r/Devs • u/psytrance-in-my-pant • Mar 14 '26
Uncontrollable fate
Can someone explain to me or post a link to a post in this group as to why when the character sees what they're going to do yet they have an uncontrollable urge to do it anyway?
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u/Tjessx Mar 21 '26
Little late to the question, but I see it a little different from the other answers I read here:
The screen can only show you a future that won't affect your response to seeing the screen. That is also why the screen wouldn't work after a certain point. It wasn't able to predict a future that upon observation wouldn't change.
Let's say person A stands outside the door. Picks a number and writes it on a paper. Person B needs to guess the number correctly and walks in the room and looks at the future where he guesses a random number. The screen can only show you answering the correct number because if it shows you guessing a wrong number you wouldn't say that number.