oscariswild, i’d write everything shakespeare did before he did
wildcardology, I’ve always wondered about this kind of theory. If I stole and published Harry Potter before JK Rowling will it be as successful? If I do the beatles’ songs before them will they be a hit?
BackOnMyBS, maybe Shakespeare did that to you
unreachable,
TheBananaKing, Introduce Shakespeare to D&D, and encourage him to popularize it.
Not only would the campaigns he ran be amazing, but goooodlord imagine the subversive effect it would have socially. Unpinning good/evil from lawful/chaotic in the public perception that early on would be a Big Deal; bringing the idea of consumer-generated content would shift attitudes to art and literature away from a purely top-down concept, and the resulting rise of Victorian fan-fiction would be so amazingly terrible it would rip its own hole in the spacetime continuum.
Gold_E_Lox, is it confirmed that shakespear was a real guy and not a pen name?
ReCursing, Yes. The idea that he wasn't real is frankly laughable. We know where he lived, we know who his wife was and what she was left in his will (their second best bed!), he met the queen for crap's sake!
tetris11, Also he had a daughter he left his entire estate to, and the town of Stratford-upon-avon was sick of his show stealing antics for many many many years
MJBrune, force Florida to count the ballots in 2000 in favor of Al Gore. People want to talk about stolen elections? They literally wouldn’t count all the ballots because of a technology flaw.
hai, It’s Florida how do you expect to be able to force them to do anything?
otter, I’m dumb, thought it was about stealing something from the past to the present. So these answers do fit the prompt
My first reaction was “bring a T-Rex to the year 2000 and threaten them with it”. Ended up pestering AI till it agreed to answer a similar question, here’s a summary of those answers:
Advanced Surveillance Technology: Bringing back highly advanced surveillance technology from a more technologically developed era could be a game-changer.
This one makes some sense. You go back to 1999 (or future if possible) and bring equipment that can detect and prove the fact beyond reasonable doubt. Enough to cause the count.
Influential Evidence from the Future: Bringing back concrete evidence from the future, such as detailed records of the government’s planned election fraud, could be used to expose and prevent these actions. This could include documents, videos, or other irrefutable proof of planned malpractices in the election.
Now this one goes against the prompt somewhat, but it would be the most effective. Although the butterfly effects from proving time travel may cause new issues…
ninjan, You could be extremely careful to only take with you evidence that would be fresh but not before the fact. Explaining how you got them will be the tricky part either way
LemmyFeed, Idk sneeze on a dinosaur or something.
Valmond, So that’s why they all died out…
otter, Dinosaur: “bruh? 🤨”
tetris11, hands you a tissue
JeffKerman1999, A highschool physics book translated in ancient Greek/linear B to mass copy and distribute to everyone. Maybe it’ll give the advantage to stop the Bronze Age Collapse.
JollyRoberts, @JeffKerman1999 bring some plans for the printing press and some plans to mass produce paper too. Back in the ancient times one sheet of paper was about $30 in todays money. A whole book would be the equivalant of tens of thousands of dollars.
tetris11, Without digisation possibilities, limited oil usage, and an ever-increasing demand for paraphanalia, there will be no trees left.
ICastFist, I think hygiene and modern concepts of medicine and transmittable diseases would more likely prevent that collapse
Extrasvhx9he, I want to say leave a modern computer or some other piece of technology at some point in time (maybe 50’s) but I’m not sure if it could be reversed engineered
tetris11, Even if it had infinite power and was unbreakable, it would end up being fought over and coveted as holy relic, instead of being played with and studied
ICastFist, Hardly. The miniaturization required to make modern chips is ages ahead of anything possible in the 50s or 60s. Hell, them even getting some x-ray microscope to see the stupidly small transistors we have today would be a challenge in itself!
lolola, give my bro harambe a bullet proof vest
otter, In before it’s a self correcting timeline, and now it’s the best that gets him killed
roo, Start flamewars on robotic astroturf accounts about how dumb Donald Trump is until Instagram starts and people try to prove he’s not an idiot, but in protesting they protest too much and nobody believes them by 2016.
