Outer Wilds plot is dumb

Nomai have a simple way to get right next to the eye (quantum moon)
Yet they decide to
> send probes in random directions
> use a timeloop to send infinite probes
> create statues to record memory and be able to stop the timeloop someday
> make the sun explode to power all that shit
They weren't even able to be successful in the first step

Any scientific mind would start by trying simple solutions from what they already know
Instead those dumb fricks go for a complex bloated solution that rely on many assumptions
They deserved to die

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    that's great but you are totally fricking wrong and should stop posting

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    No, their plan 100% did work except they were unable to explode the sun. And then before they could remedy the problem they all died out of nowhere from something they couldn't predict.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >And then before they could remedy the problem they all died out of nowhere from something they couldn't predict.
      You can't possibly tell me this is good writing. I don't buy it when people praise the plot.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        random disasters happen sometimes in the vast infinite of the universe

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >random magical disasters that conveniently kills only the members of the ancient advanced civilization and do no significant damage to their infrastructure just to set up the plot of a video game about exploring ancient civilization's ruins just happens sometimes

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            THEY'RE NOT EVEN LIVING IN THE LOOP
            ONLY YOU AND GABBRO EXPERIENCE THE LOOP
            NOTHING PHYSICAL IS SENT BACK IN THE LOOP
            WHY THE FRICK ARE YOU STILL ACTING LIKE "CONTINUING" THE LOOP IS PRESERVING ANYONE WHEN THE WHOLE GAME MAKES IT CLEAR THAT'S NOT WHAT'S GOING ON
            LITERALLY ALL THE ATP DOES IS SENS YOU AND GABBRO'S MEMORIES BACK IN TIME

            >random magical disaster
            IT'S A METEOR FILLED WITH SUPERCOMPRESSED RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL EXPLODING AND GIVING EVERYONE SUPERCANCER
            THE SPECIES YOU PLAY AS ONLY LIVES BECAUSE THE MATERIAL IS NEUTRALIZED BY WATER AND YOU PLAY AS AN AQUATIC SPECIES
            THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT IT

            HAVE ANY OF YOU homosexualS EVEN PLAYED THE FRICKING GAME

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              anon he literally is typing words to piss you off

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah it is fricking magical dipshit.
              Go ahead and name some chemical accidents that only killed the apex predators without fricking with the water or infrastructure.
              Make sure the source of it is from an comet too.
              Also it has to be solar-system wide.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                A meteorite that killed dinosaurs allowing mammals to take over?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Caused and explosion so giant it deformed the landscape. Tell me about the houses (and furniture) build around the impact zone and survived.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The dinosaur fossils survived though. But yeah, not the structures that they built.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                When we're exploring dinosaur made space stations you can tell me how that magic radiation comet isn't magic.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It is bullshit magic, I don't argue with that. But your post literally described the asteroid and dinosaurs, I think it was funny.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                By literally described you mean ignoring the "infrastructure and water" part, and the solar system wide part.
                Bet you wouldn't want to drink the water near a recent asteroid impact.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you're telling me these little fricks managed to survive a global catastrophe that wiped out all life bigger than a breadbox?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Are you trying to argue that extinction events are bad writing?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Actually, literally yes
            >radioactive matter bomb that goes through walls, across space and can't penetrate water
            >also your race evolved from frogs so you were all underwater when this happened which is why you're not dead too

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              matter bomb that goes through walls, across space and can't penetrate water
              Radiation isn't magic that gets stopped by water and literally nothing else. It does get stopped by walls. You don't know what you're talking about.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                radiation does get stopped by water though. water is highly absorbant to the energy levels that dangerous radiation exitst at

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You can't read cause I never said water doesn't stop radiation.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ghost matter, the fictional radioactive element that was invented for this story, does pass through walls and is stopped by water
                Source: the ghost matter exhibit on timber hearth

