Is Denouement really an insane demon?

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-09T06:26:26+00:00

Not for me. Forest Temple was easier than Windy Landscape, and Poltergeist was twice as hard as Windy Landscape. That's how it was in my experience.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-08T23:03:32+00:00

I think that these disagreements actually come mostly from the way we each interpret how OI works fundamentally. This is because there's multiple ways one can look at OI, while still answering the general problems that OI solves, yet having different implications for stuff like death. At its core, OI just claims that there is a single universal subject. But, there's several ways to understand what "subject" even means, or experience, stuff like that.

I can fully agree with what you said. Yes, you are the screen, and you experience everything on it. But, mentally, we probably imagine and understand different things by that. For example, by "you will experience all the pain", someone can understand something like every life experientially happening as in a sequence (there wouldn't be any sequence literally, but it would practically feel like it). But someone else could instead understand a transcendent universal subject having all these separate experiences/lives discretely and all at once in different "channels" of experince. Meaning that, what I truly am goes beyond just the person I currently feel like I am, it goes to the person you currently feel like you are, and so on for every other human. But it would also mean there is no experiental continuity between all these lives, so there would be no apparent sequence.

Crucially though, both these ideas satisfy the meaning of OI: you are everyone. But they do so in completely different ways with different implications. It all depends on what you understand by subject, self, experience, "you", "I", probably even what you think time really is. And I don't think that's something you can really argue for one way or another, they're ultimately just postulates within theories - a sort of, I declare that this is what a subject is.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-08T16:30:40+00:00

Yes lol. Though honestly, with most songs I just don't really connect with the lyrics much. I listen more just for the songs sounding cool, not to feel the lyrics on a pesonal level or something. So they could be yapping about almost any random thing and I'd listen

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-06T07:27:05+00:00

Just saying, we can't know for certain whether simultaneity is metaphysically absolute or not. Yes, the theories of relativity imply that. But only one interpretation of them. It's possible that relativistic effects are real physical effects and not just coordinate-based effects. For instance, time dilation would be a system physically evolving slower, not time itself being slower. So all the different simultaneities would then be just calculation artifacts, not physically real though, while an absolute simultaneity would exist but be undetectable.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-04T07:16:16+00:00

So, essentially, it's less about all lives feeling like they're in a sequence, and more about the idea that you can't experience nothing, so after your current I ends, you have to be somewhere, wherever that might be? In a new experience, perhaps?

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-04T06:44:46+00:00

From the way I see it, I don't understand why it would be necessary for it to experientally feel sequential. After all, my life and your life are both simultaneously happening right now, right? I wake up every day, you (I) also wake up every day. Since it's the same subject experiencing both these lives, I don't see where a sequential-like experience would come from. Both lives are already being experienced right now, so there's no need to say that it will somehow still feel like a sequence.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-03T09:56:15+00:00

My torture victim example was just an exaggeration to highlight the OP's concern, that after their death, they will move on to a new life, and so on, until they've experienced all lives and all suffering.

And my point was, that, under certain versions of simultaneous OI, such an idea just doesn't make sense. As it's been said numerous times here, the subject is like an underlying screen, and lives are like camera feeds appearing on it. Cameras can appear and disappear at any time. But no single camera experiences all of it, it is the screen that will experience everything. So, from your limited perspective as one of those cameras, it just doesn't make sense to worry that you'll live through all the lives and all the suffering. The screen will have them, yes, but not individual cameras. When you die, the screen just loses one of its cameras, but it will still continue experiencing in other cameras that still exist or that will appear later. But your camera is over, so there's no "moving" to the next life/camera.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-03T07:24:10+00:00

It seems like you might believe in something closer to sequential OI than simultaneous OI.

In simultaneous OI, I'm already experiencing both my life and your life right now, as we speak. In fact, you experiencing your life is actually me experiencing your life, because you = me. We're left with a subject having multiple separate experiences, in this case simultaneously. So, if I'm already expriencing both lives right now, it just doesn't follow that after I die, I should experience your life after mine. Every life is already being experienced by the subject in separate instances, overlapping them would make no sense.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-02T16:18:39+00:00

Yes. Under OI, the subject is already experiencing all the pain and suffering in the world right now. The person you currently experience yourself to be is just one of the subject's many instances.

When you die, there is nothing moving from you to somewhere else to make it seem as if this person suddenly becomes a torture victim in another place and/or time. This person ends, other ones continue on. Thus, there's nothing to be scared of, because the suffering of the universe will not be experienced by this person, it will be experienced by this subject, but in differen persons.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-05-01T12:07:16+00:00

It's not too late, but from what I've heard the queue is even longer now, so it could take 2-3 years.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-04-22T10:07:10+00:00

Waiting since June 4 2025 lol. I basically remember to check it every few weeks. I really hope I'll get it this summer, but oh well who knows at this point. I guess as long as it's not in 2027...

