Astrophysicist explores the Outer Wilds - About Oliver's Supercut 

Oliver, we mean it when I and many more of us say that your playthrough of Outer Wilds is the DEFINITIVE playthrough of the game on RU-vid. You are so smart and clever and tuned in and more than any other playthrough I've seen, yours is easily the most enjoyable and immersive.

Are you Danish?

Jeg havde slet ikke tænkt over din accent før du nævnte det med at plukke en høne. Vildt godt engelsk.

hey! is the title of your 42nd outer wilds video a tron reference?

@@robinkrejbjerg He is

"7 seconds? WAI---"

Lol, I had a similar experience. I was desperately trying to get to the Sun Station, and then when I read that readout, it was 12 seconds instead. So I was like... "Welp..." And then died.

Yeah I had something like this, except when I checked it, it was at 0 seconds remaining, turned around and immediately died. pretty glad I got a clip of it.

@@Tempy_Galactic Dude I wanna see that clip now. Share brother

@@blackroserevan6939 okie dokie, I uploaded the remnants of the clip (it was over a year ago and the only version I could find of it was a trim)

I was so blown away by how fast he realies that and thinks its terrifying

@@playerreaper1 He's a lot like Chert, in a way.

Professional eye, I guess :)

Not really fast thinking, he just recognised it because he’s seen it before in his studies or field. You think an astrophysicist wouldn’t know the stages of a Star going supernova? It’s quite a common topic of discussion

He's like: *that is Way too fast!*

Until the "plug the hole" shenanigans

"Destroys space time"

@@TheAbdou27 I had the same problem and spent way too much time thinking of that solution until I realized what I was supposed to do xd

Dude literally figured out the quantum rules from his own experiments.

joseph anderson also has a crazy playthrough - one could say even more competent

I think he mentioned Doctor Who at some point; there's a venn diagram for this somewhere

He is an astrophysicist and familiar with the concept of quantum mechanics. If you understand that quantum objects exist in all states at once until observed, it's probably not too far of a leap in logic to wonder if an image counts.

Hey I did that too in the quantum grove. Had no idea what the puzzle there was so I thought that I had to get the poem and stone together. When I got them together I had the thought, "looking at them makes them stay?" and it worked! I still feel smart from that.

Even Jerma managed to figure it out on his own lol

@@KurosakiYukigo I mean, he's familiar with the _pop-sci_ concept of quantum mechanics, not the real one.

Right? He figured things out so much faster than I did, I thought NO WAY he just immediately made that connection. Also, every time he stepped on a teleporter, it just happened to be aligned and immediately warped him, so he thusly came to the incorrect conclusion that they always warp you upon contact. He also had a lot of low probability jump scares like when he steps out his ship on brittle hollow and IMMEDIATELY gets pile drived by falling debris. Had me laughing so hard

I'm just getting to 1:17:10, where he has two islands on Giant's Deep clipping into each other. That happened to me once on my playthrough.

@@thegeekofalltrades lol, I didn't know that could happen. I assumed the Islands (and planet orbits) were "on rails" as in their movement was scripted and not simulated. this bug makes me think the Islands and possibly planets' physics are simulated in real time which is kinda impressive

​​@@tinyturtle1898 From what I remember from the documentary, yes they are simulated in real time. Same for the lava rocks hitting brittle hollow, their trajectory is not scripted

@@famcamp3414 part of it could be that this is a supercut and that a lot fails or missed opportunities were cut

ohhhh, I thought he might have gotten hit by one of the chunks that hollow's lantern spits out, but that's even funnier 🤣

Ohhhh! That's what happened! Thanks!

i've been turned into a fine paste while trying to read the quantumn poem far too many times

I legit didn't know you could get that ending this way, I got it by messing up the core stuff XD

@@smileytrashbag5221I don’t even know where that was. I never noticed that area.

The stress-tester's instinct

bruh, I think even a particular video about different endings didn't include that one, I've never seen that one

he violated causality then did a little "heh" chuckle, what a doll

I was laughing at how absurd some of his supernova predictions seemed, but overtime it became clear that the major piece he was missing was just how long ago the Nomai disappeared. Once he learned that in the Sun Station, everything started making sense.

It's like seeing your friend noticing a gift under the christmas tree and watching them open it.

you should look at lil indigestion's playthrough, autopilot made him go to the stranger at the relative beginning of his playthrough

It definitely feels like the DLC is designed with the expectation that the player will enter the Stranger from the dark side, and get to have *that* reveal. Furthermore, that's a moment I always look for in DLC supercuts, so I'm going to be very sad if Oliver ends up skipping it because he remembers that the structure had a light side.

@@tbotalpha8133 I had been spooked when I first found it and didn't want to go to the light immediately so I had flown around and into the light side

I love how that allowed him to think for a bit he accidently discovered the Eye. The curiosity in his mind must've been insane from that.

