Stipulations:
- You cannot die and are immune to disease
- You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
- If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
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?
Love that the only thing stopping you from being a massive slut is your mortality and fear of venereal disease!
Best general plan I can think of, TBH
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.
There can be only one…
Become a famous actor, nobody will believe I’m immortal because it’s not possible.
Sit around and wait. I’m immortal.
“Hey this guy has sat here for 30 years and he hasn’t aged one bit!”
* ceases to exist *
Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn’t say you could starve.
So you just get a normal job and get to live through one of the greatest economic booms of American history where you can raise a family of 5 with one singular income?
Literally just go to work for 40hrs a day 5 days a week and you could have damn near anything you want as long as you’re white?
This is a dumb “what if”.
Well if you want to be boring with your answer and not have fun thinking of other interesting ways to solve this problem then yeah it’s dumb,
I think having a family would be too sad
Kill history’s greatest bastards and/or their parents until I destabilize and cease to exist.
I like this one. Changing the world for the better is noble
How will I survive if I cannot die? I just will
The challenge is in not erasing yourself by the rules, by being famously immortal. Presumably, you also don’t age. So you just have to move around every decade or two.
Go to Leningrad, kill Putin parents, die. If still living, go to next city to kill another old fart fucker parents. Fuck this world.
Then you fail, you cease to exist
I think if I was 20 I could just backpack all over, get easy cash in hand jobs and fuck around for decades. However, if I’m sent back now at 48 being twice the weight I was at 20 I’d probably struggle as this late middle-aged oddball who has come from nowhere and has no period-specific skills.
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.
Had to scroll too far for this :)
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.
This just sounds like what the rich are doing already. Maybe they’re the time travelers after all.
I stay in my same body, at the same age I am now, keep all my teeth, etc? I am nearsighted, it’s gonna be difficult.
What happens when I pass the day I am born, though? Are there 2 of me?
I don’t think I’d change the timeline much anyway, it seems hard to. Though I’d love to become a lawyer and advise Al Gore against conceding the election he won. Even if I ceased to exist that might be worth it.
Im assuiming doctor who rules where just dont interact with yourself
If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.
But there’s a chance you will make the timeline better for those you leave behind? I’d be spending a lot of time in NYC, waiting for an opportunity…
Move to Montana or Idaho. Live out in the middle of nowhere. Read a bunch of books.
How does hunger and thirst work, if I cannot die? Do I still get hungry? What if I don’t eat? What if I just spend most of my time building a house in the woods and doing artwork for months or years at a time, since I don’t need to restock provisions?
You can eat if you want. It’s more if a question of boredom and losing your mind
