#QEP

[abhorrenttester]

YOOO I'm gonna get picked up off this stupid planet! 4546B can kiss my ass! Once Avery Quinn gets down here, we'll high five, drink some beer, and take a look at this weird structure in the rearview mirror as we LEAVE THIS PLACE! Only 15 minutes left!

[galleryyuhself]

Galleryyuhself - Kelvin Ghany Enterprizes Limited Trinidad and Tobago. The wooden trademark company takes a turn.

[storm-of-feathers]

i had a subnautica story forever ago where the play character is a woman mourning her dead wife + maybe a dead child and coming to terms with that grief through the planet and through the empress and ultimately choosing to stay because the planet is the most peace shes had since the tragedy. same basic plot and story beats but yk, more focus on grief and solitude.

[a-bit-too-short]

@sariphantom 's Risetober prompt Day Six.

October 6th, 20XX.

Leo had one option left. Baron Draxum. He begged to get the amulet for his costume over and over until he accepted.

[witchyhobbitess]

Putting this out there, since nutrition labels are adding this:

So, here’s the thing (from an anthropology standpoint) EVERYTHING we consume now-YES EVEN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES!- is bioengineered!! EVERYTHING. Wheat, soy, rice, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, cattle, sheep, chickens. All of it. It’s had to be because original forms of these plants were either inedible (watermelon), or produced so little (wheat, rice) that there was no way to possibly get enough to consume. So in order to grow what was needed for harvest and survival after the agricultural revolution, plants had to be selectively cross bred and chosen. That’s bioengineering. While it is far more advanced today, and I suggest definitely digging into HOW it is done (and research the compounds past the scientific names) before you jump all over it. Because the only reason we are able to ‘thrive’ today is because of bioengineering throughout history.

And YES, I wrote that!! I took anthropology first semester and we covered foods now vs foods 1000’s of years ago. Did you know Watermelon used to be smaller than a grape? Hard as hell and basically inedible? Yup. Look at it now. Broccoli and cauliflower NEVER used to exists beyond the last 100 or so years. Carrots? Small as shit and basically inedible. Wheat? God, you’d get maybe a single stone like grain from each shaft.

The agriculture’revolution’ in the human species is why we have so much disease today. It basically ruined us as a species. So YES, read nutrition labels (and I can get realllly into this after next week), but don’t get scared because you can’t pronounce something. GO LOOK IT UP! We could literally be the most advanced and knowledgeable societies in the world with all the tech we have at our fingertips-but here we are arguing about religion and who is or isn’t a human being. It’s fucking shameful.

Do better for fuck sakes.

[ryley-robinson]

My brain just went full feral mode hang on-

Does anybody else think too much about like, all the theories about how the Aurora and Ryley, effectively, were maybe doomed from the start.

Does anybody think a lot about the whole theory that the lifepods were designed to fail so Alterra didn't need to rescue people anyway.

Could anybody else also reasonably buy the theory or idea that Alterra knew about the QEP.

RE that: Being doomed by the narrative but the story is actually Ryley reversing that and undoing being doomed and fighting and living and not giving up all hope even after the Sunbeam gets shot down.

And Ryley actually finds meaning in himself and he's not doomed, the world isn't doomed as long as he exists and as long as people like him exist. As long as goodness persists even in the face of uncaring evil (Alterra).

Doomed by the narrative but instead of despair and hopelessness and suffering it's about undoing fate and persevering despite it all and-

Subnautica is actually about love and hope and change and kindness in the face of adversity and pain and suffering. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I am so fucking unwell about ordinary people who shine the brightest in extraordinary circumstances, I just. AGH.

[theraccoon-ringmaster]

Okay so the sunbeam(i forgot its name but i think thats right) was shot down AFTER it was already within the atmosphere of 4546B and pretty close to ground level, plus it wasn't that big. It makes me wonder why the skyrays dont get shot by the QEP, or why the lifepods didnt get shot down as they were descending from the aurora. The neptune escape rocket wouldve been blown up if ryley tried to fly it out of the planet because the architects didnt want kharaa to have a chance at leaving. My question is, what are the requirements for the QEP to actually shoot something? How does it know when something is a ship? If you were on the other side of the planet (sector zero), would you be able to launch or land a ship without being shot down? How heavy or large does something have to be to activate it?