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's shills and the couple of people who cannot see anything they like criticized. The writing is at times bad.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    but you couldn't do anything from the moon when it spawns near the eye, no?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can't directly go in the eye but they could have tried to get the coordinates from there, it's not mentinned that they tried

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's been awhile since I played it but I recall your probe and some other equipment goes crazy while on the moon so I imagine you couldn't just pinpoint the coordinates like that because of quantum frickery

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They tried that, it's the purpose of the quantum moon locator. Turns out that when the quantum moon is near the Eye you cannot track it.
        Why? Because frick you that's why.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Literally because of the traveler blocking it.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because the dumbass birds are blocking it, dipshit
          Did you play the dlc ?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Considering you can't see yourself on the map while on the quantum moon, nor does your signal scope see any signals properly, your technology isn't able to derive coordinates that way, and neither was the Nomai's.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For their plan to work they had to make the sun explode, time travel, have memory statues, while they could have just launched a probe from the quantum moon

    But outer wilds fanboys are too degenerate to question the plot

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what happens when you launch a probe from the quantum moon

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >while they could have just launched a probe from the quantum moon
      That doesn't work. You can't reach the eye from the moon. Just try launching your own probe there (or fly up there yourself) and see what happens.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You smoothbrain motherfricker. They didn't solve the quantum moon. That's why Solaris or whatever is just chilling there.
    They designed the probe spam before they got there, then they failed at detonating the sun. They had to then wait until the natural end of the star's life, but got wiped out by the exotic matter bombardments from the comet long before that could happen.
    Then your species evolves and you get caught in their loop and use it to figure out their plans and see them to completion.
    Then the end of the game reveals a bit more spoiler shit.

    t;dr: You didn't understand some key plot elements. Try again.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      When of my favorite moments in the game is when I figured out that they weren't making the sun explode, but instead it was at it's natural life span and there was nothing you could do to stop it.
      I remember my stomach really dropping when I had that realization.
      That and figuring out what the interlocutor was were two of the best moments in the game.

      Is the DLC any good?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Is the DLC any good?
        Yes, it's really good. It made me feel the things the original game did all over again.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, Quantum Moon doesn't feel particularly used well by them even though it'd apparently already infiltrated their culture to a coming-of-age level - but also probe spam wasn't a last-ditch desperate plan, it was just a plan by one team that they were sure would work, and does, but they all got KO'd by Final Fantasy Spirits Within beams.
        Outer Wilds involves a lot of promising plans and lives getting cut short.

        Pretty good, just remember if you're trying to use stealth you're doing things the very bad way. It'll make sense later.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        No the DLC is shit

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        lore wise it's great, gameplay wise i found it very unpolished and annoying to play. Give it an honest chance but dont bother hitting your head against the wall too long or you'll end up like me hating it and ruining the few good things it has

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The interloper. The worst part of the story really. "I wrote myself into a corner, so I just kill everyone".

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I mean they needed some justification for why all the Nomai are dead. Also at least it ties into gameplay with ghost matter being around.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            and the player is mildly led to believe it might be responsible for the supernova at first, giving you a reason to go there

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              That would be the Sun Station. Another disappointing part, because you don't learn anything new by getting there I think. I may be remembering wrong wrong, but the fact that it did not work you learn from somewhere else as well.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                nah, the Interloper passes really close to the sun and it starts visibly aging pretty much right after so it would be pretty easy for someone who noticed to draw the conclusion that the Interloper caused it, and that's likely by design

                I'm pretty sure you do find out the Sun Station failed on the Sun Station, but beyond that you also get confirmation the sun is at the end of its natural life cycle, and that it's been almost 300K years since the Nomai were wiped out

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well, you post is somewhat contradictory. Either the Sun was already at the end if its life cycle, or the evil matter (don't remember the exact name) brought it close to the end. However I don't think it matters enough to argue about it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm saying the Interloper was intentionally used as a red herring, like the Sun Station, to give the player the false idea that it is responsible for the sun exploding, not that it actually caused the sun to explode.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok, I now see your point.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the Sun was already at the end if its life cycle
                it's not just your sun, it's every sun, the universe was coming to an end

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I think you're mistaken. I distinctly remember thinking the interloper was the cause of the sun exploding. For this reason I sat and watched the map with the sun for the entire duration of a reset. If you do it this way, you see that the sun starts changing before it comes into contact with the interloper.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                see

                I'm saying the Interloper was intentionally used as a red herring, like the Sun Station, to give the player the false idea that it is responsible for the sun exploding, not that it actually caused the sun to explode.

