Time for some trolling. xD

Definitely doing that for Harry Potter books lol, fuck that author (she who shall not be named).

Best let them come up with the idea, then you publish it the next day, and watch the author’s reaction:

“Someone has already published a book on the same idea? Nooo wayyy!”

[Insert “U Mad Bro” Trollface Meme]

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    15 days ago

    For full chaos, send back a history book and watch people try to change it, for better or for worse.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    3·
    15 days ago

    I’ve thought before that if i were to be dropped back maybe 200 years ago i could maybe do okay for myself by passing off existing stories as mine. You’d have to change some details here and there, but you could absolutely write the terminator as a book and pretend it was your idea, for example. And people would never have read anything like it.

    I don’t think you’d become rich and famous, because success is as much about time and place as it is ideas and talent. But I’m sure you’d be able to get them published and thus sell well enough to pay your bills on ideas alone.

    Not true for something like Tolkien. Those need to be his words for the books to work. But Alien? Psycho? The thing? The day the Earth stood still? Forbidden planet? Arrival? You could sell those on ideas alone.

    • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      idk; when you talk to writers they complain about ideas being cheap and written works hard. I think for many concepts, there were poorly done versions well before something made literary history?

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    15 days ago

    I’d be all up in them Dead Sea Scrolls adding a preface page with a boilerplate “this is a work of fiction, any similarities to persons living or dead or undead are purely coincidental” disclaimer.

  • db2@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 days ago

    It would only be funny if the day before release you were to mail a copy of this book to the author with a note that said “this has been my favorite book since 1981”.

  • borth@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    15 days ago

    For those that want to know the science of this, just watch one of the Stephen Hawkin’s shows. In short, matter can’t be created nor destroyed, but the moment you go back in time you have added matter to this timeline, thus creating matter out of nothing since the particles that make you up are already in that timeline, even if in another form.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    15 days ago

    I’d like to win the lottery about 40 times in a row. See how long it takes to get the lottery people or the government to try and assassinate me.

    Then donate all my money to charity and time travel out of there until the heat dies down.

    • cravl@slrpnk.net
      2·
      9 days ago

      I would travel the US and buy one winning ticket for a small jackpot from each state I visit. Then I’d donate it all to a gambling addiction recovery charity. Or an advertising smear campaign against playing the lotto.

  • 1D10@lemmy.world
    22·
    16 days ago

    That’s kinda why I think time travel is impossible, if it is ever invented someone will go back and invent it sooner, then someone will go back again until eventually it ends up being the first thing ever invented by humans.

    • katja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      17·
      16 days ago

      Maybe time travel requires a receiver to send to? This isn’t my idea, but I don’t remember who came up with it. I don’t believe that’s possible either, but that would explain why we haven’t seen any travelers yet and still keep time travel a theoretical possibility. You can never travel further back in time than to the invention of the first time machine.