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.
- And they only do it once, I bet! - Sometimes I just straight up forget I have a flashlight in every. single. game I play lol. I'll try to be better about hitting it! - Oh that makes sense about it not pausing as the inevitable supernova bears down on you. I know there's a few times I could have definitely held it off by a good minute by jumping fast enough between texts. - I'm honestly so excited. I don't go back in tomorrow's episode but it's on my to do list for the next one. Like of *course* this is the obvious solution! - When I went in to just quickly make up my notes, I got the achievement by jumping directly into the bonfire. And then feeding my poor Hearthling like 8 marshmallows for the offense. - Don't worry, I'm not cutting anything out! Except the time I just went in to write everything down off the computer in the ship, jumped into the fire, and then left without doing anything else. Mostly so I have something to reference when I'm not on the ship/something to keep me focused when I'm figuring out what to do. I didn't get any new big revelations doing that, or, nothing more than I'd normally get if I catch something during editing at least, and I'll probably not do that again. - Yeah, Vegas really messed with my text that video for some reason. I think I might have deleted the wrong one in trying to fix it. I'll just blame the dyscalculia lol, and remember to make that the LAST thing I do before rendering the video out. - Yeah, the tower thing was something I noticed, immediately forgot, and then remembered during editing. On the bright side, I *think* I might have an idea about the Black Hole Forge now... - I'm planning on revisiting everyone in the video after this week's, I think. Not sure if I'll get them during the same loop, or kind of split things up between loops. I'm definitely interested in what Chert and Gabbro have to say about some recent developments...
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.
- And they only do it once, I bet!
- Sometimes I just straight up forget I have a flashlight in every. single. game I play lol. I'll try to be better about hitting it!
- Oh that makes sense about it not pausing as the inevitable supernova bears down on you. I know there's a few times I could have definitely held it off by a good minute by jumping fast enough between texts.
- I'm honestly so excited. I don't go back in tomorrow's episode but it's on my to do list for the next one. Like of *course* this is the obvious solution!
- When I went in to just quickly make up my notes, I got the achievement by jumping directly into the bonfire. And then feeding my poor Hearthling like 8 marshmallows for the offense.
- Don't worry, I'm not cutting anything out! Except the time I just went in to write everything down off the computer in the ship, jumped into the fire, and then left without doing anything else. Mostly so I have something to reference when I'm not on the ship/something to keep me focused when I'm figuring out what to do. I didn't get any new big revelations doing that, or, nothing more than I'd normally get if I catch something during editing at least, and I'll probably not do that again.
- Yeah, Vegas really messed with my text that video for some reason. I think I might have deleted the wrong one in trying to fix it. I'll just blame the dyscalculia lol, and remember to make that the LAST thing I do before rendering the video out.
- Yeah, the tower thing was something I noticed, immediately forgot, and then remembered during editing. On the bright side, I *think* I might have an idea about the Black Hole Forge now...
- I'm planning on revisiting everyone in the video after this week's, I think. Not sure if I'll get them during the same loop, or kind of split things up between loops. I'm definitely interested in what Chert and Gabbro have to say about some recent developments...
*comment button* XD This is really interesting still, but I don't know that I have a lot to say this time.
Yeah this one didn't have a *whole* lot in revelations, but tomorrow's will definitely make up for it for sure.