X-COM RP THINK TANK (part2)

[Adrammalech]

Only time will tell if we succeed, or if the future is not exactly the one in that post, but similar...

Technically logic demands it be identical, because if we won, we never had to create a resistance, and then the resistance would never invent time travel, which never would've saved us, which would lead us to the same place so that we could create time travel and change what it is, taking us to where we are, but then the outcome would have to be similar to before...Alice, why are you fidgeting?

*looks at the wall* Oh.

 

[Taxor_the_First]

Penny probably died trying to run out a door. As in the door killed her, not the aliens chasing her.

Isaac... probably had a badass last stand trying to cover Penny as she ran, couldn't take seeing her die, was captured by the Ethereals, and before he was executed asked them:

There. That solves that. Now I can get back to not doing anything.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

Well, my first Rimworld casualty hurts.

Halley Orion
Female Human Vilager, Age 27 (African American)

Childhood: Shelter Child
Adulthood: Inventor

Traits:
Chemical Interest
Abrasive
Trigger-Happy

Construction 0
Growing 3
Research 9
Mining 0
Shooting 1
Melee 1
Social 5
Cooking 1
Medicine 9
Artistic 1
Crafting 7

Cause of Death: Brain Damage, Permanant Coma and

Subsequent Mercy Killing (Enuthenasia)

That's right, she got shot in the head, and never woke up so I had to put her down. Goodbye Halley. Q_Q

(I was hoping she could be the brain-damaged (weak motor functions) but sweet healer and savant researcher she was destined to be...)

 

[DarkGemini24601]

Haven't put her down yet, so votes go in if I should wait another ten game days for her to potentially recover, or put an end to her suffering.

 

[BMPixy]

Technically logic demands it be identical, because if we won, we never had to create a resistance, and then the resistance would never invent time travel, which never would've saved us, which would lead us to the same place so that we could create time travel and change what it is, taking us to where we are, but then the outcome would have to be similar to before...Alice, why are you fidgeting?

*looks at the wall* Oh.

No no, the time travel merely created an alternate universe, branching from the point of interference. Both timelines still exist, it's just that one has the interference of the other upon it. Trust me, I played FE13, I know how this shit works.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

No no, the time travel merely created an alternate universe, branching from the point of interference. Both timelines still exist, it's just that one has the interference of the other upon it. Trust me, I played FE13, I know how this shit works.

No, no, we are not going with the Mirai Nikki mode of time travel. The timeline was rewritten. What the future holds for twenty years down the line is anyone's guess now. All we know is it was different enough to overwrite the fate Sasha knew, and witnessed disappear.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

Hmm... I always had this idea of temporal displacement, which causes someone who time travels (like, say, the Terminator, or Chrono, or, Marty Mcfly, or Link, or, uh... I don't know, Bill and Ted?) had a kind of temporal immunity that was caused them to exist slightly out of sync with the temporal wave length, and thus, even if they change the future, they can still exist even if they should be written out of history, and thus allowing them to avoid that temporal paradox Adramma mentioned.

But I hate Chaos Theory. And fuck the Butterfly Effect... not the theory, the movie... fuckin' Ashton Kutcher...

 

[DarkGemini24601]

Alright, Halley has to die. She is permanently stuck in a coma, even when the game tells me she's "fully healed". Goodbye, Halley... we'll miss you. But even the famed grenade therapy didn't work.

 

[BMPixy]

No, no, we are not going with the Mirai Nikki mode of time travel. The timeline was rewritten. What the future holds for twenty years down the line is anyone's guess now. All we know is it was different enough to overwrite the fate Sasha knew, and witnessed disappear.

Ah, alright, so it is like the Mississippi River then. Without the influence of man, it'd flow through several large towns and kill lots of people, but since it is influenced, we get the river as we know it. Got it.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

She'll die with purpose though: we'll harvest her organs incase someone loses a lung or something. We Ethereal Collective now.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

She'll die with purpose though: we'll harvest her organs incase someone loses a lung or something. We Ethereal Collective now.

 

[Adrammalech]

Alright, Halley has to die. She is permanently stuck in a coma, even when the game tells me she's "fully healed". Goodbye, Halley... we'll miss you. But even the famed grenade therapy didn't work.

Not as bad as my Crusader Kings family, when I was an emperor and I made my son claim another empire, successfully enforced it, then three days later he got kicked by a horse or something and turned into a vegetable, and I had to smother him to unite the empires under a healthy ruler.

Was pretty grim.

 

[BMPixy]

Not as bad as my Crusader Kings family, when I was an emperor and I made my son claim another empire, successfully enforced it, then three days later he got kicked by a horse or something and turned into a vegetable, and I had to smother him to unite the empires under a healthy ruler.

Was pretty grim.

Lensman Arms Race of grimdark? I got you covered. D&D game I ran where, through a convoluted series of events, one of the players had to choose between letting his buddy become the agent of darkness a prophecy had foretold of, or hang for the crime of premeditated murder.

Little did he predict was that his assassination plot was to be foiled, and this prompted his buddy to begin down the path of evil.

 

[Dahlexpert]

Hmm... I always had this idea of temporal displacement, which causes someone who time travels (like, say, the Terminator, or Chrono, or, Marty Mcfly, or Link, or, uh... I don't know, Bill and Ted?) had a kind of temporal immunity that was caused them to exist slightly out of sync with the temporal wave length, and thus, even if they change the future, they can still exist even if they should be written out of history, and thus allowing them to avoid that temporal paradox Adramma mentioned.

But I hate Chaos Theory. And fuck the Butterfly Effect... not the theory, the movie... fuckin' Ashton Kutcher...

What, the actual fuck did I just watch.

 

[Adrammalech]

I'm surprised anyone clicked on it.

Except Frost.

 

[DarkGemini24601]

Frag grenades save the day from otherwise unbeatable raiders. All of them dead in two hits. And they were killed by Steg, who's wearing Halley's hat as a memento. The wrath of Halley is upon you, mercenaries of the 'Pig Men'!

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

I'm surprised anyone clicked on it.

Except Frost.

 

[Adrammalech]

I dunno if it was funny, I just saw ponies and ran away.

 

[ZombieSplitter53]

I dunno if it was funny, I just saw ponies and ran away.

You no likie da Game Grumps?

 

[Adrammalech]

Never really watched them. Although ironically Youtube directed me to one of their videos today and I enjoyed it.