when i was new to this time stuff and didnt have a sense yet how to roll with things intuitively i happened to shenanigans my way into possession of copies of my sisters weird journals these journals APPARENTLY housed sensitive information that neither of us knew about until literally two seconds later when she woke up out of nowhere and burned her own copies?? so i being a reasonable young man and not at all a snoopish disaster decided i would go back to my room and do the same only to find some dbag ganked them while i wasnt looking 1 my natural inclination of course was to go back in time a few minutes to catch the fucker in the act here im thinking thatd be fine and an obvious implementation of a time loop 2 as soon as i decide to do this thing i notice my own lacerated corpse stacked over on my turntables 3 i realize oh hey looks like i already decided to go back in time to stop this asshole and it turned out to be a stupid idea 4 i choose not to make the idiot choice and chuck poor hero dave out into the lava 5 thus the timeline is saved
so: dead dave was in a doomed timeline and didnt know the fact of his corpse was enough of a warning to keep me from doing the same my choice not to pursue the dude led to a new timeline in which i continued as alpha dave
its not exactly like two roads diverged in a yellow wood and one happened to turn out better its more like the knowledge of that doomed timeline is necessary in order to secure the integrity of the alpha timeline so doomed dave has to make that sacrifice to CREATE a timeline where things go a little better luckily i had a guide who helped me largely keep this shit to a minimum
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i happened to shenanigans my way into possession of copies of my sisters weird journals
these journals APPARENTLY housed sensitive information that neither of us knew about until literally two seconds later when she woke up out of nowhere and burned her own copies??
so i being a reasonable young man and not at all a snoopish disaster decided i would go back to my room and do the same only to find some dbag ganked them while i wasnt looking
1 my natural inclination of course was to go back in time a few minutes to catch the fucker in the act
here im thinking thatd be fine and an obvious implementation of a time loop
2 as soon as i decide to do this thing i notice my own lacerated corpse stacked over on my turntables
3 i realize oh hey looks like i already decided to go back in time to stop this asshole and it turned out to be a stupid idea
4 i choose not to make the idiot choice and chuck poor hero dave out into the lava
5 thus the timeline is saved
so: dead dave was in a doomed timeline and didnt know
the fact of his corpse was enough of a warning to keep me from doing the same
my choice not to pursue the dude led to a new timeline in which i continued as alpha dave
its not exactly like two roads diverged in a yellow wood and one happened to turn out better
its more like the knowledge of that doomed timeline is necessary in order to secure the integrity of the alpha timeline
so doomed dave has to make that sacrifice to CREATE a timeline where things go a little better
luckily i had a guide who helped me largely keep this shit to a minimum