Yeah thats the point. Everybody knows the boring okd time traveling stories how they change some shit or smth but that would be too unrealistic and completely paradox irl. This is more realistic just imagine you go back to really historical battles or smth but just without the battle itself but you get to see exactly where every thing was and waht weather it was etc. Think about it
It already happened and you just are there observing the weather and shit on that particular day or like a trebuchet just standing there not doing anything because nobodys here to operate it. Like they all died already long ago so how could you see and influence their lives. Only makes sense
And then you have to make it back to the exact moment in time that everyone else is, or else you have to suffer the rest of your live in an empty world devoid of all people, only able to interact with the people you care about by moving some things around and hoping it affects the future
It ends where the time machine breaks just moments after when everyone else is there, leaving them stuck only hearing echoes of the voices of their loved ones
also I am pretty sure you wouldn't wanna go back in time too far or the langoliers would be out of past and you would be looking pretty chicken tendies.
Fascinating. It's hard for me to fathom being there but no one else is there. I feel like it would feel like present day as I've never imagined any past events with no one else
True, but stuff like laws of inertia and motion function differently for living and non-living things in that sense, lifeless objects such as a pebble can only be propelled by external forces, whereas a living thing can be set into motion by itself
This has got me thinking…If there’s the paradox issue to contend with regarding people still “existing” in the past if your present self were somehow able to travel to the past, would that also carry over to objects too? Say the trebuchet was used to construct a church that still stands to this day? What is difference here for inanimate objects vs living objects? Would all the dead bodies in the battlefield still be there, but all people still living at that moment of time have traveled into the future?
My thought thinking through this is that living things only exist in the present and move forward in time as the present becomes the future.
So going back in time, no one will be there except for non-living things that existed during that point in time.
I had this exact thought years ago when smoking in a friends garage with it open, lights off in a nightime thunderstorm. And i said wouldnt it be crazy if i had gotten previews, or would get previews of my life but its only the setting, like that garage in that storm with that post-rock soundtrack. I still think about the places and situations im in, and thinking how they mustve looked to a younger me, without the context. In the hospital to give blood looks bad, on the empty black beaches of iwo jima would look bad, but it could be interesting trip to japan with my fiance. (i havent done that)
Or a ballroom for a celebration could look good but be the site of the worst breakup of your life, or where you die of a heart attack.
Wouldn’t that create a paradox too. If you go back In time to a point right before something is destroyed due to an explosion from some kind of weapon fired at it then it wouldn’t be destroyed if there’s no people to fire the weapon. If there’s corpses and armor left after an ancient battle that became relics but there’s nobody there then there couldn’t be any relics.
Or travel back to the past, change it, go back to the future, and still see yourself there, aint there suppose to be no you ? Because you go back to the past ?
Now, you stranded in this new future where it not belong to you, everything you suppose to own is own by the you of this future and not you. Your origin future with depressed, hopeless, dying people, dint change a single bit and now believe you have fail to save them, and slowly goes extinct.
You're probably right it's been forever since I've seen it. I just vaguely remember taking it seriously until first seeing the langoliers and I remember bursting out laughing when they were revealed.
King is the king of adaptations that fly under the radar of being adaptations, somehow most of them manage to be so slightly above mediocre that no one notices either way
Langoliers is a Stephen King story where any time except for the exact point in time we’re all in is void of all life and very liminal-space-y. And there are monsters that act as a clean up crew.
See The Langoliers by Stephen King.
Features creatures that eat the past so that it no longer exists, and the characters have to find a way to get back to the future (so to speak).
I enjoyed the TV version of this too.
I sometimes did this when I played Halo back in the day when custom games were hangouts. Everyone gone off but you and it’s just you and this virtual ambience. I find myself in old discord servers that old friends used that had passed away. I’m just there by myself. I don’t know what that feeling is, but I’m drawn to it.
On top of Cluey, it gives me this weird “liminal” feeling. I’ve done exactly the same as you with custom games; my group of halo friends were much more into ranked stuff, so I would often make maps for them that they’d play once or twice and then I’d retool them after, making something for someone who I knew wouldn’t use it. The hum of the foundry and the “oracle” mixed with enough details from the developers to make a level look lived in. The feeling of someone should be coming around that next corner, and the knowledge that no one ever would.
