Current Events > 10 million dollars, or time travel abilities (with a catch; read the OP)

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The 10 million dollars is untaxed; every penny of it is yours, and there are NO repercussions: the economy won't crash, and the government won't come after you for suddenly coming into this much money, nor will anyone else. If you live in a different country, it will be converted to the proper amount of whatever currency you use (I assume that's always the case for topics like these though). If you pick the money, time travel will never be possible, not just for you, but for anyone.
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If you pick the ability to time travel, you gain the ability to travel through time at will. However, there are limitations, which are, oddly enough, based on your stomach:

If you travel to the future, you must do it in small increments; If you try to travel even a month into the future, your body will act like it hasn't eaten in that month, and you'll likely instantly die due to starvation. You can travel a few days, eat something, then rinse and repeat. Travelling to the far future would take a long time, but it's still possible, and much faster than going 1 second per second, right? Anything on your person will travel with you, so no need to worry about having no clothes or money (unless you travel while in the shower or forget your wallet or something). Pack some snacks if you plan on going forward!

If you travel to the past, you'll retain all knowledge of the future, but you could change said future drastically with even the smallest action. Your stomach will feel exactly as it did on the specific moment you choose to travel to; if you were a little hungry, then you'll want to grab a bite, but if you got... err, "sick" and needed to use the facilities in that moment due to eating too much, well... it's probably safe to warp to a point where you have access to a bathroom. You also cannot travel to before your birth, as your stomach didn't exist then. Once you travel to the past, due to the possibility of changing the future, that point will act as the "present"; if you travel back 4 years, for example, and then try to travel forward 4 years to the point where you traveled back, you'll almost certainly die because you haven't had food in 4 years. So make sure you want to travel to that point! Travelling to a point before you got your powers will have you retain those powers; if you try to travel to the point where you made this decision so that you can get the 10 million dollars AFTER getting the powers, well nice try but that won't work. You already made your choice, after all!
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Fun fact: I thought of this topic idea while I was eating Mike & Ikes. Not sure how these ideas pop into my brain.

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mfw no one votes in my poll:


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M_Live posted...

Idk the time travel sounds awful

yeah I think I might've been too limiting on it. I guess it's more of a tool to go back to the past and fix your mistakes than a means of seeing the future (though with enough time and patience, you could)

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It's not that your topic is bad but the time travel is bad, imo.

So I go forward so long as I eat. That's okay.
but going back then going forward has the same rules but we also can change the future with the smallest action.
So if I travel back one year, I'd die if I never ate. So I'm eating. I have to get food somewhere so me buying food might cause Trump to step down and no more fun memes for example.
It's clearly "take the money"
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never have to work again or a wonky gimmick, hmm

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Yeah, this decision is bad. The time travel is just...awful.

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So basically I have unlimited time travel to the past with the only caveat being that my stomach will be in the same condition as it was in the time frame I jumped back to?

Thanks, you just gave me the literal key to world domination. Even on the smallest scale, jumping back just one day gets you the winning Powerball numbers if you never use it again. The potential use (and misuse) of this only scales up to infinite from there. I suspect it would only take me 2-3 iterations to figure out how to replace Jeff Bezos as the founder of Amazon.

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So if im reading this right;

- Wait for lottery to hit multi-millions, eat before future jump
- jump to future, spot winning number, eat again
- jump to past, put in number, take shit, win lottery, and also keep time travel powers

Time travel!

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Time Travel still wins

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MarbyIsBack posted...

yeah I think I might've been too limiting on it. I guess it's more of a tool to go back to the past and fix your mistakes than a means of seeing the future (though with enough time and patience, you could)

That is exactly what I need right now so that would be great.

Sadly this is just fantasy and nothing can help me.

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Memorise all the winning lotto numbers for the past 25 years, go back in time 25 years. Accrue more than 10 million. Invest in the companies which are going to make it big. Retire on the day I left, as a fucking billionaire.

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Time travel.

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008Zulu posted...

Memorise all the winning lotto numbers for the past 25 years, go back in time 25 years. Accrue more than 10 million. Invest in the companies which are going to make it big. Retire on the day I left, as a fucking billionaire.

Why bother with that when there's a chance you screw everything up by the butterfly effect? Might as well take the easy 10 million now
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RedWhiteBlue posted...

PowerOats posted...

So if im reading this right;

- Wait for lottery to hit multi-millions, eat before future jump
- jump to future, spot winning number, eat again
- jump to past, put in number, take shit, win lottery, and also keep time travel powers

Why bother going to the future?

Just wait a few days bro

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konokonohamaru posted...

Why bother with that when there's a chance you screw everything up by the butterfly effect? Might as well take the easy 10 million now

The riskier the road, the greater the profit.

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The ability to time travel is an infinite money cheat, so this is kind of tainted.

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Caelthus posted...

Yeah, this decision is bad. The time travel is just...awful.

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Original limitations are fine. Being able to rewind alone is a gamebreaker; that's functionally being able to see the future. It would be annoying, but you could redo a permutation of an event over and over and over just to get desired results. You'd never fail at poker, or an exam, or an interview, or lose a fight. It's basically a free reload, as long as your stomach is fine.

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gimme money