I wonder how many people in this thread have read/seen 11.22.63 before.

Without some amount of preparation, I think I’d just end up mostly working for cash and living out of a van for most of that time, or otherwise staying off-grid. There’s a surprising amount of paperwork involved in legally existing as a person.

Also, since memorizing statistics is not one of my hobbies, I’d want/need some kind of written ledger to have an edge in back-alley sports betting.

Just for fun’s sake though, I’d try my hand at writing professionally again, as a novelist, but just ripping off the plots of movies and TV shows that haven’t been filmed yet. Self-publishing everything under pen names of course, to preserve my anonymity.

Kill history’s greatest bastards and/or their parents until I destabilize and cease to exist.

Become a famous actor, nobody will believe I’m immortal because it’s not possible.

Immune to disease? Welp, time to become a massive slut throughout the ages.

I would survive on Mamie Van Doren, Brigitte Bardot, Sheree North, Rebecca De Mornay, Pam Grier, Rosie Perez… I mean I could go on.

…I mean someone’s gotta make horny posts without Violet here, right?

1945? Bank robbery is still incredibly easy. Literally all forensics is during this time period is just fingerprinting. People are also malnourished and incredibly weak compared to the average person in 2026. So beat up some GI that illegally kept a gun from the war, use that to perform a series of bank robberies along the west coast of the US and the American South (where Gold stores were concentrated during the gold standard period we find ourselves in).

After that invent corporate trusts and the concept of multi-layer corporate holdings. This would be having a corporation per property owned, which is owned by a corporation and uses services from another corporation, all of which eventually ends in a labyrinthine ownership path that few, if any, forensic accountants in the 1940s could possibly follow to find out it’s all just me.

By understanding, even just vaguely, which cities and areas get built up over time in history and buying surrounding properties cheaply and simply holding them until areas are built up enough to sell them for massive profit I would be able to generate essentially infinite money from basic seed money. Add onto this a series of bank and hedge fund holdings that are informed roughly when to invest in specific companies as they come up through the ages the infinite money glitch becomes an exponential money glitch.

Again layers and layers of holdings on holdings on holdings creates obscurity and complexity that would take well into the age of computers to ever unravel. A kingdom easily rivaling the Rothschilds, while being even more hidden as I’d be copying their modern techniques a half century before they perfect them.

With infinite exponential money during the golden age of capitalism I can wait until the present day when I’d no longer be effecting the timeline and then start funding communist revolutions globally, allowing for myself to become a martyr in the revolution.

if I am immortal then just do my own thing. Work a job for a while and move on. Rinse and repeat. I have been a nobody for 63 years. It is not really that hard. You know like the Highlander.

Go to Leningrad, kill Putin parents, die. If still living, go to next city to kill another old fart fucker parents. Fuck this world.

Functionally impossible unless you completely isolated yourself from civilization. Any impact to “the past” will alter your origin, even if just by changing which sperm cell fertilizes a complete stranger’s child. You have to define what “too much” variance means.

Move to Montana or Idaho. Live out in the middle of nowhere. Read a bunch of books.

Move to NYC, San Fran or some other place that will be initially growing prior to the Baby Boom. Get settled there and stay there through the forced urban decline until current times. I suspect that I can own multiple properties in that time frame and come out on top when I sell it now.