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They can understand everything perfectly fine, they just experience everything 30 minutes after they happen. You say hello to them, they respond to it 30 minutes later. You ask them a question, it takes 30 minutes for them to receive the question and answer it.

To them, they're responding in real time. But when they answer, large swathes of half-hour silences greet them. When you talk to them, they ignore you and continue with whatever task they were engaged with - until they reply to you, and subsequently have to deal with the 30 minutes after you spoke to them.

Could their condition be worked around? Could specialists educate them in a way that took the 30 minute buffer into account?

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Educate them to live within a very particular hospitalized setting, at best. They are also, for most practical purposes, blind and deaf, and numb.

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What if they meet a romantic partner who can see 30 minutes into the future? Do you think they could hold a normal conversation?

Like, because the person who's 30 minutes behind takes 30 minutes to respond to current stimuli, someone who sees 30 minutes ahead can see what their response is going to be in 30 minutes and can time a conversation that way.

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Its like playing a team based game on headset with a really laggy person

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Pretty sure they'd die in a car crash. Hell they cant even cross a street.

If you had said one minute delay, that might be a possible life

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Send them on a mission to Mars. It takes some time for a message to travel anyway. What's another 30 minutes?

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So when they do something, you experience it straight away? The "lag" is one-way?
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teepan95 posted...

So when they do something, you experience it straight away? The "lag" is one-way?

Yes. You tell them to wash the dishes, and they experience you telling them to do the dishes 30 minutes later. You have to wait 30 minutes until they respond.

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A 30 minute reaction time would like kill you.

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So what happens when they interact with physical objects? If I throw a ball at them and they see themselves catching it when they obviously couldn't (since they were frozen in time), what happens?

sorry for picking holes
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...so me?

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Take them behind the wood shed and put em down

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teepan95 posted...

So what happens when they interact with physical objects? If I throw a ball at them and they see themselves catching it when they obviously couldn't (since they were frozen in time), what happens?

sorry for picking holes

The ball hits them, their body registers the hit instantly (bruising, recoil, potentially falling over), but they only react to it 30 minutes later. The body knows it's hurt, but the mind only registers it when that occurrence plays out in the person's reality.

In the event of being knocked onto the ground, they would need someone to pick them up and synchronize their actions to their mental pattern. Because of this, their physical actions can occasionally fall out of sync with their mental reality and cause confusion and frustration. However, their synchronisation resets during sleep.

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