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[tyranngott]

How many of you have attempted to change your futures due to information discovered from this... nexus? Has it been successful? Or did it crash and burn?

[He's curious, quite honestly, but nothing is going to change his course of action. Birkin is already beginning to make progress, and things are going smoothly. A definite deviation from his original plan, but he didn't get this far without learning how to adapt.]

One cannot deny that this opens a whole new window of opportunity.

Comments

[onepointtwentyonewatts]

I don't believe one should know too much about their own desinity. Leaves opportunity wide open for a pardox or a window of unseeable surprises.

[tyranngott]

Perhaps. I have already been made aware, however. There is no sense in proceeding as I had originally planned.

Permavideo

[hugmyscythe]

I hold that it is much morethan opportunity.

[tyranngott]

Is that so? Go on.

[unknownrival]

I've done it for other people I cared about, and it's been reasonably successful. Those who would have died lived, those who would have been trapped in eternal torment escaped, etc.

Hi, Wesker.

[tyranngott]

Interesting. For others, but not yourself?

You have me at a disadvantage. [And he hates being at a disadvantage.]

[p_a_r_a_d_o_x]

Way too many people here. Some were even successful other weren't so lucky. It depends on the circumstances.

[tyranngott]

I have no doubt everyone believed that their circumstance was the correct one.

[iseedeadpeople]

I'm trying to keep the past exactly the same, does that count?

[tyranngott]

If you are using this connection as a source of information, yes.

[glimmerous_fop]

It depends, sometimes the community shows us our futures and once you know it's possible to change it. Several members have been able to change it actually.

[tyranngott]

And you see nothing wrong with this?

[grimdarkseer]

I have considered it.
But altering the future here is a little risky and I would rather not doom everyone for my own reluctance to deal with someone I met too soon here.
I am still trying to determine what the balance is.

[tyranngott]

Thoughtful of you.

It seems that altering the future here is unavoidable, however. If you are introduced to someone on this network that you would have met in the future, things will be different.

Theoretically, anyway.

[tenminutes]

It's kind of hard to change your own if you don't know it yet. Some people get lucky with some of the viruses though and they get warned, or they get people from their world on different times to let them know.

[tyranngott]

It seemed to be commonplace. How do you mean that viruses offer warnings?

[makewayforroze]

If you knew something bad would happen, wouldn't nearly everyone want to change it?

[tyranngott]

One would think. However, some are concerned about altering things too much--A Sound of Thunder affect, if you will.

[mightletyouknowme]

I knew it wouldn't work.

[tyranngott]

How pessimistic.

[Video]

[material_guy]

Of course it's successful. If it fails it's just 'cause a person's a failure, not 'cause of any fate-in-stone thing.

[tyranngott]

[No face-to-face chat with you today, Greed. Maybe later.]

No? So if someone alters their path in an attempt to change one future, and something goes horribly awry--they are just a failure?

[thekidsare0kay]

uhhhh, yeah.
2ort of.
but iit'2 not 2uppo2ed two work.

[tyranngott]

'Sort of', but it's not 'not supposed to'.

Sounds contradictory.

[sandinmyboots]

Yes, and my test run didn't work. The rest, I didn't have warning for until it was too late; what I do have warning for is pleasant enough that I've stuck to it. I won, after all.

[There's a lot of things he was upset about earlier: his home getting melted by out of control espers, getting backstabbed by everyone he liked on his own world, but the prospect of outright destroying the entire world in return soothes that. What happens to a game when it ends? What happens to a world of magic when it's source is destroyed...?]

[tyranngott]

Just the man I was looking for.

[Dismissing his own stories for now--that can be dissected later. Right now, he has a much more important use for Kefka.]