HLP Network

News:

Thanks to the hard work of rev_posix and Sandwich, the HLP email system has been fixed!  All registration emails from the past few months have been re-sent.  If you still need help, please sign on to Discord and let us know.  The Discord link can be found in the top navbar under the HLP menu. ヾ(´︶`♡)ﾉ

 
« Previous Thread Next Thread »
Print
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]  (Read 2514 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Alator

  • 20
Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
on: March 17, 2016, 07:37:06 am
So, I've been playing the initial Blue Planet Campaign (Age of Aquarius, I think?).  I haven't completed the entire campaign yet, but I wanted to make an account to come on here so I can say one thing.  You guys are messing with my head.  Now the overall storyline of flying through subspace into an alternate reality is perfectly on-par for science fiction (and can even lead to some interesting parallel timelines, such as the Derelict mod storyline I recently finished could be occurring at the same time as this one).  But last night, I noticed one little thing.  One tiny little detail that has been bothering me through all of the missions.  In the "mission" where you escort the admiral's shuttle from the Sanctuary to your fleet, I realized it was time for some exposition.  So I happily flew along, listening to various people chat.  When, for some reason, I decided to look at the target readout for the admiral's shuttle.  And to my surprise, the cargo was reported as "Samuel....Samuel....".

That's when I started to question so much.

Hearing voices of your dead family, seeing random ghost fighters in the nebula (that you later realize are those fighters from the new race), can be written off as either stress from the situation impacting you (as the player character), or the weird psychic abilities of the aforementioned new race.  But this.  This is the targeting computer of your spaceship calling out to you.  How is that possible?

Is it some kind of psychic extension altering the capabilities of your ship?

Are you (as the character) losing your ability to function rationally?

Are you just hallucinating the entire storyline, lost in the infinite subspace during that very first jump to Sol?

I suppose I'll have to find out as I complete the campaign, but I don't know what to take at face value anymore.

Good job!

(Side question, are there more of these little Easter-egg type things to find throughout the game?)
 

Offline AdmiralRalwood

  • 211
  • The Cthulhu programmer himself!
    • Skype
    • Steam
    • Twitter
Re: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
Reply #1 on: March 17, 2016, 07:52:05 am
All I will say is that you should definitely keep playing.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Codethulhu GitHub wgah'nagl fhtagn.

schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.
 

Offline Cyborg17

  • 29
  • Life? Don't talk to me about life....
Re: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
Reply #2 on: March 17, 2016, 11:22:18 am
Welcome to the BP universe.  Your post just put a huge smile on my face.  Keep playing.
 

Offline Nyctaeus

  • The Slavic Engineer
  • 212
  • My "FS Ships" folder is 582gb.
    • Minecraft
    • Exile
Re: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
Reply #3 on: March 17, 2016, 01:26:37 pm
It makes me wanting meme this :P

Keep playing, dude! There are a lot of cool and crazy stuff ahead.
Exile | Shadow Genesis | Inferno | Series Resurrecta  | DA Profile | P3D Profile

Proud owner of NyctiShipyards. Remember - Nyx will fix it!

All of my assets including models, textures, skyboxes, effects may be used under standard CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
 

Offline Mito [PL]

  • 210
  • Proud Member of Slavicus Mechanicus
Re: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
Reply #4 on: March 23, 2016, 01:58:49 pm
Did you consider the possibility of just hallucinating that single element of the HUD...? :P
How do you kill a hydra?

You starve it to death.
  

Offline Adderbane

  • 24
Re: Samuel......Samuel.... [Spoiler, maybe?]
Reply #5 on: March 25, 2016, 09:49:45 am
Quote from: Alator on March 17, 2016, 07:37:06 am
(...)

That's when I started to question so much.
(...)

Are you (as the character) losing your ability to function rationally?

Are you just hallucinating the entire storyline, lost in the infinite subspace during that very first jump to Sol?

(...) I don't know what to take at face value anymore.


Better get used to this.  You're just getting started.  Enjoy the game!
Print
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« Previous Thread Next Thread »