So, I need a robot chatbot algorithm cookbook for the naughties and beyond.
tetris11, ChatGPT with an unlimited account from several proxy IPs in 2016 could have changed the world.
tjarod11, I’d swap some of the first clay documents around until I ended up with a timeline where we live modern life with a gift economy rather than a money economy. We’d all have a lot more options to pay off our debt rather than the streamlined ridgid money system.
Doll_Tow_Jet-ski, I'd love to see Socrates as modern day politician
shiveyarbles, You should hitch a ride with Bill and Ted
Teon, Go back and destroy religion.
Valmond, So you’d take like 1 Jesus or what?
Teon, Well you can't go back in time and delete "someone" that never existed in the first place. There is no historical evidence anywhere that "jesus" ever lived. He's a myth.
I meant remove religion, from everywhere.
Tosti, (edited ) deleted_by_author
Pantherina, I think this dude Judas aleady tried it, didnt help.
No shit, with this “betrayal” and Jesus knowing he has to go on, this really looks like they knew it was an attempt to stop this horror
rikudou, Seriously fuck up the sheep herder that thought up the basis for all Abrahamic religions.
imaqtpie, I’d save RFK and give him a full two-term presidency. Just because I’ve always wondered how much a difference it would have made in the course of American history. It definitely seems like things took a severe turn for the worse in the late 60s and the American political system has never recovered.
I personally believe there were conspiracies to assassinate both him and JFK because they were not susceptible to being controlled by their donors or political mentors, as is the case with the vast majority of politicians. They were rogue elements with a strong potential to disrupt the status quo (i.e. gravy train) for the rest of the oligarchy, so they got taken out.
tetris11, Carter?
imaqtpie, I wasn’t alive for these events and I am possibly missing context. But I just see an inflection point in the 60s and I don’t know if another term from Carter in 1980 would have been enough to turn things around. I also feel like he was a less impactful character than RFK
tetris11, (edited ) The main turning point was 1971, as referenced by the website (wtfhappenedin1971.com).
Nixon was the president then, and the main force was that the economy was decoupled from the gold standard
Edit: president
imaqtpie, Nah that was Nixon. If RFK had been elected, withdrawn from Vietnam earlier and not been corrupt, things may have gone differently
tetris11, My brain goofed, I knew that. Thanks for the correction!
TheBeege, It makes me sad the site seems to be pushing crypto. Or maybe it’s that crypto bros keep referencing the event? Chicken and egg? I dunno
Kecessa, Reagan is where things got fucked. Give Carter two mandates instead.
imaqtpie, Por que no los dos
Susaga, The first time Heinrich Kramer tries to show someone the Malleus Maleficarum, I appear directly in front of him and set the book on fire. Not only is the book destroyed, but a clearly supernatural event took place to put the fear of god into him. Bam. No witch trials.
interolivary, More likely outcome: he takes a person in strange clothing appearing from thin air only to set his book on fire with a magical implement as clear proof of witchcraft existing and posing a huge danger. Get ready for turbo witch hunts on crack
Susaga, He wasn’t going to be any MORE nuts. Everyone knew he was a crackpot who hated women, and it was heretical for him to claim anyone but God could grant anyone powers. I make sure to do it in front of people and there’s suddenly an audience to see him be condemned by a divine agent. If they try to say it was anything else, they’re heretical too.
At the very least, it can’t get WORSE.
tetris11, Or, the first time he steps foot in Innsbruck, he slips on a banana skin and slides down the street, much to the comedic delight of the locals. Helena Scheuberin even giggles and praises him for his comedic wit and skill. With high praise from an affluent local, and a natural penchant for comedy, Kramer leads a cult following in banana-skin comedic antics, and kick starts surrealist humour centuries before Monty Python.
UlyssesT, If you’re fine with utterly erasing pretty much every human being conceived after that point in favor of new human beings (or other creatures entirely) may as well go big or go home and start here.
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/16c54321-581c-48e0-b757-960fb132bd20.jpeg
tetris11, You’d have to kill every single salamander-like though, in order to find the true “first eggs on land” that spawned us all. Or maybe it was a group effort, and you really will have to kill them all.
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