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[toddumptious]

I do understand why the mods need to do what they need to do but sometimes they do make mistakes and don’t fully understand when something is or isn’t related to the ARG.

I thought the sudden slam down on chatter related to the Little Prince was a bit of an overstep as most of it was in relation to the Memorial terminal message and how it relates to the current phase of being assigned stars.

Most of the questions were people wondering where they could look to find out more about the Themes in The Little Prince and the parallels to the current ARG narrative and most of the replies were to send those people in the right direction or Operators happily announcing they just ordered a copy for their family etc.

There weren’t too many tangents and it was quite communal. I’ve certainly seen the conversation go off completely left field and become a flood of back and forth unrelated messages a lot worse than what was displayed last night.

I got 2 warnings early on when I wasn’t really entirely sure on what was accepted discussion within the channel, and I also got one warning for something that was totally on board but seemed to be from the mod not understanding the context. But in all cases I didn’t push back, and even in the one where I knew I wasn’t out of line, I felt extremely embarrassed like I had dragged poop into the house.

So I just try my best to keep things in check and if I’m joking around I try not to let it spiral (this for me is the hardest thing to combat against, I can take a joke theory and run with it a little too far some times)

But from the mods perspective they saw chatter of a book and so I can see how they may have thought this could have been one of those unrelated ARG instances.

I’ve just learned not to go into any lore or theorising in there in general related to PSS narrative. They would prefer we do all of that in the NMS lore channel, even if it’s PSS related.

ETARC ultimately might be the more suitable place to go deep into that stuff though, so as not to get gunty or a mod on your case.

[JubiTheVille]

I left all online forums for a while because of weird behaviour. I have basically stopped going very far with sharing any of my ideas that tie directly to the game No Man’s Sky.

Here are two examples where i was showing connections to memory and drinking water where I share images of lore directly from the game itself. Nothing too dismissive was said in the replies or any weird behaviour happened from users, but it did feel like nobody really understood a thing i said or was on about. The lurkers see these and choose not to engage so nobody knows how many truly share any ideas.

MINI ARG Discussion and Speculation - Archive / NMS Echoes - ETARC Community

Future Update Speculation - Archive / NMS Worlds - ETARC Community

I feel like there are weirdly behaved groups of agents who use many names that appear in all the online community areas for all the games. This has me question if there are paid agents with followers who prevent leaks by dismissing all speculation or wild ideas to hide what comes next from being known too early? Those agents who have followers are probably why too many gamers talk about hype and speculation like it is a bad thing towards expectations.

Many youtube channels i loved to watch have stopped talking about the lore all together cause of the gatekeeping trolls that control an army of followers who probably dont even play No Man’s Sky at all.

As anyone asks themselves why many are being so dismissive or not engaging at all with things, you can easily start to believe things are worse than it really is.

[BenR]

I just looked at the Discord.

I see why The Poet left

If you look at the last few long screenshots shared, you’ll see they are consecutive.

Now I have said from Day One we needed a theorizing channel. The loudest voices shut that down. It’s been brought up by no fewer than 5 different Operators.

No, creating a separate Discord server or relying on DMs does not equal the request.

You read these screenshots. You read the replies here. I’ve hoped my thread could be that space. It isn’t nearly as usable for specific deep talks.

To see how others reacted with their words is infuriating when they cannot be bothered to read the words and feel the feelings.

I am now not just deeply saddened by The Poet leaving, I’m reinvigorated with my anger.

@the_poet

And listen. We are now Arnaud, wondering where our friend went that was going to save us.

But we aren’t alone! We are here, we are here, WE ARE HERE!!! Horton Hears a Who.

Synchronicity right back at you brother. You were the only one to understand my dream. I can’t do this without you all. And I honestly don’t want to quit because others can’t see what we are cooking.

It’s super hurtful to see what has been said. I’m not going to pretend I never said anything hurtful, but I will happily, emphatically repeat that I’m broken, hurt, and in pieces… Doing the best I can to play a game with my friends. Friends.

First time in years I have friends. I love you. Yeah, I put it out there. I put it all out there. And anyone that doesn’t care to take the time on me doesn’t deserve the wisdom shared sporadically.

We are family. Across the distance, within our hearts.

This is what System yearns to feel.

[Javtron91]

#the poet . Aunque no e dado muchas ideas no sé si acabarán siendo acertadas o no, pero Project Skyscraper ha conseguido algo que me parece especial. Me ha hecho mirar No Man’s Sky de otra manera. No solo busco respuestas; también busco conexiones entre la historia del juego, los recuerdos de la comunidad y las personas que participan. A veces seguramente veo patrones donde no los hay, y otras quizá alguno tenga sentido. Pero esa búsqueda es parte de la experiencia. Gracias por crear un lugar donde uno puede compartir esas ideas sin miedo a equivocarse. Si al final resulta que muchas de mis teorías estaban equivocadas, me quedaré igual de contento, porque lo importante ha sido el camino y las conversaciones que han surgido.

