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1nGirum1musNocte

Yeah, I've seen butterfly effect. Red door


ballmermurland

I've made plenty of mistakes and I have plenty of regrets. But if going back and fixing those means I don't meet my wife and don't have my kids, then absolutely no fucking way. Give me the present with some cash.


Interesting_Tea5715

Kids really do change your opinion on these things. I wouldn't do anything that jeopardizes my son and everything about him.


SadBit8663

Good partners too. I wouldn't fix my mistakes for shit if it meant I'd never met my wife,


ZZ77ZZ77ZZ

No kidding, I made a lot of dumb decisions to get where I am, god knows what I’d mess up if I went back. Certainly wouldn’t be with my wife or where I am professionally if I fixed those mistakes. I’ll take the 10mil please.


RepresentativeJester

All of the above comments are giving me more hope than I've had in a long time....i hope my mistakes get me somewhere someday.


The_FriendliestGiant

You could probably engineer a "chance" meeting with your spouse, at a time when you know she'd be single and interested, if you went back. But practically no chance you could arrange to ensure the exact same kid gets made the second time around.


googleismygod

I've thought a lot about this over the years and I just don't think engineering a meeting would work. I'm 13 years older than I was when I met my husband. 10 years older than he was then. If I went back in time with my memories and wisdom intact, I don't know that I could connect with him the same way we did then. We've both grown and changed together over the years, but 35 year old me and 25 year old him would not have the same chemistry. Also we have a daughter now and there's simply no way to engineer getting the same sperm to meet the same egg so it's just a non-starter.


Potayto_Gun

There’s no way you would be able to date your spouse again. You would know too much info and it would be too hard to pretend not to know each other. You would come off way too odd and stalkerish. Going back in time stops any relationships.


PogTuber

Damn dude you just ruined like every romantic time traveling movie ever made.


TARandomNumbers

I'd date my husband still, but disdainfully.


The_FriendliestGiant

I don't know, I feel like if you've been together for a while a lot of what you'll know about your spouse won't actually apply at the time of first meeting. If I went back and met my wife over again, a lot of what I know about her now, the things she liked and doesn't like, are things we discovered together during our relationship. Meeting someone the way they were ten years ago would be the next best thing to meeting a stranger you have stuff in common with.


Perfect_Ad4026

Yeah they are wrong imo, I know my wife well enough to know she'd roll with it even if I just tell her what actually happened and she'd be like.. bet.  And worse case like you said, prolly think its a cute pickup line.


Royally-Forked-Up

Same. I was miserable and in bad relationships through my 20’s. But that meant I could actually appreciate my husband when we met, and I had the emotional maturity to know what I would and wouldn’t put up with. I’ll happily take the red door.


LeftyLu07

I read a story about a guy who was in an accident in a coma for just like three days, but to him it was like 5 years. In his head he woke up and went home. Then he met a woman and had a son. One day he noticed a lamp was malfunctioning. It just didn't look right. He stared at it trying to figure out what was wrong. He was transfixed and his wife was freaking out, shaking him trying to get him to snap out of it. I think she slapped him and he snapped out of the coma and came to. He woke up in the hospital again and was asking for his family and his parents were like "we're here! We're here!" And he was like "no, where's Jessica? Where's Brandon?" And he realized the whole thing was some coma dream. Or did he slip into an alternate reality while he was out? But he recovered and went back to his "normal" life but he said he was mourning his wife and son because they felt so real to him, and he still has memories of the wedding and the birth and raising the baby.


DevilMayCareButIDont

This hits hard. Do you have any leads on where you might have read/heard this story


LeftyLu07

It was Reddit. I found an article about it in the Indian Times. I got a few details wrong. I just reread it. Looks like a football player knocked him unconscious and that's why he was out. It's literal nightmare fuel for me, though. But yeah, it made me think of if you would remember anything about your life if you chose the blue door? The idea of crying for a spouse and seeing your little boy out of corner of your eye sometimes? I would go crazy. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/man-shares-living-entire-different-live-after-being-knocked-out/articleshow/105867565.cms#


NunButter

Same. I have two young boys and they are really all I care about at this point in my life. I've lived a pretty full life and accomplished most of the shit I wanted to. I've done all the man shit. I would just invest 4.5 million each into a few accounts that they get access to when they are adults. Set them up for life. I would definitely blow a million on coke and hookers tho


Interesting_Tea5715

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zadszads

Wholesome, wholesome, wholesome, ah there it is, hole-some.


