A direct quote from the devs answering a question of mine about the speed that the owlks transitioning into the sim. "Probably a bit of both. The whole point was to forget the real world and live beyond the heat death of the universe (for a time at least) in an artificial reality, so the transition was probably pretty quick. " They didnt discover the sim could keep dead people alive. They built it for that purpose. They simply rushed a dying owlk to the sim to see if theyve achieved the ultimate goal of what they were trying to achieve. The entire species werent really privy to how the sim worked. The glitches were mostly unknown. But in this case , regardless of classification of the reel, its actually mission as planned. The bells were supposed to be a feature to wake the Owlks up if they try to enter the forbidden archives or free the prisoner. When they made all this stuff was when they were alive. And you basically have to wake up to find the forbidden archives or enter the prisoners vault. They are all hidden and most inhabitants dont know these pathways. So do to so you would have to wake up and go find their hidden locations. Which would be waking up everyone at your fire with the bell. Its a pretty solid measure because by the time they die in the sim its essentially too late to do the rest. Tbh I dont blame you though. Its all pretty confusing and I NEVER would have put this all together without having an interview with the devs. But I have to just rely on what they relayed to me. Then try to make it make sense.

@@TheLoreExplorer I think it could very well be a mix of both. On top of being able to go back home, they can also just outlive the universe. Living in the simulation was pretty much just a two for the price of one special.

remember that the quote listed above is directly from the devs, it’s completely canon and should be seen as such

The Owlks very much parallel the asperations of "Transhumanists" like Ray Kurzweil, who literally believe that someday we will all be immortal beings living forever inside a computer simulation.

The point of the simulation being to survive past the heat death of the universe makes the prisoner's words in the Eye make more sense. I thought what the Owlks were seeing in that vision was the Eye's Big Bang destroying this universe for good and creating a new one, so they saw the Eye as an evil power that would end everything and turned against it. It feels a bit weird for the Eye's vision to tell them "by the way, the universe is gonna die of old age" though I suppose it makes sense. They see that the heat death of the universe is coming and the Eye is the only thing that can save it by creating a new one, but instead of accepting this and staying near the Eye in preparation to pass the torch when the time came, they refused to let their species come to an end and attempted to create a way to live past the heat death. They blocked the Eye's signal so no one could enter it and create the new universe, as that would kill them. The Prisoner then rebelled as to him they were preventing the birth of new civilizations everywhere for nothing but to try and live a dream of the past in a universe with nothing (especially since 2 of the 3 simulation buildings failed, and god knows how long the 3rd would've lasted). I thought it was a misunderstanding that turned the Owlks against the Eye, but looking at it from the perspective of the vision fully showing them the Eye's mechanics and purpose honestly makes the story so much better, and it makes the prisoner seem like that much more of a hero.

I dont think ghostbirds was intended to be used. I asked and there is no official name. The concept art dubs them "The inhabitants" so Ive been trying to stick to the only semi official name we have.

I have always just called them strangerians

I just called them 'the owl fellas'

I exclusively referred to them as "owl boys"

@@jamfollowedbyanumber I instantly imagined you walking into that house crammed with a dozen owlks, tipping your lantern and saying “How do you you, owl fellas!” :D

OHHHH THATS SO COOL!! I LOVE THAT CONCEPT! the whole dlc I thought we’d find something about their weird ufo ships

@@jackmahoney1001me too lol first timers would think so especsialy if you can fly the nomai shuttles (sorta)

I found it impossible to do the timeline of the inhabitants. Some videos show sequential things. But then the next reel takes place in the middle of the last one. Like it was just confusing. Very impressive you were able to piece it all together!

Exactly this

The Owlk staffs are actually pretty adept at scanning things. It actually basically scans your consciousness. So I imagine it scans your consciousness to determine what "you" actually are or something. And so it leaves out space suits and the like. Basically I think our sim avatar looks like us. As mentioned in the video. Even if we were an inhabitant. The other inhabitants would act the same way they do towards us, towards them. So I dont think we are a scary glitchy mess and thats why they do what they do.

Also, they _somehow_ made their tech so good that a program created millennia later by a *completely different species that knew nothing about these people* could tell that a mess of data in their servers was still "you" in some fundamental way even when your body dies. That doesn't strike me as a code that couldn't scan an appearance accurately. (Now, I wouldn't be surprised if we were in their clothes or something, but still)

The prisoner is able to see our body fine and create visions that include our physical form, so I don't think that's it.

