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turntechGodhead: mm
tentacleTherapist: And what’s eating you today, hm? Normally you at least rise to my jibes enough to dismiss them. It’s very unlike you to not even respond.
TG: is there a german word for the terrible revelation that you might live in the best timeline
TT: Well, Leibniz coined the term "Die beste aller möglichen Welten" to refer to the best of all possible worlds...
TG: christ never mind
TG: it figures that i come along feeling all profound and angsty, i go to make a little joke about german nouns, and bam. some dead motherfucker got there first
TG: there’s probably whole schools of thought based on every word this guy shit out
TG: exploring every thought i've had about it in excruciating detail
TG: even in the best of all possible worlds i'm unoriginal as hell
TT: And what has you convinced we live in the best of all possible worlds, precisely?
TG: time magic
TT: ...would you care to elaborate?
TG: not really
TT: ...could I ask you to elaborate anyway?
TG: ok so like
TG: i can change shit
TG: there’s hypothetical limits but i can get like
TG: perfect information
TG: on what changing any given thing will do
TG: like
TG: okay i wonder what happens if i go back and give myself a hearty bitch slap just before you got here
TG2: it fucking sucks and it doesnt help
TG: thanks bro-me
TG2: no problem bro-me
TG: see?
TT: I believe I follow so far.
TG: right
TG: so that means that, if a change would be good, i'm going to do it
TG: and if it’d be bad, i won’t
TG: so, every improvement i can make has already been made
TG: there is no alteration to the time stream that can be made that won’t make some shit, somewhere, worse, because if there were id already have gone and made it
TG: alexander fuckin wept like a bitch, and you know what, im starting to feel for the guy
TG: i bet that german word doesn’t even need the terrible. they’re german, that bit is implied
TG: they probably don’t even have a word for a revelation that isn’t terrible
TG: like the concept doesn’t even register
TT: I see. Well, I can see where that would be alarming.
TG: not going to come back with a snide jab about how im being a big dumb idiot?
TT: Well, your logic seems reasonably sound, though I think a scholar of Leibniz might be distressed at how you’ve cast yourself in the role of God.
TG:
TG: well shit