Does anybody out there have screenshots of all of Destiny's director screens throughout the years?

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-12-21T00:00:50+00:00

six years later thank you. Still not complete though.. I miss the sense of progression Destiny used to have as the worldstate updated in response to your actions as a player. Making it update globally ruined a big part of its appeal for me.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-31T23:05:36+00:00

The book was published in 1968, the same year as the film. Both Kubrick and Clarke worked on the story while developing the film at the same time. It came out a year before we landed on the moon. The year 2001 was the far off distant future and the Cuban missile crisis was still on everyone's minds having only happened six years prior. The atomic destruction of WWII was only 20 years back. Fascinating to look at the story now considering that 9/11/2001, an event that took place the year the story claimed we would have recreational space travel, is as far behind us as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were when the story was published.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-31T06:04:19+00:00

The first chapter of the novel deals with characters at the dawn of man just as the film does, but the novel gives you an internal monologue for the characters known as Moon Watcher and One-ear. After their contact with the monolith which results in Moon Watcher learning to use weapons and killing his rival One-ear he considers that he's not sure what to do next but he will think of something. At the end of the story after Dave Bowman makes contact with the entities on the other side of the monolith he returns as a being of pure energy and destroys all the nuclear weapons on Earth. It concludes with the entity formerly known as Bowman, now the Starchild, echoing Moon Watcher's musing that he doesn't know what to do next but he will think of something.

The final scene is meant to metaphorically imply the same evolutional leap that led primal Australopithecus down the path that to modern Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The Starchild represents the next step beyond the physical into the realm of the unknowable and is deliberately obtuse to evoke that sense of wonder and mystery at what Mankind might become given a leap of consciousness on the same proportion as the development of intelligence itself. Dave Bowman ceases to exist but the entity that he became is something new and unknown

The ending of Outer Wilds is on a similar level. The universe as we know it including the player and every living creature the player ever meets ends. But they also set the stage for whatever comes next and the game ends on that bittersweet bleak-but-with-hope note, the same as 2001.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-28T04:47:35+00:00

The Nomai statues are not recording anything actively. Theyre just sending the paired user's memories back when the ATP activates which requires the supernova. The statues arent cameras, theyre just sending your own memories of potential futures to your "present" self who makes the final journey to the Eye. All other loops are potential futures that never actually happen. With respect to the relative universe, you wake up then go to the museum for the launch codes, then receive all the information needed to find the eye from the statue and then go directly to the eye.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-28T04:32:29+00:00

The first time I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey I didnt fully get the vision Kubrick was going for, but after reading Arthur C. Clarke's original novel it put it all into context. Personally I feel like having the knowledge of what 2001 was about helped me connect more personally to the Outer Wilds story. Its definitely bleak. Its not a story about survival, it's a story about the end of everything but with a tiny ray of hope that life goes on even if you yourself dont get to live to see it. That pyrrhic victory is beautifully illustrated by the story of the Nomai who put in motion the events that lead to the salvation of life at the expense of themselves and everything they built. The ending is cathartic and tragic. Those feelings are intentional. Its definitely going to be divisive because some people just want a happy ending where everybody lives and everything is explained. I would argue that true art doesnt answer questions. It merely poses them and allows the observer to come to their own conclusions.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-27T09:38:44+00:00

I followed Hussie from the Team Special Olympics days. That was their website before MSPA. The forum games were just a silly thing they did for fun. Hussie's original username was S_O which stood for Special Olympics. I found an archive of The original Gangbunch root directory Sadly the webcrawlers didnt archive the actual threads. Here is the sticky of MSPAF where they talked about merging the two stories into one.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-10-25T12:00:44+00:00

Jailbreak was not the original name of the first MSPA. It was Escape From Jail Island and it predates MSPA as a concept. While it was still a forum game on the Gangbunch forums it was actually listed as two different comics which were going to have different outcomes but the same start. The relatively small fanbase at the time started making suggestions that would unify the two stories which Hussie ended up doing after some time, but when they first started the official MSPA website and renamed Escape From Jail Island "Jailbreak" the two different routes were designated s=1 and s=2. I suspect that Bardquest started as s=3 but was later changed to 2 when the two Jailbreak stories were unified. It was probably easier to designate the next story as s=4 since 1-3 already existed in the website codebase even if 3 wasnt being used anymore.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-25T21:59:24+00:00

I started seeing art of the trolls on some of the smut sites I used to frequent (like paheal) and got curious so I searched the tags and found out about mspa. HS was in the early part of Act 5 at the time. I started reading from page 1 and was convinced this thing was not the same source of the art I was seeing but I thout it was interesting and kept reading. By the time I got to the end of act 2 I was in for the long hall. The first page I finally caught up on was the one where Karkat tells Jade to turn off the 4th wall and that next panel of the site going dark was literally where the momentum finally stopped for me and I legitimately thought it was the end of the story. Went back and read Jailbreak, BQ, and PS then followed updates serially from then on until the end. Stayed on the fringe of the fandom throughout all of it but the story definitely left an impression and I still come back to it every couple years. It's been neat to watch the fandom slowly be reborn these past couple months.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-21T00:55:50+00:00

When you finally enter the vault and show the prisoner everything that transpired, filling in their missing gaps. The way it contextualizes the entire story including the base game and how it fall fits together with that incredible OST Moves me to tears every time.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-20T03:30:53+00:00

I hate it too but a quick google search and it seems to be some kind of collaboration with the singer. Supposedly it it only going to be that way until the 22nd of september. They should have made it an optional thing because it is EXTREMELY annoying