Well if you look down your still yourself not some glichy monstrosity

Bro. They aren't the same between each other either, and their avatars always perfectly align with how they were irl(as shown in a reel about an old bird dying and ending up in a simulation). This means the simulation probably scans the memories of whoever enters, and find their self-perception to base avatar on. And since Prisoner's staff picked up our thoughts quite precisely, it means their mind tech is pretty universal

From someone who actually does have some experience doing what they aren’t supposed to. Immediate reactions like that give away the game. Imagine an owlk walk by and the light just happens to shine through. Instant reaction gets you caught. They waited to ensure someone was actually focusing on them. At least that’s how I read it. Plus there would be no reason for them to keep it turned off afterwards.

​@@TheLoreExplorer what if the reason why he was mad was cause other olwks were doing it before we came

@@TheLoreExplorer "from someone who actually does have some experience doing what they aren’t supposed to." I think everyone in human history has experienced this. And as someone who has experience, I can tell you that if I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, wistfully and solemnly, the moment I see a light hit my projection I'm gonna panic and turn it off. Given that they are such a close knit community (which just further explains the lengths they went with the Prisoner, since they trusted them), I would see no fault in looking back on your planet. If they wanted to forget their planet, they wouldn't have made their whole afterlife based around it. It makes no sense. The fact that it takes a bit for the Owlk to register something is wrong is precisely because you're constantly pointing it. I would bet that any other Owlk would have maybe noticed it and then left just out of respect. But because you just sort of kept watching and pointing at it, the Owlk inside had to be like "Okay wait what the hell who is that, none of us would just do that".

You should look at my dlc interview with the devs. They were forbidden archives to even the owlks. They wanted nothing more than to forget. And watching that video is flying in the face of that. :)

Or rather it's not a quick task to get up, run to the reel projector, pull it out, and hide it. They had no remotes

you dont feel the real world in the sim if youre dead, so it was one mass, sudden, unpredictable death after another, leaving the survivors to presumably fear how much time they had left.

I asked the devs this exact question! Here was their response! "When the Strangers was built, they knew nothing of what awaited them or what the journey might entail. The details of that journey are also lost now, unless some digitized record exists in one of the archives? We will probably never know. Did they lose a ship in some past adventure? Did they just have extra spots for additional vessels?"

@@TheLoreExplorer my theory (since the devs seem to encourage theorising) is that they had limited material on the stranger, and instead of mining out a planets core like the nomi they chose to canibalise the ship, repurpose their computers to make the dream world, and many other unique hacks and shortcuts to save on materials Perhaps thats why alot of the areas that arnt in the main room of the stranger *feel* like the inside of a big machine, it's not just that it is a big machine, but it's one that has been rebuilt from the gound up to serve a new purpose after their arrival in the hearthian system

Im a bit of a romantic. I like to think they had an epic struggle trying to replace some of these materials they needed. And in the harrowing process a ship and Inhabitant didnt make it home.

@@TheLoreExplorer certainly compelling Or perhaps another prisoner situation One who didnt want to live a lie but felt like there was nothing they could do about it

Imo The end of the universe is just naturally occurring. If a star was 100 light years away. By the time we see it blow up its been dead for 100 years. And if its 1 light year away. Its been dead for one year. So they didnt really blow up at the same time. We also have to take into account the abstract nature of distance and time in outer wilds. Is it really 22 minutes or 5 or so years?(The amount of time timber hearth revolves around the sun) Ive asked and even the devs arent too certain of a direct stance they can take on that. One thing that is certain. The universe is ending naturally. Im pretty sure we are told this by/at the eye. The speed the stranger is going can be considered gradually. Seriously , its really slow when it comes to space travel.

In terms of the time between star phases, I settled on the idea that, since we see at the end of the game that the new worlds of the universe are far more outlandish and based on what the Hearthian has known and discovered, maybe the rules of each universe are dependent on the observer that enters the eye- and so this accelerated time and the comparatively small solar systems are a result of how the previous observer chose to shape reality when they entered the eye. Not the intended idea probably but it’s an attempt at a reason if one is needed

@@thomasland453 That still runs into issues with the message board on the Vessel, which implies a much more gradual process.

