“Time travel paradoxes don’t happen, they just spawn a new timeline you can travel to.” “Wait, does that mean I can go back to caveman times and colonize the fresh earth without consequence?”
me when the plot won't plot like it should
“ did you see that animal?”
“I have no idea what it was, but yeah?”
“Well, now we have to catch it.”
I want to try this with time travel
You, an immortal, have spent your entire life being a professor. Today, a new student signed up to your class, who happened to be a familiar face. Turns out, they already took one of your classes; 200 years ago.
You’ve been trapped in this time loop for centuries, and an attempted “perfect run” decades in the making has failed to break the loop. Frustrated, you decide to go scorched earth on everyone and everything around you. The next day, to your horror, you wake up to find the loop has been broken.
You are an AI that serves as the navigation system of an interdimensional warship. You are heavily damaged and crash on a world with primitive inhabitants. You spend ages advancing them so they can repair you. When they fix your sensors, you find that the war ended in extinction of both sides.
The villain stares, confused. This was the hero destined to kill him. This was the hero destined to ‘save the world’. This was the hero who trained their whole life to kill him. So why… why did he surrender to his guards? He should know that he’ll be imprisoned forever, with no way out…
History is weirder than we remember.
I can't stop thinking about historically accurate european armor helmets
how did this happen
Humanity finally makes contact with aliens. They are about 30 light years away, and their civilization is approximately as developed as ours - they do not have means of interstellar transport. We can only engage in two-way conversation with them using messages 30 years apart.
been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will