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BUT It’s also one of his biggest weaknesses. He loves A Lot and he’ll Do A Lot for the people he loves, to the point of hurting them. Think Grayscale: Yes, he does all of it because he deeply cares for his estranged older brother, but he also Hurts Tide because William doesn’t want to taint the view his father figure has of him. William hunts Cantrip and Xavier down not because he hates them or feels indifferent to them, he’s doing it in a weird, fucked up act of protection for Alan’s and everyone else’s involved safety.

William does what he does selfishly, but with so so much love. Mal uses it against him in s1, holding Tide’s life (a man William has known for Two Months) hostage, constantly trying to strike at PD’s bond, etc etc. William is at his strongest and most intense when he’s doing something out of a sense of care . But that also makes him very, very vulnerable to being betrayed and/or used (Doug in s1, David in Grayscale).

like. how did you get the impression that you're supposed to kill anything that gets in your way. did we play the same game

i'm so so glad they're just completely removing the player's ability to damage and kill creatures in subnautica 2 in favor of more interesting nonviolent methods (outside of the previously mentioned things) but i fear people who completely miss the point and view the game as something it most definitely is not will be very annoying about it

if you're somehow not aware of this yet, here are some fun size comparison's that i bet you didn't see coming;

look at this. real size vs camera pov.....

AND THE REAPER:

the mismatch in size is CRAZY!!!!! it does such an injustice to the sizing of these creatures.

this comment gives a pretty interesting explanation as to why this mis-match in Actual Size vs Perceived Size happens:

so the nibbler mango's just kind of come up to you and stare at you, even call out to their pack mates are like "yep can't do anything about this". that is so awesome that they genuinely communicate to the pack. like i noticed it bc of being hunted but even in this circumstance. the bigger mango also recognises it can't attack you in the tadpole and just leaves you alone

the hammerhead is hilarious though. I wonder if each one has a different behaviour? because one of them had rammed my tadpole when i was out of it (maybe it depend on if youre inside of it or not?) but another one was OBSESSED with me it was following me like crazy. so i decided to finally stand still and stare at it. and it just stared back at me. and then it would swim up and rub against the tadpole. and then go back and stare at it again. and then rub up against it. rinse and repeat... i think it was trying to impress the tadpole thinking it was a potential mate ahhahaha that is hilarious and adorable im so in love with this game and constantly more and more impressed with the creature ai!!! wow!!!

This is how Project Hail Mary went, right?

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

a little closer

perfect