Reddit is a great resource for us time travelers (see above) because there are people whose comments can steer you in ways that you never even thought of. You’ll also find many posts dedicated to other topics that will help you out, like time travel movies and books.
In the future, all humans will be free to time travel and go back in time, so to help others, it helps to be familiar with their time travel history because they’ll be able to give you advice on how to avoid getting in trouble, how to get out of dangerous situations, and so on.
It’s a difficult topic to discuss due to the fact that we’re all still pretty new, but I’ll try to touch a bit on some of the basics. When we talk about time travel movies and books, we’re talking about movies and books that make you feel as if you’re traveling in time.
This is a topic we touched on in our previous post, but it’s worth repeating: The point of time travel is to travel back in time.
So if you have a vague memory of a time-travel movie or book in your mind, you might be trying to get yourself into a time-loop, which has the power to cause bad things to happen to you. We talked in our previous post about time-looping movies and books, and you can get into time-looping in much the same way you can get into time-looping videogames.
You can also get into time-looping in game-playing games, by getting into the game, and then doing time-traveling in a different setting.
Time-looping in videogames is tricky because the game you play doesn’t necessarily control the timeline. So you can’t just go back and undo the consequences of what you just did. You have to go back in time to undo it. But time-looping in games is even trickier because the game’s rules don’t necessarily line up with the rules of the game you’re playing. This means that when the game you play ends, you have to start all over again.
To understand time-looping in games you have to understand three things: 1) The game you play doesnt necessarily control the timeline (in general) 2) The game you play doesnt manipulate the timeline (for a specific part of the timeline) 3) You have to start over whenever you play the game. That’s why you sometimes have to restart things in your game world.
Its rare to actually have to restart a game, but time-looping is not always a pretty sight. In a time loop you find yourself in a situation where you can’t do anything new, like in a video game or computer game. You cannot advance to the next part of the timeline when you are stuck in the same part of the timeline. You have to start over.
There are plenty of time-looping movies and games where you start over. There are plenty where you find yourself in a very dangerous situation and get stuck in the same moment. You have to find a way to get back to where you started.