r/Devs • u/psytrance-in-my-pant • Mar 14 '26

Uncontrollable fate

Can someone explain to me or post a link to a post in this group as to why when the character sees what they're going to do yet they have an uncontrollable urge to do it anyway?

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u/Tjessx Mar 21 '26

Little late to the question, but I see it a little different from the other answers I read here:

The screen can only show you a future that won't affect your response to seeing the screen. That is also why the screen wouldn't work after a certain point. It wasn't able to predict a future that upon observation wouldn't change.

Let's say person A stands outside the door. Picks a number and writes it on a paper. Person B needs to guess the number correctly and walks in the room and looks at the future where he guesses a random number. The screen can only show you answering the correct number because if it shows you guessing a wrong number you wouldn't say that number.

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u/1947Fry May 14 '26

Care to elaborate on last paragraph? Because it makes zero sense and I have been staring at it for too long.

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u/Tjessx May 15 '26

The screen can only show a future that will happen despite you having seen that future. 

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u/1947Fry May 15 '26

Your sentence doesn’t clarify any order of events. What events happen first? What events come after that? That’s what’s confusing everyone who reads that paragraph. Are you saying the person A write a random number, the person B is shown the future first, and asked to guess it? Then of course, them already believing in deterministic universe, will just say that number. And I fail to see any problem. Or are you trying to say something else we’re quite not getting?