Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?
Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here’s a crab town.
Are you built like a cult leader? How would you like a job.
no im more of a mindless follower
I thought the beard was the only important part. What does built like a cult leader mean?
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.
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.
The 5D Grizzly bear is fishing in the stream of time. The 4D salmon is doing its migration from the end of time to the beginning.
5D grizzly! Now we’re cooking, fuck yes
That’s pretty damn cool, to be fair.
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.
Spoilers to what? I’m intrigued now lol
Just Google Q /s
Answer
It’s Star Trek
Edit: I’m mixing it up. Gosh darn it.
The Xeelee Sequence, don’t get it confused with All Tomorrows.
Edit: woops, wrong book. What book was it?
Use the spoiler tags. Now I know Q is a 4-dimentional Salmon. The surprise is ruined.
It’s being weird for me. Let me just edit:
Somebody got high
Source: Been high
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.)
I will blink as many times as it is required for you to understand my sense of wonder is much stronger than weed.
Oh. I was joking about the weed but I guess you need a chill pill instead.
You may have misunderstood my propensity to dream, frolic, and play as hostility.
Hmm, there’s hardly a misunderstanding when I’m getting downvoted by you and told “as many times as I need to understand” but ok
Eh, I do think it is annoying when people make those kinds of comments, it’s usually weed guys too.
I am not hostile to you, just the toxic sentiment you carry.
Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide
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With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.
Is the shrike a villain though? Just let it have its murder sex…
You are right, I am projecting my 20th century values.
The Shrike is a force of nature that makes me pee myself just the teensiest bit.
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?
there are puzzle games that do that sort of.
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Damn, deleted, I’ll never know what this said lol.
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I don’t see how that would be any different from a regular time travel platformer
The idea would be that you could move in the depth axis just as an fps player (or maybe arcady spaceship or aircraft game?) moves through all 3 dimensions.
Though honestly I don’t play many 2d platformers, what I’ve seen is more of a … reset or rewind kind of paradigm, or jump forward in time, fastforward, or pause.
I’m thinking of some kind of… like you’d have to solve certain environment puzzles, defeat certain enemies, by deftly and precisely navigating through time as much as deftly executing platform jumps and 2d combat.
EDIT:
Like maybe imagine this with either a DPad + Stick or Twin Stick setup.
The one of those is your normal 2d movement, the other has one axis that is time forward/backward.
Or, maybe, left right is side to side, your character is some kind of unable to jump or crouch, but instead time phases with up/down?
(jump and crouch are replaced by… gravity temporarily off, gravity temporarily x 4?)
Pair it with maybe some kind of time travel stamina/mana meter, you gain more ‘endursnce’ with experience or after getting a treasure or accomplishing some task.
Could I guess also work with a top down or 2.5 uh, perspective as well, I guess?
Your description kind of made me think of Miegakure. Though it’s not about time, it is a 3D platformer where you have to move your 3D reality through a 4th spatial dimension to uncover the puzzle.
Really looking forward to playing it when it comes out.
Well hey that sounds quite interesting! Thanks for putting it on my radar =D
Eh, thats basically just hitting a time pause button.
A Link
through timeto the past (Zelda), and some more like it.It’s 3D, but there’s a Portal 2 mod with time travel
A Link Through Time?
Do you mean A Link To The Past?
???
The Zelda games I’ve played that feature time travel basically just have a ‘past world’ and ‘future world’.
…
Using my original analogy… So your 2D game is your screen.
The 3rd dimension would be into the screen, or toward your face.
A past/future flip is just two layers.
I’m trying to think of something thats more like… 10s, 100s, 1000s of ‘layers’, very fundamentally implemented as a basic game mechanic.
Like, you’d need to be weaving through time just as much as a normal game has you weaving through space, you’d have some puzzles or fights where you’d need to be moving through time and space simultaneously…
Apparently Braid is like this?
…
Majora’s Mask is arguably the closest to this of any Zelda game, in that you csn functionally jump to many, many more than just two layers, tons and tons if events and npc like… world paths put them in different places at different exact times, you can Double Time song half a day into the future, unless you’re doing some crazy speedrun you’re probably gonna need to rewind the clock many times in a normal playthrough.
I’ll have to check out Portal 2 w/ time travel though, haven’t played that.
In practical terms, Braid is probably closest. You have time rewind mechanics, in some stages it’s selective where rewind applies to specific objects AND/OR specific areas (so it’s not just try/retry, but actual time manipulation and setup)
Shoutout to Superhot, where time moves when you move (bullettime on steroids)
Ah yeah the famous genre of the time travel platformer
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!
I think that’s bastion
The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!
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Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?
Hey that’s in Shadow Slave
Benjamin buttonesque
And the salmon is called sammy.
Puh ka puh ka
Xeelee Sequence is basically that
All salmonds are four-dimensionnal
Why did I mentally read that as “almonds” with an s at the front?
Because of of the extra d I put after salmon
The only appropriate reaction for this I have right now is “Bruh”.
