@ian.fowler | morningstar network

[wittingly]

Hey
Stop me if this is a stupid offer, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works, but
I heard about the whole gate problem, and the whole simulation thing, there's probably more going on too that I don't know about yet
I'm an engineer
You guys might already have a few, but just in case you're shorthanded
If there's anything I can do to help, I want to

I can also apparently do a weird tools thing now so that's
something

edit: if anyone's in the market for crazy experiments in there
you guys glitch the sim when you do your chest thing, right?
anyone tried organizing a group glow-off? overwhelm the system with too much at once, DDOS it into crashing?

Comments

[evasives]

That pessimism is not limited to teaching alone. Is that what you did in your own world?

It seems like we all start off with a capped power capacity. Eventually you may be able to change the components. Sometimes it is like we simply unlock new abilities, beyond evolving what we already have too.

Worse than our limits here?

[wittingly]

Yeah, mostly, toward the end before everything went to shit. I taught engineering at a university, like a higher education facility if you guys have those wherever you're from

Jesus Christ, if I could change components or materials on top of this... I can't even wrap my head around what that could mean

Yeah, way worse. Where I'm from we couldn't even count on having buildings. The race that invaded us started ripping them out of the ground. No metal.

[evasives]

We have them, yes, though they are not the most accessible across the galaxy. It's much easier on some planets than others.

You would never need to buy a hammer again for starters.

What kind of technology allowed them to rip up buildings?

[wittingly]

No kidding. Hell, I could sell hammers and do almost no work ever again. All profit.

They had these, I don't know, it seemed like magnets. These big ships that would pull buildings up by the foundation. Then open up and crush them into cubes right there over your head.

[evasives]

Collecting the supplies in the first place might count as work.

Not a technology I would like to come up against. Were they still invading before you arrived here?

[wittingly]

Hell yes they were
I might be one of the only people in the damn group that was stoked as hell to wake up here
They're gonna be sticking around until the planet's not life-bearing anymore, probably, and then they'll scoot off to the next one and leave behind a husk

[evasives]

Was it another version of Earth?

[wittingly]

Yeah, apparently one of the worse versions of earth if we're comparing it to everyone else's.

[evasives]

It does not sound like Earth has much luck in most versions. Even here seems full of issues.

No magnetic aliens though.