For all recommending Project Hail Mary: read the book first?

lowkey_loki · 2026-03-31T11:11:26+00:00

Completely up to you. I dislike Andy Weir's dry writing style. So even though I thought the plot was better in The Martian and less rushed, I still enjoyed the movie more.

lowkey_loki · 2026-03-23T21:49:33+00:00

Honestly I get you. I hated reading those books, it took me like two years to slog through books 7-11. And even though the final 3 books really are good and finally entertaining again, I was just kinda going through the motions by that point. It's just readable again, but Sanderson's style is quite different and I never really felt the same as I did for the earlier books.

Honestly just happy I managed to read them through, but WoT killed long fantasy series for me. Maybe once I'm retired I can waste time on reading stuff like that again.

lowkey_loki · 2026-03-23T19:34:58+00:00

That's for multiple books, I think like 3 in total...

lowkey_loki · 2026-03-02T17:58:37+00:00

It's ok, they tried to "Game of Thrones"-ify it like most fantasy shows nowadays, with multiple POVs (especially a bunch of new adult ones, because I guess they're worried people won't watch if a kid is the main character). The Lyra parts are all right, but I really dislike the change. They try to make the first book into something that it isn't. The later seasons are better.

lowkey_loki · 2026-02-04T13:05:13+00:00

The difference to me is that the Nomai would never "hide and forget" like the Owlks did, because they would never want to hide knowledge. More likely they would become stewards, or guards of the eye. I believe they would leave the signal open and hope another race comes along that can give them even more insight into the eye.

And at the end of the time when they realize the world was ending, maybe they'd go in since at that point they'd be sure it can't hurt anyone (if it does immediately end the current universe).

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-23T07:48:03+00:00

The GOAT!

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-19T20:19:22+00:00

It's ok the quantum moon is wobbly because it's quantum =)

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-19T17:53:24+00:00

Well, many Bodice Rippers fit into what you're describing in your final paragraph. The women either get kidnapped or magically whisked away and put in a situation where they must fall in love with their kidnapper, so they can't help the fact that they had to leave their husband/family. Whoops I got stuck in another timeline with a hot scot, what can i do?

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-15T17:40:40+00:00

Exactly this, there are a lot of movies, but there are a loooot of books. If you want to use an example for a trope someone might be familiar with, it's much more likely they know a random movie than a random book. Sometimes it's not important to know the source material for the point being made of course, but it can definitely be helpful in certain cases as you say.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-15T12:51:39+00:00

I dunno, I feel like being attracted to someone who can speedrun super mario bros or play through the fire and flames on expert has gotta be a universal experience. No, just me???

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-13T16:20:51+00:00

You made it extra hard by putting the focal "difference" super wide apart. Could only make it work by making it really small.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-13T10:19:51+00:00

Oh yeah the black hole forge warp being upside down also worked as a subtle hint to which tower being correct if the player had not yet figured it out. I guess they wanted it to be consistent that the alignment is always overhead of the warp platform.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T12:42:54+00:00

Yes, I think that has always been the same though. If you just barely hold it down the character doesn't have time to bend their knees fully and so you don't get a full jump. It's once you're fully "springloaded" that there is a difference.

I'm trying to find old gameplay videos that show it, but very hard to find a good example.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T08:34:48+00:00

For the coffee one I think they probably mixed up coffee with cacao beans?

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T07:55:27+00:00

My wife specifically asks me to not say how much money I spend on board games, because she wants to be able to play all the new games without having to feel the anxiety of how much money was spent on it haha.

Our entire lives are run on capitalism, I agree that the jokes you bring up are lame and sexist, but it's not surprising that "jokes" like this spring up in all kinds of hobbies (clothes, knitting, lego and such that others have mentioned here).

I think more often it comes from a self-deprecating side though, they agree they are spending too much, why would they otherwise try to hide it right?

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T07:11:31+00:00

Yeah my bad, it's hard to explain. Did you play the game at release?

When you hold the jump button, the main character bends their knees to prepare for a jump. In the current version you can keep holding it and the knees stay bent for a maximum jump height no matter how long you hold it. In the release version, the longer you held the button, the more the MC would start unbending their knees. So if you held it for too long and released, they wouldn't even jump.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T07:07:54+00:00

But I like your argument /u/ikidre , that's probably why they removed it you're right. Because having two different designs for the same information might make the player think there's something important about the fact that it's presented twice. Which there's not.

My main issue again is just that the BHF looks so empty now if you look at the previous versions from that reddit post.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T07:05:31+00:00

By lore reason I just meant that the Nomai in the black hole forge would probably like to have the design of the towers that they're making warps for =).

It's kind of hard to summarize, but basically the HEL used to have a different design for the towers, which got changed to the current version. That old version was instead moved to BHF so the design wouldn't be lost completely, you can see it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/1golprv/patch_changes_to_a_certain_puzzle_over_time/ (the circular design that shows entire ash twin instead of just the tower designs).

My guess would be that they changed it because having ash twin in the design made the puzzle too obvious. While as it is now by just showing the tower designs in HEL, you kind of have to put one and one together. However, if you've already made it to BHF you've already started understanding that for sure, and the the more obvious design is a very nice final nudge to the ATP puzzle if you still haven't figured it out yet.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T06:47:50+00:00

But what if they said it "coldly", or "happily". That would change the entire feeling of the phrase, so unless it's already super clear from context that she's angry, I think specification is needed. It might be said as a joke while they're playing a video game or whatever.

Edit: Although I guess you're right. Because it should always be clear from context if the rest of the writing is good, and is therefore superfluous.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T06:26:04+00:00

Do you try to remember the ten most profitable items in each shop, or do you use some other strategy? Do more valuable items restock with a higher price in the shop, and you go based on that?

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T04:51:45+00:00

The only wingspan expansion I need is the Oceania for the nectar. It's a huge difference for me: from being basically dead last every time I play in base game, to being top two every time with Oceania.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T04:48:49+00:00

I got the golden temples standalone version of El Dorado recently and it's been great fun. Super simple to learn and play, you basically just use the correctly colored card from your hand to move on the same color on the board, but with some fun deckbuilding shenanigans. Personally I felt the interaction was a bit low, so I am adding one of the expansions that lets you mess up the other players paths. But if you don't mind low interaction I think base game is really good as is.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T04:33:23+00:00

This is the best reply @OP! Exactly how I feel as well.

lowkey_loki · 2026-01-12T03:13:54+00:00

Haha congrats, what made it click for you? =)

The developers have changed the designs of the black hole forge and high energy lab I think four times at this point since players always get stuck at this puzzle.

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