Create some harmless fluffy animal things and some not-so-harmless fluffy animal things that like to eat the harmless fluffy animal things.
What, like, some pets?
You could probably do that. I mean, you could definitely do that, but it would be kind of a project. Creating life, or modifying it so much you might as well be creating it, doesn't happen in one step. You're not sure what the point would be or what exactly you'd make, but you could do it.
Pfft! Normal is an inertial time-space continuum void of meaning. The only rational course of action is to deviate from normalcy to the greatest possible degree!
Right, considering that every planet has a normal sun and speherical planets, we must create a world, shaped like a disk, standing on five elephants on a gigantic turtle, having it's own sun and moon sixty feet across.
So...
Wait. "Normal" just means whatever usually happens or is. You're not sure calling it "devoid of meaning" is exactly appropriate, but even if it was, wouldn't deviating as far from normalcy as possible not do anything? An equation fed nonsense spits out nonsense, after all.
That said... it's true that "normal" does tend to
mean "devoid of meaning," and that's certainly something you take issue with. You're not sure simply being strange is the key to solving that, however- at least, not if you're strange in equally meaningless ways.
That said... maybe being strange is the key somehow? I mean, if you knew how to deviate from the normalcy you don't like you'd have just done it- could being strange in other ways lead you there?
You're not sure.
Ok, here is something you can do:
You crate a being smarter than yourself. Then you get it to think up something interesting to do.
You'd... actually never thought of that before. You're not entirely sure you
could make something smarter than you, but, if you could...
You'd have to be very careful about it, however. Your ship's computer is arguably smarter than you- it can do certain equations faster, at least- and it certainly doesn't have an answer for you. You wonder if being "smarter" is even the key here, or if there's something else.
Create:
Vast creatures of ethereal beauty to swim the cromosphere of stars, immensely powerful (each have a significant portion of the omnitools functionality) they can by their own bodies alone survive supernovas, travel faster than light, reactor their own minds and shape, and create lesser life. They should also be extremely wise, compassionate, and creative, prone to glorious hedonism, dedicating centuries to making breathtaking works of art, the creation and shepherding of lesser species, and in general being total space space god whale hippies.
Then lock yourself away somewhere and cryonically sleep for a few centuries until they fill the universe with art for you to look at.
Well, that's... that'd certainly be a project. You're not sure if just creating a bunch of "art," or whatever your pet whale-things thought was art, would fix things, though.
Plus, space is very, very large, and left to roam on their own it's difficult to say what they'd make and where. You probably don't want to go hunting around just to find where they put the damn things.
...do you? It'd be somewhat more interesting, you suppose... but you're not sure a scavenger hunt is really what you need. There's plenty of, well, what some would consider beautiful things in the universe already, they're just... old, after a while. Pointless. A collection of interestingly jagged rocks made by rain or climate shifts or something. You're not sure hunting down whale-art would be any different.
Also, that whole freezing yourself for several centuries to give them time to work thing could use some work. You don't think you really want to try to fix your problems by waiting them out.
Still, at least you're coming up with ideas now! Ideas that don't involve sack-beating yourself, that is.
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Topic: Precursor - A poorly illustrated suggestion game (Read 6729 times)