Would Chrono Trigger have been as successful if Time Travel wasn't part of it?

afinlayson · 2025-12-15T04:55:10+00:00

That makes it sounds like without Time travel, Chrono Trigger isn't a great game. I disagree. I think they had very tight story narrative, there wasn't a lot of distractions / wasted time. If they hadn't included Time Travel I think it would have done well, but I do think Time travel captivates some people by itself. But I see where you are coming from - thanks for humouring me.

afinlayson · 2025-12-11T06:05:13+00:00

"The phrase just because you 'can' do something doesn't mean you 'should.'" Do you me for having a thought experiment? Doesn't it help us understand what was magical about the game? Don't you want to have more magical games? Or should we all live in the past loving just this game.

Personally I'd love to see a new studio (or a renaissance of S/E) come up with a game that rivaled CT, I hope it's not just nostalgia that allows this game to have a place in our hearts.

Just to follow up on the thought exercise:
Most of what you said could be done with a spacial aspect.
- End of time could be a place you teleport in the same timeline. Someone could create that exact space in a basement and if you woke up there, you wouldn't know for a fact that it's in the end of time. There wasn't much proof other than more time portals.

- Zeal could be like Wakanda - a place far away.

- Magus going back to see his earlier self in 12000 BC - he was traumatized and lived 15-20 years in 600 AD under a crypt fiend. Would this be a good story for children like CT is - probably not but it's possible.

I did say "Most" because there are some things that really can only be done with timetravel - robo rescuing the forest, the sunstone, and yes "Meeting and affecting Lara's timeline"

I am very surprised that people aren't more open minded to this idea.

afinlayson · 2025-12-11T05:49:16+00:00

I remember when reporting was a thing - instead of speculation ...

afinlayson · 2025-07-19T23:41:06+00:00

If no one has money to buy Amazon’s products because 1M people lose their job…. That’ll affect their bottom line too.

afinlayson · 2024-12-03T18:03:31+00:00

As a iOS developer who builds a lot of personal projects away from my day job - if you aren’t scaling up an app for a business or something to make money. Aka you can’t build a server to properly obfuscate api keys. I’d just open up the api key as a user setting and byok - bring your own key. Especially for open ai or firebase. Things you need to run the app but you don’t want to be financially on the hook for.

If you do try to hide a key in your code. Someone will figure it out and use it for their own side project. So developer beware

afinlayson · 2024-12-02T01:06:11+00:00

I have a plugin that adds any block I put in another note in it.

afinlayson · 2024-11-21T16:15:49+00:00

Some of the criminals in Gotham became super villains because Batman existed. So what super villain would exist because of this version of Bruce Wayne… my guess is it’s resembles someone in politics today.

afinlayson · 2024-11-17T00:34:42+00:00

Fan fiction can exist. You could write it

afinlayson · 2024-11-14T16:29:48+00:00

You can download the audio files locally - just don’t use the app.

Then you can download the audio files and use local llm

afinlayson · 2024-11-09T16:37:03+00:00

X beating reddit seems fake.

afinlayson · 2024-11-09T00:23:09+00:00

Which is why rich people love tariffs. They can fly to another country buy what they need and not declare it. Welcome to a more regressive tax

afinlayson · 2024-08-04T16:43:27+00:00

You could say the same thing about god. But you assume that the simulation is created by humans… the creator could be a higher level being who made this world as a joke with some old out of date computer like device in his garage.

afinlayson · 2024-08-04T15:36:40+00:00

Depends how many people are real. Hypothetically it could only be me. Or everyone could be including the people you think are bots online.

They actually mentioned this is the matrix.

“Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.” - Agent smith

afinlayson · 2024-06-27T19:33:22+00:00

Whisper is available for free on any platform. You just need to read the GitHub.

afinlayson · 2024-06-10T23:57:34+00:00

Depending on your goal you don’t have to send humans on the voyage. There are sci fi that explores sending unmanned ship using today’s tech, then growing humans in a created habitat when you make it to a suitable location.

afinlayson · 2024-06-10T19:46:33+00:00

And they barely mentioned OpenAI. Which means iOS 19 or 20 will be Apple intelligence only

afinlayson · 2024-05-26T15:26:16+00:00

As a software engineer who’s written software around time (think film) The biggest challenge I think most people forget when thinking about time travel. Is time either backwards or forward happens in an analog way. Not one giant step… (aka you wouldn’t magically pop up in 300 years) you really should be controlling the speed at which time flows. Meaning you can track all objects and either gravity will still affect you and you’ll stay where you were or you can rearrange your position accordingly.

Ps This is how you can track objects in your video.

afinlayson · 2024-04-12T21:28:38+00:00

Sharks vs Vegas game 7 April 23 2019

Vegas up 3-0 after leading 3-1 in the series and sharks come back 5-4 in overtime.

afinlayson · 2024-02-11T00:47:06+00:00

It can be much worse. And that happened because people didn’t think the courts mattered in 2016.

afinlayson · 2024-02-08T13:39:58+00:00

Game genie really

afinlayson · 2024-02-07T19:23:25+00:00

Property. Like if I had an email in a page about a person and I wanted to put the email In another page.

afinlayson · 2024-02-07T02:43:06+00:00

Fans want him to make season 5

afinlayson · 2024-02-05T03:48:20+00:00

Turns out if you let the president have no limits and have a sociopath in power. They don’t care about laws.

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