r/nextfuckinglevel • u/obsidiansolstice • 7h ago

A Striking Pillar of Light Appears Over the Snow-Covered Alps.

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u/Jtfgman 7h ago

You can totally save your game there

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u/Still_Silver_255 6h ago edited 5h ago

Takes you to Tristram

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u/Efficient_Item7779 3h ago

Aaaaaannnnnd .... now I'm hearing the music... Thank you.

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u/Gamin8ng 5h ago

where is it from, looks cool af

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u/Shepard21 2h ago

It seems to be Diablo related

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u/historynutjackson 4h ago

I believe it's called a sun candle but location unknown

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u/GreyFox_1337 5h ago

Do you think this is what people in the old times saw and mistook them for miracles. Like this is what the three wise men saw and said hey look angels.

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u/invent_or_die 4h ago

ABSOLUTELY

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u/ThresholdSeven 3h ago

It's even oval shaped, just like the most famous Marian apparition

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u/Bubby_K 6h ago

There will be a slight stutter as you jump in and it quicksaves

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u/Suihnennews 4h ago

Take some risk and try the black one. You have a nice respawn location.

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u/Jtfgman 1h ago

I heard you dont come back once you try the black one

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u/miurabucho 6h ago

Its easy to understand why ancient people thought gods and fairies existed if they saw something like this.

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u/Atoning_Unifex 2h ago

and why they thought devils existed listening to goats and mountain lions in the forest

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u/miurabucho 2h ago

And finding a dinosaur skull and thinking it was a dragon.

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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 6h ago

ancient people didnt have access to AI generated content.

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u/Tidemor 5h ago

Are you implying this is ai?

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u/Onlygus 5h ago

The people casually skiing by makes me question it. I know I'm more distracted by shiny things than some, but unless its a regular occurrence seeing that would surely make more people stop.

Edit: As per a comment below apparently it is real https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/watch-sun-candle-or-portal-to-another-dimension/1744208

I've still wonder though, how are people just ignoring it!?!

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u/SoggyBoysenberry7703 4h ago

Because what are they supposed to do? Worship it? Scream? Sit there til it goes away?

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u/Onlygus 4h ago

I replied fully to acps, but at the very least stop and show a bit of curiosity or appreciation for something so pretty and rare

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u/justaboxinacage 1h ago

Maybe they already did that?

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u/Onlygus 1h ago

I hope so

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u/Acps199610 4h ago

I mean, I'd look at it for like maybe 30 seconds and then would just move on, thinking to myself "That's pretty cool."

What do you uh, expected everybody to do? Stop and watch?

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u/Onlygus 4h ago

I'd expect people to stop at the very least.

Personally I'd stop, try and work out whats happening by looking from various angles (is it like a rainbow where it would move), seeing if it changes over time, and then try to touch it to see if/how it changes shadows, then if interacting with it won't stop it from happening I'd ski through it to see if I do get transported to a different dimension.

From what I can tell it's a massively rare phenomenon that I'll probably never see again. The least I can do is appreciate some of the beauty in this world that I'm lucky to see. Like I said though, I know I'm not always like everyone else and they are not always like me.

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u/Solid-Narwhal1895 2h ago

So many people are on autopilot in this life, they don’t notice or question things like this. Be curious!

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u/OMGCluck 3h ago

That about sums up every optical illusion.

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u/crusty54 1h ago

Maybe it’s kind of like a rainbow, in that it changes depending on which direction you look at it, and it doesn’t look as spectacular to those people.

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u/Onlygus 19m ago

Yea I could believe that. Also possibly that the phone camera is making it look more pronounced than in real life.

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u/SaltyArts 3h ago

Bro how are they ignoring it? Youre watching a video of it right now? Who recorded it you?

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u/ThresholdSeven 3h ago

Because they see it from far away off camera and have looked at it long enough and are going back to skiing. It works be weird if everyone just stopped and stared and nobody moved for hours? Of course they are going to look at it, go "wow", maybe take a picture, like the person who took this video did and then continue on with their day.

The most likely reaction to this phenomenon at a ski hill is caught on camera and people think it's evidence of deception? What is wrong with the world?

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u/The_Messen9er 4h ago

It’s always been AI.

Welcome to the matrix

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u/bdubwilliams22 2h ago

These actually exist.

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u/Ifckinglovemycat 22m ago

kinda surprising modern religions won't make this one of their miracles now that science can explain it all

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u/thewriteally 6h ago

How is no one skiing into that portal???
https://giphy.com/gifs/HyvnMHUEOSY8M

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u/lovehaldol 7h ago

Watch out for mr. Bean!

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u/obsidiansolstice 7h ago edited 7h ago

Portal to another dimension

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u/Still_Silver_255 6h ago

New Galaxy, Intergalactic… Planetary

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u/Kozzinator 5h ago

Planetary? Intergalactic!

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u/Darknight48996 35m ago

no that's just a portal to another vrc instance

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u/VaMpiller 6h ago

Guy on the other side waking up

https://giphy.com/gifs/5eXguNvZ7su2Ys9aS5

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u/guri274 6h ago

Nature's buttplug

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u/TheRealBrokenbrains 6h ago

Flared base is essential

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u/imokay4747 2h ago

The earth is the flare

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u/dmj9 1h ago

I dunno this guy I work with told me it's flat 🤷‍♂️

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u/teasing_cookie 6h ago

The combination of the snow and that beam of light is just beautiful, it looks so magical!

