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archetypal-archivist · 4 months
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The Math of Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds is a lovely game that takes place in a scaled down solar system complete with tiny planets, tiny day-night cycles, and travel time that is blisteringly fast for ships held together with duct tape. But as any Outer Wilds fanfic writer knows, this scaling down leaves time and distance... wonky.
So I decided to actually run the numbers of how Hearthian distance and time compares to ours. Fair warning, I am not a mathematician, but I'll be explaining my logic and calculations as I go so folks can double check my work. I also apologize deeply to anyone who reads this and then needs to stare at a wall for an hour or two to process just how fucked up Hearthian everything is compared to human measurements; I highly recommend never, ever using these numbers in your writing unless you want to cry.
Let's dive in!
First order of business was calculating from a constant to get a conversion of Hearthian kilometers to human kilometers. I wanted to use the speed of sound from the supernova but sound doesn't travel in space in real life, unlike in game, so I had to use something else. I settled on the general speed a supernova ejects matter at: between 15,000 and 40,000 kilometers per second. I took the lowest value, 15,000, to be as nice to the Hearthian distance system as possible.
The Hearthian star supernova travels at a speed of about 0.812 kilometers a second (I sat my ship on the white hole station about 23 Hearthian km from the sun to watch and my stopwatch recorded it to take 28.32 seconds for me to die). Taking this value, I can then set up a ratio of Hearthian kilometers to Human kilometers: 23 H km to 424,800 hu km, totaling to 18,469.57 human kilometers for 1 Hearthian one. That means, for example, when Giant's Deep is roughly 16.5 Hearthian kilometers from Timber Hearth at the start of the loop, the human distance would be 304,747.905 human kilometers.
So now that we have a good conversion to work off of, let's take a closer look at Timber Hearth, the home planet of Gabbro, Chert, and the rest of the Ventures crew.
By shooting my scout on top of the Zero-G cave such that it's level with "sea level" on the planet then heading down the elevator into the center of the planet, I was able to tell that the distance between the planet's surface and the central point of the planet is to be about 256 Hearthian meters, or about 4,728.21 kilometers in human units. This means that in diameter, Timber Hearth is 9,456.42 human kilometers wide. For reference, Earth is about 12,742 human kilometers wide. This puts Timber Hearth as being just slightly smaller than Earth but bigger than Mars.
Let's go further. The circumference of a circle is calculated with 2*pi*the radius. The radius of Timber Hearth is 4,728.21 kilometers, putting the planet at a circumference of 29,693.16 kilometers. To get from North pole to South pole, a Hearthian would need to walk over 14,000 kilometers, to get from the village to Young Bark crater, about 7,400 human kilometers.
For curiosity's sake, I walked that distance with my little Hearthian traveler and it took me 2 minutes and 30 seconds roughly to walk from North to South pole, including time to navigate around geysers and get up and down the crater walls. I also sat there with my stopwatch and found the Hearthian day-night cycle to take about 8 minutes to go from dawn to dawn. One, this means that in Hearthian time, the loop spans a little less than 3 days, and two, the Hearthian day-night cycle in no way matches distances.
By the Hearthian day-night cycle, I could set off from one pole at dawn, travel over 14,000 kilometers by Earth units, and arrive at the other pole by dusk. That... is implausible. At best.
On Earth, a marathon is 42.195 kilometers and on average, it takes a person 4 hours and 30 minutes to complete it. Expanding on this number, assuming no time is taken for sleep, it would take about 352 hours, or two weeks, to walk from one pole to the other. To get from Timber Hearth to either pole, a week and a few days-worth of sleep of Earth time. These numbers do actually sound plausible. I would 100% believe it would take a month or two to circumnavigate Timber Hearth.
Something else to consider is that Nomai technology is truly incredible, as is the material Timber Hearth is made of. The deepest mine on Earth is roughly 4 kilometers deep, the deepest on Timber Hearth is a whopping 4,728.21 kilometers deep, right down to the center of the planet! This means that the structural integrity of Timber Hearth stone is insane as it's able to hold the shape of the tunnels for thousands of years, beneath the much of the weight of the planet above, without collapsing. No wonder the Nomai used Hearthian rock for the Ash Twin project! And how incredible their technology must be if they were able to mine it en masse, too.