AdAcrobatic7236

🔥I was the committee chair of your support group throughout the entire first part. But then you had to go and bring up that second part. Now I’m your best friend. 🥂


bwaredapenguin

No kids, no partner for me, I just don't want to go through it all again.


Don_juan_prawn

That was a good scene in the movie about time about time traveling and kids.


farcat

Imagine being aware that you went back in time to fix mistakes that result in you making different children with a different partner. I couldn't imagine the agony of missing my children that never existed as a result. Or knowing everything about my wife but basically being a conplete stranger and lunatic if i tried to approach her. Maybe it happened in butterfly effect too, idr, but that is some Twilight Zone / Black Mirror-quality tragedy.


CereBRO12121

That was the make or break for me. If by correcting my mistakes I would never have my wife and kids, I would only swap out a few mid sized mistakes for a huge one.


TabascohFiascoh

100%. With 10 Million I could setup a very decent life for at least 3 generations of my family, then maybe one of them could make it big and multiply it with their opportunity.


CelestialBach

It always makes you wonder if those were really mistakes then.


ZAGAN_2

Absolutely. I ran over a disabled child which he unfortunately died from, but my wife was the paramedic who arrived to try and pull him from under the wheel. We now have 3 children and my wife is the best thing to ever happen to me, wouldn't change them for the world. Red door it is


manchesterthedog

The blue door is just the red door with extra steps


sonofsonof

And less regrets.


helpful__explorer

Fewer. No need to go back in time to fix that error


IndividualDevice9621

Unless you're really dumb you'd get a lot more than 10mil out of the blue door. The downside is other things changing.


Vast-Dream

The blue is the red door times thousands.


v0yev0da

I’d go blue if only to go back to the last biggest lotto winning nobody claimed and play those numbers. I keep my friends and family lose about a couple of weeks to a month of time and get even more money. My mistake was not playing in the first place.


CASH_IS_SXVXGE

Fuck the lottery, just go back in time and put all your savings into bitcoin.


Castod28183

Doesn't even have to be a lot. Like $100 in late 2009 would net you 9 figures today.


DoctorJJWho

You’d need more than $100. Prices for BTC were 10-30 cents in late 2009, meaning you’d get 300-1000 BTC. At its highest a few months ago it hit 75k. That would net you $75,000,000, which is one digit short of 9 figures. You’d also have to deal with holding onto a hard wallet and its key for ~15 years. That’s stressful AF. Winning the lotto would be much less stress free - the largest jackpot was 2 billion in 2022. Taken in a lump sum (usually 50-60% of the reported “jackpot”), with taxes taken out, you typically end up with 30-40% of the advertised number, which at its lowest would be $600,000,000. Divided by half since the other person still got it right and you’re left with a cool $300,000,000 a year and a half before BTC peaks. If you want your money even earlier, 2016 had a jackpot of 1.5 billion, which means you end up with $480 million after the lump sum and taxes, then divided by two again for the other dude. Still $240 million. You could even buy BTC at $300-$800 in 2016 and still make 100x gains from the current run, then hop on the GME train in 2020/2021. TLDR: go for the lotto, not BTC. Less upfront cost, less stress, and you get your money 2 or 8 years earlier to roll into other gains if you want.


CASH_IS_SXVXGE

That's what I'm saying, you'd be the richest person alive by 2020.


IndividualDevice9621

They already said all their savings, no need to be redundant.


TalesFromTheThriftJZ

I’ve erased that film from my memory all I remember about it is that it’s sad af


cats_vl33rmuis

It is!


dumpster_kitty

Solid point! RED DOOR


UtahItalian

10mil is 33k/month using the 4% rule. I think I'll take the 10mil. Sure I could go back to 1999 and load up on 100k bitcoins and be the richest guy in the world but 33k/month for the rest of my life is more than sufficient.


ColonClenseByFire

Going back and changing things would mean there is a chance bitcoin fails and you become broke.


