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Do you know there is a marker system on the ship computer that lets you mark locations you have been to previously on your HUD? Also you missed the song. In the credits after breaking spacetime.

I can see! picture looks much better now haha

2:20 "But they've posed an interesting question." - Oh dear. I suspect that they already know the answer to their "innocent" interesting question full well. 5:54 "Oh, right, this is blocked off" - indeed, you can't get in that way, but you *could* have used it to orient on the short-cut entrance you're hunting for, since both this entrance and that one open into the same space. 39:01 "So this is going to take a lot of coordination" - you seem to have forgotten that adding more energy to the warp cores increases the duration of the negative interval. 44:51 And there you go. I'm reminded of when my kids were younger, and my son "innocently" suggested to his younger sister who was playing (pre-1.0) Minecraft that she put down a bed in her newly-constructed safe haven in the brand new Nether biome... 45:11 Oh no! After spending all that time to get that ending, you skipped the unique music and credits! 54:00 All this searching around blindly in Dark Bramble - sigh. You're missing a straightforward way to locate the Vessel without exploring. 55:52 "Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?" - Ah, I see that you've played Subnautica 😁 "Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?" 56:15 Yup, you're discovering that you always emerge from a "seed portal" at the same trajectory, no matter what angle you enter. 1:10:23 "Ok, so this... it looks like this may be an exception" - An exception to what? I don't understand what you're trying to test here. You perturbed the Anglerfish inside the red node so they chased you right at the entrance to the zone trying to eat you, and they're still there when you came back. Were you expecting them to return to their original positions or something?

Yay! I caught up! Gonna watch this after getting some food. 45:00 It's fun watching you trying to break spacetime with a millisecond gap. I was wondering if that was possible. Too bad you skipped past the ending though once you finally got it to work. 50:00 I would suggest going back to your notes about the escape probe in Dark Bramble.

Remember the game pauses most of the time you are reading text, so you don't have to rush unless the loop is about to end.

52:15 I'm really impressed. Most people slip out the airlock, bounce off the other side, and fall into the sun their first time.

49:51 eat your what? OwO

Lol. That start with you force feeding your hearthian burnt marshmallows. 🤣 Imo they taste better if you never put them in the fire, and instead just get them close enough to slowly heat until golden caramelized.

Dramatic slomo reveal. +1

Lol! That ending though. Perfect aim.

It's hard to watch you continue to use your engines by the fish even when you know that they are blind and hear you. 🤣 But I guess that's how fight or flight works.

Aww. You didn't step into the normal cyclonic model. 45:50

Anglerfish chow is tradition.

I also had trouble getting into the ash twin project too.

110-54 = 56 loops

Lol at that attempt to land on the sun! 🤣

33:55 lol! Watching your ship go by.

I love the titan submersible video pop up at 1:06. I follow so many nerd channels like that. 🤣

I really love your channel image! It's so cute. Cuttlefish have the best eyes.

"I made it 20 minutes that time. I'm proud of myself." 😁 24:37

Great first episode I cant believe you almost missed that right at the end! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your contemplations and I think your background will make this an awesome playthough to watch. Its very dark though for some reason?

"How can the Eye be older than its creator" -- did the Eye perhaps get launched backward in time past the beginning of thr universe by some unimaginably powerful version of the blackhole/whitehole time-tunneling effect? ...is that perhaps related to all the other supernovas, if one supernova gave power to send something back 22 minutes?

