Oh boy time for my 15th watch of someone experiencing outer wilds because you can only really play this game once so the next best thing is someone else's first experience.
"Even after all the stars and black holes have gone out and galaxies have faded away, theres one knobhead at the end of the universe eating marshmallows" is such a beautiful line and i want it preserved
Love how this game has a certain fear in mind on every planet. Brittle Hollow has a fear of heights and falling, Giants Deep has a fear of the deep sea, Ember Twin has a fear of enclosed spaces, and then Dark Bramble is just fear, straight up.
my favorite part about the fear aspect in this is that it lines up with the games message as well. In order to find the answers you have to overcome your fears and once youve arrived at the end you have to overcome your greatest fear - The fear of real death, or in this case of ending it all. Every star you've ever seen, every planet, every hearthian, nomai and more. You have to let it all go to make way for the future and all it takes is the push of a button.
For anyone who's wondering: the third statue was connected to the OPC, which is how it keeps sending information back in time for those 5 million probes.
OPC = Orbital Probe Cannon, for those wondering. Really it was linked to the probe, not the cannon. It states "receiving telemetry from probe" I belive.
@@meralharbes The probe transmits back to the probe tracking module. The probe tracking module has a bi-directional transfer with the ash twin project. Technically the orbital probe cannon as a whole was linked, since the tracking module was part of it. That's how the control/launch model receive the order to launch from the ash twin project, after all. The ash twin project sends the command to fire the probe back in time. When the project is successful, or there's a fault, the other statues link with the nearest being so that their memories enter the time loop and they can stop the sun station from triggering the next loop. Our character, and everyone alive really, was looping for 9 million plus times without knowing it. On the loop that the project found the coordinates of the eye, Gabbro and us happened to be the only two beings in close proximity to any of the statues.
I watched another streamer supercut and they actually did destroy spacetime just before jumping into the eye. The autosave brought them back to the ship so they needed to run as fast as possible to make it to the end sequence
@@jackaw1197I assume you're talking about Vinny? Funny enough you don't actually have to go quickly to the Eye if you break spacetime via your clone, once it's broken the loaded save file is one where the clone is removed.
I love how he seems to make breakthroughs right at the last minute of some time loops. The nervous excitement of trying to figure something out while the solar system explodes really makes this game.
"When a conscious person goes through the eye, they become a witness - witness to the next one." "If that's the way that, our own universe will go out, being witnessed by... at least *somebody*... I'm okay with that." Both so incredibly beautiful quotes, and I'm shocked that Soviet just said them like that, with no lead up and no follow through, just dropping that prophetic bombshell on us.
i love how there's a point for like 60% of streamers where they're looking for the black hole forge and they start humming "black hole sun" by soundgarden
If yer talkin about 1:31:09 I think he's humming the main outer wilds song. But I did start singing black hole sun, replacing sun with forge when I got there 😂
The fact that he put everything together not on the Sun Station, but inside the Interloper, is so unique. He was so fixated on "Where are the Nomai now" that he overlooked the most simple answer: They aren't.
Same. which is weird for me, given I rarely ever cry at .. Well .. anything, really. Watching other people play through OW only furthers my standing of Outer Wilds being my favourite game of all time
I didn't really like it. Wish these was a side mission where you can save everyone on Timber Hearth and then optionally link the explorers to a mask. THEN if you link them all, they can all appear at the end with you.
You'll be surprised to learn how short their stay in that solar system was The Nomai Coleus was on escape pod 2 which landed on Ember Twin, he died working in the mines on Timber Hearth when the interloper arrived Reading through the texts shows that Coleus was the last surviving Nomai from the vessel, so they only lived 1 or 2 generations there
@@beckettshaw660 This is actually such an interesting question, how long do they live? Annona invented warp cores, how long were they even around in the universe?
@@Blewlongmun I suspect Nomai live for a very long time. Annona invented warp cores, and he didn't even take on an apprentice until after they'd landed and built the Sunless City. His apprentice, Poke, was born after the crash: so from this, we know: - Annona's warp core design had time to spread to all Nomai through their festivals, and that would have taken quite a while, especially since the Nomai gathering together would be a lot slower before they had warp cores: - Annona was, yet, quite young even after learning his craft, polishing it, inventing the warp cores, spreading them, and then for the time period after the Nomai began to warp and before the crash. If he wasn't young, he would have taken on an apprentice, as Nomai seem to treat the spreading of knowledge very seriously, and even write lines such as "This knowledge is too dear to lose". So! How long Nomai live depends on how long you think it would take for the Nomai to all gather, put warp cores in their vessels, then the time between that and the receiving of the signal, the crash, building a whole city, and a new generation being born then growing up to the point where they're ready to be taught advanced warp shenanigans. The time that takes ought to be about twenty or thirty years for a species that lives as long as humans; so, if the time was actually 200 years, Nomai probably live 10 times longer than us. (It makes the most sense that, in terms of human years, Annona would be at least 20 when they invented the warp core, and started taking on an apprentice no later than 50. If he invented the core at 30 and took on an apprentice at 40, then the time Nomai live would actually be even longer. So, imo, Nomai should live at least 500 years and maybe even up to 1000. I imagine building the city was a multi-year project, and then after that it would be at least dozens of years for the Nomai to form couples and have children, then to teach and raise them to the level they may be apprentices like Poke. So call it... 25 to 30 years after the crash, Poke is an adult and ready to learn from Annona; and maybe another 10 years for all the Nomai to get the warp cores, and then however long the apprenticeship was... Annona could have been 30 when he invented the warp core, 40 when all the Nomai had the cores, 45 or 50 during the crash (they had the cores for at least a few festivals, since kid Solanum writes about it), maybe 55 when the city is done, 75 when Poke is taken on as an apprentice, then at least a dozen years more to pass on the knowledge. Remember that 75 should be at most middle-aged for Nomai, otherwise Annona would have taken on an apprentice earlier in case he died and didn't get to pass the knowledge down.) And that's assuming he started really young, so we could really add 20 years or so on top of that: and then a few more because he presumably didn't die right away after teaching Poke what he wanted. Let's call the lifespan of Annona to be, at the barest minimum, about 120 years; at a higher end, assuming the Nomai were a bit more leisurely (which they really do seem to be), could be as high as a few hundred.
