Possible support for the Vex's limitations (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Thursday, November 02, 2017, 22:45 (2657 days ago) @ uberfoop

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

The little note at the end of the article is kind of obvious and also a gigantic caveat to the claim.

I don't see how the simulation hypothesis could possibly be disproven, really.

Ever since the Vex were introduced, before the first game even came out, people have been asking "why haven't they won already if they can simulate anything?".

Because they can't simulate everything.

well yeah, exactly
the question is why?
"because Light" is the usual answer (which I mentioned in the second half of the post), but most humans aren't connected to the Light, and none of the other races we've met are currently connected to it

Even if they could, it wouldn't necessarily imply that they win; it could be that all choices end with them being limited by terrestrial bullets. Maybe the Vex just really suck, you know?

it's the Batman argument: if you have infinite time to prepare and endless resources, or even just functionally infinite time and practically endless resources, can you do things like find anything, go anywhere, fix or break whatever you want, cheat death, subvert physics, conquer worlds, and kill gods? Destiny would seem to say "yes"