Favorite sort of time travel rules.

Do you prefer when going back erases stuff, creates a separate branch/deviation, when you can't alter anything because it all fulfills itself in a loop, or some fourth time thing I didn't mention?

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SW-User

I like the idea of going back in time but unless I could be a passive bystander where nothing I did would alter anything it definitely wouldn't end great.

KyleRenn · 36-40, M

@SW-User The rules were nothing gets altered are my personal favorite. Temporal causality loops. They're so darn tidy. 😎

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@KyleRenn plots get too complicated else. You end up with Back To The Future 2

kimmy159 · F

Would be nice if you got the choice depending on the outcome lol XD
Like going back in time can either create an alternative life, or if you're happy with the result, it becomes reality in *every* life lol

Kind of reminds me of the butterfly effect movie and Sabrina the teenage witch.

GermanAf · 26-30, M

And also whatever it was that The Outer Wilds did! In that game you "travel" back 22 minutes after every cycle but retain information from the previous cycles. As you find out throughout the game you aren't actually send back in time rather you just have information from potential other timelines, none of them ever happened only your current cycle is real.

Really great game and absolutely crisis inducing ☺️

KyleRenn · 36-40, M

@GermanAf This sounds amazing to me. I'm gonna look it up!

GermanAf · 26-30, M

@KyleRenn it's a truly great game, one of the best I've ever played. There's a good video summarizing the story

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KyleRenn · 36-40, M

@GermanAf Thanks! I'll give this a look! ⏳

SW-User

It would be pretty traumatic though. Imagine going back and witnessing someone being hung or a doctor bleeding someone? Or seeing all the filth because no sewer system exists yet.