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wolfy42 posted...

Seriously guys, did you watch groundhogs day?

You can redo EVERYTHING until it works exactly as you want it.

Except not. Because no matter how much time you have to learn or practice, you can't rewrite the rules of reality.

You can spend a million days training to be the fastest runner on Earth, and you still won't be able to run on foot from Peking to Chicago in a single day. You can steal the fastest car on Earth and drive in a way to avoid every single potential delay or traffic, and it's still going to take you time to travel from Point A to Point B. You can plan out travel details in intricate detail, but you're still going to be at the mercy of trip availability (or you'll have to try and steal major vehicles and potentially get run down or shot down when you stop no matter how clever or experienced you become). You can practice social skills, dialogue cues, and work out a million different iterations of a discussion with a specific person, and still never manage to respond in exactly the way you want them to, because they simply aren't the sort of person who would ever react in that way on the basis of a day's worth of conversation.

Yes, you have all the time in the world to practice skills and learn the order of events that are going to occur, but that doesn't mean you magically manage to make every single thing you want to happen happen. You still have to fit your actions into the preexisting pattern, or find ways to bend that pattern around you. But there will still be plenty of things you literally cannot do, either because of lack of availability, lack of time, or lack of resources.

Within the context of the movie, he apparently manages to find a music teacher who is willing to give him lessons on the same day he first meets them - you're far less likely to be able to manage that same deal with teachers of more complex or esoteric skills like piloting a plane or breaking into bank vaults. Even with unlimited trial-and-error, you aren't necessarily guaranteed to succeed at learning those skills to a level where they'd actually be useful. Waiting lists are a thing. Lack of availability is a thing. Flight delays are a thing, even if you somehow manage to be on the best possible plane. Stubborn people are a thing. And so on.

Since you've brought up the rules established in the movie, notice he never actually seems to LEAVE town. It's not because he clearly loves it there and never wants to leave. It's because he almost certainly can't get far enough away quickly enough to make it worthwhile.


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