Victoria, Australia, 1990s. I say Victoria because it’s not as hot as most other areas of Australia and I don’t do well with heat.
Can I choose my gender? If not, then not any earlier than I was born.
Exactly what I came here to say. Well, I would specify sex rather than gender. I wouldn’t want to be born female at any point in history.
Yeah, that should have been sex, not gender.
Hoo, I’d say loaded statement, but… well, you’re factually correct. Just polarizing.
That being said, I appreciate my mom for a lot of things, but the major one is my views on feminism.
I’m not some pro-female only person. First wave feminism, equality.
My wife is a strong woman who doesn’t need me, fuck, she’s the breadwinner and has been for most of the relationship.
She kicks ass, takes names, and somehow still has the energy to pick up the house a bit. I was weaker in that last part in the beginning, but I’ve made strides. Definitely a learned experience, but a very valid one.
I’ve dated the ultra girly-girl type. Its isn’t for me. I want a partner who is fine standing on their own, and chooses companionship.
Shit, she has worked in hospitals and had grown men attack her (health care worker violence is shockingly common, and I’ve experienced it as a man who worked at a hospital in a non-clinical capacity) She takes no shit. She’s also smart as a whip.
A dumb bimbo is easier to date, and I would guess be married to, but ultimately unfulfilling. Have a thought. Defend your thought. Please. If a man can’t deal with that, they aren’t much of a man.
I’m a woman.
I’d love to be born on earth in about three thousand years.
Oh, taking the Dr. Stone route? I know bushcraft and survival, can I come?
I’ve been to the year 3000, and your great great great granddaughter looks pretty fine…
Awesome, I’m glad they’re healthy.
Was referencing this … https://youtu.be/CxGj9kQa64c
I really liked being a kid and teenager through the 80s and 90s, I don’t think I’d change that. But I would certainly accept the opportunity to do it again!
Maybe this time in Japan, instead of the US. Though the US would be fine too.
Are you me?
Yes, and now they know.
Belle Époque Paris sounds pretty nice. I sure hope nothing bad happens immediately after that ruins my vision.
Ten years earlier, i.e. mid-1980s. I would have been a young adult when the Internet was starting to be awesome, instead I was a preteen or early teen.
As for location, the US would be nice tbh.
You’d probably want 20 years earlier, i.e. mid-1970s. Mid-1990s were when the Internet was starting to be awesome. Broadband was just coming out, but the first web browser was already 5 years old in 1995.
nah that’s when my parents were born and their lives don’t seem that awesome tbh
I was born in 1975, and my youth was pretty awesome. I was also born in the Netherlands, so booze (and drugs, but I never did that) were available at a young age. Also, affordable concerts and festivals and great music scenes.
I’d have loved it if I could have been there with the Elephant 6 crew in Athens GA during the 90s. The music those folks produced is some of my favorite, and it’s totally the music I’m trying to make myself.
Any link to your music? I love the E6 collective. Most people just know NMH but the whole lot of them were just amazing
Nothing published just yet! I saw the E6 documentary this summer and it lit a spark in me and my mates. My biggest influence is from the Olivias, and particularly I take more after Will Hart’s style (with my best mate being the Bill Doss of our group.) I’m actually gonna try doing some field recordings to try a Green Typewriters-esque musique concrete piece.
Germany, say 1910s-20s. Don’t worry guys, I got this… 🔫😎
you, after completing your mission: “why did I just kill that man?”
Can I choose the future? Ideally some sort of utopia like the federation in startrek?
History hasn’t been kind. I would probably need to cosplay a business tycoon or something to survive earlier.
If I go too far back it’ll probably be nice. But I’d probably die due to an infection brought on by my autoimmune issues.
I think you should have to pick a year and hope for the best. otherwise it’s no different then choosing some fantasy past like ‘medieval times, but non violent and progressive, and no plagues.’
You make a wonderful point.
I’d pick 1999, Akihabara. So I can experience early anime culture at the source.
Sometime in the future, assuming the human race even lasts long enough.
Basically when a world like Star Trek TNG exists.
All my stupid health problems could be fixed.
To be able to travel space would be great, to lay on the moon and watch the Earth. Go admire Jupiter (from a distance).
Work, not because I have to, but because I enjoy the challenge and want to better myself and humanity.
I know for the show they couldn’t really go all out, but I think being a holodeck author would be fun as a side hobby. Could be in a fun working out with whomever inspired you. Hands on learning, anything. Visit places you can’t (like surface of Venus). But also think of like what a video game would be like because you wouldn’t need a controller or VR headset you’re just there. So you could be a Space Marine. Or be Spider-Man! We’ve done reading books, we’ve done watching books, we’ve even done audiobooks… But there you could participate. Or maybe just be there and watch it unfold.
Height of the incan empire would be nice tbh. Fucking beautiful place to live and relatively comfortable conditions
Im always stuck on the point that we never consented to existance, can I simply decline to be born in this hypothetical because I think thats my pick.
Chicago such that I turned 17 in 1973 when the draft was formally stopped… So 1956 then. Then ideally get an associates for next to nothing and transfer to urbana in the now the later half of the 70’s which is a perfect time to get a computer science degree.
1-2 decades earlier maybe (meaning: 60s or 70s). Location… I don’t know. Maybe Norway, I’ve never heard anything bad about Norway. Might just be random selection bias though.
Eh, maybe just a decade earlier so that I would have had a chance to see Pantera play live. Otherwise meh
The advent of computer technology is kind of hard to pass up but there were other things in history that could have been just as interesting on a different level. It might have been cool to be an explorer when the americas were discovered. Ok life would have been pretty miserable but the vast unknown would have been cool. Still would be hard to give up modern medicine.
