Time loops are a weird genre for an anxious time

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Time loop games have become a trend over the past few years: from Twelve Minutes, to Outer Wilds, to Deathloop. But the genre is by no means new! It predates Groundhog Day and goes all the way back to World War II. Still, there's a reason time loop stories keep coming back... looping, if you will. Jenna Stoeber walks us through the intricacies of time loops and alternate realities, and what it all has to do with our current ANXIETY.

0:00 Time loops are having a moment
1:15 The history of time loops
2:42 Alternate reality vs. time loops
5:54 Meta awareness of time loops
10:25 Elsinore: time loop Hamlet
12:35 Anxiety and doomscrolling
16:38 What time loops help us understand

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