>By making it possible to travel to parallel worlds, he proved that there is still room for the world to develop in different ways.
>Thanks to this, the world’s lifespan has been extended. Even if our history fails, and we destroy ourselves, there might still be others of us out there—this concept granted hope to the planet, which had been in the process of losing its dreams.
Why is the earth emo in the nasuverse?
By making it possible to travel to parallel worlds...
Andrew Smith
Brody Jones
>aliens exist in the Nasuverse
>if mankind doesn't develop enough, or develops in a 'bad' way, timeline is pruned
I don't get this, if aliens develop correctly but humanity doesn't, why do they have to be pruned out too?
Is the inverse true? If mankind develops correctly but the aliens don't, are humans still pruned regardless?
Does EVERY race in the universe have to develop as 'they' want them to, or else everyone is pruned regardless? What are the chances of that ever happening in any timeline?
Or can you even prune the timeline for some cultures in the universe but not for others? That sounds stupid even for cosmic fantasy standards.
Ian Ortiz
Apparently humans are mini universes or something, since this guy made a model of the universe, and it evolved into a human
Hudson White
Say climate change without saying climate change.
Adrian Kelly
Every planet is basically a mini-universe unto themselves and what happens in one world's timeline won't necessarily affect the timeline of all worlds.
Jordan Diaz
An infinite amount of parallel worlds means an infinite amount of possibilities.
That means that there is a world with a:
>Saber route
>Rin route
>Sakura route
>Illya route
>Caster route
>Rider route
>Bazett route
>Caren route
>Taiga route
>Shinji route
>Ayako route
>Luvia route
>Makidera route
>Himuro route
>Saegusa route
>Neko-san route
>somehow Iri route
>Mordred route
>Maya route
>Madoka route
Zachary Diaz
I don't actually think it was ever stated that there are infinite parallel worlds. The pruning phenomenon prunes redundant timelines and a single individual's life isn't going to be worth expending the energy to maintain an entire timeline just for that individual unless that individual made a quantifiable difference to the human order.
Jack Miller
I think it was mentioned in Heaven's Feel with that sword that absorbs energy from other worlds that it has an infinite amount of energy because of that.
Samuel Evans
It has a theoretically infinite amount of energy, but at the same time, I don't think all timelines are infinite. Again, if that were so, then there would be no point to the pruning phenomenon. It's not worth creating a whole separate timeline just because someone decided to drink tea one morning instead of coffee. We know for a fact that the planet doesn't have enough energy to maintain a truly infinite number of parallel worlds. That's why it needs to prune away timelines.
Zelretch seems to have the power to realize theoretical timelines, but that's about it. I don't think there's a truly infinite amount of parallel timelines because that doesn't fit with how timelines function. The Lostbelts would not have been pruned if the timelines were truly infinite. Sure they're failed timelines in which humanity reaches a dead end, but if there were an infinite amount of energy that could realize an infinite number of timelines, why prune some of them?
Evan Sanders
Kaleidoscope and Pruning Phenomenon are basically Nasu having his cake and eating it too. It's obvious that Nasu's always had an interest in exploring the concept of parallel worlds, but if you introduce infinite parallel worlds, it reduces the value of choice. By saying there are parallel worlds but also introducing a clean-up mechanism that prevents excess, he's basically allowing himself the convenience of both parallel worlds AND a way to have at least some minimal degree of value in the choices his characters make.
Logan Fisher
>Nasu having his cake and eating it too
That's basically his entire writing style. It's not a Nasu work unless you encounter a dozen vague contradictions and superficial exceptions every ten minutes of reading.
Gabriel Diaz
I wouldn't say that there are contradictions as there are easily exploitable loopholes. People seem to think that Nasu's rules are more rigid than they actually are, so whenever someone seemingly contradicts those rules, they go "NASU'S ALWAYS BREAKING HIS OWN RULES". In reality, Nasu's rules always have blatant loopholes that can be freely abused. It's like how gliding TECHNICALLY isn't self-propelled flight.
Lucas Harris
I don't think most people think that, even secondaries only vaguely aware of the VN writing style. Most people (accurately) believe that Nasu only makes rules specifically so that he can break them as soon as possible, whether it be for jobbing or cool factor or whatever. I'm not even complaining about it. It does work well enough, and Nasu going 100% all in on such an absurd chuuni writing style while simultaneously taking everything as seriously as he does gives the work its distinct charm.
Luke Foster
Like I said, his rules never get broken. They're just full of holes so you can bypass them fairly easily by being slightly clever. It's like how people seem to believe that "humans can't beat Servants" is an actual rule but I don't recall God writing that in the Ten Commandments.
David Ortiz
But if two worlds interact with each other through space travel and one of them is pruned from the timeline, how does that affect the other world?
Is the contact retconned and replaced with another event for the surviving world? Do they still remember it? Are the consequences of said encounter still in play even if the other side doesn't exist in the timeline now?
Nathan Nelson
Foreigners that arrive on Earth seem to fall under Earth's law, as shown by the Twelve Machine Gods and Velber.
Jose Diaz
It seems pretty clear to me that "Humans Can't Beat Servants" isn't a rule, but a ridiculous concept.
Like, you have this figure from the Age of Legends wielding the power of the Gods that every child grows up with their name on their lips, vs some shmuck that might be able to do some magecraft.
And Shirou is fucking ridiculous. And Saber, Rin, Sakura, Rider on the weekends, and Illya if she has her way.
Colton Nguyen
>Christian is upset he proved Jesus could exist by making an artificial Jesus? Why does he think that proving Jesus could exist disproves god?
Nasu knows jack shit about Christianity, fucking Christ.
Why’s he upset then?
Dylan Morales
>Christian is upset he proved Jesus could exist by making an artificial Jesus
Why does he think that proving Jesus could exist disproves god?
Nasu knows jack shit about Christianity, fucking Christ.
Wyatt Watson
The entire point of Caubac is that he's a massive autist and a retard but also accidentally a genius.
Camden Smith
I mean this is the guy who was SO upset about being turned into a vampire that he turned himself into a padlock, because that's a preferable state of being to him. His thing is that he's a hardcore fundamentalist Christian.
Like think of Catholicism's Holy Trinity concept. Really consider what that shit is and why it exists, like just why Catholics had to come up with that. That whole "God is the Father, God is the Son and God is the Holy Spirit" but also simultaneously, "The Father is NOT the Son, the Son is NOT the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is NOT the Father". The logic that went behind the creation of that concept is more or less similar to Caubac's own circular logic.