@@TheLoreExplorer The sky goes dark all at once in a very short (astronomically-speaking) period of time, which tells us that Outer Wilds takes place in our very near the center of the universe-a.k.a. the origin point of the big bang. Makes sense intuitively, since the Eye (re-)creates the universe, centered on itself, and the game takes place in a system located extremely close to that center point. I visualize it as though the Eye pops a galactic water balloon filled with stellar dust and all the stars fly away from it in a shockwave and dissipate about ~13 billion light-years away, at most

There are other observations I believe suggest this too Ian. But consider this.(and I’ve made this mistake in the past too). Simply this. The observable universe. Stars will always look to be evenly surrounding us because they are never ending. Stretching far beyond what anyone could see. So that observation is sort of pointless. Though I’ve mistakenly made it in the past too. I’ve also tried to tie it back to maybe momentum , distance travelled per star , the time it’s take for the light to reach back to us. But I’m not sure if that’s a fools errand or not.

We aren’t too sure how to at all works. In my understanding. The new universe actually doesn’t happen in the same place and time ours did. But I suppose there could be more than one pathway connecting to there!

how would it survive the big bang, it incinerates us from the heat, and its clearly way way bigger than the distance between our system and the eye

Everything gets sent back in time. That explosion doesnt occur where the eye was. Or in our system. It occurs where the eye sent us. Which is a new part of space and time.

@@TheLoreExplorer I personally disagree. I think the vision they had explains it exactly how I always thought it was. I believe that the new "big bang" actually destroys everything in the current Universe, leaving an empty canvas for the new one to grow. I don't think a different place or time is involved.

That’s fine. The eye exists outside of time. And we see the entire universe die before we get there and observe it. We also see life growing on the skull as if it wasn’t completely destroyed. But it’s possible. Imo it seems clear the eye is a quantum black hole. So the time travel is just inherent imo.

most of my friends died, but this new weird frog is cool

Wait… How have you been following Outer Wilds since 2019… Finished the DLC recently, a while after it came out… AND DIDNT GET IT SPOILED? That is a skill I wish I had.

They haven’t been following outer wilds since 2019. They’ve been following me. Lol. But now that you mention it…Actually….yeah. That’s incredible lol. How didn’t I spoil you? Also….thanks for the kind words.

Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed them both!

Luckily I’m in a position where I was able to just ask the devs. Because I promise you. I wouldn’t have figured this out by myself. It was very tough when I tried due to the nature of the dlcs reels and environmental story telling! But thank you for the kind words!

**SPOILERS*** It's just because the universe is coming to an end and as a result all the other stars as well as your own are starting to supernova as well.

They didn't. Yoy were seeing that formt he eye but the eye is outside of time. All of those stars were going our a different times but yoy saw them all explode because the eye of the universe is outside of time the supernova is jsur chased by the sun being really old.

@@cbandit7715 if you look around and watch the stars, you'll see them all go out, one by one. From the eye of the universe (before jumping into it) you can safely watch the universe go dark.

The end of the universe is just naturally occurring. If a star was 100 light years away. By the time we see it blow up its been dead for 100 years. And if its 1 light year away. Its been dead for one year. We also have to take into account the abstract nature of disatnce and time in outer wilds. is it 22 minutes or 5 or so years?(The amount of time timber hearth revolves around the sun) Even the devs arent too certain. One thing that is certain. The universe is ending naturally. Im pretty sure we are told this by/at the eye.

@@TheLoreExplorer The issue with that is that it conflicts with what the Nomai ships are reporting onboard the Vessel, i.e. that the stars are going out slowly enough that Nomai ships can select new homes with an expectation of some amount of living to be done there. 22 minutes or 5 years doesn't really matter much as we do have a rough estimate of how much could feasibly be done in the interval of time between around 1 supernova and a ton of supernova.

If I destroyed my entire planet to reach a signal. And it turned out that signal didnt benefit me in any way. I wouldnt want that constant reminder. Also, signals take time to travel through space. And many many years went by from the time they silenced the eye. To the time the prisoner released it. In this time the nomai probably advanced significantly enough to hear it. Or just so happened to be in a range where they could recieve it(maybe it redshifts too much after a long enough distance".

I don’t think they “knew” it was inevitable, the autopilot was just a contingency plan for if the sun explodes. We don’t know exactly how they thought supernovae worked but they seem to have drawn a causation between the Eye and the heat death of the universe. So, in the very unlikely case that someone *does* find the eye despite the signal jammer, they set up a way to get out in case the sun does explode.