                . You still thought the Interloper caused the supernova, which was (likely) intended.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh I agree with the red herring part for sure!
                I disagree with
                >the Interloper passes really close to the sun and it starts visibly aging pretty much right after
                The aging happens before interloper contact

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Someone who wasn't watching closely could come to that conclusion. And as you said yourself, you only noticed when you sat and watched.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I agree with this.
                But I think you were still mistaken when you wrote
                >the Interloper passes really close to the sun and it starts visibly aging pretty much right after
                I just wanted to point this out, because I feel a lot of people haven't actually watched the sun transform for a loop and it's pretty cool. And it's pretty cool that you can derive some knowledge about the game from just watching its map screen for 20 minutes. I'm not disagreeing with you in general, I'm just posting cool facts that contradict a part of your post.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The interloper looped around the sun the exact same way for thousands of years, seeing as the nomai landed on it before they all died and that it's in hearthian solar system models and images so one can infer that it's not directly causing the sun to explode in this one orbit

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the Interloper actually crashes into the sun in the loop

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah because the sun expands enough to get in the way of the interloper's orbit

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's actually the sun that expands into it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You are remembering wrong

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >but the fact that it did not work you learn from somewhere else as well
                It's mentioned in the ash twin project chamber as well.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What was the interloper?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The comet that killed the nomai

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The DLC is better than the base game, and goes out of its way to explain why the eye became silent, and why the moon couldn't be used to detect the eye. It's really great.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They did solve the quantum moon, it is said that it is a typical pilgrimage to learn about quantum shit
      Solanum (the guy on the moon) doesn't even know about the probe spam, they solved quantum moon way before ash link project
      tldr: you haven't played the game for 3 years so stfu

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Solanum (the guy on the moon)
        *gal

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I was pretty fricking sick of the they/them pronouns that made every conversation with more than 2 people incomprehensible

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            This only applies to the Heartheans. The Nomai are either male or female.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            esl sighted

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The Nomai use gendered pronouns, only the Hearthians use they

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You're complaining about the good part of the plot, ignoring all the drivel written by a literal femoid "professional writer".

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      such as?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The whole ending, transgender aliens.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I see, your own schizo headcanon

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're complaining about the good part of the plot, ignoring all the drivel written by a literal femoid "professional writer".

          Literally not a thing, show any proofs.

          Hearthians being gender neutral is not a proof, these are literal aliens so I give it a pass

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's also SPECIFICALLY only the Hearthians. The Nomai have genders, meanwhile the Hearthians are all autistic hermaphroditic space frogs that care more about launching themselves into space with rickety wooden bullshit than anything else.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You are a braindead fricking moron. have a nice day moron.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Please explain how the game has anything to do with trannies.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      "They" is a troony pronoun.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        How else would you refer to a race of hermaphroditic frogs?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I don't care. They were made like this by a femoid with agenda so they are trannies.

