Guardian54
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I am rapidly getting annoyed with this premise, at least with the doubling down of the author on a clear problem that basically is impossible for any sentient (let alone sapient) species' cultural development trajectory to reach.
Guardian54 he sayeth: "the first sign that an author should not do much worldbuilding is an absolute refusal to retcon. Unwillingness is to be expected as there are often cascading effects, but absolute refusal is a bad, BAD sign."
(Yes, I know how badly retconning to make initial history actually plausible instead of ASB has cost me, by making my "SI Archives" end up on its 6th Draft right now with the POD pushed back further and further, but it gives me the chance to make an Even Greater Canada, so...)
...Sudden realization: You are making slut Life sound like the Eldar. Which, of course, means Taylor should not choose "Stuck here Forever" even on her Nth run after Golden Morning
There's "crapsack" and then there's "TOO STUPID TO FUNCTION". If contract law is that stupid then the society cannot possibly work with any entities that can even pretend to be people.
Hell, even AI would evolve to favour high-fitness strategies!
You mean the contract laws as you seem to sell them, which are not any system that will actually work with any civilization EVER as it is too easy to obtain assent to just about anything.
Other than dismissing it as force majeur abduction of primitives for fun, experimentation and profit, which would work just fine. However, you would need to show it being thought of as such by SL HQ later.
Do you know where empathy came from? "What if I'm next?" is where empathy came from. Which means having a clearly forced/tricked contestant is IMMENSELY BAD for the show becuase there are no doubt a number of folks who find the show generally okay but would gladly commit murder before letting themselves be forced to perform. And I mean bad to the point of "If you aren't giving this girl +200 credits to start and allowing her to use various exploits, the viewers might shoot your recruiters on sight in broad daylight out in the streets".
A justice system that doesn't protect people from involuntary enslavement in a post-scarcity society... is one that will get torn down pretty fucking fast by a general uprising. The military arm? They have ties to non-military folks, and will inevitably decide that if they're the tools by which power is enforced, then they might as well hold the power themselves. And since time travel is not mentioned to allow paradoxes... then they can act just fine. So long as the multiversal secret society (they have many members with them) is reacting then they can deal with it just fine.
And of course, if you so much as touch upon the Draka as an excuse for bullshit plots (a steaming heap of idiot ball author fiat)...
If offspring are not considered valuable then the society is almost certainly too stupid to exist and this is all some huge simulation in some supercomputer somewhere. Because any race that evolved sapience and cultural evolution will end up completely dependent on generation-to-generation teaching/learning relationships.
That's an option: Slut Life is actually a simulation run in the Quantum Foam while the Core and Arm commanders are fighting it out.
Alternatively, and I just realized this: Slut Life are basically pre-Slaanesh Eldar. So... never ever choose "You're Here Forever" even on your Nth run through
So, why didn't they wipe Taylor's memory or just brainwash her, hmm? Would be much easier.
And this is why the Infinite War and continued tensions afterward was such a good thing for SupCom humanity. They don't end up wriggling endlessly in the mud in decadence without trying to be creative.
Also, notice the time travel involved does not appear to permit paradoxes, and is inter-universal which basically means "wormhole to this this this coordinate in this this this universe code, at this this this local time"... which means Einsteinian Relativity is fucked with a chainsaw as there is a universal timeframe. Which means the moment SL encounters a sufficiently powerful warlike civilization (Total Annihilation lore would like a word), they're screwed. Unless they are in fact all a psionic (e.g. soul) upload MMORPG.
Guardian54 he sayeth: "the first sign that an author should not do much worldbuilding is an absolute refusal to retcon. Unwillingness is to be expected as there are often cascading effects, but absolute refusal is a bad, BAD sign."
(Yes, I know how badly retconning to make initial history actually plausible instead of ASB has cost me, by making my "SI Archives" end up on its 6th Draft right now with the POD pushed back further and further, but it gives me the chance to make an Even Greater Canada, so...)