It’s hard to say. The devs say “the whole point of the sim was to survive the heat death, at least for some time”. So they knew about the heat death. We also have to keep in mind the vision we see is an artists depiction. Not the actual vision. And we know they focused mostly on the heat death mechanic and how it’s effect them personally. But the simple fact is. They don’t seem to know how , when , or why this might happen. After seeing what they did. It makes sense to me if they think observing the eye prompts this ending of the universe. But tbh it’s hard to say if they did what they did to stop the heat death. Or because they personally don’t want to hear the signal anymore. If they thought silencing the eye would prevent the eye from prompting the heat death. Why waste most Of your resources building a sim to hide away in something designed to survive it? Why not just leave? It seems even after silencing it. They still expected the heat death. And so I can’t say for certain if silencing was a preventive measure. Or a selfish petty measure. Which they seem prone to.

My assumption has always been that they too saw that it was older than the universe, simply because they were unlikely to sacrifice so much for just _any_ unknown signal... Just as it was because it was older than the universe that the Nomai (specifically Escall) decided to make an impulsive (and ill-advised) warp to the Eye without telling any of the other clans.

Imo the eye just showed them what it did. Its mechanics. We only see an owlks artist depiction of that.

I urge you to go through the reels and the prisoners dialogue at the eye again. Something along the lines of. "We were drawn to it like a moth to the flame. And the truth we learned was too much to handle." They worshipped the eye. Not feared or worried. Until they reached it , anyway. At which point they learned the truth. Which sort of led to them rejecting reality. The eye is neither good nor bad. They "projected" all of their fears onto it. But only after they projected all their hopes and dreams, and it turned uot the eye let them down

Nope. We see it still there many years later. When they silenced and then the prisoner released the signal again,

Seems more likely it is a red dwarf or something

I’m sure a jet pack was just never coded into the simulation. Or something of the like. And usually devs try not to give the pc a name so you can identify it when people are talking to you. If a characters calls you Tom and your name is Franklin you’re immediately pulled out of it.

is that confirmed to be the Nomai's? I didn't think the Nomai had a known system. They wander in their separate ships exploring the universe and discovering new things

The Nomai are a nomadic species. Its very unlikely they had a home system nearby.

@@TheLoreExplorer ah thanks, this makes sense, I just watched one of the ending slide reels and there are two other systems show as well. It's likely more trying to show that there are potential others out there, not directly relevant to any known stories.

@@TheLoreExplorer : I think the Nomai must have come from VERY far away, very likely another galaxy, and that's why their warp to the Eye was so inaccurate (they landed in DB instead), and why it took (presumably) so many eons for the signal to reach the Vessel, after the Prisoner released it.

same, it's so simple, idk why people feel the need to rename them

Their ship is called the stranger. Not them. They don’t have a name.

@@TheLoreExplorer Yes i know, Its just what i prefer to call them as they have no official name. These people inhabit the ship named the stranger, ill call them the strangers.

You’re free to. And people will likely realize what you mean. But people don’t want to call them that because there is no right reason they should be named opposed to us. They are only strangers to us. They love. They care. They are just….owls. They like solitude. That doesn’t make them strange. Idk. On one hand “you’re thinking too hard on this bro”. On the other. Well art is meant to be analyzed.

@@TheLoreExplorer thats a good point, i guess i never really seen the negative connotation of "the strangers"

Thatd be a pretty neat addition. Maybe wed even be able to pick it up on our signalscope!

For a while Im sure it was , yeah. But after a couple hundred years it probably just became second nature to them.

heres the thing, yes, if it was real life it would take WAY longer for this to happen. the point of the game though is that in our (the game's) solar system alone we have 4 separate apocalyptic events happening at the same time, with ghost matter (which is always expanding), the dark bramble, our own sun going super nova, and every other star going super nova. the point of the game is that you learn about all of these things and are pointed to the eye of the universe as a possible fix for all of these things, but the core of the story is that the universe is going to end one day eventually and the eye is going to form a new one after using your memories

I understand what youre saying. But heres a direct from the devs. "The whole point was to live past the heat death. At least for a time". So I think the devs just consider all suns dying the heat death. We get shown this at the eye and its basically all stars blinking out. And that quote also confirms the inhabitants knew about the heat death. So it wasnt really just reactionary "Ohhh. this looks bad". They understood it. And chose to hide it because itd effect them. Either universally or personally. Personally. I wouldnt want a constant signal calling out to remind me I done goofed so bad I destroyed my entire planet for nothing. I just didnt mention that because the majority of the community still seems to think the eye prompts the heat death(which again , in outer wilds, is just the suns going out). And that interacting with it prompts this. Which imo, we know not to be true. But of course , I could be wrong about all of it except the direct quote and its implications.