@@Ziobbe I agree they probably live a long time but you can't really assume anything about their age based on their inventions. Take warp cores, Annona's involvement to teaching Poke is definitely strange time-wise but there's nothing technically dating it at all, they could of simply stayed more local or had envoys in travel. I don't think there's enough information anywhere to assume anything other than "a very long time" unfortunately. I think it's worth noting the story of Escar survived 120,000+ years as a children's story, compare that to the mess that is Judeo-Christian history after just 10,000 years. They either have perfect memories and live for literal thousands of years a generation or their species interacts with information so wildly different to us it's impossible to estimate any of their achievements. On the message board someone mentions "ancestors, ancestors, when they were young" That's like great, great grandpa if that's literal, meaning only about 5-6 generations from then to now. A casual 20,000 year lifespan lol
I'm amused at how mortified Womble is at the black hole at first (which is how all the warp pads work and is a casual fixture in the game) but he curiously and whimsically flies straight into Dark Bramble without so much as a fuss (the most dangerous planet in the entire solar system)
I just love Soviet, I watched several videos of Outer Wilds but he's the only one that retranscripts perfectly how I was during my own playthrough. He's afraid of everything, he's pointing out all the nonsensical things you think you found and he's surprised and amazed when that nonsense is in fact perfectly logical, he's perfectly calm and thinkful and I just love it. He's theorizing about everything and seems extremely joyful when he understands everything and realize that his theories are true. Easily the best let's play of the game I've seen so far
Soviets recent video on The Forest gave me a better idea of who he is, the man genuinely likes video games. A lot of what he was talking about in The Forest was plot points seemingly spread out a large story only to be dead ends with a very simple plot-thread separate, Outer Wilds is the complete opposite. Every last detail connects somewhere, I think you can even hear him happily confused occasionally that minor details lined up in-game rather than through extraneous fan-theory.
Wow, womble really had an insightful playthrough, great watch! He's picking things apart and getting the gist of it all quite early on, but second guesses himself for a long time up until he reaches the ATP. Great compilation!
I appreciate that about his play through narration. He’s fully immersed, no dumb meta jokes, just honest to god fear of heights, depths, darkness, things that move unpredictably, etc.
Also I love that every outer wilds player including me goes through goes through the same progression of blaming the sun station, dark bramble, and the interloper for the supernova, before discovering that sometimes things just die. Though he did skip the step of saying “wait, what was that flash, why am I restarting?”
1:47:06 Probably the most horrific Anglerfish attack I've ever seen from this game. The way it comes right out of the fog like that with only its cloudy eyes and teeth visible is chilling.
That's exactly how it happened to me. I don't get scared in games at all but then that happened and I just froze up. Didn't scream or nothing but froze in fear 😹
@@AstrumKitten091 Happened to me too.... I was playing at night and it made my heart skip a beat because I wasn't expecting a monster and I just kinda stopped playing for a while lol
The journey from maybe we can fix this 1:05:15 to peace and acceptance at the end of the game is truly the heart of Outer Wilds. Man, rewatching this make me wish I could replay it so much. What a game.
I've not watched this yet, but for me that title currently goes to nerd cubed, who aced Giant's deep just through observation and experiment (instead of using the numerous clues dotted around the solar system).
@@alansmithee419 it's great that the game does make it possible to actually figure stuff out without looking at clues at all, as long as you have the brains to experiment without nudging
I am actually more impressed by Soviet’s incorrect hypothesis that the probe was manned. That was a line of thinking that never crossed my mind, yet it’s such a valid and incredibly powerful hypothesis that would fit in the original game perfectly.
love how he found out about the 22 minutes that he has for the supernova at 49:07. I had to resort to sitting at timber hearth and run a stopwatch to find out in my playthrough
This is genuinely my favourite playthrough of any game ever. He’s always engaging with the game at its level, taking things seriously that the game wants to be taken seriously, and picking up the jokes and lighter parts where the game is joking around. Complete immersion.
i barely know who this guy is, but judging by his experience i think he's probably the ideal audience for this game. he's got a good understanding of the forces he's dealing with, you can tell when the puzzle pieces are falling into place in his mind, and i love to hear the theories he posits during the game as to what happened and where everything went wrong. this is such a fun playthrough
Hearing Womble describe the new universe as being “sung into existence” is really beautiful. Not just that, it reminds me of the creation story of LotR, where God created a melody, then beings to sing said melody, and had the entire world sung into existence in that way. Can’t get much more beautiful than that.
33:18 This is a great question. But then, Stranger things have happened 54:38 oh my god, I've NEVER seen anyone put that together with such little information. Well, most of it anyway.
I'd like to think that all comentary are the mc's thoughts, and Soviet thinks like a Hearthian. If something goes wrong "I'm blaming Slate for this!" :: )
I just remembered something funny from my first play-though. When I approached Solanum for the first time, at that exact moment the loop ended. And for several loops I was absolutely convinced that she kills me on sight. I tried to climb the rocks around to avoid her gaze, approached her from the back and then saw "talk" key prompt. It dawned on me at that moment. lol
the first time i played, on my very first loop i was on the attlerock, and i made the locator point at the sun. not even a second after the thing pointed at it, it went supernova. i legit tought the locator was a doomsday device. i went full panic mode ,screamed "Oh no what have i doneeee!" and tried to runn away ,but how could anyone run from such a blast.. .. i tought it was gonna blow up anything it pointed at so i left it alone and went elsewhere. then the sun blew up again so i went back and read the texts below the locator explaining what it was.. never felt so dumb 😅🤣 but it was such a moment!
Not only is this a great playthrough of a great game, it's also FANTASTICALLY well edited! Thank you so much for doing this. I'll be enjoying the rest of your videos in the months to come!
Thank you for these. I always have one of these as my background while I study for my med school exams. Theres just something beautiful about watching someone experience this game for the first time but also I’ve seen it a lot so I don’t need to watch everything I just need to listen. It’s the ideal study support for me. In other words never stop doing these please (or at least for another year til I get my degree)
1:59:49 THIS is such a strong moment of "player thinking." For so much of your journey in this game, all you can do is try to construct a narrative about what happened from the bits of info you know. Once you fully explore & document what has happened around the solar system you have all the narrative pieces laid out in front of you and you realize that "what happened" is *spoiler* Just life & time. The tragedies that occurred along the way were nothing more than the consequences of the universe unfolding as it does over time. ❤ The whole spirit of this game being a celebration of just how special life is & how even the eventual death of the universe is just another natural part of the cycle of life & death. It's just so... special ❤ love this game.
