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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,251

    I missed Woodstock because I was working for the Army Corps of Engineers and didn't think I should ask for time off to go.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,266
    Charlie Judge said:

    I missed Woodstock because I was working for the Army Corps of Engineers and didn't think I should ask for time off to go.

    I missed Woodstock because I was not born until about thirteen or fourteen years after the event and I have yet to find a time traveling doctor to befriend 

  • ghastlycomicghastlycomic Posts: 2,531

    I’m facing a time traveler moral dilemma in video game form. Playing Civilization III and Japan launches a surprise nuclear attack on my nation. Partway through the attack my computer crashes and I have to go back to the last save point and play again, essentially going back in time.

    Now I know that in at least one alternate timeline I’ve experienced, Japan launches a surprise nuclear attack on me and so far in the restored timeline I’m playing Japan hasn’t launched the attack, but everything else is playing out the same as it did before.

    Am I morally justified launching a preemptive nuclear strike on Japan based on what I experienced in an alternate timeline or would it be wrong for me to attack Japan in my current timeline based on what they did in an alternate one?

    So far no British people in a blue box have showed up to offer their assistance.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631
    ghastlycomic said:

    I was 4 years old when Woodstock was happening and I remember it vividly. A neighbour of ours who we called Uncle Ernie and lived on farm down the road was over visiting and said to me dad "Did you hear about this Woodstock thing that's happening? There's like a million kids out in some farmer's field listening to music."

    This sounded really cool to me so with 4 year old logic I ran outside to look for them expecting to see about a million (whatever that number meant, like more than 100? I dunno. Grownups use it when they mean a lot of something) kids about my age sitting in one of the fields around my house listening to music. I scanned from horizon to horizon and saw no kids in any of the farmers fields I could see, not did I hear any music. So I was bummed out because whatever farmers field it was they were hanging out with it wasn't within walking distance of the one around my house. And then later learning there was a small town called Woodstock not far from Simcoe where I grew up reinforced my childhood notion that Woodstock happened near where I lived. It wasn't until I was 10 or 11 that I found out it was something that happened in the states.

    nice story

  • LorraineLorraine Posts: 883

    I'd nuke em, Ghastly, but then I'm not a British person in a blue box, just a Commonwealth citizen that Britain doesn't want anymore. Oh wait, it's not Britain you want to nuke?!

  • 3delinquent3delinquent Posts: 355

    You could nuke Britain and Japan. That way if Britain nuked you in a timeline alternative to the one where Japan nuked you, you're nuking two birds with one stone. I don't know though, that sort of thing can start wars if you're not careful.

  • ghastlycomicghastlycomic Posts: 2,531

    Ironically I ended up playing England this time (I always set my empire to random).

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