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Assume you have all the luxuries of a modern life in your Tardis (toilet, hot showers, TV, books, game console, ...) which doubles as a mini self-sufficient apartment with it's own energy stores and generation.
Where in history would you go if comfort wasn't an issue?
I'd go back and preserve all the missing Doctor Who episodes. :)
Absolutely nowhere. I'll spend rest of my life enjoying myself in the tardis.
I'd stay where I am and just travel back before the internet existed/was widely adopted
You could set up your own wifi hotspot and become your own free ISP, undercutting any private company seeking to dominate the area. It'd usher in that wonderful wild-west age of the internet
2009 for bitcoin
Go back to various ancient cities and just sit in the equivalent of the town square and watch a day go by. See the food! So many lost recipes. See the clothing??? We only know what the wealthy wore for the most part, I want to see what the majority of people ate, drank, wore, what their homes looked like. What did they do to pass the time??
right? walk a mile in the average person's footsteps.
Though I'm now imagining some weird guy bursting into my house in strange garb, just as I'm about to go to work, excitedly pointing at my vacuum cleaner, and the bills on my table, and exclaiming "this is brilliant!"
Haha, I'd ask! If it's a tardis, it should be translating and making me look like I fit in, yeah? At least clothing wise. I'd be a pale weirdo in a lot of places, but it should work! I'll ask if I can visit, and bring them...wine works, right? That's pretty ancient and won't raise questions. That I'd answer with "it's a gift from far awaaaaaaay" very awkwardly.
*Teleports into the middle of the Black Plague. Starts handing out lifesaving antibiotics in plastic pop pill sachets*
"Uhhh, a normal product from the East... yes..."
I've given this a lot of thought but I'd love to meet oppressed historical figures. I'd love to see people autonomously standing up for themselves like at Stonewall and The Battle of Cable Street. I assume that they are both more brutal than anything I can imagine but it blows my mind to realize how many people came together.
I'd love to see the parts of town where the post-WW2 "slum clearings" took place. Gentrification is having a real impact here at the moment and its a shame. We recently lost a shabby 80s community centre and the building that replaced it never got the community back. Honestly, I just want to walk around here before the cars arrived.
A stranger thing that I would want to see is the old wood-paneled stock on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground in service at its peak. I generally would just want to explore transport systems as a whole. Getting to ride a 1910s tram on the street would probably feel surreal.
Oh WW2 London is a fave of mine. I've always wondered what the slums of Deptford looked like. Right now it's an overly gentrified rich person's suburbia, but back then it was the rotted lungs of the shipping industry. It would be also nice to know what it was like hiding out in the tube with a bunch of strangers. Did anyone play music? Was there singing above the praying? Did people trade books and cigarettes?
...A bit of a non-chill reply here, but apparently Unreal Engine can complete that wish.
Like, there was this captain America game set in 1943 Germany written by, I think, Uncharted's writer, that was presented at State Of Unreal 2024. It looks insanely real and you can like, feel smoke in a burning barrel and all, so London could be modelled there as well.
State Of Unreal 2024
https://www.youtube.com/live/Z_DssjLeGa0&t=1162
Looks half decent, I'd love it to be a Assassin's Creed Style open world set in WW2 London
first things first.
i would relax in my new Tardis, with all the needed luxuries, and take that in for a while. take care of me
"what would you do if your basic needs were met?"
"chill the fuck out"
seems like a solid answer to me no joke
Shoot Trump's dad
I'd love to witness the Chixilub impact. Or Pompeii, or any huge natural disaster. The bigger the better. I'd also like to figure out how the moon was actually created. Then see the sun swallow the earth at the end.
Those last two might require some careful planning on where to be to witness those events safely
I'd go watch the pyramids being built, should be very interesting.
That'd take a long time unless you skip ahead a few years every now and then
"Take care" of Christopher Columbus.
Possibly Ghengis Khan too. And a handful of Roman Emperors and European royalty.
Give all the natives AK-47s and tons of ammo
How has no one mentioned dinosaurs yet? You disappoint me, Lemmy.
you can guarantee that at least one time travel willeth have ridden a dinosaur at some point
I'd go back and see if I can find Jesus. See what he looked like, what he actually said at his sermons, and what happened after the crucifixion.
I mean he disappears for a few days after and seems good afterwards before vanishing forever, so chances are you were there and you intervened
You'd need a translator, and probably a bunch of inoculations first.
I would stop my kid self from taking the concerta I was prescribed and instead get him to drink a cup of coffee every morning, and would also give him advice for when he stops being a Christian and his parents go apeshit and try to desperately bring him back into the fold.
Also I would prefer to use a DeLorean
Definitely the future. Probably like 500 year increments.
I'd go as far back as possible and see how things came to be. And to the time our sun was born and later when our moon was formed. And I'd visits the time and watch earth meeting it's end.
I did what supposed to be done in Red Alert lore and see what happens.
The world without Tesla, Edition, Einstein. I guess we are running on magic now.
Wait I thought it was just a world without Hitler
Probably Brazil in the 1600's. Women there were sexually liberated, and threw themselves at foreign sailors, thinking they were demigods (or nearest cultural equivalent).
I think that might be a convenient myth used to gloss over the power imbalance that led to indigenous women being used as such