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the story would be public if I started it. so anyone could modify it as they like. My current idea is that as well as the readout showing how much time they have left, there is a text section that tells them how much money they have to pay to get another day. Suddenly some people get a...

After thinking on it I find I like the idea that instead of a life time counter, you have a social contract counter, hardwired into your body. In the world of the future everything is supplied by the government. Housing, food, entertainment. Not directly, but you don't have money, you have...

I'm not sure if I'll post, but if I did it would be public with people being able to develop their own threads in this futuristic social score system.

You have a point. I never saw the movie, just the trailers. I'm sure in the movie they had some object lessons of people who's time had run out. I'd never bother to include that in a free-use themed story. But, maybe social points establish your status? This is the future. No one has to work...

Well, it was sort of inspired by some of the darker male-dom threads on the site. And the theme of the movie itself was pretty dark. But I think it could be one of those threads where different threads could vary between dark and light depending on the author's preference. In one thread the...

Some people may remember a Sci-fi movie of a couple of decades ago where how long people had to live hung on a countdown timer imprinted on their arms? Called "In Time" People were genetically engineered to stop aging at 25, but would only live for one year after that. They had the option to...

This was sort of inspired by the TV show, "New girl" about a free spirit type girl sharing a house with three hot guys. This is a very basic idea. A girl shares a house with several men. She has a freeuse status. Anytime any of the men wants to relieve their sexual urges she needs to do so...

They have no choice but to get looped over and over again. If it were me my first assumption would be that I had to do something to stop the loop. Save someone's life, treat someone differently. But the longer the loop lasts with nothing you do having any difference you are going to get...

I see what you mean. And you are right, game mode might be a good resource to use for this idea. But I don't think it is really needed to make the story work either. Plus I'm a bit of a technophobe and would need someone to hold my hand to set it up. If I were to write it I'd start the...

Ultimate cock block. LOL

Not at all. Your actions would cause the people you interact with to alter their actions, for that day. Some things you would not be able to change, like the songs on the Radio, or the weather. To give an example. One of my characters has a crush on a girl. Each day he tries a different way of...

There was a cartoon that ran for one season called Looper. Where two friends lived through the same day over and over again. They got to the point where they would automatically duck various accidents, or deliberate pranks, would find out if they did this, then this would happen, or not happen...

That's the point. The main character remembers. Over the course of hundreds of times through the same day they might compile a mental list of events. Such as the exact time their hot next door neighbour steps into the shower while in an empty house. Or that after a few dozen disastrous dates...

I was curious. Anyone seen the plot where you live the same day over and over again used? Seems like it would have potential. It might take a little while, but how long before your protagonist would start engaging in behavior they would never otherwise do, because they know at the turn of...

James Hogan wrote at least one hard science fiction novel dealing with downloading minds into a virtual world. Went into the limitations and the hook ups. For instance you'd have no sense of smell due to it being pretty much a direct connection inside the brain. The thing I found most...

A good idea. Mind you, there are already dozens of stories on the site where people get a cheat that lets them pretty much turn their world into their personal heaven. Maybe to make things a bit different you get to mess up someone else's world? What sort of world will you create? Or...

I've simplified the basic introduction, a lot. It still does what I want, without making people's brain hurt trying to figure it out. I hope. ******************************************************************************************************************************* The invention of the...

I'm working on the follow up to this and have started to think that you're absolutely correct. I need to make it far less convoluted. I still want to keep the virtual world concept, but maybe narrow the focus. The introduction will simply set up a thread where any author who wants to...

Posted a potential first chapter introduction if you'd like to check it out above

How is this for an introduction to a new story thread? In Twenty Five twenty five, the human race didn’t look like it was going to survive. It wasn’t disease, war, or natural disasters that was going to do them in. It was the fact they weren’t making enough babies. The beginning of the end...