I think one of the most clever things the game does is that the physics issues the nomai are seeing ACTUALLY HAPPEN if you try them, and the game expects you to try them and use them to progress
A huge thank you by the way, for creating this supercut. I've never been able to really sit and watch every second of someone elses gameplay beyond the couple of friends i've managed to hook into the game. This cut, beautifully edited, really helped cut away the slower fluff parts of watching someone discover the game, and boiled it down to the best parts of the experience, which I really appreciate and enjoyed in one sitting. One of the few pieces of outer wilds content that gave me the same kind of feels that playing it did.
Never heard of this guy until this video but watched almost the entire thing with minimal skipping, this is really the only way to replay Outer Wilds you just need to watch someone else discover it. Is he gonna do Echoes of The Eye though? That's my favourite part!
Don't know if you were able to watch his streams, so here's a supercut of his EotE playthrough on this very channel - th-cam.com/video/7NV8vYaOMjs/w-d-xo.html
1:16:18 I was beginning to think he just edited out his encounters, but is this seriously the first one he saw?! He managed to get that deep into the maze, without stumbling on any others? That's insane! Every other person I see go there (and me) goes full speed into the core, making a ton of noise and alerting all the Angler fish to come eat us while we're busy being distracted by the planet-Sized TARDIS
My first time in dark bramble I took it so slow that the sun exploded before I ever saw an angler, but I didn't realize that was why I had died so I thought being in dark bramble too long just killed me or something
I found out that the different entry holes lead to different places. So if you find yourself going into the same hole over and over you might think you're safe, except for the one time you go into a different hole and find out there's an angler waiting for you
The ending always gets me, seeing the characters one more time as the music slowly builds up before the end of the universe is a somber happiness ive never gotten from another game
the eye and entering it is such a cool idea, its essentially is asking "what if you took everything quantum in the universe and observe it all at once"
Ever since I beat this game, I've been looking for someone to watch who loved it like I did, just to experience it vicariously one more time. This was fantastic.
Check out the outer wilds subreddit for some suggestions. A really good playthrough that I remember is lil indegestions. Joseph andersons is also hilarious
Womble would fit in just fine in the 17th century. Sees something that can be explained with science (quantum rocks/trees) and goes "DEVIL MAGIC BURN IT, BEGONE SATAN"
Soviet: *Exemplary logic and deduction uncovering the mystery of the sun's demise, the death of the Nomai, and the eye of the universe.* Also Soviet: "Ah! Spooky rock!"
Damn, I'm so annoyed that he never found out, that the 3rd time traveller was the probe looking for the Eye of the Universe. Or even chased after it at the start of a loop. It is the first thing we see every loop and one of the first things I did was go after it. It had been sitting there for 200.000 years, waiting for the sun to go supernova. And long before we came along, it had been looping millions of times, shooting into random directions. Until it finally found it and led the player to it.
This playthrough is incredible! Thank you for not only making all these wonderful Outer Wilds supercuts, but also for introducing me to so many cool content creators!
I fkin chuckled when Womble summarized Solanum thinking of him as a friend as being friendzoned at the edge of the universe, friendzoned by a goat physicist no less
The 1% moment will live on in my memory until my final days. Plus the landing on the sun station manually insanity, and all the times he managed to break the game and its DLC :’)
A moment of appreciation that he understood you could take pictures without firing the scout. I've watched so many playthroughs where people don't get this and make the interloper way harder for themselves.
* Sees the vessel via probe before looking for Feldspar. * Gets in the probe tracking module before going to the orbiting probe cannon. Well that's an interesting progression path. * Continually gaslights himself about red herrings and the third mask until clarified by ship logs... * ...and sometimes continues even after the ship logs clarify things. I imagine there was much pain had by live chat.
I like how he kept blaming his own mistakes on the Nomai’s nonexistent stupidity. They, in fact, did not specifically design one of their spaceships to fly directly into the sun, he just aimed it there 💀
1:59:58 wow i think this is the most spot on guess as to whats happening in this story. he knew everything else and visiting the interloper just threw it all together for him, even guessing 100% correctly whats needs to be done next, well done
I love seeing others witness this game for the first time. It truly is unique in the world of gaming, an experience that can really only be had once. Thanks for sharing yours Womble :)
Beat the base game a little while ago and figured I'd let my girlfriend have a go at it before I got into the dlc. She played less than 10 minutes. She talked to Slate once, declared that she hated the jump because you go down before you spring up, crashed the model ship immediately after taking off then letting it plumet back to the ground, jumped off a waterfall in the hearthian village and died, got the game over screen for it. Started over, complained about having to talk to people to find the observatory, complained about seeing Hal before Hornfells, after getting launch codes from Hornfells she saw the statue, talked to Hal about it, learned about Gabbro being on Giants Deep, got to her ship, looked at the log entry for Gabbro and Giants Deep, launched, saw Dark Bramble, went careening towards it at 1000+m/s, shot way past it, complained about not knowing the ship controls, I explained them to her, she was quite frantic as she sailed way past her intended target, told her to slow down and get a grip on her controls and situation and what the game was telling her. She took this as an instruction to slow the ship down, which it wasn't, and she proclaimed that she had no idea how to do that, before I explained about the Match Velocity feature of her ship and got her heading towards it again. She then sped right back up to 600ish m/s, crashed her ship against the planet, rebounded out into space in her suit, and wound up about 3km away before she got back under control. She then tried to fly her space suit back to dark bramble, complaining all the way about how slow it was, I commented once when asked if she could go faster that yes, she could, in her ship but that's ok. She did not like that answer. She got back up to 600m/s though, right as she got within 1km of the planet. She went headfirst into it and died, obviously. I did mention she might want to start slowing down by pulling back on the stick. She didn't. She got up and left as the nomai statue replayed her memories to her empty chair. She was out of the room saying the game wasn't for her before she'd even reset. Didn't have the heart to tell her to give it a second or two more, let alone a whole other try. The idea of explaining that she shot right past all the tutorials the game would give her if she just talked to people and looked around in the game about talking to people and looking around just kinda took it all outta me at the thought. Real bummer of an experience and not how I saw this wholesome and heartwarming game being taken at all. Kinda hurts, honestly. Was really looking forward to having conversations with her about it as she discovered it. She didn't even give it long enough to see 1 loop.
