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Maple Sryup
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Postby Maple Sryup » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:47 pm

Tell Assuming The serb who killed the heir to AH to not do anything cuz it will create a World War, which if there is no WWI there is no Soviet Union which means millions of people don't die

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Postby Geneviev » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:48 pm

Vetalia wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Now that is a great idea.


I always wanted to be able to slow time, e.g. to make that last four minutes before the alarm goes off last an hour for me. However, this is a much more elegant solution to the problem and avoids inconveniencing others...although I would also have to deal with where I am going to sleep.

If your past self from eight hours ago already knows that your future self is going to sleep again, you could work something out with yourself.
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Postby Grinning Dragon » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:52 pm

Chernoslavia wrote:Buy a bunch of machine guns for a few hundred dollars and have em registered.

Ah, see if you go back and eliminate those pos politicians (way before they reach adulthood) who thought up the nfa, and prevent its passage, you wouldn't have to worry about registering them as the law never existed.

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Postby Maple Sryup » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:53 pm

The United Pan-European Federation wrote:Kill the Founding Fathers of the US to prevent the United States from winning the American Revolution and declaring independence from Great Britain

1. There is a pretty big chance at least one of em would survive
2. The founding fathers didn't allow USA to win, the people did
3. Another Revolution could very likely happen btw, so even if USA lost there could be another

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Besides America would probably be released one day because of de colonization, just America would be like Canada and Mexico would be bigger

You see, America is inevitable

That last sentence was a joke btw

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Postby Israeli Totalitariat » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:55 pm

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Postby Vetalia » Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:57 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Vetalia wrote:
I always wanted to be able to slow time, e.g. to make that last four minutes before the alarm goes off last an hour for me. However, this is a much more elegant solution to the problem and avoids inconveniencing others...although I would also have to deal with where I am going to sleep.

If your past self from eight hours ago already knows that your future self is going to sleep again, you could work something out with yourself.


True, but then it sort of makes it a pointless loop. I'm tired because my future self made me sleep on the floor so that he could catch up on the sleep he missed because he had to sleep on the floor...
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Postby The Emerald Legion » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:01 pm

I'd go back in time and embed a priesthood of Technicians in the commonwealth of Iceland. Then use the fact that Odin, via my time traveling intervention, gave them the machine gun as proof of the Allfathers Supremacy over the Pope.

Then I would go back to the future and read about the cool wars.

Rinse, Repeat at any point in which I feel like intervening.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:07 pm

Vetalia wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Now that is a great idea.


I always wanted to be able to slow time, e.g. to make that last four minutes before the alarm goes off last an hour for me. However, this is a much more elegant solution to the problem and avoids inconveniencing others...although I would also have to deal with where I am going to sleep.

On both the left side of the bed and the right side of the bed.


Maple Sryup wrote:Tell Assuming The serb who killed the heir to AH to not do anything cuz it will create a World War, which if there is no WWI there is no Soviet Union which means millions of people don't die

Tell Gavrilo Princip not to shoot Franz Ferdinand? He'd probably just shoot you.
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Postby Subhurbia » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:11 pm

Go back to my high school years

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Postby Vetalia » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:12 pm

Ifreann wrote:On both the left side of the bed and the right side of the bed..


Yeah, but then if I snore then I'm not going to be able to sleep and that gets us back to the original problem. Of course, I could just get drunk and pass out but then I'd wake up hungover and want to sleep it off, again bringing us back to the original problem. By the time this is all said and done I might end up killing myself in one iteration or another whether intentionally or by misadventure.

Maybe the solution is to go back in time and use my knowledge of the future to invest in the stock market, make a ton of money, and buy another property that I can furnish with a separate bedroom so that I can finally get that eight goddamn hours of additional sleep.
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Postby Ifreann » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:22 pm

Vetalia wrote:
Ifreann wrote:On both the left side of the bed and the right side of the bed..


Yeah, but then if I snore then I'm not going to be able to sleep and that gets us back to the original problem. Of course, I could just get drunk and pass out but then I'd wake up hungover and want to sleep it off, again bringing us back to the original problem. By the time this is all said and done I might end up killing myself in one iteration or another whether intentionally or by misadventure.

