#is as salty as a gamer

[weepingtalecowboy]

Time is like a river (and fierce deity is straight up drowning in him)

Fanfic prompt :The good old horror of time using the ocarina or someone else using it is well known

But I think that it could get worse

Like for example if time hands the ocarina over to one of the other links

As they can turn back time for essentially eternity if they can mentally keep up (or not it would still work)

Them dying doesn’t actually make a difference

If legend for example after a literal eternity of looping back dies

What even changes ?

All that changes is the fact that someone else might take the ocarina to travel back in time

Now wind or warriors or any other link gets to do the exact same thing

But this character hasn’t lived the same memory of the first one even if legend told them that he comes from the future they literally can’t comprehend his memories because they haven’t lived them he could never hope to tell them Literally EVERY single outcome of all his attempts that physically could not be possible/especially if we included genuine eternities of looping back to fix stuff like making a list is not possible if it keeps going on for eternity

This eternal loop might actually be much worse because if legend dies then time (the construct) would be at square one

And legend's progress on finding ways to escape the loop would die with him

Who ever takes the ocarina next only needs to die once to get legend to take the ocarina back and he will be back with trying already long done methods again and again (he could never know that he did them already because he literally hasn’t yet by this point he will eternally be set to a very limited amount of options he will keep retrying and retrying and retrying endlessly)

The true horror in time travel is the possibility that you can’t escape because even if you know you are in one , you could have tried every option to ever exist and you wouldn’t even know how many times you tried it you cannot imagine something new if you keep losing the memory that you have already tried the past options

Because for all people think time is linear they don’t act like it is

If we think we will change the past if we fuck around and find out…

IF the timeline truly was linear then it would have already accounted for the fucking around with it and by assuming that you could potentially mess it up you SEVERELY limit your understanding and options

A good example is a river that flows down a mountain

No matter how hard you try to push it back it will just keep flowing down and continue on it will carve into the mountain and have its favored path

Trying to stop it with a dam only stops it for a while… at some point it overflows and it goes back to linearly flow downwards

Maybe the patterns it takes change a bit when you put your hand inside but the water downstream literally won’t be affected by you because it ALREADY is down there

To stop the stream in a way that truly stops it like pushing all the water back up even if you manage it the second you stop pushing it upstream it will just flow back into the carved out paths and the water is back at the bottom

To take a different option is literally impossible

You can’t try something you yourself are incapable of thinking about doing

Even if you try for eternity you are limited by your own mortality

If you are trapped then you are trapped (if you escape then you never where trapped in the first place)

The options are incredibly limited in time travel every time you forget you take them again

But now comes the part… that is genuinely terrifying to consider

The way majora's mask is defeated would be literally impossible without some entity that remembers every failure

Because we tend to suck at games (nobody can play a game without knowing how it works without dying at least once )

So every time link dies he is back to his limited amount of options with no memory of every having taken them, …

But we aren’t we can get better at the game and figure out stuff

Like fierce deity literally takes several cycles to get even if you never die

But realistically you couldn’t have known better if you didn’t know the game in some way (be it reading up a guide or trying it out )

But how can link know to try something in different ways or order whenever he dies

Like changing quests and figuring out where to go is not something that you can do on the first try

We are essentially the entity who has a collective of link's memory (I like to think that fierce deity is a representation of this collective memory)

So if time has the fierce deity to tell him to take another option (by force or otherwise)

He can break out because he can actually take another option

He might not even know that he is taking another option but he certainly can do so with the fierce deity's help

While the rest of the links are literally toddling around like kids indefinitely

Passing the ocarina back and forth not gaining any insight on how to get out the timeloop

Instead of retrying a certain set of options over and over again in repetition

Time could eventually use the fierce deity to get out the loop

If the option they need to escape isn’t figured out during the first loop where a character has their memory still

It literally won’t be figured out by the next loop or any other loop

Honestly that collective would totally make fierce deity’s actions and existence horrifying

It would literally have several millennia of the hero of time’s memory of past attempts and failures

Be it time biting the dust day one in majora’s mask twenty times over till it made him figure out stuff because it has the experience to do better or time retrying during linked universe for the five hundred time

He might not know just how often he had done that but the fierce deity surly does

And it’s gamer rage is totally justified because how often can someone suck at the same thing with losing their god damned mind

We as players tend to get incredibly frustrated when we fail over and over yet outright living the situation that link is in would be a completely different kind of painful because fierce deity wouldn’t just be looking at the happenings

[snoffart]

Peri and Dev playing Fortnite…. Based on a moment my sibling and I had yesterday LOL

[bardic-inspo]

I think one of the (many) reasons I feel justified in being a bit of a hater about DA:TV is that not only did I spend the $70 for the game, I shelled out $500 for a new console just to be able to play it. Yes, I would have eventually upgraded, but probably not for another year or more. Mr. Megh and I made it our anniversary present to ourselves, but we've got a lot of house project stuff we could've spent that money on instead. My old Xbox ran just fine and I had plenty more games to play and revisit with it.

And yeah, it's not DA's fault that consoles are being upgraded/made obsolete at a stupid pace. But for the price of $570 yes I am entitled to be a bit bitter about an experience that disappointed me (and also roll my eyes at anyone who decries that entitlement).

[3zethe3zr]

For @salty-an-disco

[lycheefruiit]

Bad has given his chat metagaming privelleges, just so they can tell on Foolish.

[waywardsalt]

i think that rewatching all of what’s new scooby-doo would make things better

[overwatchmilk]

🧂❣

[spiegelgestalt]

The key to successfully rolling in FGO is to be happy with what you get. And I got some good stuff: another Medea, Tomoe Gozen some good craft essences....

Not Gilgamesh though. Neither Gilgamesh was there. Why wasn't there a Gilgamesh

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I'm in pain.

[thuganomxcs]

SO FORTNITE, y'all wanna put in Goku BLACK, Cell, Frieza BUT NOT TRUNKS? I see how y'all be.

[multi-lefaiye]

if this post gets one like i'll post the rant i typed up about the post i was vaguing about last night

[mechawolfie]

if swtor let u click a destination & ur character automatically walks to it & auto interacts I would b unstoppable

[iholli]

Every other month or so the Justice League has a week long Mario Kart tournament. Everyone plays, even Batman. It was J'onn's idea.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Lol I will be in a nursing home old and barely able to move and I still will not behave normally if someone brings up mass effect 3's ending around me.

[feareborn]

“&– - Yes, it's me-- - I'm the one who delta-ruined your lives.”

[xiaomao-ai-wo]

I'm salty for life. They sent me to the salt mines as a kid and I came back as Lutefisk.