I’ve got about 300 or so words worth of storage
That’s more than enough to explain to myself what’s going on, what I’ve tried and anything else I’d want to know.
Are you insane????? 300 words is nothing. Imagine trying to investigate the time loop so you can break out. Merely keeping a list of the people you've already investigated would become impossible way too quickly.
More likely you'd try to make notes to yourself to preserve some sense of persistent identity and purpose in the face of the time loop. But that would require detailed descriptions of your experiences, thoughts, and feelings, and 300 words is only enough space for a few fairly meaningful notes or maybe several dozen super condensed notes "No flight 318, crashes. Love is time waste. John, Rachel, Liam, Tom are DTF. Murder 300 W. Elm 3/11 @ 4pm. Time flat circle? Saw in True Detective tv show"...etc But that type of note is barely adequate to convey simple instructions, much less to convey a sense of identity.
Just this comment is like 150 words. Christ I'm stressed, just thinking about it.
My brother in Christ, at the point at which you're incrementing incomprehensibly large numbers and hoping one of them decodes into ASCII text that is the specific answer to your problems.....you have already taken the leap, fallen, impacted with the earth, and died.
RIP.