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Old 09-17-2015, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by cosmicfish View Post
I dislike this one because without the ongoing ability to travel in time everything becomes an exercise in futility. Especially if there are infinite timelines, because then success just means you got lucky while failure means knowing that there is another timeline where you succeeded. If the characters are fighting for one post-apocalyptic wasteland out of many then there doesn't seem to be as much significance behind what they do
The characters won't care. You live your life. Just because another you in a different quantum reality is not bleeding to death in a foxhole will probably not make you smile as life slips away.
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