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[recollecters]

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Comments

[liberal_arts]

It's possible for a sufficiently skilled and prepared person to manage that. But I'd rather not be such an attractive prospect.

[storytelleroftime]

Oh, so Lailah's kid and that his weird dorky boyfriend. Got it.

[sivard]

You know Lailah?

[twelfthspark]

Who, me? Of course not~ Such a little thing to hold a grudge over.

[storytelleroftime]

Uh, yeah. I'd call us friends.Why?

[judgementkazzy]

[ It's ok Kaz is way more stubborn over text than irl, he's just sticking around for the differing perspective now... ]

I'd want to try at least, even if it's supposed to be impossible.

[destiny_key]

lol i dont mind
if its fun then of course id want to keep doing it!!!

[standalonehuman]

I am actually having to sit on that one for a minute. As in, why isn't everything that we are seeing true? That it's entirely differently worlds based on objective criteria.

One friend of mine sees magic, I see spider tanks, another friend sees a feudal samurai battlefield. We're all correct.

So then, if we take all those objective perspectives and slap them on top of each other? We get the simulation Retrospec has created for us. The middle ground of it all. But that would also make sense as to why things change.

After all, people started remembering the chocobos from their pasts.

This. Has more ground to it than you might think.

[toobigtohandle]

I thank you for informing me of this. It's definitely something to keep in mind.

[sivard]

No reason, I'm just surprised we have a connection.

I wouldn't say I'm friends with Lailah, exactly, but I know her.

[strayknight]

I shouldnt?

mm....I have true. that just sets it up for bad things.

[storytelleroftime]

Well if you look hard enough or broad enough, everyone has commonalities.

[lecturehall]

this isn't what i was expecting to happen on here.
sure. why not? let's do it.

[lalliho]

huh

well it's not my time wasted I guess

[truedetective]

If not for the extremely varied settings we're remembering, I would argue that there's no evidence against the theory whatsoever.
The idea that this is a simulation and we're recalling our past lives fits almost too well.

[standalonehuman]

Our past lives, or our real lives, though?

If this is a simulation, they got us into it from somewhere. We change as we remember more because we're remembering what's real?

I. I don't like this. I'd need more positive proof before I'd act on it.

But damn it, I can't figure out how to prove it wrong, either.

[truedetective]

I think the question is a difference of semantics.
We existed as individuals outside the simulation. We had lives of our own.
This version of us was constructed largely along those lives.
Either unintentionally or intentionally, we're recalling them.

Of course, that brings up a question of philosophy: Does that make our life here somehow *not* real?

[standalonehuman]

Simulation or not, I'm going to keep arguing for what I have been all along: that our choices and actions here matter more than the things we've been shown and remembered.

It's that philosophical idea of intent versus action, action wins out every time. Even if this world is a simulation, it's the background that we are using to interact with each other. Can't affect the world, but we can affect the other people in it. So your actions are more important. And if this world isn't a simulation, then acting like our actions don't matter in it is the fast track to madness. So, again, actions are more important, and treating this world as real is our best option.

[truedetective]

I think it's increasingly more likely that this is a simulation, or some other artificial reality created using our "real" lives as templates.

But even with that in mind, I agree that our lives and relationships here shouldn't be discarded.

[standalonehuman]

Have you chatted with Yoon-sung Lee? You two should really talk. Your theories are exceptionally close to one another.

The more evidence I see, the less I think this person Retrosepc is trying to get me to remember was a good person. That's not going to stop me from continuing to do my job and serve the law here.

[sivard]

You've got a point there.

Especially with the people who can see this app.

[truedetective]

I haven't, no. If I may ask What makes you think that?

[standalonehuman]

[Going back through the logic steps that have led to Togusa's paranoia about his memories are difficult, for a moment. Were does he get this from?]

I remembered an officer I was working with, at first I didn't realize it was a memory from somewhere else. All signs point to his death being my fault. Or, the other Togusa's fault. I was also one of the first to get sent a weapon by Retrospec, something highly customized.

Maybe it's stupid, I know I was keeping a closer watch on those people who had been sent weapons, and I am among that list.

[judgementkazzy]

Even if it's a waste of time, I'd still try. That's just how I am.

[admiringly]

what were you expecting?