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Title: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 12:48:36 pm

International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War (http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1)

This is really, really clever.   :laugh2:
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on March 20, 2008, 12:53:44 pm
Crap.  Even in 2104 we have trolls?
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 12:57:41 pm
Crap.  Even in 2104 we have trolls?

In 2104 we may only have trolls. 

You know, the concept in that article would make a ---smurfing--- incredible concept for an episodic videogame series.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on March 20, 2008, 01:02:00 pm
They could call it.....ummm...Wolfenstein!!
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 01:06:17 pm
Eh, the Wolfenstein series was mostly about escaping from a Nazi camp.  Nothing like this.

Expand the concept a little and you've got Time Travel Cops, going around history undoing stupid things that irresponsible time travellers had done.  Even if you want to keep the scope narrow and keep unkilling Hitler the concept lends itself to quite a few ways that could be done compellingly.  It's a little Quantum Leap but if you did it without being all preachy it wouldn't feel like that.

Or, you could just go back to the day of your best friend's wedding and put a banana in his tailpipe.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Hoopz on March 20, 2008, 01:15:40 pm
Couldn't pull up the story but Chad's last post reminded me of this show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyagers%21

Not sure if you'd be old enough to remember it Chad, but it wasn't too bad.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 01:21:09 pm

Interesting.  We didn't get NBC where I lived in 82-83.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: boykster on March 20, 2008, 01:25:32 pm
Clever bit of humor there...I liked it!  :applaud:
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: boykster on March 20, 2008, 01:26:12 pm
Oh, and I liked the Voyagers...i was only 11 or so when it aired though, so  :dunno
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: SavannahLion on March 20, 2008, 01:29:10 pm
I couldn't stop laughing after the 1907 paintings.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Hoopz on March 20, 2008, 01:30:22 pm
Finally got the link to work; that's some funny ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.  Reminds me a few people here....

 :angel:
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: shardian on March 20, 2008, 01:35:02 pm
I was halfway thru before I realized it was fiction.  :laugh2:

If you have seen some of those Star Trek Wanna-be forums, you would think those guys were serious too.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: SithMaster on March 20, 2008, 01:54:02 pm
So Chad you want a video based on the movie time cop?

Wouldnt going back in time and killing Hitler make you not go back in time and kill Hitler in the future?
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: AtomSmasher on March 20, 2008, 02:42:28 pm
.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on March 20, 2008, 03:20:24 pm
Wouldnt going back in time and killing Hitler make you not go back in time and kill Hitler in the future?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_paradox

Makes my head spin.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: danny_galaga on March 21, 2008, 09:02:30 am
I was halfway thru before I realized it was fiction.  :laugh2:

If you have seen some of those Star Trek Wanna-be forums, you would think those guys were serious too.

wait, you thought people really WERE going back in time to kill hitler?
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Grasshopper on March 21, 2008, 07:52:59 pm
Getting back on topic, you guys should read "The End of Eternity" by Isaac Asimov. It's one of my favourite sci fi novels. Very thought provoking and much better than his robot books. As far as I am aware, Asimov was the first novelist to really explore the true implications of time travel.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: bfauska on June 04, 2008, 05:25:05 pm
That is funny, it helps that we're all forum junkies I'm sure.


Interesting.  We didn't get NBC where I lived in 82-83.

You could always go back and fix that.  ;)



P.S.
I actually went back in time to post this when it was a current topic but I saw bulletin 3295 stating that you can't go back and change the course of a thread already in progress.

Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: ahofle on June 04, 2008, 06:07:54 pm
Where is old Chad anyway?  He hasn't been around in over a month (very unlike a guy with 29000 posts LOL)
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on June 04, 2008, 06:46:40 pm
Where is old Chad anyway?  He hasn't been around in over a month (very unlike a guy with 29000 posts LOL)

He depressed so many people near him that the pure density of their outlooks on life created a black hole, sucking half of New England in?
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: shardian on June 05, 2008, 07:09:40 am
He's alive and well - just taking time off from the hobby.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: saint on June 05, 2008, 10:44:43 am
I corresponded via email with him yesterday. He ain't dead yet.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on June 05, 2008, 06:13:05 pm
I corresponded via email with him yesterday. He ain't dead yet.

Whack!

Now hurry and put him on the cart -- I've still got to go to the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

(Yes, I know I adlibbed...)
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Hoopz on August 29, 2017, 02:00:29 pm
Where is old Chad anyway?  He hasn't been around in over a month (very unlike a guy with 29000 posts LOL)
Interestingly, he's only added ~9,000 posts since 2008.
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Loafmeister on August 30, 2017, 01:07:28 pm
I hate it when people necro old threads... especially when the original link doesn`t work.  Now I wanna know what the fuss was about and I can`t!   :angry:
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: PL1 on August 30, 2017, 01:56:44 pm
I hate it when people necro old threads... especially when the original link doesn`t work.  Now I wanna know what the fuss was about and I can`t!   :angry:
Time traveller 101:  The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is your friend.   :lol

https://web.archive.org/web/20110603190857/http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1 (https://web.archive.org/web/20110603190857/http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1)


Scott
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Loafmeister on August 30, 2017, 02:05:25 pm
Shows I'm not a card-carrying member (but I wanna!)

Thanks!
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Malenko on August 30, 2017, 02:54:15 pm
I hate it when people necro old threads... especially when the original link doesn`t work.  Now I wanna know what the fuss was about and I can`t!   :angry:
Time traveller 101:  The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is your friend.   :lol

https://web.archive.org/web/20110603190857/http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1 (https://web.archive.org/web/20110603190857/http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html?1)


Scott

Just add it to the Wiki
Title: Re: Dammit people - read bulletin 1147!
Post by: Loafmeister on August 30, 2017, 03:29:24 pm
Well holy crap is that funny!  :laugh2: