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Given the most honest answers below are "I'd play Gamecube", I genuinely don't think it is.

I can remove it if it’s shit

Lol pls don't let other people's opinions influence you. As long as its not bigotry or weird political agendas, you should just go ahead and post, if others don't like it, that's why there's an upvote/downvote system, but you DON'T have any duty to remove it. Judging by the votes, the overwhelming majority likes it more than dislike.

The main reason I think it's a poor prompt is, you've ruled out almost all creativity here, to the point there are really three valid answers:

• I'd invest whatever money I can get relatively conservatively because my ability to predict the future decreases with time
• I'dUsurp a favorite artist of mine by recording their songs a few years earlier
• I'd play Nintendo games again.

You undermine the whole "what would you do if you could go back in time 23 years with a copy of today's Wikipedia" thing by having the timeline diverge. So a lot of "I would make sure I'm here at this moment so I can have this effect on history" are sanded down to a nub.

Same with "I would invest in this, that and the other" because you're ten. You don't really have the power to do that and say on the down low. Sports betting is right out because most if not all advantage you have is gone long before you can reasonably place a bet. Consider the Back to the Future universe; first of all they explicitly state that Biff placed his first bet on a horse race on his 18th birthday, and second it's established that media from the future will change to represent its new history. Biff's riches might have changed sports outcomes, but the sports almanac would change to reflect the new scores. Your prompt includes an immutable copy of Wikipedia that does not change even as the universe around it does, and your scenario causes it to diverge beyond usefulness before you can put it to profitable use.

You've ruled out any "I try to change major world events by warning people or whatever" because you have to keep your identity as a time traveler a secret. Same with any "I'd be an oracle."

So you might have a general gist of how things are going to go for awhile but it might not, so you're going to be an above average but not godlike investor, and because Wikipedia deliberately does not contain song lyrics or tunes for copyright reasons if you want to pass off commercial works of music or performance art as your own you'll need to have already memorized them.

Or, like so many folks, 'I'd just be ten years old again. Play Gamecube games."

You've set up such a narrow set of rules that this almost doesn't feel open-ended.