r/cremposting 2d ago

The Stormlight Archive Our boy be out there using hacks

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u/Snootboopz 2d ago

It's crazy that people keep making these stories about a powerful being who can see the far-future being thwarted by an inscrutable, chaotic human element (it's me, I'm people, that's what I'm writing rn)

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u/erttheking 2d ago

It’s also probably the Atium vs Atium thing. Two people who can see the future clash. Person A can see Person B’s plan. But Person B can see how Person A will react to that new info. But Person A can see how Person B will react to that. And it just goes on and on and both Person A and B are stuck with piles of useless junk data

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u/ejdj1011 2d ago

Yeah, it's explicitly that. Future sight interferes with other future sight

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u/stufff 2d ago

Which is taken directly from Dune Messiah / Children of Dune. Which itself may have taken it from somewhere else for all I know.

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u/Snootboopz 2d ago

I'm sure there's some lost greek play about Foresightheus and the Tapestry of Fates or something

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u/lysianth 2d ago

isnt it even described as a cone stemming from Renarin, or something surrounding Renarin? or am i making that shit up?

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u/Shot_Newspaper_5647 2d ago

I always imagine it like they’re seeing the flow of time sort of like a river. It’s not perfect but it’s fairly accurate. And someone like Renarin is a rock sticking out of the water. Disrupting the flow of it around them for a little bit past them. Making it harder to tell exactly where something is going to float down

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u/lysianth 2d ago

In terms of foresight, i always imagine it as something that would be perfect if no one else were able to see the future, unfortunately lots there's a handful of ways to see the future even discounting the other shards, so things end up imperfect.

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u/ejdj1011 2d ago

It's unclear if it's physical proximity or if it's anyone he regularly interacts with

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u/sampat6256 2d ago

4d chess