Some ideas are:

  • You branch off into another timeline and your actions make no difference to the previous timeline
  • You’ve already taken said actions but just didn’t know about it so nothing changes
  • Actions taken can have an effect (so you could suddenly erase yourself if you killed your parents)
  • Only “nexus” or fixed events really matter, the timeline will sort itself out for minor changes
  • something else entirely
  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What if you tried to change his dog’s name to something very unlikely? Like, I’m really pretty sure Hitler’s dog wasn’t named Bark Obama, but I really cannot be 100% sure.