Mathematician's posting starts here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121280...
Next dev blog post from Lukas Pope mentioning this here: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719...
> Scene is black, you hear "Come out, so Johnny and I can flay your bones" / "Get out of -- *BANG!*"
> Scene reveals, man is frozen in time, his body still in motion though he is clearly dead.
> A half-dressed man stands inside the ship's main cabin, gunpowder still billowing from his pistol.
Now you play "Clue".
Who killed whom with what, and where?
> KILLER: What? I have no idea!. Why would I know?! I know literally nothing, why would I ... Oh, hang on, this is the Captain's cabin! Nobody but the captain would be half-dressed in the captain's cabin so... he must be... the captain! Ha!
> VICTIM: At least one of these assailants is "Johnny"... not sure if the victim is, though. I'll hm... have to figure out how to write down "some unknown guy wearing pointy-toed boots and another guy with a scar on his shoulder were on the deck at 4pm, and one of them died to the captain's pistol, and uh... one of them is named johnny" hm...
> WEAPON: Close range pistol shot. Yeowch.
Anyway. I totally dug it from the outset and only loved it more as I progressed.
I hope you'll give it another shot.
If you like, say... Myst-like games that blend puzzles and attention to detail with good storytelling, you'd like this game.
It and Outer Wilds are probably my two most-recommended games.
I second this recommendation!
This story is about how stories, themselves, do not always get told accurately.
For me the most interesting aspect is that the original newspaper reporter altered the facts, and then some decades later, another researcher dug deeper and got the facts straight, long after the incident.
Contextually - in light of recent insanity regarding state sanctioned mass murder - this is quite relevant to those of us observing the state of information warfare.
Because the Titanic was the biggest ship ever, it sunk on its maiden voyage, although it was said to be unsinkable. It's probably one of few stories from our time which will be remembered in a thousand years.
Gordon Lightfoot ensured that people a hundred years from now will know the Edmund Fitzgerald but the thousands of other wrecks in those lakes will be known to locals and researchers only.
> So why did the Empress tragedy, which claimed even more passenger lives a little over two years later, fail to embed itself in our collective national consciousness?
The Titanic sinking caused ~50-60% more casualties. But casualty numbers alone are probably not enough to make either of them memorable. But an "unsinkable" ship, biggest ever, carrying the worlds richest, inexplicably sinking on maiden voyage and disappearing for decades is a very powerful story.
And after 1945 people were encouraged to forget about everything and not ask any uncomfortable questions.
I've repeatedly swum in Lake Michigan (looking online, it has comparable temps to the St Lawrence in Quebec) as early as Memorial Day. The water temp is often in the mid 50s, very cold even with a full wetsuit, hood, and prep, but feasible as a ritual with which to open the season and start the summer. This year, in May, it was 45F/7C. Insanely, painfully, shockingly, unsafely cold...I decided to break tradition.
In July, a 6km swim could be fun! In May, depending on the climate that year and the swimmer's metabolism and subcutaneous fat levels, it might be survivable. You might lose a few extremities to frostbite. Or it might not be survivable. 1 in 800-something odds, with an athletic 29-year-old being the only survivor, seems reasonable enough.
It is a good tall tale, out on the murky limits of credibility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%B0laugur_Fri%C3%B0%C3%BE...
who actually did swim 6km in freezing waters after his vessel sank in 1984..
> Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the Storstad, which survived the collision.
The actual meat of the article, doesn't have any clear source. I guess it might've come from the mentioned piece in "St. Thomas Journal", but it's not exactly clear.
Cool story, but not exactly the "How I solved a mystery" that you'd expect from the headline.
Hardly clickbait.
Davidson was picked up by a lifeboat and taken to the _Storstad_, which survived the collision.'
The article was apparently edited to increase prolixity.
...and of the last 10 minutes of this accident: https://youtu.be/N5CxSRsiUys?si=wS42xVXUb5Awb95U
Total Lives lost:
Titanic: 1,500 Empress of Ireland: 1,012
I suspect titanic is/was more well known is simply due to the sheer hubris of it all - a much-heralded and much-trumpeted "unsinkable ship" that sank on its maiden voyage. It was supposed to be this amazing new technical marvel and yet it did the very thing it that they were claiming was impossible on it's very first trip. Sticks in the mind somewhat, compared to the frequent "ordinary" ship sinkings that happen all the time (then and yes ships still sink now, although fewer passenger ships I expect but probably just down to their being fewer of them)
I have to say I'm surprised by the size of the crew, both from the economic perspective and from the fact that it's steam and not sails. I guess I'll need to read more on how these ships were run.
> After a minute and a half, the boiler rooms were flooded with the equivalent of nine Olympic swimming pools of water.
Oh for crying out loud
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic#Survivors_and_victims