>>53344126>(with no visual reference)You're picking and choose what you want to hear which is making this discussion difficult. From all of your other bullet points, you seem to fundamentally have an issue with bootstrap paradoxes themselves. The point of them is that for them to continue, the active party -must- be active and that can only continue. If the trigger for the loop is the AI entering the machine to shut it down in the present, it will just reloop in another copy of that universe.
>>53344128Did you even play that game? You literally time loop multiple times in different realities of your world to purify the crystals so Airy can awaken Ouroboros. She monologues about how other versions of yourself tried to stop her in the past and all failed. The fucking finale is the other universes helping you defeat him.
