Nothing.
My cat is asleep on my lap. I am now trapped for all eternity.
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Try to fix it since I don't seem to have initiated it or know if it will ever end. It gets kinda wierd as so I can interact and move things? But if I play a tape or video it won't play yeah? Its a pretty fucked situation.
I don't know, depends on where I find myself in at the moment. One thing I know for sure, the first few hours would be to nose around.
I'd finish hate-reading The Fermata
Would I be blind since the photons won't be flowing into my eyes anymore??
Only if you stand still? Would you be able to sweep photons by moving around? Would you leave dark trails behind you as you move around?
Release the Epstein files, and since they won't need it anymore, transfer Trumps and Elons Cash to me; afterwards start a looooooong list of cash transfers to everyone NOT in the Epstein files. I hope i don't age while time is stopped, because that might take a while. While i'm at it, go down the list of Top 100 richest people and fucking do it again. Keep a respectable sum for myself, but only in the "me and the closest to me will never have to worry about money again"-region, not more.
Steal Denuvo's encryption keys.
Defenestrate Putin (and Medvedev just to make sure the war ends), then pull the same move in Israel. Personally slap every Russian and IDF soldier who willingly went into war.
Destroy all the North Korean artillery and rockets aimed at Seoul and place notes in front of SK politicians informing them about the new situation.
Dismantle the surveillance networks - all of them. Let every Citizen know how much information their state had about them - except for Cartel/Mobster types, those i put on skateboards like cardboard cutouts and let them ride down a steep hill into prison gates.
Do i still have time left?
The moment the Ukraine war ends, Russia and eastern Europe will see an extreme wave of violent crime that will keep going for years.
The moment the Russian soldiers come back to Russia and discover the inflation is way worse, lack of jobs since the economy has transformed into a war economy, and more crap.
The only income will be crime.
Have fun.
Dude, time is stopped. You can keep going until you want time to start again. And I've got a list for you:
- Every single kiddy diddler? Suddenly in prison, with piles of evidence of their crimes.
- You can solve every missing persons report where anyone is still alive. It'll take you a while, but you've got the "time."
- Every bribe of every politician - and especially justices of the Supreme Court - exposed with thorough documentation.
- Go around and erase all medical debt and all student debt. All of it. Use some of Elon's money to do it.
- Find and reunite families that were split up by Trump's family separation policies.
- Cut Russia off from the internet entirely. They've demonstrated that they're not ready to join the broader civilized community. Pay special attention to permanently offlining the "Internet Research Agency."
I'm sure I could come up with more.
As long at time restarts after that lot we're golden.
Take a fuckin' nap, and then a week to myself
First, I take a long rest. Then, I might nap a bit.
This is the way.
Suffocate or get immolated trying to move from the friction of the now solid air mass.
Lots and lots of reading and learning. Especially languages
Is time going to restart? Otherwise the languages seem pointless.
Languages unlock not just more knowledge but also ways of thinking
I got a house full of books, notebooks to write my partners notes, and sleep. If it seems to last more than I don't know, a month? Probably walk to an Ocean, then see if one can walk or drive across one. Try and figure out why time seems stopped.
No idea. But did you hear about the thousands of neonazis who all died at exactly the same time? Crazy stuff...
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... and how'd that floating knife get there? Just, floating where they just happened to be standing ... Weird!
Catch up on sleep.
/thread
Is there a time limit?
Inherently!
Quickly get into every missile silo and jerry-rig a way to remote control them, move all the personnel out of the silos, lock access, set up cameras in all of them, then find a way to resume time. Once time resumes, announce that I have control over all the nukes, launch a high-atmosphere blast near DC, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, to prove it, become a global dictator.
A benevolent dictator, of course. (pinky promise 😉 just trust me bro 😈)
Your high altitude warning shots would wreck civilization. Read up on the starfish prime tests.
boobs
for legal reasons and to avoid the community burning me at the stake I will provide no further context.
Your honesty is respectable.
I choose to believe that you will run around flashing people. Wouldn't that be embarassing if time suddenly starts running again!
I'll cheers to that
Immediately panic. Why did it stop? How do I start it? Am I still aging? Can I still die?
Fuck FuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuckFuck
Possibly arrange for some billionaires to meet their demise.
Lol probably freeze to death. Photons stop moving, molecules stop vibrating. Electronic devices probably don't function/respond. So I could sleep (forever), no video games/tv/movies. Time travel trips me up; like I could walk around, but would time stopping fuck with the cohesion of matter/reality etc? Think you need a few more preconditions for this poll.
That's fair. I was trying to keep it broad to incite discussion. But since we're getting deeper sciencey with that. Let's assume that physics still includes active friction, gravity and heat transference especially since you can move. This is something like a gravitational anomaly that has affected the time space continuum in that you can move even though "Time" is stopped and everyone else is frozen in the moment
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If you were looking for a movie about moving around when time is stopped then Cashback(2006) is a better example. Main character sometimes goes days with the time stopped.
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Do I retain my inertial momentum? If so, I immediately slam into the ground or shoot up into the sky, turning into a fine mist or burning up instantly, or both.
If the planet (and the universe) stop moving, but I don't, I'm dead, haha.
Similarly if we say that I don't retain that momentum, what happens to my ability to see? Light is no longer travelling, so I'll be mostly blind? Will I be able to move through the air, given that I'll be pushing on time-frozen air molecules? If I can move them by exerting force, are they sufficiently sparse that they have somewhere to move that doesn't require pushing even more frozen air, to the point that moving becomes very difficult?
Will air that I've moved continue to move after I breathe it out, or will it go back to being frozen in time, such that I can't sleep or stay in the same spot for long, because I will build up an unmoving cloud of CO2 around my face and die?
What other ways can you think of that would make pausing time this way suck or kill you? :-D
Intimidate a French man by moving him back to his original postion on the stairs while I pose dramatically. /ref
While talking about how great I am with my STANDO POWA
Go find an Aztec god. Someone is bound to be in charge of this mess.
Hit refresh and reset buttons and wonder why my devices don't work. Honestly no idea what I'd do once I figure out what's going on - any socially/legally unacceptable behavior would be a huge risk because I'd have no way of knowing how long the timestop lasts.
TBH I'd probably just try to wait it out, maybe take a walk outside and take a look around.
Hit refresh and reset buttons and wonder why my devices don’t work
David Wong wrote a book where time would stop, but he actually put thought into it. So like, a field of grass was basically a field of razor blades because nothing else could move.
Fog and clouds could be walked on, a bunch of other stuff that made sense but is rarely thought of.
I think it was "This book is full of spiders"
One could arrange a lot of pranks with a time freeze...
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