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0hran-

Nice, now he gets to do the same thing a second time


xbmdx1

a nice way of looking at it


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

He'll never have the same children though. They've effectively died for him with his death.


Enliof

It depends, if he is on the same millisecond and does everything at the exact same time, his RNG seed wouldn't change. He might already be too late now, but if he prepares for it right before his second death, he could hit the same seed again. (In both ways)


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

Unless DW-esque time-travel shenanigans are involved, it's impossible for a mortal to keep doing exactly the same way / achieving exactly the same results. >right before his second death wdym?


Enliof

So, first of all, it was a joke relating to RNG manipulation in old Nintendo games, of course he can't do the exact same things at the exact same time. Secondly, his 2nd death, as in, you can see in the picture he has 2 lives left, so before his next death, he could prepare himself to do everything as he did in his first life, still tying into the RNG manipulation joke.


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

I've decided to stop understanding jokes, sorry. >Secondly, Oh, I gotchu now. Thanks for clearing it up.


Enliof

Fair enough.


YoutuberCameronBallZ

Unless he does everything EXACTLY the same Then he'll get the same kids Edit: when I said "exactly" I did mean ***ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESSLY*** so yes, he would get the same kids if everything was done perfectly. Obviously 99.999999999999999% of the time he'd miss, but my comment still stands.


bartimeas

Nah, the exact same sperm cell would have to be the winner and timing/recreating that would be virtually impossible


YoutuberCameronBallZ

Hence ***EXACTLY*** the same That's what ***EXACTLY*** means


Impact346

Exactly


THE_BIG_SAD3

This ain't a TAS speedrun brother


FrankTheHead

merely knowing the process imposes the impossibility of being able to follow an already trodden path


MA-01

This feels like a truly dark spin on multiverse theory


Pski

Nietzsche would say it's the only way to know you are living your life well


lets_clutch_this

Eternal recurrence moment


Many_Head_8725

Is it tho?


Online-Commentater

Ah, a fellow hater of the reincarnation idea.


Many_Head_8725

No, i mean if you have to live same life and you have all the memories, wouldn't it be boring?


CaptainJimmyWasTaken

live a different life


Many_Head_8725

I don't think that would be possible in Mario's case


SoIDecidedTo

Obviously you haven't seen that in some lives he is a plumber, some he is a golfer, some he is a baseball player, and others he is a kart driver. He can live a thousand lives and always find something new haha


zero_emotion777

A Futurama style ending. So... wanna go around again?


PM_ME_Happy_Thinks

Easily top 3 endings of a show and they fucking shit all over by rebooting it


fish312

The reboot is awful. Everyone is a caricature of themselves


PM_ME_Happy_Thinks

Yeah I tried watching the first couple episodes and it was garbage, they really did absolute shit all over an absolutely amazing series.


Onceforlife

More pumping is always good


trickyvinny

You misspelled plumbing for some reason.


Hugh_Jampton

Sliding down pipes. It's all the same


Talents

Could also be a bad thing. He had 2 kids, but you're never gonna be able to recreate the circumstances in which those 2 kids happen. New kids will be born and the other 2 will never come into existence again.


0hran-

Yeah he get to have new kids with the woman he loves.


Talents

Should tell that to parents irl whose kids die.


0hran-

I just realised how much insensitive I was. I never thought about it in this lense.


Sun_wukong2007

But the difference is he got to live a full life with those kids and raised them into capable adults and he died, so id say it is positive


DuEbrithiI

But he isn't reborn, the world resets. His children are wiped from existence. They don't get to live out their lives, they are replaced by someone else - who will eventually suffer the same fate.


bunker_man

Technically they did live out their lives though. Its just that if time is reset when he dies, then their lives don't have consequences that extend past then. But that doesn't necessarily mean that their experiences retroactively never happened. This is the problem with time travel. If a timeline gets overwritten by a new one, how do we make sense of it? Did the experiences of the people in the first one actually happen, or do those experiences only happen if they are never overwritten. It seems odd to say that an event later on the timeline that resets it means earlier stuff wasn't experienced. But intuitively people don't think of it as all three of those existing. But this may be because erasing a timeline "after" it happens isn't even coherent as an idea, despite showing up in fiction.


Darth_Tiktaalik

Found the guy who wrote the book of Job.


davedavegg

wow dude get a life. loser.


guyblade

[Level Clear! You Win!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87p148EOjo)


yunivor

This was great!


Lots42

The adventure tv series called Seven Days had a lot of traveling back in time. Often times the hero found a way to charm his lady love, then would be required to go back in time. He no longer could use that way to charm the lady as it was foreknowledge, it would be cheating, it would be morally and ethically wrong.


bunker_man

That makes no sense. If you did it authentically the first time, and those were your genuine feelings, then recreating that isn't lying.


