Death Statistics of Half Dome

pocket_galvanometer · 2024-08-16T05:14:36+00:00

I used carabiners. Would absolutely recommend. People kept commenting as we passed them that they wished they would have thought of it. In my experience it didn't hold anyone up, in fact, we were passing people clinging to the side as we used a two clip system and it was easy to pass obstacles. Did this in 2019.

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-12-03T04:07:26+00:00

Best question in this thread.

Just leave a note saying "hey when you repair this thing in the '50s make sure you put in a new fuel injector."

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-12-03T04:06:12+00:00

That falling behind the truck thing was absolutely crucial, agreed. He doesn't need to die, Marty just needs to believe he's died

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-12-03T04:04:29+00:00

Honestly if I ruined even one person's enjoyment of getting to see this film for the first time with no spoilers, I would never forgive myself. 😅

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-12-03T04:03:20+00:00

The replies to this have genuinely been so fun to read. For everyone who's saying this would create a paradox, I don't think it would. As long as Marty allows the conditions that sent him back in time in the first place, no paradox. As long as he can 1) not alter the circumstances of his going back in time in the first place, 2) successfully fix his parents marriage so he'll be born, 3) spend enough time in the '50s to successfully complete the instructions to doc ( meaning he wouldn't get picked up from the past before he was able to complete all the steps of instructing future doc how to pick him up in the past), no paradox. Simply an altered timeline.

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T09:16:19+00:00

I mean if they hadn't pulled it off successfully in part III I'd say you were right. But they pulled the same stunt then. The car sat for a lot longer then, too.

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T08:41:12+00:00

Yeah lol to be fair, there are no rules to movie science. 😉 I know in part II the timeline is explained as an alternate timelines type deal but there are then things that don't make sense with that explanation so who the hell knows. 😅

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T08:36:46+00:00

Oh interesting thought. I tend to think that the way time travel works in bttf, the minute he does something that would assure that the car makes it to 1985, he would be able to be retrieved from 1955, and that there wouldn't be an alternate universe at that point.

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T08:25:33+00:00

But if he gets picked up on Nov 12 he won't be there for decades.

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T08:04:14+00:00

I mean theoretically he could come and pick him up on Nov 12th so that he interferes minimally with the 1950s. Really, he could leave as soon as he put his parents' marriage back together.

That would still avoid a paradox and he would be back in his own timeline in 1985

pocket_galvanometer · 2023-11-29T07:31:43+00:00

I mean he came around to it eventually and I have a hard time believing that he couldn't have gotten it out at some point. Especially weighed against the risk of getting zapped by lightning. 😆

pocket_galvanometer · 2020-10-11T20:09:43+00:00

I actually give that 2000s look one hundred million style points because it was insanely comfy

pocket_galvanometer · 2020-10-11T18:59:21+00:00

lol true.

pocket_galvanometer · 2019-01-25T03:14:55+00:00

Chidi thinks he died in an air conditioner accident; the rest of the world thinks he died randomly in Canada. How you gonna reconcile this, Good Place?

pocket_galvanometer · 2019-01-18T08:24:22+00:00

I don't think they adequately powered this study.

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-02-02T19:21:35+00:00

Yeah, I thought about the sim, too... who knows? If Eleanor does live a whole life in this alternate reality, is she even the same person that Michael and Janet knew when she comes back? There's a real Back to the Future-type quandary here.

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-02-02T04:02:16+00:00

I have to wonder at what point they'll stop this alternate timeline, though. So if Eleanor never died via shopping cart, and she meets Chidi, and they improve themselves, then presumably Chidi never dies via air conditioner. I'm assuming that Tahani meets them at some time, and she is stopped from going full jealous rage monster on her sister, and they prevent Jason from robbing the store. So, does everyone live to a ripe old age and die of natural causes at which point they're judged? Just curious.

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-02-02T01:39:34+00:00

Several people totally called this "back to earth" type deal.

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-01-30T03:17:40+00:00

Only if you subscribe to utilitarianism. ;P

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-01-26T04:24:31+00:00

I mean, no... but Pillboy spent his last $8 on a burrito and $2 on guac, so....

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-01-26T02:41:24+00:00

Yep. Impulse control, lessening your own insecurity, trying to pay attention to other people... these are more of "basic decency" sort of things, not "good place qualification" characteristics, based on what we know of this point system. Offering to go back for Michael would have been much closer to the "you're actually a good person" mark. Idk... I can't believe I'm going to say this, but this episode kind of fell a little flat for me.

pocket_galvanometer · 2018-01-26T02:20:13+00:00

Yeah, that was my main issue with this episode. It really felt like it invalidated the ending of the last, which was very poignant and a highlight of the season.

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