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u/simpsonswasjustokay 5h ago

My ass would have thought it cool to ski through and wind up in the inside out dimension or something.

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u/silly_rabbit289 5h ago

I'm waiting for the "meteorologist/geologist here" explanation plsss

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u/drthvdrsfthr 45m ago

sorry best i can do is another joke

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u/No-Sympathy-686 6h ago

Someone hit that quest marker and see what adventure you will go on.

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u/ilikebeer19 6h ago

Ok you step into it, then read the elder scroll to learn dragonrend through a rather long cutscene.

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u/nick_valdo 6h ago

“Commander Cody, the time has come. Execute order 66”

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u/PenaltySquare2414 5h ago

This is how religion starts

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u/DesperateMechanic305 4h ago

Do you see what happens Larry?
Do you see what happens when you film a strange-light in the Alps?!

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u/ThresholdSeven 3h ago

If this wasn't on video and happened outside a small village where only a few kids saw it, we would have another Marian apparition.

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u/perfect_insanity93 7h ago

Pretty sure I watched a movie about this...

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u/Relevant_Arm_3796 6h ago

Any stalker 2 fans here? I just started playing and I know what happens if I touch that thing lol

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u/BobbyHillsPurse 6h ago

Somebody about to end up in Zarbinzet

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u/Introverted__AF 6h ago

Ohh pylons

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u/Kr4ti_ 6h ago

Hallelujah it’s Jesus Christ✝️🙏

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u/AdamR0808 5h ago

Very cool to see

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u/F_E_B_E 5h ago

Check if theres an igloo nerby

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u/SatyrAngel 5h ago

Main quest marker

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u/MagnificentLiaaa 5h ago

woah its like a magic portal 🤔

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u/6packjomar98 5h ago

beautiful

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u/Real_Tea_Lover 4h ago

how does that work????

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u/stumadeit 4h ago

Looks like a Humanity Sprite 

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u/NaturalWallaby9678 4h ago

That's a clear portal. I can definitely recognize one when I see it. Crazy that no one went down there. I definitely would have.

https://giphy.com/gifs/GbIHIHhkgfpAs

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u/jdPetacho 4h ago

A few hundred years ago many people would see this, claim they saw an angel and it would become a holy place

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u/God_Compl3x 3h ago

Could the clouds create a massive pinhole camera? The light might concentrate and become visible because skiers have stirred up so much snow?

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u/hawkdbaz 3h ago

Gateway to another dimension

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u/Worst-timeline138 3h ago

Ah, the rare quantum butt-plug

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u/NorthernCobraChicken 3h ago

Don't be a bitch, enter the portal.

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u/SaltyArts 3h ago

I’d be the first MF to get abducted by aliens.
I’m walking straight in that biych.

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u/willie_Pfister 2h ago

Thats a wormhole! Go through it and see where you end up!

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u/Responsible_Owl4661 2h ago

Respawn point. Camp out and wait, you'll be collecting XPs in no time

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u/Lagiacrus111 2h ago

Irl site of grace

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u/Sampsa96 2h ago

Portal to Aether

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u/tgodxy 2h ago

This is how religions were started. 2000 years ago someone would have said they were visited by an angel

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u/AgentePolilla 2h ago

Tree ghost!

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u/metblack85 2h ago

*Suddenly, Black Panther walks through the light.*

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u/Keppi1988 2h ago

Have you started digging at the bottom of it?

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u/Jackkernaut 1h ago

It's Dark Souls 1 Humanity

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u/_jroc_ 1h ago

Frostmage with potion of invisibillity. Stay away.

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u/coryroxors 1h ago

How tf do you resist walking into it??

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u/Antique-Wonk 33m ago

Portal. Needs to be entered.

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u/Juiced4SD 23m ago

That butt plug resolved it’s unfinished business on earth and can now move on to the afterlife.

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u/droidgar 3m ago

I bet this is how some religions started

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u/RabidOtters 6h ago

Thats the portal to the DLC. Make sure you finish the main storyline quest before going in there.

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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 6h ago edited 5h ago

This has to be fake. If it were real light from the sun, you would see some distortion on the ground as well. Instead we get the ground perfectly equally illuminated and not at all changed by this weird light pillar.

A shape like this has also be the result of some form of lens concentrating the light into that spot. Where is the lens? The fucking clouds!? Perfectly aligned to focus lights in that one spot? For that long?

Edit 2: Seems I completely misinterpreted the angle this video was filmed at. If youre looking down into the valley, a reflection such as this makes much more sense. I was assuming we were looking upwards.

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u/microsnail 5h ago edited 5h ago

This seems to be a perfect lower tangent arc, resulting from light refracting through the suspended ice crystals in the air, known as diamond dust. Another diagram here

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u/Dante_Redeye 5h ago

It's the real thing. Rare but real. Here is an article about it: Link

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u/Dazzling_Let_8245 5h ago

I have checked the link but was still fairly suspicious of it. But then I realized that I completely misinterpreted the angle this clip was filmed on. They arent looking up the mountain, theyre looking down into the valley. In which case a reflection like this makes much more sense.

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u/eyeofthefountain 6h ago

Yeah this seems pretty unbelievable