Lots42

It is to her. It's using knowledge that only exists in her mind to manipulate her. This is why 'Groundhog Day' was so terrible, why Bill Murray was an awful person, because he did -exactly- the thing that the Seven Days main character absolutely refused to do.


bunker_man

If you are just trying to recreate the original situation then its not really manipulation, since you are just trying to restore their original choices to the best of your ability. If anything wouldn't it be less respectful to do something different? That's not you trying to force something they wouldn't have chosen by using information you wouldn't have otherwise, its you trying to restore what they did choose by perfectly recreating what gave rise to their choice. Nothing you do can change that time is reset if you aren't the one controlling it. The best you can do is allow them their original choice. Groundhog day is fairly different, since he is trying to get with someone he wasn't with originally. In that situation he is using information that wasn't given to him willingly by the person under the knowledge that they were together.


Lots42

When Groundhog Day resets it's -not- the same person. Same when the guy goes back in time Seven Days. His lady love is even MORE not the same person.


bunker_man

The same person as what. If they don't retain their memories, then when they reset they are literally the same person they were the original time. At least up until that point in time.


Ihate_myself_so_much

Nope, that's boring as hell, now that he knows he can respawn he gets to do insane amounts of drugs


only-4-lolz

Listen man if she keeps getting caught ... maybe it's time to let her go... she obviously just wants the attention... also she's definitely got stockholm syndrome


THEoddistchild

Bro skipped ALL the check points? Cheaters never prosper


IDontGetIt-ButIGotIt

This is actually very dark 😂


supermarketblues

I don't get it.


informatico_wannabe

Mario, from the videogame saga Super Mario Bros, in the videogames usually have extra life's, and once he dies, he returns to life using one of his extra life's Now, after achieving his objective of living a good peaceful life with Princess Peach, he dies of old age, but he still has extra life's, so he returns to the past where he still needs to rescue Peach


supermarketblues

Ah shit. Got it. Thanks!


informatico_wannabe

You're welcome!!


sth128

Why is it dark though? He can relive the good times with peach and snake her drain all over again.


Quadratordo

For one, he won't see his kid(s) again, even if he does it all over again. He'll have other kids, but the ones from the first lifetime? Gone.


Reaperpimp11

Right but he never would see his kids again if he died and didn’t resurrect as well. Or you guys believe in an afterlife?


bunker_man

Tbf its a mixed bag. You'd be happy to be alive, but disoriented that life went backwards and you can only ever relive time you already lived.


icedlaksa

Maybe his kid turns into Bowser after he resets


One_Musician5715

Not true, it could be a time loop paradox, so his kids likely would be born again. He repeats the past.


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trickyvinny

You can't escape the time loop. Unless you do, it depends on what show we're talking about.


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trickyvinny

It depends on the time loop. Things could simply be fated to happen and Mario would be unable to stop it.


YoutuberCameronBallZ

He can escape it assuming he runs out of lives


YoutuberCameronBallZ

He can escape it assuming he runs out of lives


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

People here be downvoting cause they don't get what you're trying to say, haha.


trickyvinny

Lol, it's OK, I saved just before posting.


YoutuberCameronBallZ

He can escape it assuming he runs out of lives


Respekt_MyAuthoritah

He has to nut the same sperm he did in his last life


One_Musician5715

Is there a reason I'm being disliked ;-; I said it could be a loop is all


KURD_1_STAN

I thought it meant he gets back to his original point with his original age, and not goes back in time, so his wife is dead in the last panel.


captainvideoblaster

World resets. He will have to grow old again and maybe watch Peaches die again or he could do a short cut and kill himself. That is pretty dark.


throweraccount

Yep pretty dark, he would have to kill himself multiple times if he's got more than 1 extra life.


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Why was Sisyphus rolling the same boulder up a hill for eternity, a punishment?


pchlster

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."


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pretty sure bro would be huge


bunker_man

I mean, rolling a boulder and doing nothing else is boring. That's like asking whether it would be a good life if you had to stay at a job working for eternity and never even got a break. Which is kind of like what the show severance is about. They divide your brain into two parts, the work part and the outside part. So the work part has little memory of the outside world and only exists at work. From their perspective, when they clock out, a second later they are clocking back in. They never sleep, and never see the outside world. They have a whole mini culture and mythology that revolves around their job, because the inside ones have never been outside.


MuffukaJones

Upvoted for "snake her drain".


DehydratedByAliens

Imagine living the same life forever. Pure torture.


bunker_man

Tbf it wouldn't have to be the same life. You could do different stuff each time. You could have so many different sets of friends based on different life choices that you stop being able to remember them, so once you start repeating you don't even know its a repeat. Since you can have finite memories. You could live in different cities and towns, even different parts of a city. Get different hobbies and so on. It would still be mentally draining, knowing that it will all be erased and reset though.


comek87

I don't think Peach is going to be there she dead dead ☠️


MasterEnis

Thanks Peter


informatico_wannabe

Peter's toes democratic reflection out!


