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Dacap
Jul 8, 2008

I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower.

You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.



codo27 posted:

I wonder what I'd have to do to just go back and delete the MCU, saving film as we know it.

Basically if you can redirect Kevin Feige’s career you’ve done it. He saved the productions from falling apart a couple of times before he did his power grab of the film division away from Jeph Loeb and Ike Perlmutter

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
it feels like going back and telling myself about my queerness or nonbinary poo poo would be a solid prank on myself at least.

"Hey, tubby Jewish nerd in the south, you know those other things making you miserable? I got the answer."

"Oh cool, so I assume this is gonna fix that."

"Oh no, no no no, later skater."

Kinda like the time travel paradox of 'if you'd go back in time and fix something that means you'd already have fixed it', if I went back to shine some light on that poo poo it could have easily happened because 'use time travel to dunk on myself' is 100% in line with current timeline me.

kakotheres
Nov 9, 2016

Do the job that is in front of you
Do not drink from Melissa Conklin's water bottle at age 15 and get mono. Cuz then you got fibro and MS and is would have been cool not to

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

GCU Quelle Suprise posted:

Do not drink from Melissa Conklin's water bottle at age 15 and get mono. Cuz then you got fibro and MS and is would have been cool not to

Everyone knows you should drink in stereo

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1483125999575322625

Poops Mcgoots
Jul 12, 2010

codo27 posted:

I wonder what I'd have to do to just go back and delete the MCU, saving film as we know it.

Lmao at thinking stopping the marvel movies would save cinema and not just wind up with mostly blockbusters of a different flavor.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
The clip from the documentary is amazing.

https://twitter.com/deevinejay/status/1482916635203805188?s=20

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
how bout them tweets

https://twitter.com/MUDM4NI4/status/1482843376907137039


(PS: I would take the ten million, provided it's a legitimate donation and the tax man doesn't immediately yank it away. Gimme a Swiss bank account with ten million in it.)

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

:hmbol:

kakotheres
Nov 9, 2016

Do the job that is in front of you

Inceltown posted:

Everyone knows you should drink in stereo



Now I'm certain! With this knowledge I shall proceed back to make my lame self cool 😎

Chloe Jessica
Nov 6, 2021
Pick 2.0
on the other hand, with ten million dollars i could pay the world's finest flesh-smiths to sculpt me into my ideal shape, so perhaps there's something to be said for taking the money anyway

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1482827117792481287

https://twitter.com/CarlaNotarobot/status/1482899620191686660

https://twitter.com/GoodReddit/status/1482760176587489281

https://twitter.com/Blackwood_Arts/status/1482749858549092354

greazeball
Feb 4, 2003



Philippe posted:

how bout them tweets

https://twitter.com/MUDM4NI4/status/1482843376907137039


(PS: I would take the ten million, provided it's a legitimate donation and the tax man doesn't immediately yank it away. Gimme a Swiss bank account with ten million in it.)

Just FYI, if you're American your Swiss bank account details are shared annually with the US government so maybe try the Caymans or lower-tier tax shelters. Source: I'm American, live in Switzerland and have a bank account.

Rev. Bleech_
Oct 19, 2004

~OKAY, WE'LL DRINK TO OUR LEGS!~

If I went back to age six with my current knowledge, I would be obsessed with killing Ronald Reagan. This might be what actually happened to John Hinckley.


Cool but they're no NECROPANTS

Poops Mcgoots posted:

Lmao at thinking stopping the marvel movies would save cinema and not just wind up with mostly blockbusters of a different flavor.

Some boomer would be saying the same about stopping the Star Wars movies or Jaws or some poo poo I'm sure

John Lee
Mar 2, 2013

A time traveling adventure everyone can enjoy

Mak0rz posted:

And most people here are thinking too big. Do you really think you'll have any power to stop 9/11 or any other such tragedy?

I mean, possibly? Look up details of declassified CIA or FBI documents before you go, then be a weird kid who walks into some government building and starts talking about currently-classified details until you get a very worried and suspicious meeting with someone, then work your way up the increasingly-alarmed chain.

Mak0rz posted:

The only thing going through my mind in the thought experiment is stuff like "Oh now I can say something different that one time and not make an rear end of myself. Absolutely worth blowing off $10 million"

real weird to imagine there's people without incredible regrets or points in their life that inextricably wound them downward

Boba Pearl posted:

I'm extremely happy where I am in life right now, and wouldn't risk changing it for any reason. I'd take the 10 mil and just continue to be content.

Like you! You think you're hot poo poo, don't you, miss my-life-is-going-great-and-I'm-very-content, huh?


There's a pretty good chance I'd take the ten mil too, get a nice house, get in shape, etc., but assuming I had a little bit to prepare, I could do well with the time leap backwards. I don't think that's an unfair assumption; after all, nobody is complaining that your ten million would come as inexplicable mystery money and get taken away or frozen by the IRS, so I assume there's a bit of smoothing-over involved.

edit: tweets you say

https://twitter.com/jirosan77/status/1482320390915784704

https://twitter.com/PossumEveryHour/status/1480132253028167683

Stexils
Jun 5, 2008

i would prevent 9/11 by doing it myself

Stexils
Jun 5, 2008

i would get away with it too because society would have no experience of dealing with fully jokerfied citizens

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I’m confused are you going back in time with anything?

