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| What If: Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, for the entire world? | |
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| Topic Started: May 28 2015, 07:28 PM (1,004 Views) | |
| RedliwLedah | May 28 2015, 07:28 PM Post #1 |
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I won't try to summarize, I read this, and want to hear what some of your opinions on what this would be like or how things would happen are. http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/18051/tomorrow-is-groundhog-day-for-everyone-how-does-society-respond Try not to over complicate it. It's (probably) not possible, use liberal applications of suspension of disbelief. Assume that memory is stored in the human soul that exists in this scenario, so it isn't related to electron positions in your brain, so even getting shot in the head or having a mental disease or something means you'll still remember exactly as you did before. Babies still exist before they are born, so they aren't really a case of anything besides poofing back into their mother. Developing babies just happening to develop memory/consciousness that day? Uh... there's a lot of other subjects that can be covered before getting to that one I think. And the reset happens globally, at midnight in Mivy time. Edited by RedliwLedah, May 28 2015, 07:33 PM.
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| Ashtoro | May 28 2015, 07:56 PM Post #2 |
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Funnily, I just watched Groundhog Day a few days ago. It would basically be a free pass do stop working and only do what you want. Play video games, watch movies/shows. You wouldn't be able to play anything that required save data though... no more RPGs, and no more new content. It would be awkward for those who weren't asleep at reset time. In Groundhog Day, no matter what, he woke up at 6am, I believe even if he stayed up until then. But 12am Mivi time is 4pm my time; I'd just be sitting at work. Pretty jarring experience to go from whatever I was doing to being at work mid-action. It wouldn't be so bad though, if it's the whole world, since everyone's in it. Basically everyone takes the day off work, and people would get bored of rioting eventually. Sucks for the people in a middle of a bad day though. |
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| Harly | May 28 2015, 08:44 PM Post #3 |
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Schools and whatnot would still function, we could still learn things, and I believe that social interaction would change at all. However, no progress on anything whatsoever could be made, and you could only ever get 24 hours away from wherever you happened to be when it started. War, famine, etc. would become much less of an issue (everyone only needs one day's worth of food). The economy would probably die. |
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| Catman | May 28 2015, 08:59 PM Post #4 |
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Groundhog day for me has been the day that this LittleBigPlanet costume was released: |
WHY ARE WE STILL HERE... ...JUST TO SUFFER?!
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| cipher | May 28 2015, 10:13 PM Post #5 |
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Huh this would require a lot of thought for me to even begin imagining. The long term effects would be extremely interesting; it would essentially end scarcity of many resources in certain areas. The internet, and other forms of long distance communication, would become holy as a source of "outside" information since physical travel would be limited. Our concepts of morality and value would have to change on order to accommodate the fact that life and time are not nearly as precious as before. One interesting thing to note is that if someone is starving and are 24 hours away from food, the result is they would starve for eternity and never be put out of their misery. |
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| RedliwLedah | May 29 2015, 12:18 PM Post #6 |
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There's so many things to consider with a scenario like this. What happens the first day? Short term? Long term? Thousands of years? What happens on the first day that the cycle ended? I would like to think that it would still be that same day (Wednesday for the listed topic), except tomorrow will be Thursday for real instead of Wednesday again. That day would start out exactly like the uncountable amount before it, except anybody that happened to die the day before, would still be dead. What if your significant other suicided for some reason? You wouldn't think anything of it, you would see them again the next morning like every other day. Except you wake up and they are still dead. Most people that you tell wouldn't believe you. But other reports of the same thing would spread. Then you check online and find out that a nuclear bomb was launched in (important country you don't live in here) the day before. That isn't going to be undone this time. All the major websites have had minor bugs implemented into their code every morning in order to have greater access to computers and databases and such for something like Project Last Hope described in the link. Google set their login to accept any password, as every account in the world would eventually be broken into, as hackers have had infinite time to try (CROSS PROMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q). Everybody's accounts have been fully accessed, and are still accessible. Everybody would be a skilled worker. If the world didn't just collapse on itself in panic, and somehow started to get back on track, nobody would ever apply for a job at a Mc. Donalds, or any junior position for anything anymore. At least we would have a very large population of smart people with the skills to fix this somehow. But it sucks for the incoming generation, knowing that everybody older than them know everything that can be known. Man, I could think about this sort of thing for days. Makes me wish I was a good writer, there's a series of novels/short stories in here so easily. |
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| WitchRolina | May 29 2015, 12:27 PM Post #7 |
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The laws of physics dictate that light casts shadows when obscured by an object. A groundhog is such an object. It is not winter anywhere in the world, which at this time, is technically true for couple weeks.
Edited by WitchRolina, May 30 2015, 01:02 AM.
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| Artisan | May 29 2015, 12:59 PM Post #8 |
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I would take pictures of the second Sun. |
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| Ashtoro | May 29 2015, 04:15 PM Post #9 |
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I'm confused. Why would dying not get reset? What happens to the bodies? Do you wake up holding your S.O.'s corpse every day? What incoming generation? If the day is repeating, nobody's growing up. Memories aside, kids' and infants' brain development is getting reset. And why are there two suns? |
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| RedliwLedah | May 29 2015, 04:28 PM Post #10 |
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I was talking about that in the situation of the cycle then ending, not inside the cycle, for all of that. It's just as interesting to me as the cycle itself. I don't know why there are two suns. |
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| Ashtoro | May 29 2015, 04:46 PM Post #11 |
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Ooooh I missed that. Your post makes more sense now. |
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| Nikki | May 29 2015, 05:25 PM Post #12 |
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I think most people would be happy. Yes, there would be lots of anarchy, but it would not matter too much because death does not mean anything. Maybe a new order would emerge, in which there are some people with memory who work as "records", and there is law enforcement consisting in torturing people for X days depending on the gravity of their crimes, and people can be "paid" in terms of pleasant experiences. What I am getting at is that with these "people-records" and systematised ways of giving pleasure and pain, an ordered society could emerge, maybe not so different from ours. Edited by Nikki, May 29 2015, 05:27 PM.
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| Artisan | May 30 2015, 01:19 PM Post #13 |
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That title threw me off. In a time loop with cognitive retention life would be lived like a reoccurring dream, slowly morphing into an inconceivable nightmare as the loops stack. |
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| Catman | May 30 2015, 01:34 PM Post #14 |
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If I chose to do nothing, really it would be just the same for me right now. I find it hard to remember entire weeks because all I did was sit here at my computer the whole time. With an infinite loop of days I could learn martial arts forever, the major issue would be the reset of physical condition though... but what I'm thinking is: If your body's condition gets reset, why doesn't your mind's? |
WHY ARE WE STILL HERE... ...JUST TO SUFFER?!
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| RedliwLedah | May 30 2015, 02:16 PM Post #15 |
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Magic. Or something to do with memory being part of the soul, as your mind technically resets as kids brains don't develop and you'll be okay if you are shot in the brain. The point is to also think about what happens in this fictional scenario, not think about how plausible it is |
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