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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 12 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a win-win /s

[–] TheAndrewBrown@lemm.ee 5 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 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 28 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.

[–] unimalion@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Amen. Bought my first Bitcoin with RuneScape GP and immediately blew it all

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[–] ihwip@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sndvdsn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, true. One of the mistakes however is not buying tech stocks in their infancy, so you'd wind up with way more than 10m.

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[–] michael@lemmy.perthchat.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 8 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

[–] Fjaeger@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I strongly considered buying a single bitcoin for $700. I was irrational with money bit it seemed like a good idea. I decided I was being dumb with my money again and didnt go through with it.

It would have been worth it. Even at $700 it would have been worth it.

[–] new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I went through the same thing, but I think it was multiple for 50. Total.

However, it was college loan money and I thought that would be too irresponsible to spend 50 on something like that.

Shit

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was going to buy $100.00 worth back when it was 36 cents. I couldn't figure out how to buy it and then my car broke down and that was that.

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[–] preciouspupp@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go through blue door to choose red door instead.

[–] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This one should be the accepted answer.

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[–] revlayle@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 (1 children)

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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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 9 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.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 8 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.

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 7 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

[–] otacon239@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah... The mistakes are learning experiences. They help us grow. If your mistakes are "I dated a girl who cheated on me" and "I leased an expensive car when I shouldn't have"... Those things probably helped shape you into a more rational, mature person, assuming you learned from them.

Now if your mistake is "I worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years for my shitty career and never saw my family and now I'm dying early from stress induced heart attacks" or "I had some shady dealings in the past and now the mafia is after my family", I'd take the mistake-fixing door. But hopefully most people's mistakes aren't quite that bad.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is literally a nightmare I once had. I dreamt that I found a time machine and started changing my past little by little, working backwards and fixing minor mistakes, then bigger and bigger ones, but seeing no major impacts on my life. Like fixing a flunked exam only changed the diploma to a "with honors" one and nothing else. But I kept going until a certain event in my life that had really profound impact on my emotional health and made me attempt suicide, but it was also the one that really shaped me into who I am today. After preventing it, bam, Im in a place and a role the current me would've never wanted to be in, and the guy I turned into probably didnt want either, it was just so much worse off. After that dream I started to go much more easier on myself. I still cringe from time to time when I remember my past actions, but I dont really regret what happened anymore.

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[–] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mistakes such as guessing the wrong lottery numbers all those times.

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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] bleepbloopbleep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've made many mistakes in life, still I like the person I've become. And I'm still absolutely in love with my husband. For 23 years now - wouldn't trade that for a new life.

So red it is!

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 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

[–] Zippythezigzag@lemmy.ml 4 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.

[–] bababooey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] EvilCartyen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Haven't really made many mistakes in my life, so.... red door!

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] deven@kerala.party 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

blue door on loop be an immortal

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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

If I can fix my mistake of dumping my NVDA positions at $2.70 (post-split pricing) in 2010, then definitely the blue door.

[–] snake_case@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

If you go through the blue door can you also fix the mistake of going through the blue door? Would that invalidate the fixes you had applied earlier? Or can you technically walk through both doors, I'm a big fan of having cake and eating it!

Also mistakes are how you learn, I feel like if you had never made any mistakes you wouldn't learn lessons from them it could completely change your fundamental character. After all are we not just the sum of our experiences?

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 2 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.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Blue door. I've only just figured out what I want to do with my life and I'm terrified I'm running out of time.

[–] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I'm happy with how my life turned out for the most part. Red door to make the rest of it more fun and less stressful

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

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

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