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Re: John Titor

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Post by tetris11 »

eindiran wrote: post #66
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…

Weirdly, I met someone in Ojai, California in 2010 who also claimed to be a time traveler named "Butterfly". He was a weird looking dude who also claimed he had a computer chip in his hand. I only spoke with him for a moment but it was a very surreal conversation.

What did he say, and did he look young?

Re: John Titor

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Post by tetris11 »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #59
as1mov wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't really call it better, they operate on different scales. Primer is much less bombastic and doggedly grounded to reality, which is really an anomaly in sci-fi media. Failure of the protagonists in Primer does not mean a World War 3 will happen or the planet will be destroyed, the biggest stake in the movie is one of the characters getting shot at their birthday party by an ex. Personally I find this much mo…

Primer is a movie that while it has a time machine it really explores the personal and social implications and complications of time travel. Using time travel as a plot device versus using time travel to explore part of our humanity is a mark of great science fiction.

I just wish the plot was more linear, and not needlessly patched together memento style so that you dont have to watch it more than once.

Re: John Titor

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Post by tetris11 »

gamegoblin wrote: post #39
time0ut wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might enjoy the movie Primer [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_HHnXeMWT0

Also, the German netflix show 'Dark' does time travel in a much more satisfying way than the vast majority. Watch it in German with subtitles, the dub is weird.

Dark suffers from the same ambiguity as Lost though, where you given the writers the benefit of the doubt that there's an overarching rational sequence of events, but it's also equally likely that the writers are just making it up as they go along.

Re: John Titor

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Post by pimlottc »

sreekotay wrote: post #79
rossdavidh wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it was an Austin goth group, and somewhere around the year 2000, but more detail than that I cannot recall. Wait, does that mean _my_ memory has been wiped as well?! Oh, wait, no, I just have a poor memory. Sorry...

I think GP meant what yahoo group in what month was missing that might have had the list? In case someone had that archived...

From the OP's story, it sounds like his wife posted shortly after the original encounter.

Re: John Titor

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Post by baytrailcat »

Bombthecat wrote: post #78
airesearcher wrote: post #55

Can someone explain why this is trending on Hacker News today?

People need hope and distraction. Dark times are ahead.

Sign of the times. Upon reading the title, I figured the discussion would all be about closed time-like curves and causality violation and what not. But, here I am surprised to see HN commenters as open as a UFO subreddit. No complaints here though.

Re: John Titor

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Post by aidenn0 »

tjalfi wrote: post #61
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…

One of my classmates in an IT course was named Aragorn. I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.

My sister has a friend named Arwen and her dad says she would have been named "Frodo" if she had been a boy. Dodged a bullet there.

Re: John Titor

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Post by neonate »

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #24

Related: IBM 5110 PALM (Put All Logic in Microcode) CPU from 1978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483823 (The HN discussion in this article is great, in my opinion...)

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious but how is that related?

Re: John Titor

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Post by hurrdurr2 »

FriendlyNormie wrote: post #45
swalsh wrote: post #4

How is this so high on the news feed? This is old, and not relevant.

Some people want to increase the unhinged fearmongering over the virus by any means necessary. They’re running out of plausible rumors to do it with so now they’re upvoting end times prophecies instead. Of course that’s the only reason this is being upvoted right now. My question is why aren’t they being shadowbanned for inflaming the hysteria. The astonishing thing is that 99% of these people spent the past ten year…

I think your rant is posted on the wrong article.
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