Some people are just fundamentally uncurious and need to be told exactly what's going on, what to do, and why they should care. Outer Wilds is not for those people.
@@KILLRAIN42I'm sorry, I'm late to the party, but if you think she would like the concepts, maybe you could introduce her in a different way, like playing instead of her, and she could tell where to go, or showing her a cool playthrough! Maybe this game isn't the right fit for her and that's fine, but (for me) it's such a grand experience that I would really want to know about it
Solanum: "Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend." - "Yeah, fucking hell. On the edge of the fucking Universe with a rift torn above our heads... and I've been friendzoned" :DD
1:21:31 "There's still oxygen in here? After all this time?" Well, naturally. Those trees are somehow still alive, so OF COURSE there'd be an entire atmosphere of breathable air including oxygen and self-sustaining carbon dioxide (Outer Wilds logic). XD
Did he ever figure out that the 3rd statue is actually connected to the probe, so the Nomai could see the coordinates before the star exploded? Also, the difference between Womble and my self ... within 2 seconds of seeing the black hole in Brittle Hollow I decided to yeet myself in. I had to know.
This might be the first time I've seen someone actually witness the supernova on their first loop. I feel like every other TH-camr/streamer is always inside some cave or building when it happens for the first time and they're just incredibly confused as to what killed them. Sometimes it takes them like three to four loops to understand what's happening.
Oh my god, for my friend it was like 10-12 loops, I was so fustrated but had to play chill, she was literally just FLOATING IN SPACE and didn't do anything at one point but conveniently faced the other direction! When she finally discovered the reason, we laughed a lot at how unfortunate the circumstances were in literally all previous loops of course, but living through it was HELL.
27:36 If i had to show someone a clip to represent outer wilds,it would be this. The knowledge of the sun exploding,using your last moments to figure everything out...the music...perfection.
I was way late to playing this game and it became one of my favorites that I’ve played in the past year. I had no idea Womble had played it either, so rediscovering everything again is amazing, thank you so much for the work you put in. I love how it seems like he’s talking his ideas out as if he’s recording his own log to store somewhere, makes it one of the most immersive playthroughs I’ve seen!
Oh boy time for my 15th watch of someone experiencing outer wilds because you can only really play this game once so the next best thing is someone else's first experience.
Amen
It's always wonderful seeing the weird and wild theories people come up with before they get more puzzle pieces. And the revelations, oh man.
This is so true
Aye, this is why we are all here. I love the supercuts...
This is the way
4:30
"Our sun will eventually explode"
Womble:
"Well they got loads of time!!"
Foreshadowing intensifies.
Spongebob narrator: _"Twenty-two minutes later:"_
Well it wasn't right at that moment "eventually", all we really need to fear is the timeskip narrator.
*Foreshadowing intensifies*
_DOES HE KNOW_ 😏
"Even after all the stars and black holes have gone out and galaxies have faded away, theres one knobhead at the end of the universe eating marshmallows" is such a beautiful line and i want it preserved
Imagining the picture gives me some sort of existential loneliness, but every peaceful.
W2ngfge
@@hunterxgirl mww🎉🎉n 2
Very hitchikers guide-esque
timestamp?
Love how this game has a certain fear in mind on every planet. Brittle Hollow has a fear of heights and falling, Giants Deep has a fear of the deep sea, Ember Twin has a fear of enclosed spaces, and then Dark Bramble is just fear, straight up.
And the Sun is fear of Slate's autopilot, yeah
Dark bramble is fear of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!
And the Stranger is fear of the dark and strangely quiet places
my favorite part about the fear aspect in this is that it lines up with the games message as well. In order to find the answers you have to overcome your fears and once youve arrived at the end you have to overcome your greatest fear - The fear of real death, or in this case of ending it all. Every star you've ever seen, every planet, every hearthian, nomai and more. You have to let it all go to make way for the future and all it takes is the push of a button.
Echoe's of the Eye has fear of the dark too
For anyone who's wondering: the third statue was connected to the OPC, which is how it keeps sending information back in time for those 5 million probes.
9+ million
OPC = Orbital Probe Cannon, for those wondering. Really it was linked to the probe, not the cannon. It states "receiving telemetry from probe" I belive.
You also find a statue with its eyes open in the Probe Tracking Module where you get the coordinates
1:34:45 kinda got it
@@meralharbes The probe transmits back to the probe tracking module. The probe tracking module has a bi-directional transfer with the ash twin project. Technically the orbital probe cannon as a whole was linked, since the tracking module was part of it. That's how the control/launch model receive the order to launch from the ash twin project, after all.
The ash twin project sends the command to fire the probe back in time. When the project is successful, or there's a fault, the other statues link with the nearest being so that their memories enter the time loop and they can stop the sun station from triggering the next loop.
Our character, and everyone alive really, was looping for 9 million plus times without knowing it. On the loop that the project found the coordinates of the eye, Gabbro and us happened to be the only two beings in close proximity to any of the statues.
*fires ship into the sun* “aw fuck, how could the nomai do this”
Soviet, talking about the parent star going supernova: "Oh they've got loads of time."
Outer Wilds: *::)*
I see what you did there!
;;)
(:
Wow. That was actually creative. 👏
@@MrHeavy466 I stole that smile from another comment ::(
Amazing that at the end he was moments from destroying the fabric of spacetime and didn't even realize it.
Knobheads luck
I watched another streamer supercut and they actually did destroy spacetime just before jumping into the eye. The autosave brought them back to the ship so they needed to run as fast as possible to make it to the end sequence
@@jackaw1197I assume you're talking about Vinny? Funny enough you don't actually have to go quickly to the Eye if you break spacetime via your clone, once it's broken the loaded save file is one where the clone is removed.
And in his echoes of the eye palythrough the fabric of spacetime breaks on his first loop because his clone still existed.
atrioc did that lmao
I love how he seems to make breakthroughs right at the last minute of some time loops. The nervous excitement of trying to figure something out while the solar system explodes really makes this game.
Half of that was because he turned off pausing while translating text for most of the run. Reading takes a lot of time.
Depends if you want the authentic experience or the QoL
@@TlalocTemporal I kept it off for maximum anxiety
"When a conscious person goes through the eye, they become a witness - witness to the next one."
"If that's the way that, our own universe will go out, being witnessed by... at least *somebody*... I'm okay with that."
