#optimize space

[skrankku]

Deep Space Nine doodles!

There are more incoming. A Lot More. Be warned.

[cloudclangen]

MOON 2

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[jet-teeth]

Silly page that started out as warmup doodles assembled over time. Chaos unleashed!

[switch]

this horse can fit so much horse on it

[lucy-moderatz]

This conversation never happened. You're dismissed.

[ancient-tree-with-deathwish]

All Tomorrows is the perfect mix between the indomitable human spirit and eldritch horror.

humanity climbs into the stars, discovering new wonders and creating a galactic utopia... only to be wiped out by an unstoppable and sadistic alien threat.

but then, from the most pathetic scraps of what was left behind - new human species formed, with all the same beauty and wonder and curiosity and hope within them.

...until, again, they were wiped out. and this time they were contorted into even more abhorrent and aberrant forms.

but this time, the murderers of mankind would not go unpunished. a galaxy rending, multi-million year long war would spell the end of the mechanical tyrants.

and then, by a miracle of incalculable magnitude (that is barely even touched on by the book) humanity comes back once again. they somehow regained sentience and civilisation, they did the impossible again.

they even managed to redeem some of the machines. they are human too, after all.

in the end, mankind went extinct.

but it doesn't really matter. because there was somebody left to continue our legacy.

[white-hole-station]

It is and has always been one of the wildest and most appreciated things about this game to me, the way it just installed a mental framework in me for accepting the unacceptable.

Anything and everything you've ever known is going to die. That is the starting, baseline premise of the story. Which means that anything you do in it - any hours of fun, any laughs, any exploration, any beauty, is done with the constant reminder of that utter finality in the background, spaced 22 minutes apart. Done with, in between, and in spite of that.

It doesn't need to matter to be worth it. It doesn't need to not be about to die in fire to still be beauty.

Several dozen hours of that, set to music that starts playing in my mind whenever I could most make use of the reminder, is the gift this game gives me for times when everything feels lost. It amazes me, as it always does, just how powerful of a thing shared between humanity a story can be.

[cryptidjeepers]

im really curious about this. I was a huge phineas and ferb fan growing up and I still watch it, espeically if i'm feeling a bit blue. Overall, I think watching the show has made me feel more empowered to "seize the day." Whether it's trying new food or a whole new hobby, the show really inspired me to make the most of everyday. I was wondering if anyone else feels like pnf fundamentally changed their outlook on life, whether it was inspiring to you as a child or an adult.

[cyborgized]

Everytime I talk about validation within the confines of the simulation and its implications towards our existence.

If we could prove that our existence is chosen, the conversation would shift to, "why do some people choose a harder existence than others?"

[clownaddict]

You can liquify traitor guardsmen by simply running into them just-

Peak gameplay honestly

[charles-leclerc-official]

Why are you so anti-dooming?

It's not really this deep. I don't really do it because I just don't feel that way. I never really have. And I just don't see it broadly as a productive use of time.

Idk I just don't tend toward that mindset. Things happen, and we move forward accordingly.

[delicatefury]

Guys. Guys. Olan Rogers, the creator of Final Space, has a new project up on YouTube. I am begging you to go watch it. The kickstarter for the next ep is already over, but the more eyes see it, the more interest it gets, the better.

I love Olan’s stuff so much. It can be a little immature and a lot dark, but the characters in it are good. Not just well written (which they are), they’re good people, with strong moral codes, and are trying their best even when the universe tries to force them to say others are not worth the sacrifice.

Final Space and Godspeed are just saturated with hope, of the grit-your-teeth, plaster-on-a-smile, I put my trust in people, in a greater good, we will survive this type.

And I really want to see more of that stubborn, hard-won optimism.

[botaniqueer]

Did some 3am plant Tetris, as one does

[hiyutekivigil]

THE HUMAN FUTURE: A Case for Optimism by melodysheep

[geddy-leesbian]

I will not make another stupid vent post I will not make another stupid vent post I will not