The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.
Some examples might be:
- The invention of currency is not allowed.
- Iron is slightly less stable.
- The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.
You both have to solve a new (to you) calculus problem to make a baby.
OP said the universe does a hard reset. Life would never evolve if that was a new rule
No life can exist.
Fell asleep thinking of a question similar last night. No colonialism. Colonizing other lands outside of your own established borders would be forbidden.
How different the world would be.
In that scenario, how do you get established borders in the first place?
I thought on this also, and I suppose in my “rule” to adhere by I would have to choose a time in human history. I’d likely choose a time from year 0-1000 but would need to research and get input from folks smarter than I before choosing the time that rule would be implemented.
Of course, it only bans colonization. This is specifically the act of taking over lands from those who are indigenous to said lands, usually by force. If the governments of two lands what to trade or sell their lands in agreement without force, this would not be illegal.
I’m certain humans would still find a way to be horrible in some other new fun way.
There is a normal integer between 4 and 5 but sapient beings are completely incapable of percieving it.
Bro. Wtf.
That’s next level evil
No humans, just dinosaurs
Sentient dinosaurs that destroy their planet in a ecological catastrophe like in downer finale of the eponymous series?
I’d just leave the off button in place.
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you cab whisper it to me in dms
Set the electron g factor to exactly 2
Cant lie
Ah the ol the invention of lying
Greed is removed from the list of possible emotions/personality traits.
Great. Now everyone’s horny.
I’m already in that universe; it’s pretty good
So bonobos become the dominant species?
You say that like it wasn’t intended.
Welcome to my world.
Nobody is horny and humanity dies hornyness = greed for sex.
That was gonna be my change
Everyone horny all the time
Pi = 3.
That was great, thanks
I’m going to keep this for when I have to explain non-Euclidean spaces during game night.
I always use Chess boards to describe non-Euclidean spaces when I “need” to (aka when I get even a narrow chance to)
By all means, explain it to me! My best way so far was siting the chase in call of Cthulhu and really it’s not a great example.
Heck yeah, I’ll try my best!
So on a euclidian chess board, moving your king one space left would be 1 space, one space up would be 1 space, and one space diagonally would be √2 spaces (some simple trig gets us there).
Chess however, does not obey the laws of Euclidian geometry nor does its physical representation show us things to scale. A king’s move diagonally is the same amount of space as a move side to side, 1 space.
It’s silly, because spaces weren’t directly supposed to represent distance or anything, but it’s funny that it works out this way
This is a problem I’ve always had with Square grids in D&D and it never occured to me that from character perspective a character is warping space to move slightly further for the same amount of movement.
Also non Euclidian! Hexagons (the bestagons) also tesselate and fix that problem nicely
I think this one might end up winning.
It would change the topographical nature of the universe. We would probably have to exist in like the 3.1415th dimension or something to make it work.
Fuck it, I’m in. Can’t be any worse than regular 3 dimensions.
You son of a bitch
Cats speak french, except in any situation where they can be recorded or transcribed, or when a french speaker can hear them. They also aren’t very good at speaking french, but it’s impossible for anyone to know that.
What if two English speakers are listening to a cat speak French, when suddenly they are joined by a third companion who speaks native French?
The cat stops talking.
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Silphium was recently rediscovered so it’s no longer considered extinct just highly endangered.
Aside from that, I would make it so that instead of having mental illness you would have magical powers.
Schizophrenic? Nope you just talk to the Dead. Adhd? Nope, you’re an elemental wizard. Bipolar? Nope, you’re either a healer or a necromancer. Depressed? Nope, you’re just low on mana. (Major depression means that you’re suffering from a curse) Psychotic? Nope, you’re suffering a mana storm Narcissistic? Nope, you are an illusionist. Autistic? Nope, you’re an enchanter.
Maybe instead of schizophrenics talking to the dead they would just fit into the class of spiritualists and diviners, oracles and the like.
I’m open to interpretation.
After a little more thinking on this:
Gender dysphoria? Nope! Shapeshifter. Furry? Nope Werebeing
Basically, anything that is a deviation from bog standard human would have a magical reasoning behind it.
Silphium was recently rediscovered so it’s no longer considered extinct just highly endangered.
I must eat it now!!!
gravity is now a personal choice
I mean, it’s just a theory so, it kind of already is!
no it’s not. what are you even trying to say?
Yes, gravity is a theory. In scientific terms, theories are proven, repeatable, and accepted. It’s the most robust and strongest form of scientific “fact” we have (since new discoveries can change our understanding, we can’t honestly declare it indisputably factual).
When people say “I have a theory…” they usually mean “I have a hypothesis…” which is some idea or problem statement that is unproven, untested, unverified.
OP was playing off the conflation of those two things.
I think we are in the same page, I am just so sick of people confusing theory with hypothesis. Mostly because of christomaniac creationists saying “uhm actually evolution is a theory not a law” and shit like thar. That’s the reason why I rejected OP’s statement