          >use music to track down each of the other explorers
          >even the tutorial for the signalscope is tracking music
          >NOOOOO HOW COULD THIS THEME COME BACK AT THE END OF THE GAME

          You're missing the point. Your reward for reaching the Eye is a hallucination. It's bad.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Your reward for reaching the Eye is seeing a new universe being born

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Do I give a frick? I killed all my friends to reach the Eye and it didn't matter a tiny bit.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I killed all my friends
                You didn't do shit, did you even pay attention to the game?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                your friends were going to die anyway, and you got to hang out with them one last time in Quantum Heaven before looking out on a brave new universe full of new adventures

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Anon, the heat death of the universe wasn't your fault. You have to let us go.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You entering the Eye didn't end the universe. Time around you just sped up to that point and then you reset everything.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You entering the Eye didn't end the universe.
                The dlc says otherwise.
                The owls' vision specifically shows that interacting with the eye destroys everything.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the owls were morons who got it wrong and panicked. The universe was ending regardless.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Except there's nothing in game suggesting that their vision was wrong in any way. You're simply choosing to ignore what was in the game in favor of your own head canon.
                Also, remember that the owls and nomai were around 200000 years before the events of the game. The universe was a decent ways away from dying at that point.

                the stars are all dying. you entering the eye is the first person to set foot since the beginning of our universe.
                if you don't restart the universe you'd be stuck in heat death for all eternity

                See above

                If anything, we should disregard any retcons made in the DLC.

                The dlc doesn't stop being canon just because you don't like it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                their vision was wrong because the universe was already going through heat death before you ever set foot in the Eye, simple as. They had a vision of the two things happening simultaneously, and thought correlation equals causation (like you, ironically)

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >their vision was wrong because the universe was already going through heat death before you ever set foot in the Eye, simple as.
                Except it wasn't when they had the vision 200000 years ago.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                wow their vision of the future was a vision of the future? Tell me more.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Except it was specifically a vision of them interacting with the eye then and there, not you interaction with the eye 200000 years from then.
                And their vision of themselves interacting with the eye right then and there showed them that it'd destroy everything.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >wow, a vision works like vision?

                Are you moronic?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Can't help but notice you've stopped trying to make any actual arguments. It's almost as if you don't actually have any and you're just desperately trying to draw out the argument by making inane posts to avoid having to admit that your head canon is wrong. I'll gladly take that as a concession.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Rhetorical irony like that are arguments, you're just too moronic to realize you're being a moron

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't care about canon. I'm taking the first game at face value without attempts at retconning what is objectively a disappointing videogame story.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >See above
                Why? Doesn't contradict anything that was said. The owls are right about the eye, it acts as a reset switch that creates a new universe on top of the current universe which was probably a really big deal to them hundreds of thousands if not millions of years ago but hardly makes a difference in the present where the heat death of the universe is just around the corner. You either go there and create a new universe or you let the heat death happen and doom all of existence into an eternity of oblivion.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the stars are all dying. you entering the eye is the first person to set foot since the beginning of our universe.
                if you don't restart the universe you'd be stuck in heat death for all eternity

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                If anything, we should disregard any retcons made in the DLC.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can really tell who used a guide to beat the game because only someone following a guide wouldn't have explored the Nomai Vessel the first time they found it and read all the new and old messages about everything in the universe dying at a rapidly exponential rate.
                Nope, because this 75 IQ moron followed a guide he didn't discover the vessel until he needed to reach it with the warp core.

                Congratulations, moron. You ruined a unique game experience because you got frustrated with your broken brain and weren't smart enough to ask for hints instead of solutions.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah I think it was the supernova that killed them.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You didn't kill anyone, the sun is naturally going supernova and the only ones aware of the loop are you and the chill flute player hanging out on Giants Deep.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Your posts are very low IQ

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >turning into literal fantasy for girls in the ending
    what the hell are you talking about

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm talking about the ending sequence where you're playing the song of your people. In a sci fi story it's as cringe as being teleported into a bookshelf and overall very disappointing. An otherwise good game ruined by this and the constant resets.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >use music to track down each of the other explorers
        >even the tutorial for the signalscope is tracking music
        >NOOOOO HOW COULD THIS THEME COME BACK AT THE END OF THE GAME

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    > tfw I tried to save Solanum by taking a photo of her and running to her body

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You could've just made a regular thread instead of just posting shitty bait like a moron