Makes one wonder about the power of those Hearthian mining machines like the one to be fixed in the Zero-G cave, huh? Perhaps it's not such a stretch after all that Slate started making rockets if that's the kind of machinery they were working with beforehand. And the speed those rockets must be able to obtain is just as crazy!
One thing this revelation about distances does is tell us that the protagonist probably spent a lot less time walking across the surface of various planets during the loop than the average player does. Their ship was almost certainly the primary means of travel for our Hearthian and walking was reserved for checking out points of interest that were scouted from space. Beyond this, those gravity tunnels on Brittle Hollow? Those must have been blisteringly fast in order to get across the planet so quickly, no wonder it's so easy to pancake yourself with them.
Another thing it tells us is that all those stories where Gabbro or any other Hearthian makes a day trip to the quantum grove is unlikely to have actually occurred that way, as it would take a lot longer to travel Timber Hearth. The same goes for Tektite and their trip to Youngbark crater- which poses a problem.
The game itself explicitly states that Tektite only took a little while to get from the Hearthian village to go see the disturbance in the crater, an amount of time implied to be less than a few days even. This runs contrary to what is actually possible for a Hearthian to do on foot... Unless Gossan has a ship of their own and uses it to ferry passengers around Timber Hearth. Or Tektite used a tunnel under the planet's crust to shorted the amount of time it takes. Or they're just cool like that, haha.
The main takeaway from all of this is that Outer Wilds is a game about exploration and wonder and as such, trying to make everything make sense is a wonderful way to make your brain start glitching. Numbers are just a tool for a writer or artist to use as a suggestion, not a hard and fast rule, so have fun with it and don't get bogged down in the details!
Unless you're like me and your idea of fun is overanalyzing media at 4 am. Don't be like me.
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Husband has been secretly wearing a chastity cage for months to lower his libido for me
I don’t even know where to begin or how I got to this point. This will be long. Throwaway. Main account is followed by family.
A little about us….I (34F) have been with my husband (36M) for 8 years. He’s a kind, loving man. He’s always been good to me. He’s a hard worker and I’ve always felt respected and appreciated by him. We’ve had one serious fight in our relationship (related to career choices and moving across country) but we were able to communicate, come to an agreement, and move on.
We had our first child roughly 1 ½ years ago. I won’t list every tiny detail about how the pregnancy affected me….but I’ll just say pregnancy doesn’t suit me. We’re an active couple. I don’t sit still well. My husband has often told me I don’t know how to relax. It wasn’t a problem early in the pregnancy but later on it became a problem for me. I coped with food. I gained weight. I became depressed.
After having the baby my mental health plummeted. I was diagnosed with PPD. The worst “symptom” I had were severe mood swings. Rage one moment, hopelessness the next. Activities that my husband I used to love doing together also didn’t sound appealing at all….especially sex.
Before I got pregnant we were having sex 4 to 5 times a week. We had perfectly matched sex drives. We enjoyed each other’s kinks. We happily flaunted our affection everywhere we went. Half way through the pregnancy my libido pretty much disappeared.
Since giving birth, we’ve been intimate a small handful of times. The times we have been was because I felt like a shitty wife and partner. My husband, the sweet man he is, was extremely patient and understanding. Never complained once.
I was prescribed celexa for my PPD about 6 months after giving birth (baby’s health was closely monitored during breastfeeding….everything was good). Everything in life started to turn around. I enjoyed being a mother. I was eager to get back to work. I had energy again. I hit the gym and lost all the baby weight…..the only thing that didn’t come back was my libido. It got even worse. Before starting it I didn’t mind helping my husband here and there with a blowjob. It didn’t turn me on but it also didn’t bother me. But shortly after starting the treatment the thought of anything sexual was repulsive to me.
