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I'm doing this one last time, because I really didn't find the previous argument against it convincing enough.
The Entities, if not The Player themselves, are very obviously beyond the Minecraft world themselves. I only busted out the quotes about the Player dreaming the MC world, but we have plenty of quotes of the Entities treating Minecraft itself as just a game or a lesser reality compared to the world they embody.
"That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game."
"It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen."
"Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?"
"No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game."
"And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love."
Seriously we have allowed Author Avatars and such to be infinitely superior to their creations for far less than here. I think that adding "possibly High 2-A" to both The Player and the Entities would be warranted.
In addition, the Entities should receive a few more abilities either way. Due to their wordings in the Poem, they are implied to be the driving force behind everything that happens in the universe. This includes light moving, gravity, and such. They also talk of "Interfaces", which includes words and the idea of creation, destruction, shelter, and such. Again, their wording implies that they create said Interfaces.
I'd rather not go too wild regarding the implications of these, but Light Manip, Gravity Manip, Magic, and Information Manip should be included in the Entities' profile. They should also inherit the Player's abilities, given that they are pretty much the same thing as the Player, Yog-Sothoth-style.
The Entities, if not The Player themselves, are very obviously beyond the Minecraft world themselves. I only busted out the quotes about the Player dreaming the MC world, but we have plenty of quotes of the Entities treating Minecraft itself as just a game or a lesser reality compared to the world they embody.
"That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game."
"It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen.
That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game.
Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen."
"Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen?"
"No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game."
"And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love."
Seriously we have allowed Author Avatars and such to be infinitely superior to their creations for far less than here. I think that adding "possibly High 2-A" to both The Player and the Entities would be warranted.
In addition, the Entities should receive a few more abilities either way. Due to their wordings in the Poem, they are implied to be the driving force behind everything that happens in the universe. This includes light moving, gravity, and such. They also talk of "Interfaces", which includes words and the idea of creation, destruction, shelter, and such. Again, their wording implies that they create said Interfaces.
I'd rather not go too wild regarding the implications of these, but Light Manip, Gravity Manip, Magic, and Information Manip should be included in the Entities' profile. They should also inherit the Player's abilities, given that they are pretty much the same thing as the Player, Yog-Sothoth-style.