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it seems no one is talking about the owlk in endless canyon watching a slide reel, and when you focus your light on the screen, it turns black and you can hear a screech

I don't think it has anything to do with beauty. I think it's a representation of simply that the eye needs a sacrificial observer to birth something new. The skull is the person sacrificing themselves, the flower is just a line of coorelation coming from the eye of the skull to the EotU, essentially saying, "From your observation, even in death, you will birth soemthing new." I suppose you can throw beauty in there as in birthing something new and beautiful. But it definitely doesn't really make sense the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" idea. Unless you're taking the phrase more literally, which goes against the original formulation of the saying so you may as well not use the saying at all.

I'm glad you're back.. a video idea I have for you is, why do the innhabitants look "younger" even tho irl they look.. well.. dead. And how does the simulation know how the hatchling looks, cuz we know the simulation isn't an actual place and just a programmed world.

2:40 2 years later, but I think they removed that room because now there's a bunch of shelves and a chair with no way out. Am i the only one with this issue?

I know this isn’t really related but once I went into the black at the ash project and the loop after I was in the ship next to the eye of the universe and I was in infinite loop where I would spawn in the ship next to the eye

Now the DLC is out, the eye was always emitting the signal but blocked by the Owlks

from what i understand, the real world vault didn't always have the body inside, but when people posted online about finding it empty, the devs added the body of the prisoner in an update.

I think the most complex piece of technology in outer wilds is the owlks ability to scan the eye and understand its capabilities.

THATS SO COOL

Hooray

I wonder if they knew the universe was dying, and that's why they gathered there one last time

Sorry to necro post but the act of finding the eye is taking an infinite number of possible locations and narrowing it down to one, observable outcome (cuz its quantum)

Wait, so when the sun supernovas, do all other versions of the quantum moon get destroyed? If so wouldnt that lock Solanum in as her alive self since the only version that could possibly still exist is her alive self? I might be misunderstanding things

I always saw it as the I was the most quantum object in the universe and by going to it and looking at you collapsing it down thus collapsing the universe

Holy moly I’ve missed you

Is there a content difference between what's in the vaults? Might be that this is where they put the reels they wanted to remember, and the other vaults are where they put the reels they wanted to forget.

Bro the quantum moon is like the tutorial level for flying the shuttles since it passes literally right over the canon

oh my god, I had no idea that's what those controls did in the shuttle! I can't believe I'm still learning new things after all these years

I agree that they may be getting ready to go down and watch some reels (Owlk movie night). I don't agree that the archives weren't general knowledge in the Owlk community. Since all reels were available in the real world until the prisoner released the signal (unless i misremember?). I think all the security for the archives are just for the off chance that someone finds the ring-world. I mean, cloaking to stop inhabitants makes no sense, and presumably (my understanding) all the Owlks worked together to make the simulation. And we don't know their language, so the name "the forbidden archives" is just made up by the hatchling.

when i played the game i thought i *had* to go to the quantum moon with the nomai shuttle, and i was struggling so hard to get it in sight. i was so confused why it wasnt working, till my friend told me i could just go there with my ship lol

0:48 :(

I think they're called floating point errors, rather than zero point errors

Omg I'm so glad you showed this off, love it!!!

Heres the way i land: i put a scout in the ship, reorient to look at the cockpit, and head to the quantum moon while spamming right click and praying my ship doesnt break

How long did it take to get the quantum moon in view of the gravity cannon?

I almost did this once while messing around with the shuttle, but I had the auto-translate setting on and I accidentally looked at the Nomai recording, which made me unequip my scout launcher and cause the QM to disappear. I’m still annoyed about it to this day.

I played the DLC with VR and omg its fucking terrifying. The DLC for me was not too much when playng on PC but on VR I cannot with the fucking owl people

WTF i thought it just stops acceleration

I still cant beleive this game is real. Every choice they made had some story signifigance.

Let me get this straight, the owlk made too Many silly mistakes Building one of the simulation places where eventual entropy has a chance of wiping out a piece of their population??? Yeah nah However they do have a mastery of wavelenghts, specifically wavelengths because that explains their technology, the cloaking device? Blocking the signal of the eye?, hell even brain waves, it’s impressive I’ll give you that But technology wise I am still more impressed by the race that literally figured out how to time travel, and had ftl via fucking stable wormholes, gravity and space manipulation straight up looks like magic It might as well be because of how little it makes sense, so yeah I agree the nomai take the win

i watched SG because of this, it"s pretty good

1:00 "our disregard for life is threefold" is a sentence i did not expect to understand

I thought it was because reibeck was the one who despite everything despite his fears and doubts, went to ine of the scariest planets and did in fact venture into the unknown. Even so he is inside a old crumbling house fearful of open space

Ahhhhhhhhhh