Good question. Yes, you can. And after all that you'll just die alone \o/
Would you shorten your life by ten years so you could relive your favourite year?
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Good question. Yes, you can. And after all that you'll just die alone \o/
Soldato
Relevant petition for anyone who agrees:
Petition: Legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults
The Government should bring forward legislation to allow assisted dying for adults who are terminally ill and have mental capacity. It should be permitted subject to strict upfront safeguards, assessed by two doctors independently, and self-administered by the dying person.
petition.parliament.uk
Relevant petition for anyone who agrees:
Petition: Legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults
The Government should bring forward legislation to allow assisted dying for adults who are terminally ill and have mental capacity. It should be permitted subject to strict upfront safeguards, assessed by two doctors independently, and self-administered by the dying person.
I've always agreed with assisted suicide.
I think sudoku would be far worse that seppuku though
If you couldn't change anything to make the experience even slightly different the amount of déjàvecu would drive you clinically insane.
Soldato
@Raymond Lin @Lysander
The word 'sudoku' is a widely used substitute for the upsetting s word. It allows discussion without upsetting people or getting banned. Presumably it started from the seppuku thing and just stuck for the other reasons.
If you want a laugh, I first heard about seppuku on this website about 20 odd years ago.
The word 'sudoku' is a widely used substitute for the upsetting s word. It allows discussion without upsetting people or getting banned. Presumably it started from the seppuku thing and just stuck for the other reasons.
If you want a laugh, I first heard about seppuku on this website about 20 odd years ago.
Are you ready to get pumped
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Caporegime
It sounds like to me people got the puzzle game confused with the ritual.
You certainly won't see a Japanese speaker mixing those 2 up. It sounds like people are making up excuses to cover their (honest) mistakes!
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The Government response is disappointing:Relevant petition for anyone who agrees:
Petition: Legalise assisted dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults
The Government should bring forward legislation to allow assisted dying for adults who are terminally ill and have mental capacity. It should be permitted subject to strict upfront safeguards, assessed by two doctors independently, and self-administered by the dying person.
There should be a public referendum on it rather than relying on the views of individual MPs / Lords.
It's a deliberate misspelling, apparently, which is exactly what @throwaway4372 was saying.
Urban Dictionary: commit sudoku
A deliberate misspelling of "seppuku" — the samurai ritual of suicide by disembowelment. The misspelling removes the direct reference to suicide, replacing it with the name of a popular and frustrating number puzzle.
www.urbandictionary.com
Soldato
No. Look forwards, not back.
Soldato
If I had my current experience mind from 2022 then there is a few opportunities, of the lady kind, that at the time I wasn't mature enough to recognise that I would immediately take
This was my thinking also.
I've decided I'm going to live to 130, so I'd like two goes at my favourite year please, nightmare mode
This was my thinking also.
I've decided I'm going to live to 130, so I'd like two goes at my favourite year please, nightmare mode
Which year was that?
Soldato
I think it was 1990, not my favourite year but the year with a lot of potential, missed opportunities due to not being able to spot the signs or realising too late.
I'm with you on the 'missed opportunities' thing. So many of those. I'll tell you one of my favourites, from about 2009, I think.
I was living in a block of flats and had a studio of my own. Every so often there was a very hot girl, a black girl, who I would see in the corridor. We wouldn't talk much but we would exchange pleasantries, smile and say "hi" and "bye" etc. That was it.
I needed an excuse to talk to her and couldn't think of one naturally. It was Christmas at work and we had been given a load of white wine which I wasn't going to drink since I don't drink white wine, only red. I had the idea that I could give some of the wine to her and start an exchange that way.
So one day very soon we passed in the corridor again and I said, "oh hi Samatha [that was her name, I don't know how I'd got it but I had], I have something for you in my flat, why don't you come by later today?" She looked at me quizzically and said, "errr OK, is 6pm all right?" So we agreed to meet then that evening.
I lugged this box of white wine back to my place and she turned up at around 6pm. She wasn't looking like anything special, just wearing sloppy indoor clothes but still gorgeous. I said, "hi hi, come in" as she looked kind of suspiciously through the doorway into the flat.
She came in and I said, "since it's Christmas we've been given a load of white wine at work. There is so much here I don't know what to do with it, so I thought, why not give some of it to you?"
She looked a bit taken aback and said, "oh, wow, OK. This is great. There is a lot here, yes!"
I said, "yes I know, you see the problem. You do drink white wine, don't you?"
She said, "yes yes, I do. But there's too much here. I couldn't possibly drink all this on my own. Not unless... unless... you had some of it with me?"
After this golden gateway of an opportunity I immediately and unhesitatingly replied, "oh, no, sorry, I only drink red."
She paused for a second. Then, slightly embarrassed she said, "er, well, OK then, thanks" and awkwardly took the box out the door.
The sad thing is that I thought nothing of this galactic screw-up at the time. It was only a couple of years later when I idly looked back on it that I realised.
Chaos mode sounds potentially better than nightmare mode to me, for people that currently have a lot of issues with people (e.g. they are criminals). Lets you wipe the slate clean as it were. It's the only mode that really gives you a 'free hit' as it were in terms of you can relive a year, be a complete idiot and (assuming you survive the year) not have to deal with the consequences.
Good point. Chances are most people would pick a time period they have fond memories of which will be a kind of double-whammy, firstly it will hard to enjoy it as much second time around and secondly your memories will then be tainted by that fact.Reliving isn't the same as experiencing it for the first time. You'll likely come back disappointed that it wasn't as great as you remembered and end up with a shorter life and ruined memories
Furthermore, you don't know what years you are trading in because you don't know how long you will live. If you've only got 10 years left (you just don't know it yet), then you'd return to 2023 and die straight away.
I imagine a lot people would think that trading say age 90-100 is ok but not age 25-35.
Caporegime
Depends on when I’m going to expire, if I live to 100 then I’d assume one of my early 20s years would be more enjoyable than 90-100
Soldato
There’s nothing to say the year you choose would be as good as you remember. Sometimes the past is best left there.