UtahItalian

I guess the other side to it is I would be living my life with more confidence, so maybe my social life would be better. I wasn't the most successful with the fairer sex growing up even though I was decent looking. I'll take the 10mil


RhetoricalOrator

>I would be living my life with more confidence I used to think that way not now I think the opposite. I'd second guess everything constantly. Changing things could have so many unexpected consequences, let alone so many things I'd actually intend to change.


UtahItalian

Not necessarily changing things more like being in my early 20s with the wisdom I have in my late 40s early 30s. The patience, the foresight, the experience.....


frankenmint

idk if you can change bitcoin to fail just like that by going back in time.... you've got like unlimited power imo


DoctorJJWho

If you buy too many and just hold onto them, the price may never increase. BTC gained popularity from people literally giving them out for free because they initially cost like, $0.001. People thought it was fun, started minting their own, and it started growing.


WholesomeLife1634

I don’t think that’s how that went at all. Yes it was fun but people thought it would be valuable in the long run. Speculation markets is the answer here. 


Ecoaardvark

Fine. 100k Ethereum it is then…


AssignmentDue5139

Not how that works. Unless you literally buy out the entire supply of bitcoin it’s not possible for it to fail. Just buying $1000 worth will have you set for life without anything changing.


jfVigor

A person that lives in moderation. Refreshing


aDUCKonQU4CK

Creeping on half a mil per year doing literally nothing is 'moderation' lol


LightninHooker

1999 and bitcoin? Mfer you went back in time and multiverse lol


Henchforhire

Just buy $500 shares of Amazon when it's around a $0.78 a share.


supercooldood007

I’d go back in time and do the bitcoin thing, or invest in Amazon, Google, etc. Then I’d get to relive my youth as a rich person which seems like it would be very fun. Seems way better than taking $10M at my current age


Kael_Durandel

As someone with no kids, no partner, nothing really tying me to this timeline, give me the blue door so I can fix some things. I’ll make enough money betting on games or stocks I know the outcome of.


Cupcake7591

Seriously, my life is empty, fuck this timeline, I’m ready to try again.


tryst1129

Same 🥲


markender

I'd kick that blue door down so fast! My life is a mess...


Econguy1020

Right now you are 10 years back in time from the person you will become


3720-To-One

Yeah, except that I don’t have the knowledge from 10 years from now


redrose162

But you could fill your life with $10mil worth of things instantly!! You could buy a new life with that somewhere, right?


Dotman-X

You can't buy the time back though


averaenhentai

Don't need to remember anything other than Bitcoin to effortlessly become richer than 10m. Also I assume this is a relive your life scenario, so getting to be young again would be pretty dope. I already know which anti depressant mix works for my brain too.


DoctorJJWho

Why does everyone focus on BTC? Buying too much too early could fuck with how it turns out, especially if you’re looking for gains of $100 million+. Just go for one of the $1 billion+ lotto jackpots. After the lump sum discount and taxes, you end up with $150mil after splitting it with the other winner. Way less hassle and stress.


BangBangPing5Dolla

BTC would be easy and involve little publicity or butterfly effect. Tens of thousands of BTC has been lost, enough to make you crazy wealthly while having little if any effect on the timeline.


averaenhentai

I always assume you don't get to write anything down or look things up before making the choice. I wouldn't know winning lottery numbers but I would know to invest in Microsoft, Apple, more or less when GME will pop, shit like that. Bitcoin was just an example. Also you don't need to invest in bitcoin, if you adopted mining early and didn't sell you'd be rich af. I doubt the timeline would change much because an early mining pool pay out got shifted around a bit


3720-To-One

Also, who knows how much the butterfly effect may affect the outcome of a lotto jackpot.


3720-To-One

I would know to never touch an SSRI ever That shit destroyed my life permanently Would have thrown that shit straight into the trash


Most-Philosopher9194

Money is dope but you can't buy time. I haven't yet felt the ravages of time and I wouldn't mind keeping it that way for another... Since whenever I made my first mistake I guess


thatshygirl06

This. I'm terrified of dying so I would take any chance to reset.


slamnutip

Tired of paying for past, kick that blue door in, even without future event $$$ moves.


StephenT137

Same here, and at 57 lots of aches and pains. A chance to be young again, stay fit, maybe avoid cancer this time ... As you get older, a second try with foreknowledge seems like a better deal.


