#reality is a simulation

[davendickrider]

[cosmicportal]

"The universe is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures"

~ Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore

[charlietheepicwriter7]

De-Aged Danny, gesturing to a dazed Bruce inside Wayne Manor: And this is Bruce! Otherwise known as the Himbo! Reporters: Hmm, yes, interesting... Bruce: What the- Danny: I'm not sure what that word means. I heard it from Dick, but no one will give me my answer, not even Jason, who is easily bribed. Bruce: Why are there reporters in my house!? Danny, innocent and childlike: They asked to come inside, Bruce! They seemed like really nice people, so I thought it'd be polite to give them a tour. Bruce, filled with infinite patience: I really wish you had asked me before you did that, chum. Danny: But why? We don't have anything to hide... do we, Bruce?

Or, in order to rise to the Ghost Throne, Danny has to complete a series of trials to prove he is capable of ruling (or any other reason, Danny just needs to do trials to prove himself).

The last trial, issued by Clockwork, is thus: discover the Wayne Family secret in two weeks without the use of any of his powers.

He has one shapeshift to pick a form that could endere him to the Waynes, but only one before he starts and he has to get close to the family by his own wits. Danny, after studying the family and reading of one sentence summary of each Wayne, picks the body of a six-year-old little boy that looked like a child Jason Todd.

Bruce: That child is up to something. Dick, third favorite: I don't know, Bruce; he acts like a normal kid. Jason, #1 favorite: I doubt the old man's ever met a normal kid. Tim, least favorite: Bruce is right, but can you please not talk like the villains from Chicken Run.

[scipunk]

The Matrix (1999)

[daisys-reality]

some images i recently found about the multiverse:

Images from Robert Adlers article "Ultimate guide to the multiverse" on newscientist.com (23. Nov. 2011)

[thirdity]

Art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulations

[cocozydiaries]

ik shifting is real when people who’ve shifted start getting angry about it. like if they were tryna convince me smth that isn’t real was i feel like they’d be nicer about it but NOPE

the way these shifters will violate you for no reason the second you start doubting yourself is too genuine. they are mean

[strawberryicemoon]

I was thinking about "Princess-coded" characters, and by extension Aelita. And I'm thinking Franz/Waldo almost kinda made his daughter a god?

At least the potential is there.

We don't really see Aelita do anything that crazy with the super computer, but Aelita is one of the few beings who can theoretically make full use of the computer.

And the things we do see the computer do are wild. Turn off gravity and heat on earth, and of course return to the past for example. The supercomputer literally gives someone the power to play god. If someone with malicious intent got full control of the computer the results would be devastating. And Aelita technically has that power.

If Lyoko was written a bit less episodically and with more of an interest in examining the implications of its worldbuilding I think there could be room fro a story about what it means to be human/transcending humanity. A story where in Waldo's desperation to save his daughter he literally deifies her, chains her to the fate of reality itself and the implications thereof. Don't get me wrong I enjoy it as is, but stuff like this is why I keep thinking about this show. Granted Aelita's storyline already does touch on aspects of this with Aelita not considering herself human and her horror at what her father did to her life at points. And well, of course the only reason Aelita IS involved in all of this is because of her father.

Garage kids had the kids retain their Lyoko powers in their day to day life, and while I think understand WHY they changed that, from a worldbuilding perspective there is no real reason they don't. After all the super computer already gives them the ability to remember rttp and a resistance to Xanas influence. Irl powers really isn't far out of the realm of possibility. An Aelita with Creation in her day to day life would not be something to be trifled with.

On a totally unrelated note, we know how easy it was for Aelita's very life to become entangled with the computer itself, dying if anything happened to the computer. And with the computers influence on the world, how easy would it have been for the whole world's existence to have become entangled with the computers continued existence.

[mouseeetrappp]

DO WE REMEMBER HIM?? </3

[charliespoorasshole]

not now sweetheart, mommy’s busy playing kcd as a hans capon romance simulator

[3eanuts]

September 22, 1956 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

[ynnie631]

I think most people forget that shifting literally has no rules or limitations. We're so stuck in the belief that we need instructions and guidelines for everything that we malfunction when something that seems to require it, basically has none.

Yada yada, method this method that, subliminal this subliminal that— dawg I'm telling you from my experience that I literally fucking shifted without even intending to. After giving up for like days on end, I literally shifted. A COUPLE OF TIMES, may I add.

And it all happened right after I take a break or give up, because I don't put so much pressure or expectation in myself.

Shifting is so natural to me, I'm basically in tune with it: I understand it so deeply, I know it like the back of my hand. But I don't try and complicate it, I don't have the energy for that.

Like please guys, literally telling you, if you want motivation like idk think of witnessing your doomed yaoi having pay gorn. Maybe even join them.

Girl you have the damn free will, shifting ain't gonna stop you. I am not ashamed to admit that I might shift to fucking nu carnival for shits and giggles. Or I might shift as a twink boy. Or I might shift to my oc's world. Or I might shift as a fucking pond like idk abt you but that shits mad and insane but its still like okay to shift as.

Like the possibilities are endless, and you're asking me if you're ALLOWED to shift to [insert media, etc.] babe if you wanna be a goddamn beetle, i wouldn't even question you, like just go shift my god

[cosmicportal]

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see”

~Leonardo Da Vinci

[sahinduzgunart]

MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (2003) by Sahin Düzgün

[scipunk]

The Matrix (1999)

[smokinghorse]

Je suis pagliacci.