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[explosivecombat]

[Well. The previous night's sleep was absolutely hideous, for reasons that Kimblee really doesn't want to discuss, especially not with the network as a whole; however, the lack of contact with people is possibly the last thing he wants.

So. Polling the audience time again. Let's do this thing.]

While I know that this world has a tendency to pull some strange sorts of mayhem when it comes to bringing people here, have any of the rest of you found people from a different version of the world you came from? I'm not talking about different points on the timeline - though if any of you have experienced anything particularly strange on that front, I'm interested in hearing about that as well. What I'm referring to are instances of the world being identical up to a point, and the subsequent differences led to the timeline of your world and the timeline of this alternate version being entirely different.

From what I understand, this can lead to things such as another version of you living out an alternate version of your life; an example of what things might have been, if you made different choices. I know that it's a popular theory, philosophically, but have any of you received irrefutable evidence that that's the case in whatever reality you came from?

Because I have.

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[exeggutorhead]

If you manage to find anyone else in that kind of situation I'd like to hear about it.

[Because seriously. Amestris can't be the only weird world, can it?]

As for me, I haven't heard anyone else talking about it. But I haven't been asking, either.

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[explosivecombat]

I'm asking because I haven't heard about it either - what with all the worlds that are represented here, it's rather improbable that it's only happened to us, isn't it? I mean, there seem to be many people from the same overall world here; they all recognize the same names as far as countries, cities and major landmarks go. But I have yet to hear of anyone whose world has a near-mirror, as we do. It's odd.

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[exeggutorhead]

Maybe they exist and people just don't know about it. I mean, you wouldn't know if Archer and I weren't here.

Our world seems different from most others anyway. Like you said, there's a world that most everyone else seems to be from, and they're all from different countries within that world. I've never seen anyone showing up here from Xing or Drachma or Aerugo. It's always been Amestris.

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[lieutenantantichrist]

[Blake's thumbs jab out an answer immediately.]

No. Alternate dimensions are crap made up by the same kind of people who send magazines pictures of Bigfoot.

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[explosivecombat]

Ah, is that so? You'll have to tell that to the alternate versions of people I know, I'm afraid; they're around, believe me.

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[lieutenantantichrist]

Oh yeah? You got anything but their word for it?

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[rocketralph]

THE ARCADE I'M FROM HAD TWO PACMAN CONSOLES ONCE.

IT WAS KIND OF AWKWARD FOR EVERYBODY.

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[explosivecombat]

[RALPH WHAT IS A CONSOLE

...WHAT IS A PACMAN FOR THAT MATTER]

Did they ever interact with each other? Or do you adhere to the idea where if that were to happen, the world would end?

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[rocketralph]

THEY INTERACTED.

IT WAS CONFUSING BECAUSE IN GAME CENTRAL YOU WOULD SEE PEOPLE TALKING TO ONE OF THE PACMANS OR THE GHOSTS BUT THERE WOULD BE THIS LONG AWKWARD PAUSE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE TALKING TO THE ONE THEY KNEW AND AT ONE POINT PEOPLE ALMOST STOPPED TALKING TO ANYONE FROM PACMAN AT ALL.

SOME COLLECTOR BOUGHT THE OTHER CABINET FINALLY. WE STILL AREN'T SURE IF ALL THE CAST IN OUR PACMAN ARE ORIGINALS BUT THEY'RE REASONABLE CHARACTERS SO IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER I GUESS.

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[surpassedjupiter]

[Gee, this is relevant to her interests.]

What kind of evidence did you get?

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[explosivecombat]

I've interacted with people who were decidedly not who they should have been, and others who remember the same landmarks and a different version of myself, only their world changed drastically at some point and it skewed the timeline.

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[surpassedjupiter]

Were you the passive or the active participant?

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[doubleornothing]

A confuscating conundrum. It hasn't happened to me personally, but I've seen it played out for a former colleague of mine. The results were interesting but I can't say it didn't leave an off taste in my mouth.

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[explosivecombat]

You say that as though there's a chance that it might happen to you personally one day. I'm assuming alternate worlds and dimensions are an accepted occurrence for you...? Or was this an anomaly?

[doubleornothing]

Oh, I haven't had the fortune, or misfortune, to witness another version of myself. Nor have I found any world or dimension that is a near replica or another, save for the incident I had just mentioned. But I have done my fair share of travelling between worlds, and I can tell you that nothing is as impossible as you might believe it is. It's good to keep an open mind; it allows for adjustments in your game plan.

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[bertall]

I think if there was someone from a world like mine I would've heard about it by now. It's not a place you'd really want a duplicate of.

_{[UNLESS YOU HAD A THING FOR GIANT PEOPLE-EATING MONSTERS...]}

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[explosivecombat]

[...Well, giant-people eating monsters have potential to be fun, but he's armed with a bit more than maneuver gear and swords, here.]

Is that so? I imagine the same can be said for any world out there, really, for reasons ranging from "It's incredibly dull and there's nothing special about it" to "Something about my world is out to kill everyone so believe me, you don't want it."

Where does yours lie on that spectrum, I wonder?

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[enjoymyatelier]

Ah, so that has happened to someone else? I thought it was a bit strange that nobody else seems to have had that experience... well, no one aside from the other individuals from my world that are present here, of course.

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[explosivecombat]

What a roundabout way of saying that it's happened to you, Lord El-Melloi - but I do appreciate your input, don't misunderstand me.

What happened, in your case?

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[saxsongs]

[Well, Ren can answer something like that, but since he's finally decided to keep his distance to the Rockets, he'll use the anon function.]

That happened to me and my friend. Quite big things happened to him that I had no idea of even if I should have had, while he didn't know anything about the things I told him about. It was confusing.

Though I didn't hear him saying I acted any differently in his versio.

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[explosivecombat]

Clarify something for me - was this something that happened here due to timeline-based issues, or did this confusion happen in your world, away from here?

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[belphe]

Where I come from, at any given time, we are surrounded by infinite outcomes and possibilities. In those fragments, anyone you have ever met has done anything you can imagine.

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[explosivecombat]

There's a philosophical theory based on that sort of idea - that every action has an immeasurable number of outcomes, and every one of them is simultaneously true and not true until we make a decision. Once a decision is reached, the outcomes that decision renders invalid are no longer accessible, but another immeasurable number of outcomes are enabled and come into being.

By that logic, there's an immeasurable number of lives that can be said to exist for each person, in which a different choice was made at every junction - resulting in the "everyone you've met has done everything possible" theory. Is it something like that?

I go away from home for a while and interesting post happens? Sorry for the late, but I had to~

[healing_wish]

Hmm. Interesting. I don't think I've ever met others, who have some kind of experience of something like this. Well, aside from people in - or from - my home world, of course.

While I don't have experience in someone like me living in another world than me...

My best friend can turn back time. She's done it quite many times, and the events after I met her and end results of each timeline were always different.

No worries, I'm still here!

[explosivecombat]

So her circumstance isn't like this place, in which going back to where you were means you forget everything that happened in the interim - she could remember everything that happened and have an impact on it as she saw fit? Is that right?