Oh, sure, that would've been fine. But note that the poster you were replying to was reacting to a WoG that no time travel was involved in setting Taylor up for this.
That would only happen if the secret society had no stage magicans, cops, actors, or any other profession who'd be very aware that just because they saw something doesn't mean it happens.
Not sure where you got that. Maybe it's just me knowing a few spoilers, but I haven't seen anything about "worm rules still trump everything" other than Taylor having a lot of additional processing power. I'm pretty sure that the world of SL can easily match and out-pace that bit, it's just not commonly needed or done.
If you can point out examples and suggest ways of fixing it, this might be more helpful.
Since he seems to be objecting to the parts I most enjoy about this story, I think his complaint amounts to "I don't like this kind of story", i.e there's no way to fix it.
Wait, so they went from a verbal interview to pulling her memories out of her head and broadcasting them in full simsense VR? Did they bother warning Taylor that would be a possibility?
I think the part that I don't like about this is that we're vanishingly unlikely to see Jacob again until after Taylor's SL run, and maybe not even then since the Secret Society is more likely to transfer him to a different universe after he burned his cover. As such, there's no real reason to show the SEELE-knockoff shadowy figures discussion here at all. The reason you would want to add something like this would be for dramatic irony purposes: if Jacob were to be a regular part of Taylor's life for the next several months, for example, this would have been a great addition because we in the readership would know that Jacob is a semi-decent person playing a role, while Taylor thought he was just a rat bastard. As it is, though, it's basically sort of hinting that dramatic irony should exist, but functionally there isn't any because Jacob is being put on a bus.
A Smell-o-Vision, or full immersion package that makes them as if they are a live audience or one of the students from Winslow makes more sense. A good enough patch for the SoD, and also give an interesting insight to why Slut Life might be popular (ala Shadowrun's BTL chips), so best to slip those lines.
That... actually surprises me. I was pretty sure there was (or, rather, I imagined something PtV-style; not sure if that counts as "precog").
Pretty much. (Again, assuming PtV or similar counts.)
I basically ended up with a similar idea (on second thought, not quite the same as the one described by you): judging by this particular Tricher interlude, even if the events involving Taylor did only come along due to a PtV-esque plan (and I still think they probably did - the whole thing is just way too weird for it not to be the case), both Tricher and Keel/Humperdinck/whatever were probably approximately as much (mostly) pawns in said plan as Taylor was (and, in particular, it wasn't set up by Keel).
To be fair, it might as well be that there is a way to fix it to his preference - it's just that this way would heavily diminish your enjoyment of the story.
Technically, it already is, if we count the Mad Scientist Organization
The problem with overusing time-travel:
No spoilers, but for full enjoyment of a future chapter (2.2 IIRC), watching this will help:
Point. my post really was lacking in information.
Not an issue when the society also has the ability to set your biological age to anything you want.
For the age aspect, maybe; but there are other aspects of that besides physical age. I just really don't feel like going into detail about it atm.
Oh agreed, both parts
