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That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.
Somebody got high
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I am high now.
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Am dispensary now.
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Am farm now.
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Am going to seed now.
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Am going to age now
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Am myself now
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Brother thinks I need substances to be whimsical
Not doubting ya! It's the way they totally forgot about it and thought it was something ridiculous but later remembered everything that brings it home for me.
(Blink twice if it was the weed, but can't say it, gurl.)
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They didn't just get high, they got Perfectly High.
High enough that everything is clear and profound, but not high enough to feel the tiny shadow people climbing your nose hairs.
The 4D salmon: what's an outside?
Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide
With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.
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Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?
Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here's a crab town.
Jesus was symbolized as a fish. If he does 'return' it's easy to imagine the way he does.
Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.
Great things to be unburied, but it is quagmire. Hence, the constant vitriol spilled forth.
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It just needs a story. What stories have salmon?
Grizzly eats a salmon. Maybe that's the basis of our creation myth. Is the grizzly bear an antagonist?
No, it's an impersonal force. Our mythos rejects dualism; we have a time travel fish. The bear represents something else, like circumstance or cupidity.
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There will come a time when the distribution of 4D salmon will take the universe to equilibrium of mass. That is what will cause the universe to collapse into a big bang. The roe will cause uneven distribution pushing gravity to create stellar structures until equilibrium is once again reached. This is not a series of season but a continuum of spawning. We can only have faith in the now. Our purpose is null. In our insignificance we can choose our values. We can also not choose because whatever we are or were is not always true. The self is fleeting. Only the 4D salmon are true in theirselves.
Insano game idea:
2D platformer... but its actually 3D.
But the third dimension... is time.
...somebody has to have done something like that already, right?
Braid and Prince of Persia, kind of?
Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.
Ah well shit, I was legitimately asking, I haven't played too many platformers in a while, sounds like I should check it out!
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The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.
Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.
Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...
Run with your idea! I like this!
I have some similar ideas about a story driven time travel game where it's set up so that at one point you face an anonymous enemy, which forces you to trigger certain conditions in the stage and then they escape.
Later in the game you return to this stage at the same point in time, expecting to face that enemy again, but you are this "enemy", and the game nudges you into replicating the exact same sequence of events so that you take the actions which the "enemy" did so your (NPC) past self can replay the exact steps you previously took.
But the game doesn't show this clearly to you the player until you completed the stage - while your character is shown to have noticed something strange, the game doesn't show you the player (or you character's party) that you faced yourself until the end of the stage, using different positions and camera angles to hide it from you and the party. And if you manage to replicate the event chain perfectly, you'll get to see your party members being visibly stunned when you see them realize it was a time loop (your actions in the stage breaks the loop), and hopefully the player can be made to feel like they experienced a time loop, as if they really faced off with themselves twice ("how did the game know I would do it that way?")
That sounds difficult to pull off, but incredible if you could.
Not only is a time loop built into the main story, recreating something from another perspective... it also has branching paths in the more linear sense of a roleplaying game / imsim.
I like this idea too, but ...'nudging' the player, without it being too estoeric, or too obvious... that ain't easy lol.
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I've been playing 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel it's remarkably easy to understand, all considered. It's only partially mind bending.
Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!
there are puzzle games that do that sort of.
I don't see how that would be any different from a regular time travel platformer
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I think that's bastion
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Like a certain alien species from The Xeelee Sequence?
Edit: woops wrong series. Does anyone know another series with an advanced alien civilization that sends themselves back in time to give birth to themselves? It's right before the heat death of the universe due to another alien species that lives in stars.
Use the spoiler tags. Now I know Q is a 4-dimentional Salmon. The surprise is ruined.
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Just want to say. The Narcissist Cookbook has some banger music. Don't know how to really describe it, it's like a fusion of Folk, Spoken Word and Punk
Here's a Spotify link if y'all are interested
His latest two albums are a connected concept album and they're some of their best work yet
Anyway fan rant over
The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!
I guess those words are forming a sentence or more
Benjamin buttonesque
Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?
Is this the guy that wrote Tenet?
Xeelee Sequence is basically that
And the salmon is called sammy.
Puh ka puh ka
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