General Story Discussion Thread (PCM 2014)
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 20:59
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Ian Butler wrote:
Also, if you come back and give yourself a time machine, there are two. Reminds me of Futurama timetravel movie
Now it depends which rules you follow. Predetermination would mean the duplicate machine would break/not work. Non-paradox states nothing would happen you'd have a time machine.
Futurama time travel movie. Do you mean Benders Big Score, which is "paradox correcting" until the unvierse rips open? Or the Futurama Game Movie which is predeterminism (as is the episode Roswell that ends Well)?
And now we are totally off topic
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Posted on 28-12-2014 21:00
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Not necessary,
more interesting to brainstorm ourselves than to listen to a bunch of old crazy scientists with their crazy theories
Big Score.
Though the episode from Roswell is just brilliant. Back to the Future with sleeping with grandmothers
Edited by Ian Butler on 28-12-2014 21:05
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Posted on 28-12-2014 21:03
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On her 30th birthday, a woman who wishes to build a time machine is visited by a future version of herself. This future self explains to her that she should not worry about designing the time machine, as she has done it in the future. The woman receives the schematics from her future self and starts building the time machine. Time passes until she finally completes the time machine. She then uses it to travel back in time to her 30th birthday, where she gives the schematics to her past self, closing the loop.
A professor travels forward in time, and reads in a physics journal about a new equation that was recently derived. He travels back to his own time, and relates it to one of his students who writes it up, and the article is published in the same journal which the professor reads in the future.
A woman builds a time machine. She goes into the future and steals a valuable gadget. She then returns and reveals the gadget to the world, claiming it as her own. Eventually, a copy of the device ends up being the item the woman originally steals. In other words, the device is a copy of itself and it is not possible to state where the original idea for the device came from.
A man with a time machine takes the complete plays of Shakespeare, translated into Elizabethan English, and travels back in time to Tudor England. He then gives the plays to the young William Shakespeare before he wrote them, telling him to publish them as his own work. He does, and a copy of the 'original' publication is what is taken back in time. This means that nobody wrote the plays of Shakespeare, as he essentially gave them to himself, thereby closing the loop.
An old woman gives a young man a watch; the young man then goes back in time and hands the watch to a young woman; she later grows into the older woman who hands the watch to him. The watch therefore has no point of origin.
The third and last ones prove my point best. They are taken from:
https://en.wikiped...ap_paradox
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:05
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As i said it's all about which therories you use because use a non-predeterminist theory and the above all change.
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trekbmc |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:08
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TheManxMissile wrote:
As i said it's all about which therories you use because use a non-predeterminist theory and the above all change.
That's the problem with time travel and there is one actual reasonable solution
Spoiler Don't
As in don't build a time machine, don't go back in time and don't start paradoxes.
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:09
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Well don't forget time travel is physically possible to do where you are currently. If you want to know more i suggest moving the converstation somwhere else
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Jakstar22 |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:51
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So I know its early on in the story but what does everyone think of my new Quintana story?
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:53
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To be honest: It's much alike your old stories, but I think it has potential if you keep it going and grow in it |
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:54
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Jakstar22 wrote:
So I know its early on in the story but what does everyone think of my new Quintana story?
Does it involve Time Travel?
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:55
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TheManxMissile wrote:
Jakstar22 wrote:
So I know its early on in the story but what does everyone think of my new Quintana story?
Does it involve Time Travel?
If not, it's very off-topic here |
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 21:57
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Ian Butler wrote:
If not, it's very off-topic here
Off-topic? You mean CAT PORN
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trekbmc |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:02
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Ian Butler wrote:
TheManxMissile wrote:
Jakstar22 wrote:
So I know its early on in the story but what does everyone think of my new Quintana story?
Does it involve Time Travel?
If not, it's very off-topic here
1. Yeah, Jakstar, it's the longest I've ever managed to follow a story.
2. All these spammy off-topic posts.
3. Has anybody thought of having a 'random scientific and mathematical things that don't need to be talk about but somehow find their way into innocent threads' thread? I might make one.
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TheManxMissile |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:04
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trekbmc wrote:
3. Has anybody thought of having a 'random scientific and mathematical things that don't need to be talk about but somehow find their way into innocent threads' thread? I might make one.
You mean Café Pedro 10: Mostly Harmless
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matt17br |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:08
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Stop creating threads for every single thing, cafe pedro would lose any kind of offtopic discussion that is not spam
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trekbmc |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:08
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TheManxMissile wrote:
trekbmc wrote:
3. Has anybody thought of having a 'random scientific and mathematical things that don't need to be talk about but somehow find their way into innocent threads' thread? I might make one.
You mean Café Pedro 10: Mostly Harmless
I thought that was just; Random things or maybe Random things that find their way into innocent threads, I was talking about one specifically for time travel and things.
oh and I'll add that to my list of café Pedro 11 suggestions, along with
Café Pedro 11: It Doesn't Matter!
EDIT: I know matt, I would've made one if I actually thought it was useful and worth making, I just decided to say it.
Edited by trekbmc on 28-12-2014 22:09
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Jakstar22 |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:35
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Okay well thanks guys
Ian what sort of things do you think I need to make it grow?
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:36
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Hmm depends on what you want the story to be. Maybe some lay-out additions to make it easier to look at. Or maybe some character development, give us some real insights in the character. But it's all up to you, of course ! |
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Jakstar22 |
Posted on 28-12-2014 22:47
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Ian Butler wrote:
Hmm depends on what you want the story to be. Maybe some lay-out additions to make it easier to look at. Or maybe some character development, give us some real insights in the character. But it's all up to you, of course !
I see....I'll see what I can do maybe after the first season
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Posted on 29-12-2014 01:06
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I think that's why I think custom rider stories are easier to write (haven't tried any... Yet) because if I went into character development deeply (the comeback, karl hammarling to name a couple) with a real rider people could criticize and call it out of character. With a custom rider you invent the personality, etc.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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Ian Butler |
Posted on 04-01-2015 18:33
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Just read some of my older stories, Double Feature etc.
Nostalgia comes to mind
I really love to read those again, especially the heart-wamring comments by all these people. Makes me think about maybe writing another story one day. It would be way in the future, though. Maybe if Cyanide makes a full-working game one day. I'm not sure if I'll ever have that much time again but still.
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