@gobbo Ghost matter isnt expanding. Its dissipating. The little kid throwing rocks at the ghost matter pen in the crater tells us this. Also, I dont think the core of the story is something you didnt expect the whole time. That wasnt really a part of the game until the end. The lesson I see all through out the game is "The end of one thing is just the beginning of another. And it always builds of the end. So lets make sure its a good one!" type thing.

@@TheLoreExplorer I guess it is on the devs then, them living past the life of the star makes sense, living past the heat death of the universe only really makes sense if the star in the game is the last star to go supernova and the Stranger's crew could determine that with any certainty, which I suppose is possible, but it really comes down to the physics of the Outer Wilds universe, which we barely know aside from the few bits we can glean from the game.

I agree. But its a game in which they write the rules. So who are we to tell them they are wrong? Ya know? Something interesting to note is that we are actually the last sun dying. At least most probably. We see some stars left out in the sky. But it should take time for them their light to travel to us. While we see our sun die basically instantly. So its very likely the others died first and we are the last sun. The Inhabitants were an interstellar species. Its possible they somehow knew this would be true. Something that Ive never been able to give relevance to. Is hornfells observations. It tells us that "All galaxies are moving away from us". I think that Irl , the only time this would happen is if spaces expansion finally sped up enough and "outweighs" gravity. Since gravity still makes it so galaxies are moving in the same direction as us. And even directly towards us. But maybe thats why the eye was so compelling to the inhabitants. Especially if we consider the bright flash at the end of the game the big bang. If , in outer wilds, the big bang did occur in one point in space. And this was at the eye. This would be the center point of expansion. And everything would move away from us since we are in that system. But I dont see how to fit that into the suns dying simultaneously or in fact, into relevance at all. Like how our sun would live longer or how our solar system would form at all if everything else has such outward velocity. But if there one thing I know about Outer Wilds. They dont usually add info that isnt important to some puzzle in the game. So perhaps these stars mostly uniformly moving away from us causes the owlks to realize our system would have the most energy conservation?

Is being trapped in a time loop for literally eternity, at the end of the universe, where all your friends and family wake up every day thinking it's the last, really any kind of avoidance? Where every day you are guaranteed death by fire, over and over again? At least the Owlks had the misguided comfort of their home and their loved ones until the dam gives out. The time loop is no more of an answer than the Owlks' to avoiding the heat death of the universe.

@@defiantnight2668 It is an answer, a really small cost to keep living.

Yes, when at the eye if you look hard enough you can see a light floating around, zooming in with the signalscope lets you see it quite easily.

We dont know. The ending we get suggests its a VERY long time. So long we forget if reality was really reality. Or if it was just some weird dream we had.

Exactly my point. It just can't be as long as the ending suggests... Of course, the subjective feeling of time can be different for the hatchling.

I just did a long response over on Reddit to this. I’m short. Nomai lights inside bramble have been lit for 280k years. And fire is a source of energy. We power mars rover via heat. It’s entirely possible the green fire can power the sim. We have seen it’s capable of providing great energy (it blew a hole in the stranger). And we know they are the masters of light. It’s entirely feasible given what we’ve seen and what we know.

I used the daydream mod

No. Just as there are more than 20 or so hearthians. If it doesn’t serve a purpose in the game. The devs don’t tend to add it. So extra characters wouldn’t help much. They do add a memorial of sorts where the portraits of dead owlks splatter the walls. So we can just assume they are a normal numbered species.

The owlks die before the Nomai even hear the signal. This is depicted in our vision to the prisoner.

Well the codes they burn are in the simulation so maybe some detection devices saw the nomai and alerted the owlks

@The Lore Explorer

It’s entirely possible. Personally. I don’t think the stranger has those capabilities. When I asked the devs if the inhabitants knew of our arrival in the sim. They answered “I don’t think they have a way to know”. If the inhabitants were still able to observe the universe I don’t see this being a surprise.

I think beforehand Ill have to make an owlk motive video first. But yes. That is a good idea! Heres the thing about the Owlks though. It seems to me. They didnt do what they did out of sorrow that they would die. They were actually in a pretty good position to survive this event in their interstellar ship. And they knew it. The danger is stellar objects blowing up. And they are interstellar. Theyd be fine. Its the truth that came along with this. No , you cant just go live life. You cant go back home. You cant go to timber hearth. Youd die when the all the suns go boom boom. You cant go warn and save every species in the universe. Thatd be impossible. All they could do , aside from live with the weight of this truth on their shoulders , was forget. Go back to living in ignorant bliss. And to do so , they had many steps of removing themselves from this reality. They silenced it so it didnt call out like a bell to remind them. They built the sim so they could pretend that they never even left home. And later , they burned and hid all of this information from themselves in the forbidden archives. So , yes. It is a sad story. But its not one of reactionary fear. Or grief that they may be killed(cause again , they knew theyd survive the event). But one born out of sympathy for all other life. Which seems very human to me.