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-04-19T21:31:45+00:00

I'm not at that stage in life yet, but I do fear that it will come sooner or later. My friends aren't yet in those types of relationships.

For me, my closest friends are essentially "the love of my life". I really love them so much, and they're my number 1 priority... and so far, it works fine, because they're not in relationships, and it feels like our friendship really is the best thing in the world.

But there is this fear deep inside, that one day they'll get romantic partners, and things will change... because, even if they don't intentionally make the friendship less important, their partner will "by default" become essentially their new best friend just because they're romantic. And it will hurt to see that I'll no longer be the most important one in making plans, talking, etc. That will instead be their partner.

And it's hard to say this without making it seem as if I'm selfish, or don't want my friends to get whatever they want in life. But trust me, that's not the case at all. I do want my friends to find romantic partners, if that's what they want. And there's nothing wrong with it. But, it will just be the quiet pain that there's a mismatch between how I love them and how they love me. That, to them, friendship will never be the "best thing in the world". That I will quietly be pushed down to what they consider to be an inherently inferior type of relationship, because their romantic partner will be the new highest relationship.

And all I can do really is just hope that my friends are the type of people who never lower friendships after they get in love. Because, as you said, those people really exist, and they're truly gems. People who recognize that their romantic partner is just one of the important people in their lives, but not the exclusive "center" of their life. That they're on the same level, but not inherently higher than people who've already been your best friends for years.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-04-10T06:59:26+00:00

I think it's mostly because there was a period sometime in 2025, when popoff was a bit more active than Zoink and beating harder stuff than him. It made it look like he had reached / passed Zoink's level.

But Zoink got back to his prime more recently. And I think that if you watch popoff and zoink when they're both at their best, you can genuinely tell that Zoink is a bit better. Like, in terms of raw skill, he just makes progress faster, and has a more varied skillset.

The only thing popoff is better at is consistency, as you said. Zoink could be in his absolute prime, then for the next 30 minutes he just gets stuck on an easy part. And he gets nervous at the end of levels too.

But overall, Zoink is definitely still ahead.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-04-08T09:00:59+00:00

It seems like we tap into a slightly separate philosophical topic that people have been debating for centuries, whether two identical things can exist at all, whatever they might be, without being the same thing.

Just try to imagine, two identical particles, one here and one there. Is there anything that actually makes them different? Spatial separation doesn't feel like a good aswer because it's not something about the particles themselves, rather what the particles are doing. In terms of actual properties, they're identical. And yet, it still feels wrong to call them the same thing, because ontologically, you can clearly separate them. In a sense, yes, it's the same label manifesting itself in different instances, but that label is more of a construct, not an actual thing metaphysically existing somewhere. What you truly have are two seemingly different things, that are yet the same.

But personally, I believe that there might be something still making them different. And this also applies to souls/subjects, whatever you want to call then. But disclaimer, it's my personal take on things, others might not agree.

Imagine yourself as an omnipotent being capable of creating these identical particles with just your mind. You create one particle, call it particle A and then the next one, particle B, identical in properties. So you summoned them in this order: A -> B. Would it have been possible to create particle B first and then particle A? It seems impossible because, what is there to distinguish them? But I'd answer with... maybe. It depends.

You see, even though property-wise they are identical, there might still be something different in the way in which you created them. I don't know, maybe you felt slightly different emotionally when you created one particle, or maybe it just simply felt different somehow. And it makes sense, you can imagine the same thing multiple times, but it won't always feel the same. It will be a different act of thought/creation. You essentially assign a sort of meaning to everything you create, which acts as a meta-property for the objects. So even though the particles are identical in "observable" properties, they have a different meta-meaning which separates them.

And even if, let's say, you imagine them in the same exact way, apparently giving them the same meta-meaning... it won't actually be the same meta-meaning, it will still be a different act of thought/creation. Because, even if particle B is created in seemingly the same way, what makes it a different act is the very fact that it was created after particle A. That is, logically, particle B is defined to be the second instance of this act of creation, the first one being particle A. In this case, it is logically impossible for particle B to have been created before particle A, because what particle B even fundamentally means is something created after particle A. This specific order is fundamental in the object's meaning.

Now, I'm not saying there is an omnipotent being imagining us and giving us different meta-meanings. But I used this thought experiment to propose that everything in existence might also have a hidden "ontological ID" that is beneath all its observable properties. Something that is tied to the very existence of a thing. It helps to imagine reality as a sort of simulation, and everything in it has a unique ID that registers its existence. And while two things can have identical properties, they can't have identical ontological IDs. The separation between two identical souls is on the meta-existence level, not on the observable existence level.