...Sudden realization: You are making slut Life sound like the Eldar. Which, of course, means Taylor should not choose "Stuck here Forever" even on her Nth run after Golden Morning
Personally, I am perfectly willing to chalk it all up to "Slut life verse's legal science is weird and would be absolutely illegal in America or maybe even anywhere else on Earth, and there is literally nothing Cindy can do but make Taylor as comfortable as she can because getting her out would be illegal and there are probably cameras everywhere".
"Slut Life is somewhat of a crapsack world" is a perfectly valid way of seeing this after all.
There's "crapsack" and then there's "TOO STUPID TO FUNCTION". If contract law is that stupid then the society cannot possibly work with any entities that can even pretend to be people.
Hell, even AI would evolve to favour high-fitness strategies!
I don't care about any arguments based around Earth laws. They are invalid, as they are not on this earth.
You mean the contract laws as you seem to sell them, which are not any system that will actually work with any civilization EVER as it is too easy to obtain assent to just about anything.
Other than dismissing it as force majeur abduction of primitives for fun, experimentation and profit, which would work just fine. However, you would need to show it being thought of as such by SL HQ later.
Do you know where empathy came from? "What if I'm next?" is where empathy came from. Which means having a clearly forced/tricked contestant is IMMENSELY BAD for the show becuase there are no doubt a number of folks who find the show generally okay but would gladly commit murder before letting themselves be forced to perform. And I mean bad to the point of "If you aren't giving this girl +200 credits to start and allowing her to use various exploits, the viewers might shoot your recruiters on sight in broad daylight out in the streets".
A justice system that doesn't protect people from involuntary enslavement in a post-scarcity society... is one that will get torn down pretty fucking fast by a general uprising. The military arm? They have ties to non-military folks, and will inevitably decide that if they're the tools by which power is enforced, then they might as well hold the power themselves. And since time travel is not mentioned to allow paradoxes... then they can act just fine. So long as the multiversal secret society (they have many members with them) is reacting then they can deal with it just fine.
And of course, if you so much as touch upon the Draka as an excuse for bullshit plots (a steaming heap of idiot ball author fiat)...
This is a society where sex is seemingly considered such a mundane, everyday part of life that even pregnancy and childbirth is considered just a side thing that happens to be a fetish, and even kids aren't considered too sacred for it. If anything, are you sure the viewers won't simply declare you a drama queen and that "it's not a big deal!"?
If offspring are not considered valuable then the society is almost certainly too stupid to exist and this is all some huge simulation in some supercomputer somewhere. Because any race that evolved sapience and cultural evolution will end up completely dependent on generation-to-generation teaching/learning relationships.
That's an option: Slut Life is actually a simulation run in the Quantum Foam while the Core and Arm commanders are fighting it out.
Alternatively, and I just realized this: Slut Life are basically pre-Slaanesh Eldar. So... never ever choose "You're Here Forever" even on your Nth run through
How would they figure that they're unwilling participants if, for example, they got their memory wiped, or are specifically in it to roleplay being kidnapped to another world?
So, why didn't they wipe Taylor's memory or just brainwash her, hmm? Would be much easier.
It's quite possible that the SL society had gotten desensitized to sex and time to such a degree that this wouldn't be an issue at all. They do have memory erasure/restoration, apparent easy time travel and medicine to the point of practical immortality. Still quite possible that they'll consider this drama queening and overblowing the situation.
And this is why the Infinite War and continued tensions afterward was such a good thing for SupCom humanity. They don't end up wriggling endlessly in the mud in decadence without trying to be creative.
Also, notice the time travel involved does not appear to permit paradoxes, and is inter-universal which basically means "wormhole to this this this coordinate in this this this universe code, at this this this local time"... which means Einsteinian Relativity is fucked with a chainsaw as there is a universal timeframe. Which means the moment SL encounters a sufficiently powerful warlike civilization (Total Annihilation lore would like a word), they're screwed. Unless they are in fact all a psionic (e.g. soul) upload MMORPG.
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