It's going to take me a day or two. I drank a ton of Red Bull and my stomach is upset.
Haha, I once drank a ton of Jagerbombs (Jagermeister and Red Bull), and couldn't fall asleep for like fourteen hours because of the intense heartburn. Nowadays the only energy drinks I usually touch are Starbucks Doubleshots or Java Monsters. Or if I just need a boost, a bottle of Diet Pepsi or a cup of coffee works too. I work graveyard shift, so I'm usually relying on caffeine a lot, lol.
So, while we're waiting for everyone to post, why don't we all tell a little about ourselves? Don't reveal anything too personal or that you feel uncomfortable with, of course -- just whatever you feel like sharing to let the rest of the group get to know you better. I'll go first:
My real name is Jeff, but most people in my RP circles call me Cap or Manny due to nicknames I use on a lot of sites, either Captain Manbeard or The Magnificent Manbeard. That was the result of a comment a friend made a few years back because of how ridiculously easy it is for me to grow an epic beard. While it's currently very short to better facilitate the wearing of masks, I'll drop a pic below of my beard when it was at it's longest. I think this was late 2018 or early 2019, I don't recall the exact date:
I live in Portland, Oregon, and while I won't say exactly where I work, it's a facility owned and operated by a local university wherein I fill an overnight clerical role as well as light security. It's pretty chill most nights, but sometimes things get crazy enough for me to involve the campus police.
I am a huge science geek, and am absolutely thrilled with anything to do with astronomy. Yes, as you've probably guessed, I do jizz in my pants whenever I watch a Neil deGrasse Tyson interview LOL. The downside to that is noticing scientific inaccuracies and plot holes in movies, which can make it harder to enjoy them at times. Back to the Future is one of my favorite film series, but the errors drive me crazy, lol.
For instance, there is what I call the
Infinite Marty Paradox: The version of the character we see at the beginning of the first film is
Twin Pine Marty. The one we see jumping into the DeLorean at the end of the film from the altered timeline is
Lone Pine Marty. TPM remembers his father being a wimp, bullied by Biff, and heard the story about how his grandfather hit George with the car. LPM, on the other hand, remembers his father being confident and standing up to Biff, and he would have been told a different story about how his parents met, since in this timeline, George never got hit by the car. He would have been told that his namesake, Calvin "Marty" Klein was the one who got hit. This would severely change the events that happen when LPM goes back to 1955, as he is traveling back from the altered timeline instead of the original. There's also the fact that TPM was watching the 4x4 on the back of the truck when the old lady handed him the flyer that was vital in him remembering the lightning bolt when in 1955, but LPM already owns that 4x4, so he would not have had a reason to run over and stand on the bench where the lady handed him the flyer.
So, TPM goes back to 1955, makes changes to the timeline, and arrives back in an altered 1985, wherein LPM is the new alternate-future counterpart of Marty. LPM then goes back to 1955 with a different set of memories, and because of that, will likely make different decisions, thus creating a third timeline. Then when LPM returns to 1985, a third alternate-future counterpart will be the one going back to 1955 with another new set of memories, thus creating a loop of infinite Martys and infinite timelines that will continue over and over again until one of them changes history so much that the initial temporal displacement never occurs, or the universe explodes, lol. Or it might just create a cascade effect where the spacetime continuum snaps back like an overstretched rubberband, erasing all the alternate timelines, snapping back to the first night at Twin Pines Mall and the Flux Capacitor just sparks and fails, and thus time travel never occurs. The "Paradox" mentioned in the name is the fact that this aspect was never touched upon in the films and they just pretend like LPM would go back to 1955 with the memories of TPM, despite LPM having lived a different life.
Anyway, that's enough blabbing from me, haha.
Not sure yet.
