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Heehee Hartlocks posted:So if I'm getting this right, Elizabeth's goal is to end all the infinite branches of Comstock-existence by going to the very beginning of the branch and cutting it off, aka drowning the Bookers who accepted being baptized and turned loopy. One of the things the game starts doing early on is tell you that there are "constants and variables," as Lutece says, and remembering it is required to make the ending work in any possible sense. There are some things that will always happen: Booker doesn't row the boat to the lighthouse ("He doesn't ROW?" "He DOESN'T row."), Booker's coin flip always comes out heads, Booker always chooses 77 at the raffle, etc. The "variables" are everything else: Booker choosing to help the Vox (or not), the gender of Lutece, the design of the cameo Booker chooses for Elizabeth, etc. By showing these "constants" as the result of choice (rowing), random chance (coin flip), and someone attempting to influence the event (the telegram telling Booker not to pick 77 and it gets picked anyway), BSI allows there to exist such events that will always happen regardless of other factors. By that reasoning, there is no possibility of Comstock chickening out of drowning, since you can call it a "constant" and be done with it. The whole thing is somewhat hand-wavey but required for situations like the one you've described to be resolved in the context of the plot.
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