Both so incredibly beautiful quotes, and I'm shocked that Soviet just said them like that, with no lead up and no follow through, just dropping that prophetic bombshell on us.
i love how there's a point for like 60% of streamers where they're looking for the black hole forge and they start humming "black hole sun" by soundgarden
If yer talkin about 1:31:09 I think he's humming the main outer wilds song.
But I did start singing black hole sun, replacing sun with forge when I got there 😂
i mean i did it too
black hole forge
won't you gorge
That has to be THE best realization about the loop I've ever seen on a playthrough. Turning around to find everything unfolding. Amazing.
The fact that he put everything together not on the Sun Station, but inside the Interloper, is so unique. He was so fixated on "Where are the Nomai now" that he overlooked the most simple answer: They aren't.
@@FlatlandsSurvivor yeah I found him exploring the interloper last to be pretty noteworthy, as his last step mirrored that of the Nomai
The end of Outer Wilds always makes me cry. If the band doesn't get me, the credits do.
Same. which is weird for me, given I rarely ever cry at .. Well .. anything, really. Watching other people play through OW only furthers my standing of Outer Wilds being my favourite game of all time
I think you hear Soviet get emotional at the ending too.
@@TheBehenaught Yep. There's a somewhat choked-up chuckle there.
Indeed
14.3 billion years IS REALLY GOOD
AND LET THERE BE LIGHT IS EPIC!
I didn't really like it. Wish these was a side mission where you can save everyone on Timber Hearth and then optionally link the explorers to a mask.
THEN if you link them all, they can all appear at the end with you.
Genie: I will grant you one wish in exchange for a memory.
Me about to get a free wish and a fresh experience ::)
When the cost is a benefit!
tell me the double colon was intentional
@@DkingofStuff of course it is, what kind of weird lifeform only has 2 eyes ;;)
‧:)
@@lhrosts7082Woah a nomai ::0
I love the realization when Solanum was speaking about "Ancestors." Took me a long time to make the connection about the timeline of the Nomai.
You'll be surprised to learn how short their stay in that solar system was
The Nomai Coleus was on escape pod 2 which landed on Ember Twin, he died working in the mines on Timber Hearth when the interloper arrived
Reading through the texts shows that Coleus was the last surviving Nomai from the vessel, so they only lived 1 or 2 generations there
@@more-reasons6655 yeah but there’s no indication of how long Nomai live right? Like 1-2 generations could be like 500 years?
@@beckettshaw660 This is actually such an interesting question, how long do they live? Annona invented warp cores, how long were they even around in the universe?
@@Blewlongmun I suspect Nomai live for a very long time. Annona invented warp cores, and he didn't even take on an apprentice until after they'd landed and built the Sunless City. His apprentice, Poke, was born after the crash: so from this, we know:
- Annona's warp core design had time to spread to all Nomai through their festivals, and that would have taken quite a while, especially since the Nomai gathering together would be a lot slower before they had warp cores:
- Annona was, yet, quite young even after learning his craft, polishing it, inventing the warp cores, spreading them, and then for the time period after the Nomai began to warp and before the crash. If he wasn't young, he would have taken on an apprentice, as Nomai seem to treat the spreading of knowledge very seriously, and even write lines such as "This knowledge is too dear to lose".
So! How long Nomai live depends on how long you think it would take for the Nomai to all gather, put warp cores in their vessels, then the time between that and the receiving of the signal, the crash, building a whole city, and a new generation being born then growing up to the point where they're ready to be taught advanced warp shenanigans. The time that takes ought to be about twenty or thirty years for a species that lives as long as humans; so, if the time was actually 200 years, Nomai probably live 10 times longer than us.
(It makes the most sense that, in terms of human years, Annona would be at least 20 when they invented the warp core, and started taking on an apprentice no later than 50. If he invented the core at 30 and took on an apprentice at 40, then the time Nomai live would actually be even longer. So, imo, Nomai should live at least 500 years and maybe even up to 1000. I imagine building the city was a multi-year project, and then after that it would be at least dozens of years for the Nomai to form couples and have children, then to teach and raise them to the level they may be apprentices like Poke. So call it... 25 to 30 years after the crash, Poke is an adult and ready to learn from Annona; and maybe another 10 years for all the Nomai to get the warp cores, and then however long the apprenticeship was... Annona could have been 30 when he invented the warp core, 40 when all the Nomai had the cores, 45 or 50 during the crash (they had the cores for at least a few festivals, since kid Solanum writes about it), maybe 55 when the city is done, 75 when Poke is taken on as an apprentice, then at least a dozen years more to pass on the knowledge. Remember that 75 should be at most middle-aged for Nomai, otherwise Annona would have taken on an apprentice earlier in case he died and didn't get to pass the knowledge down.)
And that's assuming he started really young, so we could really add 20 years or so on top of that: and then a few more because he presumably didn't die right away after teaching Poke what he wanted. Let's call the lifespan of Annona to be, at the barest minimum, about 120 years; at a higher end, assuming the Nomai were a bit more leisurely (which they really do seem to be), could be as high as a few hundred.
@@Ziobbe I agree they probably live a long time but you can't really assume anything about their age based on their inventions. Take warp cores, Annona's involvement to teaching Poke is definitely strange time-wise but there's nothing technically dating it at all, they could of simply stayed more local or had envoys in travel.
I don't think there's enough information anywhere to assume anything other than "a very long time" unfortunately. I think it's worth noting the story of Escar survived 120,000+ years as a children's story, compare that to the mess that is Judeo-Christian history after just 10,000 years.
They either have perfect memories and live for literal thousands of years a generation or their species interacts with information so wildly different to us it's impossible to estimate any of their achievements. On the message board someone mentions "ancestors, ancestors, when they were young" That's like great, great grandpa if that's literal, meaning only about 5-6 generations from then to now. A casual 20,000 year lifespan lol
4:30 "Our sun will eventually explode. Well, I mean, they've got loads of time."
Yeah, about 23 minutes.
give or take 1 minute
"Jump through a ______!? Beg your pardon"
Quality
Even though I knew he was wrong, I still felt his dread when he thought the probe was manned.
