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I just created an incredible stupid setting via a quick mental exercise
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yes I'm coming to raid
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but I was like
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the ttwo things I always resist putting into a setting I make, whenever possible
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are time travel and no-catch resurrection
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oh no
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so I thought
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what if I leaned as hard as possible into having both instead
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so here's my concept:
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a universe where, if anyone dies
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they can freely reload at any past point in their life and try again
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with full memories of the previous timeline
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no limitations on reload count or distance
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let's consider an example
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Timline 1
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Do they have to die?
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yes
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Alice murders Bob
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Bob, now dead, gets to reload
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so he goes back to before being murdered, branching off Timeline 2
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Bob remembers T1 and T2 but Alice only remembers T2 because she didn't die
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i actually have the exact same 2 rules in my own settings :V
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so Bob uses his recollection to get the jump on Alice, and kkills her
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Alice now gets to reload
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this creates Timeline 3
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Alice remembers Timeline 2 and Timeline 3
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Bob remembers Timeline 1 and Timeline 3 but not Timeline 2
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then nearby Carol dies of old age and goes back to her youth
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creating Timeline 4
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Alice remembers Timelines 2 and 4, Bob remembers Timelines 1 and 4, Carol remembers Timelines 3 and 4
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it gets worse from there
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And it's billions of people all making timelines at all times?
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yes
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forever
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My god
Niamh Vibes
good lord
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nothing would ever get done
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at any point, there are literally infinite past timelines
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because you need to do infinite loops to get past anyone's natural death
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Can someone choose not to reload?
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no
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Then this universe would never get past the death of the first life form with this ability
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only if you see meta-time as proceeding linearly
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if someone died yesterday, then yesterday happened infinite times
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and now it's the present
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Okay I fully admit I do not follow that even a little
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Go do your raid
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Jeremy Bearimy
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i get it and i love it but also i hate it
bluecanary
this rules
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if i understand correctly, the implication is that a timeline doesn't "end" just because someone reloads
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so there still exists a timeline where that person died, continuing on after their death
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