What if when we die, we respawn, as another human, or even, another species.

Each life, from birth to death is a roguelike run.

Weew, if it too difficult, will you reset for new run :v ? Just kidding. But also, I know that modern roguelike game have something to make you stronger, and inherited into new run, on and on. Kind of permanent upgrades.

So, perhaps, if this run too hard, endure it. Which will make you “get-gud”, and hope for some useful bonus, permanent upgrades for further runs.

What do you think ?

  • penguin_knight@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    im having a good run since I havent died early, but I’m like 1 billionth on the ladder so doing relatively poorly.

    • hahattpro@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      9 months ago

      I feel like I am so close to realize something. I just need some inspiration, so I share here for bro to come and learn the world with me.

    • De_Narm@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Is it? I don’t remember any past lives and neither do other people I know. Seems like a pretty clear no.

      You could arguee that it does happen and you just don’t remember, but that’s functionally the same as not being reincarnated.

      • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Is it? I don’t remember any past lives and neither do other people I know. Seems like a pretty clear no.

        Just because you’re unaware of something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, though.

        You could arguee that it does happen and you just don’t remember, but that’s functionally the same as not being reincarnated.

        I get your logic here and honestly we largely agree. I think memory is what most people view as the “soul.” Without it, what are we?

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      Because the answer is pretty simple, if we leave the superstitions at the door…

  • Deadrek@lemmy.today
    41·
    9 months ago

    I’ve heard accounts on multiple occasions, in person and not, of very young children having knowledge of things they shouldn’t, or very specific stories about how they died… One very fanciful sounding example was of a child being led to safety through dreadful environment by an apparition that later in life was revealed to be of a family member that hadn’t been born yet.

    Even if only 1% of these stores are remotely true…

    Something’s fucky about reality. Things aren’t as they seem. It’s right in front of us, I just know it. It just isn’t able to be comprehended past a faint feeling of confusion and unease.

    No I don’t lose sleep thinking about these things! You do! Lol

  • GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Yeah. Basically.

    While I don’t believe in any afterlife experience 100%, this is the one I choose to believe in the most because it seems like the best. Fade to black is boring, and living forever in peace and happiness would get old quick.

    I’ve never considered it like a roguelike, though… I like it! You can customize any aspect of gameplay before each run or just hit random and go.

    • hahattpro@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      Can you customise before run ? Maybe, maybe not.

      Perhaps you not yet unlock it Perhaps you do, but you didn’t remember. Maybe you need a perk to keep your memory to know how you customise your run.

      Perhaps, I purposely choice a hard game for more point, or try to go for a rare achievement. Yah

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I like to imagine being able to be transported some place like Tower of God and it being filled with powers and abilities to make things more interesting, but still having new sets of challenges of trying to find a way to the top of the tower while every level is different from the one before and perception of time is different now where hundreds of years is not a big deal.

    • otacon239@feddit.de
      11·
      9 months ago

      living forever in peace and happiness would get old quick

      I feel like this is something that gets misconstrued with the concept of death. It’s not like you’d be left with your thoughts and memories. After death is exactly what before birth would be like. Were you bored for the first several billion years? Eternity is an instant when you’re left with no concept of time.

  • Lupec@lemm.ee
    31·
    9 months ago

    Well, in that case I can only hope my next run goes better! Not taking a few decades to realize I’m a girl or just spawning with the right body would help a lot lol, wouldn’t mind permanently unlocking that for future runs.

  • 1D10@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been saying " fuck this I’m rerolling" when life get extra shitty for years now. It is fun to see the faces of the people who understand what I’m talking about.

    Personally I want the life setting " no loot drop on respawn" I would go to many more places if all I had to do is die and respawn at save with all my shit… though walmart might get pissy about it.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    2·
    9 months ago

    I think when you die you go back to the last checkpoint, and then you survive whatever it was that killed you. And you lose your memory of the time you died, so all you remember is the surviving arc.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I read a short story once that made me think about something similar, that everytime we die our consciousness shifts to the multiverse where we didn’t make whatever choice lead to it. To everyone in that initial universe you’d still be dead but you’d continue on somewhere else.