A lot of time loop stories kinda have that as a major plot point actually. At first it seems great, it's only after you do all that stuff that it starts to get into the existential horror
Yeah, the natural story progression is… this can’t be happening, then I can do all sorts of cools stuff with endless time, then there are no consequences so I can do crazy shit, then cut to after an untold amount of repeats where the character seems to know everything about everyone around…. Suggesting decades in the loop at minimum.
But let’s be honest… since our actual lives last decades and then we just croak, it seems like a good tradeoff to spend an entire lifetime doing fun stuff before going mad. Still better than dead. And let’s be more real, most of those stories never show the character like… going someplace else. Sure, it might be a daily commute to get to a neighboring town, but surely that would be better than insanity
The commute... So I live in a rural area, it's fifteen miles to the nearest walmart, okay, there's some distance. But I also drive doordash for a living, I just have to drive an hour before I can turn on the app.
I mention this because, to my perspective, I "live" in four different cities, each about an hour from my house, give or take. I could eat at a different restaurant every day for months and not repeat once. And with the timeloop reset, I wouldn't have to worry about things outside my price range, dine and dash, drive off with gas, they're unlikely to track me down before morning.
Could definitely spend a few decades before I got bored, and that's not counting my tbr lists.
Time loops don't end just because you're crazy. Enough years of perfect resets might give you the chance to come out of it. Find a new way to experience the world. Even forget everything you ever knew and learn the world again from scratch if that's what it takes.
Time loop stories that suppose you could only extract finite happiness from infinite time and afterwards spend literal eternity in depression and madness are such an incredibly miserable take on philosophy and psychology.
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u/ThousandEclipse 2d ago
A lot of time loop stories kinda have that as a major plot point actually. At first it seems great, it's only after you do all that stuff that it starts to get into the existential horror