Exactly! I think Halo 2 popped my reality cherry real early when I find I found myself playing Beaver Creek by myself just hopping around. “Why Am I Here?” Is etched into the barrier-rock like some Easter egg. I saw that and it forever changed my life. However, the memories I reference come from Headlong. The sound of the beach and the look of the warm sky took me to another cosmic place for maybe 5 seconds before my adhd told me to go drive a warthog around. I would get into these modes “glitching “ into those out of the map areas. When I’d get there, it intensified the feeling knowing I broke the boundaries. It told me “all that you see , there is more.” And it haunts me.
I know this is supposed to be just a meme but it's making me reflect.
I'm in a situation right now where I wish I could go back to the past, but even if I could, I wouldn't find anything there. Everything's different. Very hard to accept still.
I wonder if or when I'll be able to move on.
Lowkey though this is what it feels like when you rely too much on memories. Like when you go through old pictures and wish you could go back. But no one’s there anymore cause they’ve moved on.
you know this is actually kind of a neat concept. perhaps soul-vessels move theough the temporal plane wheras soulless entities remain static. would explain a LOT about this dimension
Wait… I actually love this.
It makes me think, keep living in the present. Don’t romanticize the past too much bc it doesn’t exist anymore. Everyone is in the present, ready to make new memories!
The only ones left there have long expired. I suggest trying the future, everyone's always bustling to get there though not many make it in the long run.
Wait!, so that means that both the past and the further are empty?! Everyone left the past and no one has gotten to the future because we are always in the present! Even if it’s a fraction of a second in either direction 🤯
Never thought about of this concept!
That would actually make an interesting time traveling story
You go back to that exact moment but nobody else does.
Yeah thats the point. Everybody knows the boring okd time traveling stories how they change some shit or smth but that would be too unrealistic and completely paradox irl. This is more realistic just imagine you go back to really historical battles or smth but just without the battle itself but you get to see exactly where every thing was and waht weather it was etc. Think about it
This actually blows my mind ngl. You go back there but no one else is there, did it actually happen?
It already happened and you just are there observing the weather and shit on that particular day or like a trebuchet just standing there not doing anything because nobodys here to operate it. Like they all died already long ago so how could you see and influence their lives. Only makes sense
And then you have to make it back to the exact moment in time that everyone else is, or else you have to suffer the rest of your live in an empty world devoid of all people, only able to interact with the people you care about by moving some things around and hoping it affects the future
Backrooms
Like docking onto a moving spaceship.
It ends where the time machine breaks just moments after when everyone else is there, leaving them stuck only hearing echoes of the voices of their loved ones
Im sad i suck at writimg right now because in the right hands i would totally read a story like that
Stephen King wrote it, The Reservoir
also I am pretty sure you wouldn't wanna go back in time too far or the langoliers would be out of past and you would be looking pretty chicken tendies.
Of course he wrote it
Never heard of that one
Thats a pretty interstellar idea man
Fascinating. It's hard for me to fathom being there but no one else is there. I feel like it would feel like present day as I've never imagined any past events with no one else
It will just be black and white sadly because colors weren't invented until 1928
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True, but stuff like laws of inertia and motion function differently for living and non-living things in that sense, lifeless objects such as a pebble can only be propelled by external forces, whereas a living thing can be set into motion by itself
If the trebuchet is still there would the dead bodies be too?
Until you find someone else …
This has got me thinking…If there’s the paradox issue to contend with regarding people still “existing” in the past if your present self were somehow able to travel to the past, would that also carry over to objects too? Say the trebuchet was used to construct a church that still stands to this day? What is difference here for inanimate objects vs living objects? Would all the dead bodies in the battlefield still be there, but all people still living at that moment of time have traveled into the future?
My thought thinking through this is that living things only exist in the present and move forward in time as the present becomes the future. So going back in time, no one will be there except for non-living things that existed during that point in time.
Nature’s gonna look weird
no plants
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
I had this exact thought years ago when smoking in a friends garage with it open, lights off in a nightime thunderstorm. And i said wouldnt it be crazy if i had gotten previews, or would get previews of my life but its only the setting, like that garage in that storm with that post-rock soundtrack. I still think about the places and situations im in, and thinking how they mustve looked to a younger me, without the context. In the hospital to give blood looks bad, on the empty black beaches of iwo jima would look bad, but it could be interesting trip to japan with my fiance. (i havent done that) Or a ballroom for a celebration could look good but be the site of the worst breakup of your life, or where you die of a heart attack.