[pipers-pixels-and-papers]

Here's my hc version of Ryley for a fanfic I've been writing.

I tried to make him look as much like the source material as possible, with some of my own flair tossed in. Long hair, to change up his look (because he's on the run). I also gave him piebaldism because in this fic he hasn't had access to hair dye in years, but I'm emotionally attached to the hair streaks.

Also! Kharaa scars!

Also I gave him dimples, no reason I just wanted to. The eyebrow scar is from our favorite bonk panel in the game intro.

28

5'5 - 165.1 cm

He's not mute in his au but he talks to himself more than he does to other people. It's his way of organizing his thoughts and working through problems.

Frowns. Frowns a lot, has resting 'what is even happening' face.

Quick thinker and great instincts but has little to no filter over his intrusive thoughts and does some dumb shit 'cause of that. (Shines flashlight directly in own eyes, zaps himself on the finger with the repair tool, sticks own hand in front the propulsion cannon, punches the qep interface, and so on, you get it)

Bonus meme

Ryley Robinson is the intellectual property of Unknown worlds entertainment and I hold no ownership over the character or models. Headcanon redesign and fanwork by me

Originally posted Mar 8, 2023

[halfd3af]

me, starting a modded second playthrough of Subnautica: I won’t be as scared this time!

also me: *refuses to dip 5 meters below the surface on the way to the Sunbeam pickup location so I don’t have to think about Mabel patrolling near the QEP*

[thekingofroad]

Nji kenge sot per mua i lig🤭

Po ti vjen era qep moj e urar un te njoh

[kablamcore]

GUYSGUYS I WAS THINKING ABOUT HENRY AGAIN AND I HAD THE MOST SICK AND TWISTED IDEA FOR HIM👊👊

what if… henry had a sibling‼️

this sibling was pretty much one of the only people in his family he genuinely felt close to (he has some problems with his family. just like me <33)

he and his sibling were both onboard the aurora… however when it was shot down by the QEP he was SOMEHOW unable to find his sibling so he had to get in his own lifepod

however.. not joining his sibling in the lifepod actually saved his life. his siblings lifepod ended up being really fucked up, something happened to its machinery so it ended up imploding in on itself killing his sibling in the process

and for a while henry thought his sibling was alive and he was searching for them with riley only to find their destroyed lifepod…

[daily-klingon]

What Now?

What happens now is that, at last, we'll have a look at the new words which made their way into the vocabulary back in July's qep''a'.

[https-chaos]

Do you have a screenprinted shirt/hoodie that's stained? A pair of jeans that you hate the color of? Do you really want that cool merch hoodie but it's only sold in an ugly ass color? Do you want to dye something but not mess up the decal?

You need: fiber reactive dye! This is my how-to; it's enough stuff for a hoodie, a couple t-shirts, and a pair of jeans. About 5lb of cloth when it's dry.

Here's how this hoodie was sold and how it turned out. I bought it before he had the black one in the shop, back when the only color options were pink and blue.

Note: these instructions are for a front-loading washing machine and natural plant fabrics like cotton. Other methods are listed here:

Supplies:

The dye (1 8-ounce jar) https://a.co/d/aR1U5tP

The activator (soda ash, get 2 1-lb bags) https://a.co/d/9di48gH

3 26-ounce containers of non-iodized salt https://www.walmart.com/ip/10448311

A 5-gallon bucket https://a.co/d/12sZoPR

Something to boil 1gal of water in (I did it in 2 batches with my kettle)

Something to stir with (I used a big serving spoon, this dye will NOT stain anything but fabric)

A washing machine, regular laundry stuff

Vinegar

How I did it:

1. Wash the clothes you want to dye normally, but don't add fabric softener.

2. While the load is finishing, put all 3 things of salt, 3 cups (700ish ml) of soda ash, and half a cup (115ish ml) of dye, in the bucket.

