Shift in the womb. Maybe kick a little to let my mom know to eat something for the both of us.
Buy stock in all the obvious companys
Be me
Wake up in 1983
Realize I’ve got the opportunity of a lifetime
Reach into my wallet: Empty
Check my bank account: Empty
Check couch cushions: $1.47
Feel kinda hungry.
Remember what you can buy at Taco Bell for $1.47 in 1983.
Have lunch.
Go get a job at Blockbuster.
Kick back for the next twenty years.
Begin existing somehow because i wasn’t born for about a decade
I’d miss my wife.
Get really confused because I’ve never been then before
Cease to exist
Check what season of TNG is on and get ready to leave home early.
Season -4
Sounds like Q did it again!
Oh no I’m back in the nutsack. A shitty situation to be aware of things
After kind of freaking out I’d remember all the information I’ve accumulated over my previous lifetime and be pretty happy. I’d know what the future holds and use that to my advantage.
Weird, this image has all the artifacts like if it’s on its 30th screenshot&repost, but I never saw it before
I’d put out what I can remember of ‘Graceland’ and beat Paul Simon to the punch.
Steal Graceland from Paul Simon and give it back to Los Lobos.
To me it seems, even if we were plopped down into the moment and everything is again exactly as it was, that from that instant forward things would change. Nothing would play out the same way, and the farther we moved along the timeline from that point, the more things would be different. Five years after you arrive, it’s a very different world from the one you knew before, or read about. It’s chaos theory.
So, the idea that one could shape the future, by stopping expected future events is silly, apart from the immediate future around the instant you appeared, but good luck remembering any of that, if you were even alive then before. Everything will spin off in different directions on a second pass, nothing will play out the same exact way.
The really big things like the climate issue and the eventual fall of USSR are still going to happen, but no one will listen to you, same as today. There might still be a big terrorist attack around 2001, but exactly what and where will be unknown to you, but more likely it will be years before or after, or not at all. Lottery numbers won’t be the same, there won’t be the same companies on the stock market. The knowledge about the future-past you experienced is useless.
The only thing that helps is your knowledge about life’s universal principals, and a better understanding what you do and don’t want for yourself. Your life will be different, because you’ll be able to make better choices, but everything else will be different too.
Start doing food prep. Guess I’ll have to start making my own oat milk and tofu.
I’d still be in the womb so… Try and get the umbilical chord to wrap around my neck.
Not knowing the specifics of how this game works, but assuming I’m 17 again and everything is the same as it was, I go to my first GF’s house and… yeah.
Because that was one of the best years of my life. I hope the game is that I get to live my life over from that point, knowing everything I know now, because I would do a lot differently.
