idk what to say man, the game literally has an autopilot, all you need to learn is how to take off, and land. but you can’t relay on the autopilot to do the exploring for you - being able to control your ship when needed is necessary

what other accesability options can you think of adding to a space exploration game that needs 360° of movement?

i wouldn’t worry about it too much, we all struggle with the ship at first :) even the best of us! piloting it becomes second nature after some time though, just gotta learn through practice

there is a way around that friend!

(light spoilers for the core mechanic ahead, first half an hour or so of playing):

i bounced off this game 2 times before it got me, but there’s no rush, it’ll wait for you

fair enough, for me it struck all the right chords inside, but not everyone has the same chords

i simply do not hear enough people talking about Outer Wilds, i know it released in the same year as the AA game by Obsidian - Outer Worlds, the title of which is different by whole two letters, which provided a very good distraction but

AAAAA

Outer Wilds is a lighting in a bottle video game that the majority of those who have played it wish they could experience for the first time again. it’s a stunning piece of art that makes you cry and you’re not even sure what exactly just happened. but there’s always a point where it all just hits you - and all you can do is cry

it doesn’t handhold you, in fact it doesn’t give you any objectives at all, you’re lead through the entire game by sheer curiosity alone - and oh boy will that curiosity make you zoom across the space back and forth until you get to the bottom of it. when you utter your first “oh what’s that? i’m going to check it out” it’ll have you, you might not realise it yet but you’re now primed for adventure

this is the only game i’m not afraid to overhype. i watched that game sit in my library, for over a year, and in that time i hyped it up in my head to unreachable levels, to the point where eventually i was close to afraid of playing it because how could it possibly meet that standard i’ve envisioned? and you know what? it was better than i’ve ever imagined. it waited for me to be ready to sit down and play it, and then it delivered and experience that i’ll forever treasure

maybe it won’t hit that exact sweet spot for you as it did for me, but bloody hell can i assure you you’ll never forget it - even though you’ll wish you did, to play it for the first time again

oh and if any of my vague praise made you interested - rule #1 of Outer Wilds Club: don’t talk about Outer Wilds. don’t look up anything about it, you want to experience it as blind as you possibly can, some people even go as far as buying their friends a copy so they never have to look at the steam page screenshots

there are two reasons for that!

older older movies often didn’t have much sound design, you heard what the people on set heard and maybe one sound effect or two if they wanted a gunshot without shooting guns on set

most movies today are sound mixed for cinema, which almost always has a very expensive set up of speakers with one (or two) central speakers reserved specifically for dialogue. noticed how when you’re at the cinema you don’t need subtitles as often even though you’re crunching through popcorn? but the problem arises when the producers decide they can’t be bothered to hire the sound guy to make a separate sound mix for streaming or DVD and just mince the 7.1 speaker mix through your stereo headphones, squishing all the dialogue together with everything else without a care for the physical differences in playback

haven’t read that Narnia book yet

cages are expensive and bards are artists (read: broke) the bard absolutely likes it in there

yeah but there’s also a higher than average chance that the bard is into it so, might backfire

dw it made me exhale air a bit harder :)

i did not :3 i tried being funny too T–T

toilet floors are usually unpissed on over where i live (unless it’s a petrol station, but those don’t count!)

i used to do that with my diet meth (medikinet), i ate the pill and 30min later it was sleepy time

i can assure you i’m not 20cm tall to be jumping in a toilet, i am merely european

never said it was easy hah, i wish the meds worked so i could get some help in that regard, but here i am, trying my best anyway

i was on medikinet for a while, at first it made me sleepy, then it made me relaxed, and then it made me anxious, so i stopped

whenever i take brain-chemistry meds for longer than a week or two my brain defaults to having them give me anxiety which is whack (this happens with meds for anxiety as well, thanks brain! you gelatinous wanker). after multiple trials of various meds i’ve mostly given up on trying more, but hey at least cardio works as intended!

i’m still bitter about one thing - all those people who kept saying “just eat healthy and exercise and you’ll feel better :)))” were correct 💀 at least in my case

i always stop before puffing and grunting exactly because of that T–T and i try to jump as quietly as possible

ironically, stimulants make me sleepy, depressants also make me sleepy

there are only two ways i can wake up:

• psychedelics, not exactly helpful if the thing i need to wake up for requires me to have an attention span longer than 5s

• cardio, so when others are drinking coffee, i’m doing jumping jacks in the toilet

distraction is also time travel. i fell down the rabit hole of extinct species youtube videos yesterday and suddenly 3pm turned to 1am after like, 3 videos top, and they all were 20min long i think

yeah that makes sense, my grandma only ever uses the good china for christmas and that’s it. the only reason she’d whip it out twice in a year would indeed be if the pope came to visit her

psychadelics are only one type of drugs, besides, you can achieve psychadelic effects through meditation alone