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Blue or red door? (programming.dev)
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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Blue door is a monkey's paw. You go back in time? You butterfly-effect shit you didn't intend to.

  • Buy a bunch of Bitcoin? A series of unanticipated changes means people figure out it's a pyramid scheme early and by around 2017 or so, the last Bitcoin miner shuts down. But hey, at least video cards are affordable!
  • Bring back Lotto numbers? Well sorry, buddy, but just by breathing the air differently, the air currents where the numbers are drawn are affected, and you're left with zilch.
  • Got kids younger than 10? They don't exist anymore! If you try to have them again, you end up with other kids who are similar, but not the same as the ones you loved... and have deleted from the timeline.

The answer to these time-travel opportunities is always to run screaming from them. But hey, at least with this one you've got an alternative where you become an instant millionaire! Take the $10 million. Don't fuck the timeline up.

[-] candybrie@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the re-do your life idea really gets scary after you have kids. There's pretty much no way you get them back.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a win-win /s

[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Bonus points, odds are you will have a really hard time re-meeting your partner. You're probably a totally different person than you were when you met. The chemistry that got you started is now not there and who knows how you mix now. It may still work, but they might be weirded out by how much you know about them.

For both your sakes, the best option may be to never meet.

I'll take the red door thanks.

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[-] TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

The movie About Time deals with this fact. It’s a great movie if you are ok with romcoms

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah having acquired a wife and kids in the last decennia really makes this a no brainer.

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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself! As someone who will literally be married for 10 years in 2 weeks and has 2 kids I'm going back baby! How else would I stop the marriage! Yeesh.

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[-] unimalion@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago

Blue Door. One of my greatest mistakes was not buying Bitcoin when it was 100 dollars

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

I fucking did buy bitcoin when it was pennies, but dumbass past me had a nasal problem and spent it immediately.

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[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Red door, I can't say how much better I would do things if I did them again. But 10 mil can make things much better right now.

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just look up some stocks to buy on the day of your first mistake before you go through the blue door and as a result you can have however much money you feel like is a good amount in future.

[-] Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Better yet, buy a huge amount of bitcoin and dump it at the height of the 2018 surge. Stocks implies you have a reasonable amount of money to start with, but bitcoin was worth pennies at the beginning.

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[-] michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 32 points 1 year ago

The blue door, because money can't buy me the time back. It's priceless.

Also I could just buy BTC at $2 a piece and make the 10 mill as well. So it's win-win.

[-] Fjaeger@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I'd even say, im hindsight it was a mistake not to buy bitcoin back then.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It was $2 because most people didn't know what it was yet.

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[-] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

$2? I’d go back to 2012 or whatever and mine it using free electricity in grad school. Hell I’d use their cluster, call the slurm job something like “orbital_freq_prime_factors”

And I’d break up with my college girlfriend

And I’d bring my doctoral dissertation back in time so I didn’t have to write it

Even if the bitcoins didn’t work out, maybe I could buy Pokémon cards for cheap and sell them

[-] preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago

Go through blue door to choose red door instead.

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[-] ihwip@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Blue door is essentially erasing your own existence. Why do people even view it as an option? The me that made mistakes created the me today. If I erase those mistakes I wouldn't exist. Just some other guy with an easy life.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Read, give me that money there are more mistakes to be made.

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Red Door cause I know myself enough to know I'm gonna make all the same mistakes even if I had perfect recollection of years of details I don't even remember now.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Why would you go back in time only to make the same mistakes again when you can now have ample opportunity for whole new ones!

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[-] revlayle@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Blue, because I'll might come to this again and take the red door on the second time around.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Blue door would mean having to relive my childhood years being forced to go to church and Christian school, but without the indoctrination that made it feel like it was a good thing. That would be torture.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who decides what is a "mistake" and what is "fixed"? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you in some kind of infinite loop

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 14 points 1 year ago

Why worry about the past when you can have a brighter future with an extra 10 million cash?

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen enough of Silicon Valley to know you take the money and run.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Blue door without question. Even if there was a stipulation that I couldn't invest in stocks or bitcoin or do anything else that would make me rich.

I fantasise about going back and doing it all again, not making huge changes, but little ones, living my life with the knowledge and security I have now, so I would be able to enjoy my childhood instead of stressing about the future, I could be kinder to people around me and help them when they were struggling. I could tell the people I loved that I loved them instead of keeping those feeling held back due to insecurity. I could spend more time with my pets when I was "too busy" before. I could start the hobbies and sports I ended up loving as a child, and actually have the chance to be competitive at them.

[-] Noughmad@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Does "not buying Bitcoin for $1" count as a mistake or not?

[-] Saneless@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter. You would have sold it when it was like $27

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[-] bababooey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

After walking into the blue door the first mistake it corrects is that I should have picked the red door.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Red. No amount of fixing mistakes will ever repair my lifelong depression.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I don't have any major regrets worth fixing, even though I've made some major mistakes. However, all of my current problems could be solved with $10M. Give me the money

[-] Hextic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Time travel way way back to when the first fish crawled on land.

And step on it.

You're welcome.

Am I the only one who thinks there haven't been big 'mistakes" in their life, just, you know, life? I mean, sure, there are things I would do differently given the chance, but not something I would call big mistakes. I would definitely go for the money - I would even pay money not to have to go though my teens again lol

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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

This is going to be very age related I think for most folks. Myself blue door after making and taking with me a list of lottery numbers and dates along with major sporting event outcomes and horse races for good measure. Oh also stocks along with buy sell dates and value on those dates.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Red door fo shiz. Those “mistakes” led directly to the pretty fuckin cool life I have now.

[-] germtm_@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Stanley walked through the red door.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Red door, I'm not very unhappy with my previous choices

[-] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Red Door. Fuck dealing with my life again during that time. Plus, the butterfly effect would be a major concern.

[-] Zippythezigzag@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Blue door for sure. I can invest early in a ton of stuff that would get me way above 10 mil. And in this economy, not investing was a mistake.

[-] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Easily the money. There were many things in life that didn’t go quite right for me, but there was a lot that did as well. If I muck around with what already happened, I might end up worse than I did.

[-] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

10 mil in hand. Had to make mistakes to learn and get better.

[-] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

You are a result of your personal experiences. Going back and changing would make you an entirely different person.

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