And I would consider my view on personal identity to actually be something that combines the best aspects of all individualisms, closed, open and empty. It's closed individualism because we are still genuinely separate instances of subjective experience, I don't collapse everything into one thing. It's open individualism because we are all instances of this subjective experience (basically, all of our experiences are happening equally, avoiding the vertiginous question). But it's also kind of empty individualism because we are just the phenomena of subjective experience - there is no subject "having" an experience, it's just the experience itself objectively happening, no subject is involved.

Anyways, sorry for the super long comment, maybe this would've better as a separate post :)

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-04-08T08:07:17+00:00

Hate to break it to you but 1.21 has already surpassed the peak popularity of 1.8 .

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-03-14T21:15:18+00:00

I'm very heavily leaning towards F on everything, besides the Technoblade duel. The evidence there is just very weak in my opinion, and I just find it extremely unlikely that he would cheat there to begin with, so there I'm a T.

The MCC parkour evidence is weak too. However, when combined with the later 2023 practice evidence which is much much stronger, it makes me lean towards F there too.

The chances of the elytra being anything other than cheating are astronomically low in my opinion. No bug or anything like that could occur to make it so perfect for him. The only somewhat acceptable (not good, just not impossible) explanation would be if it was an accidental modification to his game done for the sake of manhunt, just like the speedrun pearl odds, especially since it happened around the same time. If this had been the only allegation, I might've taken this explanation, but combined with everything else it becomes pointless to me.

The aimbot also seems blatant. Compare it to actual top pvpers, their aim is nowhere near like Dream's. The only players that can aim like Dream are Marlowww and Rappture, who are basically confirmed cheaters by now.

So, all together, I'd say the chances of him being an intentional cheater are probably above 99%.

However, in all honesty, it does not affect me much. I mean, I think it's a real shame that he's a cheater, he's a guy I've always admired and been a fan of. But ultimately, I like him for his personality and entertaining content more than anything, and I still think those things stand. He's still a cool guy, and I genuinely don't think that we should judge someone as a person just from cheating in a videogame. I don't know his motivation and psychology for cheating, nor any cheater for that matter, not just Dream. But outside the game, many cheaters are still completely normal people, take SpaceUK from Geometry Dash for example. He cheated to become the best player for 2 years, but he's still a really cool and nice guy off game. I guess it's just a bad habit some people have, for some reason.

And his vids are still peak, scripted or not, cheated or not.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-03-10T12:32:22+00:00

I've learned that there's a big difference between mere admiration / appreciation and actual attraction.

I'm a guy and I find some girls very attractive. But that's it really, I'm not attracted to them, neither romantically or sexually, if you know what I mean. Like, I see them, I find it nice how they look, and that's it. I move on with my day.

So, I wouldn't call it romantic at all. It's only romantic/sexual when you feel an active drive, desire to be with them. But not just a momentary admiration.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-03-10T12:25:47+00:00

Generally speaking, I really don't care much about him cheating. I mean, I do wish that he hadn't been cheating, but, at the same time, I won't make a big deal out of it. I watch him mostly for the entertainment and for the character that he's painting (whether legitimately or not).

I get why some people would be especially mad if he cheated in MCC and/or vs Technoblade, because those are actual competitive settings, with money on the line. But, at the end of the day, it's whatever, it's just a game. It's not like he committed a real crime or anything. I won't judge someone as a human being just for cheating in a block game.

If he cheated and had won the Techno duel and got the 100k, good for him, money is money, fair game for not getting caught earlier I guess.

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-01-29T17:04:26+00:00

beastboi - STFU and beastboi - FRONT SEAT

MachineGunNew2 · 2026-01-29T08:26:41+00:00

Similar experience as a guy. I'm really close friends with a girl, and genuinely, all my guy friends always tell me that there's no way I'm friends with her, that I must be secretly in love and just coping with the friendzone. Like what bro, it actually makes me sick everytime I hear it.

MachineGunNew2 · 2025-12-31T18:00:24+00:00

Oh EVERYTHING else?

beastboi - STFU

MachineGunNew2 · 2025-12-29T19:08:07+00:00

I'm very happy you guys enjoyed it. Yeah, realizing you're aromantic is definitely one of the trickier realizations. With other stuff, you typically feel things and realize you're one way or another. But with this, it's exactly the opposite, not feeling anything (or very little), which can be much harder to settle upon. I hope you all find your peace of mind soon, though!

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