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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 110 points 2 weeks ago

That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Somebody got high

Source: Been high

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am high now.

Source: dispensary

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am dispensary now.

Source: farms

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am farm now.

Source: seeds

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am going to seed now.

Source: aging

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am going to age now

Source: entropy

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am myself now

Source: my mom

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] froh42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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Source: Illegal access dereferencing pointer 0x00000000000000000000000000000000000

[–] kwarg@mander.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

Source

Source: Source

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Brother thinks I need substances to be whimsical

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

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.)

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

They didn't just get high, they got Perfectly High.

High enough that everything is clear and profound, but not high enough to feel the tiny shadow people climbing your nose hairs.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 42 points 2 weeks ago

The 4D salmon: what's an outside?

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide

[–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.

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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here's a crab town.

[–] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jesus was symbolized as a fish. If he does 'return' it's easy to imagine the way he does.

Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.

Great things to be unburied, but it is quagmire. Hence, the constant vitriol spilled forth.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you built like a cult leader? How would you like a job.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

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?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 2 weeks ago

Braid and Prince of Persia, kind of?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah well shit, I was legitimately asking, I haven't played too many platformers in a while, sounds like I should check it out!

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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.

Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...

Run with your idea! I like this!

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have some similar ideas about a story driven time travel game where it's set up so that at one point you face an anonymous enemy, which forces you to trigger certain conditions in the stage and then they escape.

Later in the game you return to this stage at the same point in time, expecting to face that enemy again, but you are this "enemy", and the game nudges you into replicating the exact same sequence of events so that you take the actions which the "enemy" did so your (NPC) past self can replay the exact steps you previously took.

But the game doesn't show this clearly to you the player until you completed the stage - while your character is shown to have noticed something strange, the game doesn't show you the player (or you character's party) that you faced yourself until the end of the stage, using different positions and camera angles to hide it from you and the party. And if you manage to replicate the event chain perfectly, you'll get to see your party members being visibly stunned when you see them realize it was a time loop (your actions in the stage breaks the loop), and hopefully the player can be made to feel like they experienced a time loop, as if they really faced off with themselves twice ("how did the game know I would do it that way?")

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That sounds difficult to pull off, but incredible if you could.

Not only is a time loop built into the main story, recreating something from another perspective... it also has branching paths in the more linear sense of a roleplaying game / imsim.

I like this idea too, but ...'nudging' the player, without it being too estoeric, or too obvious... that ain't easy lol.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been playing 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel it's remarkably easy to understand, all considered. It's only partially mind bending.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I don't see how that would be any different from a regular time travel platformer

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there are puzzle games that do that sort of.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's bastion

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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Spoilers to what? I'm intrigued now lol

[–] potoo22@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just Google Q /s

AnswerIt's Star Trek

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[–] potoo22@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Use the spoiler tags. Now I know Q is a 4-dimentional Salmon. The surprise is ruined.

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[–] LordTechnobabble@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

Just want to say. The Narcissist Cookbook has some banger music. Don't know how to really describe it, it's like a fusion of Folk, Spoken Word and Punk

Here's a Spotify link if y'all are interested

His latest two albums are a connected concept album and they're some of their best work yet

Anyway fan rant over

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

reading through your old notes can be a wild ride sometimes lmao

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All salmonds are four-dimensionnal

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[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

I guess those words are forming a sentence or more

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Benjamin buttonesque

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

[If you're in to science fiction fishing... ](http://www.listen.com/ to Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself by Haylock Jobson on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CVCYB19Y?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)

[–] ThatDullGuy@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is this the guy that wrote Tenet?

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