hey why do you. *need* a time player. i get space but why time. if you don't end up scratching then what's the problem with it
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one oh my fucking god i forgot i was working through these jesus fucking christ let me crawl out of my goddamn grave here this death wasn’t heroic or just so let’s kick things off with one i swear to fucking god i answered then go fresh from here
Why do you need a Time player?
In Sburb, when making a universe, it uses the aspects of the players that were present. Technically speaking, the Troll’s game made the “ideal” universe, with every aspect available.
A universe needs Space and Time to exist. With no Space, you can’t have a universe. Theres no space to put a universe into, nothing to build upon nothing to have a foundation to. In the same way, you need Time to have a proper universe, too.
Time itself
Time is the measure of then to now, and how the past became the present, and becomes the future. As put by The Doctor(BBC’s Doctor Who, played at the time by David Tennant)
“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.”
Which i feel homestuck actually does a wonderful job at addressing. Time is not one thing after the other. It loops, it curves back upon itself, it branches off as people use it incorrectly, or even correctly. If a universe does not have Time, it does not have meaning. Everything happens all at once everywhere and nowhere. There is no start, no end. There is no time to establish a beginning, to tell you when things begin to exist. Space will tell you where, but it can’t tell you when.
But Dave! i didn’t need to scratch!
Scratch or not, if you don’t have a universe with Time in it, you’ve effectively made a singularity. A point in which everything, every little bit of matter that was, is, or will be, exists at a single point. That paradoxically exists now, in the future, has never existed, will exist, can’t exist, or may never exist at all. Time is not just the ability to Scratch a session. This is why you can’t have a game without Time.
