How do you balance the necessary evils of meetings, email, team chat, and 'busy work' with focused time for the things you truly care about? Since becoming a digital hermit isn’t an option for most of us, we need concrete strategies to help us focus in a world designed to distract us. If there's one thing that can be said about the modern workplace, it's this: If you don't control your schedule, it will control you. This prompts a quote the wife cites earlier, which alludes to finding zen through mindfulness (aka living in the present moment).'A 40 hour time-blocked work week, I estimate, produces the same amount of output as a 60+ hour work week pursued without structure.' The only true ending without a return to the apartment is the ending where players click on the book their wife was reading that's on the bookcase in the discussion scene.

The pocket watch is still there though, which means he can return to the conversation with the father. If the husband agrees to leave his wife now and never tell her the truth, he ends up alone in the same apartment. That's because this scene isn't a flashback, it's the present. In the two endings that cause the credits to roll, the husband once again has a flashback to a discussion with the father, but this time the father is bald and the setting is different.

In 12 Minutes, Dafoe's cop and the father are in fact one and the same. Like in the plot twist for Metal Gear Solid V,voice actors are always an important clue. However, to make sense of the different endings a key piece of information is required, which is the answer to who exactly is Dafoe voicing? If the player chooses to stay with the wife or tell her the truth, then the time loop continues to repeat. The details between endings may seem minute, with the big choices being to stay with your wife and not tell her, to reveal the truth, or to agree to leave and never see her again. There are essentially five different endings to 12 Minutes, all resulting in an achievement unlocking but not all causing the credits to roll. It's tempting to write this off as the game just wanting to get the most bang for their buck with a big-name actor like Dafoe, but the implications of this fact are far more complex. What causes the most confusion here is that the father is voiced by Willem Dafoe, as is the cop. A flashback will occur, involving a confrontation between the father and the protagonist in which the father reveals he is father to both the husband and the wife and instructs the husband to leave now and avoid any further pain for anyone involved.

Things get complicated from here on out due to the multiple paths the player can take. It is a dark twist, but it also poses a big question: how did the husband forget that his wife is his sister? Especially considering the clue that leads to this is the discovery that the nanny's name is Dahlia, as is the husband's mother's. This means that the protagonists have been unknowingly been committing incest and will soon produce a child of that incest. It turns out 12 Minutes' protagonist is the killer all along, but that truth is largely overshadowed by the fact that it's been established the wife's half-brother, the product of an affair between her father and her nanny, is the killer.

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