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I am not that smart myself. It's a community effort putting those together.

That's the one. I am glad you are asking for it. It's a wonderful read. www.thomashapp.com/omniverse

@@kartacha Insane, thanks a bunch! Indeed, from the snippets shown in the video, it looked wildly interesting!

Thank you! Glad you liked it. The pop-ups were an idea that came up from someone who was part of the test audience. It was invaluable help. As for the fact you mentioned, I just did not know what to make of it. It's a breach attractor and it looks the same. It's obviously A'ansur technology but if it's the same or if it is a super common device, we cannot really know yet. Also, I've read other people speculate about the size mismatch of things but did never consider those speculations plausible. Of course, I am always open to read evidence for them.

I am glad you liked it. I hope it is a good companion for your playthroughs.

That's very insightful. Thanks for the explanation. So that means that we basically cannot take the carbon dating of the Sagigan ruins into account at all?

In my native language they are used completely interchangeably nowadays. Honestly, I did not know that rusalki existed in mythology and are just water spirits. I always thought that in our mythology the role of the antropomorphic fish woman was taken by the kikimora and the role of the seductive spirit was taken by the vila, samodiva etc. Never knew that rusalka was refering to an actual mythological creature. Thanks for that note.

Interesting idea. I never even considered it. If I could pin two comments, I would have pinned yours now too.

After theorizing a bunch, I came to the conclusion that it was Athetos arriving to and bonding with Trace as an Arm to wake him up from his coma. Athetos is supposedly very intelligent. I cannot believe he would simply be consigned to sit in his vat at the top of Mar-Uru to eventually rot away. No, Athetos pulled a Xanatos gambit. His half-hearted attempt to sway Trace was on the off-chance he actually could, but his main plan was to put on a show of a fight so he could pretend to die (instead becoming an Arm using the machine he was in) and possess Trace, the only clone of him that was _immune to the pathogen._ Plot twist, AV2 reveals that it was never Athetos's pathogen, it was Damu's/Indra's/Ophelia's. Think about it: a patternmind Arm with a patternmind wielder. Athetos/Trace would be unstoppable.

It's an interesting idea to say the least but why giving himself to Trace as an Arm before being able to convince him he is the good guy? Is it not more likely that Trace will use Athetos to serve the rusalki instead?

@@kartacha No, because the final act of the Rusulki was to lie to Trace yet again. I wrote a post on the Axiom Verge subreddit going into a detailed breakdown on my theory.

Just so everyone (even people without reddit) could read it: www.reddit.com/r/axiomverge/comments/1g453rs/theory_athetos_xanatos_gambit_some_observations/

You can always try it out. I bet you won't regret it, if you liked the video.

@@kartacha I think I will! Just saw it’s on switch so I’ll check it out this week :)

AV1 is awesome and definitely worth trying out. Banger soundtrack and fun exploration with some (very minor) randomness mixed in (there are glitched-out secret levels spread randomly throughout the map whose placements are determined at random when you begin the game). 2 is also good, but be aware that you’ll be following a different character who plays slightly differently from the first game’s protagonist. So don’t expect it to be exactly like the first.

I am glad they helped someone. They were the idea of the test audience. Their participation in this project was a game changer.

Due to the cover art?

@@kartacha the name mainly never knew axiom was a game

The channel name is a fan with too much time. It's pretty good. Long and is a audio drama

Thank you! I am giving it my all. I will work on my pronunciation as well in order to improve the production quality even more.

I am first and foremost amazed that someone got reccomended the video. I like it. But I love that you will play the games. Making you guys do it was a goal of mine from the get go.

@@kartacha your presentation style is really gripping, thank you for making this video and introducing people to this. Might be the STEM bias from my career, but just exploring a grand story with simulation-theory philosophy is really interesting!

Yeah, Thomas Happ is a genius whose ideas and theories may not be entirely fiction. And the series' worldbuilding is masterclass. Fun fact, Tom Happ has the entire saga already mapped out, and his goal is to tell the entire story over the course of 5-6 games. The only problem is that he develops each game all by himself. Being a solo developer, it takes Tom 5-6 years to complete a retro-style game like this.

I am all in on the Axiom Verge saga. Will be there making videos about it in the future to come.

@@kartacha Glad to hear it.

Interesting idea. What about the Sudrans then? Were they undersized. If so, were they smaller from back when they were on Kiengir or did they become smaller somehow after they travelled to Sudra?

Did you also notice the difference between the 1st and 2nd time visiting The Emergence? When going there the first time, enemies are not hostile and smaller than in AV1 - noticably the snails are tiny and the nests of hostile bees are not hostile. But when revisiting The Emergence later, we get full scale snails from AV1 alongside a larger, now hostile nest. And Drushka has also grown by the end of the game. The transformation of NPCs happens when the player infects them with the pathogen - and according to the wiki the growth of the enemies in The Emergence also happens the same way. If the scale was truly different then the snails and nest would never look the same as AV1 and remain tiny. But since AV1 snails (which already have pathogen) and post-pathogen AV2 snails look identical the scale must be identical too.

@kasPWI I hadn't considered that angle. And now I've gotta replay both of them to look for this. Also, what wiki? I gotta devour all of it.

@ The Wiki page for The Emergence

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