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Question about Play Test Spoilers

posted 8 years ago by xpert434
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This was a great episode but my question is at the end when the phone rings and the signal kills him, are we supposed to see that he died before the whack a mole game?

[–] GastonBoykins 8 years ago

The normal passage of time and the quickness of brain activity are not the same. For him, 0.4 seconds was perceived to be a day or two. Everything we saw he experienced in AR/VR.

Life! Don't talk to me about life.

[–] GuyNCognito 8 years ago

Well... not everything. But everything from after that point... Which bugs me too much as he never meets the CEO dude until AFTER the whack-a-mole game, or that the game design was based on fears, etc.

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[–] JoostinOnline 8 years ago

Well... not everything. But everything from after that point... Which bugs me too much as he never meets the CEO dude until AFTER the whack-a-mole game, or that the game design was based on fears, etc.

I meant all the video game stuff.

We know he saw at least one picture of the CEO though. It was on the cover of the magazine that chick showed him.

[–] GastonBoykins 8 years ago

Obviously I meant everything in that 0.4 seconds.

He sees a picture of the CEO on the cover a magazine.

Life! Don't talk to me about life.

[–] JoostinOnline 8 years ago

Yes. Everything we saw happened within a 0.4 second span after the phone rang.

They took a traditional sci-fi liberty with time spans for this. In a lot of sci-fi stuff, they say that things happen much faster when you're dreaming (think of Inception), although in reality we actually dream in real time.