#iwatec spoilers

[angeloflightandsunshine]

You know, I think the most heartbreaking thing that I've experienced in I was a Teenage Exocolonist so far is that despite being able to remember your past lives and saves, despite being able to save so many people that died in previous lives, despite being able to go out of your way to save people and kill a faceless.

There's no way to save Kom. Kom's jersey will always be retired in the rafters before he was ready to hang it there himself. Anemone will always lose her brother and become susceptible to the human supremacists' idealology. Anemone and her family will always be hurt. All this cosmic power and intervention, and still some deaths and tragedies are inevitable. No matter how hard you try and how badly you just want everyone to be okay.

[frostfishy]

this fucking game !

uncolored below cut

[penguin--person]

jack stauber - milk

[thewarinourstarwars]

Spoilers incoming:

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Apparently it’s not a bluff!

I just played through 2 of my many saves related to this ending (I have to finish the rest because I NEED to see everything related to this)

So they will not come if you get peace with the Gardeners and if you know about the fleet, the Gardeners will tell you that they redirected the fleet using the wormhole (even if you did not tell them about the fleet like I didn’t)

You need to refuse peace if you want the fleet to actually show up and it WILL but we don’t get much more about that.

I’m still exploring more endings but you learn for sure that it is definitely real and Lum definitely does not want you to know about it by first assisting the governor and then overthrowing him and becoming governor yourself

the earth fleet in Exocolonist has got to be a bluff, right? like for one I only found it on my fourth playthrough and it wasn't mentioned in the epilogue slides that go several decades out, for two, unless some very specific things happen, safe wormhole traversal is an unsolved problem, and three, the description of the fleet is exactly the kind of thing Lum would invent as bluster.

also the writing about it is very silly, fridge-logic-wise. they have two-way transmissions and there were enough planetary scans done that Sol's parents knew what the seasons would be well enough to know that their landing site has dry and dusty summers before landing (Sol's dad tells them about dust season before anyone's seen it), but their scans through the wormhole are also bad enough that they can spoof readings to that degree with just what they have on their ship.

[justsalpals]

I'm loving I Was A Teenage Exocolonist so much, but the Dys/Sym/Sol poly end is my fucking white whale

Before playing myself, I saw it existed and immediately zoned in on it. Stopped reading to avoid spoilers, started up the game for myself. Wooed the shit out of Dys, but then Sol didn't want to kiss Sym? Googled. Ah, so I need to romance Sym first. Gotcha, gotcha.

Cut my end off early by setting off the bomb and running away with Dys. Take two, now armed with more information. Successfully romanced both of those beautiful boys, as well as saving several lives (though I was unable to overthrow the governor or end the war). I was a fool, stopping Dys from setting off the bomb entirely (though I did help repair his relationship with Tang, which is a win). The ending came, and although both Dys and Sym were dating me they didn't seem to overlap. Damn.

More googling. Okay, more information acquired. Restart. Doing so well. Angling to become governor, and getting as many characters as I physically can up to 100 friendship while I'm at it. Everything is progressing smoothly. Dys leaves the colony. I find him on the ridge.

And this fucker needs 3 strange devices (and crystals, but that was nbd). I have two. TWO. Because I've been giving gifts at all opportunity to make friends. I cleared out the ridge, and it's the last year of the game (so there was to be no respawning). Failed, right at the end.

I'm screaming. I'm feral. I need to change up my chosen romance next time or I'll go insane.

Also because I really wanted to see it play out in the peace route, and it would be so much repeating at this point.

[restlessreveries]

I kinda hate myself for this because it feels like I’m regressing back into ye olde Homestuck days but...

Gardeners bleed blue, or like, cyan? I think it’s referenced at some point in the swamp and also the art of That One Sym Event.

So like.

Does Sym blush blue-ish instead of red?

[arovalentines]

much ado about pleasure

[angeloflightandsunshine]

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHH!

*runs past vace* SUCK IT, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!

[angeloflightandsunshine]

Spoiler about the result of that 'helped Tangeant' stat

Me after finally learning about the whole genocide plan Tangeant was working on after sneaking into the lab and then being given the responsibility of convincing her then LUM OF ALL PEOPLE to not: HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT

[arovalentines]

what wormholes do to a mf