I discovered the stranger by not catching that the red blip out of natural orbit is the mapping probe. I flew there, knocked it out of orbit, broke the map, turned around towards the sun and... there it was, a giant black spot over the sun. I thought I've discovered the eye & end game prematurely, by finding the "actual eye probe" (the mapping satellite) 😅

I was dying laughig

He's been waiting his entire life for astrophysics to involve blowing through an obstacle course in a spaceship at high speeds, we gotta give it to him!

That Dark Bramble section was the perfect mix between Feldspar and Riebeck honestly 😂 Outrunning the fish, but shitting himself the entire way there

If i were to cast an outer wilds movie/show based on streamers, oliver would be chert, joseph anderson would be feldspar, and soviet wombo would be gabbro.

@@bondfall0072womble is so immensely riebeck imo

@@euriii ive only seen wombles outer wilds playthrough, and his energy there came off way more laidback then riebeck imo, but I'll take your word for it lol

Those were some great last words from Feldspar lmao

hahaha 1:59:23 for those looking for the part

It seems he figured out while in the Probe Tracking Module that the Nomai were using the loop to fire infinite probes. I didn't figure that part out until getting to the Ash Twin Project, and even then it took me time thinking after beating the game to realize I had technically experienced 9 million prior loops and not remembered them.

​@@speedude0164 well they all happen at once so technically nobody experiences the first nine million loops

this is exactly the reason why im watching every playtrough i can find. because sadly you can only experience this game to it's fullest potential once in your entire lifetime. replaying it doesnt give tou that sentiment of Eureka. because you already know. i waited almost a year to replay it hoping i would have forget enough but nay, never got that feeling again..so i'm vicariously living it trough them.

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@@TikeyBoss Honestly, I watched the whole playthrough and his point stand.

This man said the ending of the game (collapse of the universe's superposition to a single possibility) out loud before experiencing it! Ok, his interpretation wasn't entirely correct (which doesn't take away from how fascinating his interpretation is), but very close indeed. You can tell he's an astrophysicist who's writing a phd :D He's sharp!

I’m no astrophysicist but so was I. The concepts in this game are extremely dumbed down versions of real science concepts and physics. I figured out the quantum moon as soon as I noticed it disappeared, I used the probe launcher to rapidly speed or slow down using Newton’s third law. It’s not the hardest thing ever. Hell I noticed the sun turning red a lot sooner than he did. You think of certain science concepts and it starts to make sense. The only thing I’m struggling with is figuring out how to get to the sunless city because I suck at tracking time and I get lost on that planet easily. But other than that the game is pretty simple to understand and I usually find most secret stuff eventually usually by coincidence

@@zzodysseuszz that's cool man.

No, this happens every single time unless you take a picture of it. Not sure why, something to do with the fog maybe? But it's a consistent behavior.

@@rootzparty3053 comment wasn't about the rule of quantum imaging it was about the odds of the moon reappearing right in front

@@NoNameAtAll2 Ah, my bad then

funny that I have seen this happening to a lot of people, but on my playthrough I don't remember this happening

this happened almost every time for me, how odd

He is the chosen one

And figured out quantum imaging and found the stranger on his own, and entered the Sun Station warp tower without walking on sand, he IS the chosen one.

He also landed the model ship perfectly on the first try... he's an Outer Wilds GOD!

Damn, these astrophysicists are surprisingly smart!

I was literally at the end of the game when I realised the marshmallows heal your health. In fact, it took me about 20 hours to figure out the health indicator was the red line person on the top left.

But didn't figure out that the difference in current launches & the eye discovery launch is the amount of loops he experienced 😅

So true!

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@@MannFace51 1:45:06

The first time I discovered the stranger was funny as f*ck I was playing this game while my brother was watching to criticise my playstyle and I said I was scared of accidentally flying into the sum. He responded with: "Oh, I'm more scared of you crashing into the-" Then I flew right into the stranger

The best part is that he didn't land on it and then lost track of it, so he can't pinpoint it in the ship log, which means he has to go back and find it the correct way despite having stumbled on it by accident.

I’ll head over and leave a comment now, and bookmark some videos to check out!

I don't know where you came from or why you decided to build a channel off of editing ridiculously long videos but I thank you for it. Not many people are willing to make supercuts. Thank you! :D

​@@TheEighthWorld Yeah seriously, whoever they are they're doing gods work. I would never have known About Oliver if it wasnt for this and holy shit what a good playthrough and interesting new person to watch.

You should pin this so more read it

@@petermelsaeter I just finished this video and I'm now solidly a fan of oliver and eelis. RU-vid and google aren't perfect but I'm glad they at least recommended this channel to me.

Ah, that would explain why several playthroughs have had that happen. Otherwise the chances of that seem astronomical.

