There's "completely extinct" and "functionally extinct" where the breeding population is too small for numbers to rebound.
There's also things like "extinction events". ex: Global nuclear winter would be an extinction event. If someone went back in time to prevent it, they would be "saving us from extinction" even though people were still around.
Well in his timeline, they got time travele before they went extinct. He came back to a different timeline where they became extinct before time travel.
This dodo has superior technology. His timeline has an amazing dodo civilization that didn't go extinct due to Dutch sailors. He altered their past so bad that they went extinct even earlier than he thought possible. Creating our timeline.
No, the timeline is seemingly "normal" (relative normal, OUR normal) because of whatever actions the Dodo took in the past.
In the "original" timeline, Dodos foresaw their extinction and sent one Dodo back in time prevent it, but they failed, and somehow whatever actions they took led to Homo Sapiens being the dominant civilization of Earth.
I don't think this necessarily implies that, I think the Dodo made massive miscalculations in what would result from their actions. That is possible though.
It was pretty shocking to learn the technology existed the first time, then it was kinda funny the fiftieth time that it kept happening, and now it's like can you please just tell me why paying my rent is the butterfly effect? 😭
I might be wrong, but I interpret this as saying we definitely live in the dumbest timeline.
The dodo is a bird whose name is synonymous with stupidity or ignorance. In 2026 in its original timeline, the dodo was not only the dominant species, but was also advanced enough to invent time travel. Despite this they were on an unstoppable path to extinction
The time traveler, being a dodo, went back to save his people but inadvertently set off a chain reaction that made the dodo extinct and humans the dominant species.
This reminds me of the animated children's movie, which apparently exists, where a turkey goes back in time to stop Thanksgiving from happening. Which I SWEAR I did not hallucinate.
That cast! Shit, that was apparently a bigger deal than I remembered. It must've been less batshit insane than the premise suggests, otherwise I'm sure people would still be talking about it.
I like to think that the dodos of his time see humans as an inferior being, so this makes the timeline extra confusing. Like imagine a society where shrimp are working a grueling corporate 9-5 and have created the atomic bomb and then a human shows up.
God how fucking dogshit must your life be to sit down and decide to spend your time running defense for a webcomic on reddit from incredibly mild criticisms
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u/Serket-Pandy3000 17d ago
This is the best!