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[–] 26 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd probably spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out how it is possible I am stuck in a time loop, considering that violates the laws of physics as I understand them.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Learn a foreign language till I'm fluent.

    When the time loop finally comes to an end, pretend to have a seizure and after waking up only speak in the new language to troll people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Why would the time loop come to an end?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Name one piece of media where it doesn't?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    But why would you be so sure it will? What if you never figure it out and you're permanently stuck in the loop?

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  • [–] 20 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    hedonism. as much as all my savings could aquire in a day. the loop is a day right? we are talking groundhog day?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yup he said loops once a day. At least that’s my interpretation of the term groundhogs day. Only problem is you don’t know when it ends

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    honestly assuming it goes on at least a couple of days you a multiple of the number of days in hedonism for the cost of your savings. seems like a good deal. now if it stops looping the moment you pull the spend trigger or you only get two or three days. ouch.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Oh man, what if your groundhog loop happened during an 18h flight to the other side of the world? I'd go insane.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    God, so much, that sounds like heaven. I'm incredibly interested in everything, and I'd pursue so many more skills if I had years of free time, especially if the world was basically paused around me. Learning instruments, learning languages, reading so many books. So many books.

    You could throw me in a single day loop for centuries and I would be happily learning the whole time.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    As someone with guitar calluses, let me say that if every time you practiced guitar was your first time, you'd give up pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd use it as an excuse to get really good at my hobbies for a year or so with no long-term responsibilities getting in the way before even trying to break out lmao

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago

    If we're going with a Groundhog day scenario I would pretty much do what he did. Some days or part of my day working on learning some skills such as piano. Mix up some hanging out and messing with people. I would try to spend as much time as possible with my wife and baby. It would be weird to have the same day with them but still want to see them

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    If I’m aging: start immediately filming an explanation and such for my wife knowing I’ll never see her move or speak again.

    If I’m not, and there’s an end eventually: get caught up on sleep, clear my gaming backlog, take imposssible pictures, have a good time.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Play video games that use passwords instead of saves. Then, get better at remembering strings of characters. Find enjoyment with the things I have, as it would be a pain to get the same things every loop.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Play golf through the Stargate, of course.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I mean... I'm sort of doing that right now.

    My routine is very consistent. Right down to eating the same meals every day so I don't need to think about what to eat, and I know what I'm getting at the store every week.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago

    Sleeping as much as possible. It's also what I'd do if I had the power to stop time.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago

    Learn to play the piano. Learn to fix my car. The car would always be back to what it was but the knowledge would stay with me

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  • [–] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

    Depends when was the last time I jerked off? And how long loop?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    In my head I was picturing the movie groundhogs day.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago* (2 children)

    In the short story groundhogs day is like 10000 years

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)
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    I think the first few hundred times through the loop from Stargate would be a good start

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago*

    Do the hypothetical traumas and consequences of my time loop actions somehow propagate into the broader, static universe, or can I safely commit atrocities knowing that each new capsule universe will dissolve into nothingness every 24 hours, resetting its moral boundary conditions each time?

    Cuz I have big ideas, but there might be collateral damage.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    I would do everything except to play video games, playing always from the same save point or from the beginning would get boring very fast.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    Probably heroin.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago*

    CW suicide
    I might just try to kill myself a few times in order to find the least painful way possible, both for me and for the world around me, just in case the loop ever stops and I had a real chance of escaping the suffering.

    But also, maybe punch a few assholes, or try killing people that damaged me during my childhood, because I've never done violence and I'd like to know what physical dominance feels like. Maybe ask a few girls out to either confirm or finally absolve me of my worthlessness. In one of the loops, I'd gamble. In another loop, I'd try all the drugs that my precarious government position makes difficult to try. Oh, what I wouldn't give for some pot and LSD. I'd move to a non transmedical society and finally receive HRT, although this wouldn't have any effect in one single day, so never mind. If I retained my memories each time, then I'd start studying anything and everything that I'm interested in. I'd learn to recite The Silmarillion by heart.

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    A little bit of everything I could manage within the space of the loop until I inevitably went mad because infinite repetition would destroy me just as it would anyone else.

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    What triggers the loop? Sleeping? Unsubscribing from life? There are many experiments to do if there will be no consequences

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    In a loop probably.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    Daytime depends on the season and weather; skiing, climbing or kayaking. Nighttime calls for grilling , chillin' and thrillin' no mater the season.

    IRL I try to go skiing every ground hog day just in case.

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    I've off-and-on wondered about this one. A lot of learning to play piano is muscle memory. Would you retain that? And if you do, are you then in-fact also aging? How are people going to start reacting when you are noticeably older each iteration? Or if you let yourself go or decided to get buff? Things are going to get awkward relatively quickly.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Your physical muscles aren't remembering anything, you just use less of your active attention on a task the more you do it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    So neural connections then. Hmm.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Well yeah, but that's all memories are anyways, I assume you get to keep those as you loop. Otherwise the time loop is just that "its impossible to tell" meme from Star Trek

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    In time loops in Star Trek, they typically take a while to figure out that they're in a time loop suggesting that one doesn't necessarily retain everything. I guess we really need to know what kind of time loop we're stuck in.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If I had my time again, I would do it all the same.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Procrastinate.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Shitposting online and getting into contracts with people to become enemies.

    Hey wait a second!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Kill myself in a bunch of fun ways like Bill Murray did in Groundhog's Day.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Depends how long the time loop is. Hopefully not like 6 seconds, but a day.

    If it was a reasonable amount of time in the loop, I would start learning everything I could, like languages, stem topics, etc.

    But I would also try to experience as much as possible. Learn how to speak in front of crowds, how much of a pain tolerance can I have, fear of heights, that sort of things.

    Basically imagination is the only limiting factor.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Learn so much!!!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Learning. With breaks to play video games, spend whole days hanging out with my wife, and to get laid. Hopefully it happens on a weekend so I don't have to explain not going to work to my wife every day.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Eat the same breakfast every day until I'm sick of it, and then the next day it's back again

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

    Depends on multiple things. If I didn't know it was a time loop I would just keep doing the same things over and over in blissful ignorance. If I knew, I would probably do what Cristin Milioti does in Palm Springs - study physics to figure out how to get out of the loop. Besides that, what I did for fun would depend on whether or not I can bring anything with me - like if it's possible to carry a notebook that doesn't get erased I might work on a novel. In any case I would spend significant time dinking around and trying to get laid a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Write my bio.

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