“So, I’ve been patching the physics system for the game all this time? Do I get paid?”
“What do you think you got all those extra lives from?”
“Whoa…”
Artificial Incident
“So, I’ve been patching the physics system for the game all this time? Do I get paid?”
“What do you think you got all those extra lives from?”
“Whoa…”
welcome to game logic dude
Things was magic until you turned it into science
Not Magic, game mechanics.
The practical difference being….?
Mana costs, or if counterspells do anything.
So… in this world you don’t perform experiments to find out how physics works, but to encourage the gods to make them work the way you expect?
Yeah… I bet that’s how some people think science works in our world as well.
I hate the fact that you are probably right.
I mean look at flat Earthers they are constantly redoing their own disproven experiments and then fudging the results in an attempt to get people to believe them.
Some of them aren’t fudging the results, they’re either misunderstanding the results or doing bad science. Not all of them are dishonest, some are just undereducated in science or even science illiterate.
So… the goddess of creation is learning physics from Callum and implementing it into the world? 0_0 That … that is ….
Groovy.
Moving on.
Actually a weird powerset. Can pull hundreds of people from our world into their worlds, but can’t grab a textbook or twelve on the way. (Or bring along a game with a more realistic physics engine.)
The games were originally MMORPGs, and let me tell you, trying to keep a realistic physics simulation accurately synced up across multiple clients, all with differently fluctuating latencies, would require beyond god-tier netcode if you wanted anything even close to resembling a smooth and playable result.
Also remember that everyone pulled into the game worlds were using full VR neural interfaces nad as far as we know, their bodies are still in the real world somewhere and they weren’t physically pulled in. They only had access to the games/worlds running on the servers, presumably all of which are running the same base game engine.
Not that strange. Elli is a non-corporeal intelligence, and may never have had personal feeds into non-digital reality. She may have full access to all human knowledge, including basic physics texts. But that’s a lot of data to process with no context. Elli doesn’t know what’s important and what isn’t. Like needing to keep archived compressed states of “dead” NPCs, instead of just freeing the instance.
Verisimilitude is also expensive. Elli had to obtain more resources for the “Archive of the Dead”. It was fast, but not already available. So securing a whole additional universe to run all of physics in is probably out of scope.
I don’t think she’s learning them, just implementing them on a system that previously ran on game mechanics with just enough physics to fool the players.
woah. no pressure ?
Yes pressure. Steam pressure!
(…I’ll see myself out.)
Explain sorcery…
“You know those ‘Laws of Physics’ ?”
Yes…
*shrugs* “Fuckem…that’s sorcery”
Basically Callum is a sorcerer who is changing the world at least, or possibly the universe , with his “magic” inventions. So not physics but sorcery as far as the non playable characters are concerned.
A part of me is surprised Ellisia is allowing Kaylin to reveal this to Callum. If I recall correctly (too late to archive dive right now), when this kind of topic previously came up around him both Kaylin and the NPCs got an urge to not talk about it.
That said, we’ve now also had Kaylin’s death-experience and negotiation with Ellisia on the subject of adventurer revivals, so maybe now Callum can work with Ellisia in a more overt way? Ellisia seemed very interesting in having Kaylin fill in world-definition gaps in terms of lore and the like; I wonder what topics she would ask Callum to explain if she is willing to speak with him directly now?
More specifically they don’t want Kaylin manipulating Callum to take advantage of that fact. She’s being honest and explaining his connection. Now, if she tried to convince him to create some situation she can abuse…
Meaning he and the goddes are wreaking havoc with the rule of “physics”: imagine all the people using kettles as accurate timekeepers, and suddenly they boil whenever they want, some don’t whistle because there isn’t enough pressure, some don’t boil at all because there is not enough heat. Some even start exploding, or emitting jets of overheated steam…