there's something really fucky about time here, beyond the obvious

how can the naomi have been dead so long they've left bone dry skeletons, when the very same falling sand that was a hazard to them is still a hazard to me now, still rapidly filling up the caves

the orbital probe cannon broke because it was fired with too high power, but you watch it break every loop

something is up

wait wasn't there a translated message like "we'll have to recalibrate the equipment, if those readings were right it would violate causality" -> "so it turns out the equipment is calibrated correctly"

something IS up

that seems okay

this pun just happens to work in both languages? okay

i solved the mystery of the warp timing anomalies (it does indeed send you back in time; also i appreciate that they let you recreate the experiment with the scout. it's a nice touch) but i'm not sure what that does for me. i'm not really any closer to... anything, i guess

also 22 minutes is weirdly specific. i haven't checked but i bet that's the length of the loop

it bugs me more than it should that the black hole gravitational lensing warps the text telling me where my scout is

that text isn't actually over there, it's being projected into my eyes by my suit based on a calculation of where in my vision the scout is depending on its detected location

anyway i guess i should check out ash twin and see what they built to (presumably) go back 22 minutes by harassing a supernova

"stop using this scroll wall to flirt with my sister"

it's not even "don't you dare flirt with my sister" it's "she doesn't get it just ask her out normal"

i'm sort of at a loss for where this story goes. they went to the white hole station but i've been there already

maybe i'll investigate something else. i'd like to see what that quantum moon is about

well that was anticlimactic. it just blooped away while i was landing

maybe i looked away for a second??

i was in bed but now i'm up getting ready to fly to the quantum moon again; i'm worried that the reason it blooped away last time was that i maybe looked away during landing

yeah it really does bloop away. i'll figure it out later

you know i bet the Sun Station that the nomai were debating about was like, a dyson sphere

they were talking about it in the context of needing a lot of power iirc and were worried about it harming the native species, which would happen if you blocked out too much sun?

much to think about

reading the rules to the kids' anglerfish game like "this is delightful and i wish i had more oxygen"

i feel like i'm somehow supposed to use the knowledge that anglerfish are blind to rescue harmonica and find escape pod 3 somehow

maybe it won't find me if i just drift in without using my engines?

i uh

don't want to go back to the spatial anomaly while it's dark outside though

oh no

ghost matter in the comet...

okay i figured out that you have to wait for the comet to be near the sun for the fissure to open and then died while waiting (idk if the loop ended or if the comet hit something or what, i was in the map)

but it's late so i'll try again tomorrow

it's really nice how the nomai realized there might be other intelligent life in the solar system one day and fucked around with all their signs, as a prank

extremely thoughtful

"Southern Observatory (550m South)" well instead of a path that leads south from here there's instead a huge fuckoff stone wall. thank you

good to know that this is another game designed for players who aren't fundamentally broken as people as opposed to, me, incapable of understanding any location

you know how people with a bad sense of direction will say "i'd get lost walking in a straight line" and then laugh a little bit? because it's kind of a ridiculous thing to say

i'll say it and then i want to cry because it happens to me all the time because i'm not a functional person. i can't navigate spaces. i don't know why i thought i could handle this one

right now what i'm doing is placing the scout on the observatory on the surface, taking the whole ship underground, flying directly at the scout marker and getting stuck on something i rammed into, getting out of the ship, immediately falling into the black hole and hitting "meditate until next loop". i have done this four times now.

this game rules. i love how every 45 seconds i die again and it spends a fucking month showing off the cutscene instead of just putting me back at the goddamn campfire

people warned me that this game would make me cry but i don't think they meant I FELL IN THE FKCKING BAL]CK HOLE AGAIDN

fucking finally. i wedged my shit into a tree and i made it to the observatory

now i'm trying to like

get the ship next to the underground portion of the tower of quantum knowledge, roll it upside down, and hop out fast enough to boost to the higher gravity pad

i don't think it's going to happen

i have no idea if this needle is threadable

but i have no idea how else you would ever climb the tower

the only other thing i can imagine is blowing off the top but i can't figure out any way to do that other than "just let it get bombarded with meteorites" and by the time anything happens, the sun goes supernova a few seconds later

i have tried waiting until the scout says the surface is an 6% integrity and ramming it with the ship. no dice

i'm starting to believe it's a prank

like it's the one place in the whole game where they say "COME HERE FOR EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED FOR SOMETHING SPECIFIC" and you can't actually get in, it's all decorative

okay i got into the tower and read the scrolls but i have nfi what i did that time that worked as opposed to all the other times