Do you dig on multiverses?

Be it be a multiverse of smart fellers or fart smellers.
 
In one multiverse Jersh is a notorious lolcow and one Christian Weston Chandler is the one wrangling him.
"Sonichu? Lovequest? Bro come on, that's stupid"
 
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No. Make your stuff actually good. P. S. Tegmark go make a scientific theory that actually predicts something.
 
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Multiverses and interconnected tie-ins in movies and the like used to be an interesting gimmick but like all things, gets overused to hell and back by lazy hack writers and the autists that gobble that shit up thinking it’s somehow deep.

As for actual multiverse theory, I can’t get behind it because that would mean there’s a universe where I slept with Chris, where you fucked Nick Bate, where Null turned Kiwi Farms into Tumblr 2.0 That’s a level of cosmic horror Lovecraft wouldn’t touch.
 
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Agamemnon Busmalis said:
Always liked the idea of the Backrooms multiverse but never understood why nobody ever came up with a way to get in and out reliably to actually develop it.

You've got a basically limitless supply of power and endless space with a controlled climate on that first level. Move people in there, renovate some parts into residential/commercial/industrial property and lease it out for pennies per square foot. You'll make a fortune.

Sure you could have to deal with dangerous entities and it's probably like living in an office or finished basement, but is that really much worse than living in the ghetto? At least they won't kill you for a cigarette. Hell, you could make money just incinerating the entire world's garbage there, or turn it into a prison, or use it for spent nuclear fuel storage.
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Imagine a serial killer who used backrooms. Or something like The Pit. Except the monsters aren't in a pit they are in a backroom. I feel like most backrooms stuff is done by teenagers devoid of creativity.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Imagine a serial killer who used backrooms. Or something like The Pit. Except the monsters aren't in a pit they are in a backroom. I feel like most backrooms stuff is done by teenagers devoid of creativity.
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Yeah, the whole concept is kind of like the idea that if you can imagine something, it could possibly exist. A lot of potential in this whole collaborative story, I keep forgetting it's only been around 5 or 6 years since the original was posted.

There were a ton of great stories like this on SCP back in the day. It's been a while since I've gone there with all the political crap but the old-school stuff was good.
 
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multiverse as a concept is interesting. no one has used it right except as little gimmicks. because writers for decades have basically just used anything science related to justify their magic system based on their feelings as having some plausibility rather than exploring a concepts implication on something more akin to the real world.

dc's multiverse was just a gimmick so your dads superheros could meet your superheros even though most of them were until that point the same without a rebrand like some other of their superheros .

marvels existed just because i think dc did it.

bioshock infinite is a perfect example of a story that might as well have not even had it, all it served to do was make this feelings based narrative that really doesnt explore the multiverse concept at all. sure its the glue in how things happen but you could easily just make it ghosts or something like a christmas carol where you see the bad futures instead of trying to make it "but its science"

alot of shows just use it to show oc versions or evil versions of their characters going back to the original star trek even.

overall if we were in the universe where the good guys won ww2 maybe youd have interesting stories exploring the concept of a multiverse but in our doomed timeline its just a tool to explain why miscegenation is a good thing actually or helping the negroidal writer explain his continuity errors away or to make characters niggers.

Dysnomia said:
I feel like most backrooms stuff is done by teenagers devoid of creativity.
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i remember when the concept was first being picked up on alot of the people didnt understand that making "you have 1 percent to survive here, then .02 percent to survive these entities in the next part" isnt actually scary because were not vidya protagonists and were all dying on the first room theres overpowered monsters because thats kinda just how it goes. just these childish assumptions that you could just be plopped in an extradimensional maze and sneak mission yourself across until you gather supplies and i guess beat the mutated 15 foot tall abominations wielding fuck you death tentacles to death alone
 
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Agamemnon Busmalis said:
Yeah, the whole concept is kind of like the idea that if you can imagine something, it could possibly exist. A lot of potential in this whole collaborative story, I keep forgetting it's only been around 5 or 6 years since the original was posted.