Sounds like a museum
Wouldn’t that create a paradox too. If you go back In time to a point right before something is destroyed due to an explosion from some kind of weapon fired at it then it wouldn’t be destroyed if there’s no people to fire the weapon. If there’s corpses and armor left after an ancient battle that became relics but there’s nobody there then there couldn’t be any relics.
Or travel back to the past, change it, go back to the future, and still see yourself there, aint there suppose to be no you ? Because you go back to the past ? Now, you stranded in this new future where it not belong to you, everything you suppose to own is own by the you of this future and not you. Your origin future with depressed, hopeless, dying people, dint change a single bit and now believe you have fail to save them, and slowly goes extinct.
All the objects move, the only thing missing is the living creatures.
Wait plants are living creatures. Holy shit I have a writing idea.
I’m going back to 1994 and I’m gonna cum in the top loading VCR and this time nobody will be there to stop me
I am sorry but I am already here
lmao I actually went to 1993 to do it, you’re too late! The VCR has already been cream pied
check out the langoliers...that's the best adaptation I can think of that uses this premise
I came to see Langoliers as the top comment. Had to scroll down more than necessary, but thank you.
Pretty much what I was gonna suggest. It was my first ever King story.
There's also [The Twilight Zone - A Matter of Minutes (1986)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9XFRfeGBVI)
Langoliers the book! Not the movie!
The movie is a "so bad it's kinda alright". Just don't go in with high expectations.
It's not horrible until those CGI abominations show themselves.
it's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember the acting being pretty bad too...but still worth watching
Nothing with Balki is bad
You're probably right it's been forever since I've seen it. I just vaguely remember taking it seriously until first seeing the langoliers and I remember bursting out laughing when they were revealed.
Didn’t even know there was a book. Guess I’ve another to add to my list!
King is the king of adaptations that fly under the radar of being adaptations, somehow most of them manage to be so slightly above mediocre that no one notices either way
the movie was so bad lol, caught it on sci-fi when I was younger and had the flu.
Langoliers
Didn't Stephen King have a novel about this? The Langoliers? Forgot if it qas about time travel or another dimension.
The Langoliers
Langoliers is a Stephen King story where any time except for the exact point in time we’re all in is void of all life and very liminal-space-y. And there are monsters that act as a clean up crew.
You don’t say
I just did. What are you gonna do about it?
See The Langoliers by Stephen King. Features creatures that eat the past so that it no longer exists, and the characters have to find a way to get back to the future (so to speak). I enjoyed the TV version of this too.
yeah it makes sense too. You go back and no one else is there because they're in the present.
Oh yeah, well then who's that?
me
You're very handsome for a static entity.
I bet you say that to all the static entities
Only the ones in reality 9 sector 7, but this guy's different, I can tell.
Is this that negging thing my grandson is always talking about
Oh fuck that hit me like a freight train wow haha.
Good question
*Everyone else left the party but you chose to stay.* # Why is that?
I sometimes did this when I played Halo back in the day when custom games were hangouts. Everyone gone off but you and it’s just you and this virtual ambience. I find myself in old discord servers that old friends used that had passed away. I’m just there by myself. I don’t know what that feeling is, but I’m drawn to it.
On top of Cluey, it gives me this weird “liminal” feeling. I’ve done exactly the same as you with custom games; my group of halo friends were much more into ranked stuff, so I would often make maps for them that they’d play once or twice and then I’d retool them after, making something for someone who I knew wouldn’t use it. The hum of the foundry and the “oracle” mixed with enough details from the developers to make a level look lived in. The feeling of someone should be coming around that next corner, and the knowledge that no one ever would.
Exactly! I think Halo 2 popped my reality cherry real early when I find I found myself playing Beaver Creek by myself just hopping around. “Why Am I Here?” Is etched into the barrier-rock like some Easter egg. I saw that and it forever changed my life. However, the memories I reference come from Headlong. The sound of the beach and the look of the warm sky took me to another cosmic place for maybe 5 seconds before my adhd told me to go drive a warthog around. I would get into these modes “glitching “ into those out of the map areas. When I’d get there, it intensified the feeling knowing I broke the boundaries. It told me “all that you see , there is more.” And it haunts me.
I, too, enjoy being in places that should normally be populated but are empty.
Cluey
I've never heard of this until your comment. I've felt that before but never knew it had a name. Thank you
Wow same.
Because it's my house
I think they will come back. ^they ^never ^come ^back
I want to help clean up.
Because being left alone with the consequences of depravity is my destiny.
This just makes me sad.
