(12-03-2015, 05:06 PM)Kage Wrote: To be honest, I'm not sure why you would be too concerned with the time bubble aspect as it really only applies to people who are focused upon staying within the timeline of the whole 2.0, between 2.0-3.0 or afterwards. The birth date isn't in a time bubble and I haven't met many players who actually care to distinguish what year/date/era their character is born. Most I meet just say that they've lived for about 25 years etc.
I mean, your character isn't 5 years or younger right? I fail to see why the time bubble would really affect the characters birth.
I was speaking more from the long-runner perspective of the bubble. I suppose it isn't as prescient for newcomers.
For example, you've been playing Kage for a long time. How old is he compared to how old he was at launch? If he hasn't aged, it means he's been -insanely busy- in the past few months, having gone through all of his entire RP life in less than a school year. It gets jarring to think back on all of the time we've invested and go "Yep, that was three weeks ago." The months-long wait between 2.55 and HW was only "a couple of weeks" too, which further confuses how busy we actually are.
It almost gets to the point of nega-retconning, where you have to start timing stuff to before the actual launch in order for it to time out correctly. The Grindstone's existed for two years OOCly, with a fight night every week, but that means we've done 100+ fight nights in less than 365 days. Counting 8-day weeks and it just gets muddier and muddier. So the GS either is lying on an OOC level because of time bubble, or the GS existed in-canon before it existed in canon.
Headaches. Headaches everywhere.
You're not wrong though. For someone new entering the fray, the bubble doesn't apply to you. It will in a year or so, though, when it's only been two months since the end of 3.0. Maybe.
Wibbly wobbly.