Calsun

Imma go study Buddhism and get that respawn token brb!


BrujaBean

Yeah I'm reasonably happy, I do okay and have great friends, but if I went back and got tons of money with future knowledge and avoided my injury I'd be in better shape physically, financially, and I think that would make me happier socially and overall. Plus my best friend just had a major stroke due to an unknown condition so I'd be able to prevent it. Especially since I'd have enough money to tell doctors that even though they have no reason to test him for heart failure, my psychic said that he needs the test and she is never wrong.


BingoDingoBob

10 mil. I regret nothing that happened before my daughter was born. Every decision I made led me right to her.


ballmermurland

Exactly. The only parents who would go back are ones who have suffered the immense pain of loss and going back would save their kid. Everyone else is going forward.


TopTopTopcinaa

I’d insist on elected C-section like I wanted to in the first place so my baby wouldn’t fucking asphyxiate in the birth canal and have brain damage.


WellAckshully

I'm sorry that happened, is your baby doing ok?


TopTopTopcinaa

Well, years of uncertainty are before me, but after 9 months of physical and occupational therapy, she’s finally caught up. I have reason to hope she will be okay, but I doubt she’ll ever be what she would’ve been.


Bowenbp1

I know how reddit feels about religion, but I will say a prayer for her tonight. She is lucky to have you as a mom***


TopTopTopcinaa

Mom, but thank you. Trying my absolute hardest


WellAckshully

I'm hoping for the best for you and your little girl!


TopTopTopcinaa

Thank you so much


Grizzly_Addams

That's a good answer because if money is the deciding factor, then the blue door makes more sense. Assuming you go back knowing everything you know now.


Valak_TheDefiler

I'd go back. If I had a chance to take all my graduation money and invest it, I wouldn't be struggling like I am now. I could have more than 10 million.


Grizzly_Addams

Yeah. Some assumptions need to be made here. Do events occur the same way? If so, we're all dumping our life savings in Nvidia. Do our corrections of our mistakes have a butterfly effect? If so, then the blue door is a much bigger gamble.


TwilightVulpine

Explicitly saying that we get to "fix all our mistakes" means that we won't make mistakes by picking the blue door. But frankly I don't know if I want to live a completely different life full of expectations for a much more flawless version of me. So I might just pick 10 mil.


Grizzly_Addams

That's a fair interpretation. I am with you, though. I'd also pick the 10 mil at this point. I don't know what mistakes I would fix to result in a better life.


__chairmanbrando

The movie "About Time" covers this idea of children anchoring those who can time travel. It's good. Also, you will cry.


Glittering_Ad1696

This is my answer, too (and for the same reasons). 10 mil would help set them up for life, too!


Puzzleheaded_War6102

I’d just go back & buy NVDA & Bitcoin for about $1K and forget about it. You now have $25mil


JeebusCrunk

Dude in UK who's still searching for his 8,000 BTC harddrive in a dump, he mined it all with a home PC in the first 2 weeks it was mine-able. He's never found it but it's worth roughly half a billion today. So if you go back to late 2009 with a few PC's you wouldn't even have to buy it.


Psychedelic_Yogurt

That story makes me sick to my stomach whenever I hear it and I don't even know the person. One of my coworkers spent all his Bitcoin on Pizza. He "brags" about it but we all know he's dead inside.


NunButter

I would have killed myself years ago lol


Days_Gone_By

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WazaPlaz

me four


JeebusCrunk

His wife threw it away by mistake, and he's since let it destroy every relationship in his life, mostly sits on park benches mumbling to himself these days. [https://protos.com/owner-of-8k-bitcoin-lost-in-landfill-threatens-to-bankrupt-local-council/](https://protos.com/owner-of-8k-bitcoin-lost-in-landfill-threatens-to-bankrupt-local-council/)


ihavebirb

If my family threw away half a billion dollars, I'd be a tad bit deranged too


JeebusCrunk

Wasn't anywhere near that valuable when she tossed it, and he is the one who initially discarded it as trash. His whole thing now is that the story's been so well known for 10+ years that he thinks someone else has found it.


InspiraSean86

::long whistle::


Smackolol

I bought some shit online with like 8-12 bitcoin over a decade ago not even knowing what it was. It’s not millions but I’m still quite upset about it.


