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The Time Travel Test

I noticed that, although it's easy enough to tell the creator of a test how much you liked or didn't like it (by sending them a message), there didn't seem to be an obvious way to discuss tests with everyone else on OKCupid.

So I created this post as a place where people can get together and talk about The Time Travel Test -- not with me, but with each other. You can leave your own comments here, and you can use this thread to reply to the comments that other folks have left. If you'd like to check back to see if anyone else has answered you, then just bookmark this page.

(Note: if you're making a comment that you'd like me to see, I recommend sending a copy of it directly to me as well, since I check my mailbox here more often than I check my journal comments.)

This is a delightful test - of course, a lot of us will feel compelled to retake and retake and retake the test to achieve different results, somewhat like simplified time travel.

Shattuck commented on

cute test

j_stevens0n commented on

Such writing! Such imagination! Such delightful geekery! This test kicks ass.

BettyBaker commented on

I loved this test, great job!!!

Speechless81 commented on

good fun

gretagarbo9 commented on

Brilliant! Loved the test! I am proud to be 0% Nazi-loving wuss lol

Manji022 commented on

Wait a minute. What happened to the comment I'm going to leave next month? Why isn't it here? Jean-Claude van Damme did a good job with a terrible script. So did Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. Has anyone read Heinlein's "All You Zombies"? How about David Gerrold's "The Man Who Folded Himself"?

PlayBows commented on

Nice test. Well done! But, what of the Temporal Cold War? TCW spans all of history, and begins with the invention of time travel. WWII was a place where it played out strongly, less covertly than any other time in our known history. Three players, so far as I can gather. United States/Freemasons vs Nazis/Catholic Church vs Communist Block nations/Alien Hive-Mind of unknown race. The Nazis made a bid, potentially with demonic assistance, to grab control of the world time stream. The story is the Catholic Church made a deal to assist in order to remain untouched.

JackPierce commented on

" Nice test. Well done! But, what of the Temporal Cold War? TCW spans all of history, and begins with the invention of time travel. WWII was a place where it played out strongly, less covertly than any other time in our known history. Three players, so far as I can gather. United States/Freemasons vs Nazis/Catholic Church vs Communist Block nations/Alien Hive-Mind of unknown race. The Nazis made a bid, potentially with demonic assistance, to grab control of the world time stream. The story is the Catholic Church made a deal to assist in order to remain untouched." I can't agree more, nice job :)

thesili commented on

Crossing one's own time line is a never a good idea...

A former user commented on

Minor thing: it's ancient Sumer, not Sumeria. (It's like Canadia?)

revmarsh commented on

I quite dislike this test for the same reason I dislike most time travel movies: it pretty much only deals with going to the past. If someone hands me a time machine, the first thing I do--first thing!!--is go to the future and gettin' me a SPACESHIP! Screw the past! The past is boring and dirty and dangerous and no fun at all; give me interstellar travel!

RocketGrrl commented on

Man, that was glermless.

A former user commented on

Were these test design particularly for Ezma', it sure does sound like it.

A former user commented on

Woohoo, it gave me the Phone Booth first try! Do I get my twelve regenerations too?

verbophage commented on

Why is practikality a faktoid here? I'm waiting on the Trilaphones. Joush!

VulgarAnne commented on

Pull this test off the site. This sucked

A former user commented on

I guess I'm just another escapist dreamer like you and since there is no time machine as yet and not likely to be since there is no news of folks showing up from the future anywhere in the present or past....well it's a nice fantasy...one that is fun to travel around on forever....gee maybe there is a time machine but it's only in our heads.

woodsmn commented on

WOW! I felt like 'Doctor Who'!

A former user commented on

Misses the first thing any good time traveler should do. Go as far into the future as you can. Get the best time-travel device available. Repeat until you have total power and understanding of time. Then and only then go into the past. Plus it's unclear what the results are. I believe in a paradox-proof universe. Otherwise most historical records would mention the vast crowds of silver-jumpsuited strangers hanging around. Did belief about the nature of time-travel affect the score?

RobertoElGrande commented on

Oh, such silliness... One, you can only travel within your own time line. You can't travel to where you will never have been, and you travel with your consciousness, not another corporeal manifestation. So, yes, you can be a 50 year old man (the traveller) in the body of yourself as an infant. How do we know it isn't happening all the time? Most folks would never know.

JackPierce commented on

Fantastic test, man. Very well-written, funny, and even thought-provoking. (And thanks for making me giggle at my desk and blowing my internet-surfing cover at work, ha.)

A former user commented on

I just wrote about this in my journal.I noticed that, although it's easy enough to tell the creator of a test how much you liked or...

Ratteler50 commented on

Nice test! I like that "Land of the Lost" bit.

fujifan commented on

There are a number (two) of questions I simply must object to. First: 3) If time travel did exist, what sort of thing would you be most interested in using it for? There are no options to this question that involve going to the future, just the past. If I had access to a time machine, my answer to this question would be, "Go to the future and live like George Jetson." Where'z THAT option? Second: 6) Do you think that guys who spend too much time thinking about time travel are sexy? Do please remove the gender-specific part of this. As a lesbian, I have to say that I'm not about to find guys sexy, REGARDLESS of how much time they spend thinking about time travel. I'm just sayin'... -Kate

RocketGrrl commented on

@RocketGrrl: just imagine it says gals instead of guys. I assume straight guys also won't ever find guys sexy, no matter how mcuh time they spend thinking about time travel, and they just do the test too. To everyone complaining that there weren't options of going to the future: you can't go to the future, because it isn't there yet.

Belethchamine commented on

You can't kill Hitler if he's your grandfather. Killing Hitler would mean you don't exist, and if you don't exist you can kill him!! You messed up the grandfather paradox on a TIME TRAVEL test!

fuzzibear commented on

This test was awesome. I already think about time travel sometimes, but this test really made me think about everything about it.

handsome413 commented on

By jove and exclamations this test is genius and very funny and brain neme workout. I am crazy about the potential of time travel as i love the 1940s and would love my home to be there in the movies not in our mannerless inelegant time. Bravo!