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Hi, me again on my 3d printed orb fixation,

In the last couple weeks I bought an new airbrushing set up and started painting a handful of orbs (literally I grabbed a handful, like 12) with the intent to get them looking pretty good!

Luckily paint sicks to 3d printed resin pretty well without issue so I didn't need to worry about priming and such.

The main process is:

1- Taking the white orbs and placing them on small pieces of BluTack either vertically or horizontally.
2- Painting the orbs with Tamiya X34 Metallic Brown (use what ever paint you wish) and doing 2 coats on either side, giving about an hour for it to dry before flipping
3- Weathering the orbs with Kiwi Brown and Black shoe polish 6 times each, and dabbing the excess off each time where it will slowly build up in the corners and details. Give time for it to dry before each weathering so it properly builds up.
4- Lastly clear coat the orbs on the BluTack again, I used Alcald II Lacquer for the high gloss. Give it about 3 hours before flipping and doing the other side.

That's it! I am experimenting with 3 unweathered orbs now where Im swapping steps 3 and 4 and doing the clear coat before the weathering, in the hopes that it will cause the symbols to be less glossy and get a more natural look, Ill send updates here on how it goes!

For those who wish to try this themselves here's the 3d model I made for free, I resized it to 25% of the original size for these small orbs https://www.printables.com/model/1692116-jak-and-daxter-precursor-orb
And if you don't have a resin printer, neither do I! I got them printed at JLC3DP (not sponsored, they were just cheaper for me as an Australian), ordered 100 of them just to say "I got 90 Precursor orbs!", it was like $50 USD for all 100 so its actually a good price.

Good luck if you do try it!

The farm in Part 2 is one of the most heartbreaking parts of Ellie's story because, on the surface, it's everything we wanted for her. She has Dina, JJ, a home, safety, and a chance at a quiet life. But the game makes an important distinction: safety isn't the same thing as peace. That's what makes the entire sequence so tragic.

I always compare it to the giraffe scene in Part 1. That moment was completely genuine. Ellie didn't have to earn it or maintain it. She simply got to be a kid experiencing something beautiful in a broken world. The farm is different. Ellie is trying to build a normal life, but mentally she's still in Seattle. She's stepping into a role similar to Joel's, protecting the people she loves, holding JJ, talking about teaching him guitar one day, yet it never feels natural because she hasn't dealt with the trauma that brought her there. Every happy moment with Dina exists alongside memories that refuse to stay buried.

The illusion falls apart the instant she enters the barn. One sound is all it takes to bring her back to Joel's death, and suddenly the peaceful landscape around her means nothing. That's when it becomes clear that the farm isn't actually healing her. It's simply a place where she's forced to confront everything she's been trying to suppress. She doesn't leave because she hates the life she built with Dina. She leaves because she genuinely believes that finishing things with Abby is the only path toward finding peace, even if she's completely wrong about that.

When Ellie returns after Santa Barbara, the entire atmosphere has changed. The warm golden light that defined the farm is gone, replaced by a cold and empty stillness. Dina and JJ have moved on, the house has been cleared out, and even the old tractor remains in the exact same spot, now surrounded by overgrown weeds. Nothing ever truly progressed there. The dream of a normal life existed, but Ellie was never in a place where she could fully live it.

Yet I don't think the ending is purely tragic. By sparing Abby, Ellie finally makes a decision that isn't driven by revenge, guilt, or the need to balance some cosmic scale. She realizes that killing Abby won't fix what happened to Joel or quiet the pain she's carrying. Leaving the guitar behind isn't abandoning Joel's memory; it's accepting that she doesn't have to hold onto him through suffering alone. The peace she tried to create on the farm was something she wanted to force into existence before she was ready for it. Only after everything falls apart does she finally become capable of pursuing something real.

TL;DR: Part 1 gave Ellie an accidental, cost-free peace (the giraffes), but Part 2’s farm was a "beautiful lie" of safety that couldn't mask her trauma. She left because she thought she had to earn her peace in blood, but by sparing Abby, she finally broke the cycle. Returning to the empty house and leaving Joel's guitar is a total release. Her ghosts are finally quiet meaning a real, honest life can actually begin.

I have just finished Uncharted 1 on crushing for the first time. and wondered how this would look if its been made with current state of tech naughty dog has. Even if they use uncharted 4 or lost legacy engine it would def work well. I used grok to generate these images since I dont posses skill to create art.