Date: December 29 2020 9:21 AM Title: Chapter 33: Planning
" Long ago people used to roast bugs called ‘ants’ under magnifying glasses. "
So there aren't any ants anymore(in the real world or at least the part that wasn't "misstepped" out of existence, not in paradise of course)? That's kinda hard to believe.
So it took Delta four years to realize that her omnipotence is on lend time. I wouldn't have factored in that the Sun will eventually roast earth (the latest as soon as our lovely star becomes a Red Giant), but would've thought a multitude of hardware-level failures in the Computer Farms running Paradise would be the undoing of Delta's Reign.
Oh. I guess I mistunderstood the story chapters ago. I thought Delta already HAD full and all-access to the Computer Farms as she redirected any transportation ressources to Paradise.
Whenever the great misstep is mentioned I wonder how the foreign people that just happened to be in the USA as it happened felt - and how they reacted. It probably wasn't favorable.
Delta will go back to a body neglected for four years? Given my own experience with the lack of moving on your own - due to a rather severe leg injury - it probably will be an uphill battle to even move.
Author's Response:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Delta didn't have full access to all the Computer Farm resources at that time. However, since the farms are something of a distributed computing system, Paradise could take free computational resources to meet its needs. Since everyone was forcibly pulled into Paradise, there was no need to run the transportation systems. Those resources freed up and were directed to Paradise to meet the simulation's demands.
At the point in the story you mention, Delta's body was only immobile for hours, not years in the real world. This is due to how time dilation in Paradise worked. Years passed in Paradise was only hours passed out in the real world then.
I hope that makes sense!