Global savepoint ? When would you reload ?

[GoodSarmatian]

If you had the chance to go back in time, when and what would you change ?
Obviously any human in their right mind would say "before we split off from Bonobos", so we need some limitations to make it less boring or predictable.
Let's assume you can go back in time (mentally or physically, doesn't matter) to the date of your birth minus your current age. If you're 19 and born in 2000 you can go back to 1981, if you're 59 and born in1960 you can go back to 1901. That's the upper (lower?) limit. A 19 year old can't go back before 2000, but they can go back to any day after they were born.

What would you change when and why ?

Another thing: The change has to be globally/historically significant.

 

[Synobun]

Are we still a normal person in this scenario, just blessed with knowledge from the future and our memories? Or do we gain some form of omnipotent control over the course of humanity?

 

[Kyriakos]

Obviously 1071. If that save is lost then any of the manuel komnenos savepoints. Failing even that, at least ged rid of monkeys near the father of mad constantine glucksburg.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Are we still a normal person in this scenario, just blessed with knowledge from the future and our memories? Or do we gain some form of omnipotent control over the course of humanity?

Jein.
Ideally you're just somebody whom everyone trusts because that's a better story. but mind control powers are also acceptable.

You're not omnipotent, you can only influence/persuade people.

 

[Synobun]

I'd go back to 1970 (that's as far back as I'm allowed to go, I think?) and slap a few heads to get everyone on-board with the whole "renewable resources are good" idea. Way too much corporate sabotaging happened back during the Boomer generation on that front. I think we'd be a lot better off today if that hadn't happened because support for renewable resources seems comorbid with caring about the environment and, as a result, the people and things in that environment.

 

[Estebonrober]

Change the 2000 Bush Gore election the other way. Ironic because I voted for Bush back then on his education reform platform, but looking back now I think there was an inflection point shortly thereafter on climate change and fiscal policy that we could have gone the other way and we'd be in a better place now.

 

[Hrothbern]

If you had the chance to go back in time, when and what would you change ?
Obviously any human in their right mind would say "before we split off from Bonobos", so we need some limitations to make it less boring or predictable.
Let's assume you can go back in time (mentally or physically, doesn't matter) to the date of your birth minus your current age. If you're 19 and born in 2000 you can go back to 1981, if you're 59 and born in1960 you can go back to 1901. That's the upper (lower?) limit. A 19 year old can't go back before 2000, but they can go back to any day after they were born.

What would you change when and why ?

Another thing: The change has to be globally/historically significant.

Nice question.
Within your frame I would chose the same year I was born and at the same place.
I fell in the middle of a very exciting time in Amsterdam. Teenager in the early 70ies. Even if I was born 5 years earlier I would likely have missed a lot at young enough age of the late 70ies to early 80ies. Everything was turned upside-down. But with 5 years earlier I would have been more part of the mid 60ies in Amsterdam. Kind of tempting that 5 years earlier, but I did meet enough people to catch for that up during my secondary school time, the school very close to where much happened. Not only happenings.
And the same answer for being born later.

 

[The_J]

Interesting scenario... I can go back to the 50s, but haven't decided yet. It should be something horrible, without political impact... mmhh... so maybe just warn from a Natural desaster?

 

[Zardnaar]

I can go back to 1938 so avoiding WW2 might be doable IDK.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

If you had the chance to go back in time, when and what would you change ?
Obviously any human in their right mind would say "before we split off from Bonobos", so we need some limitations to make it less boring or predictable.
Let's assume you can go back in time (mentally or physically, doesn't matter) to the date of your birth minus your current age. If you're 19 and born in 2000 you can go back to 1981, if you're 59 and born in1960 you can go back to 1901. That's the upper (lower?) limit. A 19 year old can't go back before 2000, but they can go back to any day after they were born.

What would you change when and why ?

Another thing: The change has to be globally/historically significant.

