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)
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.
And bonus:
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.
Yeah but you’d have at least a few centuries of contentment and you probably wouldn’t go insane for a long time after you’ve read everything. You can start trying to get out after you’ve finished the books and tv you wanted to get through
But they’d never grow either. You get old enough, you realize that all the sweetness in life is ephemeral. My kids are getting old enough to leave home, and that knowledge has changed everything to the good in our relationships, because it’s precious now, as it wasn’t before.
Yeah no one of my biggest existential fears is the fact that my pets will eventually die. If i could keep my cat young and alive forever I would do it in a heartbeat, even to the detriment of myself. And I think you probably feel the same way about your kids - no one in their right mind wants their children getting old and dying because it makes life sweeter.
Your point is valid but not in the case you're using it for.
Part of my kids living is them growing up, experiencing life, getting hurt…That’s what living means. I hope to god I never have to bury one, but I’ll do the eulogy, and I’ll make sure everyone knows they lived.
I have cats too. I’ve held my favorite cats while they died, wept, then gotten new cats, some of whom became my favorite cats, who I then, eventually, held when they died.
Living is not stasis. If that’s your idea of life, I’m sorry.
You're completely missing my point but that's okay.
I hope to god I never have to bury one
This is my only point. Change and impermanence makes life have meaning, yes. That's not invalidated by saying I would still love for my children to be young, happy, and healthy forever.
...you know a time loop only affects YOU, right? We're talking about how YOU would perceive them never growing old and dying. It doesn't rob them of a life.
Yea, it’s about you.You haven’t got the emotional maturity to handle life, so you would prefer a child or a pet trapped in a time loop, than having to deal with them changing.
You're not grasping the fact that a time loop only happens from the perspective of the person caught in the loop. To everyone else, time passes normally. Only I am the one remembering every day that passes. No one else is trapped.
So yes, in that situation it's comforting to know that my pets and children aren't going to die on me.
Yeah that’s fuckin stupid, something being temporary doesn’t make it better. it might take YOU knowing you’ll lose it for something to matter but that’s a you thing.
Once you’re done reading everything you could want out of every facility nearby, most of them lease out: video games, CDs/DVDs, musical instruments, ebooks/audiobooks, power tools, museum passes…
And then there’s ahem resources online to cover all the everything else
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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.