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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 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 do, 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean your wife would likely still be in the picture, just have to win her over again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just look up some stocks to buy on the day of your first mistake and as a result you can have however much money you feel like is a good amount in future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better yet, buy a huge amount of bitcoin and dump it at the height of the 2018 surge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking stocks so you can get the money prior to 2018

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least you got some fun out of it. The majority of the BTC I ever owned was on my parents computer that somehow wound up in my aunts hands. She stripped it and sold it all for parts...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go through blue door to choose red door instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This one should be the accepted answer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Red. People won't care about my mistakes if they're drinking mojitos on my yacht.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Who decides what is a "mistake" and what is "fixed"? I feel like going through the blue door would trap you into some kind of infinite loop

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter. You would have sold it when it was like $27

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Read, give me that money there are more mistakes to be made.

[–] [email protected] 4 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

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Too much coding for me. I read 10 milli as millisecond. And i was like what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stanley walked through the red door.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck it, I'll just stay outside and gripe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

blue door on loop be an immortal

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I went through the blue door my son wouldn't exist, so fuck that give me the money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Red. My mistakes didn't kill anyone(on purpose anyway).

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