Quick, There's No Time To Explain!
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I question whether you would even recognize yourself on the street assuming you saw a duplicate of yourself. I mean you only ever actually see yourself in the mirror and when you are looking at yourself you are explicitly aware it is yourself. Also it isn't uncommon for people to subconsciously block out details of your body or pick up some more. You see this a lot when people think pimples are way bigger than they are or they think there eyes are hugely puffy red after crying when they are not necessarily it is the same reason we generally can't tell how attractive we are without getting others opinions. I suspect if I saw myself I wouldn't even realize until I was expressly told I would likely just think it was another person who looks similar.
"ONWARD TO ADVENTURE!!" I shout, running after my future self. I'm likely going to be raped by a hobo who robbed a costume shop but up until then I'll be living in a fantasy world of grandious adventure and wonderment. I wonder what happens nine minutes in the future though...
You realize how time travel works, right?Aylaine said:Then, I will cut her loose, toss her a sword and raise mine. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
The victor will be the one true Aylaine!
If you kill the future version of yourself you'll be dead in 9 minutes but if they kill you, you'll be dead right then.
And between waiting for the future Aylaine to put her guard down and for you to subdue her and get her home and tie her up (kinky) would take well over 9 minutes provided you aren't the flash or have some kind of time machi- Oh...
You get the goggles and gun from her and then go back in time 8 minutes to subdue future you who is now only from one minute farther in the future... Oh...
What could you possibly do that you wouldn't remember doing and be able to counteract. Your only hope of retaining your pride would be to go back in time 9 minutes to face someone less experienced.Aylaine said:I would pretend to go along with her, but then subdue her when she let her guard down. I would take her home so she can tell me about those 9 minutes. After that, I might try the matching game to see who is the better me.Lt._nefarious said:
Then, I will cut her loose, toss her a sword and raise mine. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
The victor will be the one true Aylaine!
Oh, what's that? I can't hear you past my goggles and the sound of my shiny new laser gun...SaintlyTurkey said:
(Not trying to troll/criticize/be mean but I think you may be taking this thread a tad to seriously what with it being about a hypothetical time travel... Er... Thing...)
I'm pretty confident all types of time travel have the rule of if you kill your future self or they kill you, you are more or less fucked but then again all I know about time travel is what I learned from the Butterfly Effect, Looper and a Lost box set...Aylaine said:I realize that there are many, many different types of time travel.Lt._nefarious said:
The question is, which one are you talking about?
I'd walk away.
Why?
Because its the safest option.
If I do follow him and he turns out not to be me from the future, I'm probably screwed. 50/50 chance of awesomeness vs trouble.
If I walk away, I avoid the danger if he's not me from the future, and if he was me from the future then he would have walked away as well, and acquired a laser gun and goggles and traveled back in time 9 minutes as that is what must have happened to keep the timeline consistent.
As such, by walking away I either save my life/pride, or I acquire a laser gun, futuristic goggles and get sent 9 minutes back in time.
Why?
Because its the safest option.
If I do follow him and he turns out not to be me from the future, I'm probably screwed. 50/50 chance of awesomeness vs trouble.
If I walk away, I avoid the danger if he's not me from the future, and if he was me from the future then he would have walked away as well, and acquired a laser gun and goggles and traveled back in time 9 minutes as that is what must have happened to keep the timeline consistent.
As such, by walking away I either save my life/pride, or I acquire a laser gun, futuristic goggles and get sent 9 minutes back in time.
I would be very skeptical of a woman telling me that she's me from 9 minutes future, due to the distinct presence of boobs and other typical female accoutrements.Lt._nefarious said:
As a side note, laser pistol? From nine minutes in the future? I call shenanigans. Unless it was originally much further in the future and I travelled backwards, realised I hadn't gone far enough and then travelled a further nine minutes... in which case it seems feasible... but I don't trust myself. I make sucky decisions.
