Asklemmy

Day 1: World experiences "The glitch" simultaneously and gets set back 24 hours. Dead come back to life, religions take it as proof of god

Day 2: Media: "ground hogs day?" memes: "Its def groundhogs day grandpa has come back from the dead twice."

Day 3: Religious freak out, no one is saying they went to heaven when they died, reincarnation cycle has been haulted, souls bound in earthly bodies

Day 4: Various religions attempt violent crusades, general violence, and mass suicide

Day 5: Nukes

Day 6: No fighting because dying by nukes hurt the whole time

Day 7: Hey want to eat the chocolate bar today? I had it yesterday

Day 8: Live television and internet broadcasts become only new form of entertainment. Massive downloads for rogue like games and short games you can beat in a day. Money starts to lose meaning

Day 9: General Hedonism, people pursue self gratification / or self betterment as nothing else lasts

• People become ultra violent, majority starts killing each other, anyone slightly bad starts doing bad things, most of them get killed by the other people they do bad things to. Total rampage.

• Cycle repeats and repeats 100 times. Pacifists / smart people GTFO of town and hide in forest.

• On 100th day, cycle stops unexpectedly. Only it stops at night, after the daily rampage is over. Nobody regenerates.

• Cycle starts unexpectedly again, every once in a while.

Groundhog Day becomes society's Russian Roulette.

If everyone is reliving the same day over and over again most people can go a day without eating with some mild discomfort, pretty much all agriculture, grocery, etc would become luxury and less needed or used.

All travel would become short distance you can't spend 24hrs traveling to the other side of the planet just to get reset back home. Markets would go into stasis and stay closed there's no interest earned over 0 days, which means most people would stop working as most jobs wouldn't be necessary if everything just resets after 24 hours, you can't build or destroy anything permanent.

I think most people would panic or just vacation for a few months worth of repeated days before organizing around new myths and practices and traditions around what caused it and how to change it back.

All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Book was great. Never bothered to see the movie with tom cruise.

We would not be about to store data. Any changes to digital (or analogue) data would be reverted. So even if we all collectively try to ignore the fact that time is repeating and live as normally as possible, we can't have a society that keeps track of things in anything other than human memory. Advanced accounting, modern engineering, and scientific research would be impossible.

Somebody mentioned that the scenario doesn't make sense because of time zones. Consider this scenario: Things are only reset locally at midnight. If you pass something across a time zone boundary, it doesn't get reset until midnight in the new time zone. You could theoretically carry forward information or important objects indefinitely if you swap them before midnight in your time zone and then swap them back before midnight in the holding time zone. Things for which this cannot be done for cannot be preserved from being reset.

Great post OP, really made me think. I love time loop stories, but "literally everyone is in the time loop" isn't one I've encountered yet. Will definitely check out your links.

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

There would be a lot more respect between people, if everyone was in an iterated game with everyone else and they knew it.

Wouldn't that remove the aspect of no one else believing you?

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.

I'm so happy you are a person. Thank you for living.

I will read your book recommendations and follow you. Please feel free to add more.

If everyone is experiencing it, then everyone is going to change their behavior every day and the only thing that will be the same is the weather. There will be no patterns, but you'll have people walking down the street, dodging pidgeon poop like Nic Cage with a mullet.

I read most of the comments and I find it interesting how people kind of gloss over mental health. People commiting suicide over repeating their day over and over or the perceived lack of control over their life is one thing. But imagine settling into the mundanity of forever without change. Some will go legitimately mad. Some people live with pain everyday, but now they will for near eternity. I imagine there will be a large number of people who's first step is to futility off themselves everyday.

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.

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.

If everyone resets, and their memory is retained, then perhaps less would change than you’d expect. For example, if you wanted to organise an event for the following day (ie today, but again), then it’s still possible to plan. In which case, many things about life actually stay the same. Only the physicality of things actually change. For people not already suffering, it’s actually a great mechanism for freedom, since the shackles of money, food, health etc are no longer a concern.