[ SECRET POST #4063 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4063 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t speak Chinese today and I’m not familiar with the local customs. I’ve visited China several times.

I would need to do more research and preparation if I travel to another time, but if we’re going to be talking about time travel like it’s Tourism Extreme Edition anyway then I see no reason why survival on a visit is such a big deal.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

Not going to touch on the original discussion but this is a bad argument. Of course traveling today where the world has become much more globalized and people are more familiar with other countries and races is possible. Everyone travels everywhere these days outside of a few dangerous and hostile areas. Compared to even 20 years ago which is barely the past, getting around is much easier with mobile phones, online translation services, internet, and digital banking. We take all that for granted now.

I don't speak Chinese either and while I might visit China today, I wouldn't be successful visiting there anytime out of "modern day," and if you're going to stick to modern day, why time travel?

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but people did manage to travel before the modern day. It's a thing that did happen. It was much less easy than the present day, and it would help a lot if you could figure out some kind of interpreter or guide type situation (if there's no Magical Language Button in the time travel machine), but it's also definitely not impossible. It depends a lot on the period and place.

Re: Time Travel

[(Anonymous)]

As a time traveler, you have such a great advantage when choosing to go to the past. You know, since it already happened. Depending on where you choose to go, you could potentially do so much research on the time and place, to say nothing of the superior scientific knowledge you already possess as a modern person going into the past. It’s less “off into the unknown” than even pre-modern travelers had to deal with, and even they managed to get around just fine.

You get to choose. That’s the key. If I say I want to spend one day wandering the streets of Rome at the height of the empire, you think I’m just going to do that without figuring out exactly how I should look and behave so as not to attract trouble? I would no more do that than I would go off to a foreign country today without any preparation. Yes, travel comes with risk, always: that’s why you plan and keep your wits about you. To be all “oh no, I only speak English and I don’t understand these strange customs, I’m definitely going to die” is rather pathetic.