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[–] Souroak@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] TehBamski@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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

The consensus seems to be for money, power, or pleasure.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Red pill 100%

[–] Pratai@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Red pill. 100%.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Red pill only worth it if restarted at 4. 6 is already too late.

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[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] Xyloph@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Red for sure! I damaged a few body parts that will never really heal and I could avoid that. And with memory 10mil will really be pocket change.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] Uvine_Umbra@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

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