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Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= | Date: 1/13/02 11:31 p.m. | |
In Response To: Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts (Tycho7en) : Perhaps. I think that these "time jumps" are really just interludes
Few questions here: If these are the W'rkncacnter's dreams, why are they so...orderly? We've seen the dreams of a W'rkncacnter before, in PID. They consisted of impossible artifacts and murderous monsters, most of which wandered aimlessly while violating at least six different natural laws each. Yet, the level arcs in Infinity are perfectly self-consistent and hyper-realistic. It seems strange that the dreams of such a chaos-being would consist of exact simulations of the L'howon system following an alteration to its past--that sounds more like the daydream of an AI or a Jjaro. Furthermore, why is the W'rkncacnter constantly dreaming about its upcoming escape, in the 3rd person? Some sort of psychic defense the Jjaro constructed--it won't actually wake up as long as it keeps dreaming about waking up? We're told that the Cyborg ends up becoming a "god." Doesn't that imply that during Infinity he gains power over reality itself, and not just over a sleeping W'rkncacnter? Mental domination of W'rkncacnter is a cool power, but not really in the divine class...unless you're unscrupulous enough to tote a W'rkncacnter around and use it to edit reality, I guess. In a connected question, what does it mean to win? Have you put the W'rkncacnter back to sleep? Or, I guess, it was sleeping all along...so have you just given it quieter dreams? I have no doubt that you can counter all my arguments on why the evidence doesn't favor multiple timelines over consecutive dreams. But what about the other direction? What evidence is there that these level arcs aren't different timelines, but are instead different dreams? : That's based on how you interpret the terminals. Even so, part of that
You've been "breaking character" at least since Foe Hammer, though. That's the first time you turn against your master. Strange Aeons, in fact, allows less freedom of choice than almost any other level. You're given a chip; you have to open each chamber in order and then put the chip in the socket. Straightforward and totally linear. Regardless, Tycho says pretty clearly that you yourself have been destroying and creating worlds. : "Thousands are sailing" are not timelines, it's everyone
But those "thousands" are "the same self, the only self." They're not thousands of different people, they're thousands of variants of the same person, suffering a "thousand self-willed fates." --SiliconDream
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Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 1:53 a.m. | |
Good grief! | Hamish Sinclair | 1/13/02 5:44 a.m. | |
Holy Doctoral Thesis Batman! *NT* *NM* | Ernie | 1/15/02 3:27 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Mark Levin | 1/13/02 6:46 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tycho7en | 1/13/02 8:20 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Cpt. Sqweky | 1/14/02 8:32 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 3:47 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Andrew Nagy | 1/14/02 7:00 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/14/02 1:54 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/14/02 2:59 p.m. | |
Duplicate post, sorry *NM* | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/14/02 3:04 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Andrew Nagy | 1/18/02 7:24 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tru7h | 1/18/02 9:11 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/18/02 1:10 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Andrew Nagy | 1/14/02 7:00 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tycho7en | 1/13/02 7:43 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 1:22 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tycho7en | 1/13/02 3:06 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 11:31 p.m. | |
Wow, it all makes sense now! | Jonah | 1/15/02 12:37 a.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tycho7en | 1/15/02 4:04 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Rincewind MoG | 1/13/02 1:23 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | Tru7h | 1/13/02 1:49 p.m. | |
Re: Dream Terminal Thoughts | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 3:59 p.m. | |
Oh, and... | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 4:01 p.m. | |
Re: Oh, and... | Smasher | 1/13/02 7:29 p.m. | |
Re: Oh, and... | SiliconDream =PN= | 1/13/02 10:55 p.m. |
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