Stipulations:

  • You cannot die and are immune to disease
  • You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
  • If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    232·
    7 天前

    So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?

    Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you’re white?

    This is a dumb “what if”.

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
      61·
      7 天前

      as long as you’re white

      And male, cis, straight, Christian, etc. You could fake some of those things if needed, but that’s generally a crappy way to live.

      Also, assumes American.

      • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 天前

        Yeah you right. I made that assumption but the premise didn’t give you much to go on.

        Plus this would be right as ww2 was ending so you’re relatively safe either way unless you’re black in the south. Again in America

    • GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
      41·
      7 天前

      Well if you want to be boring with your answer and not have fun thinking of other interesting ways to solve this problem then yeah it’s dumb,

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 天前

      The challenge is in not erasing yourself by the rules, by being famously immortal. Presumably, you also don’t age. So you just have to move around every decade or two.

  • IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    4 天前

    join the military I cant die so if I just wear a balaclava or smth whilst firebombing nazis, I wont be famous, the legend about me will

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    6 天前

    If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.

    But there’s a chance you will make the timeline better for those you leave behind? I’d be spending a lot of time in NYC, waiting for an opportunity…

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    7·
    7 天前

    I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it’s gonna be difficult.

    What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?

    I don’t think I’d change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I’d love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 天前

        I’d assume Harry Potter time turner rules, where there were always two of you when you were growing up, because future you had already gained immortality and gone back in time. But you never realized there was a second you when you were growing up, because future-you actively avoided interacting with past-you.

        It also resolves a lot of the “what if you accidentally change the timeline and prevent yourself from ever being born” types of paradoxes, because you were already born which means anything your future-self does will automatically resolve with you being born.

  • YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 天前

    I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I’m sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I’d probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    5 天前

    What country tho.
    1945 for an ethnic Chinese in America is not exactly fun… racism and all

    1945 in China is um… yea I’m gonna get gulag’ed/laogai’ed

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
    4·
    6 天前

    How does hunger and thirst work, if I cannot die? Do I still get hungry? What if I don’t eat? What if I just spend most of my time building a house in the woods and doing artwork for months or years at a time, since I don’t need to restock provisions?

  • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 天前

    It’s gonna be tough being a queer POC but I’d probably just be a sidequest queen and travel the world doing random shit, trying not to stay in the same place for too long and not return until i can reasonably claim to be my own child

      • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 天前

        a lot of indigenous cultures have really interesting cultural perspectives on gender. i think id enjoy traveling and connecting with people all over the world and immortalizing their stories in me

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    93·
    7 天前

    Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.

    I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez… I mean I could go on.

    …I mean someone’s gotta make horny posts without Violet here, right?

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
    621·
    8 天前

    if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.