Civilization on your world must be incredibly old if ancient cultures had access to that kind of technology. Anyway, the idea of storing data like that isn't new to me. It's a common part of everyday life where I'm from.
The part that confuses me is being able to traverse between dimensions without memory loss. I would think that you and your agent would both forget the mission entirely the moment you changed world lines.
[ rude, don't just brush off his contribution to the conversation. if that kind of technology is really commonplace in her world -- which he chooses to doubt!! -- she should agree that that's what they should be focusing on here. ]
Why would there be any loss of memory? It's not as if we're taking the place of our counterparts who exist in that dimension. We're physically entering it and existing alongside them.
[ wait, actually, okabe said that hashida built a machine like that in the future, and that's how amane came back to talk to him... it sounds insane, but she has no reason to doubt Okabe, even if he's an idiot. ]
Isn't that dangerous? You could cause a time paradox.
That's fine. But I would assume that it would cause some sort of destabilization while you were there. I guess I'd be wrong. Physical movement across timelines is still a new concept for me, so bear with me.
It's only the prime dimension in which two of the same thing can't exist at the same time.
With that said, I think you're focusing on the wrong thing here. Do you really think we've been physically relocated to this place from our own worlds?
[ wtf does she think they have them all piled up in a warehouse somewhere or something... ]
There's one person here from my world, from the prime dimension, who came here from a later point on our timeline than I did. Apparently I still existed in that world after coming here, because he encountered me again at a later point of which I have no memory. Beyond that, he claims to have gone back to our world only to end up here again.
Doesn't that sound to you as if it's more likely that we never truly left at all?
Don't forget that they're willingly bending space and time to bring us here. What seems like a contradiction to you might simply be a difference of timelines.
I'm not sure what the alternative to being physically brought here would be, anyway.
I can say with some certainty that that was the same timeline. There's only one in which the Land of Canaan can exist.
An alternative would be that we really are constructed from data they gathered. Not backup copies as they implied, but additional copies of the same files, saved in a different location, while the originals remain where they were.
[ god that sounds like something okabe would make up... it keeps happening. but she bites her tongue. ]
That could be true. If we go with that assumption, though, it would render any attemps at escaping and returning to "normal life" moot, so I've been ignoring it.
[ even he would acknowledge that that part sounds like fairytale bullshit, though it isn't. that giant space fetus is 100% real. (what the fuck is this game.) ]
So you're ignoring what little factual evidence there is in order to cling to your hope of succeeding in those attempts.
The word of those we knew before coming here, with whom we can compare experiences and timelines. I consider the information I was given by that person from my world to be more reliable evidence than anything else I've found here.
[ which it fucking pains him to say because he hates that kid, but he is a researcher too, and has a little bit of experience with fractured dimensions, and is enough of a goody two-shoes that he's probably incapable of lying. ]
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Thank you. That'd be a small comfort.
Civilization on your world must be incredibly old if ancient cultures had access to that kind of technology. Anyway, the idea of storing data like that isn't new to me. It's a common part of everyday life where I'm from.
The part that confuses me is being able to traverse between dimensions without memory loss. I would think that you and your agent would both forget the mission entirely the moment you changed world lines.
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Why would there be any loss of memory? It's not as if we're taking the place of our counterparts who exist in that dimension. We're physically entering it and existing alongside them.
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[ wait, actually, okabe said that hashida built a machine like that in the future, and that's how amane came back to talk to him... it sounds insane, but she has no reason to doubt Okabe, even if he's an idiot. ]
Isn't that dangerous? You could cause a time paradox.
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With that said, I think you're focusing on the wrong thing here. Do you really think we've been physically relocated to this place from our own worlds?
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Do you believe something else?
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There's one person here from my world, from the prime dimension, who came here from a later point on our timeline than I did. Apparently I still existed in that world after coming here, because he encountered me again at a later point of which I have no memory. Beyond that, he claims to have gone back to our world only to end up here again.
Doesn't that sound to you as if it's more likely that we never truly left at all?
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Don't forget that they're willingly bending space and time to bring us here. What seems like a contradiction to you might simply be a difference of timelines.
I'm not sure what the alternative to being physically brought here would be, anyway.
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I can say with some certainty that that was the same timeline. There's only one in which the Land of Canaan can exist.
An alternative would be that we really are constructed from data they gathered. Not backup copies as they implied, but additional copies of the same files, saved in a different location, while the originals remain where they were.
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[ god that sounds like something okabe would make up... it keeps happening. but she bites her tongue. ]
That could be true. If we go with that assumption, though, it would render any attemps at escaping and returning to "normal life" moot, so I've been ignoring it.
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So you're ignoring what little factual evidence there is in order to cling to your hope of succeeding in those attempts.
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And what evidence is there? CERES' word? We already know they're lying to us.
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[ which it fucking pains him to say because he hates that kid, but he is a researcher too, and has a little bit of experience with fractured dimensions, and is enough of a goody two-shoes that he's probably incapable of lying. ]