Sir have u herd of religion some of them are real big on this concept.

I think you should take it easy on the weed.

Have you read The Egg by Andy Weir?

…I think this is called Reincarnation.

What if? Dude, it is.

• You only have 1 life and then the game is over.
• it’s randomly generated
• it’s brutal as fuck
• the goal is to get down 100 levels, grab a ring, and bring it back to the exit.

It’s called the Wheel of Life

im having a good run since I havent died early, but I’m like 1 billionth on the ladder so doing relatively poorly.

Why are y’all hating on existential questions? The answer is unknowable. Just have fun with it~

Reminds me of “Re:Zero” anime. Dies and respawn.

Do be cool and terrified at the same time.

My two pet theories:

Right before you are born, you make every possible decision you are ever going to make, and then your soul chooses the course that is least bad for most gain, like a min-maxer.

Or! Every time you make a decision that kills you, you die! But you soul hops to the reality where you didnt die, because the universe is an infinite dimension holograph of all possible everything, and it really is just about learning and growing

Anecdote time: once upon a time I was a young man working in chem hose. I would get sent all over to do onsight testing and repair with my work mate, we were good friends and druggos lol.

So we got sent to this beautiful majestic place to work. After work we took mushrooms and went to the national park. Fun! It got dark, so we went driving down some farm roads. After some time I decided to stop. We smoked weed, hung around, then after a bit got tired and went home. Sounds normal right?

Next day, couldnt find the weed after work, no big, lets hit that farm road, see it in the day, maybe find it. After some time the road ended… at the resevoir. The weed was there, and so were my tire tracks. 5 feet away from the edge of the reseviour. Seems like oh, we would just have lost the truck and gotten out right? No. It was a sheer wall 20’ to the bottom. We should both be dead, and in that other universe, we are dead…

I’ve been saying " fuck this I’m rerolling" when life get extra shitty for years now. It is fun to see the faces of the people who understand what I’m talking about.

Personally I want the life setting " no loot drop on respawn" I would go to many more places if all I had to do is die and respawn at save with all my shit… though walmart might get pissy about it.

Well, in that case I can only hope my next run goes better! Not taking a few decades to realize I’m a girl or just spawning with the right body would help a lot lol, wouldn’t mind permanently unlocking that for future runs.

If that would be the case we wouldn’t be overpopulated as fuck

Technically, random race/class/etc upon a new life is really more common with Roguelites. (You kinda acknowledge that, but roll with me. Trying to be facetious with the Roguelike snobbery thing, not sure if I pulled it off lol)

Traditional Roguelikes usually let you pick what kind of fresh Hell you’re setting yourself up for.

…So maybe this is Roguelike rules.

You fuckin chose your species, religion, and class.
Just not how much food you get to eat, what books you get the chance to read (without tremendous effort on your part) and when you will die.

Oh, sweet heavens, this is so much worse! We did this to ourselves

I’ve heard accounts on multiple occasions, in person and not, of very young children having knowledge of things they shouldn’t, or very specific stories about how they died… One very fanciful sounding example was of a child being led to safety through dreadful environment by an apparition that later in life was revealed to be of a family member that hadn’t been born yet.

Even if only 1% of these stores are remotely true…

Something’s fucky about reality. Things aren’t as they seem. It’s right in front of us, I just know it. It just isn’t able to be comprehended past a faint feeling of confusion and unease.

No I don’t lose sleep thinking about these things! You do! Lol