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      All Outer Wilds threads are like this. It's a Hindu shill and a couple people who played the game arguing about the same things.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Something about outer wilds threads seems to attract literal 90 IQ morons who can't comprehend the most basic of storytelling or problem solving. Like this game isn't that hard nor do you need to be smart to beat it. All that is required is simply PAYING ATTENTION. I fricking HATE EVERYONE AHHHHH

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like how mad trannies and sociopaths are at a few simple observations.
    > You pulled the plug on your friends
    > You did it without their knowledge or consent
    > You did it to reach the Eye
    > Reaching the Eye didn't do anything. You gambled your friends' lives and lost.
    > You get a romcom-grade hallucination as a "reward"
    First, your actions are unethical and I don't like that the game railroads you into them. Second, this is just disappointing (cf. people b***hing about the ending of Scorn, where you just suddenly die).

    This is what I get as a response:
    > Name calling
    > REEEEE
    > HERMAPHRODITE FROGS
    > UNIVERSE WAS GOING TO END ANYWAY
    > (Not yet in this thread) YOU JUST WANTED A HAPPY ENDING
    I can only kek at you people.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How exactly did you pull the plug on your friends? Did you miss the fact the sun literally explodes? Or the fact the entire universe dies? What are you even talking about.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ok, I have a bit of energy left to argue in good faith.
        > Before taking the energy source from the Ash Twin: You can talk to your friends and touch them
        > After: All your friends are dead
        Therefore, your actions killed them.

        > The universe is going to die anyway
        The universe time scale is very long. It could take millions of years.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The universe time scale is very long. It could take millions of years.
          you can literally watch each and every star in the universe explode in the 22 minutes of real time

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you can literally see all the stars in the sky going supernova, the sky is practically empty by the end of the loop

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Your eye sees a minority of stars and most of them are in our galaxy.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The vessel is still receiving messages from other nomai ships and they make it pretty clear that things aren't looking much better in other galaxies and that the universe is dying.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Do I care if it's "dying". I don't see any indication when it will die, so I find it unethical to euthanize your friends now, just because you don't know what else to do.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you mean besides the sun and all the stars in the sky exploding?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                All stars in the sky is not an argument. Only a small portion of stars that exist at different distances and therefore exploded at different times. There's no indication why your Sun will be the last one.

                But that's part of the issue. Second part, the game leads you to believe that reaching the Eye is something good, except it's not. Apparently the DLC came up with some bullshit why it is actually something good, but I don't care. In the base game you literally euthanize everyone because you have no idea what you're doing.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm going to doom my friends to an eternity of dying in a supernova because uhhhhh ethics or something

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the star is going to kill everyone in the system
                as you watch, other stars across the galaxy kill their systems as well
                what is the eye doing that isn't already happening?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It lets a living observer view the next universe and collapse the quantum possibilities into a stable state.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > In a world that was ever getting more complex as I explored it
                > At this particular moment I'm sure I explored all of it
                > And I'm sure there are two possible outcomes
                > Because there may not be anything else

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the Nomai vessel gets messages from other still-living Nomai that the universe is ending

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So what? How long until it ends?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                not very long if all the visible stars in the sky are going supernova at coincidentally the perfect times for you to see it happening in the 20 minutes before your own sun goes supernova

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not a proof. The Sun getting brighter before supernova just makes the stars invisible in the sky.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can see stars explode long before the sun starts expanding

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can literally see the explosions

                This does not mean they all explode at the same time.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok, sure, but they've all exploded.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can use the signalscope to watch the stars explode
                also not how light works in a vaccuum

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you can literally see the explosions

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Did you play the fricking game you absolute drooling waste of space and air? Or did you let a letsplayer experience it for you ?
                have a nice day troony

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I find it unethical to euthanize your friends now
                Good thing you don't have to. The sun does it for you.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > Guns kill people

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're not responsible for the supernova.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > You're not responsible for that the gun shoots when you pull the trigger

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You don't pull the trigger on the sun though.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > But you didn't manufacture the gun

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you didn't aim the gun
                >you didn't arm the gun
                >you didn't pull the trigger

                yeah, I can do that too

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > The gun was manufactured
                > The gun was aimed
                > It remains to pull the trigger

                You didn't kill anyone, the sun is naturally going supernova and the only ones aware of the loop are you and the chill flute player hanging out on Giants Deep.

