You wake up two years ago...

[CJ1145]

Get really fucking angry that I couldn't start over about 6 months earlier so I could make my entire high school age less awkward as opposed from post-Christmas Break onwards.

Then I guess I'd work out or something. Also go around impressing my friends with my intimate knowledge of everything going to happen. Oh, and clue my buddy in that his girlfriend is a total whore.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Well, I could really do myself a big favour as it goes. I'm not quite sure what I'd do instead but I'd make sure I didn't move to where I live now.

 

[AvsJoe]

January 18th, 2009
I'm back in Calgary, working at Wal-Mart, and broke. I have just discovered the Escapist two weeks ago and have probably just finished watching every Zero Punctuation video. I regularly play My City on Facebook and watch an ass-ton of movies in my spare time (I watched over 10 per week around this time). This is only a couple of weeks before I lose the Internet for two and a half months. One of our roommates just moved out (and he took his PS3 with him) and it'll be another month and a half before three more move in (with their Xbox 360).

What I'd do

- First, I'd demand everyone living with us to get a job in 30 days or they get kicked out. I payed about 80% of the rent from here to our eviction and I won't be doing that again.

- Second, I'd save much more money than I did; I was well enough off to survive until I moved to Saskatoon but I could've had a lot more.

- Third, I don't know if this is just before or just after my brother's old friend robbed me blind but if it hasn't happened yet I'd jump him the minute he stepped through our door.

- Fourth, I'd start looking for other places to live in Calgary or Saskatoon just in case history is changed (which it most likely will be) and we get evicted sooner.

- Fifth, I won't lend my Meet Market DVD to my roommate's then girlfriend, ***** never gave it back.

- Sixth, I'd find a better place to store my porn and my electronics; both get nicked between our eviction and the date we are able to come back and get our stuff.

- Seventh, I'd buy a new towel. I found out a couple of weeks from this date that my much filthier roommate has been using both of my towels.

- Eighth, I'd make my Escapist account then instead of waiting until May. I had no idea what I was missing.

- Other than this, I'd go about my usual routine. Life wasn't too bad up there, though I wouldn't do it again if I had the choice.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

I would do everything the exact same way because I'm perfectly happy with who I am today, and I would not be who I am today without the stuff leading up to it.

 

[ST34M_PUNK95]

Go and meet my current love interest earlier, warn myself of what NOT to do and brace myself for what's coming.

 

[Cargin]

keeping in theme with many other escapists, i'd dump that ***** first, instead of wasting two years of my life, and, more importantly, two of my 3 years of undergraduate college.

 

[cairocat]

Go and meet my current love interest earlier, warn myself of what NOT to do and brace myself for what's coming.

Welcome to the Escapist!

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

I wouldn't buy borderlands, thats for damn sure

 

[Mr Godfrey]

get a hair cut and use my future knowledge to my advantage.

 

[bassdrum]

I'd probably take the opportunity to not mess things up as badly as I did the first time around. The past two years have been a string of catastrophic failures with members of the opposite sex (each of which has been the result of mistakes made glaringly obvious in hindsight), so it'd be nice to be able to go through that sequence again and maybe make one or two things work out.

Other than that, though, it would kind of suck. Two years ago, I was a little bit fucked up and creeped most people out. I've cleared my head a bit, stopped trying too hard, and get on better with people, so it would kind of suck to be dropped back into a low point in my life. Also, it would just be DULL most of the time. It's all stuff that I've done before, already learned, etc., so going back through it all again would be mind-numbing. That said, I do regret not setting aside more time to learn things (those two years might be great for starting to teach myself to code earlier), so at least there's that.

Basically, it would be an odd mix of boring, troubling, and frustrating to be dropped back into my life circa 2009, but it'd be nice to have a second chance at everything I've done since then.

 

[stone0042]

In general, just enjoy life. Not that I need to put in a ton of effort in school as it is, but if I went back two years I could go from ten minutes of studying a night to zero, and see my grades go from a 97 to about a 103. Damn, that'd be nice, school'd be so easy.

Other than that, bet on as many sports events as possible, because my knowledge would only last two years. I'd go all out. I wouldn't be able to make so much in two years that I'd be accused of anything, so I'd make enough to cover college, and then a little more. But besides those things, I'd change nothing.

 

[Cazza]

Well I would be doing Year 12 again. It wouldn't be a bad thing. I get extra time to think about what I want to do in life. Save some friendships. Save some lives. I believe year 12 will be easier because I already read the content and remember most of it.

 

[Blackdoom]

Murder myself and see what happens.
Or punch myself for considering dropping Methods which turns out I needed to do.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Fix stuff. Opt NOT to go into my current Uni course and instead find a game design course or something similar.

 

[Jaded Scribe]

Myself, probably very little.

A few small choices, a few tweaks here and there, and my grades would definitely be higher (not that they were bad before, but hello 4.0).

I've found too many times that the worst moments in my life lead me to where I am, and have kept me getting better.

It may take a while, but it's like losing $100, and because you lost that $100 you couldn't go to a concert, and because you couldn't go to the concert you go to the mall and win $500 in a contest.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Make the most kickass demoreel ever and get a job without any official schooling at the Pixar studio opening in Vancouver last year.
This however would be to the detriment of my math skills which might circumvent my graduation from highschool.

 

[Nostalgia Ripoff]

It depends. Would the magical time loop suddenly give me knowledge of everything that happened in that time? If so, the standard win the lottery would help quite nicely. If not, I wouldn't want to change stuff too much, other than self-improvements. Plus, I think I would be getting my laptop at that point, so I'd ask for something better than a Dell Inspiron.

(That's what I get for going to Best Buy without doing any research.)

 

[brunothepig]

I'd punch a lot of stuff... I don't want to go through year 11/12 again. But I suppose I'd do much better on my exams. Massive TER here I come...
Apart from that not much changing... Oh, make sure I had money saved for that No Sleep Til festival that I missed cause I didn't know about it until it was too late to get some money together...
Ummm. Ask out my girlfriend a bit earlier, then try not to act like we've already been going out for almost two years. That would be difficult...
Yeah, this would be a massive pain in the ass...

 

[SturmDolch]

That would be awful... I would have to completely redo my relationship with my girlfriend, who has also become my best friend in the last two years. What if I screwed something up then? What if things didn't turn out as good as they are now? Ugh. No thank-you.