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Re: John Titor

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Post by lihaciudaniel »

minimaxir wrote: post #13
echohack5 wrote: post #3

Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.

The full anime (all episodes subbed, a few dubbed) is available for free on YouTube by Funimation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=EL3n57TtnN3tY

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Re: John Titor

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Post by Cyberdog »

rossdavidh wrote: post #25

So, in the late 90's I went to a goth convention in New Orleans, where my wife met a time traveller named "Butterfly". I saw her talking to a weird looking guy, and swung by to see if she needed help, but she had that "oh this is going to be a great story" look on her face and kind of shooed me away. Later, she told me he had claimed to be from the future. He made some predictions: - there would be a war in Iraq, but…

But what predictions did he make which didn't even come close to coming true but you don't remember them as well because of that?

Re: John Titor

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Post by ThaRemo »

ukyrgf wrote: post #22
echohack5 wrote: post #3

Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.

Isn't it... a game? What came first?

Yes, it branched out into many different forms of media. I made a website a few years back listing all types of spin-off material:

https://allaboutsteinsgate.info/

Re: John Titor

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

echohack5 wrote: post #3

Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.

The VN is darker. When stuck in a time loop, the protagonist contemplates raping a female friend over and over again because it will just reset.

Re: John Titor

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Post by EthanHeilman »

dilippkumar wrote: post #9
echohack5 wrote: post #3

Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.

Strong agree. Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.

"The Man Who Folded Himself"[0] is one of the best time travel books. It won both the Nebula and the Hugo. While it has consistent rules about time travel, figuring out what exactly those rules are is half the fun of the book.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself

Re: John Titor

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Post by mindcrime »

simcop2387 wrote: post #48
prostheticvamp wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you recall the name of the short story? Your link was a fun read, but disappointingly not the story you described!

Looks like it's The Muse by Anthony Burgess (1968). Sorry for the long URL but it's the best confirmation of this I could find. [1] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mh9zrji5zfAC&pg=PA185&lpg=...

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"?

https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

Re: John Titor

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Post by andredz »

Hamuko wrote: post #37
echohack5 wrote: post #3

Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it! Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.

> There are many ways to enjoy this story. I'd suggest going with the visual novel anyways, since it has a bit more meat (like multiple endings) even if the anime is a pretty faithful telling. It's also on so many different platforms (including iOS), so it's pretty accessible. I'd avoid Steins;Gate Elite like a plague though.

What's wrong with Steins;Gate Elite?

Re: John Titor

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Post by Mtinie »

In April of 2004 I attended a multimedia performance at George Mason University called "Time Traveler Zero Zero - A Story of John Titor." It was directed by Kirby Malone and is still one of the more interesting theatrical productions I've ever seen.

Was anyone else here at the same showing?

Here's a review of the performance if anyone is curious -- http://www.timetravelreviews.com/theatre/traveler00.html

Re: John Titor

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Post by tzs »

mindcrime wrote: post #86
simcop2387 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like it's The Muse by Anthony Burgess (1968). Sorry for the long URL but it's the best confirmation of this I could find. [1] [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mh9zrji5zfAC&pg=PA185&lpg=...

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

That's definitely it.

It looks like someone has republished it as a stand-alone story on Kindle [1]. That says 19 pages, which seems longer than the story I remember. I wonder if it was expanded from the original short story in Asimov's?

It's also in this anthology of science fiction humor stories [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-eboo...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195/

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