                > It's ethical to kill if no one will know about it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the gun was manufactured
                no it wasn't?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                How did you kill someone? You don't trigger the sun to go supernova.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                they visibly erupt!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                frick

                Not a proof. The Sun getting brighter before supernova just makes the stars invisible in the sky.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who the frick manufactured the sun? Is God canon in the game? Can you go yell at him to fix the universe?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The previous person who entered the eye of the universe did

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Being stuck in a 20 minute time loop that ends with you being engulfed by a supernova is not living. It's even worse for the player character and the flute guy who are aware of this happening.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's literally not even a real, physical timeloop, either. the only thing time traveling is your memories. There's essentially only one real "loop" that actually happens and it's the last one.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, some Californian homosexual would tell me what's living and what's not. Frick off.

                Ok, sure, but they've all exploded.

                > All
                No proof.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No proof.
                Uh... anon, when you stand in the vessel before going to the eye of the universe, you can wait until every star in the sky is dead.
                You have not played the game
                End yourself troony

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you don't get killed when you're in the vessel next to the Eye?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nope, do a run and try it. The eye is out of the supernovae's range.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I did not know that, but it is actually making things even worse.
                > There's a safe space in the universe
                > It's literally in the game (I only conjectured it existed)
                > You can go there
                > You go there yourself, pulling life support on your friends
                > All your friends to die and it's your fault
                I'm really disappointed now.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And how is everybody going to survive without a fricking sun you brainless monkey?
                There is no safe space at the end. The eye fricking explodes and creates a new universe.
                Your character also dies at the very end.
                See yourself as a literal spermatozoid and the eye as an unfertilized egg.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ignoring the impossibility of the timing, the Eye isn't a "safe space." There's no light, no air, no life at all. It's just a window into the next universe that requires a living observer to activate.

                You can fly out into the void and avoid dying in the supernova, but that doesn't make the void between stars a safe space.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You just described space, which is hostile until indominable human spirit makes it otherwise. You can take your time and figure what to do. You can try to find another safe space. You can enter the eye with your friends. But the ending of the game was written by an egoistic sociopath (a woman).

                You won't get killed if you're on the DLC vessel either

                Oh well.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You can take your time and figure what to do
                with what resources?
                >You can try to find another safe space
                where? The universe is dead
                >You can enter the eye with your friends
                and do what? Have a singalong around the campfire then sacrifice yourself to kickstart the next universe oh wait lol

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > In a world that was ever getting more complex as I explored it
                > At this particular moment I'm sure I explored all of it
                > And I'm sure there are two possible outcomes
                > Because there may not be anything else

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You can enter the eye with your friends
                >and do what?
                Do you even listen to yourself?
                > Face the unknown with your friends
                vs
                > Euthanize your friends and face the unknown alone
                What the frick is wrong with you?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >nooo my frienderinos
                For what? Have endless quantum gender-neutral orgies
                Grow a fricking pair, let the aliens die, and fertilize the eye

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                yeah lemme just go to all five planets, navigate the wrong way through Dark Bramble to pick up Feldspar, whip back to the Ash Twin to pick up the core, then back into Dark Bramble to the Nomai vessel (don't go too fast or the anglers will getcha!), all in 20 minutes. Easy!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                it's not a true time loop, anon. They're already dead.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >die to the big bang alone
                >die to the big bang with your friends
                Does it really make a difference?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And what exactly are you going to eat or drink on a wrecked alien spaceship with no atmosphere or oxygen? Think for once in your fricking life Black person.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You won't get killed if you're on the DLC vessel either

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                all the stars you can see, then, and there is evidence the rest of the universe is going in the same direction

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >there is evidence
                Ah yes, the "evidence", provided by "experts".