Re: cooking marshmallows - just hold it off to the side, instead of sticking it over the highest point of the flame. 8:00 "Oh, wait, you know what, I am... smart" - you say, before leaving without filling up your oxygen at the quantum potted tree there after getting a 3 minute O2 warning? 😁 Re: the Nomai being trapped in the Sunless City when Ember Twin filled up with sand - yeah, I guess. They did have exits to the surface which wouldn't have been broken and/or filled with cacti back then, but I think most of them are covered by sand at the peak sand level. Oh, wait, the "secret" exit to the surface near the gravity cannon remains sand-free I think, and back then it was presumably a more traditional doorway, before it was collapsed by a rockfall. 15:42: "My Kingdom for Subnautica's Cyclops' radar, where it shows if there's anything mean and nasty around you" - well, you don't have that, but you *do* have a Little Scout that you can launch ahead of you to take photos along your planned route... 18:22 "Ok... cool... hey, big spinning rock thing" - it's never explained that I know of, but my theory is that the big spinning rock thing is a piece of the original planet the Bramble destroyed that ended up inside the Dark Bramble extradimensional maze. 35:40 etc - this is much easier if you put your little scout in the room you want to get into, so when you're upstairs you have a HUD marker of where you want to go. 41:04 - oh, cool, of course that would happen. Pretty much every playthrough I've seen (including when I played the game myself) has just jetpack-hopped over the intact sections of floor to get through here, but of course you could also wait for the sand to cover up all the Ghost Matter on the bottom floor. 56:29 Praise the Sun! I don't remember if you've talked to Slate about his auto-pilot, but you definitely should! 😁 Re: the discussion in the other comments about finishing the base game before or after digging into the Echoes of the Eye DLC - yeah, either way is fine, so choose freely. I personally chose to complete the base game first, and then did the DLC, and was glad to see "behind the curtain" to see what differences completing the DLC made, but YMMV. The game certainly handles it whichever way you do it. The only thing I will add is, if you finish the base game first, I'd recommend not starting a fresh game (i.e. creating a new slot) to do the DLC, just carry on with your existing save. Also, I do recommend the DLC - it has a bit of a different tone (a bit scarier), but it's great, and a worthy expansion to the base game.

I'd agree with justin on this one about the vessel or ash twin, however when it comes to the dlc I'd say it's gotta be personal choice, it's a decently long dlc but I'd imagine it'll be cool to do it before rather than after, but I personally did it after the main game since when I finished it originally the dlc hadn't been released yet, and it was still awesome, so it's perfectly fine to do the main game first If you wish to do the dlc first however, the hint is check out the radio tower at timber hearth

Looks like the last two things in your log are the Vessel and the Ash Twin Project, either is fine but I recommend trying to find the Vessel first. I think you also have the DLC installed. There are arguments to be made for doing the DLC first, or completing the main game first. It's maybe slightly more interesting to do the DLC first. However, personally I would find this annoying... you would basically be putting the main game on pause, and then going to play the whole other DLC... I feel this would delay catharsis on the main game. But if you are patient and feeling up to it, you might prefer to do the DLC first.

So the probe tracker remembers how many probes have been launched, which means the technology persists and "remembers" through the loops -- which makes sense because the Ash Twin memory statues also persist. So assuming you had 56 loops, which sounds about right given how many times you've died plus fifteen episodes at roughly 2-3 loops each, then it sounds about right that the probe which found the Eye originally launched on day 1. Which to me implies two things. One, the probe reaching the Eye is causing the loop -- I suspect either the probe itself counts as an observer (is that what you were implying by saying the probe might be what's attached to the third statue, rather than a live Nomai?), and two, the reason the probe goes off in a different direction at the beginning of every loop is that the Eye is orbiting and the cannon is now synced to point toward it all the time. So breaking the loop might require preventing the cannon from knowing where to fire. I don't know how that would tie into the 22 minute loop though. It didn't sound like the Nomai talking about using the top power setting on the probe cannon were also talking about sending the same probe back in time -- although I can't remember any of the Nomai's names consistently, so I don't know if those two conversations were between different sets of scientists. But if the loop only started after the first 3 million odd probe launches, the Nomai discussing how to go back in time 22 minutes can't be trying to get back to before the start of the loop in order to stop the probe cannon from firing... although that might be what *you* eventually have to do? Maybe? I don't know a thing about this game and I'm not usually good at figuring out what game devs want me to deduce.