Maybe the solution is to go back in time and use my knowledge of the future to invest in the stock market, make a ton of money, and buy another property that I can furnish with a separate bedroom so that I can finally get that eight goddamn hours of additional sleep.

Now you're thinking with portals.
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Postby Kernen » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:25 pm

Hock a big ol' lugie into Earth's primordial ooze.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:28 pm

Live through certain points in history. Ideally, I’d love to watch how Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Or Ghiberti design his Gates of Paradise doors. Or be able to briefly meet some my favorite artists, like Botticelli, Bernini, Raphael Sanzio, Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Salvador Dalí.
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Postby Internationalist Bastard » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:45 pm

Go back to Feudal Europe. Die.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:50 pm

Internationalist Bastard wrote:Go back to Feudal Europe. Die.


Ah, you're traveling forty years into the future
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Postby Geneviev » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:55 pm

Internationalist Bastard wrote:Go back to Feudal Europe. Die.

There are better time periods to die. Anything before the Roman Empire fell would be good.
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Postby Andsed » Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:59 pm

Maple Sryup wrote:Tell Assuming The serb who killed the heir to AH to not do anything cuz it will create a World War, which if there is no WWI there is no Soviet Union which means millions of people don't die

Ehhhhh not really. While I also made a post about Gavillo Princp it is unlikely removing him would much to prevent WW1. WW1 was caused by a chain reaction of alliances that had been established well before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with the assassination just being the spark that ignited the powder keg Europe was. At best saving Ferdinand would mean the war would be delayed.
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Postby Kowani » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:55 pm

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Postby Ifreann » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:09 pm

Andsed wrote:
Maple Sryup wrote:Tell Assuming The serb who killed the heir to AH to not do anything cuz it will create a World War, which if there is no WWI there is no Soviet Union which means millions of people don't die

Ehhhhh not really. While I also made a post about Gavillo Princp it is unlikely removing him would much to prevent WW1. WW1 was caused by a chain reaction of alliances that had been established well before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with the assassination just being the spark that ignited the powder keg Europe was. At best saving Ferdinand would mean the war would be delayed.

Though, wasn't Gavrilo Princip only able to assassinate the Archduke due to a series of unfortunate coincidences? Maybe a time traveller already made it happen that way.
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Postby The Emerald Legion » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:13 pm

Ifreann wrote:
Andsed wrote:Ehhhhh not really. While I also made a post about Gavillo Princp it is unlikely removing him would much to prevent WW1. WW1 was caused by a chain reaction of alliances that had been established well before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with the assassination just being the spark that ignited the powder keg Europe was. At best saving Ferdinand would mean the war would be delayed.

Though, wasn't Gavrilo Princip only able to assassinate the Archduke due to a series of unfortunate coincidences? Maybe a time traveller already made it happen that way.


And thus starts the time wars. Time travelers engaging in secret warfare throughout the ages to determine control of the timeline.
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Postby Seythennia » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:28 pm

I'd like to go back and eat dodo. And maybe also save a good amount so they don't go extinct.

The Emerald Legion wrote:And thus starts the time wars. Time travelers engaging in secret warfare throughout the ages to determine control of the timeline.

Ah, the Temporal Cold War...
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Postby South Pacific Republic » Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:54 pm

Getting my younger self to adopt healthier habits would be the first step.

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Postby Neutraligon » Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:35 pm

A few places I would go to. First, I would go to about 2000 years ago to record what was happening in small province of a rather large empire. Second I would go back to record the formation of the first proto-living things and record it happening (that will be hard). Then I would go to the future and learn lottery numbers as well as learn what things to invest money into.
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Postby 2nd Empire of Persia » Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:40 pm

go back in my life and fix the idiotic mistakes I made as a kid.

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Postby Neanderthaland » Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:02 pm

Neutraligon wrote:A few places I would go to. First, I would go to about 2000 years ago to record what was happening in small province of a rather large empire.

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