Luminosity98

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Paradoxes are the enjoyable part of time travel stories for me, for me has to be "illogical" at times and a time travel story without paradoxes isn't a time travel story, of course they have to be well made like in "All you zombies" short story or the movie based on it "Predestination". First time you watch/read it you get in awe with the narrative, the GOAT of paradoxes.
Never expected a Heinlein reference on this site, but perhaps I should have considering his work is full of incest harems.
 
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pitao

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Never expected a Heinlein reference on this site, but perhaps I should have considering his work is full of incest harems.
Hehe well I read the Heinlein short story long long ago, I was a young adult at the time (I'm near 50 yo) but I own a precious DVD copy of Predestination, a very underrated movie imho, maybe because it was made in Australia and is out of the box of what usually "Hollywood" does. Even knowing that all the key plot characters in the movie are all the same character I still got a great reaction on how it was adapted to cinema.

Well it is not totally correct to say "full of incest harems" it is just the "perfect" paradox, the main character whoever it is, is "his" own mother and father, its the "hero" and the "villain" etc etc its very complex but it is the full "perfect" circle. Makes us think on the old saying "what came first, the egg or the chicken?", well we have that saying in Portuguese, not really sure if there is a similar one in English.
 
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it's really weird how choosing not to forgive Skylar puts you back on the "didnt risk Jessica's relationship and never did anything" path rather than creating a new seperate "Skylar tries to earn your forgiveness" path with MC acting totally fine and "we'll always be friends" with her
 

Bill Temple

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it's really weird how choosing not to forgive Skylar puts you back on the "didnt risk Jessica's relationship and never did anything" path rather than creating a new seperate "Skylar tries to earn your forgiveness" path with MC acting totally fine and "we'll always be friends" with her
Maybe it's weird, or maaaaybe it's one of those paradoxes the gang was just hankering for the past couple pages.
 
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