Started as a shower thought (literally in the shower), but decided to make it more open-ended.

My answer to this would be “watch future seasons of anime that I am waiting on”.

I don’t see how that could cause a huge ripple through time.

  • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Traveling a second back in time to scratch that itch before it even happens. Maybe going back in time to tell yourself not to order that taco bell. Skipping forward in time to skip a hot pocket cooking in the microwave. Traveling a couple of minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the officer that pulled you over.

    Here’s the real question, if it’s possible to time travel isn’t it just part of the timeline even if it doesn’t seem like it. If you could traverse forward and backwards in time like a tape deck isn’t it already laid out including all of the time traveling you’ll ever do.

    • all-knight-party@kbin.run
      4·
      3 months ago

      Oh wow, skipping a microwaving hot pocket just reminded me of the movie Click and how SPOILERS FOR CLICK it just adapts and starts fast forwarding through shit it doesn’t think he wants to see until he realizes he misses those things

      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I like the idea of someone traveling through time like the Terminator for mundain things like this. Always ending up naked, leaving scorch marks everywhere, and just casually doing it in front of people without any warning.

    • somenonewho@feddit.org
      3·
      3 months ago

      Traveling a few minutes into the future to skip a boring conversation with the office that pulled you over

      Skips time … Cuffed on the floor

      • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Or you travel through time like the Terminator. You find yourself completely naked with the cop having an existential crisis as he questions if any of this is real and the smell of bacon fills the air.