I need to be put in a time loop it would actually fix me
why's it all have to be about the horrors of time loops. does nopony think about how you can use the day repeating to say things you've never been brave enough to say before. conversations not recorded by time that you can use to bring yourself peace or at least understanding . does anyone think about using the endless day to just be yourself full heartedly, dress in a way you were always scared to before, talk to strangers with no fear... I think time loops can be used to unlearn shame, maybe to break it you have to find peace with who you are. maybe the point is not everything is so bad as it seems as long as you live life how u love. shrugs
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wouldn't it be cool to have like a time loop game in which the main character struggles with being in a time loop. and stuff.
also the above post about "does nobody think about how you can use the time loop to be a better person" that tends to be the point of stories featuring a time loop
the time loop in groundhog day only finishes when the main character confesses his love, for example
yeah but they're saying most time loops involve a lot of struggle and distress and it would be nice if a time loop just, Didn't
i think that struggle and distress are inherent to time loops, if there is any kind of character narrative around it
for example, there's very little character in the Hatchling from Outer Wilds, but if the game wanted to give voice to their mind they would surely be having a Not Taki Taki Roomba time with the constant dying in horrific fashion and stuff
if anything, a pleasant time loop would be its own kind of hell, when the looper realizes that this may be very pleasant but they're stuck here with no end in sight. and then, how long until the pleasantness becomes a source of distress?
i think that if there's a time loop at all, there's an inevitable angst there by the very nature of the cycle
Sure time loops are distressing even how I want them to be portrayed sometimes, but I'm not saying I want a time loop to help make someone become a better person, not with morals or anything. I'm talking just, a time loop to put yourself at peace, say things you would never say if you didn't know the day would repeat, and there is an inherit horror within that, confessing things you know will never be remembered. Telling someone something and experiencing them have the worst sort of reaction, and maybe you'll try loop after loop to word yourself better and maybe it never works, and you're look on them will be changed forever. Which Is a horror aspect to it in a way.
I know time loops are all inherently written to be entirely scary and evil things, and a lot taken the stance that the person in the time loop hates it and gets more and more distressed about it. I want something where the person finds comfort in it, even within outcomes turning out bad. I want someone to get stuck in a time loop and realize they've never felt more like themselves, that they never have been happier in a strange way because they can be themselves with no shame, no fear because who will remember? There is peace within familiarity and time loops are entirely that. But I also think really any portrayal of time loops are fun and joyful to explore.
