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    Default What age would you choose to live?

    Sounds a bit random this but its sumthin that i always think about.

    My question to you is....

    If given a choice based on knowing what you know now about the history of this world, what age would you have chose to live in?
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    The Future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
    The Future.
    Haha, good answer. And really the only suitable one.
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    In the good old days.
    That would be the 1980s for me


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    60's/70's, probably! But I love now as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brave Brave Sir Robin View Post
    Haha, good answer. And really the only suitable one.
    I got a better one. The Paradise future. Not those dam Apocolypse futures.

    edit: Ill be playing around in my holodeck while the terminators get you.
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    Garden of Eden before that damn woman ruined everything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah View Post
    Garden of Eden before that damn woman ruined everything.
    Damn Straight!!!!!
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    I doubt anyone here could REALLY prefer any past age over the present day. We're all a bit too used to our internet, cellphones, and other 21st century luxuries, not to mention EB! That said, there are certainly many historical epochs I'd like to VISIT. Imperial Rome is an obvious first choice since I spend most of my time studying their history and archaeology, but 3rd century BCE Alexandria would also be interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah View Post
    Garden of Eden before that damn woman ruined everything.
    The who tells us YOU wouldn't ruin everything? :DDDDD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beefy187 View Post
    In the good old days.
    That would be the 1980s for me
    this :)


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    I cannot answer your question for I am not of this world. I am from the planet Gametron (seen plenty of you there as well) and for us there has only ever been 1 age - the age of gaming. It's a wonderful world.

    However I have heard of this 'woman' you speak of and it reminds me of a story.

    Once upon a time there was a man, and the man asked a woman to marry him. The woman said "NO" and the man lived happily ever after. THE END

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    The who tells us YOU wouldn't ruin everything? :DDDDD
    Well, actually, who are you? I mean, they probably "can't explain", but if Methusaleh won't get fooled again, the kids should be alright.
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    Back in the Pliocene Epoch for the bearded women.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
    Well, actually, who are you? I mean, they probably "can't explain", but if Methusaleh won't get fooled again, the kids should be alright.
    :D That made my day
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    Quote Originally Posted by VIPERLORD View Post
    Once upon a time there was a man, and the man asked a woman to marry him. The woman said "NO" and the man lived happily ever after. THE END
    Autobiography?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teucer View Post
    I doubt anyone here could REALLY prefer any past age over the present day. We're all a bit too used to our internet, cellphones, and other 21st century luxuries, not to mention EB! That said, there are certainly many historical epochs I'd like to VISIT. Imperial Rome is an obvious first choice since I spend most of my time studying their history and archaeology, but 3rd century BCE Alexandria would also be interesting.
    Something along the lines of this! After that I would certainly try to visit more ages!

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    Enjoy your smallpox.
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    What I think would be really cool is the sort of simulation where you are placed "inside" of someone living at the certain time and location. However you can just see from the viewpoint of the person you are "in", but can't make any decisions, just follow your "host". This way you could see, feel and hear the thoughts and emotions of the frontline roman soldier charging the battleline of celts, the daily life of athenian citizen, the lousy life of a cretan mercenary or daily struggles of a farmer somewhere in Baktria. This is just a few examples from EB period. The only limit then would be your time and imagination as possibilities are endless.

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    With what I know now, head back to La Tene Europe, warn the Gauls of the Celts, and have a c. 390 Rome sack repeat itself in 50 B.C. The Gauls, Dacians, Thracians, Iberian, and other languages and cultures might still be preserved today for our enjoyment...

    Then again the 1980 rocked. Great thrash, speed, and general heavy metal (not hair metal really) to be found and band in their prime.
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    Yes... introduce the celts to heavy metal.
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    I doubt anyone here could REALLY prefer any past age over the present day. We're all a bit too used to our internet, cellphones, and other 21st century luxuries, not to mention EB!
    Bah. I don't even have most of the advanced 21st century toys like cellphones or ipods or laptops. I have a t.v., but there's never anything to watch, so I wouldn't miss it.
    In fact, I have often dreamed of moving to the steppes and living among nomadic herdsmen, if there are any left. They've probably all settled down and become district attorneys or something by now.
    Of course, I think I'd much rather live in the Cambrian period. There wouldn't be anybody or anything running around on land, and there'd be funny little creatures in the sea, most of which were probably edible. It might be a tad unpleasant without plants.
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    the 17th century in China.... enjoying a live as a manchurian noblemen... All I need is some time to fight as heavy HA, and everything (slaves, money, and delicious foodstuffs) will come automatically without any expense...

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    I wouldn't change a thing! Life is good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Power2the1 View Post
    Then again the 1980 rocked. Great thrash, speed, and general heavy metal (not hair metal really) to be found and band in their prime.
    OH GOD NO
    Quote Originally Posted by Cute Wolf View Post
    the 17th century in China.... enjoying a live as a manchurian noblemen... All I need is some time to fight as heavy HA, and everything (slaves, money, and delicious foodstuffs) will come automatically without any expense...
    Why hello there Three Feudatories

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    Neolithic (new stone age) period... That part of human history always have facinated me...
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    I'd go back to the Cretaceous and be a dinousaur. RAWWRRR!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
    Well, actually, who are you? I mean, they probably "can't explain", but if Methusaleh won't get fooled again, the kids should be alright.
    I admit to not understanding this joke. Can you elaborate?

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    I admit to not understanding this joke. Can you elaborate?
    Alright, I'll explain step by step

    Man, the stuff the youngsters of today listen to. They don't even know The Who anymore.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Power2the1
    Then again the 1980 rocked. Great thrash, speed, and general heavy metal (not hair metal really) to be found and band in their prime.
    OH GOD NO
    Oh, and what does this mean?

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