.

I mean, obviously the bone quality/arrangements is an artistic choice, but my vertebrate paleontology professor back in college was working on how decomposition and fossilization happen in anaerobic environments at the bottom of ancient sinkholes! Which is a little like space although a great deal soggier. But my point is that most decomposition in those settings comes from our own gut bacteria, so you're more likely to get fossilized if you're disarticulated quickly before being buried. ...can you tell I would definitely be here for Vaguely Remembered Archaeology With Heidi

8:16 Thanks for turning up the gamma! That's much better now, although as you can see in the video, the "image on the left" is still invisible even at +1.0 gamma. The colours are still off, too, the most obvious being that things that are bright purple in the game (such as the gravity elevator energy tunnel square things you travel through) appear blue in your videos. You say it looks right when you're playing the game and editing the video, so perhaps it's some video compression setting when you render the final version? If that's the case, that would mean that if you manage to fix it, you could potentially re-render and re-upload the older videos (although I don't know if that would mess with viewing stats). 15:37 Just a point of order: you didn't go to the Black Hole Forge district last episode, you found the Black Hole Forge *controls* (which are in the Meltwater District). 21:48 If you look at the on-screen control prompts in the top right corner, it shows a way to switch the scout launcher into "Photo Mode". Give it a try, you might find it more convenient in some circumstances. 26:17 Slate? Slate!? Slaaaaaaate! 33:57 LOL 39:45 "... our ruins from that long ago [have] not survived" - yeah, the Nomai ruins and remains are unrealistically well preserved, presumably so the player can experience the environmental storytelling of finding things mostly intact. To be fair though, any human-made artifacts from 100,000-300,000 years ago would be (pre-)stone-age structures made from natural materials, while the Nomai were a (shipwrecked) spacefaring-tech species whose constructions would probably be significantly more durable. Also, they're on worlds which have barely anything in the way of a biosphere to break things down. 44:58 "Oh, my ship is getting closer now! And going further away. Interesting" - you're on a planet that's in orbit around the local sun, and your ship is hanging out at the white hole (which seems to just sit in the same place relative to the star), so you're going to move closer and further as Brittle Hollow cycles around its orbit. But you can always pull up your system map to check where things are. Don't worry (from the audience's perspective) about not being able to binge cycle after cycle. Taking it slowly will give you a chance to think about what you've learned between sessions. Also, now that you've got a ways into the game, you can see what people mean when they say that playing Outer Wilds is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, because all the progress in the game is about learning, and once you've learned something, you can't un-learn it. So, take your time and savor the experience.

25:29 "I feel like I accomplished almost nothing [that loop]" - Getting into the statue workshop isn't nothing! 43:12 "Dammit, now I have to find that place again!" - the game is is designed so that the surface of planets are pretty featureless where there's nothing to find, so you can locate the actual points of interest visually from space. So, re-locating something obvious on the surface, like the Tower of Quantum Knowledge, just requires an orbit of the planet. 44:25 I'm curious, why do you keep cancelling your autopilot while it's firing the retro rockets to match velocity with the destination, and as a result coming in hot? You seem to do it every time, so I figure it's deliberate. 58:11 "I don't know why it wants me to launch my scout into there" - the game will automatically do that whenever you're looking through a gap that you can't fit through, but the scout can. I guess it's to prompt the player to check out the inside with the scout, perhaps to look for other ways in? Otherwise, you might assume that something like the latticework on this tower is functionally solid, and not guess that you could launch the scout through it. 1:02:27 "'And where did the escape pod launch from? I'm so curious!' Well, I mean, from the ship that I found right next to it" - the ship you found *was* the escape pod. The glowing beacon emitting the signal next to it was just an emergency beacon transmitter placed outside the escape pod. 1:05:18 "I feel like my right stick is a little... sticky" - an unintentional tautology 😆 1:11:55 *There is more to explore here* 1:20:10 Loved this bit 😁

So is the screen actually dark as god's butthole three quarters of the time (except for GUI elements) or is something wrong with the light balance of the video on one end or the other? Also, I was thinking about the purple dot, which I notice did show up in the second instability storm as well, and I'm wondering if it might be something to do with the purple counter for Corrupt energy on the Fabrication Station.

Oh, wow, if your background is in Archaeology, you're going to love this game ☺ It's odd how the control prompts keep oscillating between controller and mouse&keyboard mappings. I guess because of your hand issues you're using the controller for some things and the mouse or keyboard for others? Or have you remapped some of your controller inputs to keyboard keys or something? The false ending was so good. I was listening to what was happening as you were saying your outro, and going "Will it? Won't it?" the whole time. Also, I'm so glad that you eventually passed your view over the campfire and noticed the option to roast marshmallows (and doze off) 😁 BTW, your game (or at least your video) looks really dark to me. Even in the sun's light, things look much darker than normal, and in the dark without your flashlight I can't see much at all. Is your gamma turned way down or something? *Edit* actually, it's not just dark, the colours also seem off... like, the Nomai statue's eyes glowed blue in your video, but they normally glow purple.

Things I'm wondering: * I don't know if I missed some explanation about the comet, but I'm wondering if its return could have something to do with starting the time loop, and/or if it's related to or identified with the wandering quantum moon. * I keep thinking some of the skeletons look like they might have been killed by earthquakes/rockfalls, but they could also have died first and been buried afterwards. The ones on Brittle Hollow look a lot more like they died suddenly in situ. * Probably worth taking the ship through the black hole on purpose at some point to explore the stuff near the white hole? * I don't know if it's significant or just kind of cool that all the names of the player character species are geology themed and most (but perhaps not all?) of the Nomai names are plant themed. * I feel like whatever the thing is that's getting launched at the beginning of every loop and then twenty minutes later we blow up, it's going to break my brain with the causality time shit when we find out.

The sound design in this game is so cool. I love how the acoustic-y music interacts with the Space Sounds

I would definitely not be watching a horror game if it weren't for your commentary, but at that remove this is kind of entertaining. My only hypothesis about what's going on is that, with the amount of "semi-organic" this and "biological" that, and beating hearts and so forth, there will at some point be what Ursula Vernon has described as a Horrible Meat Level -- like Mass Effect 2's Collector Ship mission or whatnot, where you're walking through guts that are breathing around you. (Maybe the entire Zone is a connected living being, incorporating all the hearts and slime-spewers and so forth? Not sure I'd hang my hat on that one. If it is, though, whoever Cappy is / connects to is probably its origin or consciousness.)

I mean I'm definitely here to hear your reactions ^_^ I'm usually running let's-plays or streams for background chatter anyway while writing or playing another game with the sound off, so I always appreciate when the player reads out the text onscreen

You somehow found the best and worst time to try to end the first episode XD. This is an amazing game, you're in for a real treat. Looking forward to more!

"Gneiss" is pronounced "nice"

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