My husband was patient and we tried to rekindle the “spark”. Lots of sensual massages and non-sexual focused types of affection….nothing worked. Eventually he’d try and initiate and I’d reject as kindly as possible (and feel terrible for it). Soon, this took a toll on him and slowly he stopped showing me physical affection pretty much all together. There was a 9 month span where we did little outside of cuddling. I wanted to want him, I wanted to want to do all the crazy shit we did before, I wanted to get wet again….but we fell into a routine and became a dead bedroom (don’t refer me to that depressing sub please).
Around the middle of February I began seriously worrying about my relationship. I’d always told myself things would get better but my husband started feeling extremely distant. I decided to get off the meds. I was in a good place mentally and felt I could quit taking it…..and, thankfully, I was right. I quit taking them the second week of February. I did not tell husband. As of now I feel no change, my spirits are good and, most of all…..my libido has come back!
Yesterday I decided I was going to surprise hubby when he got home from work and jump his bones as soon as he walked in the door. This was something we’d do to each other regularly pre-baby. I got baby down for a nap and waited. He got home and when he gave me his usual hug and a kiss I pulled him close to my ear and whispered that I’d been thinking about him a lot that day. I grabbed for his crotch over his pants, felt something hard and he instantly back away. It didn’t feel like a hard on….I can’t describe it but I knew it wasn’t that. He’s decently sized down there and this felt smaller. I asked what it was and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about. He told me to let him use the bathroom and we can continue this.
I wasn’t buying it. I could see by his pants he wasn’t erect. He said he had something in his pockets….i said okay so empty them. He did. I felt again. He tried to back away but the door was closed behind him and he couldn’t back any further. I got a handful of something hard again. I told him to show me what was in his pants. He asked me to please let him go to the bathroom first…I said show me right now. He didn’t say anything…..he unzipped his fly, lowered his underwear and showed that he was wearing a chastity cage. I’ve seen them in sex shops and porn….but never in person.
I just stood in shock. I didn’t know what to say. He didn’t know what to say. It was probably a minute of silence. He zipped up his pants and I asked him how long he’s been wearing it. He went on to explain he’s been wearing it for the past 3 months everyday he leaves the house. When he gets home and we’re together, he takes it off. He puts in on in the mornings in the bathroom at his work. I’m usually home after him so he takes it off before I get there and hides it under our bathroom sink. I never had any clue. He said that he’d begun watching porn on his lunch breaks and jerking off in his car (his phone history confirmed this started about 4 months ago and lasted a month). He said he was so horny all the time he’d get erections at work regularly and couldn’t focus on anything. He said the cage helps him stay focused and take his mind off sex. He got the idea from somewhere online when he researched how to decrease/lower your sex drive. He said there were times he wanted to feel desired and wanted again and he felt the urge to cheat and the cage helped keep him “grounded and faithful”.
We have completely shared plans and phones so I know he isn’t cheating. He’s always been hypersexual….but so was I so it was never a problem. So basically my husband was researching ways to kill his fucking sex drive to accommodate my sex drive. I felt like shit. For those of you about to call him the devil for the urge to cheat…that’s fine. Just know I don’t resent him for that. If the tables were turned and he’d been rejecting my advances for the past year I’d be feeling the same way. When I say I’ve shown him little to no sexual attention for almost a year, I mean that very literally.
Needless to say the mood was killed. He went into the bathroom, took the cage off and put it away. I'm off today. He went to work this morning and didn’t put the cage on…but I get the feeling he wanted to. Part of me is actually open to “chastity play”. I’ve been reading about it and it sounds fun. Hubby has always been on the sub side (but dominant when I want him to be). I can’t shake this feeling like I’ve completely failed as a partner. I drove my partner to the point of locking his dick up to control his sexual desires that I’ve been denying. And, he did it all without me knowing so he wouldn’t upset me. When I asked him how long he intended to keep wearing it he said he didn’t know. Yes, I know he did it himself and but I can’t help but feel partly to blame. He's been quiet since everything went down.
I can’t talk about this shit with family or friends. So if an internet stranger out there has any advice/insight on how to handle this….im all ears. Sorry if I'm all over the place.
TLDR: Sex life has been awful since mid pregnancy. Child is now almost 2. PPD meds killed libido. Husband secretly wore a chastity cage to control himself and lower his libido. It's a mess.
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