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Friday Fun Thread for January 17, 2025

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Do you have a link to people discussing and/or providing evidence on outer wilds? Because I definitely found it weird how he kept abandoning trails and ignoring leads but stumbling onto important locations anyway, but at the time chalked it up to some combination of luck and intelligence.

Specifically for Outer Wilds there are a multiple examples in the reddit thread

For ex:

When I watched his Outer Wilds playthrough I was disappointed because he solved some of the puzzles in that game insanely quickly. I assumed he was really good at solving puzzles. One thing that was suss was the he figured out the Quantum moon puzzle with none of the prerequisite quantum knowledge that the game teaches you. And another thing stuck out to me, it was on Giants Deep in the Tower of Quantum Trials. One puzzles took him a loong time to figure out which stood out as strange considering how fast he solved other puzzles.

I'm not saying he faked it or not, but it stood out to me as weird.

Or

he obviously looked stuff up on his phone.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KCJ2-35v-48&ab_channel=PirateSoftware

4:03:10 - begins puzzle and doesn't make any progress.

4:12:30 - grabs his phone and looks at it for awhile.

4:14:30 - announces "I'm going back there, I wanna solve that." (lol)

I don't know this guy or anything about this "drama" around him. But spoiling the puzzles of Outer Wilds for yourself, and bypassing the games organic sense of discovery, is really a shame. If this is true, this guy, apparently a big gamer, deprived himself of one of the greatest pure gaming experiences of the last decade, all for some nerd clout. Lame as hell.

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