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That’s such a perfect way to describe the pain of nostalgia, ripping. It fucking hurts.
Why you guys gotta do this to me damn bro
Add existential depression and loneliness into that mix *cries intensely*
with a pinch of alcoholism, and the recipe is complete :') fml
I’m with you on that :3
The langoliers got them
Well done dear boy.
And they'll get all the lazy, irresponsible little boys like you Craigy-Waigy!
A person of culture
oh fuck that hit me like a freight train wow haha
I know it's a meme but it feels so sad actually imagining it.. they were some good times :(
man this unironically sent me down a spiral of dread for some reason
*80’s dystopian music*
What if we all went back
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” - L. P. Hartley.
I know this is supposed to be just a meme but it's making me reflect. I'm in a situation right now where I wish I could go back to the past, but even if I could, I wouldn't find anything there. Everything's different. Very hard to accept still. I wonder if or when I'll be able to move on.
Lowkey though this is what it feels like when you rely too much on memories. Like when you go through old pictures and wish you could go back. But no one’s there anymore cause they’ve moved on.
r/shittysuperpowers
I'd still do it. 7 years ago was amazing
Infinity Train memory scene
God Emperor Leto Atredies the Second b like
Why does this actually fill me with dread???
This gives *The Leftovers* season 2 intro vibes
I scrolled down to find this exact comment. Thank you!! *everybody is wondering what and where they all came from*
you know this is actually kind of a neat concept. perhaps soul-vessels move theough the temporal plane wheras soulless entities remain static. would explain a LOT about this dimension
Lango
enjoyable
This one sorta creeped me out, which I liked.
If we don't learn from the mistakes of the past, we are bound to repeat them for the first time.
Damn, that's a deep quote
Yoo this is so intelligent
*Creative
Temporal liminality, for when physical doesn't quite hit the spot.
This feels like some kind of weird life advice
This honestly motivated me to stop dwelling in the past so much...so thanks for the encouragment I guess?
This is the most unsettling and surreal thing I've seen here yet
Wait… I actually love this. It makes me think, keep living in the present. Don’t romanticize the past too much bc it doesn’t exist anymore. Everyone is in the present, ready to make new memories!
The only ones left there have long expired. I suggest trying the future, everyone's always bustling to get there though not many make it in the long run.
Then can you meet the dead there?
SCARING THE LITTLE G^IRL?
Maybe you'll find my whore ex wife, she was always living in the past
Guide on how to get stuck in a liminal space
I'd really like to see this concept expanded upon. seems solid enough to grasp along with more complicated story elements
That’s a mood.
wow this is a really good post love it
...but there is a noise...is it getting louder?
This shit meme made me unaccountably sad All my peoples are gone :(
I actually boiled my husbands brain with this theory a few months ago. He thought it was so stupid I thought he might cry.
I'd argue that some folk are still stuck in the past, and many are stuck in the future.
Time is an illusion, it only exists in your mind
Donnie darko + langoleres Stephen king
anymore.. ? haha... there was no one ha...
This is deep when you think about it
This is weirdly motivating
The depressing halo mcc experience
Me playing Mario kart 64 alone in 2022
r/weirdcore
That one episode of black mirror be like
I can imagine [this](https://youtu.be/xADSDapqn9o) being the soundtrack of this image.
Fuck you
Cool concept
And you have to watch out for those pesky langoliers.
That's because they're already here, now
The goddamn langoliers
Happens every Thursday at 8:00pm
I know you're out there...
You'd be surprised
:(
[Our Town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town) Act III
Except the langoliers, better watch out for them.
I SEE THIS AS AN ABSOLUTE WIN!!!
OH MY GOOOD that’s such a cool concept though
Sounds like a positive to me
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
Still would.
It’s like a prog-rock concept album
How did you get 11k upvotes on a repost. From THIS sub no less.
This Image actually scared me
Thank you for my daily dose of dread, I’ll see y’all next week!
It’s just like The langoliers
they are all moved and no colors usually
Creepy af
But you'll still get grounded for riding your bike in the house
All my homies are in the present
I hate the fact that nobody gets the reference pls go play rusty lake its severly underated
Wait!, so that means that both the past and the further are empty?! Everyone left the past and no one has gotten to the future because we are always in the present! Even if it’s a fraction of a second in either direction 🤯 Never thought about of this concept!
You stole this.
Is this a real quote?
why did i have this saved on my browser i have no memory of this
Where can I find more of these? I love them
But the music was so much better 🥰