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the evidence provided by a spacefaring civilization that can literally see it happening across the universe

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Would you enjoy living every 20 minutes after you woke up you got burnt alive and then woke up in the same spot to go through it again for all eternity?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No proof.
                If the game explicitly states that the universe is ending and going cold, and the game shows in the eye the process of every single in the universe burning out and dying, then why would I believe anything else
                If you're being told a story and have no reason to assume an unreliable narrator, do you just always go "ACTUALLY THEY MUST BE LYING" anyways

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and have no reason to assume an unreliable narrator
                I have every reason to assume that a libtard troony narrator is unreliable, and in fact THEY did lead me into an unethical decision.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You will never be a real woman

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because I'm a boy (male, he/him)?

                So it's nothing to do with the game but the politics of the developers? Why didn't you just do what a normal anon does and call them trannies to begin with instead of making yourself look a moron?

                Some narrators are sure more likely to lie than others.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Because I'm a boy (male, he/him)?
                Your low I.Q. makes you unlikely to be human to begin with.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Only justification for his moronic idea is "I just don't trust the writers over something unrelated to the narrative"

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So it's nothing to do with the game but the politics of the developers? Why didn't you just do what a normal anon does and call them trannies to begin with instead of making yourself look a moron?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You can see 99% of the stars die out if you escape the supernova with the ATP disabled. You'd see the rest of them disappear too if the credits didn't start playing.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Right, you didn't nor did you fire it or compel anyone else to fire it.
                What's your point?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ah yes, main point. The stars are different distances from you meaning they explode at different times.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              and the quantum uncertainty principle doesn't really apply above a subatomic level but we've got teleporting rocks. The physics of Outer Wilds are fudged to make for a more compelling story and game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                One thing is to play with teleportation (or ftl or what not) and another is to ignore basic things about space because you need to write the readers into the corner and push your philosophy on them. Yeah, the whole universe is going to disappear in 20 minutes, because the narrator is always reliable, sure.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                fricking up quantum physics like that IS ignoring basic things about space

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                see

                matter bomb that goes through walls, across space and can't penetrate water
                Radiation isn't magic that gets stopped by water and literally nothing else. It does get stopped by walls. You don't know what you're talking about.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ahhh, I did that backwards, but you get it

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The universe time scale is very long. It could take millions of years
          You can literally see every single star in the galaxy die during the 22 minute timeframe.
          The universe was dying right then and there.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I have a bit of energy left to argue in good faith
          >ignores the several in-game acknowledgements that what you're witnessing is the heat death of the universe

          Your eye sees a minority of stars and most of them are in our galaxy.

          >no trust me bro it's only this part of the universe that's dying the game is wrong
          Okay I believe you.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >> You pulled the plug on your friends
      the plug was already pulled, you're saying you want to keep them stuck in a 22 minute loop where they die horrifically at the end for all eternity?
      >> Reaching the Eye didn't do anything.
      the next universe needs an observer in order to take physical form

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What would have been the ethical thing to do? Keep everyone trapped in a timeloop and suffering for an eternity with Gabbro?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > You pulled the plug on your friends
      > You did it without their knowledge or consent
      You literally did not. Anon, the timeloop isn't even physical. Time does not literally reset. All the loop does is send you (and Gabbro)'s memories back 22 minutes every time it activates. There is only one real "timeline", it just contains an infinitely progressing cache of your own memory until you stop it. The entire point of Outer Wilds' story is to emphasize that the experience of something contains more value than any physical impact it might have; it's your experiences which shape the new universe. What you see at the eye isn't as much of a hallucination as it is how the main character perceives reality itself and how that perception forms the basis of the next reality.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I will not let blue haired femoids impose any points on me.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only question I have is how does the quantum moon move around when Solanum is on it? Does she blink every time I look away from it?

