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	Re: Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1
	Posted By: Lion O Cyborg	Date: 6/9/16 9:23 a.m.
	In Response To: Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1 (XaleManix) : This was a lovely read. Please, allow me to offer an alternative explanation. : I will be restricting myself to Marathon, most specifically Mi. I'll : analyze as best I can each page of the first EtP terminal. Sorry in : advance if this gets a little... long. : First, the entire terminal page: Find the right way down through the maze, : to the food, then find the exit. Push the exit button. If the food tastes : awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way. : They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like : you. You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their : maze, my maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of : their paths? : Now, to break it down. : Find the right way down through the maze, to the food, then find the exit. : The maze is the timeline. We're in a maze of choices and options, and ever so : many of them lead, quite literally, to dead ends. The food is a potent : metaphor: humans need it to survive. Presumably, so do the S'pht. However, : the Security Officer, presumably, does not: "Time is limited. For : you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain." : -Durandal (Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap; Terminal 3) : Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but is the player, perhaps, not : limited by their need for a biological fuel? Though our need for oxygen : contradicts this, I will run with it as a metaphor: We do not need food to : survive, but those around us, those we presumably care about, do. : The food is the way out, the way to stop the Chaos. Why don't we need it? : Why do we dream about Electric Sheep? : Why do we find ourselves starting back? : We keep finding ourselves pulling out our pistol, and pound the switch to : open the door. : Oddly , this is familiar to us, as if it were from an old dream, but we can't : exactly remember... : Let us move on, before I get too excited about slipping quotes I like into : this and needlessly expanding the text. : Push the exit button. : To escape. To escape. To Create a new version of events. To forge A new : Timeline. To control Chaos. To contain our Destruction. To create. To : create, and escape. : Escape will make us God. : If the food tastes awful, don't eat it, go back and try another way. : Given my previous speculation, this seems sensible: If the outcome is : unsatisfactory, we'll jump back and try another version of events, until : we get a result we like. : They want the same thing that you do, really, they want a path, just like : you. : This applies to everyone, really. They want a path -- a safe way to survival, : just like we do. : You are in a maze in a maze, but which one counts? Your maze, their maze, my : maze. Or are the mazes all the same, defined by the limits of their paths? : These two sentences are closely linked, so I'll talk of them together. Life : is a maze. We, all of us stuck inside the maze pick the path which we : think is right, and hope we go the right way... but when people start : hopping the fence, and finding themselves not outside the maze, but simply : in another maze with slightly different turns -- which one counts? Who can : say that the occupants of a maze find all the corners the same? I : speculate that, perhaps, whatever trick of the Jjaro that allows us to hop : between mazes allows them all to be set right once a maze that works is : found -- perhaps that's how the W'rkncacnter was captured to begin with. : Ah, but that's too much to talk about for now. Perhaps another time... : End message. : ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION START*** : ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY*** Good suggestions. Some of them like the bit about the Life Maze seem to parallal my own a little. Can't wait for part 2. PID has been on the back burner just now as I've had to cram college work for assessments. (and think of better times to make reference jokes rather than every five minutes like I did in Chapter 4)

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	Eat the Path terminal translation	Lion O Cyborg	6/5/16 5:40 a.m.
	Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1	XaleManix	6/8/16 7:36 p.m.
	Well, this is odd...	XaleManix	6/8/16 7:40 p.m.
	Re: Well, this is odd...	VikingBoyBilly	6/9/16 1:52 a.m.
	Re: Well, this is odd...	XaleManix	6/9/16 5:06 a.m.
	Re: Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1	Lion O Cyborg	6/9/16 9:23 a.m.
	Re: Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1	Martin	6/9/16 11:28 a.m.
	Re: Eat The Path terminal speculation -- Part 1	Lion O Cyborg	6/10/16 12:22 a.m.
	Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 2	XaleManix	6/10/16 6:05 a.m.
	Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	XaleManix	6/12/16 6:29 a.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	Durandal_1707	6/13/16 12:48 a.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	XaleManix	6/13/16 3:37 a.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	Lion O Cyborg	6/15/16 6:51 a.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	XaleManix	6/15/16 6:25 p.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	Lion O Cyborg	6/16/16 12:51 a.m.
	Re: Eat the Path terminal speculation -- Part 3	XaleManix	6/16/16 3:34 a.m.

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