3. Boil 1 gallon (4ish liters) of water and pour it in the bucket (I did this by boiling 2L at a time in my kettle)

4. Stir stir stir! Dissolve it as well as you possibly can.

5. When the load is done, take the clothes out.

6. Pour the whole bucket of dye mix straight into the washing machine. I was able to tip the whole bucket into my machine, but do be careful and think ahead on how you're going do this part.

7. Put the wet clothes back in the machine. Don't add anything else like soap.

8. Start the machine, using the hottest and longest cycle possible (on my machine this is the 'whites' setting).

9. Once the cycle is finished, add your regular laundry stuff to the machine (soap, fabric softener), and fill the bleach compartment with vinegar.

10. Run the machine again on the hottest and longest cycle.

11. Tumble or hang dry. Enjoy!

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[ahandfullofreviews]

Review: subnautica

Overview: you play as *checks notes* non essential systems maintenance chief Riley Robinson.

Your duties consist of

Restocking the vending machines on Deck 12

Unclogging the non-existing toilets

Fixing the microwave

Surviving

The game starts out as all good games do.

A concussion

You exit your lifepod and discover an ocean.

That's it

That's all there is

2 square kilometers of W A T E R

Also a crashed ship.

After awhile you receive an alert on your radio.

Surprise. It's somebody who survived the crash

NOT

Instead you find a destroyed lifepod

Repeat this process exactly 4-5 times

Eventually, you get a signal from another ship coming to rescue you. They'll be here in an hour. When you reach the rescue rendezvous (that should not be how you spell that) you find a very big structure.

You go inside and discover through the magic of backwards compatibility that this facility is belonging to an advanced race of creatures called precursors. Like a scene from history they aren't native to this planet, and when they got here they immediately started fucking things up for the natives. A virus got released and the planet is dying. You try to deactivate the QEP but you're infected with the bacterium.

Sunbeam gets blown up.

Eventually after exploring you come across multiple more alien facilities. One of these being a containment facility designed for

Friend leviathan

The only creature in this game that doesn't want to turn you into a snack

They need your help to set their children free

You need to create a hatching enzyme that also happens to be your cure

And so, as you "launch" your rocket, a pretty decent game ends as all good ones should

Crippling debt

My actual thoughts:

It's perfect. It knows what it needs to do and it does it well. To think a game that started out as something similar to IRON LUNG could evolve into this is baffling. And subnautica has had fan input since day 1. We quite literally would not have some of the memorable moments we have in subnautica if it wasn't for the game devs actually looking at what people were doing. The only other game devs I know of that have done that are valve (feel free to prove me wrong in the tags).

However like sunbeam says "there's no bad without the good, no good without the bad"

Subnautica has its bugs and has quite literally taken the scary factor out of fallouts mirelurks.

But, it's a perfect game I wouldn't change a thing about

Final rating: 9/10

[ryley-robinson]

Ryley headcanons? Ryley headcanons.

He was never a big fan of needles but after the experience with the QEP, he became outright adverse to them. It didn't help that Alterra subjected him to a myriad of medical tests, both in the hopes he had a cure in his blood and to make sure he wasn't bringing the Kharaa to anyone else around him.

He started cutting his nails regularly after developing a bad habit of picking and scratching at the numerous Kharaa scars all over his body.

He would describe surviving on 4546b and his job with the same tired frustration, but he still believes he should have stayed on 4546.

People were already quite avoidant of him, not batting an eye to a 'lowly' Alterra worker. After the Kharaa left him with scars all over his body, they avoided him more.

His hair grew out and the dyed streaks faded on 4546b. After he was allowed to be free from quarantine, one of the first things he did was impulsively cut it himself with a pair of scissors.

He developed a taste for meat and fish after 4546b, and if he had access to it, he'd go absolutely wild for sushi.

He hates beeping, alarms, the smell of smoke, and the sound of breaking glass.

He is completely non-verbal, and used/uses his PDA and TTS to communicate.

He eventually had to ask for his own room due to being plagued by nightmares that had him waking up screaming.