Yay! You finally visited the launch module! As you discovered, it was right there the whole time. Oh, and you got to the Probe Tracking module too 😉 For the white-hole (receiving) warp pads, the return warp only charges after you warp *to* them from a black-hole warp pad (the ones on Ash Twin, or the one at White Hole Station). And you have to step off first, before the return warp will become active. But once you step off, the return warp will immediately charge, and remain available until used. You remembered there was an issue with the warp pads for the two Hourglass Twins, but don't seem to quite recall the specifics of was discussed. Perhaps you should re-visit the Black Hole Forge to read it again, or at least revise your ship log write-up of that location. BTW, there's a second way to work out where the warp towers on Ash Twin lead. The first way is what you learned in the High Energy Lab, that they resemble their destination (e.g. a geyser mountain for Timber Hearth, a cyclone for Giant's Deep). But if you think about what a systematic and scientific people like the Nomai would have done, when designing and building a big equatorial structure with towers that correspond with the astral bodies of the solar system, what order do you think they would have laid out the towers? The tallest tower at the start of the downhill ramp corresponds to the sun (station), so then comes...

I watched your video away from my keyboard, so no timestamped item-by-item comment from me today. Regarding which of the Travellers might be interested in what you have learned: most of them tell you what they're interested in, e.g. Gabbro says "if you learn anything new about the time loop, let me know". Riebeck is the one who asks you to inform them "if you learn anything about the Nomai". And at the end of the video, you found Riebeck's surface campfire that appears right above them, and then just kept going instead of heading down to talk to them? I'm not sure if you really understood what happened when you made it through the Interloper. The solution wasn't to just go really fast and hope you survived passing through ghost matter. After getting to the upper area, you were assuming that there were two distinct tunnels you had to commit between, but if you'd actually *taken photos* with your little scout after launching it, rather than just watching whether it passed through a hazard, you would have seen that there were two short tunnels, then an open area, then two short tunnels again. You could also have just slid slowly along the ice with your scout launcher in photo mode taking photos so you could see where the ghost matter was as you travelled. You had to take the right-hand tunnel of the first pair and the left-hand tunnel of the second pair. I played Outer Wilds and Echoes of the Eye using keyboard and mouse. Dark Bramble is perfectly navigable using keyboard. The variable thrust of the controller does mean you can gently back off when you see an anglerfish, but when you're navigating by signalscope and checking out lights with the little scout, I didn't tend to bump into them unexpectedly. I checked my path, blasted forward at full thrust for a second or so, and then coasted at a reasonable speed.

17:30 When you play with the high energy lab, what do you think would happen if you unplug the warp core after your scout exited the white hole but before it entered the black one?

I haven't finished the video so maybe you already did everything on Giant's Deep and don't need to go back, but it might be a handy mnemonic to remember that the tornado where the spin goes to your right is the right one

"I don't know that I can talk enough to fill this silence" -- back when I was streaming Mass Effect 1, with all the driving around uncharted planets in the Mako (my beloved), I wound up reciting random poetry to fill the dead air. I know a *lot* of poetry, and there was a lot of dead air XD

10:51 "It looks like these doors auto-close behind me" - they're airlocks. They're big spheres with one opening, and they rotate the opening around from one side to the other, ensuring that you can't open both doors at once. 10:58 "And we're going to go to..." - the launch module? 23:20 You proved the concept at least 😆But yeah, on foot is probably not the best way to find it. 25:38 The little globe on the left shows you're just moving around the equator. The equator that Ember Twin orbits above. So, not really improving the situation 😃 31:10 "Times when a sprint would be very helpful" - that's what the jetpack is for! 42:51 "... every problem in Outer Wilds seems to be solvable with either time or looking away" - while there are certainly time-based and quantum solutions to several problems, it's by no means the solution to every problem. You're standing there looking up at an unexplored area. 50:39 "I guess it was waiting for me to finish holding my breath." - as you learned in the Black Hole Forge, warp towers activate when they align with the center of the corresponding astral body, not the target warp platform. You had to wait for the center of the sun to be directly overhead, not the Sun Station. 58:06 If you check your solar system map, you can see the Sun Station get swallowed up around the 11 minute mark (like you can see the Interloper's orbit intersect with the expanded sun at around the 18 or 19 minute mark). It's deliberate on the designers' part, but I still think it's neat that the puzzle to get into the tower on Ash Twin (waiting for the sand to be low enough to get inside but high enough that you can get across the cacti) means players pretty much always get to the Sun Station with about the same amount of time left. I've seen Let's Plays where they took a long time to get down to the bottom area though, and get to the readout only to see they have less than 10 seconds left before the station is destroyed 😁 1:01:26 You don't navigate Dark Bramble by memory, you navigate it by signalscope. Follow the harmonica. 1:19:02 "I'm assuming that they didn't find anything interesting" - why would you assume anything, when you're *right there* and could actually go where he said he was going?