I'm amused at how mortified Womble is at the black hole at first (which is how all the warp pads work and is a casual fixture in the game) but he curiously and whimsically flies straight into Dark Bramble without so much as a fuss (the most dangerous planet in the entire solar system)
I just love Soviet, I watched several videos of Outer Wilds but he's the only one that retranscripts perfectly how I was during my own playthrough. He's afraid of everything, he's pointing out all the nonsensical things you think you found and he's surprised and amazed when that nonsense is in fact perfectly logical, he's perfectly calm and thinkful and I just love it. He's theorizing about everything and seems extremely joyful when he understands everything and realize that his theories are true. Easily the best let's play of the game I've seen so far
Soviets recent video on The Forest gave me a better idea of who he is, the man genuinely likes video games. A lot of what he was talking about in The Forest was plot points seemingly spread out a large story only to be dead ends with a very simple plot-thread separate, Outer Wilds is the complete opposite. Every last detail connects somewhere, I think you can even hear him happily confused occasionally that minor details lined up in-game rather than through extraneous fan-theory.
Wow, womble really had an insightful playthrough, great watch! He's picking things apart and getting the gist of it all quite early on, but second guesses himself for a long time up until he reaches the ATP. Great compilation!
I appreciate that about his play through narration. He’s fully immersed, no dumb meta jokes, just honest to god fear of heights, depths, darkness, things that move unpredictably, etc.
Also I love that every outer wilds player including me goes through goes through the same progression of blaming the sun station, dark bramble, and the interloper for the supernova, before discovering that sometimes things just die. Though he did skip the step of saying “wait, what was that flash, why am I restarting?”
Soviet actually escaped the breaking of space-time by ending the entire universe.
1:47:06 Probably the most horrific Anglerfish attack I've ever seen from this game. The way it comes right out of the fog like that with only its cloudy eyes and teeth visible is chilling.
That's exactly how it happened to me. I don't get scared in games at all but then that happened and I just froze up. Didn't scream or nothing but froze in fear 😹
@@AstrumKitten091Same reaction I had in subnautica lmao. Just the absolute paralyzing terror that extends into the real world lol
@@AstrumKitten091 Happened to me too.... I was playing at night and it made my heart skip a beat because I wasn't expecting a monster and I just kinda stopped playing for a while lol
54:40 This man figured out the plot not even half way of his adventure..
So the players and their friends are, literally, become the eyes (witnesses) of the new universe.
1:24:18
(on giants deep)
"this is the ash twin project isn't it?"
The journey from maybe we can fix this 1:05:15 to peace and acceptance at the end of the game is truly the heart of Outer Wilds. Man, rewatching this make me wish I could replay it so much. What a game.
This may have been the most intelligent play through of this game I've seen. Well done.
Soviet bullseyed so many mysteries, long before I did.
I've not watched this yet, but for me that title currently goes to nerd cubed, who aced Giant's deep just through observation and experiment (instead of using the numerous clues dotted around the solar system).
Title belongs to About Oliver, an astrophysicist who played. Womble is great, don't get me wrong, but Oliver's play through was magical.
@@alansmithee419 it's great that the game does make it possible to actually figure stuff out without looking at clues at all, as long as you have the brains to experiment without nudging
I am actually more impressed by Soviet’s incorrect hypothesis that the probe was manned. That was a line of thinking that never crossed my mind, yet it’s such a valid and incredibly powerful hypothesis that would fit in the original game perfectly.
love how he found out about the 22 minutes that he has for the supernova at 49:07. I had to resort to sitting at timber hearth and run a stopwatch to find out in my playthrough
Take a shot every time Wombat says "AI"
alcohol poisoning: the speedrun
@cybergeek112235 is that a marathon pfp?
This is genuinely my favourite playthrough of any game ever.
He’s always engaging with the game at its level, taking things seriously that the game wants to be taken seriously, and picking up the jokes and lighter parts where the game is joking around.
Complete immersion.
i barely know who this guy is, but judging by his experience i think he's probably the ideal audience for this game. he's got a good understanding of the forces he's dealing with, you can tell when the puzzle pieces are falling into place in his mind, and i love to hear the theories he posits during the game as to what happened and where everything went wrong. this is such a fun playthrough
Wow, such a scenic view of the supernova at 1:06:45
Hearing Womble describe the new universe as being “sung into existence” is really beautiful. Not just that, it reminds me of the creation story of LotR, where God created a melody, then beings to sing said melody, and had the entire world sung into existence in that way. Can’t get much more beautiful than that.
That a wonderful way to put it, and very true!
Resonance is a wild concept if you think about it. The whole universe is all just matter vibrating at different scales and frequencies.
I love how much Soviet is willing to engage with games - to really let them speak their piece, and to listen when they do. It's wonderful.
33:18 This is a great question. But then, Stranger things have happened
54:38 oh my god, I've NEVER seen anyone put that together with such little information. Well, most of it anyway.
Really, "Stranger" things. I'm hearby forbidding you from making puns.
It's insane how quickly he understood the general concepts of the plot
you don't know how happy I am that youtube recommended me this randomly. thank you so much for doing these supercuts, you really cheered up my day
We sang the universe into existence over a campfire
Love these words
I'd like to think that all comentary are the mc's thoughts, and Soviet thinks like a Hearthian. If something goes wrong "I'm blaming Slate for this!" :: )
omg 2:01:00 the sheer logic there wow it's so satisfying hearing him explaining everything to himself aapsjfbeoe
I just remembered something funny from my first play-though. When I approached Solanum for the first time, at that exact moment the loop ended. And for several loops I was absolutely convinced that she kills me on sight. I tried to climb the rocks around to avoid her gaze, approached her from the back and then saw "talk" key prompt. It dawned on me at that moment. lol
the first time i played, on my very first loop i was on the attlerock, and i made the locator point at the sun. not even a second after the thing pointed at it, it went supernova. i legit tought the locator was a doomsday device. i went full panic mode ,screamed "Oh no what have i doneeee!" and tried to runn away ,but how could anyone run from such a blast.. .. i tought it was gonna blow up anything it pointed at so i left it alone and went elsewhere. then the sun blew up again so i went back and read the texts below the locator explaining what it was.. never felt so dumb 😅🤣
but it was such a moment!
thank you so much for making this. this is now one of my new fav playthroughs of this game
also holy shit 1:46:56 was insane
Not only is this a great playthrough of a great game, it's also FANTASTICALLY well edited! Thank you so much for doing this. I'll be enjoying the rest of your videos in the months to come!
4:30 I don’t think a more perfect sentence could have been said. Amazing foreshadowing
This game is pure art.
Thank you for these. I always have one of these as my background while I study for my med school exams. Theres just something beautiful about watching someone experience this game for the first time but also I’ve seen it a lot so I don’t need to watch everything I just need to listen. It’s the ideal study support for me.