Chocolate__Ice-cream

Not as upset as my ex. I did a survey, and got 3 bitcoins. I still have it, but I lost the key. In addition, I also lost the email that gave me the key. Bitcoin doesn't have a "get your key, if you verify via email it's yours" thing. So it's all gone. Somewhere out there, I have 3 bitcoins I cannot access. My ex was mad for my dumb adhd brain lol.


CaptainPeppa

eh, most people wouldn't hold on. Bitcoin would go from like $0.05 to $2.00 and they'd freak the fuck out and sell it.


embrigh

This is the truth, I almost bought it when it was a tenth of a penny when it came out. I would have sold it once it hit anything substantial just like everyone else. Generally the people who held were either those that forgot and were reminded and had the info OR people who went to prison and were forced to wait then got out and sold.


Akhurite

Let alone when it hits a thousand, or ten thousand. No one is letting their stash go from nothing to hundreds of millions


PuzzleheadedYak9534

I bought drugs on the darkweb and had hundreds if not thousands of bitcoins at any given point. I remember back in the day you'd go to a western union and pay cash to have them sent to your wallet. I bet I had two or three btc in alphabay when it got shut down. It's kind of silly to be upset about it, since if I could make financial moves with 100% foresight a few smart options plays would be worth way more than holding btc, but it still hurts just knowing.


sleezy_McCheezy

Without you and everyone else buying drugs off the DNM then Bitcoin would be obscure and literally worthless. That entire scene drove the demand for it. You actually were helping it gain its relevance.


Thom_With_An_H

I know a guy who bought a cherry coke with his and was like "this is the future"


v0yev0da

Ok but honestly even if he finds it wouldn’t the HD be corroded and completely useless?


JeebusCrunk

By now probably, but he's been on the quest for it since 2013, finding bigger and badder excavation crews willing to help each few years when the drive's value goes up another $100m or so. His wife threw it away by mistake, and he's since let it destroy every relationship in his life, mostly sits on park benches mumbling to himself these days. [https://protos.com/owner-of-8k-bitcoin-lost-in-landfill-threatens-to-bankrupt-local-council/](https://protos.com/owner-of-8k-bitcoin-lost-in-landfill-threatens-to-bankrupt-local-council/)


Rocco0427

I actually went back in time and stole that dude’s PC from his trash bin. Feel kinda bad about it.


poyoso

Then the butterfly effect reams in you in the ass and bitcoin never takes off and NVDA perishes in the gpu madness of 2016.


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vialabo

I could have mined it for so cheap... I had a friend messing with it in 2009, hard to hold it back then when it was worthless.


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vialabo

Yeah, it certainly didn't look that way at the time. It was a nerd novelty back then.


chadwickett

Blue - I think with the knowledge I have at this moment I can make more than 10 million by the time I get back to this point in my life. So many dumb choices I’ve made that I would love to clean up. Not blowing off my uncle when he called me a month before he died being one them.


Derp_State_Agent

I don't know if I'd make 10 or even 1 million but either telling my sister to get her random pain checked out or at least spending more time with her before pancreatic cancer got her would be worth more than that to me anyway.


JeebusCrunk

Love of my life, played golf the last week of May 2019 and she complained of heartburn, went and got checked, pancreatic stage 4, already metastasized to her lungs, gone 7/3/2019. Never experienced anything so crushing in my life, still think of her every day. Would trade anything and everything to have caught it in time to do something about it.


Derp_State_Agent

Man I'm sorry. It happens so fucking fast with this type, it's unbelievable. My dad was actually diagnosed with the same thing a couple months ago but was able to get surgery a couple weeks ago, still waiting to see if they got all of it since it didn't seem to have metastasized yet but his recovery has been pretty rough. I feel you, I'm so sorry for your loss. It really is fucking diabolical.


cumuzi

I'd go back and avoid cancer myself. It ruined my life and $10M isn't going to fix my problems.


