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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider

This just got me thinking how cool it would be to have a game where you come across one of these in disrepair and have to reverse engineer your way to making it work. You’d have a massive complex and lots of nooks and crannies to hide puzzles in. Make it look old and abandoned with overgrowth and I’m even more sold.

[–] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have u played Abiotic Factor? Cause that's kinda the vibe

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

This kills me because the concept looks great, but I’m never really into survival. Hate kill screens in immersive games.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Just added an edit for a game I found tonight.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I'm now a firm believer in this theory.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was the weasel that went into the collider. We've always been in the same timeline. It's the weasel that's now confused and very angry.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago

alternatively the weasel is now in a good timeline

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unfortunately I have more belief in humans fucking shit up than I do in accidental weasel hadron colliding.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Also, this says it was in 2016. We were already super fucked by then. I'd be more inclined to believe that we live in a giant simulation that got fucked by the millennium bug.

Not that things were great in 2000, but the point is that 2016 is way too late. It's like looking at water that's just starting to boil, and then being surprised when it becomes a rolling boil.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Turning it on was the mistake. It was activated in 2015.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first "fired high energy" when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC's research program.

I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn't believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it's going, I am now utterly adrift. I don't even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

I'm not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

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[–] wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 0 points 19 hours ago

I think when harambe was murdered is when most people noticed that we're fucked

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

In this universe yes but in the weasels timeline weasel based time manipulation is quite common.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read, “weasel hardon collision”.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

I would rent that movie for at least once.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, this is the better timeline. We were shifted into the really bad timeline after the cascade failure occurred right after the first test.

The weasel actually saved billions of lives.

[–] fedditter@feddit.org 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 20 hours ago

The right weasel at the right time can make all the difference in the world

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That weasel’s name?

Harambe.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The way to return to the correct timeline is simple: Take the dicks out.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 0 points 1 day ago

How long should I keep it for? It’s cold over here!

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we all do it at the same tim

[–] errer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

…it’ll shift Earth’s orbit outward, counteracting global warming!

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

This reality is just us refusing humanity and returning to monke. Every day I think more and more about bananas

[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

I was going to say Gef.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

For what it's worth — and keeping fully in mind this is a meme and therefore not serious — Starfield (crappy Xbox/PC game from the people who made Skyrim) did this. A particle accelerator experiment (albeit involving an alien artefact) caused reality to split apart. So I'm gonna say, it's possible!

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Better reason then what Terminator 3 did in that hallway.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also, in the parallel universe in which David Bowie and Prince didn’t die, they play at Hillary Clinton’s inauguration

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you couldn't have dreamed a little harder and said "Bernie Sanders"?She's the US equivalent of Keir Starmer

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based off the name I'm going to assume it's an STD.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

Fuck Hillary and the DNC.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

Its all kinds of weaselly, innit?

[–] bizza@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago

So the weasel is why we live in the Biff timeline

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Though, for each of those possible timlines to have ever existed, they would have to be played out with humans that have a consciousness. Maybe, we're that consciousness.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

Weasel: There was no other other.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Weasel fried itself on a transformer outside the facility, it didn't jump inside the collider ffs

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 0 points 19 hours ago

Maybe it jumped in to the collider, changed the timeline, got out, then got fried making its escape?

Also, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but you are definitely part of the Time Bending Illuminati trying to control my thoughts!! Well, tough, I'm wearing my foil hat, HA.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 0 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I know it's a joke, but I mean... there were signs way before 2016 that things were heading in a weird direction.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Was this before or after Harambe's death?

[–] jmill@lemmy.zip 0 points 17 hours ago

A few months before. Theory checks out.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 16 hours ago
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago

This is the Inverse Steinsgate worldline where everything bad happens. Covid and climate change are worldline convergence.

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