That's pretty damn cool, to be fair.
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Not doubting ya! It's the way they totally forgot about it and thought it was something ridiculous but later remembered everything that brings it home for me.
(Blink twice if it was the weed, but can't say it, gurl.)
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They didn't just get high, they got Perfectly High.
High enough that everything is clear and profound, but not high enough to feel the tiny shadow people climbing your nose hairs.
The 4D salmon: what's an outside?
Sounds like something from hitchhikers guide
With the salmon part, a bit, otherwise Hyperion. The Shrike is one of my favorite villains.
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My first thought was, that could be an Doctor Who ep. But yeah, Hitchhiker's suits better!
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Ok im sold, how do build my life around this mystical thing?
Sorry, we only worship crabs here. This here's a crab town.
Jesus was symbolized as a fish. If he does 'return' it's easy to imagine the way he does.
Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.
Great things to be unburied, but it is quagmire. Hence, the constant vitriol spilled forth.
Take any body, name it correctly, and then you can have it travel back in time just like skyrim represents. Literature. Time almost warps to humans when we apply meaning. It is why the bible enthralls people. The body cannot return, but the mind can.
This comment is a trip lol
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It just needs a story. What stories have salmon?
Grizzly eats a salmon. Maybe that's the basis of our creation myth. Is the grizzly bear an antagonist?
No, it's an impersonal force. Our mythos rejects dualism; we have a time travel fish. The bear represents something else, like circumstance or cupidity.
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Insano game idea:
2D platformer... but its actually 3D.
But the third dimension... is time.
...somebody has to have done something like that already, right?
Braid and Prince of Persia, kind of?
Braid definitely has a large section like that, and a great final stage.
Ah well shit, I was legitimately asking, I haven't played too many platformers in a while, sounds like I should check it out!
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The first half of the game plays kinda like a tower defense game, except there is one peculiar enemy that just appears, disappears, and multiplies strategically (eventually forcing a loss), then it switches to you being that character with time-control... complete with seeing previous threads (your own character) sorta like adding another unit each time you rewind time.
Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.
Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...
Run with your idea! I like this!
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I've been playing 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel it's remarkably easy to understand, all considered. It's only partially mind bending.
Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!
I don't see how that would be any different from a regular time travel platformer
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there are puzzle games that do that sort of.
I think that's bastion
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Like a certain alien species from The Xeelee Sequence?
Edit: woops wrong series. Does anyone know another series with an advanced alien civilization that sends themselves back in time to give birth to themselves? It's right before the heat death of the universe due to another alien species that lives in stars.
Use the spoiler tags. Now I know Q is a 4-dimentional Salmon. The surprise is ruined.
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Just want to say. The Narcissist Cookbook has some banger music. Don't know how to really describe it, it's like a fusion of Folk, Spoken Word and Punk
Here's a Spotify link if y'all are interested
His latest two albums are a connected concept album and they're some of their best work yet
Anyway fan rant over
The One Salmon Universe Hypothesis!
I guess those words are forming a sentence or more
Benjamin buttonesque
Is OP the ghost of Douglas Adams?
And the salmon is called sammy.
Puh ka puh ka
[If you're in to science fiction fishing... ](http://www.listen.com/ to Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself by Haylock Jobson on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CVCYB19Y?source_code=ASSORAP0511160007)
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