Candidus_Visus

What if it’s not the past but he’s just reborn younger?🤔🤔


WarLawck

I get that, but as someone who found his person, if after dying I got to go back and spend my life with her all over again, that would be amazing.


bunker_man

Although, I might be upset if she didn't remember anything. Because then even if you live with her endlessly, she would have a finite capacity to remember further back than a certain amount. If you both retained your memories it would be much better. That's also a thing I think about normal life now. If I was sent back in time, there's definitely some stuff I would want to do differently. But I would be upset if I went back so far the events that made me meet my wife were lost. And it would be a bit annoying to have to reconnect with someone you already know. So better if we got to both retain our memories. (Or for that matter, everyone I know who it matters enough for got to, I suppose).


WarLawck

The falling in love phase is so good though. And being able to change some things and live a different life together would be cool as well.


TheCowzgomooz

It actually has more to do with level design the extra lives, the comic implies that was only the first level.


YoutuberCameronBallZ

When Mario died, he loaded to his checkpoint, which is before he saves Peach. Mario effectively just undid his entire life


YoutuberCameronBallZ

When Mario died, he loaded to his checkpoint, which is before he saves Peach. Mario effectively just undid his entire life


FILTHBOT4000

Oh yeah. Dark. It'd be awful to go back in time with all that you've learned, all the lotto numbers, what to invest in, etc. It's so dark that like 90% of people past the age of 30 wish for this on the regular.


bunker_man

Who tf remembers random lotto numbers off the top of their head. Investments though maybe. Bitcoin might be a scam, but if you got in early it was a path to being rich.


Adspyle

Honestly if you lived a good, happy life this would be nice. You could do it all over again.


Dinsdale_P

...and this time, using your foreknowledge, become a tyrant who rules the population with an iron fist and abuses them to hell and back.


Mynock33

You got to go all darkside on at least one play-through...


Fierramos69

And one play-through you need to be a true-pacifist, And one play-through where you are neutral.


Adspyle

Oh so Putin is on his second run then… New game+ russia version


PM_Me_Good_LitRPG

Putin be rasputin'.


Zanadar

I dunno man, being a tyrant is a fuckton of work, I'm not sure I'd be able to muster the motivation, knowing all of it would just vanish at the end.


Dinsdale_P

That's a solid point, even if given the choice of becoming a tyrant, it's generally easier to become a villain with good publicity. Abuse a population to get rich off of their hard labor? They will eventually rebel. Keep them happy and get rich that way? Fuckers'll never know what hit them.


elhaz316

Bill Murray groundhog Day but with a tyrant twist.


acoolrocket

If anything you know you'd do the Mushroom Kingdom equivalent of knowing what to gamble/buy and be rich AF, unless Princess Peach isn't enough.


iciclemomore

I have a feeling I would make all the same mistakes over again. Have repeated them in this life-why not in perpetuity forever and ever?


bunker_man

That would be a kind of sad fate. Could make a sad story about that. Someone gets a second chance to fix their mistakes, but then its barely any better.


Groudon466

You wouldn't end up with the same kids, though.


M4mb0

Someone's played Returnal.


bergars

Beat me to it. God, I love Returnal.


LiquifiedSpam

Such a good game. The sheer shock value of that segment stays in my memory


EndlessNerd

I should finish that game, lol. Got this "ending" and was like, "Man, I've got too many other games to play, imma get back to this later".


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RedditJumpedTheShart

Went to a nice elementary for a little bit and they had a Nintendo with Mario Brothers. So one lunch I said I get to play when you die and this kid was like "I probably won't die". So I sat there all recess waiting my turn, it was raining so we were inside, and he fuckin never died. Which pissed me off since he always kicked my ass in tetherball and I thought I was good at Mario Brothers. I think he might of died once ever while I was there and I got to play. And then instantly die because apparently I suck. Never tried again. Fuck You David.