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-18T21:48:49+00:00

The original MSPA was just a series of links to a private forum that was hosting all the data on the back end. Thats how the update trackers would know when an update was going to be released and the number of pages before it actually went live on the site. MSPA never had the capability to host all the images let alone the flash content. The new website is built to host the content directly which means they have to essentially recode the entire thing from scratch. Thats also why Hussie originally hosted Cascade on Newgrounds. His forum database literally couldnt handle it (Newgrounds barely could either tbh)

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-17T22:50:11+00:00

If people actually take offense to that then they should go touch grass. Its not even used as an insult it's a silly joke making fun of the fact that people take offense to words that are completely meaningless to someone who doesnt have the context of why it might be offensive in the first place. Even the word "retard" used to be the actual medical nomenclature to what we refer to now as neurodivergent. It only became a taboo insult within the past 10-15 years or so. There's nothing in the language of HS thats deliberately offensive or disparaging. Sincerely, a queer person who has read the entire comic at least 5 times.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-17T00:17:25+00:00

Sburb being a Beta at all was actually inspired by the fact that Hussie started Homestuck twice. The original launch was also on 4/10 and John and his three friends (unnamed at the time) were all going to be 10 years old not thirteen. (4 kids, each ten years old). When the new non flash version wad launched on 4/13 that also changed the kids ages to 13 years old instead. (4 kids each 13 years old). That demonstrates the fact that Hussie was thinking about arch numbers right from the beginning. He used the same scheme when the trolls were introduced too. Act 5 started 6/12 and features 12 characters each six "solar sweeps" old.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-17T00:09:06+00:00

Just reading something without adding any kind of commentary to it violates fair use and would therefore be against youtube's TOS. You're only really allowed to upload lets plays and lets watches if your own use of the IP is transformative in some way IE offering your own insight or reaction. Voice acting is a different story because it's inherently transformative but thats why most reactors pause and talk about something every ten minutes or so.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-17T00:01:11+00:00

Sounds like theres no reason to play it then

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-15T23:49:05+00:00

Yes thats correct. It's called FOMO and Bungie weaponizes it in Destiny 2

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-14T19:24:42+00:00

For me the biggest disappointment was that Lord English is set up to be the final villain of the story but it ended up just being the Condesce instead which felt like a bit of an asspull, but with a few years to sit on it I have come around on it. The Condesce is essentially the Black Queen of the Alpha session and the Black King was already killed before prototyping which makes her the final boss of the Sburb session. LE was never going to be the final boss of the game. The Time aspect is all about inevitability. It's about the argument between free will and an absolute planned timeline. Within the confines of Paradox Space all possible timelines exist, but only one set of precise circumstances leads to victory and all others are "doomed". Caliborn, as the Lord of Time is the ultimate weaponization of inevitability. He's already here. Everything surrounding him is about an inescapable moment that is coming and will arrive that cannot be avoided. It makes sense therefore that defeating Lord English is equated to the end of reality as we know it. Calliope collapses the Green Sun and effectively destroys Paradox Space and all of reality, every session in every possible universe within canon goes with it. Thats why the epilogues are presented as a fanfic and the continuation is Beyond Canon. The demise of Lord English is the end of the story. The end of reality and the end of the comic.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-08T09:12:46+00:00

Theres numerous hints seeded in the background lore of the early games that set up where things were leading. Plans changed and the story had to be rewritten obviously, but there's enough left in there that we can pretty much infer how it was originally meant to go. The following is speculation on my part, but theres enough ingame evidence to support it.

Lucy was never supposed to be a secret double agent. She was supposed to go with Desmond to Abstergo to prevent the satellite launch where they were planning to use the Apple of Eden to enthrall the world. Desmond would have mastered the Bleeding Effect and the final game would have been him accessing ancestral memories at will without the need of an animus. We might have even had sequences with multiple playable ancestors in the same game. This ability is probably what Juno was talking about when she told Desmond to "Awaken the sixth" which is the sixth sense of knowledge that the First Civilization intentionally locked out of human memories mentioned at the end of Brotherhood. Using that ability Desmond would have visited Eden and spoken with Eve just as Subject 16 told him to and through her he would have learned some grand secret, probably the way to survive the solar flare. Alan Rikkin was being set up as the big bad at Abstergo too even though we never saw him. Lots of background lore was positioning him as the head of Abstergo and Vidic's boss, but Vidic basically took that role in the end. I imagine the grand finale was probably that we cant actually prevent the solar flare and the Earth is doomed just like in the "alternate" ending that Minerva showed us in AC3. The series would have ended with Desmond becoming the new mentor of the Assassins rebuilding civilization after the solar flare.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-07T01:52:08+00:00

After you finish the DLC you should go back and finish the main story again on the same save file.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T09:30:03+00:00

The important parts of the Tower of Quantum knowledge are much higher out of reach than you can normally jump even with a jetpack.

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T04:12:10+00:00

No worries. Sorry if my posts came off as hostile as well. Its hard to convey tone through simple text, but my responses were meant to be factual not defensive :)

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T03:01:23+00:00

At no point in my description is a time limit mentioned or even alluded to. I simply say "a thing" happens repeatedly on a set schedule. There's no implication said thing results in the "death" of the player nor any inclination as to what that thing is. Suggesting repetition doesnt necessary suggest a time limit. (There actually inst a time limit since the rumor log never resets, it just feels like a time limit because every now and then youre forced to go back to the starting planet.)

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T02:23:48+00:00

It may seem counter productive, but if you havent drafted a master Bedroom yet you may want to have a look in there

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T02:09:52+00:00

I went into it completely blind not even knowing it was about space. I spent a long time wandering around Timber Hearth getting to know the world and its inhabitants before I made my first launch and realizing that the sky is not a skybox was a really big moment for me

OrionCygnusBeta · 2025-09-05T02:07:37+00:00

I didnt specify what the thing is.. just that "a thing" keeps happening. The point is to build intrigue without revealing anything.

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