#jesus I got hibby-jibbies

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This is what a scorpion’s exoskeleton looks like under UV light. 

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this just in: THE OUTER WORLDS GOOD (incoming word vomit)

can you call something escapism when it satires the current world state so accurately that you just want to stare at the wall for a few minutes

spoilers ?

goddamn I don’t play games all that often anymore but hell if that wasn’t the HYPEST last thirty or so minutes

I managed to stay pretty much completely unspoiled since release so I was not expecting everybody I helped out to come back and whoop ass with me / declare war on my behalf

that trope will never not completely rule

the INCREDIBLE way that the reveals were set up in the beginning of the game! you leave edgewater thinking reed is a fucking idiot for putting goddamn sawdust in the food (and he is for not linking that to the periodic “plagues”) but you find out that everyone in the entire colony is past the event horizon of starvation because the food is nutritionally useless, and you pick up on that through the sublight quests (the station in particular was fucking creepy i loved it)

now that I’m thinking of it there’s a solid chunk of side quests that gradually steer you in that direction, very sexy of the writers

I forgot to go back into the restricted area in cascadia FUCK

I had so much fun pissing the chairman off telling him I just liked causing trouble, got him so irate he called me a bitch it was great

then to turn around after he did the whole spiel on his dumb death robot through a very locked door and to go through some beefy hacking skill checks (thanks max) and a science 100 skill check, the one I focused on maxing out the earliest I could, and just skipped that whole fight?

I LAUGHED

damn there really wasn’t a final boss in that play through? I just employed the non combat skill that my character was oriented around and just moseyed on through

That gave that whole section much more of a “This is a culmination of all your effort, it’s your victory lap”

Very much liked that phineas gave me a long range n-ray rifle which also fit my build nicely, made for some good rp

I wanted to hug the weirdo at the end, he was a good egg

The entire hope section was a goddamn punch to the gut because it never crossed my mind that the ship would have a crew living on it, and that they were trapped there, responsible for thousands of lives

I didn’t understand what was up with the massive amounts of missing pods, or why that one room freaked Parvati out so much until the light caught on all the blood.

Frank talking about how the colonists were clammy when he opened the pods, and how they screamed. Phineas talking about how they screamed. Making it known that Harley was thirty three and that she liked to sing, and that he was sorry.

I was role playing a specific character through the game, and they liked to take the non violent approach when possible because fighting wasn’t usually worth the effort, and they liked to sneak around instead of bringing attention to themselves, and something about the hope really put me in their headspace, and when we got through reading Phineas’ log, we just kind of stood still and walked around a bit in that room, trying to process that. And it really made sense for that character in that moment to go “fuck it” and waste the entire stationed corporate force.

They’re a person of an even temperament, and the oldest sibling besides, used to managing a pack of brats because no one else seemed to be doing so, so they got used to looking out for people, to making sure they kept themself in check, to being the responsible one. Through out the colony they tried to help as many people as possible because fuck, what else are you meant to do?

(ellie’s nihilism was a bit grating)

Becoming a captain wasn’t that much of a change of pace. Look out for your crew, because they’re yours and no one else is gonna. Keep a lid on yourself, no need to make them worry over what all goes on in your head. Keep a lid on all that shit that grinds your teeth and your gears, let off just enough steam to keep it from boiling over, but keep a lid on it.

Try not to punch a hole through the hope’s interface when it interrupts the skip, even though you really wanna.

Walk back to your ship calmly and acknowledge this is the angriest you’ve been in your entire goddamn life.

“I don’t want to die like Donna did.”

Let off some steam. Kill the chairman of the board.

“I just like causing trouble.”

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The last two quests of the game are real good, is what I’m saying. Also the moment before that when you’re trying to brain storm with Phineas and you’re the one to suggest “we’ll skip the Hope”

high science characters are unbearably sexy in this game

Byzantium was also fun with this particular character because it really was “I try to be a nice person but I’m about to start throwing rocks at people”

The early retiree bit about laid me in the goddamn dirt jesus christ, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU SEE THAT CROWD OF PEOPLE WHEN YOU LAND! And you go back for the quest and they’re gone, and you head down the elevator into the opulent ass hallway that gives you the fucking hibbie jibbies and you’re like “aw fuck what do they have these poor people doing?” And the answer is nothing, they just have them get mowed down in a pit. Every person you saw in that hallway when you arrived is dead, you gave it a cursory glance and walked on by because you had other things to do, and when you came back they were all dead.

Sophia can go fuck herself

to do a really intense pivot I loved how parvati was handled in the game

CANONICAL ACE WLW

I was worried how the player response could be to her asexuality, a la krem in dai and the fuck awful invasive questions, and there’s like one response that falls under that kind of with the others being good and reassuring, but then:

YOU CAN TELL HER YOU’RE ACE TOO

YOU CAN TELL HER YOU’RE ARO AS WELL

HOLY SHIT

my character is canonically aro ace in this universe and it is the coolest goddamn thing I could not believe my eyes

wish those mother fuckers would quit calling me a lady though

but how matter of fact her relationship with a woman is treated and that it’s the only romance you’re directly involved in, and how relieving it is that you don’t have to be worried about the romancing yourself? things to ponder over

I lost track of how many times I thought “wish I could play this on switch :/”

but really what the fuck is past that bridge in cascadia?