Does time travel operate on Terminator rules or Back to the Future rules?

[DoNotFeedTheSneed]

Or is it Quantum Break rules?

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

back to the future rules seem to make the most sense.

 

[dick brain]

Dark rules. Future A leads to Future B leads to Future C leads to Future D, none of which you experience because they all effectively overwrite each other instantly, but given enough iterations the chain of causality inevitably reaches a self-stable causal loop which is inevitably the only iteration you can experience because it's the only iteration that isn't overwritten by something else.

 

[alphabetnigger]

I saw a movie once I think it was called Synchronicity but I'm not sure. I don't remember much about the movie itself BUT, the guy kept going back in time over and over to fight bad guys and he would die or fuck up in some way and keep going back, but the hims that were also sent back were there too, including the bad guys sending there own dudes to fight. So at one point the main hero, having gone back to retry like a hundred times, walks into the big building where the fight is going down and there is a hundred copies of him fighting a hundred copies of the bad guy. That concept always stuck with me, even though the movie didn't.

 

[McMitch]

Butterfly Effect rules: wherein the changes are only noticeable when it’s convenient for the plot.

 

[dick brain]

I saw a movie once I think it was called Synchronicity but I'm not sure. I don't remember much about the movie itself BUT, the guy kept going back in time over and over to fight bad guys and he would die or fuck up in some way and keep going back, but the hims that were also sent back were there too, including the bad guys sending there own dudes to fight. So at one point the main hero, having gone back to retry like a hundred times, walks into the big building where the fight is going down and there is a hundred copies of him fighting a hundred copies of the bad guy. That concept always stuck with me, even though the movie didn't.

Many many years ago I wrote about half a screenplay where an individual figures out time travel and tries to use it for the greater good but inevitably takes multiple tries to get things right, but then the twist is that each time he changes the past he's just creating a separate timeline for that course of events, so in the grand scheme, by trying over and over to get things right, he's increasing the net suffering across a multiverse by birthing multiple separate universes where he fucked things up, and then he becomes the antagonist, trying to stop himself from fucking with the past.

Halfway through I realized what I was trying to tell myself and lost all interest in finishing the story though.

 

[alphabetnigger]

Many many years ago I wrote about half a screenplay where an individual figures out time travel and tries to use it for the greater good but inevitably takes multiple tries to get things right, but then the twist is that each time he changes the past he's just creating a separate timeline for that course of events, so in the grand scheme, by trying over and over to get things right, he's increasing the net suffering across a multiverse by birthing multiple separate universes where he fucked things up, and then he becomes the antagonist, trying to stop himself from fucking with the past.

Halfway through I realized what I was trying to tell myself and lost all interest in finishing the story though.

That's such a cool concept. I would watch that movie

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Primer rules