> leading time traveler causes of death > (respin of last week's last xkcd) > [content lost and/or corrupt during attempt to access email] > > [past] a malicious AI causes your time machine to land you precisely > over a previous instance of your body producing causality feedback > resonance and an explosion of your timeline > [past] preventing your own access to a time machine via the butterfly > effect from breathing > [next year] time war > [two years in future] metatime war > [future] being the only person with only one head during a mass > purging of apelikes akin to our own evolutionary history > [either] forgetting to take your return device > [either] having your return device stolen by a supervillain who > followed after you > [either] having a malicious AI virus that had infested your time > machine assassinate you now that a covert protective AI can no longer > monitor you > [near past] being taken over by a dissociative persecutory alter and, > during a dissociative fugue, forcibly convincing your past self to > never travel back in the first place > [near past] kidnapping your past self and torturing it out of fury > [near future] switching into a frightening alter that you're > dissociating from existing, scaring your future self, and stimulating > your future self to go back in time to stop you > [either] stimulating a global time war in conflict with yourself > whilst trying to realise you have DID > [past] sharing your time device with an urgent powerhungry individual > [future] sharing your time device with a consortium purpose-built to > prevent them > > finally, > > [either] being so scared of time wars that you hide out in the distant > future or distant past, possibly on another planet, for so long that > you die of normal causes
[DID] "when i got in my time machine, i blanked out. some time must have passed. when i woke up i was surrounded by copies of myself, all looking at me meaningfully and knowingly and telling me that i knew what I had to do, and I had better go do it. but i don't know what they're talking about. is it obvious somehow?"
