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Depends on a few things.
Am I still aging? If I am still aging, I'd rather not be in the loop. It would be weird for me and everyone else who is unaware of the loop as they suddenly see me turn into a 75 year old man eventually.
If I am agelessly immortal in the loop, how long is the loop?
I could be fine with a day, ala Groundhog's Day. But just a few minutes or seconds, like some examples from Trek? Hell. No. That would get annoying after the second freaking loop!
There is a villain in the web book/serial Worm whose superpower is the ability to create "time bubbles" that loop whatever amount of time the villain wants.
They commonly fuck someone up badly, then right before they die, "loop them" so that person dies over and over again, forever.
Yeah, skip me with the minute shit.
What if the loop went on for billions of years... but you did not remember past iterations? You would be functionally immortal, yet not be aware of that fact. Thereby leaving would mean death, not that you would know that either.
For some reason that sounds very religious. Like Nirvana:-P.
If I didn't remember, then it would be not meaningfully different from the life I live now.
That is the perfect answer, imho. Life is not about what is, but what we make of it - being within this physical reality, it really cannot be anything else (other than theoretically).
I remember and author, possibly Pratchette, decrying the phrase "I don't believe my eyes." Believe them or not, they are how you perceive the world, and you cannot act much in contrary to what they tell you.
Ditto your ears, your senses of touch, smell, taste. Realistically, you can choose which of your senses to prioritize, but you cannot reject their input entirely.
I mean... you can, and people do all the time. To varying degrees of success and for a wide variety of reasons:-).
e.g. whenever I watch TV, I see yet I choose not to believe my eyes:-).
Vision tests likewise reveal all manner of biases, as too do cognitive ones. We would be fools to believe merely what our brains tell us, at any given moment. :-D
In keeping with the theme then
Picard on a canard?
(Kinky.)
Hoisted by his own Picard.
It’s June. I thought I was safe from her.
It’s the theme song of the Spanish Inquisition.
And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise.
And spam.
And a song that makes everyone irrationally angry.
Frankly, I lack an understanding of the disdain for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - I have heard much more annoying Christmas songs. It may be a bit cloying and heavily pop, but I think it's well executed, at least compared to almost any Christmas song put out by a major artist in the 21st century. Also, I think My Chemical Romance pulled off a rather good cover that perhaps beats the original.
Maybe part of it is I have a 5 hour personal/family Christmas playlist that reduces the amount of repeated listens to a more manageable degree. In addition to more well-known ones and several covers, it is also filled to the brim with alternative and indie Christmas music - Jonathan Coulton especially is good at making atypical holiday songs that don't get annoying.
Complaining about it is a meme at this point, but I think a large part of the original pushback was how over played it became in retail settings. If you step foot outside in December it’s basically playing on the PA.