@hybridhavoc@mentallyalex I sometimes wonder what life would be like if I had one save file I could load from or save to any time. More than one and I'd be an instant god, but with just one, you'd have to really think about when it's time to overwrite...
@LouisIngenthron
I love this. They actually deal with this exact theme on the cartoon Rick & Morty. Rick gives Morty a way to "save file" a perfect life.
@mentallyalex Pause. Being in the moment and not being able to redo things is an important, useful pressure. I get overwhelmed though, and it’d be nice sometimes to pause everything and collect myself to be the best I can in a given moment.
@mentallyalex
Pause, if you please. I’m old and tired and really don’t wanna have at it again just to make new mistakes. A pause to enjoy the few remaining pleasant spots would be nice.
@mentallyalex I guess thinking about it, I'm not sure I see the value of a pause. I might never get up the nerve to unpause again. At the same time, the problem with a rewind is how far back to rewind. And do I get to make different choices? Because if not, it's just going through it all AGAIN — except this time, knowing what's coming.
@mentallyalex yeah, so would I. Rewind to go through it all again? FLAT NO. Period. Rewind to make different choices with foreknowledge, even if that different choice probably invalidated much of my foreknowledge?
I can think of one particular period of a few weeks where I would instead run screaming.
But then again, I can think of ANOTHER about six years earlier ... and ...
@mentallyalex (It's no accident that one of my novels in progress is explicitly about being yanked out of a life become unbearable and given a second chance, a new life in a new world.)
@mentallyalex Not playing it quite that way actually. That character starts out as a cipher about whom we know almost nothing, then as he grows into his new life and finds out who he really is and why he's there, we also learn about the trauma and abuse he left behind him as he comes to grips with how abusive his past was.
@mentallyalex Pause… because sometimes you just need a breather to pivot and regroup… and because sometimes it would be nice to just stop in a moment to savour it for longer
@mentallyalex it already feels like my life has been on pause for far too long. I'm not looking to reluve or rewrite the story, so don't need a rewind, just a less sticky pause button on the current story.
@mentallyalex I'd also probably take the rewind over the pause. If it was simply a view-only rewind, I could use it to go back and relive good memories and find the things that I've lost/forgotten. If it was a rewind and change the past thing, there's plenty of stuff I'd love to help younger Jess know and do ...
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