Nice video 👍

Super bummer. OBS is not your friend at the moment, eh? Thanks for recreating this key moment using your audio. 9:12 "So it said I have to be on the north pole to see the sixth location" - what Bells actually said was "to *explore* the sixth location, the shrine must be on the moon's north pole." So, yeah, to explore (i.e. get out of the shrine) it had to be at the north pole, because every other location has rock blocking the exit. But once you're out of the shrine at the sixth location, you can then explore all over (as much as is accessible, anyway). 21:40 I'm sorry, did you say _not_?? 😢*Edit:* Oh, wait, you're responding to "I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend", so your "absolutely the f not" isn't you saying "I don't want to be your friend", it's "I don't mind you thinking of me as a friend"? 31:55 Oh, you never went inside the Launch Module? I had forgotten that.

19:10 Yay! Well done! And now I can finally clarify for you that the Quantum Moon *did not* kill you back in episode 6. You approached the Quantum Moon as it was orbiting around the Twins, switched to your landing camera (which meant you looked away from the moon, and it quantumed away to a different planet), and then in your confusion you re-oriented on the sun through the landing camera, and carefully lowered your ship down into the sun and died. Because the landing camera is black-and-white, the sun looked a bit like the same grey as the Quantum Moon, but you can see (in episode 6 at the 6 minute 30 mark) the solar flares through the camera, and the Sun Station just orbiting out of view to the bottom right. The Quantum Moon itself doesn't kill you (that was the misapprehension I said you were laboring under), it just zaps away whenever you try to land on it without using the Rule of Quantum Imaging. 20:43 "Also, whose [little] scout is that?" - umm, it's yours 😆 You fired it into the Quantum Moon, remember? Things always arrive on the south pole, so the scout landed there. 21:15 Ah, there you go 😁 28:50 Oh, wow, big brain moment! You just saved yourself a stressful journey trying to navigate the lakebed cave to a more direct hint that quantum entanglement requires darkness before the rising sand crushes you. Well done again! (Although the place with the more direct hint is the "something more to explore" in your log, and it seems the rock won't take you there if you've not gone there the manual way - I just fired up the game and tried in a fresh profile, and it didn't go there after dozens of tries - which is disappointing) 39:05 "Oh, hey, are you going directly into the sun, by chance?" - a comet's tail always points away from the sun, no matter its direction of travel, so the tail swivels to point away from the sun as it orbits around. I mean, technically yes, the Interloper does always get swallowed up by the sun late in the loop as the sun expands into the red giant stage, but seeing it near the sun with its tail pointing away from the sun doesn't necessarily mean you've reached that moment. 49:14 "How you doing, bud?" - while "bud" isn't specifically a gendered term, you saying it prompts me to note that Solanum is she/her. 50:57 Trying to locate the Quantum Moon in the system map doesn't really work, because it will move again when you close the map and thus stop observing it. You really just need to try to find it by eye through your cockpit window. Or you can park yourself near a world you know it can orbit, and spin around until it shows up. 1:13:37 Poor Hearthian, always getting burnt marshmallows 😁 You must have gotten the "Mmmm, Carcinogens" achievement by now, although I don't recall it coming up in a video. 1:13:41 The reason your hatchling makes that noise after eating the marshmallow is because they don't like them burnt, you know. Try cooking it without sticking it into the flames. 1:22:29 "Interesting that Solanum doesn't seem to move" - are you sure about that? Maybe try looking away and back a few times. 1:26:56 🤣

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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.