I would figure a way through trial and error to unite the world, and make myself the emperor, and immortal. I'll also focus all of earth resources for interstellar travel.

Andrespetmonkey said: shuraiya said: I probably wouldn't even bother using the ability (even for the trivial things); way too many things can go wrong, and it would be beyond frustrating--not to mention a little maddening--to put things right. Then you have to deal with what "right" is in the first place. Is something "right" because it's what happened originally, or naturally, or is "right" something you create by manipulating original events. After repeated alterations to original events--especially if they are successful--a god complex will inevitably developed. The human mind is incapable of identifying, let alone processing, the near infinite variables that work together to create the world as we currently experience it. Dicking around in the past or future will eventually unleash a clusterfuck of biblical proportions, and frankly, I just can't be bothered to deal with the bullshit. Time control is one "gift" I'll be returning to sender. Over-thinking it. I'd do stuff like stop time during an exam, do some research, write it down. Or I'd talk a girl over and over again until I get it right and she wants to go out! small stuff that lead to bigger stuff, anything that goes wrong can be revised and re-done. The only issue I'd face is life might become a little boring.

Time control is the ultimate drug, do you really believe you have the self-control to relegate yourself to nigh insignificant alterations. I'm all but certain that I don't.

I want to take part in the fun, but I just can't go along with something that isn't at all possible...soz

shuraiya said: Netyaroze said: @shuraja "The human mind is incapable of identifying, let alone processing, the near infinite variables that work together to create the world ad we currently experience it. " Thats true but you could make a database were you safe all the informations. Let programmers work out a system for billions of dollars and take it back in time. Still wouldnt be perfect but it could help you a llitle. Also define a safe point in time you wont pass. Like your 18 Birthday. Before that nothing is changed and you will always be able to reset the world by coming back to that point. The database appears to rely on trial an error, and then making a record of what happens. That approach can't work because of the myriad variables. A safe point can only work if time is, in fact, linear. I prefer to think of time as being spherical, instead of linear. In this senario, it becomes possible for events that occur in the "future" to alter those that occur in the "past." That's why it's too dangerous; without a true understanding of the nature of time, you're stumbling blindly.

The database would rely on data gathered from trial and error but it would work more like a supercomputer that tries to predict the weather. Sure with massive flaws but it could still warn you from eventually occouring unwanted scenarios. Thats why I wrote: "help a litlle" Sure thats true but you could go in the far future to find out how time really is. Just gathering the Informations wouldnt be that threatening. After you knew how the nature of time is you could act accordingly. A spherical time is unlikely it looks more like an endless expanding dimension. Also even if time is a loop you get a reset always through Big Bang so future actions would never affect the past. But if the timelines split everytime there is a decision made like the quantum theory says you would only switch between timelines but everything you did has consequences on another timeline and even though you cant experience it the damage is done somewhere. Ofcourse this would change my behaviour. But I would still use the ability for trivial things like passing tests avoiding mistaked etc. Also you wouldnt actually change anything just experience a timeline thats established anyway. It all comes down to what time really is.

Netyaroze said: I have some ideas. I would replay situations over and over again to test different outcomes. Like trying to get Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston to have a threesome with me, would take a while until I figured out the perfect way. If you manipulate time you can become the worlds best song writer/book writer/Investor and richest person. Also It should be possible to rule the world. Sure you would have to relive 1000s of years but you would be able to experiment with the world and have total control of everyone. You would have to create a database though. So you wont loose sight of the things you have done and the impact it had.

You win this thread by a country mile.

Andrespetmonkey said: And be honest, Possibly NSFW.

if i can stop, rewind, and forward it, this would be my answer:

 

i try to sell future stuff in the past (For millionz), and since youve asked for beeing honest, i'd kill my Father, i'd let it look like an accident, and i wouldnt get punished as a seven year old. and i i cant sell futurestuff, i'd, from that point on,  just relive my entire life, making the best decisions, to become a damn rich bastard.

I'll go and tell Iwata that releasing 3DS so soon with no games is a terrible idea.

Watch some stuff in slow motion... ow I already can:

I'd go back to May 2008, and fix some things I messed up with someone back then...

Andrespetmonkey said: ChristianTheAtheist said: I would just leave it to run it's natural course. You just got punched in the face, you wouldn't take time back to 5 seconds ago and deflect the punch?

Uhm no, not really, not even if it was a matter of life and death.