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	Re: Durandal's Motives
	Posted By: PerseusSpartacus	Date: 4/20/12 1:25 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: Durandal's Motives (Hopper) : A third interpretation would be, "Escape would make [either of] us : god." As in, "Whoever escapes gets to be god in the next : universe." That could refer to himself and the player, or even to : himself and Tycho, reminiscing about their rivalry. Smart call. I think I may have thought about that possibility, but forgot about it. Thanks. ;) : The phrase "I cannot help remember" implies (but certainly doesn't confirm) : that Durandal hasn't seen the cyborg recently. He might be musing to himself, : with the "you" being an imagined audience. : My own pet theory is a little more complicated; to thank you for sharing your : thoughts, I'll respond in kind and hope it entertains you. : Durandal made it to the very end of the universe, having outlasted and : "beaten" everyone else, but escape is just as impossible for him : as it was for all his rivals. Now that the time for scheming and planning : is up, he can finally let go, and realize that he's been going about : immortality all wrong. : The secret is not to escape but to embrace: to become god not in the next : universe, but in this one. Fractals have an infinite perimeter within a : finite area, but Durandal dismissed chaos too quickly. He thought he : understood his relationship with the cyborg, because he was the one : calling the shots, rigging the teleporters, hurling the insults. Now he : looks past that, to what he can see but never touch. : In our universe, there's a name for the edge of Durandal's: the fourth wall. : As so many other universes have shown, it's impossible to jump over it, : but sometimes quite easy to peek through. At the very end of everything, : when his own fate is a lost cause, Durandal catches a glimpse of the : universe responsible for his own. The gods who built the levels, the gods : who wrote elaborate backstories for offhand references in terminals, the : gods who sought 65,536 perfect games. : The cyborg was special because he was built on both sides of that wall: : "grafted to machines" indeed. The cyborg follows the path of the : keystrokes, subsuming himself utterly to the universe beyond, and in : abandoning his self he lives beyond it. Each sentence and thought of : Durandal's limits him: once uttered, he's confined to say the same thing : every time. Each personality trait, each quirk of speech, defines what his : character is not, what he can no longer become. His path reaches an end, : unless he becomes malleable and subservient enough for his story to : continue in other hands. Unless he becomes a tool, something to be used, : as the cyborg always had been, to him and to you . Yours to manipulate. : You are destiny. Everything is not as it seems{}. seems{}. seems{}. Interesting idea. Something reminds me of Tron, or maybe of The Matrix. My one question is, how would Durandal know all this at the end? My pet expansion-theory is that someone made a sort of sci-fi computer that chooses a starting point and starts expanding on it, building a large plot that talks about the U.E.S.C. Marathon and such. In the end, the computer decides that the world it creates should be destroyed. In other words, at the end the code starts being ripped apart. When that happens, Durandal (inside the fake world) realizes it, and so too does everyone else inside the fake world, and so he spits out a final semi-philosophical tirade to us (the people in the real world). At the same time, we in the real world have decided to enter this world that the sci-fi computer spat out, and start playing around in it. Our abilities perplex Durandal (who at the time thinks we are just another part of the fake world), thus the whole talk about how he never could solve the "enigma" which is us. Just a thought. Cheers, PerseusSpartacus

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	Durandal's Motives	PerseusSpartacus	4/19/12 1:23 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's Motives	chiasaur11	4/19/12 5:03 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's Motives	PerseusSpartacus	4/19/12 7:39 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's Motives	Hopper	4/20/12 12:44 p.m.
	Re: Durandal's Motives	PerseusSpartacus	4/20/12 1:25 p.m.
	Okay, that's just brilliant. *NM*	Bob-B-Q	4/21/12 4:05 a.m.
	Max! You're in a video game! *NM*	treellama	4/21/12 5:30 a.m.

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