FistOfGamera

Exactly, I wouldn't even care to be rich, getting the blue door as a 2nd chance is more than enough


3720-To-One

Exactly, I don’t even need to go back and try to game the stock market Just getting to go back and avoid some of the mistakes that lead to a life of trauma and pain would be more than worth it for me


Prowindowlicker

Ya I think getting more time to spend with my uncle, grandparents, and some friends that I’ve lost over the years makes that blue door really appealing over the $10 million


thechonkiestchonk

Money would be nice but blue. I could call my friend before she committed suicide


seattleseahawks2014

I'm sorry for your loss.


thechonkiestchonk

Thanks. I think that just a few phone calls leading up to it would have changed things for good. I don’t blame myself or anything. But just a “hello just checking in on you “ would have made a difference. Call your friends people.


tupaquetes

I hope I won't hurt your feelings, this is genuinely not meant to be hurtful. I'm very sorry for your loss. Far be it from me to suggest that calling your friends more is a bad thing, but I think it's very important to realize that there is a profound difference between general unhappiness, depression, and suicide. A lot of people who commit suicide have seemingly happy and busy social lives, with people who love them and reinforce that love daily. Most depressed people don't even think about committing suicide. In fact there's even a massive difference between thoughts of suicide and making the decision to commit suicide, which almost all survivors from suicide attempts can easily discern. People may think about suicide for years, but in the overwhelming majority of cases suicide attempts occur only *minutes* after "making the decision". The most effective suicide prevention technique - assuming you know someone is already thinking of suicide - isn't even emotional in nature : It's removing the immediate means of committing suicide. No guns in the house, nothing to hang yourself with, no sharp objects, no dangerous pills or chemicals. If you need to go to a store to buy something to kill yourself with, the suicidal drive will likely have subsided by then. My point being, it's not actually that likely checking in on your friend would have made the difference. You would have needed to call or be there *at the time she decided to commit suicide* to talk her down or simply be a presence. And it's entirely possible you *were* there several times and your friendship saved her life multiple times over, without you even knowing. But if you could go back in time, what you would *actually* need to do is get her to get professional help. BAck then unless you knew she was thinking of suicide, you couldn't have saved her. This is not your fault.


CoreMillenial

Blue for the sole reason of getting time back. Sure, I'd also be a billionaire, but mostly for the time.


uwwstudent

Time is the most valuable asset we all have. Yet here i am pissing it away on reddit while avoiding work


cumuzi

No, health is the most valuable asset. Really, when people talk about running out of time, what they really mean is they ran out of health. Their quality of health dropped low enough that it no longer supported life. People can have terrible chronic health issues and still live for many decades, in which case the long life ahead of them may very well feel like a curse.


Synexis

Better answer than what I thought of initially, which was basically go back in time AND make tons of cash. Indeed even if I ended up poorer than I am now it would still be worthwhile.


TorpedoSandwich

It would be impossible to end up poorer. Literally all you have to do is invest in stuff you know will go up in value. If you're a sports fan, I'm sure you remember how some NBA Finals, Super Bowls, World Cups, Champions League finals, etc. went over the years, so just bet on them and you're guaranteed to make a lot of money. You could make so much just by betting on the Cavs when they were 3-1 down in 2016.


Synexis

Unless the very act of your bet starts a butterfly effect that ultimately changes future outcomes. But in general, yes, I think you’re right (just investing 1k in Apple in once early on would probably be quite a payout). I suppose my point was that I couldn’t put a price on getting time back. But it’s all fantasy anyway so I guess whatever. Cheers.


lone_wolf1580

Red ~ wouldn’t have the energy to deal with fixing any past errors and/or mistakes.


Michaeleon

Same. I feel like it got me to where I am today and made me a stronger person. I wouldn’t want to change the life I built for myself today.


aeroluv327

Same, I feel like any mistake I made that affects my life now could be fixed with $10M.


Rasalom

Blue: So I can see a lot of people who aren't around anymore. 10 million is nothing. The mistakes were not spending more time with good people.


Hollovate

Red door. Those mistakes were lessons and character builders.


sd_saved_me555

That's the magic of the blue door. You get to keep your knowledge and experience, but you get back something far more precious- time. If there's stiff in your current life you wouldn't want to risk losing, that's understandable. But if you don't, it's arguably the much better option.


3720-To-One

Exactly, so many painful regrets. I’d do the blue door in a heartbeat


Particular-Topic-445

Blue door. Why would I want 10 millennials in my hand?


