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VideoboysaysCube posted...

The only downside is how do you cope with going through 10-20 years of a life that you know will disappear. Not to mention, it'll be mentally jarring when you deal with friends and family and have to keep track of which memories belong to each timeline.

Presumably, if you're planning to manipulate time itself, you won't really be maintaining your friendships/relationships through the first part of the loop. You're spending all your time researching and trying to permanently memorize stock tips, dates, lottery numbers, or whatever. So you won't necessarily have memories of friends/family from the alternate timeline. If you're married/dating, you might even be better off just leaving your partner and treating the whole period like a gap year sort of time out (though you'd better be damned sure the game is actually going to transport you back in time, or you're potentially screwing a lot of stuff up that way).

Then once you pop back one of the first things that's going to happen is you become insanely wealthy in a very short period of time, which is going to radically alter your entire life, and has a good chance of driving friends and family away anyway (or at least making you drift apart as you now have nothing in common with them anymore).

The real problem you'd have to worry about is when the SEC comes and starts putting your entire life under a fine-toothed comb to figure out whether you're making all this money via insider trading. Or the government kidnaps you and drags you off to a secret lab to start experimenting on you because they think you might have some sort of psychic powers. Or someone like the Mafia starts coming after you to try and take advantage of your seeming Midas Touch.

But like rjsilverthorn suggested, you don't really need to push it to 10-20 years. A 3-5 year span is probably much more psychologically adjustable, far easier to memorize details for, and is more than enough to pretty much make you a billionaire if you make the right lottery picks/bets/investment options. It's also better to hide your future knowledge, because you'll be focusing more on a few major opportunities to build wealth rather than constantly making phenomenal business decisions over a much longer period, and thus drawing suspicion down on yourself (or potentially risking events changing because you've altered the timeline).