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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I couldn't imagine the stress of knowing what I know now and being sent back to when I was six years old. I'd be trapped with my parents.

I'd take the money. My wife is amazing, and we are very happy together, but a lot of things had to fall just right for us to end up together.

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I ate both. Nothing really happened to me, but the matrix has been glitching though…

[–] otacon239@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

If Silicon Valley taught me anything, take the cash.

[–] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could you imagine the psychological damage of having your adult mind shoved back into your 6 year old self? You'd be unable to relate to or even tolerate any of your peers, so say goodbye to any childhood friendships. You'd be unstimulated by the mountain of busy work in school and frustrated by all the topics you'd have to relearn. I personally would go through all of the procrastination troubles again. There are plenty of traumatic events that you would not be able to prevent or even affect. Nevermind that you are still carrying that trauma with you, you're just trying to not re-live it. Develop any chronic illnesses? Maybe you can get treated quicker but you still have to watch your health decline. It'll be a decade before you have any kind of autonomy to do any stocks or Bitcoin type stuff, unless you want to become some prophetic wünderkind. As far as I'm aware, mt gox was one of the only reliable places to get Bitcoin, until it wasn't. I don't know the day that it fell apart off the top of my head.

I never understand why anyone would choose the "do it all over again" scenarios.

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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Are the pills binary? Because I wouldn't want to rewind to far before either shacking up with, or maybe meeting, my girl. And all the fun things I would wish upon every iteration of myself that I'm doing now are things I'd started with in adulthood.
I'd only really be interested in taking about a third of a red pill, since that'd probably take me back to after I started most of these fun things.

If I'd be required to take whole pills, I'd take the blue one.

[–] sag@lemy.lol 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Easily red pill. Every issue in my life was caused by my immaturity & incompetence basically so I could easily fix my life from there lol

Also i remember how to setup a BTC mining rig lmao, so that'll make things easier 😁

[–] Karcinogen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Blue. I've made mistakes, but I'm proud of how my life has turned out.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

I gotta say, the top answer being the 10 million surprised the hell out of me. Especially from someone who's middle aged like myself. I had a pretty bad childhood myself, but the chance to get over 30 years of my life back and the wisdom to make better choices? I'd take that over ten billion dollars, and my life as an adult didn't turn out too bad. No amount of money can buy back your youth. Let alone the possibility of living long enough to see Elder Scrolls VI come out.

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