#Soma spoilers

[chromatophorium]

This is an entirely self-indulgent SOMA/Splatoon crossover, haha. (a reworked au, as those who have seen certain other posts of mine may know)

So, helmet/head is a Octocopter helmet. Arms are the hoses of Octotroopers. Legs are the ones of a Octopod. And the internals of the torso is a Octoling Soldier's inktank.

[gigew]

SOMA

[commad]

witness me recovering/coping in real time after finishing the game yesterday with this sketch

im so so sorry omicron simon i wish i didnt kill you now im alone in the hell i saved you from

[mechanicoly]

Back with some more Soma

[birdcatt]

the illusion of free choice

[marlinspirkhall]

“... so you see, you can never really upload your consciousness to a robot. At best, you can produce a digital clone of yourself while you will still be left stuck in your own body. Anyway, that is the plot of Soma. But it is also, as far as we know, how neuroscience works. Why are you shoving breadsticks into your purse?”

[halfd3af]

I saw a reddit post recently about someone not "getting" Soma (bc they were comparing it to Prey 2017, and while I love that game too, it's very different from Soma), and I got a little... deep in the response I gave:

With SOMA, for me, the compelling aspect of its horror isn't the mechanics of digitizing the soul, or how shocking it is or isn't to the player, but the journey through overwhelming physical and digital deaths or attempts at digital "life". The game allows you to make your own conclusions on if Mockingbirds deserve to live, if Simon wishes to end the further existences of more Simons through deleting his data at Theta or killing himself at Omicron, or if Simon on the ARK would wish to end his existence, off-screen, when you answer the questionnaire about the ARK.

And also, another compelling aspect is that the audience is experiencing dramatic irony of being helpless to help Simon understand his situation.

He's in a tragedy. SOMA is a tragedy.

Simon has a damaged brain from an accident completely out of his control, one that he has nightmares about wishing he could control, and then he wakes up in an inescapable nightmare that there is no escape from.

Initially worried about causing further damage to his health until realizing he's no longer strictly human, he still continually tries to avoid awareness of what's happening, practicing escapism through escaping through the flooded Pathos-II from monsters and the perils of the ocean itself toward an ark that he can help set sail among the stars.

As a result, he ignores what Catherine and the echoes of the dead have told him, because he still believes that things will turn out okay or in his favor. It's post-traumatic optimism in the face of impossible odds, because when you're told that you have terminal, irreversible brain damage, what do you do?

You get an experimental brain scan, and hope that it'll save you—whether from bleeding out, or from the horrors of the apocalypse—even when the coin toss is rigged from the start.

[satellites-halo]

i wonder if the SOMA universe will ever be expanded upon

like in game it was implied that there were other facilities around the globe that they lost contact with, and itd be really cool to see how, in the distant future, the WAU might've found any remaining humans it could to keep them alive. or maybe even just another catastrophe in the same universe, maybe they had a bunker for Important People™ to go to to survive the end of the world and those Important People™ were cryo-frozen but Something Happened and it was Bad

it was a really cool universe with a lot of potential

[zweables]

been playing soma and me and simon share the same braincell

[bopossum]

I finished Soma last night

and the main thing that has been sticking with me is the two Simons in the end. As depressing as it is that one Simon is left behind, it's even more excruciating to realize that the Simon on the Ark doesn't even know that a version of him was left behind, alone, in the dark, at the bottom of the Atlantic.

It's possible that Catherine tells him on the Ark that Simon and Catherine are still down there in Pathos II, but considering how blasé she tends to be about brain scans, copies, and the robots they meet along the way, I could believe that she never even mentions their other selves left behind, so the Simon on the Ark never learns about the version of him left behind.

And if she did tell him, he definitely wouldn't handle it well. Knowing that he's still down there for who-knows-how-long would probably fill him with a sense of guilt he could never live down, be it survivor's guilt or disgust for what he's done.

In a way, the post-credits epilogue on the Ark made the ending so much more gut-wrenching, knowing how polarized the rest of the Simons' near-immortal lives will be.

[johnathancactus]

freecam in soma

[temporaltourguide]

im messing around with replacing music and this is the best clip for it since if the attack track kicks in its not fun anymore

song is search party from pressure (roblox)

[gigew]

SOMA

[commad]

"Fuck this... fuck it all!"

[requiesticat]

Penumbra: Haoma

Haoma (noun): the cognate of Soma, a sacred plant in Persian culture 2000. Philip Buchanon sends his last message out. One of his students travels to northern Greenland by train in order to investigate the derelict Archaic organization, and finds herself trapped inside. Clarence, who is given a second shot at life, is also trapped. Together, they form an unwilling alliance in order to determine the cause, and put an end to the Tuurngait's last resting place for good. More than a hundred years in the future, Simon Jarrett mourns the loss of his friend Catherine. But soon, he will discover that he's not alone. Human colonies hibernated in cryosleep while the meteor struck, and lay dormant under the surface of earth's moon. With the WAU still operating, humanity can make a comeback. It just won't be in the form survivors expect.

Written in the style of "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", by Charles Yu.

A crossover between Penumbra and SOMA. Finished the trilogy after SOMA and had a lot of fun playing through it, especially Black Plague. You can tell I'm fond of Clarence, haha

Takes place during the events of Requiem. Has adult themes; will handle psychological subjects and other distressing material