Game 011 [Voice] - Another Year Wiser

[neverplaysfair]

Given the nature of time here in relation to our own worlds, would you say that birthdays here even have a point? You lose any time you spend here when you go home, and possibly regain it if you return, so it the end it arguably doesn't exist in any permanent capacity. But it's still time that you've lived and experience that you've gained.

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[neverplaysfair]

But the new year has a meaning because it exists as a marker for the passage of time of this place, rather than for any one person.

And please, don't sing.

[neverplaysfair]

Even if you lose it, with no indicator it was ever there in the first place? Time progressing around you is one thing; time flowing independently in a cut-off world is quite another.

[neverplaysfair]

So as a marker there's no point, but people celebrate for nostalgia's sake anyway?

[neverplaysfair]

True. But does that mean you're truly getting older?

[headphones_nyan]

Life here's hard enough without taking away reasons to celebrate.

[neverplaysfair]

But would you bother saying you're a year older? Is the date alone a celebration and "age" worthless?

[headphones_nyan]

I guess?

[He has to stop and think about that one for a minute. As far as he knows, Luceti doesn't have a legal age for any sort of activities. From a Luceti point of view, they're still aging, but from the point of view of their home worlds, nothing's changed. So it's like they're aging, but they aren't?

...Man, he's no good with this theoretical kind of stuff.]

Think of it like New Year's. It's not celebrating the Earth being another year older, it's celebrating all the happy times you had that year.

[neverplaysfair]

So might we as well forget age while we're here?

[markofthewise]

Actually it's not the why that bothers me, it's the when. I should be 16 in just a few months, but according to the calendar here I'll have to wait almost an entire year for another one.

[neverplaysfair]

But can you even turn 16 here? Or do you wait until you return home to get older? What happens if you turn 16 here then go home, forgetting about Luceti, and turn 16 again? When you come back, are you 17?

[markofthewise]

Yeah, I think you're kind of missing the point. Your age is how long it's been since you were born. Whether that time was spent home or here, does it matter? Even if we get reset or something, as long as we're here, I can still turn 16. There's nothing magical about getting older.

[neverplaysfair]

My point is that there's conflicting timeflows. If you turn 16 twice, do you never celebrate your 17th birthday here? Call it a thought experiment if you prefer.

[pathtoseele]

I'd like to think we celebrate birthdays to thank the person being born... Not that they have lived another year. So... It'd still be important to have them.

[neverplaysfair]

Then is age meaningless here?

[pathtoseele]

Maybe it is. It's just a number.

[neverplaysfair]

Oddly enough, there aren't too many who are willing to admit that.