It’s very not slow if you don’t want it to be as soon as I got a bike I ignored all quests headed straight for high level areas I shouldn’t be. Looted chests until I got cutters and stuff to farm higher end ores and had a thopter in like 2 days tops. I’ve been doing deep desert stuff for ages and still have barely done any quests at all. It’s very forgiving about skipping ahead if you want to. And honestly that made me love the game a lot.
Some of the later books might be more your speed if you like sticking with a single Bob. I personally didn’t care for those ones.
I assume the reason things look like other things is cause we have a tendency to describe new things as similar to other things even when they aren’t. Plus there’s probably some scientific evidence behind form and function. See https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=535ce2af5493dab8&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ADLYWILL1F47ohkf2S3ZM119-lKV4yRZmQ:1736139726724&q=carcinization&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDksS9qOCKAxXDkIkEHbiqNCgQkeECKAB6BAgKEAE&biw=393&bih=659&dpr=3
I’m very keen on where the story is going as it stands right now. But I’m impatient for more books. And inevitably will be disappointed in the end I’m sure. Most of the time these situations lead to philosophical cop outs.
The bobiverse books ended up being what I enjoyed most in 2024. Really looking forward to more of those.
Added it to that archive place for you and updated my first post.
Sorry I have so many paywalls and ad blockers going I had no idea it even had one.
I read several articles to try to understand this. This one was the most helpful to me.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-13-8-or-26-7-billion-years/
Non paywalled version hopefully
Wouldn’t it just be a superfluid at that point? Those things are ungovernable. We’d have way more problems that just spilled puddles. They crawl out of the beakers on their own. It’d be an absolute nightmare.
My bad superfluids are 0 viscosity not surface tension carry on we’re safe.