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[jaydub]

Apropos of the detour in the TIG thread, I thought it would be interesting to see what images we would like to have for hanging on the wall.
We have to wear ID badges that double as security keys at my workplace.  This image makes me smile


It reminds me of Matthew Perry - and considering he voiced Benny in the game, maybe this is an Easter egg?

[wombat]

Here's the one I mentioned elsewhere. Can't find an embeddable image. Why does the movie industry not want to monetize this?
http://pinterest.com/pin/112801165638405503/

[wombat]

Oh, and here is a place to say that I lately bought this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oingo-Boingo-Original-Concert-Poster-Irvine-Meadows-/170464540169?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b07a7609
to remind me of how I wasted my youth, or at least the 90s. It would be shame not to mention this so Ash can enjoy telling me that he was at these concerts.

[wombat]

sigh

At least there are bootleg videos on YouTube, at least the ones a person remembers to download before they get taken down.

There's another thread we could start: When they invent time travel, where's the first place you'll go?

[pmcd9]

There's another thread we could start: When they invent time travel, where's the first place you'll go?

Do we have to do the necessary shit, like kill Hitler or can we have some fun?

[wombat]

I think that unless you have some special skill that makes you the best person to kill Hitler, then you can just have some fun.

[dejavroom]

I ain't going anywhere past whenever it was good dental anesthetics became a thing.

[pmcd9]

I think that unless you have some special skill that makes you the best person to kill Hitler, then you can just have some fun.

Well yeah, my special skill is that I have a time machine. But would seeing the Beatles play in Hamburg be the same if Hitler never existed? Quandary.

[pmcd9]

I ain't going anywhere past whenever it was good dental anesthetics became a thing.

Just go back to the future whenever you need dental work.

[wombat]

Well yeah, my special skill is that I have a time machine. But would seeing the Beatles play in Hamburg be the same if Hitler never existed? Quandary.

Ash is probably a good enough shot to take Hitler out. Would you be, or would you just be wasting your time?

We could say everyone gets two trips: one to do a good deed and one for fun as a reward. Still, I think it has to be a good deed you can really do and this raises all kinds of questions. Can I say "I'd go back and save the thylacine from extinction" when I can't be sure I would be successful? Is that just a way to get to see some thylacines and then also see Oingo Boingo in concert?

[jay-ell]

Back on topic, this is my favorite poster from the Fallout games:



I would pay some amount of money to have that on my wall, yeah. Or a t-shirt -- which is really just a poster for your body.

As for the time machine question, I think I would prefer to skip the grand gesture for my good deed in favor of a Quantum Leap-style "put right what once went wrong" kind of deal. But that assumes you've got someone clueing you in on the Divine Plan, and with my credentials that doesn't seem terribly likely.

For a fun thing, I would love to go back and see Led Zeppelin in concert. But there are many more Historically Important Things I'd like to see and do. For instance, I'd like to go back to around 1954 to see Sputnik in orbit and tell Joe McCarthy he's an asshole. I'd like to tour the South with the freedom riders in the summer of '61. I'd like to be in Dallas on November 22, 1963 to see if there really was anybody hanging out in the grassy knoll. (I wouldn't prevent the assassination, though, because of the butterfly theory -- step on a butterfly in 1922 and come home to a horrible dystopian society where everyone you love never existed.) So ideally I'd like to go back to sometime in the early 1950s and live through to the present day, but without ever getting any older.

Would I prevent 9/11? That's a harder question. Closer to home. Would it destroy the universe if I let the terrorists attack but made sure the buildings were evacuated first?

[wombat]

See, this is why I think everyone just gets to go back and do something fun. You can't predict whether you're actually going to make things worse. But seeing a concert or going to the zoo with the last thylacine is pretty safe.

[AugustWest]

Is the fact that bad things happened in history and continue to happen proof that we will never invent time travel?

[wombat]

Is the fact that bad things happened in history and continue to happen proof that we will never invent time travel?

No - because people could have gone back and screwed things up worse! My point exactly!

PS sorry jaydub what I did to your poster thread.

[jaydub]

Its TOUAMB.  If I didn't expect near instantaneous thread wander I would have posted on FARK or something.