In "Slaughterhouse Five", Vonnegut wrote about creatures who perceived time as a geometric dimension. They could perceive their entire lives as a wide landscape, stretching from past to present to future... and they could move freely within it, to relive the better moments and fast-forward over the unpleasant ones.
Movement is change, and change requires time. To move from one time to another, you need some kind of "metatime". To move through that, you'd need "metametatime" and so forth. Without change, you can't decide to "relive" the better moments because you've already lived them, are currently living them, and will always live them. You'd either exist everytime through your life "simultaneously" or just in the same moment. With metatime your existence would still be linear, no matter how many jumps and zigzags you make through ordinary time. Say you time travel 1985 -> 1955 -> 1985 -> 2015 -> 1985 -> 1955 -> 1885. That would be your linear metatime progression, and that's the one your memories will follow.
Anyway, that's the only way it would make sense to me:)
This allows from freedom of choice because you can move all over the realm of time.
But you'd have no control over where in the realm of time you choose to move any more than you have control where in space you choose to move. You can will what to do, but you can't will what to will.
I'd say that without time we'd all be frozen as change from one state to another would no longer be possible. That means no movement and no thought. As far as we're concerned, everything would cease to exist.
Great definition. So something which is so efficient that it doesn't excrete waste cannot be alive? For that matter, an impotent human being isn't alive either?
Don't you see where this is going? We will write the genetic code for a superior being, who will write the genetic code for a more superior being.... fast forward a dozen generations and we'll have a seemingly-omnipotent life form who'll travel back in time to ensure life as we know is started.
Why not try them both? And whichever one you choose, see if you can make your software flexible enough that should a switch be necessary, it will affect as little of the app as possible.
I've always though about what would happen if the end of civilization were to occur and all your electronic gadgets (which require electricity) failed to work.
Well if that ever happens, I'll just ascend to a state of pure sentient energy with infinite computational ability.
This isn't true. Nationalism is akin to racism. There is nothing wrong with loving your country as long as you don't start believing that its citizens are somehow superior to everyone else.
Except Saddam was the lesser evil compared to what's going on there right now. Sure, he deserved to die, but more innocent people are dying now in Iraq than did during Saddam's rule.
Before going to "hell" as it may be, Fall From Grace tells The Nameless One that if there is any way to get him out, she will do so. I mean, main party members include a ghost, a demon, a floating skull, and a tiefling (half-demon). Something tells me they wouldn't have much trouble getting to that plane and getting him out. Of course, that game would largely be focused around the other chars, rather than TNO himself, though he could still be part of the story.
Hmm, all the characters of the first game would be pretty high level, but then I guess they'd have to be to stand a chance on the demonic plane. It would definitely be a refreshing change of pace to have the starting party in a game all be levels 15+, but having to contend with even more powerful enemies.
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In "Slaughterhouse Five", Vonnegut wrote about creatures who perceived time as a geometric dimension. They could perceive their entire lives as a wide landscape, stretching from past to present to future... and they could move freely within it, to relive the better moments and fast-forward over the unpleasant ones.
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Movement is change, and change requires time. To move from one time to another, you need some kind of "metatime". To move through that, you'd need "metametatime" and so forth. Without change, you can't decide to "relive" the better moments because you've already lived them, are currently living them, and will always live them. You'd either exist everytime through your life "simultaneously" or just in the same moment. With metatime your existence would still be linear, no matter how many jumps and zigzags you make through ordinary time. Say you time travel 1985 -> 1955 -> 1985 -> 2015 -> 1985 -> 1955 -> 1885. That would be your linear metatime progression, and that's the one your memories will follow.
Anyway, that's the only way it would make sense to me
This allows from freedom of choice because you can move all over the realm of time.
But you'd have no control over where in the realm of time you choose to move any more than you have control where in space you choose to move. You can will what to do, but you can't will what to will.
I'd say that without time we'd all be frozen as change from one state to another would no longer be possible. That means no movement and no thought. As far as we're concerned, everything would cease to exist.
Great definition. So something which is so efficient that it doesn't excrete waste cannot be alive? For that matter, an impotent human being isn't alive either?
Don't you see where this is going? We will write the genetic code for a superior being, who will write the genetic code for a more superior being.... fast forward a dozen generations and we'll have a seemingly-omnipotent life form who'll travel back in time to ensure life as we know is started.
You're right. I deserve a hot, juicy AI, fresh off the grill.
Since when are white supremacists of the "Lawful" persuasion?
I thought Rockstar was the cool game company. The one that says "Dude, don't worry about it. It's OK to step on a few toes."
Science? Logic? It seems plainly obvious to me that the Teleportation Tweak works by magic.
Wow, this makes it really easy to disrupt class.
That or a teleporting time traveller. Just be sure to hold your breath.
I prefer this version, 1 minute in. Watch it quick before the inevitable DMCA notice takes it down!
Wait, are you saying it's impossible to get the FiOS for internet only and keep the standard phone line?
Maybe same reason people want images embedded into webpages so that you don't have to download them to view in a seperate image viewer?
"Games for Windows" means "Vista-ready" not "Vista-required".
Anyways, "atheism is a religion like bald is a hair color" says it best here.
So what's an agnostic's hair like?
More like "Or else he'll end up in this hospital!" Now that's something to be scared of.
No, just to other beakers.
Of course the problem is that the "robot" model used was Chief Knock-A-Homer.
Why not try them both? And whichever one you choose, see if you can make your software flexible enough that should a switch be necessary, it will affect as little of the app as possible.
I've always though about what would happen if the end of civilization were to occur and all your electronic gadgets (which require electricity) failed to work.
Well if that ever happens, I'll just ascend to a state of pure sentient energy with infinite computational ability.
Would it be worth a second mortgage?
Gotta respond to a part of your sig:
Patriotism is akin to racism.
This isn't true. Nationalism is akin to racism. There is nothing wrong with loving your country as long as you don't start believing that its citizens are somehow superior to everyone else.
Except Saddam was the lesser evil compared to what's going on there right now. Sure, he deserved to die, but more innocent people are dying now in Iraq than did during Saddam's rule.
Before going to "hell" as it may be, Fall From Grace tells The Nameless One that if there is any way to get him out, she will do so. I mean, main party members include a ghost, a demon, a floating skull, and a tiefling (half-demon). Something tells me they wouldn't have much trouble getting to that plane and getting him out. Of course, that game would largely be focused around the other chars, rather than TNO himself, though he could still be part of the story.
Hmm, all the characters of the first game would be pretty high level, but then I guess they'd have to be to stand a chance on the demonic plane. It would definitely be a refreshing change of pace to have the starting party in a game all be levels 15+, but having to contend with even more powerful enemies.