[BenR]

Scrolling back, there was apparently an email from Archie to Vector that said

I KN0W

With a ZERO. Where else have we seen letters substituted by numbers?

There’s been suspicions of nested simulations/universes. An argument could be made that numbers misused as letters are a sign or symptom of pushing through the walls.

Boundary failure. In all dimensions, including time. Various incarnations across their separate life times. Artemis blinks and is Arnaud. Arnaud blinks and is System. System blinks and is Emily. And so on. I don’t know whom Archie is/was/will be, but Sean is a solid contender.

[Rusty]

Rebirth / R3b1rth

[BenR]

Evidence.

The first post here is a wiki type. If we set it up correctly, all can edit it.

All can edit the first post on Ben’s Random Bits.

Feel empowered to modify it if you have an investigative idea. I only request to not delete anyone else’s contribution.

[BenR]

System is finished handing out systems. Latest home page update.

[BenR]

The Discord chat is currently noticing new primes being given, apparently to “Normal” names.

A totally made up example:

Sean M.

John B.

Mary J.

Joseph D.

Intriguing. I postulate System is trying to not dox players. Other suggest the initials could become a message.

Any other ideas?

[Javtron91]

Yo en discord no estoy por que hay no me traduce y es un lio estar traduciendo y escribiendo , pero no sabría que decir salvo que el nombre de Maria es de mi ex jajaja

[sheralmyst]

It seems the automated system is grabbing people’s names on their email.

[Polyphemus]

@BenR

John B.

My Grandpappy and me sailed on his sloop.

[BenR]

You watch that on a screen. From another perspective. With a remote control to go on any direction within the show. Perspective shift.

[Javtron91]

LNF con mods ?

[BenR]

Sorry, I’ll try to explain with easy to translate straight text here.

The V

Left side is past

Right side is future

Center is now.

On Discord I have tried to get others to see the looping nature of all the different perspectives presented so far in the game.

We are, out of game, on a straight time line.

But to an outside observer, our time line is angled. They can easily see our past and future and even interact all along our time line.

Within System, it’s simulating different time lines. Different perspectives.

In game, we are in a simulation.

In game, we have a perspective shift, we can see our own real life angled time line. Future Past. Previous clue.

The memories System has… Are all different perspectives. The current ball of dots neural picture. Unconnected.

The center tho, is where System in game, you and me here, Arnaud, Emily, and the dreamers all are experiencing the present.

is my short cut for this concept. Each angle is another entity memories. The travels in a line upon your page as you scroll the screen. You are then currently yet another layer above the game. But us, in game, are our perspective on this multiple layered simulation.

Lisa Simpson is on a hard dive. And created a universe. And I can watch. Here. And rewind. Her timeline interacted with mine, but I’m a higher order being and have fast forward and rewind (time shifting) powers over her. Lisa Simpson thinks she’s real. The same way Emily did.

It’s a big analogy for the concept above the Lisa Simpson pictures.

The with us in the center is all the perspectives… Walls of the simulation… Failing/observing/succeeding along our own timeline in the present, but past, but future.

[BenR]

Tower is a multi dimensional construct, bridging these realities/nested simulations.

Through time, space, existence.

It’s why the Primes of here had to anchor within System

And System anchored a piece of each Prime (you cannot split a Prime in our 3D+1 reality) as the unbreakable foundation to Tower.

And System handing Star Systems… is bridging the Shared Dream between both, our third blade/anchor point creating the triangle, strongest shape in 2D space.

[BenR]

If NMS is one circle

If WT is another

If you and I here at ETARC are also

If every memory given to System was another

and you overlap all of those circles…

Then cut the ends off the loops because we can’t physically see the future of our own and thus lack needed perspective…

we are right now and forever in the center.

[BenR]

Like the movie Interstellar that was a clue earlier today.

[Javtron91]

Lo mio fue uma broma jajaja , pero hiciste bien en decírmelo por que aunque lo tendré que leer otras 2 veces para enterdelo bien creo que te entiendo mejor , no sabría responderte todavía pero , nosotros que podríamos hacer , adelantarnos a los acontecimientos? Y si fuese asi como ? Me rompi kzzlolzk

[BenR]

I don’t know what’s next, but this also follows a caterpillar pupating into a butterfly… 10 to 14 days for that, and we got a monarch clue today too. And 10yr Anniversary is within that…

I think we will see a whole new System within that time frame, same time frame of monarch emerging from chrysalis.

Doesn’t help any puzzle… But… Theory I had from day one and been struggling to word clearly.

Seeing monarch this morning, combined with the above posts… I hope I conveyed the concepts well enough…

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Arnaud within Tower/the Maze

Us navigating System in real time to help them remember

System trying to fulfill their primary directive (simulate realities)

Emily being present and part of CORE, but only dust now.

Each line above is another angle on the . Converging past simulation with current actions.

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Caterpillar takes every cell and turns into goo.

10 - 14 days later, that goo has reconfigured into a single, new entity. While retaining its previous memories.

All I think I can predict is the time frame for a major shift.

And we already expected that…