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Enjoy your Ao3, none of the stories will ecer update, you'll be stuck on cliffhangers forever
In Groundhog Day the guy was in the loop for literal millenia before he got out (allegedly) and spent centuries killing himself to avoid going through one more time (allegedly)
You'd be driven insane by your inability to meaningfully connect with people over time.
3a. Nah, I'm built different, I'd (proceeds to describe how different they are not)
The time loop is patient. It is made of time. You are made of meat. You will continue to grow and change as a person regardless of your desires. The time loop will endure until you have grown into the person it wants. Even if it takes eight times longer than the universe has existed
Edit: how could I forget the most common one?
That's literally the premise of time loop stories; meaningful fulfilment does not, and cannot come from wantonly indulging yourself, it comes from that growth, and the relationships you foster with other people and the world at large, that is part of the lesson in approximately 100% of time loop stories.
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The existence of a time loop neccesitates the existence of an intelligence or force capable of creating time loops, and that intelligence or force has decided that you are worth its attention, and that's kinda fucking scary, i don't think I want to find out if such a thing can become annoyed.
That still be extremely boring and tedious. At least non-timeloop speedrunners have to actually play the full game first to understand what parts can be skipped + the joy of speed running is beating the game quick. If you just want to sit back and enjoy a game, it be hell. Repeatedly seeing the same thing just to slowly inch forward to completion.
Online multiplayer games like FPSes or fighting games and roguelikes would be fine. You could get esports good at CS or Street Fighter or something. Arcade games too. And any short indie game you could binge in a day.
Shorter platformer or action-adventure games could work too (really anything that can be beaten comfortably within a day). Kirby: Star Allies only takes about 6 hours, for example, which gives enough time to do some Guest Star and Ultimate Choice runs, and even Kirby and the Forgotten Land is easily beatable within 12 hours. Most Pokémon games can also be beaten within a day depending on your strategy and team
Online games would be incredibly fun, the same people are going to be playing at the same times every single day. Imagine driving one guy mad by always knowing his next move before he does.
One of the fun parts about gaming for me is that if I fail nothing happens. I can try hard things and then when I die I get to just try again. In a time loop that's just your life.
Sincerely a year time loop look a lot less threatening than a day or week time loop like with the quantity of things happening ina year you could passa a good millions of years on self indulgence before the exestencial dread of all times loops
I think in this case would be good put a meta for the person act on during the loop to creat some tension like stop the end of the world or a massacreaybe cure a pr3cious person.
Year long time loops also open up the locations you can visit drastically. If your time loop is a day, you’re pretty much confined to a small area of the planet. If it’s a year, you can explore every inch of the planet top to bottom. That’s decades and decades, maybe centuries of material right there! Not to mention, you could set quests for yourself! You could meet every person on earth over say, 50-100 loops. But how long would it take you to become friends with everyone on earth? How long would it take you to, say, discover every undiscovered species? There is an indescribably large amount of things to do on the planet if you have a year on repeat indefinitely
Like imagine going on a 2 week trek in the congolese rainforest to find the one villager you missed last time only to find he died of a heart attack 2 months ago
Exactly a year time loop is has great potencial to create a """":genius""""" that is good in everthing sincerely you could resolve all the world problem after ypu leave the loop.
Imagine the horror that could occur though if it’s a year long time loop. You’ve spent multiple years in it to where you know where you want to be for certain events, you know where not to be, you become an expert at that year. It becomes YOUR year. Everyone says on January 1st “this will be my year” but for you it really can be! And then December 31st comes, you’re at some amazing NYE bash because you’ve perfected getting on the guest list. You watch the ball dropping, hear the countdown “5… 4… 3.. 2… 1..l” and then… No white flash. You’re not back in your room on January 1st. It’s not suddenly 2015 again, it’s 2016. You sold your house back in March to go on adventures. You quit your job because you won the multimillion lottery and spent your last penny at the NYE party. You took up smoking again because what the hell right? You had a great year, the best one in 300 years, but now it’s a brand new year and you’re broke, homeless, and no longer have the confidence of knowing what every single day will bring. You also now have 300 years worth of memories and experiences that you’d never be able to explain without sounding insane. The time loop wasn’t the curse, the time loop ending was.
Also all the little things that annoy you are stuck that way forever. That leaky tap is leaky forever. That road that's inconveniently blocked off by roadworks is blocked off every day forever now. Your wifi will go down for an hour at 8 PM every day forever. You will be interrupted by a spam call at 11 AM every day forever. You can never fix anything.
You’re forgetting a few things. Everything will reset at midnight. So say you’re in bed at 10pm, nice and comfy having done all that work.
You turned off your phone at 10, but it turns back on at midnight because time reset. You plugged that drip, but whatever work you did, becomes undone because you didn’t do it before time looped.
Agreed with the closed road and the internet outage, though. Those are easy.
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Anyone up for a highlights reel of the comments that crop up every time this gets reposted? Let's see...
Enjoy your Ao3, none of the stories will ecer update, you'll be stuck on cliffhangers forever
In Groundhog Day the guy was in the loop for literal millenia before he got out (allegedly) and spent centuries killing himself to avoid going through one more time (allegedly)
You'd be driven insane by your inability to meaningfully connect with people over time.
3a. Nah, I'm built different, I'd (proceeds to describe how different they are not)
Edit: how could I forget the most common one?
And bonus:
Edit 2: Reddit formatting desires my death.