#infinite loops

[zerosocialskillz]

A while ago I found out about the Infinite Loops project where while everyone in the multiverse (yes, even the world where your blorbos live in) are trapped in a time loop with only a select few realizing the fact, some time loops end up with multiverses overlapping, and in some cases, turning people into something different.

I want to contribute but how can I start? Where can I even start? There’s years put into that thing, there’s so many looping universes, and I don’t even know what the fuck a Space Battles is!

[ohmewhatsthis]

Project Moon and The Infinite Loops Project

hi it's me back again with things that appeal to Me and Me Alone- or maybe not, considering the various PM quests on Sufficient Velocity? anyway, have a smattering of crossover thoughts

(i know the basics of TILP but i'm not an expert so if i'm wrong about something im sorry-)

It probably took a while to get the PM-verse looping at all. Considering the setting, finding Anchors would be a hard pressed task.

My suggestions (yes I have multiple) would be Binah and Vergilius.

Binah and Hokma are explicitly the only Sephirot to remember all the TT2 loops, and Binah especially has stated she is unable to go mad due to her mechanical body. Hokma has to die to become a Sephirot, so I'm less sure of him, but I think he'd Awaken after her in due time.

(i'm a bit worried about what might happen in LoR considering Binah needs to fight there but no one truly *dies* dies there so it's probably fine?)

Considering that Binah and the rest of the Library crew gets shunted out at the end of LoR though, I think Vergilius would serve as a good Anchor candidate (though I haven't read Leviathan yet so maybe it's less of a good idea-)

Speaking of Limbus, the Mirror seems like it could be tricky to work around since it can basically tap into different Loops, in a way; that said, it would be very funny if someone extracted a Naruto ID-

Also, Taii from Wonderlab, as an Anchor maybe? They are noted to be pretty psychologically stable and are strong enough to manifest their own E.G.O. What's staying my hand is the troubled state of the comic (while I don't think it's been made non canon, it was wiped off the internet) and the fact they're in a spin off.

The Head is absolutely Loop Aware, they just don't give a shit. Carmen might or might not be, but I don't think she'd stop herself from preying on Loopers (cough cough Sakura?) assuming someone doesn't grab her by the incorporeal neck and chokeslam her

In terms of crossovers, I have this one plot bunny where Twilight Awakens in place of X, with Moondancer as her Angela and her friends as the Sephirot. Because, if you think about it, the Seed of Light is just the multiverse's least ethical version of the Elements of Harmony (see also: Celestia Carmen (can't be any worse than CelestAI or that Slavequestria version))

Any Loopers that Loop in as abnos are going to be like, ALEPH and up, for sure, unless it's a Null loop.

The RWBY crew as a Fixer Office (Ruby Office?) or as Limbus sinners

I've said this before, but any of the Persona Loopers using Abnos as Personae or running into Carmen

that's all i have right now, feel free to add on, maybe i'll think of more later

[thecurioustale]

Drawing a Game of Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering is a famously hard game to draw. The rules of the game only allow draws in vary narrow circumstances; basically, the game state has to break.

In fact I only ever drew a game once. Or, rather, the opponent bumbled into drawing the game. Neither of us realized what had happened at first. I had Enchanted Evening on the battlefield, which makes everything on the battlefield an enchantment. And into that the opponent played Ajani's Chosen, a creature with an ability that says whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under one's own control, that player must create a 2/2 Cat token.

Since Ajani's Chosen itself entered the battlefield as an enchantment creature due to Enchanted Evening, it automatically triggered itself into making its first 2/2 Cat token...which entered the battlefield as an enchantment creature...triggering the creation of another Cat token...ad infinitum.

The token creation effect on Ajani's Chosen is mandatory—something Magic has moved away from in more recent years, in part to reduce unintended consequences like this one—so there was no way for the opponent to choose not to create a Cat.

In theory, if the opponent had had instant speed enchantment removal, they could have destroyed my Enchanted Evening and broken the loop in response to (any) one of the triggers. But they didn't have instant speed enchantment removal because most decks don't run it.

I did have instant speed enchantment removal in hand, but damned if I was gonna use it! Theoretically, if I had realized what was about to happen (which I didn't) I could've destroyed my enchantment in response to the very first trigger and broken the loop before it ever started. But I was already losing the game at that point due to the opponent's growing menagerie of board threats, and destroying Enchanted Evening would've ruined any chance I had of winning the game. Similarly, once I had allowed a few of these Cat enchantment tokens to resolve onto the board, and realized that the opponent had an infinite combo, there was no way I was going to destroy my enchantment then, because that would've left the opponent with umpteen 2/2 Cat tokens on the board and guaranteed lethal damage on their next turn. So at that point my only out was to draw into a mass enchantment removal card on my next turn. (That was my deck's win condition: Turn everything into an enchantment, make my own things indestructible, and then destroy all enchantments.)

It actually took me a little bit longer to realize that the opponent wasn't in control of their infinite combo, and hadn't done it on purpose. I wasn't sure what would happen next. I figured that whomever's timer ran out first would lose the game, so I had auto-passed all my priorities. In theory, I could still have won the game at this point if the opponent had spent all their remaining clock time resolving new Cat enchantment tokens, but they soon auto-passed priority too, and now the game was playing itself, merrily creating Cat tokens without limit. Mercifully, the game client shortly detected the infinite loop and kindly informed us that an infinite loop had been detected and that the game was a draw.

