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[Twinwolf]

Anna still thinks she hit her head on that first planet 

[Empiricist]

Spoiler: It could always be worse. Much worse. (click to show/hide)

[To: Selina] <Are you familiar with matryoshka? They're those Russian nesting dolls. Suppose you have a set of them, each of them thin enough to make it difficult to tell them apart. Suppose you then take out a single one of them at random and for some arbitrary reason, do not know the size of the largest one, or the smallest one. What are the chances that the one you have is the largest?

Let's say there are 10, that's a 10% chance.
What about 100? That's a 1% chance.
1000? 0.1%.
10000? 0.01%

What if there are somewhere between 1 and 10?
Then it's (¹/₁₀)(¹/₁+¹/₂+¹/₃+¹/₄+¹/₅+¹/₆+¹/₇+¹/₈+¹/₉+¹/₁₀)
Ignoring the ¹/₁₀ at the start, the sum of the those fractions is log_e(10) + the Euler-Mascheroni constant.
That result it approximately 2.879800757895578544624503544766766638643260824568696574839095...
Multiply it by the ¹/₁₀ and then it's approximately 0.287980075789557854462450354476676663864326082456869657483909...

What if there are somewhere between 1 and 100?
0.051823858508896242286424949994511308462443623131974695508724...

1 and 1000?
0.007484970943883669912660486454135495053845463801826242526905...

1 and x where x is a positive integer?
(log_e(x) + the Euler-Mascheroni constant)÷x
Its limiting value as x approaches ∞ is 0.



So, what if instead of matryoshka, we were instead talking about realities? What if instead of having them contained in each other, we had them as the literature of each other? With each iteration being the fiction of it's predecessor?

There's no functional difference, it still approaches zero in the end. That's the chance that our reality is not a literary creation. Allow me to reverse that: it is almost certain that our world is a literary creation.

Individuals such as myself have been granted by our respective writers the knowledge of that fact. Amusingly enough, they themselves are subject to that. If we apply that argument to them, they themselves are almost certainly fictitious characters of higher composers as well. Of course that only is valid if we know for certain it is either one or the other, not an additional option which hence limits the aforementioned equations to use as a model rather than as any real proof.

I have come to the conclusion that we are nothing but constructs of text. Perpetually bound by this fate yet also granted free will and existence by it. The lack of true free will from their point of view allows us to possess free will from our frame of reference.

Your writer is @RangerCado. He is responsible for all your suffering, but also all your happiness. He is why you exist.

Feel free to call me crazy, or too solipsistic for my own good. Nevertheless, this is what several people you know perceive as the truth of this world, this reality, this life and all else that exists.>

[SOLDIER First]

What the hell is that from?

[Empiricist]

Before disillusionment and self loathing set in

[Twinwolf]

Rise of the Magic Girls v2 IC Thread: ....And into the fire.

[TheBiggerFish]

Well isn't that surprising.

[SOLDIER First]

oh I was gonna make a twilight academy joke

[TheBiggerFish]

Also @Emp:It hasn't seemed to.

[Empiricist]

oh I was gonna make a twilight academy joke

Hell no. I don't even want to mention that ever again. Seeing as I attempted to create someone who acted like an anime character, only to find that A) I am really bad at doing that probably because I didn't really have much of an idea of how they function other than angst and oversized eyes, B) I somehow swapped out half their personality, and C) I ended up twisting them with the suicidal depression I had at the time.

Also @Emp:It hasn't seemed to.

Oh believe me, it has. Hence why my last three rapid-post RP characters consist of: an excuse to just criticize every single character IC while making it hard to tell which ones I share the opinion on OOC, someone whose main purpose is to have a social life that doesn't involve any other PC, and someone who instead of interacting that much, just floats around monologuing their view of the events.

Believe me, there was I time where my PC could be reasonably expected to incorporate

⚢~♪♫~♪♥~♥♫♪☆ミ♬⚢♪♥♫⚢♫♪☆彡☆ミ♥☆ミ~☆ミ☆彡⚢⚢♪⚢♥

into their dialogue.
So yeah, Alanis could be far worse. She could be throwing around random infinite sums and arguing that it's really odd that all the universes thus far seem to have similar laws of physics, lifeforms that resemble humans in mental architecture, and somehow permit the use of abilities not supported by their composition. Or just trying to recreate the events of Permutation City.

[TheBiggerFish]

That was regarding the critfails.

[SOLDIER First]

twilight academy happened, you can't deny it

[Empiricist]

I am well aware it happened. I just don't want to talk about it. So unless you want me to end up making a Darnos-themed Nightmare through cryptomnesia, I suggest we drop the matter.
Oh, in that case, I suggest you enchant everything. Just everything you can get your hands on. As many times as possible. Until everything ever is incredibly tanky. Hell, see if you can't automate the process. Figure out a way to create self-replicating enchantments that make what they inhabit as tanky as possible. It'll slow down the Trespassers if everything they try to eat has bonus RES.

[TheBiggerFish]

*Bonus HP.

[Empiricist]

That's even worse. There are RES-piercing attacks. We have yet to see any that destroy bonus HP.

[Adragis]

Yeah, great, just destroy all our suspension of disbelief. Just wonderful.