While there is no wrong way to play Outer Wilds, it turns out that there *is* a correct way, and this is it.

@@DarwinAwardWinner the only wrong way is not playing

Ignoring, of course, the fact that some of Giant's Deep's islands happened to clip into each other while he was examining the Statue Lab...

@@Epicawesomeness64 And that he shattered reality at the High Energy Lab. :P

@@DarwinAwardWinner Exactly! The best way is going in blind, not having a chat spamming spoilers at you the whole time, and non-apologetically spending entire loops theorizing about the stuff you observed. Perfection

literally the coolest thing

Fuck yeah that moment gave me goosebumps, both when I played it and when he had the realization. So fucking cool

​@@theharvinatorhomestuck & outer wilds fan? unfathomably based

4 minutes*

@@Rimuru1 I am referring to the original let’s play lmao

@@banks7825 lol 😂

@@banks7825 49 minutes, in that case

Didn't he do it in the first video in the museum, when he first saw the supernova model?

When I first got the dlc, on my way to the satellite I somehow flew into the stranger, I had no idea what it was, it just happened to be in between me and the satellite

I'm pretty sure that was the quantum rock clipping into his ship and launching it at him, not hollows lantern, which is even funnier imo

I just want to ask. What is your opinion to a playthrough that ended while never been able to find the White Hole Station. While also being in front of it multiple times while she question what it is

Now i see where he found the stranger around 1:46:00 and i'm stupid excited for the dlc supercut omg

fuck it i'm replying to my reply. I just got to 2:47:00 and I'm sure this has to be one of the most satisfying "eureka" moments I've ever seen in this game. Holy shit this edit is great

and now the video is finished and I've become a fan of Oliver. Sorry if I miss the next supercut, I think i'm about to watch the full series on their channel haha

@@TheOxyMoron5 they also finished subnautica and started hollow knight recently, 2 other good games

@@SomeoneTookMyOldName hollow knight is in my top 5 games of all times so I'm 100% following that series!

Yeah, I did. He's funny and clever. Also runs into some hilarious bugs that are even more confusing than the game usually is.

I really think it is a fake blind playthrough, and the more i watch it the more I get to that conclusion...

@@Pablo-ob2bx I disagree. At every point I can see how he would come to his conclusion, which really just goes to show how well-made the game is, in my opinion.

@@Pablo-ob2bxhe thought the sunstation was blowing up the sun though

@@jam_toast1 The sun station was designed to blow up the sun, it just didn't work.

@@Pablo-ob2bx you need more faith in humanity my man

See, it would be really dumb... if they didn't have a plan to invent time travel!

I watched the entire play through as he was uploading it to RU-vid and I really can’t recommend it enough. He does a lot of self monologuing about his thoughts that really can’t be contained in a super cut. While this is great for people who may not have the time to watch a full play through, I think this is one that really deserves that time spent.

@@Nytraz fr olivers playthrough is honestly my favourite ever, i started it while he was about half way through uploading the series and ive been watching his channel ever since

​@@Nytrazuuuu now I feel like I've wasted some of my time watching this instead of those. Definitely have to watch his actual playthrough

been looking for this comment, and with the games apparent attention to detail its not far fetched at all. Especially since the solar system (for gameplay or aesthetic reasons or whatever) is like miniturized/condensed. Its an idea ive played with even before hearing this, infinities in multiple dimensions? Like we obviously have infinity in space (statistically space is infinitely recurring if its infinite as we think), time (give everything enough time and everything will happen again and more), quantum mechanics (basically parallel universes, everytime a quark changes spin we branch off basically) but what about scale like, 99% of an atom is just empty space innit so what if our infinite universe is also just part of like an atom of an infinitely larger universe and even that repeats ad absurdum. (think like a mandelbrot set? it wouldnt invalidate that space repeats and even allow for spatial parallel universes but also reveal a larger pattern upon zooming out or in) Not to mention possible infinities with simulating realities, infinities of perception and memory (think of something like a Boltzmann Brain, for a split second a concious mind materializes with memories of entire lifetimes, universes and physical rules, they dont even have to make sense since it materializes out of pure randomness) Its crazy and has fucked with my mind ever since, if quantum behaviour as we observe in game is at a tangible, macro scale then it isnt far fetched of them to assume the "eye of the universe" to just be a valence electron?!

The universe is and we are.

Right? I can't recall ever getting hit by something on Brittle Hollow and this man just gets assaulted by random rocks.

oof the ending is so ominous I love it

HE KEEPS GETTING JUMPSCARED (valid) BY RANDOM NONSENSE I FEEL SO BAD HELP

the moment he laid all the pieces out in his head and put the story and timeline together at the sun station was amazjng

It's really funny yet incredibly appropriate that the most entertaining playthrough of The Outer Wilds is done by a scientist

Same for Soviet, the supercut actually gets rid of a lot of very funny moments!