Some ideas are:

  • You branch off into another timeline and your actions make no difference to the previous timeline
  • You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes
  • Actions taken can have an effect (so you could suddenly erase yourself if you killed your parents)
  • Only “nexus” or fixed events really matter, the timeline will sort itself out for minor changes
  • something else entirely
  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Stories involving 2 are often the most fun, as well as 4 if they aren’t lazy with the timeline corrections

    1 feels the simplest and I would prefer it. With 3, unless the technology is limited to a few people, it’s going to get messy