So by playing Ajani's Chosen into Enchanted Evening, the opponent blundered a game that they had previously been heavily favored to win, and by me not destroying my own enchantment and both of us auto-passing priority, we forced a draw.

I don't know how they felt about it, but I had like eight feathers in my cap afterward.

^ _ ^

One of the reasons I like Magic is that, as with chess—in fact even more so than in chess—there are so many permutations and so many possibilities. I wish I could say that you never really play the same game of Magic twice, but that's not true: Magic gameplay is often horribly sameish because most people play the same high-tier netdecks, because they want to win more than they want to have fun (or, more charitably, winning is the part of the game that's fun for them). So most games of Magic follow some very well-worn wagon ruts. But when you do get an opponent with a homebrewed deck, Magic is delightfully varied and diverse in its emergent gameplay, especially when both players' decks are interactive with each other. Games like those become a puzzle to solve, a truly one-of-a-kind puzzle that never came before and will never come again. It's a battle of wits and luck, and the complexity and variety and sheer pleasure of it is truly enthralling.

Anyway, this is apropos of nothing. I am procrastinating from work. Now I guess I should get back to it. :p

[yamisnuffles]

Give me shelter.

[valictini]

I’ve already said it, I’ll say it again, Mal du Pays is such a visceral and clever word to describe Siffrin’s Sadness. When I first saw it in game it genuinely made me pause like. Yes, it translates to homesickness. But it has the literal word for country in it. “Country sickness”. For a guy whose core problem is that his childhood, his culture, his country is missing. One could argue it’s a twisted pun. I’m obsessed with it.

[mamawasatesttube]

i keep thinking to myself, god we have got to put tim drake in a time loop. but also time loops just feel so perfectly like speedster bullshit, yknow? therefore lemme just smash these thoughts together like particles at cern aaannddd--

let's put tim in a time loop that bart accidentally caused. a tim loop, if you will :) specifically, tim loop where kon dies at the end and bart just kind of subconsciously went nope! and "if anyone can fix it it's tim right?" bc bart has. a normal amount of faith in his friends but also a normal amount of feelings about himself being useless to save kon bc he couldn't in infinite crisis.

and bam suddenly tim is having the worst tuesday of his life like 20 times in a row. yippee! it's bart-powered but he doesn't even know. he did it on accident. bart in the loop doesn't know what's going on. it just resets every time the ending is something bart can't accept (kon dies again). tim tries to sacrifice himself to save kon once but somehow that doesn't break the loop either (bart refuses to accept that). how long can tim go through a time loop before he goes completely bonkers bananas insane? only tim(e) will tell.

and, worse: how many times can tim watch kon die? how many times can he beg kon to value his own life, to get it through his head that being a hero doesn't mean he needs to die for the world, that there must be another way? how many times can he watch kon sacrifice himself to save others and know that if he stops kon, those people might die?

how fucked up would he be if he ever actually found out just how suicidal kon has been his entire life?

extra fun: cassie takes one look at him every time and instantly clocks that he's feeling like shit, but every time she forgets why, because the loop resets. tim is being perceived but it never lasts. this will drive him crazy so fast. he's gonna start acting out and snapping at her for being concerned because what's the POINT of talking about his feelings if everything resets ANYWAY. this will definitely not come back to bite him in the end or anything, right?

(kon-el dead wife giggling in the sunshine and playing under the sheets montage plays over and over for both tim and bart. this probably means nothing.)

[pixel8or]

[4gifs]

Endless wave

[rookflower]

warrior cats pattern:

alderheart is an insecure male protagonist. his sister, sparkpelt, is a side character given little to no development and whose key narrative purpose is to make her brother seem more isolated and occasionally have conservative opinions for conflict.

rootspring is an insecure male protagonist. his sister, needleclaw, is a side character given little to no development and whose key narrative purpose is to make her brother seem more isolated and occasionally have conservative opinions for conflict.

nightheart is an insecure male protagonist. his sister, finchlight, is a side character given little to no development and whose key narrative purpose is to make her brother seem more isolated and occasionally have conservative opinions for conflict. nightheart has a contentious and strained relationship with his mother, sparkpelt.

my predictions for the future

starlingpaw is a future insecure male protagonist. his sister, robinpaw, is a side character given little to no development and has the key narrative purpose of making her brother seem more isolated and having occasional conservative opinions for conflict. starlingpaw has a contentious and strained relationship with his mother needleclaw

somewhere, paired up with some random background character, finchlight gives birth to one son and one daughter

it keeps fucking going

[oatmealdoodles]

God I loved episode 3

time lapse:

[eggo-tistical]

sorry can we just talk about how light's choice for another kira proxy (doubling as a manservant) was a pale, sallow faced man with black shaggy hair, who was young enough to be around his age.... like i'm probably reaching but it's both so sickening and pathetic that he selected mikami, who did what L never would: worship light and carry out his bidding

[pi-slices]

Infinite Light.

[sheepfilms]

[snailfen]

how can i help you, little luggage?

[spectrowhirl]

spectrowhirl.etsy.com

[lucabyte]

sorry loop if this looks gay to the viewers