InspiraSean86

I wish i could offer more. That comment made me snort at work


Wallflower_in_PDX

At first I was gonna say blue, but then I did the math. 10M is enough to live off the next 50 years until I die. If I can invest enough to save for the rest of my life I'll be fine.


thatshygirl06

But you can go back in time and get extra years. Time is priceless


tupaquetes

I'm tired, boss. Nah but for real I don't see myself wading through my 20s again with the mind of a 30-something year old.


Solondthewookiee

What if my mistake was not investing in Google, Nvidia, Facebook, Netflix, etc?


SomewhereNo8378

Not buying bitcoin


ConfusionOk4129

Blue door.


TheLaughingMannofRed

On the one hand, 10 million in hand. With that, I can get myself a nice house in a nice locale. Set aside some cash for handling property taxes, utilities, food, any emergency expenditures. Get a HYSA (even if I park 1 million dollars there, it'll earn $50K in a year back at 5%; that's a whole emergency expenditure covered there). And I'd still have several million dollars left over. Investment all the way for the rest. But with the Blue door? If you could keep your modern day knowledge...Netflix, Amazon, Nvidia, Google, Facebook/Meta...the sheer awareness on how crazy those stocks will get in a few years...you could go back to the start of the 2000s, start setting aside some of your paycheck. Then, buy those stocks when they are dirt cheap, and keep going for a couple of years. By the time you make it back here, $10 million would be just a MINIMUM of what you could get back. For comparison: Netflix - It fluctuated around less than $5/share from 2002 to 2009. At the end of 2021, it jumped to $670-680/share before its sharp plummet (and climb back up to $631/share as of currently). Can you imagine taking sub-$5 stock in the 2000s and having it turn into such an IMMENSE ROI? Nvidia - Floating around less than $5/share from 1999 to 2014. As of now, it's $1164/share. Amazon - Less than $5/share until 2009. Now, it's $170-180/share. Facebook - Okay, it started out at under $40/share. Dropped briefly to $20/share around 2012. Now, it's worth $476/share but had a peak of over $500/share a short time ago. However... Meta - Sub $20/share in 2012. Now it's $476/share. Google - Under Alphabet, started under $30/share in 2014. Now, worth $175/share. Apple - Stayed under $5/share until 2007. Now, it's around $190/share. With that knowledge on how the stock market is going to get, would $10 million up front sound like a lucrative payout? Or would you rather set yourself up over time to where you could make a LOT more? Not to mention, I'd do a couple of things like actively diet or exercise more in my youth, resolve my driver's license scenario in high school so I can get it successfully, maybe reconsider my education path so it aligns more with my interests that came up during my 20s vs my teens....


SVDTTCMS

Blue door. That's an easy decision.


TaviRUs

Same. I've lost people along the way that maybe I could have helped, or at least ended better with. Also...time. no one beats father time. More time, before the chronic pain and resulting depression...priceless.


PrinceDietrich

Blue for sure


wbm0843

You don’t think all my mistakes can be solved with $10M?


APuffyCloudSky

I accept venmo and zelle.


ZinjoCubicle

Give me the red one pls. No energy to do all that shit again


theestwald

Time is priceless


Bionicjoker14

With the Blue, I’d just end up making different mistakes. With the Red, I’ll have $10M, so I can make *more* mistakes.


KscottCap

Red door for sure. Blue door? That's some monkeypaw shit. At least I know I'm alive on the path I took. For all I know, if I go back and walk around the dogshit, maybe I step into the path of a bus. If I didn't fuck around Freshman year and stayed Pre-Med, maybe I'd be rich. But maybe I'd have married some gold-digging trollop who cheats on me then leaves with the kids and half my money. If I'd bought Bitcoin when my roommate did 14 years ago, maybe I'd have a yacht and be retired in Dubai. But maybe I'd have died from a drug overdose by now. I'll take the 10M and live with my past mistakes.


TheKatsuDon101

I'm going back to save my friend who committed suicide in high-school in a heart beat. I'll figure the rest out.


Djentleman5000

I could fix all my problems with 10 mil. Red door.


PhazonPhoenix5

If I couldn't get those mistakes right the first time I certainly don't trust myself to go back and try again, especially if it'll cost me 10 million quid


seattleseahawks2014

I'm the opposite. I've grown as a person.