We already know. The Nomai already knew that the universe was dying, as well as the fact that the Eye might lead to a universe-wide elimination of all but one possibility as soon as a person entered it. They were determined to find it regardless. Furthermore, we see numerous groups of Nomai come to terms with their own inevitable doom fairly readily.

The sim only looks different to us when we aren’t near the artifact. It’s another day as usual for the rest of them. They react to what they see. Either a being with an artifact or a being without one. If we don’t have our artifact they need to reload us some other way. And so they physically harm us.

Yeah. Tbh I hear you. But I was told directly from the devs that the prisoner was granted access to the secret code room. Then shortly after. They woke up to use those codes and free the signal. And I was basically told there wasn’t “groups”. It was the prisoner vs a united species. The species just became paranoid after the prisoner. And so they build things as if there may be another eye sympathizer. Tbh it’s all kind of confusing and not entirely understandable through the reels and environmental clues. Or at least would take some massive amount of effort and time. But if you’re interested in where I got this info you can check out my dev interviews. They are in depth and the devs give great answers. Though don’t expect any grand answers about the universe. It’s mostly lore story stuff.

Feats shouldn’t really be judged based of their motives. I understand why you’d want to do that. I have a hard time liking them as a species. In fact I guess I don’t. Personally. I had a hard time knowing the real world codes and the digital world codes weren’t burned at the same time. I thought they were burned simultaneously. But knowing they weren’t makes everything make much more sense. Thing is. I still don’t know what in game indicates that. Like how we were supposed to know. So it’s impressive if you figured it out! My gpu passively cools until it reaches around 60 degrees. And a small amount of water does still pass over them. But you’re probably right. Technically those should be radiating out into space. Other wise the whole ship should dry and fry. Also, thanks so much for the kind words!

I don't think their choices can be said to be immoral ( at least if you mean hiding the eye ). I don't think they knew what the eye was for, all they knew was that it would destroy everything they loved so made sure nobody could trigger it.

The devs have stated that the inhabitants knew about the heat death of the universe. And the rest of the vision depicts they basically understand the rest of the mechanics too. The only wiggle room is if they somehow thought the interaction with the eye CAUSES the heat death. But either way. Judging by their depiction. They were at the very least being extremely selfish by blocking the thing that rebirths life after such event. .

@@TheLoreExplorer haha, not without your help though! I finished the DLC three quarters of a year ago and now wanted to recap the owlks' story. I watched some of your other videos on them too. The codes... It looks like a small detail, and it is obvious that the DW codes got burned after the real world counterparts. How much time it's been exactly is still unclear anyways.. ::)

The codes? Are you saying the codes themselves are what hints at the time period of them being burned separately??? Gosh I’m so confused lol. I guess upon retrospect it’s clear they burnt the real world codes along with everything else when they digitized everything. But it always felt to me that the imprisonment prompted the burning. Like it was right after in the reels!!!! So it’d make little sense to create and burn something you could just digitize to begin with. Ahhhh. The devs did mention a surprising amount of restraints when trying to pin down their timeline. So I don’t feel too bad not comprehending them all. Anyway. I’m glad I could help you understand the story!

Trying to deal with an algorithm is hard sometimes. And then , am I trying to spread outer wilds to more people? Or ensure anyone trying to understand it can find a quick reference video. So I usually try to make it both , with a catchy name. Which is tough and so I usually end up failing. Thanks so much for your feedback! I truly appreciate you!

@@TheLoreExplorer thats very true! And thats a great way of doing it, to be honest I didnt think in such a perspective, but I also believe 99% of views on youtube in general arent searched based anymore but completely down to the algorithm and what videos get shown, so you want the best looking thumbnails and titles! I just think you can get a lot more views with banger titles like your last video! And now this one ;)

Which is what exactly? Sorry. Outer Wilds and places/things in game usually get names by the fans and it’s hard to know everything.

@@TheLoreExplorer hehehe. Gottee! It's the opposite of outer wilds. Inner city. 🤡