What Past Time Period Would You Like To Live Through? : Othor Games

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:19 am

I'm not some idiot who thinks back then it was all fun and games...

sorry, I didn't mean any disrespect, I'm just a bit of a smart ass sometimes. I don't like living during these times either, TBH...

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:21 pm

No matter how attractive it sounds to slaughter Romans in Teutoburg forest, invade Christian Italy with the Longobards or join my Viking brethren in the pillaging of Europe's costs, life these days is just too easy and comfortable to give up completely. I wouldn't mind making a few short trips back though.

Hm. This raises an interesting point.
As a woman, modern society suits me simply for the equality and comfortable clothing. Being a medieval peasant would probably suit me fine though, though I don't know if it was common practise to [censored] and beat peasant women, but if not, a simple life outdoors would be a bit of alright. I mean, back then (I assume) the air was cleaner, you generally knew what was in your food and your alcohol wasn't bright pink. Mass production didn't exist (in my world, this is a good thing), nuclear war didn't mean anything, and you didn't have to worry about meteors, emmissions, the sun getting too close, the world running out of oil, mass destruction of ecosystems etc etc etc I'm sure I don't need to go on.

In short, I'd rather have been alive a long, long time ago.

I'm not some idiot who thinks back then it was all fun and games, I wasn't saying that those times were great. Obviously life back then could also be nasty, especially without proper sanitation, drainage, all those sorts of things. I would just much rather deal with the chance of some crazy Viking, should I have chosen to be born in Europe, than face things such as nuclear warfare, etc etc. Today's society is bad for paranoids. You get fed by the media all these potential dangers and possibilities, back then, you didn't know a plague was going to hit. ou didn't know if vikings would come pilliage your town. Sure, today you get to prepare for it and run, but then, what if it didn't happen? You spend your life paranoid.

So instead of having some problems that most likely will either not happen in your lifetime or not affect you (much) personally you'd rather live in a world where the local nobles steal most of your harvest and call it rent and competing nobles burn your crops and [censored] your daughters every other summer? I sure as hell wouldn't want to be a medieval peasant.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:05 pm

I want to be Bertie Wooster.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:59 pm

Depends on how long I'd be staying. If it would be a while, I'd have to go to a period where toilet paper exists.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:13 pm

I would've loved to see the space race. But who knows, maybe the Chinese will start a new one? To Mars, and beyond!

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:14 pm

I wouldn't mind visiting an earlier era, but to stay permanently would svck.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:53 pm

I'd like to be a child or teenager during the 50s in the US

I want to be Bertie Wooster.

Ooh, this too

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:37 pm

20's or 50's. Actually, just 50's. So pretty! ^_^

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:35 pm

About 15,000 years ago, so I could see one or two of the Missoula Floods (I'd need a helicopter), or late Cretacious, when the US had a shallow, tropical inland sea. You could have walked from Ohio to Arizona without ever leaving the water, and without ever having your head submerged.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:56 pm

I would like to go back in time with a fully charged Kindle (with German text) and a copy of the National Inquirer to show to Johann Gutenberg.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:09 pm

Wow there is just so many.
Mainly I would prefer:
14th Century Scotland
Renaissance Italy
23 A.D. Israel
40's United States

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:03 am

A noble in Ancient Greece/Rome. Piss ups and orgies aplenty.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:06 am

About 15,000 years ago, so I could see one or two of the Missoula Floods (I'd need a helicopter), or late Cretacious, when the US had a shallow, tropical inland sea. You could have walked from Ohio to Arizona without ever leaving the water, and without ever having your head submerged.

Hell's Aquarium in the Tethys Sea would be interesting to visit.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:47 pm

Asian history doesn't really go further than ancient Greece.

If I have to choose, any superpower like Roman empire, ancient Egypt or ancient Greece. Back in the days you can't even defend yourself without arms and mucles, in places of war, there is no reason for you to stand the kind of craps you wouldn't even get to think of in modern days. Being mistreated is one thing, being discriminated by the society medeval way is another thing.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:55 pm

a knight in the medieval era
a gangster in the 1930's
a ranger in the wild west

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:38 pm

If I can fantasize that being a woman didn't make a difference, either the early 1800's (frontier exploration of the US, I wanna be the female Lewis or Clark) or the (early, being an advlt) 1960's.

....other than that, I might wish I had been born 10-15 years earlier for real estate boom reasons

but generally I like when I was born. Old enough to still kind of remember what it was like before this huge tech boom & young enough to enjoy/take advantage of/embrace the tech when it suits me (unlike my parents...).

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:26 pm

Renaissance

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:26 am

I like this time, but if I had to choose another time, it would around the 13th century, or in the late 50s/early 60s (so I could have gotten rich in the 80s and 90s)

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:49 am

I'd either like to live in the 40's or 50's, or I'd like to live in Rome because Rome was as good as it got in terms of living conditions before our time, I think...maybe, don't quote me on that.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:02 am

Hmm if I had to pick anything else than now, I'd want to live in the 80s, because that's the closest time to the present, and I already lived the 90s. The farther you go from now the less expected life you would have, and the more inequalities society had. Sure people are losing their values and most live their lives stressfully, but it doesn't get better than this... I'd want to live today and be rich as hell while keep being healthy.

I'd like to make a short visit to 1929 to make huge money off the stock market's crash though, or go to the 70s and buy ALOT of oil futures :dance:

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:14 pm

Chill with dinosaurs, maybe even bring my girl Eve with me.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:14 pm

Definitely the Renaissance.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:31 am

I'd go check out the roman republic if I could but not sure I'd want to swap my current time epoch for that one, interesting though it might have been.

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:34 am

Medieval, because in those days, you could make a living as a wandering minstrel, or a craftsman, It was a lot easier to make cash than it is today

Although i'd also like to live in the 80's, when climate change was not a problem but it still had most modern comforts

» Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:11 am

Any time before the eighties.

1960 - 1980: Rock music would have sustained me.
1920 - 1960: I could smoke happily, completely oblivious to any health risks.

Wild West: Hmmm, probably not. Obviously, I'm a hard-ass in my little fantasies but in reality, I'd probably hate it.
Medieval: My idea of heaven.