Lt._nefarious said:You realize how time travel works, right?Aylaine said:Then, I will cut her loose, toss her a sword and raise mine. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
The victor will be the one true Aylaine!
If you kill the future version of yourself you'll be dead in 9 minutes but if they kill you, you'll be dead right then.
And between waiting for the future Aylaine to put her guard down and for you to subdue her and get her home and tie her up (kinky) would take well over 9 minutes provided you aren't the flash or have some kind of time machi- Oh...
You get the goggles and gun from her and then go back in time 8 minutes to subdue future you who is now only from one minute farther in the future... Oh...
Wait, how do you know how time travel works? Well I guess mabe you are from the future possibly
I remember in the terminator Sara Conner asked Kyle Reese (paraphrasing) "Are you saying its from the future?" referring to the terminator. Kyle then said one possible future and he doesnt know how it works. Just saying mabe you can kill your future self, because its a possible future, and your actions in the past of course will effect that possible future and create a new one. Killing you past self? You may die right there or mabe you dont, because your from a possible future with a passed that already existed . So I guess My question to you is is: Is there only one possible unchangeable future, or a infinite possible futures that exist with passed that already created them.
Words cannot describe how much I hate you for that...Klaflefalumpf said:
Okay, You're walking down the street, minding your own business when all of a sudden a man[/man] appears in front of you wearing futuristic goggles and holding a laser gun and says: "I'm you from 9 minutes in the future! Quick, There's no time to explain! Follow me!" and takes of into the distance what would you do? How would you react?
Well if there are many possible futures I would believe that the act of going back in time from one future to the present would solidify that as the future every action in the present leads to. Effectively creating "fate" from the time of arrival in the past to the moment of departure in the future, if that makes any sense...Creamsoda said:Lt._nefarious said:You realize how time travel works, right?Aylaine said:Then, I will cut her loose, toss her a sword and raise mine. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
The victor will be the one true Aylaine!
If you kill the future version of yourself you'll be dead in 9 minutes but if they kill you, you'll be dead right then.
And between waiting for the future Aylaine to put her guard down and for you to subdue her and get her home and tie her up (kinky) would take well over 9 minutes provided you aren't the flash or have some kind of time machi- Oh...
You get the goggles and gun from her and then go back in time 8 minutes to subdue future you who is now only from one minute farther in the future... Oh...
Wait, how do you know how time travel works? Well I guess mabe you are from the future possibly
I remember in the terminator Sara Conner asked Kyle Reese (paraphrasing) "Are you saying its from the future?" referring to the terminator. Kyle then said one possible future and he doesnt know how it works. Just saying mabe you can kill your future self, because its a possible future, and your actions in the past of course will effect that possible future and create a new one. Killing you past self? You may die right there or mabe you dont, because your from a possible future with a passed that already existed . So I guess My question to you is is: Is there only one possible unchangeable future, or a infinite possible futures that exist with passed that already created them.
I'd ask myself for the "Code word". No seriously, i have enough time on my hands that i made up a code-word that i'd use to myself if i ever went back in time to know it's legit.
What is this code word you ask? Well it's more a code phrase but...Wait, I'm not telling any of you.
Provided this future version of me gets that right, it shouldn't take long i'll go along with it.
What is this code word you ask? Well it's more a code phrase but...Wait, I'm not telling any of you.
Provided this future version of me gets that right, it shouldn't take long i'll go along with it.
Honestly? Grab the nearest blunt object and bludgeon. I would know I'm a paranoid mess so I'd know better not to explain to myself. Also because the colour of those goggles clash horribly with that shirt, can't let such a crime go unpunished.
Afterwards? Perfectly symmetrical violence
Afterwards? Perfectly symmetrical violence
I would run away. If that person was really a future me, she would know I wouldn't follow a strange look-alike without a damn good reason, and would never say there was 'no time to explain'. I'm really big on context and knowing why I'm doing something. So, yeah, run away from the impostor.