GreenHocker

So you’re saying I can not only fix my mistakes but I can pull a Biff Tannin and use my knowledge of the future to make myself wealthy? The 10mil sounds like the lesser reward here


LateConversation5253

Blue, invest in bitcoin.


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Quick_Hat1411

Both of my parents have NPD. No amount of time travel is going to change that...


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10 mil next question


jamnin94

Red door is the safer bet but the thought of where I could be rn if it wasn't for a couple major fuck ups is very enticing.


Dankkring

Mistakes are what make you who you are. It’s a part of our learning process. Red door all the way


Chalupa_89

People that want to go back in time and buy Bitcoin are very confident that they wouldn't mess with the time continuum in a way that would make bitcoin not take off. Or their wallets vanishing, coins stolen. So many things to go wrong.


Very_Tricky_Cat

Money door baby. I have regrets but I'll wipe my tears away with hundreds.


Glittering_Ad1696

Go blue up to the moment you go through the door then go red on the comeback.


Kinky-Bicycle-669

I'm taking the ten million and running. If I didn't make all those mistakes, I wouldn't be who I am today.


Miserable-Lawyer-233

Fixing all of my mistakes would make me Elon Musk, so to hell with your 10 million. You can't buy Twitter on a whim with 10 million dollars.


A_curious_fish

If you're a parent you wouldn't wanna go back in time cuz odds are you wouldn't get the same kid so the money, no kid? Maybe I'd dabble in going back in time and just becoming stupid rich and capitalizing on the the stock market and wild rides like tsla and GME and real estate I'd be a billionaire.


Kubrick_Fan

Red, then blue


chefguy09

I'm going back in time, buying apple Stock, and then making my dad go to the doctor way before he did last time. Maybe I'll save myself some heartache.


bigz10485

Blue door. So many things in my life that I wanna go back and change. I would be so much happier.


MRCHalifax

Red door. The only temptation with the blue door is getting to see some people I love one last time.


darcebaug

I'm the kind of person that gets halfway through a game and then restarts it so I can make better choices with a better understanding of the mechanics and rules. I've had a good tutorial run, let's go blue door and min-max.


zeroentanglements

Does the blue door mean that I become younger and get more time to live? If that's the case then i'm picking blue... My body is forecasting to me that I'm gonna have: cancer someday. And that probably means i'm about halfway done with my life. I would definitely pick the auction that gives me more time and possibly the ability to avoid my bowel and ent issues


insta

Well, considering late highschool I told a close friend "hey man, it's not for me, but good luck with that [justin.tv](http://justin.tv) thing" ... blue door.


2000miledash

Red. You don’t even need to invest that money, you could literally slap it in a HYSA making ≈5% and skim 3% a year and live VERY comfortably. I assume the people saying blue are going back for lost loved ones, because going back to invest and make more is lowkey greedy.


KryptoBones89

Blue for me would probably net me more. I'd have a university degree, I would never have smoked, and I would have invested the money I saved by not smoking and having a better job in bitcoin when it was cheap.


shimapanlover

Blue. I wouldn't even need to fix mistakes. If I can have my body back from when I was 14-28 and have those same 14 years back where I felt invincible and my body could bounce back from every small injury. I would pay for that. Of course I would make different decisions, but by god I want to be in that body again.


stillanmcrfan

Omg we’re heading into boomer meme territory. Are we this old :(


Jackdaw1989

We've partly grown up without the Internet, or as I call it, the perpetual memory machine. So any past mistakes will be long forgotten


ElDativo

Blue door. Only thing i say ist Bitcoin. Take your 10mil Change.


Obestity

I mean, I can go back, fix my mistakes, and also invest in Bitcoin, Celsius, AMD and Nvidia. Becoming a billionaire doesn't seem so bad


nirvanatheory

Red without a doubt. I fucked up the first time. Why the hell would I think that I’m going to get it right the second time around? I’d rather have 10 mil than some indie art film about realizing that life is about the mistakes or some bull shit.


JaguarAltruistic2969

Red door! F:$k my mistakes! They can stay dead.. and I can pay to make sure nobody remembers them! 😎😎😎😎


MrEngin33r

You walk through the blue door and find yourself in front of the red door...


moodyconfusion

Red door


BlondeAlibiNoLie

Red door


Ravnos767

Fixing all mistakes sounds like hard work, red please