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Fresh Interview by IGN with Ed Boon!!! He Explains a lot...

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It's only a matter of time before the MK timeline looks something like the Grandfather Paradox...
Perhaps the craziest of the time travel paradoxes was cooked up by Robert Heinlein in his classic short story "All You Zombies."

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane's twisted parentage. If we drawJane's family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.
 
Swindle

Swindle

Philanthropist & Asshole
karaokelove said:
It's only a matter of time before the MK timeline looks something like the Grandfather Paradox...
Perhaps the craziest of the time travel paradoxes was cooked up by Robert Heinlein in his classic short story "All You Zombies."

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane's twisted parentage. If we drawJane's family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.
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Jynks

Jynks

some heroes are born, some made, some wondrous
wow... such a difference in the information that gets outputted when professionally interviewed. Compare this and the questions to that looser AbgryJoe's vid rofl
 
Jynks

Jynks

some heroes are born, some made, some wondrous
karaokelove said:
It's only a matter of time before the MK timeline looks something like the Grandfather Paradox...
Perhaps the craziest of the time travel paradoxes was cooked up by Robert Heinlein in his classic short story "All You Zombies."

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. "Jane" grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him. But just when things are finally looking up for Jane, a series of disasters strike. First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery, doctors find that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they are forced to surgically convert "her" to a "him." Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected by society, scorned by fate, "he" becomes a drunkard and drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop's Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the "time travelers corps." Both of them enter a time machine, and the bartender drops off the drifter in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan woman, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops off the baby in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time travelers corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together, becomes a respected and elderly member of the time travelers corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop's Place in 1970.

The question is: Who is Jane's mother, father, grandfather, grand mother, son, daughter, granddaughter, and grandson? The girl, the drifter, and the bartender, of course, are all the same person. These paradoxes can made your head spin, especially if you try to untangle Jane's twisted parentage. If we drawJane's family tree, we find that all the branches are curled inward back on themselves, as in a circle. We come to the astonishing conclusion that she is her own mother and father! She is an entire family tree unto herself.
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I'm calling it now...... MK11 is going to end with a time wipe. MK12 is going to start from a soft boot position with all characters available as all this time stuff is going to reset everything in a major way.
 
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Jynks said:
I'm calling it now...... MK11 is going to end with a time wipe. MK12 is going to start from a soft boot position with all characters available as all this time stuff is going to reset everything in a major way.
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"Time wipe", also known as "well, we fucked this thing up beyond repair... time for a reboot!!!"
 
Aramonde

Aramonde

Kombatant
trufenix said:
Custom builds will be available in ranked, tournament play will use preset variations. All the moves will be represented. There isn't anything left to be clarified except what the variations are.
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Where did you hear that customs are gonna be available in ranked?

This would be a big mistake imo. Ranked should use the same rules as tournaments use.
 
Vslayer

Vslayer

Juiced Moose On The Loose
Lead Moderator
They're going to pull an Avengers Infinite Warfare, kill everyone and go back in time to save everyone.
 
Thracian_Priest

Thracian_Priest

The troll awakens...
Lokheit said:
Yeah, the whole "has always been behind everything that has happened since MK1" is kind of a deux ex machina.
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True.

But on another note, we do know she's been very busy. The name she gave to herself was supposed to be temporary, a working title.... Orchestrating all events, she forgot about her lame ass name and it became a permanent thing.

It does make more sense now, doesn't it?
 
Jhonnykiller45

Jhonnykiller45

Shirai Ryu
Really don't think MK11 is gonna reboot anything. We're only in the 3rd game in the new timeline, why the hell would they rereboot right now?
I think a couple of characters might end up changed, erased, or brought back for that matter, but no way the whole timeline will be wiped clean again.
 
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MBZ_Gaming

Noob
Swindle said:
I thought Shang Tsung was the Boss, but then found out that Shao Kahn really was.
I thought Shao Kahn was the boss, but then found out Quan Chi & Shinnok were really manipulating everything.
I thought They were the true power, but apparently Kronika is behind it all.
This is a bit tiresome. You don’t have to undermine other villains in order to establish a new one. That’s just bad storytelling.
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Don’t forget Onaga
 
SaSSolino

SaSSolino

Soul Stealing Loyalist
STB Sgt Reed said:
And I don't like shinnok haha.
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I thought you were cool man. We liked each others comments, I got your back with that other guy... I felt a connection man, but that's... I can't man. That's fucked up.

My boy Shinnok is already having an hard time as it is with, you know, the lack of body and all, and I can't deal with this right now. I think we need to take a break.
 
STB Sgt Reed

STB Sgt Reed

Online Warrior
SaSSolino said:
I thought you were cool man. We liked each others comments, I got your back with that other guy... I felt a connection man, but that's... I can't man. That's fucked up.

My boy Shinnok is already having an hard time as it is with, you know, the lack of body and all, and I can't deal with this right now. I think we need to take a break.
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Don't leave me...

I can change!
 
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