Cambridge, 1908. Explain to John Maynard Keynes the long term consequences of actions taken under his guidance to save capitalism through market intervention. Convince him that he would basically prove Marx right, in that the accumulation of capital into ever fewer hands leads inevitably to the violent collapse of any market based economy so that he will apply his considerable genius towards structuring an egalitarian economy and then use his considerable influence to bring that about when capitalism collapses in the late 1920s.

That what you are looking for?

 

[Ajidica]

Hmmm, if it is just me going back, I'll stay here in 2019. Our long-term isn't looking great but for me, personally, right now I'm doing fine. Perhaps go back to 2012 or so when I was in college and do a few things differently, but not much.
Though a few jaunts to early 80s in the UK would be fun. I have a soft spot for the last gasps of punk and the start of New Wave.

Now, if I could take the world back to a date and hope it does things better, I'll aim for mid/late 70s and hope we can hold off Thatcher and Reagan and stop the neoliberal delusions that seized our politicians through some sort of mass psychosis.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I can go back to 1938 so avoiding WW2 might be doable IDK.

Ah, WW2.
That's one event I wouldn't touch with your ten foot pole.
By 1938 you could only delay it until multiple countries had developed nukes.

 

[Kyriakos]

Ah, WW2.
That's one event I wouldn't touch with your ten foot pole.
By 1938 you could only delay it until multiple countries had developed nukes.

Just restore to peter's era and this time make sure there is no miracle of house brandemburg. If lazy just load as the austrians.

Also, philip dick deserves a mention.

 

[Azem.Ocram]

The earliest I can go back is 1964 so I guess I’d prevent Nixon from being elected president. I’d have to use future knowledge to invest in winning stocks, then fund the 1968 election of Herbert Humphrey.

 

[AmazonQueen]

The earliest I can go back is 1964 so I guess I’d prevent Nixon from being elected president. I’d have to use future knowledge to invest in winning stocks, then fund the 1968 election of Herbert Humphrey.

Yey, ditto.
I wouldn't do anything dramatic, just work to increase acceptance of the EU so we could avoid this current lunacy.

edit:isn't hindsight wonderful

 

[Kyriakos]

Well, the time limit sucks. Double one's age? 78 years back means that the only thing i can do would be to ensure germany is partitioned totally after ww2.
Or at least make it pay its war debt and forced loan on Greece.
That is uber boring.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Well, the time limit sucks. Double one's age? 78 years back means that the only thing i can do would be to ensure germany is partitioned totally after ww2.
Or at least make it pay its war debt and forced loan on Greece.
That is uber boring.

To be fair to Greeks you have to allow them to go back at least 3000 years. The whole world has just been really nasty and unfair since then.

 

[FriendlyFire]

To be fair to Greeks you have to allow them to go back at least 3000 years. The whole world has just been really nasty and unfair since then.

Is that allowed because, you would bring modern technology advances and for knowledge of historical events
I guess reliving the removal of Kebab (Turkey) would be a fun time period to experience over and over.

You could also leave future warnings of certain events, to shape the development of the world well after your own death. Not so that living back in primitive ancient times would be all that fun. Greeks use to cut wine with seawater because it tasted so bad. Starvation, slavery and lack of modern medicines

 

[AmazonQueen]

Yey, ditto.
I wouldn't do anything dramatic, just work to increase acceptance of the EU so we could avoid this current lunacy.

edit:isn't hindsight wonderful

edit: althought I can go back to 1912 so no collapse of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, no World Wars, no idea how it would've worked out although it couldn't have been worse than what actually happened

edit: I could even allow the Greeks to regain Constantinople at the end of WWI but I won't

Is that allowed because, you would bring modern technology advances and for knowledge of historical events
I guess reliving the removal of Kebab (Turkey) would be a fun time period to experience over and over.

ofc it isn't allowed, history is just an anti-Greek conspiracy

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Well, the time limit sucks. Double one's age? 78 years back means that the only thing i can do would be to ensure germany is partitioned totally after ww2.
Or at least make it pay its war debt and forced loan on Greece.
That is uber boring.

Or convince Tito to go through with his plan to assist the communists in the Greek civil war.