What would you do if you could use savestates IRL?

[Lou Bega]

There's so much you could get away with because you can just go back to your last savestate and it would seem like nothing happened.

 

[CallmeCicada]

I would find music I really like and keep going back so I can listen to it again for the first time.

 

[PositiveMonk]

I'd save right after meeting someone for the first time, then after a month or so decide if it was worth interacting with them.

 

[the clap]

Bottle flippin'

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

How many save slots do I get to have?

 

[Rock hard as a Flintstone]

Get f9 and f5 mixed up.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I would absolutely indulge my desire to behead every single asshole I meet on a daily basis.

 

[Achtung Bitter]

I would keep on assassinating Obama for the lulz.

 

[souschef]

Invest all my savings in random shitcoins and savescum until i get rich, and donate 10 thousand dollars to the farms

 

[Paranoia Machine]

If I can savescum deaths, I'd quit my job and start touring the world, righting every wrong I could with accurate information or precisely timed attacks.

 

[Damien Thorne]

Win the Powerball when it reaches one billion. And correct every mistake I make from there on out. I would be more perfect than Jesus.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Try every fun path in life!

 

[Ultrapenguin]

That would be a horrible and profane power to have.

A person would probably get more and more used to the transgressive ability to retry anything to the point they eventually start doing exactly what some people do with savestates in games: get obsessed with doing everything perfectly to the point it robs them of enjoyment. They wouldn't ever be able to take a single action without agonizing over it.

In time life would become nothing but a lonely, hollow game of attempted optimization until eventually the person had enough and just offed themselves...but they've got savestates, so they just reload the last time they saved before capping themselves. Even once they're old there wouldn't be any escape, all they could do is reload an older save from back before they were elderly. They'd be trapped in the experience of infinity, without ever moving past the finite period of their lifespan.

I'm putting that one in the monkey's paw category.