The source of our discontents

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Aristotle said the gods are omnipotent but there is one thing no god can do, and that is, to undo time. If all memory were erased, still the fact of past existence can never be.


And that's the problem. Technologically, socially, culturally, one simply cannot recreate how strange it was to raid with 50-100 people before the towers fell. We both know this game, and the experience is familiar. What is known, can't be unknown. Time, is unforgiving.


So what is this server? Can't recreate 1999, unless you want to replicate what happens when the same router goes out in Kansas week after week. And, a bunch of people who can't believe they are talking to Chang, or at least trying to, or perhaps some member of the Saudi Royal family. I'm pretty sure I was once in a guild led by a minor sheik.



So let's say what this server really is. It's a time warp that doesn't really time warp good. (see: router outages. see: enchanters) It plants us right in the "this is getting tiresome" spot in the simulator curve, and hopes it sticks.


This is p99:
https://i.imgur.com/JHWFtzS.jpg

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I forgot to include the event horizon curve dammit. It's the point in time, marked by a curve transecting the time line, back to which no one wants to go, nor would they even know how to code it (back) in. That knowledge is lost, and that familiarity is often good riddance.

[Hasbinbad]

i m m e r s i o n
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[Hasbinbad]

this is the worst thread so far today.

i made a thread earlier.

you're doing bad.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Fixed it
https://i.imgur.com/NbT8788.jpg

[Toxigen]

no shit sherlock

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

this is the worst thread so far today.

i made a thread earlier.

you're doing bad.


I haven't taken the full syringe of my morning RSO yet Hasbin.


A mix up. A light glitch. Just a gully.

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/K7Vf9Lt.gif

[goblinmob]

So time goes higher the more familiar we are with our knowledge of the game?

[goblinmob]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and maybe I'm exposing my ignorance but that graph seems kinda made up

[Jobaber]

OP your graph doesn't change the fact that enchanters did not exist in 1999

[Jobaber]

So time goes higher the more familiar we are with our knowledge of the game?

Actually, if reality doesn’t exist until you measure it, then... yes!

https://www.science.org/content/article/reality-doesn-t-exist-until-you-measure-it-quantum-parlor-trick-confirms

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

No, time is a diagonal. It might not be "that" diagonal, but *given* time, knowledge and familiarity with any system increases with time. Like take child rearing. The first child, Manhattan Experiment. Third child? Putting aside for the moment meth mommas, both knowledge and familiarity increase with time. In raising a human, this is a perpetual marvel, I have heard. Each year is a new year, for the young, and you watch and are there through it and it is enthralling, I have heared. Child rearing = high-immersion factor, low-burnout in non-meth momma populations. Time has no power here.


Games? A game is not a constant marvel. It is not fully human, really. Any game. Thus that time arrow, is usually your enemy, if you are the designer and the player. Unless you be a meth momma. Then you plug along crazy.


So, the time arrow is a problem depending on the system in question. Games = compared to being responsible for a child, from what I have heard the immersion level of games pales.


HOWEVER BABY IS NOT ALWAYS > EQ.


Back in the early days, we all know the truth. The sad truth. Many kids were left crying b/c, back then, time had not expired on the "evercrack" nickname. Immersion, as it is called. That's the eq beyond the event horizon. We really want to create another generation of incels?


Yes. For lack of a mother who played a druid's love, thus came forth, the Incel Generation. Do the math. It adds up. Elliot Rodgers was born in San Diego.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

At this point, this topic is best addressed in Hasbinbad's thread on all-male tradwife dating sites.

[magnetaress]

I came into this thread expecting whining and to say something smarmy.

Pleasantly surprised. Going to have to come back and do a thorough reread.

[Topgunben]

https://i.imgur.com/K7Vf9Lt.gif

No kidding.

[Arvan]

didn't read any of that but advice is seek help

[magnetaress]

graph is 100% accurate

it's time to recreate the classic experience with new lore and no raid bullshit until 3 years in.

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/9LQxafa.jpg

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

didn't read any of that but advice is seek help


https://i.imgur.com/ASHXD2e.jpg