In other words never stop doing these please (or at least for another year til I get my degree)
4:25
Most hilarious reaction to this exhibit I have ever seen.
Que Curb Your Enthusiasm theme
Me: *Concerned.*
1:59:49 THIS is such a strong moment of "player thinking."
For so much of your journey in this game, all you can do is try to construct a narrative about what happened from the bits of info you know.
Once you fully explore & document what has happened around the solar system you have all the narrative pieces laid out in front of you and you realize that "what happened" is *spoiler*
Just life & time.
The tragedies that occurred along the way were nothing more than the consequences of the universe unfolding as it does over time. ❤
The whole spirit of this game being a celebration of just how special life is & how even the eventual death of the universe is just another natural part of the cycle of life & death. It's just so... special ❤ love this game.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who decided to explore Timber Hearth before going elsewhere.
I was there with you was too scared stayed on timber hearth and atterlock for my first few loops
Same here! I was also taken by how gorgeous TH was and wanted to see more of it before leaving
I did too, my first loop ended in Mining site 2b and I had no idea wtf was happening.
I think one of the most clever things the game does is that the physics issues the nomai are seeing ACTUALLY HAPPEN if you try them, and the game expects you to try them and use them to progress
the beginning of the universe was just an ultra hot ultra dense marshmallow over a campfire
A huge thank you by the way, for creating this supercut. I've never been able to really sit and watch every second of someone elses gameplay beyond the couple of friends i've managed to hook into the game. This cut, beautifully edited, really helped cut away the slower fluff parts of watching someone discover the game, and boiled it down to the best parts of the experience, which I really appreciate and enjoyed in one sitting. One of the few pieces of outer wilds content that gave me the same kind of feels that playing it did.
Never heard of this guy until this video but watched almost the entire thing with minimal skipping, this is really the only way to replay Outer Wilds you just need to watch someone else discover it.
Is he gonna do Echoes of The Eye though? That's my favourite part!
hey dont know if you had an answer, but i saw him start EoTE on stream yesterday
@@benahek Aww yiss! Going to watch it immediately. I really enjoyed Lamram's playtrough ::)
@@benahek OMG OMG
Thank you for letting us know!
I'm watching the playthrough right now!
pls watch more womble him and his gang are a riot
Don't know if you were able to watch his streams, so here's a supercut of his EotE playthrough on this very channel - th-cam.com/video/7NV8vYaOMjs/w-d-xo.html
1:16:18 I was beginning to think he just edited out his encounters, but is this seriously the first one he saw?! He managed to get that deep into the maze, without stumbling on any others? That's insane!
Every other person I see go there (and me) goes full speed into the core, making a ton of noise and alerting all the Angler fish to come eat us while we're busy being distracted by the planet-Sized TARDIS
My first time in dark bramble I took it so slow that the sun exploded before I ever saw an angler, but I didn't realize that was why I had died so I thought being in dark bramble too long just killed me or something
I found out that the different entry holes lead to different places. So if you find yourself going into the same hole over and over you might think you're safe, except for the one time you go into a different hole and find out there's an angler waiting for you
The ending always gets me, seeing the characters one more time as the music slowly builds up before the end of the universe is a somber happiness ive never gotten from another game
glad no one spoiled everything, this game is so lovely when you find out everything on your own
Soviet really got one of the best first experiences of the supernova, he lined his ship up perfectly and everything.
the eye and entering it is such a cool idea, its essentially is asking "what if you took everything quantum in the universe and observe it all at once"
Ever since I beat this game, I've been looking for someone to watch who loved it like I did, just to experience it vicariously one more time.
This was fantastic.
Check out the outer wilds subreddit for some suggestions. A really good playthrough that I remember is lil indegestions. Joseph andersons is also hilarious
Womble would fit in just fine in the 17th century. Sees something that can be explained with science (quantum rocks/trees) and goes "DEVIL MAGIC BURN IT, BEGONE SATAN"
I just did the math, and the probe cannon was firing in the time loop (once every 22 minutes) for roughly 389.77 Earth years before it found the Eye.
Soviet: *Exemplary logic and deduction uncovering the mystery of the sun's demise, the death of the Nomai, and the eye of the universe.*
Also Soviet: "Ah! Spooky rock!"
My reaction to the black hole: Cool!
Soviet: OH JESUS CHRIST HOLY FUCKING SHIT
55:00 Did not expect him to figure that out that quickly.
1:38:55 A case of "gamers becoming 5 star voice actors" that doesn't involve imminent death.
This quote has lived in my head the past week, I hope you're proud of yourself.
@@Yashirmare i didn't come up with it but thank you
Damn, I'm so annoyed that he never found out, that the 3rd time traveller was the probe looking for the Eye of the Universe. Or even chased after it at the start of a loop. It is the first thing we see every loop and one of the first things I did was go after it.
It had been sitting there for 200.000 years, waiting for the sun to go supernova. And long before we came along, it had been looping millions of times, shooting into random directions. Until it finally found it and led the player to it.
Well it isn't in this supercut but he does know it since he mentioned it on his stream.
Womble, seeing literally anything "is this the ash twin project?"
This playthrough is incredible! Thank you for not only making all these wonderful Outer Wilds supercuts, but also for introducing me to so many cool content creators!
"the time loop has been going on for so long that so much time has passed!" Does he... does he not understand how time loops work??
Nope, he doesn’t understand a Time Loop one bit.
I fkin chuckled when Womble summarized Solanum thinking of him as a friend as being friendzoned at the edge of the universe, friendzoned by a goat physicist no less
Note to anyone don’t watch this high af i watched the whole thing start to finish and couldn’t sleep till my high wore off
Thank you so much for these, the amount of effort you put in to let us relive the experience again is so blessed
The 1% moment will live on in my memory until my final days. Plus the landing on the sun station manually insanity, and all the times he managed to break the game and its DLC :’)
@@Evanz111 This timeth f'r sure FeelsGoodMan
A moment of appreciation that he understood you could take pictures without firing the scout. I've watched so many playthroughs where people don't get this and make the interloper way harder for themselves.
The universe is, and we are.
Very fitting phrase for the end.
I loved every minute of you talking through your theories. Such a great arc!
1:48:00 thank you for the warning king/queen/other
Really nicely edited, thank you for putting this together. Long time fan of the game myself, and I never tire of watching blind playthroughs.
