• CanadaPlus ( CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
    14·
    2 years ago

    So normal life, except all the non-human things become unchanging?

    The economy is sure as hell going to be different in a hurry. Pretty much only service industries will survive, because anything else gets reset tomorrow. In a way this will be great, because people will be just as well supplied anyway, so it will give room to pursue personal development in earnest. Or maybe we’ll find a new way to fuck ourselves.

  • josefo ( josefo@leminal.space ) 
    13·
    2 years ago

    Money and working for it stop making sense immediately, so nobody works at anywhere, no services are going to be in place unless the workers are somewhat bored.

    Without service workers, how fast do you think you would go? You will always be in the same city? Can you learn to fly a plane to eventually reach another place? Can you learn to fly a Boeing by yourself to travel farther? No fucking security regulations anywhere baby.

    You can go a full day without eating or drinking much water, so maybe some days you eat, some you don’t. After few loops, crime rises, and it can’t be really punished, but people will remember criminals and what they did, so the next day a bunch of the affected can kill the criminal for the day, until they no longer want to do it.

    How Groundhog Day rules would apply here? Everyone wakes at the same time? What happens if some go to sleep earlier and some try to be wake as many days as possible, until their inevitable death?

    Most interesting thing is that no real danger would exist, and no real consequences, as the static world resets, but the collective memory of people would survive.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
      2·
      2 years ago

      I imagine it wouldn’t be too difficult to travel a few hours a day to the airport and learn to fly a plane. As for going anywhere, I don’t see the point beyond doing some spectacular aerodynamics on a 747.

      Crime would be something that everybody would do at some point I imagine, just out of sheer curiousity. And I think if it’s something that everyone is guilty of to the same degree and quantity, then I think people would mostly shrug it off. Carrying judgement into the next loop would not be worth it imo

  • Omega ( OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ) 
    4·
    2 years ago

    I can imagine some people going full battle mode, leading to constant death and attempts to protect oneself

    What’s guaranteed is that after the first hundred loops you’ll probably never feel safe ever again

    • Azzu ( Azzu@lemm.ee ) 
      3·
      2 years ago

      But… Why would anyone do that?

      Sure, people might try it out more because of the “apparent” lack of consequences… But the reason we humans don’t do violent shit isn’t because of things, it’s because of other humans, and they remain exactly the same.

      If one person turns out to be a murderous maniac, the people around them would probably band together and take them out at the start of the loop, effectively being a very real consequence you’d wish to avoid.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
      3·
      2 years ago

      The film is pretty good. I’d treat as a separate thing altogether, the film is very loosely based on the book.

      Plus there’s a manga illustrated by Takeshi Obata (of Death Note fame) that’s half decent. The illustrations of the book were done by Yoshitoshi Abe (of Welcome to the NHK fame)

    • Lemmy_2019 ( Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one ) 
      2·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t read the source material but the movie is one of the best sci-fi films of the new millennium, and certainly one of the most enjoyable. Films like Arrival, Dune, Blade Runner 2049 are visually striking and thoughtful but Edge of Tomorrow is also great fun.

  • spicy pancake ( janus2@lemmy.zip ) English
    3·
    2 years ago

    Not sure how this would work with different time zones. Unlike the movie, things would be resetting mid-day for a majority of the world, rather than mid-sleep. Even in the time zone where it lines up with a majority of people’s sleep, those with non-traditional sleep cycles will have mid-“day” resets

    • emeralddawn45 ( emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
      2·
      2 years ago

      I mean people would just adjust to the new time patterns. In every time loop story, people try staying awake past the reset and usually it just resets regardless of whether they’re asleep or not. The exception i can think of being palm springs, where they only reset once they fall asleep or die. But if the reset happens at a constant time for everyone, everyone would just adapt. Day and night already barely matter now that we have electric lighting and instantaneous communication. ‘Days’ would just start at the reset, and either last until the next reset, or 8 hours before it happens, or whatever the equilibrium ends up being. Maybe sleep would stop being necessary for most people altogether, if their bodies’ clocks reset along with everything else. That could be kind of interesting.

  • Melatonin ( Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
    2·
    2 years ago

    If we all retain our memory, as is usual for a time loop, then we all have agency in the next loop, as is usual for a time loop, and the only things that “repeat” are natural things like acts of nature.

    So eventually we would know where the things happen and they would become sources of energy. Billionaires would buy them and other means of life, everyone would become dependent on something that the oligarchy would gain control of, and everything would be the same as it is now, essentially.

    Possibly they threaten the masses with quick death unless they serve is some capacity? I’m being terribly pessimistic, but I do think all it takes are a couple of assholes to ruin things.

    • tetris11 ( tetris11@lemmy.ml ) OP
      1·
      2 years ago

      That’s an interesting take. People are indeed whipped already, with money being the carrot. In a time loop I can definitely see the powerful threatening nukes to “incentivize” everyone.

      Though, I think this would only be a pattern in the early stages. Once you’ve been nuked, you get used to it, and the threat wears off