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Level: 75 Posts: 947/1301 EXP: 3719159 Next: 107745 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
I'd go to around Oct 4 1989 and threaten/blackmail a certain person in to not doing a certain thing. |
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Happy Hour! Level: 81 Posts: 642/1556 EXP: 4851576 Next: 141273 Since: 03-25-07 Last post: 2682 days Last view: 2679 days |
If it was a single timeline, alterable (which it isn't) we'd be able to pull a Bill & Ted. saying we were gonna do something in advance and watch it unfol before our eyes. ____________________ 
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 Koopa Level: 26 Posts: 80/110 EXP: 91435 Next: 10840 Since: 02-19-07 From: Oklahomaland Last post: 5936 days Last view: 4647 days |
Bzzzt. Sorry, Bill & Ted uses a single, predestined timeline, which is the only set up in which that sort of thing can work. |
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... Level: 73 Posts: 362/1220 EXP: 3368357 Next: 117511 Since: 03-25-07 From: no Last post: 6097 days Last view: 6081 days |
Posted by KlesWould this certain thing be sex?  |
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Level: 52 Posts: 98/568 EXP: 1072928 Next: 10912 Since: 02-19-07 From: Here? Last post: 3929 days Last view: 3892 days |
Maybe go back in time, and see the beginning of the universe (In the safety of my Time Machine, of course...)
Then go to the future, and see if they have found out an answer to the Uncertain Paradox. Then go and see... THE END! Well, part of it anyway... And then go back a bit from now and stop myself from doing dumb things, resulting in long, boring, and patience-testing punishments. And then do a whole heap of other crap, such as look for an elixir for eternal life, try and make my own parallel dimension... etc, etc... And then eat some pie. Mmmm, pie... Also, try and fix what I broke, and break it in my dimension. Yes, I do believe in a Multiverse. And the deliciousness of cheese. Yummy. ____________________ Love your lawn. |
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 Paragoomba Level: 20 Posts: 63/65 EXP: 41527 Next: 912 Since: 02-21-07 From: Puerto Rico Last post: 6227 days Last view: 6227 days |
I would go several months to the past to not find AcmlmBoard or ROM-Hacking... It takes way too much of my time and real life stuff v_v.
Oh and stop all of my cousins from ever being born (or begging mom and dad to move to somewhere far from them...) |
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 Beezo Level: 49 Posts: 162/485 EXP: 846523 Next: 37360 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ontario, Canada Last post: 5463 days Last view: 5463 days |
I'd go back in time and kill the idiot(s) that said *hay letz name Revolution WII! lolz*
And then I'd go to the 70s and buy a cheeseburger and pop for a dollar  ____________________ Want custom overworld music in your SMW hack? Download this. Don't forget to RTFM. |
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Level: 75 Posts: 952/1301 EXP: 3719159 Next: 107745 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
Oh, come on S.N.N., you know the Wii got the system the attention it needed.
HyperHacker: no |
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... Level: 73 Posts: 367/1220 EXP: 3368357 Next: 117511 Since: 03-25-07 From: no Last post: 6097 days Last view: 6081 days |
That's true, as dumb a name as Wii is, I think all that press attention only helped it. |
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 Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 97/653 EXP: 1322362 Next: 75814 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 5346 days Last view: 4848 days |
Posted by S.N.N.Can you slap the people who changed "Nitro" to "Nintendo DS" also? How about Dolphin->Gamecube? Project Reality->Nintendo 64? Face it, they're cursed with having codenames that are twice as cool as the system name when it comes out. |
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 Red Paratroopa Level: 30 Posts: 83/163 EXP: 164940 Next: 929 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5792 days Last view: 5784 days |
Well, only one person died through stupid radio stunts based on the name 'wii'. If they had called it Revolution it could have been millions. ____________________ "I'd like to confuse bok choy with cabbage." |
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 Red Tektite Level: 22 Posts: 12/76 EXP: 52511 Next: 5839 Since: 02-19-07 From: Champlain College, VT Last post: 4752 days Last view: 5427 days |
Well, I'm moderately sure that there are multiple timelines/worlds/spaghetti, since yeah, the Bill and Ted idea. Anything done in a single timeline via time travel would create a paradox no matter how little, even via microscopic atom placement and stuff. And I think it's conceivable to believe that we will achieve time travel one day. So, hypothetically, if we do, and it's a single timeline, the paradox from the future (or past) would have destroyed us already.
I think. ____________________  |
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Koopa Level: 26 Posts: 83/110 EXP: 91435 Next: 10840 Since: 02-19-07 From: Oklahomaland Last post: 5936 days Last view: 4647 days |
Actually, paradoxes destroying the universe are a common misconception (I love Back to the Future, but its timetravel was so wishy-washy that it's laughable).