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I find it very strange that only the small midget guy on the twin planet (Chert) seems to react to the sun going supernova. I get he's the first to notice before it happens, but he's the only one who actually reacts to it going nova while say Esther will continue talking about being lonely while sitting on the moon as he gets engulfed.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      he's the only explorer that can see the sky
      I dunno why the Hearthians still on Timber Hearth don't care, though

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    anyone who takes a nihilistic message from outer wilds is an actual brainlet with severe mental issues

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I honestly don't know what's worse, that this is a troll or an autist who believes that your character somehow activated the supernova himself and that the game is troonypozzed because aliens without a gender (where are the female hearthians btw) use gender neutral terms

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every single time somebody notice a "plot hole" or incoherence, it's a fricking moronic zoomer who only experiences games through letsplayers and vtubers.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >mfw two probes

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    stop responding to him you morons

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >it's another pick through a game with a fine tooth comb to find reasons it's bad because people like it episode
    look, endlessly working through fictional logic didn't really hook me either but I can at least recognize why it's careful design would be widely regarded. don't be such obtuse morons.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >poltard angry people enjoy a good game
    frick off

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    /pol/sissies are such homosexuals
    >nooo you can't just kill the gender-neutral alienerinos, you t-t-t-troony !
    Grow a pair you gigantic emotional homo

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are people so desperate for outer wilds discussion that you'll respond to this morons bait for 3 hours?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yes

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I only posted in the last 40 minutes butthole. Different people can have different issues on the plot, and that's important for a game that places a huge importance on the plot. Sorry that we have different opinions.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      no, it's a classic internet playbook technique that hooks into a Hunan's primal social urges. when someone is so fricking wrong you are naturally inclined to correct them because being so fricking wrong often has disastrous consequences. obviously for something like this, there is no danger, but it's a social habit that is difficult to control if you are not aware of it. shit posters intentionally aim for social habits such as these to cause maximum affect on a digital basket weaving discussion thought exchange.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >play game for the first time
    >friend that already cleared the game watch me
    >do everything, last thing is reaching the hourglass project
    >reach it, take the core
    >friend ask, you do realize what you did right?
    >ye, the statues don't work now
    >wait, if I die it's over then
    >could put it back and wait for another loop
    >but frick it, let's go
    >go full speed into dark bramble
    >reach the vessel
    >universe explode while I'm inputting the code

    Succeeding at the alst second would've been really cool
    Also pretty disappointing that the game let me go back and didn't delete my save

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >delete my save
      What would it have changed, exactly?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nothing, it's just for coherence since the game tie the death mechanic into the story.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Don't you get a game over with credits?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            yeah but it just starts you over at your last loop

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well at the very least you would have to go look at the coordinates again unless you took a screenshot, wrote them down or memorized them.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        having an empty ship log, and having to do the opening bit again

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >thinking the ending scene is a hallucination
    lol lmao.
    The Eye is basically the closest thing to God in universe. It does whatever the frick it wants.
    Even if it was a "hallucination" or a projection from the eye-sentience itself, why does it matter even?

    I forget where I first heard this saying or so, but basically, if someone were to be bit by a venomous snake and die, we'd say that the snake killed him.
    If someone were to hallucinate a snake biting him and die, we'd say that he died from a hysteric breakdown.
    Now if YOU were that someone, you don't care if the snake is a hallucination or not. You care that there is a fricking snake trying to bite your ass. All thoughts of "subjective reality" are thrown out the window, especially when there's no-one around to contest what you're seeing. Even more so if there's nobody else AT ALL to even have the possibility of seeing you.

    It's a neat thought about subjective reality.
    Are your friends a hallucination? Maybe. It's possible that they are, possible that they aren't. But what matters is that they are there with YOU in the end, paving the future over the past.

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Interloper is bullcrap and so is the living Nomai just quitting. I get they getting desperate or/and cursing existence wouldn't have meshed well with the tone of the game, but why would such a driven people go "oh well the universe is done, lets group and wait for the end"?.

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