RetroFed Forum
Your home away from modern life.
If you were stuck in a timeloop how would you spend your time?
Post Reply
AuthorMessage
Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
#52 · Quote Reply

In a loop probably.

3
Underwaterbob sh.itjust.works Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#53 · Quote Reply

Piano.

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.

2
Underwaterbob sh.itjust.works Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#54 · Quote Reply

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.

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.

6
Underwaterbob sh.itjust.works Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#55 · Quote Reply

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.

Yeah, highest priority to me seems to be to figure out if you are still aging. Things are gonna start to suck pretty hard if you're in there for any amount of time and getting older.

3
AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-12
#56 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

Isn't that roughly the plot to a current showing movie?

Edit: Was thinking of https://store.steampowered.com/app/4529770/One_More_Flight/

8
Goldholz lemmy.blahaj.zone Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-12-12
#57 · Quote Reply

Learn so much!!!

2
agamemnonymous sh.itjust.works agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-15
#58 · Quote Reply

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.

Honestly guitar would be pretty low on my list, but I already have enough callous to get me through a day, and presumably the wear would heal overnight

3
JcbAzPx lemmy.world JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
#59 · Quote Reply

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.

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

4
Underwaterbob sh.itjust.works Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#60 · Quote Reply

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

So neural connections then. Hmm.

3
psud aussie.zone psud@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-26
#61 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

That's a different prompt. I'd change a lot. Not quite everything. Maybe I'd save my dad.

2
LaLuzDelSol lemmy.world LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#62 · Quote Reply

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

Get good at plane hijacking I guess...

3
LaLuzDelSol lemmy.world LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#63 · Quote Reply

So neural connections then. Hmm.

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

4
LaLuzDelSol lemmy.world LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#64 · Quote Reply

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.

Yeah you would definitely feel like a fool when you woke up the next morning having blown your life savings and.... its just the next day and now youre broke haha

2
LaLuzDelSol lemmy.world LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-17
#65 · Quote Reply

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.

Pvp games would still be fun

1
Yerbouti sh.itjust.works Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-06-26
#66 · Quote Reply

Write my bio.

1
Underwaterbob sh.itjust.works Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#67 · Quote Reply

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

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.

3
modus lemmy.world modus@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#68 · Quote Reply

Procrastinate.

3
Mrkawfee lemmy.world Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#69 · Quote Reply

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

Or what if you're undergoing surgery or bedridden with flu or incarcerated in a cell

There are so many situations where a groundhog loop would be hell

3
kaosterra sh.itjust.works kaosterra@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-08-17
#70 · Quote Reply

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

4
lastweakness lemmy.world lastweakness@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#71 · Quote Reply

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.

Why would the time loop come to an end?

1
shartgargle lemmy.zip shartgargle@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-09
#72 · Quote Reply

Or what if you're undergoing surgery or bedridden with flu or incarcerated in a cell There are so many situations where a groundhog loop would be hell

Jail cell, obviously your goal is to break out.

2
lastweakness lemmy.world lastweakness@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#73 · Quote Reply

Why would you never see her move or speak again? Wouldn't that only be during a time freeze, and not a timeloop?

If he's aging within the time loop, then the loop will end when he dies. If that happens, he won't be there for the "final iteration".

4
SirEDCaLot lemmy.today SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-11-04
#74 · Quote Reply

Play golf through the Stargate, of course.

In the middle of my backswing?!?!!?

3
madmantis24 lemmy.wtf madmantis24@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2026-01-14
#75 · Quote Reply

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

FR I would finally be out of excuses not to learn Blender

Then I would use my knowledge for hentai commissions once the loop breaks

1
captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#76 · Quote Reply

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.

2
TableRoller lemmy.world TableRoller@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-10-16
#77 · Quote Reply

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

2
LouNeko lemmy.world LouNeko@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#78 · Quote Reply

Why would the time loop come to an end?

Name one piece of media where it doesn't?

1
lastweakness lemmy.world lastweakness@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#79 · Quote Reply

Name one piece of media where it doesn't?

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

1
LouNeko lemmy.world LouNeko@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#80 · Quote Reply

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

Because otherwise, whoever is playing this cosmic joke on me wouldn't be entertained.

1
lastweakness lemmy.world lastweakness@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#81 · Quote Reply

Because otherwise, whoever is playing this cosmic joke on me wouldn't be entertained.

Fair enough

1
Post Reply Page 2 of 2   Goto page « First 1, 2
Back to top