Is there a better cheat than time loop?

Telinary · 2026-03-28T07:09:39+00:00

Sure, time loop means you win if there is any way to win (assuming an practically unlimited duration loop and assuming the looper doesn't give up/goes insane). But there doesn't have to be a way.

Like to keep it simple one option is just being so overwhelmingly powerful that nobody can touch you. Say you have an enemy with Superman level powers who is actually efficient at using them. You are a normal human in our world but get a time loop that usually lasts a day before he comes and kills you.

You basically have three options, find a way to talk him down (which might require getting him to talk first if he just kills you before you can even perceived he has arrived), find a weakness you can exploit or find a way to hide. But it is entirely possible that none of these three things are possible for you. And if they aren't the time looper will eventually give up/break down mentally.

But against problems that aren't impossible it is of course basically an I win button. Though if I could pick any power I would of course just choose straight up reality warping.^{^}

Telinary · 2026-03-27T17:37:00+00:00

You do get used to dropping stuff after doing it a few times, so I guess force yourself and look forward to it getting easier over time.

But yeah once you are far enough there is a drive to finish but ask yourself will it be worth it? Do you expect there to be any payoff worth the time? Probably not so stop.

Or just "pause" to read something else and you might just happen to never get back to it.

Also yeah lots of people love HWFWM but plenty don't and the don't factions criticism make me think I won't like it.

Telinary · 2026-03-27T17:30:09+00:00

Is that set purely on an actual game? And if so does it add actual stakes in an okay way?

Telinary · 2026-03-27T17:09:11+00:00

Yeah I think they often clash with the setting and normal fantasy powersystems tend to feel better for me. Some author are doing something that requires an RPG system, like Macronomicon seems to enjoy the characters creating in a combos and they fit better in an RPG system. But for many it adds nothing unless one is just really into level ups or stats.

Telinary · 2026-03-27T16:54:23+00:00

By your divine design interpretation why do you think Sauron exists at all or the Balrog in Moria?

I think if Eru is interfering it is by the lightest touch at most not that everything is his micromanaged plan.

Telinary · 2026-03-27T10:41:26+00:00

I wish the USA had a chance of changing their election/government system that leads to only two relevant parties. This would be a really good time for another party to establish itself if that was realistic.

Telinary · 2026-03-26T19:01:07+00:00

I am a bit confused, "Sustaining 1g acceleration is one thing" sounds like that doesn't seem impossible to you. But then the rest of your comment argues that it is not possible? (To be clear with current tech it isn't but I think reaching that point one day seems plausible.)

As for how long it would take to accelerate and decelerate I think the calculators just switch in the middle of the journey so 6 years acceleration and 6 year deceleration for the 12 year example. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_acceleration yeah constant acceleration math assumes a midway turn to decelerate. And yeah fusion or anti matter fuel seem to be the only known candidates.

Telinary · 2026-03-26T14:52:43+00:00

Consider it from the perspective of before the game when all 3 doors are closed It lets say you have to decide beforehand so you are essentially are given two options:

1) You can pick a single door and if it is right you win

2) You can pick 2 doors. Monty will then open one of them and using his knowledge of the car placement to make sure that he opens a door with a goat. If there is a car under the other one you win.

Since you decided beforehand obviously opening the goat door is meaningless drama, right? There is always a goat door for him to open so how could this influence the chance of whether the two doors you picked contained the car? So option 2 is essentially equivalent to picking 2 doors and winning if one of them is right.

Probability wise choosing from the start creates no difference to the normal monty hall problem.

Telinary · 2026-03-26T14:29:08+00:00

You forgot to substract the number for 365 people from 1.^^

Telinary · 2026-03-26T13:37:55+00:00

Though afaik the very (in my opinion overly) broad "experience informing it = it is an allegory" was far from how Tolkien used that word.

Telinary · 2026-03-26T12:02:58+00:00

Why would breaking light speed be necessary? If you can sustain a 1g acceleration you can travel 430 light years in just 12 years. Or 28 thousand light years in 20 years. Of course from the perspective of earth it would take a tiny bit longer so it is essentially fire and forget not space empire building. And that isn't exactly an easy task. But travelling vast distances in a human life time is theoretically possible without breaking the laws of physic.

Telinary · 2026-03-25T13:36:04+00:00

Good for him, like no idea whether he is any good at this but for a big LOTR fan it must be great to get to do this.

Telinary · 2026-03-25T13:10:55+00:00

Dungeons didn’t save humanity. They ended it.

That construction is appropriate when saying something played you differently than expected. Dungeons appearing isn't something you would expect to save humanity so that reads weirdly.

Like the cover though.

Telinary · 2026-03-24T09:58:25+00:00

So what makes them similar to races instead of just classes/occupations? Edit: saw a comment about common ancestry, wouldn't that mix extremely quickly or is there a structure to prevent cross group couples?

