Do you feel like you were born too late in history?

[Herrebrugh]

Gay rights weren't as good earlier. And I'm having trouble as it is. Nope, not a good idea for me.

[Tagmatium]

Whilst the world seems shit right now, it's always been shit.

It's probably less shit right now than it would have been. In any other time, I doubt I would be able to do a job I love, rather than one I would have to. I'd probably be an industrial worker or an agricultural labourer. Or ended up as some sort of feudal levy, destined to be hacked down by one of my social superiors.

Or I'd died of a disease long before then, killed by a disease that is readily treatable these days.

Fuck this romantic horseshit about "men being men, women being women" and that crap about honour and truth. Most people scrabbled in the dirt for a living or died of a childhood disease than righted wrongs with the silvery sword from the back of a white charger.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

No, I am fine with the time I was born. These times are more interesting.

Yeah, because the 1930s, 1940s etc. were so quiet and un-interesting.

[NeuPolska]

I can relate, though for different reasons.

I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.

I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.

To battle! Sail the high seas, pillage villages, and bring honor to your name!

Honestly I'd either want to be around near 1000 AD or 1500 AD, around there, or when I was actually born, the late 90s.

[Tagmatium]

I can relate, though for different reasons.

I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.

I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.

To battle! Sail the high seas, pillage villages, and bring honor to your name!

Honestly I'd either want to be around near 1000 AD or 1500 AD, around there, or when I was actually born, the late 90s.

There any particular childhood disease you'd prefer to die of?

Or perhaps gangrene after your first battle, after you took an arrow because you're too poor to afford decent armour?

[Adiedren]

Well, yes. Why you might ask? It's not that i don't like the world today. It's not something like "muh honor". I do not wish i was born in the times what some people call the "honorble times". I was born in 1992, the time of war in Yugoslavia. The time was hard for everyone, and having a kid at that time is just so much of a burden. I wish i was born in 1960, so i could experience Tito's Yugoslavia, and be old enough to not be a burden during the war. What would i do in the war? Since i support none of the sides, i would just move out of the country.

[Meridiani Planum]

No, too early in history. But then I just don't see the future in the same way as transhumanists who prattle on about some "Singularity".

[New haven america]

I can relate, though for different reasons.

I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.

I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.

So you wanna be born in LoTR?

That's nice.

[Pan-America under the United States]

I feel like I was born too early.

[Jute]

Probably.
My age is the age-group everyone pretty much hates.

Everyone has to go through that age-group, though. The year of birth changes nothing about that.

I can relate, though for different reasons.

I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.

I suppose the mission of my current incarnation is to learn to see benefits in the twisted present-day ways as well and realize that truth and right can take many forms.

So you wanna be born in LoTR?

That's nice.

Or the beginning of the Renaissance, when knights weren't completely gone yet and the age of exploration had just begun. Lord of the RIngs had to draw inspirations from somewhere, too, after all.

[New Kvenland]

Maybe if I had been born juuuust a few years earlier...

But this era is good for me.

[The Blaatschapen]

No. I feel I was born too early.

All this cool technology stuff, and it feels like we're only doing the easy things. I would not be surprised that we'd beat death itself in the 22nd century. But I'm too afraid I'll be dead before then...

Though I also sometimes feel that I was born too late. I missed Woodstock

[Pan-America under the United States]

No. I feel I was born too early.

All this cool technology stuff, and it feels like we're only doing the easy things. I would not be surprised that we'd beat death itself in the 22nd century. But I'm too afraid I'll be dead before then...

Though I also sometimes feel that I was born too late. I missed Woodstock

Anti-aging (actual anti-aging) tech is coming up. So, maybe you will be able to make it?

[Auroya]

I'm fine - but if anything I'd like to have been born later than 1998, I suppose, so I can catch all the cool stuff like when we're properly exploring and colonizing space as a unified post-scarcity civilization

[Dutchland-UK-Prussia]

I sort of do feel I wish I had been born in the early 80s.

[Condunum]

Probably.
My age is the age-group everyone pretty much hates.

Everyone has to go through that age-group, though. The year of birth changes nothing about that.

So you wanna be born in LoTR?

That's nice.

Or the beginning of the Renaissance, when knights weren't completely gone yet and the age of exploration had just begun. Lord of the RIngs had to draw inspirations from somewhere, too, after all.

Is "age of exploration" the cute name for the time when Europe had a massive arms race that lasted five centuries and caused hundreds of wars, millions of deaths and the ruin of entire empires?

[Imperium Sidhicum]

I wish I was born a time when honour, brave heart and a strong sword arm were a man's most valued possessions, when men were still men and women were women, when things were kept more simple and sensible, and when there was still plenty of unknown lands for brave men to discover and conquer.

Sooo, you wish you were born in a fantasy novel?

Viking Age would have been quite sufficient. Or the Age of Discovery.

Discovering new lands, meeting new people from different cultures... and killing them for their gold and women. Or dying trying. An assuredly short and brutish life, but still certainly beats a lifetime of working in a dead-end government job with barely enough means to subsist, let alone start a family or do anything fun besides getting drunk on Friday nights in an effort to stop feeling sorry for yourself for a few hours.

[Soselo]

Gay rights weren't as good earlier.

Nor were their wrongs.

[New Kvenland]

Everyone has to go through that age-group, though. The year of birth changes nothing about that.

Or the beginning of the Renaissance, when knights weren't completely gone yet and the age of exploration had just begun. Lord of the RIngs had to draw inspirations from somewhere, too, after all.

Is "age of exploration" the cute name for the time when Europe had a massive arms race that lasted five centuries and caused hundreds of wars, millions of deaths and the ruin of entire empires?

Can we not go into this here?

[Al Nahar]

Yes very much so, I should have been alive during the Cold War era preferrably the 60s and 70s, thing in the middle east would have been different , if not maybe pre-roman empire times

[Pan-America under the United States]

Is "age of exploration" the cute name for the time when Europe had a massive arms race that lasted five centuries and caused hundreds of wars, millions of deaths and the ruin of entire empires?

Can we not go into this here?

This.

[Condunum]

Is "age of exploration" the cute name for the time when Europe had a massive arms race that lasted five centuries and caused hundreds of wars, millions of deaths and the ruin of entire empires?

Can we not go into this here?

What's the matter, don't like accuracy in your nostalgia?

[Martean]

I find current times far more interesting than the cold war, for example. So no

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Can we not go into this here?

What's the matter, don't like accuracy in your nostalgia?

Maybe they don't like derailing threads.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

As much as I think I would have made a wonderful traveling storyteller/entertainer in another time, I am really digging the lack of plague we've got going on right now.