Han_Solo6712

Wouldn’t there be a checkpoint somewhere along there?


pchlster

Depending on era this particular hypothetical game was in, he might be able to just enter the Konami code and get himself x99 lives, money, skip levels etc. Just rock up with functionally infinite lives, money, kick Bowser's ass and get another chance to grow old with Peach again.


synopser

> Nintendo game > Konami code


pchlster

Yes? It wasn't as if it was copyrighted to implement it and lots of games did.


negative3kelvin

There's a koopa on a stairway on 7-2 that you can bounce for 99+ lives, IIRC.


pchlster

I don't remember the exact Mario game, but I definitely remember being taught the Konami code on my original Gameboy. Let you edit the number of lives, coins and level you were on.


tt_thoma

Dude, Dan the Man


Hamsi_17

Cultured guy here


Sudden-Deer8261

no way i beat it just yesterday no way that fact comes in handy this quick


Konamiab

[Level Clear, start again](https://youtu.be/G87p148EOjo?si=MaGmiIv2LmLvx4tp)


Kiito2000

Boss dead, level clear, where do I, go from here? Walk home, try to eat, I am not hungry, go to sleep, I can't sleep, lie in bed, think about what bad guy said. Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then? Buy a ticket, go to Spain....(don't remember anymore)


Darkreaper5567

(I got you). Meet a girl, fall in love, have four kids, learn the joy a family gives. Live my life, love my wife, share a bed every night. Still can't sleep, lie in bed. *level clear* start again.


Lazer726

***Even if you did defeat me, what would you do then?***


Archist2357

Bro beat the whole game without dying once


PurpleBoy_SUS

Or collected a lot of 1-Ups


MARPJ

That feels like your common speed runner going at it


bunker_man

Tbf, if you use the best warps thats only like 8 levels.


Firewolf06

re:zero, basically


Rohlexx

Atleast credit the author


behaved

I believe that would be u/jungle-boogie


ADHD-Fens

Also I feel like the original had "What the fuck" in the last frame.


Rohlexx

It has


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If Mario and Returnal had a baby.


LilG1984

"Oh mama mia, I'll need to do all that again!"


louisdaking

Level clear! Start again? Yes. No. Watch Tom cardy


ieatfud_555

Now go for the bowser route


Master_Bayters

I wish I had that curse...


ImSimplySuperior

That's the reason we have more than one mario game


Lots42

Dude, don't cut off the author's credit.


DietInTheRiceFactory

It's the Dark Tower series in a nutshell.


arbitrageME

I love how Peach doesn't age a bit in the 60 years they're together


WallabyArtistic4652

Now that he knows where Bowser and the princess really are he can speed run XD


LeCrimsonFucker

♪ *it's in the way that you use it* ♪


MisogynisticBumsplat

In the original comic mario said "what the fuck"


Agent666-Omega

Now I fuck daisy on this new playthrough


juniperleafes

I'd really like to know why the author thought the last panel needed a 'WHAT'


The_Level_15

Boss dead level clear, where do I go from here


Plantar-Aspect-Sage

Shout out to Hero Has Returned.


ixipaulixi

TNG had a great episode with a similar concept: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Inner_Light_(episode)


Particular-Welcome-1

Wait, so if he remembers, then Peach remembers too? And they're both young again, and so they can do all the freaky shit they learned from experience, but now with new supple bodies? Pretty awesome, tbh. (Plus, now they can invest in Apple when it's just getting started. XD)


thetburg

Damn Mario! You need to save more often!


JackkoMTG

Like Sisyphus, I am bound to hell.


funnyfacemcgee

This would be an interesting premise for the next Mario movie 🤔 lol but not him living to old age just dying and having an extra life. 


JamesWeeb123

Just get killed two more times by a gumba and the spell should end


YoutuberCameronBallZ

Bro needs to get some checkpoints


signorsaru

Buddhist mario trying to escape reincarnation


LossfulCodex

“Honey it’s me, our child… he g-got married… you’re a grandmother.. I-I swear. Please, you got to believe, I’m not stocking you, you have a scar behind your left leg… please…” “What? You’ve been spying on me through the castle windows haven’t you? Get away from me you creep.” Or… He watches his children grow old and die. Fuck living forever get me off this space rock when it’s time. Have you seen the predictions for the future? Heat death, sun expansion, climate change, an inevitable WW3, at least in this timeline I get to experience choice fatigue, instead of famine…


everyonewasbusy

Honestly I don't see the negative side here? You get to live your life again.


khairuldaniel664

This remind me of that one character in heroes has returned manhwa where he saved the world with other friend and got married with his lover and lived happily until he grow old and passed away but suddenly he got respawned back to the previous time where the world is in chaos and he lived like that until he become evil


RavagingWolfsbane

Can you remember what it was called? I tried to find it but couldn't, I was looking for it a few weeks back with no luck :(


khairuldaniel664

You mean the name of manhwa or name of the character? If it's the manhwa name it's hero has returned and the character is rewind hero or seongjun lee


RavagingWolfsbane

Meant the manwha, I didn't realise/forgot that it was part of that manwha. Been a while since I read it, was probably one of my favorite twists ever. Thanks bud!


Memeviewer12

Risk of Rain 2's Simulacrum


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Oh whata


Grompus-games

That poor guy has to live eternity in a life or adventure and romance. How terrible for him


LiquifiedSpam

Returnal moment