There were a ton of great stories like this on SCP back in the day. It's been a while since I've gone there with all the political crap but the old-school stuff was good.
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Best thing to come out of SCP lately is that fps game.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
The multiverse is only possible universes. Some things have a zero chance of happening.

(or at least I hope that's how it is)
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it has to be or else you get retarded contradictory crap

Jason Wynn said:
As for actual multiverse theory, I can’t get behind it because that would mean there’s a universe where I slept with Chris, where you fucked Nick Bate, where Null turned Kiwi Farms into Tumblr 2.0 That’s a level of cosmic horror Lovecraft wouldn’t touch.
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i prefer to think of funny possibilities like null on live tv drop kicking a tranny ralph off a roof in a corn suit or where kf because an everything app and you have to post about lolcows to access basics like banking or email.
 
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Jason Wynn said:
As for actual multiverse theory, I can’t get behind it because that would mean there’s a universe where I slept with Chris, where you fucked Nick Bate, where Null turned Kiwi Farms into Tumblr 2.0 That’s a level of cosmic horror Lovecraft wouldn’t touch.
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its true. I refuse to believe theres a universe where Trad Albert is having dinner with his wife and kids
 
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
DC’s multiverse was for a time the only one that really worked but then they really started over complicating things and it fell apart partially due to bad writers getting control.
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The thing is, it kinda peaked with the death of Earth-2's Bruce Wayne and the stories that popped up with the original huntress.

The issue is that DC was really bad at making of the other Earths unless it was Earth-2. Earth-Shazam existed but didn't cross often. Earth-3 was just a villain team.png and Earth X blew up in the face of the DC Implosion iirc. Everything Golden Age related got melted into Earth 2 via the All-Star Squadron title. The relics of the original multiverse eventually got merged and reappeared in the mainstream universe. You had all the major legacies that'd been in print since the '40s, but there was no alt-version of clark/bruce/diana/dick/arthur/oliver/roy or their support cast/descendents as being old as fuck. You still had the JSA and Shazam and The Freedom Fighters because that was easy to fold into the world. The only "multiverse" mainstays that didn't get successfully folded in AND weren't some variation of golden age supes/bats/etc+supporting cast members were like. . . The Crime Syndicate and Helena Wayne's Huntress.

The Crime Syndicate got turned into a Qwardian thing in the late 90s/early 2000s, iirc. So that leaves Helena Wayne. She never really got brought back. Shame, but we had concessions to m~

Oh right, modern DC brought her back as a woman without a timeline. . . and Helena Bertinelli also exists.

So, yeah, the multiverse really didn't produce much that couldn't be folded into DC's mainstream. The Crime Syndicate were sorta memorable and did get reworked. Power Girl, of all people, got folded into the mainstream and they kinda went full schizoid with her "new" origins until Infinite Crisis. They altered a bunch of the JSA/Infinity Inc lore to remove mentions of the '40s Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman and replaced them with other characters. Miss America was retconned into being a JSA member in Wondy's place. Infinity Inc's "Fury" was retconned to have her mom be the young all-star squadron's Fury instead of the '40s Wonder Woman. Then in the late 90s, they retconned it again so that Hippolyta was the '40s Wonder Woman.

Alexander Luthor and Superboy Prime and Kal-L/Lois Kent weren't seen until Infinite Crisis. Who else is left? It's literally just Earth-2's Helena Wayne who was very recently brought back.

My criticism of them folding in everything is that it kinda created a situation where you suddenly wind up with a ridiculous amount of superheroes. You had all the classic Earth-1 teams like the JLA/Titans. The Earth-2 JSA, All-Star Squadron, Freedom Fighters (yes, they're originally earth-2) and Infinity Inc. all kinda conglomerate into an extremely powerful collective. Then you had the Shazam Family+ Fawcett Heroes and the Charlton Heroes.

So DC put the JSA on hiatus by having them sacrifice themselves in a never ending battle against Surtr until like 1991 or some shit.

anyways, bad writers made things worse, but I'd also blame mediocre editors more for not wrangling things better.
 
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So far the only implementation of the multiverse idea I've liked was in Steel Ball Run, because it was used as a weapon and wasn't the center of the plot until the last fights.
 
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