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Would You Rather

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WouldYouRather or "Would you rather" (abbreviated as WYR) is a place to have a conversation that poses a dilemma in the form of a question beginning with "would you rather".

The OP asks a question or options that are either similarly good or similarly bad and people in the comments discuss how they would answer.

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[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Neither, but if I had to choose, maybe backwards in time. Assuming I can't accidentally kill myself, I would be sad to not have my friends and family as well as missing technology, but I think I could make life work out.

Going to the future seems like an extremely high risk. Uncertainty of whether the my country exists, the world, and what I can do to survive. I'd be extremely behind in tech which sucks bad.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

What? I'd say it's pretty safe to assume the USA will be around in 50 years.

remembers that a large portion of Lemmy users aren't actually from America

Oh. Right. There is a great deal of turmoil and war in the world. I guess some nations actually are at risk of collapsing.

.........soooo, like which country we talking? Canada? I could see Canada collapsing. Mostly as they fight among themselves about what to do about the great problem of keeping violent gun waving American lunatics out! I mean c'mon Toronto! Detroit is RIGHT THERE, and you don't have a contingency plan??? Canada should build a wall.

/s

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good one! I would really like to see 50 into the future, but I bet the past would be safer (unsure of that).

I suppose I'll take the future just for the adventure.

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends if you're playing the game on easy mode, or hard mode. See South Park Game difficulty slider

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Lol exactly. Same could be said for the future tho - except be rich.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Depends on in what way? Going back means I can change history, be rich, ... Going forward only means I get to see a future while still young.

If I can't change the past, then obviously going back is going to be a pile of crap with everything bad repeating.