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Nigel Marvin is the reason drinking only sodas is bad for you.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 21:51 |
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You can't imagine the insurance paperwork that comes in each week from Nigel Marvin.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 21:55 |
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Thank God someone is finally taking Nigel to task for what he's done. I've had it up to here with that boy.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 21:56 |
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Nigel Marvin is a time-colonialist.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:06 |
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This is why time machines and the organizations that use them should be more heavily regulated by the world government. Any rear end in a top hat can go back in time, molest a Gallimimus, and suddenly we're dealing with a new species of reptile people trying to take over the southern hemisphere.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:13 |
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This guy needs to go forwards in time and beat the poo poo out of some super evolved humanoids.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:13 |
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Ve safe hier stil in our homes, rite? So vat ist problvm? None things has khanged. Sun ist hier stil. Arth is hier stil. Georg VII ist King stil. Die past kannot be khanged easy so mvkh. Worry not. 
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HackerJoeGuy posted:This is why time machines and the organizations that use them should be more heavily regulated by the world government. Any rear end in a top hat can go back in time, molest a Gallimimus, and suddenly we're dealing with a new species of reptile people trying to take over the southern hemisphere. It's liberal attitudes like this that make me glad that the Supreme Court ruled that time machines are covered by the Second Amendment. It's really simple. Time machines don't cause devastating temporal anomalies...people cause devastating temporal anomalies.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:29 |
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Yeah I mean how was a background check ever going to work for Time Machine Licensing anyway? Borrow a friend's time machine, go back and erase your criminal record by providing your previous self with an alibi ("No, see, I have the gas station receipt and the CCTV that means I was in Dallas on that day!") and hey presto, you are now licensed.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:40 |
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Zorak posted:You don't understand. Causality loops while always perpetual, as I outlined in the post, are still awful. Even if they're "destined" to happen, it doesn't mean you should be a complete douchebag to history and make things awful to figure out/ be awful to everything. You shouldn't just hatefuck everything because hey, IT'LL ALL TURN OUT OK AND IT ALREADY HAPPENED. But, if it already happened, you really have no choice in the matter right? Your actions in the past are pre-ordained. You apparently lose all illusion of free will at that point, so I guess you don't really have to worry too much about what you do? What would be really interesting, would be to watch a video taken of you in the past from when you time travelled back then, then time travel to that point and see if you can act differently than you did in the recording! RennZero fucked around with this message at Apr 24, 2012 around 22:47 |
| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:45 |
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I don't know about you guys, but I'm still chuckling at the thought of David Attenborough crusing through the savannah on the back of a Rhino.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 22:54 |
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RennZero posted:But, if it already happened, you really have no choice in the matter right? Your actions in the past are pre-ordained. You apparently lose all illusion of free will at that point, so I guess you don't really have to worry too much about what you do? But given that we are still moral beings, going into a situation blind but having our actions pre-ordained doesn't make them necessarily moral or justified. All our actions, whether in the present or in the future, are causally ordained. That doesn't mean me going outside now and kicking every puppy is justified on the basis that "I was fated to kick those dogs. I didn't know this fate, but if I were to travel into the future it'd turn out that I had always kicked those dogs. Time required it, even if I didn't know that." Nigel isn't going to cause time to poo poo itself (I think??? It's hard to tell, the universe is flexible about poo poo so it could be that time works in complex ways), but he is liable to make the future very confusing while also being an immoral prick. Also, I'd rather time-travelers play it safe and try NOT to break any time loops. We don't need some alternate timelines firing everywhere just because Nigel couldn't stop electrocuting lizards. As a scientist I 
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:08 |
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I can't wait for the American version of this show.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:15 |
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Auritech posted:I can't wait for the American version of this show. Yeah, it'll actually be better and more fully developed. But you'll be able to quickly pick out TV snobs because they will nevertheless insist the original is better. Screw those guys.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:17 |
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Fantastic OP. One thing, though, you're committing a common error. Although, according to some fucktard linguist cited on Wikipedia, pointing this out marks me as a pedant.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:30 |
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Auritech posted:I can't wait for the American version of this show. The sex scenes will be amazing.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:35 |
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The american version will probably have Mike Rowe time traveling throughout history in an epic quest to be covered in feces from all time periods and eras.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:39 |
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Vaerai Archon posted:The american version will probably have Mike Rowe time traveling throughout history in an epic quest to be covered in feces from all time periods and eras. I'd watch it just for Mike Rowe. The man has a soothing voice 
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I firmly support Mike Rowe as a time traveler. At least he'll get a chuckle or two out of me while he wrecks existence by going shoulder deep in the missing link's rear end in a top hat without a glove.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:42 |
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simplefish posted:Yeah I mean how was a background check ever going to work for Time Machine Licensing anyway? Borrow a friend's time machine, go back and erase your criminal record by providing your previous self with an alibi ("No, see, I have the gas station receipt and the CCTV that means I was in Dallas on that day!") and hey presto, you are now licensed. To be fair to time travelers everywhere though... everyone was in Dallas that day.  
