What would you do?
You have access to all the TAS tools you have normally, but they effect reality.
Save states, speed control, rewinds, frame by frame, LUA scripting, memory search, and luck manipulation.
So I ask again, what would you do?
For a starter, not trip and fall. There is also the idea of taking back mistakes that you make in discussions. You could also try and act like a super hero. If you can't get hit, you can survive a lot.
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We'd all be rich and crash the economy due to save states @ the casino :P
This reminds me of A wish I read awhile ago
Question: would we be able to use the savesates if like we, umm, instantly die (i.e. find a way to teleport, but botch the location so were in the middle of the sun)
I'd definitely use a lua script to do all sorts of things like see through walls, have the ability to fly, have infinite health, control other people.
If you can _change_ memory via lua or memory search, why bother using luck-manipulation? :)
What is a frame in real life, in seconds?
Speed control won't work because we are in the medium which is being emulated so we won't know if the "emulation speed" changes.
Sure, you could get rich, stop crimes and do the Y sign, but in the end those actions have more troublesome consequences. "With great power..." etc.
So I'd probably just use it to secretly prevent accidents happening to the people I know - much less of a headache.
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Hmmm...for one, I could abuse programming errors in order to wall jump up buildings. I could corrupt save states so that when I switch items in my backpack, I warp someplace else. I'll draw pictures on every math test and still get 100% correct. Casinos would be bankrupt very quickly. All crime would be prevented because, if the limits are pushed and luck manipulation is used, all people would become the type that wouldn't commit crimes.
Of course, I'll redo every embarrassing mistake I made as well.
This guy already have a TAS tool for IRL usage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpG5YuyNrqM
I want it. Would do all sorts of crazy things with it. :D
Don't use the rewind when going to the bathroom. Might feel weird. ;)
Maybe I could use the fast forward function to be more productive when it comes to making TAS:es? Endless possibilities for an IRL TAS-tool. Please make one soon.
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I'd would head straight to the nearest gas station and buy a lotto ticket. After that, I would use the winnings to afford to sit in my room and become the most prolific console speedrunner ever! ;)
Initially, I would probably use it for mundane things, like undoing mistakes and predicting what people are going to say, or how they are going to respond to different things I might say, in order to get the most favorable outcome from a discussion for instance.
Over time though, I might get more reckless and start actually doing some stunts that require agility / reaction times that are simply out of question normally for all but the most experienced parkour freaks. I do not know why I would do that, but the concept alone fascinates me. I am not very agile or physically oriented person, but I occassionally like to surprise people with stealth and unconventionality. Perhaps being lacking in one aspect ignites a will to overcome that shortcoming by other means. Might not make me any happier though. EDIT: Might do it to save dear people from accidents.
I might also use it to cheat in some non-notable manner of acquiring wealth, to add some security to the future. By non-notable, I mean not outright winning at lottery; that would have too high chances at making me a target.
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First thing: win at lotery, but a common small prize, nothing fancy.
Secondly: find about everyone's secrets just by talking to them, and then go back as if I had never talked to anyone.
(all this can be very confusing to the one with TAS power, you gotta remember everything and know when you've talked to people or not).
Yeah, filming myself juggling in slowmo TAS would be incredible.
Develop along with scientists a gun radar and then go on a justice rampage boldly fighting crime on my own (it'd be complicated to savestate after getting shot in the head because I didn't know it was time to be careful).
Thirdly: be able to go back all the time (closest to immortality).
Has anyone seen flash forward the tv series?
Another movie comes to mind concerning this question: Groundhog day with Bill Murray - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/
Slightly the same concept right?
My wants are tainted by past experiences that would likely not have happened had such a thing been reality. What I want now is surely not what I would have cared about had this been possible.
..... Might do it to save dear people from accidents.
Deer people?!??!
Flygon wrote:
Highness wrote:
Slightly the same concept right?
He didn't have access to Lua scripting.
Click, a horrible movie by Adam Sandler is closer. He ended up having a Lua script do his entire life.
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Other than the obvious choices of amassing wealth and undoing major mistakes, I bet a lot of people would do really bad things just for the experience, and then rewind so they never happened except in your memory.
The real question is, is that immoral?
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Pointless Boy wrote:
Other than the obvious choices of amassing wealth and undoing major mistakes, I bet a lot of people would do really bad things just for the experience, and then rewind so they never happened except in your memory.
The real question is, is that immoral?
I'd fart in a church.
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
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Bisqwit wrote:
Other than the obvious choices of amassing wealth and undoing major mistakes, I bet a lot of people would do really bad things just for the experience, and then rewind so they never happened except in your memory.
The real question is, is that immoral?
Yay, ethical questions applied to TASing! Is it immoral to retry killing-an-enemy a thousand times over?
Anyway, I'd probably do this exact thing. Make the world go to hell just for the heck of it, then rewind. I'd also use it for tests, it'd be awesome if you were able to turn in the answer sheet before you receive the questions.
