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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8675791" data-attributes="member: 71235">Which is pretty much what a scriptwriter does when they write a character into a situation where they would need to have packed a certain item, so they just write in that the character has that item. So, yes.Which is pretty much what a scriptwriter does when they write a character into a situation where they would need to have packed a certain item. The simulation can't happen after the item is needed (&quot;later&quot;), it has to happen when the item is needed (&quot;then&quot;).Edit: By &quot;then&quot; you may have meant &quot;during the time gathering gear and planning&quot;, but that isn't even considered in Blades in the Dark or in many heist films. We're in the moment, we decide the character needs something right then and there, and so they have it, without even a flashback.Scriptwriting doesn't have this restriction, either. You can write a story forwards, backwards (as many mystery writers do), or in whatever order you like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8675791, member: 71235"] Which is pretty much what a scriptwriter does when they write a character into a situation where they would need to have packed a certain item, so they just write in that the character has that item. So, [I]yes[/I]. Which is pretty much what a scriptwriter does when they write a character into a situation where they would need to have packed a certain item. The simulation can't happen [I]after[/I] the item is needed ("later"), it has to happen [I]when[/I] the item is needed ("then"). Edit: By "then" you may have meant "during the time gathering gear and planning", but that isn't even considered in Blades in the Dark or in many heist films. We're in the moment, we decide the character needs something right then and there, and so they have it, without even a flashback. Scriptwriting doesn't have this restriction, either. You can write a story forwards, backwards (as many mystery writers do), or in whatever order you like. [/QUOTE]

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