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:45 |
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Can his daughter talk to trilobites?
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:49 |
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Hahaha I remember watching this in one of my science classes. If it makes you feel better, it ends with him getting devoured off-camera.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:52 |
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Vira posted:Your looking at this all wrong. The present only exists because of Nigel Marvin. No, that's exactly his point. There's a lot of things I don't like the present. 
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:56 |
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A Winner is Jew posted:To be fair to time travelers everywhere though... everyone was in Dallas that day. Not me. I was in Oxford. I had to decide between saving Huxley and killing Lewis. I'm still not sure I made the right choice.
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| # ? Apr 24, 2012 23:58 |
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I'm a little confused - which timeline are we living in? Is it one where all of these episodes have already been filmed (in the past), and we are living the result of it? Or are we living in a relatively unadulterated timeline while watching this guy create time-havoc?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:01 |
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have alerted the Linear Men.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:06 |
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Akbar posted:Nigel Marvin is a time-colonialist. Zorak posted:Nigel isn't going to cause time to poo poo itself (I think??? It's hard to tell, the universe is flexible about poo poo Dean of Swing posted:Can his daughter talk to trilobites?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:33 |
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That poor Tanystropheus! Imagine you're just chillin', doing whatever animals with absurdly disproportionately long necks do, when this horrible creature the likes of which you've never seen grabs on and yanks your tail off! Won't somebody think of the badly animated animals?
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 00:46 |
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This thread is fantastic. Went Hog Wild. Please post more!
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 01:22 |
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If i could time travel like that, I'd inject the primitive cells of these creatures with DNA that would code for a protein that would lyse neurons in 1 out of 10 individuals. Fuckyoulase.
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Triggerhappypilot posted:If i could time travel like that, I'd inject the primitive cells of these creatures with DNA that would code for a protein that would lyse neurons in 1 out of 10 individuals. This is my favorite post to come out of this thread (but said process would still result in the creation of Nigel Marvin). Internet Kraken posted:Hahaha I remember watching this in one of my science classes. If it makes you feel better, it ends with him getting devoured off-camera. Okay, now I have to watch this badly-animated show.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 01:38 |
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Dial A For Awesome posted:It's liberal attitudes like this that make me glad that the Supreme Court ruled that time machines are covered by the Second Amendment. It's really simple. Time machines don't cause devastating temporal anomalies...people cause devastating temporal anomalies. I'm all for people having the right to time travel, I'm just against the whole "maiming, killing, or raping ancient species just for shits and giggles" that ends up having such dramatic effects on the present. Yesterday I had a wife and three kids, and today I'm poor, alone, and living in a government supplied housing tent. Probably because someone decided to give Aristotle a wedgie. The only reason I know this is because of the journal I keep in a pocket universe that automatically appears in front of me for updates on a daily basis. This time altering madness has to stop.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 01:42 |
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I Wish I Was posted:He's almost as bad as that group of chucklefucks on Primeval. There's a pretty girl on Primeval.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 01:47 |
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Cable Guy posted:No but she's quite good, with crabs. Fixed this 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:05 |
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lushka16 posted:I'm a little confused - which timeline are we living in? Is it one where all of these episodes have already been filmed (in the past), and we are living the result of it? Or are we living in a relatively unadulterated timeline while watching this guy create time-havoc? Maybe they broadcast the raw footage back across an open time-link? That way (conceivably) all their mucking about happens in another alternate time tangent, sparing our current reality.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:09 |
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For the love of God, don't send Mark Carwardine back in time or, before you know it, mankind is enslaved to/has been replaced by a race of parrot-men whose progenitor, oddly enough, was named "Stephen". 
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:13 |
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You see actually all his behavior, although reprehensible in the immediate, is actually well withing the approved guidelines of observatory temporal trans-location. All film produced during filming is placed within a tachyon shielded case and transported to the moment before the film crew departs their current time stream. The crew never leaves for its expedition, yet has. Obviously the paradox would resolve itself by deleting the anomalous material in a self-triggered tachyon revision surge, yet the box's shielding prevents this by blocking interactions between the paradox and the wave. The crew does not go on the obviously disastrous excursion, yet film of the trip that never was persists and is presented for your viewing pleasure. Remember that revision waves travel much slower the further back they originate, which is why traveling to periods between 1 million years bc and the invention of the temporal gate are forbidden. Can't have someone erasing human history by accident.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:37 |
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We exist because of Nigel, how do you not see this? He's self-reinforcing.
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| # ? Apr 25, 2012 02:56 |
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gleep glop posted:This show looks amazing. It's an entertaining watch, it's up on Netflix for Instant Stream.
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ChickenHeart posted:Okay, now I have to watch this badly-animated show. It's not as satisfying as you'd think. After visiting the most dangerous ocean and seeing the most dangerous animal, the name of which I can not remember, his boat gets surrounded by them and everyone dies. Whilst visiting this ocean he also hitches a ride on a giant turtle, becuase why the gently caress not?
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