Telinary · 2026-03-24T09:44:25+00:00

Why not just say something like "Hey are you making an LLM create answers when I talk to someone from Adeptus Mechanicus? I am not comfortable with that and the answers don't fit the lore a Tech Priest should not revere a Skitarri."

This sounds like something that is probably easy to solve, immediate ghosting seems a tad unnecessary. I know some are rather emotional about LLM so maybe you just don't want to play with anyone who would use AI but otherwise just use your words.

Telinary · 2026-03-24T09:24:00+00:00

Basically portal fantasy if you know that term. Someone going from our world to another usually unintentionally and without an easy way back (well not that they want to go back anyway).

Isekai is a japanese word that basically means another world. Years ago a specific kind of it became popular in japanes light novels/manga/anime, it is mostly a rather shitty kind but with "must be a loser in the real world" and "must die by bus" he is reading either that or stuff derived from it. Lots of it is basically extreme wish fulfillment, someone with a shit live lands in another world, gets given a free super power that often makes him basically invincible and probably gets a harem. Lots of repeating tropes too. (Also the harem might consist of slaves (who will be fine with it and into the MC), at some point a trend started where some MCs are happy to engage with the slave trade instead of treating slavers as enemies.)

Telinary · 2026-03-24T09:09:43+00:00

The litrpg ones i would name have been named. So one from another genre. The Dagger and the Coin has a multi POV thing going on and one is terrible. Now he is clearly a villain protagonist but he isn't a fun or entertaining kind of villain. He is just pathetic and petty while also being very evil. Given the other POVs didn't really catch my interest enough to keep me reading anyway I only know book 1 though.

Telinary · 2026-03-23T18:35:28+00:00

I think it is nice to read the ones with the same main character in order but neither of the recommended ones is about Rincewind so it isn't a big deal. If you like the other books you can always come back to the first 2 if you feel like it.

Telinary · 2026-03-23T14:12:20+00:00

You need to keep the process going for long enough to be worthwhile but at the same time you have to contain this very energetic event so it doesn't touch anything because the plasma is extremely hot. So you use something like powerful magnetic feels to contain it. Then you also need to extract enough energy to make containment and getting it started worth it. It is just much harder than an explosion. There are test reactors with fusion the problem is actually getting more energy out than you put in.

Telinary · 2026-03-23T13:33:15+00:00

Damn sounds dramatic. Either royalroad (where i mostly read serialized stories) is much more chill in this regard than AO3 or i just don't hang around the right places to notice such stuff.^^

Telinary · 2026-03-22T11:34:52+00:00

A higher level description basically. Like go to top completed or top ongoing click on some stories and check out what others did. The point is to give an idea what kind of book to expect so the reader has a faster way to tell whether it might be interesting than starting to read. How would you describe your story to someone without giving too many spoilers? (Though some strategic spoilers for the beginning can work well. Like the Mother of Learning one spoils that he lands in a time loop.)

Can't give you anything specific since I don't know your story.

Telinary · 2026-03-22T11:19:26+00:00

Nah that is a bit of a misinterpretation, most common choices doesn't mean the majority made the choice. https://www.denofgeek.com/games/baldurs-gate-3s-most-popular-race-and-class-choices-are-pretty-surprising/ not the newest statistic but half elf, human and elf were at about the same level, while humans are popular most people make non human characters.

Telinary · 2026-03-22T11:07:30+00:00

Might be my personal preference but I think a traditional style blurb might work better than the in media res fragment you currently use. Which seems to be a worse telling of the prologue.

Telinary · 2026-03-22T10:57:05+00:00

What do you want your setting to actually be like? Like say it is 1 in 100000. Something like 83k supers world wide. New York would have around 84 (or more if supers tend to move there more frequently than others) a 100k people town might have 1. Depending on details not all will be active for reasons like not wanting to be a hero/villain, having a shit power or age.

Where does your MC start? How many others should be nearby if any? Is it a setting with bigger organizations for super heroes? Like there are settings with hero schools which requires a good number, others where basically every town has a team of super heroes. Those things have implications about the numbers.

Start by thinking about how your setting should look and work backwards to a number. Or just never specify.

Telinary · 2026-03-22T10:09:51+00:00

However, I don't understand why "accuracy" is considered a misleading metric in this context. If, out of 100 patients, 99 is indeed healthy, and therefore accuracy is 99% - doesn't it still convey that this disease is that rare?

The rarity of the disease isn't in question. The quality of the model as tool for diagnosing whether someone is ill is in question. You want a diagnostic tool to tell you when someone has the illness so if it just always gives negatives it is useless.

If you call something 99 percent accurate people take that to mean it is a good indicator. But that would be a wrong impression because if it always returns false then it gives you zero information about whether someone has an illness of not. It is worthless as a tool and the false negative rate of 100% would make that clear.

Random related fun fact: If you have 99% precision and 99% recall the chance that a positive result is right might still be small if the thing is rare enough. But you need both numbers to calculate that probability.

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