If it’s just you but six you all extremely overrate what you can actually do

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Going back in time like that sounds like a nightmare. Yeah there are things I wish I had done differently but I'd be worried about all the bad things I know I couldn't stop and I'd also worry about trying to keep things the same for all the stuff that I want to happen again. Plus all my close relationships would be hosed up, with all this knowledge of a life with them I haven't lived yet and may not live again. Memories that were once shared but are now a secret only I know.

Stexils
Jun 5, 2008

you guys should check out "replay" by ken grimwood

Ror
Oct 21, 2010

😸Everything's 🗞️ purrfect!💯🤟


Stexils posted:

you guys should check out "replay" by ken grimwood Iyaz

sassassin
Apr 3, 2010

by Azathoth

Toaster Beef posted:

And I'm not really sold on the "but you could be a teenager again and capitalize on those ~opportunities~ you didn't know you had" thing because then you're mentally in your forties chasing after girls in their mid-teens

Have you considered chasing all the missed opportunities with women in their forties?

Silly Burrito
Nov 27, 2007

SET A COURSE FOR
THE FLAVOR QUADRANT

sassassin posted:

Have you considered chasing all the missed opportunities with women in their forties?

There are so many in my area!

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


I was a wildly unpopular elementary schooler because, among other things, I "used big words", and I think several decades of making me even more acculturated to adult life would get me stoned to death and buried in a drainage ditch.

Rewind me to high school, though, and I can avoid several classes I shouldn't have taken and a couple of jobs I shouldn't have taken. That would be worth it, and wouldn't prevent me from having met and fallen in love with my husband. (Who was hanging out at the computer center with me, so course selection wouldn't affect that.)

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Stexils posted:

i would prevent 9/11 by doing it myself

Will 9/10 catch on? Only one way to find out.

Joan
Mar 28, 2021

https://twitter.com/DailyCloneHigh/status/1483152144958164997

SyNack Sassimov
May 4, 2006

Let the robot win.
            --Captain James T. Vader


EL BROMANCE posted:

Will 9/10 catch on? Only one way to find out.

Clearly you do it June 6, 1999, so it becomes 6/6/99.

Ni(nice)ce

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Not fair to post your own tweets.

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

there's a content warning on this for suicide, but Battlestar Galactica had one of the all-time tonal shifts going into an ad break in the Canadian broadcast of Season 4, Episode 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7RoV5xWUo&t=108s

That's past the act itself, with the person's friends dealing with the immediate aftermath.

Serperoth
Feb 21, 2013





Oh come on he doesn't count

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

Stexils posted:

i would prevent 9/11 by doing it myself

You'd pretty much have to. The only way 9/11 doesn't happen is if a lesser terrorist attack occurs in the US and the government beefs up security in response to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGj227OVKY

Horace
Apr 17, 2007

Gone Skiin'

John Lee posted:

I mean, possibly? Look up details of declassified CIA or FBI documents before you go, then be a weird kid who walks into some government building and starts talking about currently-classified details until you get a very worried and suspicious meeting with someone, then work your way up the increasingly-alarmed chain.

So your plan to stop 9/11 is to get yourself executed by the cia immediately?

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Memento posted:

there's a content warning on this for suicide, but Battlestar Galactica had one of the all-time tonal shifts going into an ad break in the Canadian broadcast of Season 4, Episode 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7RoV5xWUo&t=108s

That's past the act itself, with the person's friends dealing with the immediate aftermath.

:asoiaf:

YggiDee
Sep 12, 2007

WASP CREW
https://twitter.com/NickFalacci/status/1365442854223368193?t=jX8w8I4E-RjI1HkFcb1luQ&s=19

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

Serperoth posted:

Oh come on he doesn't count

My friend, I assure you that he absolutely does

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



kazil posted:

My friend, I assure you that he absolutely does

This is very concerning

Ragnar34
Oct 10, 2007

Lipstick Apathy

Horace posted:

So your plan to stop 9/11 is to get yourself executed by the cia immediately?

Be all like, "why is this kid spoiling our secret plans to destroy the world trade center and blame the entire middle east, that was our secret plan!" And then shoot a child like they always do.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Inceltown posted:

Everyone knows you should drink in stereo



Amen friend

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

John Lee posted:

I mean, possibly? Look up details of declassified CIA or FBI documents before you go, then be a weird kid who walks into some government building and starts talking about currently-classified details until you get a very worried and suspicious meeting with someone, then work your way up the increasingly-alarmed chain.

There were a lot of actual intelligence agents saying, “Look, terrorists are going to attack the World Trade Center again, just as they did in 1993, we need to do something about this” but somehow they’d listen to some random six-year-old?

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Ragnar34 posted:

Be all like, "why is this kid spoiling our secret plans to destroy the world trade center and blame the entire middle east, that was our secret plan!" And then shoot a child like they always do.

You're confusing the CIA with the cops. They'd send the child to a third-world country to be tortured and executed there.

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