I don't buy that blog regarding multiple-saves aren't timelines, if it's just a causality manipulation then a savegame would getting overwrited instead creating a new one, the older saves do not affected the newer ones when you interrupt them proves that they are causally disconnected.
Those are nonsensical reasons. You're thinking the power as just using it and that's it, but that's not what Saves are, a Save is to be use that in 1 specific way, hence another needs to be used to use the power in another specific way w/o overwriting the first. The last thing you say proves nothing.
This is correct if they are tied with each other within the same flow of time except, they are not. They are causally disconnected since a change from the older saves don't affect the newer saves (2). The relation between cause-effect is presented even in quantum multiverse where the new universes are created via probability wavefunctions.
Who talks like this saying "causally disconnected" and "in quantum multiverse"? If it's vague and can be interpreted in many ways then you may be dooming others to maybe reply to what you meant or to grab all takes and reply to all of them, which I'm not going to do. You can say this with perfectly understandable words and I can reply to that.
Still based on the same concept of "saves not being timelines but random points of time"
This is false, you're not understanding what you're talking about and yet you're talking anyway. If it was just random points in time then making something different along the way makes the argument fall. But good thing that was just a straw man and not the real thing.
while for
wikitionary it is
A block of saved data, representing the player's progress in a game, that can be restored at a later time for continued play.
Save files are blatantly copies of the original timeline, seeing Mario games Save Files menu is literally a proof alone.
Once again, you're not understanding what you're talking about. Restore doesn't mean it sends you to what you saved while leaving what you have but restoring what you saved
on what you have, in the same timeline and with no multiverse.
Also, the analogy for video editor in the blog regarding of saves is wrong, you're given two options when you're gonna save the changes, overwrite it as "save", or create the new one as "save as", the former will changed the main video aka rewriting it, the latter will create a new one with the main video remain unharm, so there are two videos, two timelines, two lengths, and therefore, two universes.
Savegames works like the latter.
This is incorrect. Save doesn't change the video, only the file of it you may be making. Save as doesn't create a new video, only another file of what you were making to it. The files you get out of save and save as do not have the video in them. You can't say that the files are the same as the videos because they're not, they're legit smaller because they have less stuff to it, they're just "the way in which the video was being changed" w/o being the video itself, otherwise you wouldn't need the video anymore and you could just delete it, which if you do those other files you made become useless.
Blog acts like the Save Files are bound to the original timeline, aka if something happens to it, the saves are compromised too. This is just wrong since you can make in videogames more save files and do whatever the **** you want to each of them without the others being affected, aka like timelines, since the actions you do in one don't affect the other despite all of them follow the same envrioment, characters and so on.
This is also incorrect. If you delete the game itself then
that screws over the saves. If I'm messing up a video (which I compared to doing stuff in a game) and feel like loading to many saves then those may be as many as I made and as different to each other as they may be, w/o doing anything to each other nor being timelines. Next to that your reason for them being timelines is just "they have to be".
@Ant This became way too out of hand and unprofessional for my like, can you tag some staff that may give some quality control?
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