Sometimes i forget how genuenly witty and funny this game can be
* Sees the vessel via probe before looking for Feldspar.
* Gets in the probe tracking module before going to the orbiting probe cannon.
Well that's an interesting progression path.
* Continually gaslights himself about red herrings and the third mask until clarified by ship logs...
* ...and sometimes continues even after the ship logs clarify things.
I imagine there was much pain had by live chat.
Thank you for putting these together, Eelis. Before, I'd watch the super long playthroughs so this is perfect. I hope you find more!
I like how he kept blaming his own mistakes on the Nomai’s nonexistent stupidity. They, in fact, did not specifically design one of their spaceships to fly directly into the sun, he just aimed it there 💀
1:59:58 wow i think this is the most spot on guess as to whats happening in this story. he knew everything else and visiting the interloper just threw it all together for him, even guessing 100% correctly whats needs to be done next, well done
I love seeing others witness this game for the first time. It truly is unique in the world of gaming, an experience that can really only be had once. Thanks for sharing yours Womble :)
"Was the sun always this big?"
*Supernovas*
Oh noooooooooo! lol
Beat the base game a little while ago and figured I'd let my girlfriend have a go at it before I got into the dlc. She played less than 10 minutes. She talked to Slate once, declared that she hated the jump because you go down before you spring up, crashed the model ship immediately after taking off then letting it plumet back to the ground, jumped off a waterfall in the hearthian village and died, got the game over screen for it. Started over, complained about having to talk to people to find the observatory, complained about seeing Hal before Hornfells, after getting launch codes from Hornfells she saw the statue, talked to Hal about it, learned about Gabbro being on Giants Deep, got to her ship, looked at the log entry for Gabbro and Giants Deep, launched, saw Dark Bramble, went careening towards it at 1000+m/s, shot way past it, complained about not knowing the ship controls, I explained them to her, she was quite frantic as she sailed way past her intended target, told her to slow down and get a grip on her controls and situation and what the game was telling her. She took this as an instruction to slow the ship down, which it wasn't, and she proclaimed that she had no idea how to do that, before I explained about the Match Velocity feature of her ship and got her heading towards it again. She then sped right back up to 600ish m/s, crashed her ship against the planet, rebounded out into space in her suit, and wound up about 3km away before she got back under control. She then tried to fly her space suit back to dark bramble, complaining all the way about how slow it was, I commented once when asked if she could go faster that yes, she could, in her ship but that's ok. She did not like that answer. She got back up to 600m/s though, right as she got within 1km of the planet. She went headfirst into it and died, obviously. I did mention she might want to start slowing down by pulling back on the stick. She didn't. She got up and left as the nomai statue replayed her memories to her empty chair. She was out of the room saying the game wasn't for her before she'd even reset. Didn't have the heart to tell her to give it a second or two more, let alone a whole other try. The idea of explaining that she shot right past all the tutorials the game would give her if she just talked to people and looked around in the game about talking to people and looking around just kinda took it all outta me at the thought. Real bummer of an experience and not how I saw this wholesome and heartwarming game being taken at all. Kinda hurts, honestly. Was really looking forward to having conversations with her about it as she discovered it. She didn't even give it long enough to see 1 loop.
Some people are just fundamentally uncurious and need to be told exactly what's going on, what to do, and why they should care. Outer Wilds is not for those people.
I guess yeah. Just sucks, was looking forward to having someone to talk to about the game. Normally the concepts it explores are right up her alley.
@@KILLRAIN42I'm sorry, I'm late to the party, but if you think she would like the concepts, maybe you could introduce her in a different way, like playing instead of her, and she could tell where to go, or showing her a cool playthrough! Maybe this game isn't the right fit for her and that's fine, but (for me) it's such a grand experience that I would really want to know about it
@@arkangyal8024 Preach. I wholeheartedly agree and that's why it bums me out to this day.
Solanum: "Still, this encounter feels special. I hope you won't mind if I think of you as a friend."
- "Yeah, fucking hell. On the edge of the fucking Universe with a rift torn above our heads... and I've been friendzoned"
:DD
Womble fundamentally misunderstanding how a time loop works broke me.
Seriously
1:21:31 "There's still oxygen in here? After all this time?" Well, naturally. Those trees are somehow still alive, so OF COURSE there'd be an entire atmosphere of breathable air including oxygen and self-sustaining carbon dioxide (Outer Wilds logic). XD
Did he ever figure out that the 3rd statue is actually connected to the probe, so the Nomai could see the coordinates before the star exploded?
Also, the difference between Womble and my self ... within 2 seconds of seeing the black hole in Brittle Hollow I decided to yeet myself in. I had to know.
love these supercuts, thanks for all the hard work!
Awesome! Can't wait for the DLC!
I adore how many guesses Womble takes at hints and how he's at the very least half correct on most of them.
Huge thank you for making this edit, I’d never have watched his playthrough if it wasn’t for this… watching live streams/vods is a fucking pain
This might be the first time I've seen someone actually witness the supernova on their first loop. I feel like every other TH-camr/streamer is always inside some cave or building when it happens for the first time and they're just incredibly confused as to what killed them. Sometimes it takes them like three to four loops to understand what's happening.
I feel like most people just crash into some planatoid and instantly perish
Heh, My first time was on the Attlerock, messing with the Nomai ruins when the sun exploded. I was SURE I'd screwed up something.
Oh my god, for my friend it was like 10-12 loops, I was so fustrated but had to play chill, she was literally just FLOATING IN SPACE and didn't do anything at one point but conveniently faced the other direction! When she finally discovered the reason, we laughed a lot at how unfortunate the circumstances were in literally all previous loops of course, but living through it was HELL.
Oh man the ending always gets me, such a magical experience.
27:36
If i had to show someone a clip to represent outer wilds,it would be this. The knowledge of the sun exploding,using your last moments to figure everything out...the music...perfection.
I love that Womble immediately says "we don't have to worry about the sun, that takes millions of years to happen".
Bro is in for it.
I was way late to playing this game and it became one of my favorites that I’ve played in the past year. I had no idea Womble had played it either, so rediscovering everything again is amazing, thank you so much for the work you put in. I love how it seems like he’s talking his ideas out as if he’s recording his own log to store somewhere, makes it one of the most immersive playthroughs I’ve seen!
This is maybe the longest I've seen someone go without realizing the black hole is harmless.
Thank you for this massive edit, this was much enjoyable !