If there really is a single timeline and it's the alterable sort instead of the predestined sort, meaning paradoxes can occur..... The paradox would simply cause the universe to shift rapidly between different outcomes until it reaches a version of itself in which the paradox no longer occurs. |
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 Micro-Goomba Level: 10 Posts: 5/13 EXP: 3698 Next: 716 Since: 04-17-07 From: Pekin, IL Last post: 6219 days Last view: 4627 days |
I love the concept of time travel. I have even thought about what a time machine would do if I were able to invent one. One that would eliminate the problem of the paradox.... I guess I'll briefly explain it, you might find it interesting. Bear with me this is the first written documentation of my thoughts.
Oh, but with this time machine you could only travel to the past. So let's see. I have a time machine. Now I would have it secured with a "login" feature that would hold information about yourself such as your birth-date, etc. Instead of simply entering the time that you want to go back to, you would have to create "time trips" to save to the, um, hard drive, I guess. So you create a time trip by entering in the day, year, and time that you wish to travel to, then you enter the "mode" that you will be traveling in. You'd also enter in the amount of time that the time trip will last before you return to the present. Here's the interesting part. The three "modes" of time travel: 1. Observation Mode- This would allow the traveler to travel back to any time in the past, including before his date of birth. This will allow him to walk around and view any set of events without any interaction of any kind. It would be the safest form of travel, and would be used solely for entertainment, research, etc. 2. Re-live Mode- This would set the traveler back to any time after his birth date, but with no knowledge of the time trip or the future. It is simply letting the traveler re-live a part of his/her life, although he will not be aware that he is on a time trip. Once the traveler returns to the present, he will remember living the time twice. 3. Past-Alteration Mode- This allows the traveler to re-live a part of his life just like re-live mode only WITH knowledge of the time trip and the future, thus allowing the traveler to modify past events. Upon returning to the present, the traveler would be presented with a "video clip" of the effects that the changes had on the traveler's life and he would be presented with a question like "Save changes? Yes or no?" So anyway, that's what happens when you take a three hour nap in the afternoon and you can't sleep. But I'm glad I explained it somewhere...  |
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... Level: 73 Posts: 396/1220 EXP: 3368357 Next: 117511 Since: 03-25-07 From: no Last post: 6097 days Last view: 6081 days |
Heh, that sounds kinda like the sort of thing I'd want. A program that lets you replay events from the past, and modify them to see how things would turn out with those changes, and if you like it, apply them.  And while we're fantasizing, make it able to record/replay/edit/delete dreams and memories and copy them between disk and brain.
If you had a ridiculously powerful, you could in effect simulate the Earth starting from a given time, and watch the simulation unfold. If you've done it right it would unfold just the same as it did in reality, so you'd be able to view the past and possibly future. But this has three problems: 1) Where the hell do you get a computer that powerful?
2) How do you retrieve all of the information necessary for precise simulation? You'd have to pretty much have the position and speed of every atom. 3) What happens when you get to the part where the computer is built? You'd have a simulation that includes the computer running the simulation. Paradox! (Well maybe not, but the memory requirements to track every atom make it impossible anyway, so nyeah.) |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 10 Posts: 6/13 EXP: 3698 Next: 716 Since: 04-17-07 From: Pekin, IL Last post: 6219 days Last view: 4627 days |
Posted by HyperHacker I thought of that, and that's how I came up with the "Save Changes?" thing. It would warn the traveler that the modified events would destroy the time machine.... That way it wouldn't be able to be done unless someone is stupid enough to choose to save the changes. |
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Koopa Level: 26 Posts: 87/110 EXP: 91435 Next: 10840 Since: 02-19-07 From: Oklahomaland Last post: 5936 days Last view: 4647 days |
This is reality, not the matrix. |
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... Level: 73 Posts: 403/1220 EXP: 3368357 Next: 117511 Since: 03-25-07 From: no Last post: 6097 days Last view: 6081 days |
Unfortunately.  |
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Micro-Goomba Level: 10 Posts: 7/13 EXP: 3698 Next: 716 Since: 04-17-07 From: Pekin, IL Last post: 6219 days Last view: 4627 days |
Yeah, I'd love to take a trip back to August of 2000 and redo my high school years.... |
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Hats Steam Board2 group Level: 121 Posts: 631/3965 EXP: 19788299 Next: 268397 Since: 02-19-07 From: Sweden, Skåne Last post: 3307 days Last view: 2058 days |
World War II
I'm not going to prevent anything. It's probably one of the most intresting (yet sad) time periods in human mankind. I won't go back in time and prevent anything from happening though, unless it would be related to the end of humankind or something. I would hate coming back and see stuff changing around way too much. I would feel rather uncomfortable with that.____________________ AIM: gamefreak1337, MSN: Emil_sim@spray.se, XMPP: ailure@xmpp.kafuka.org
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