Being a Time Traveler in the Middle Ages - Probably Sucks!

[@maiqtheliar789]

I swore off time travel ever since I accidentally killed an Austrian Archduke, and then blamed it on the Serbs.

[@bruhmoment1196]

M'aiq The Liar get back to Tamriel you piece of shit

[@johnnydont1257]

best comment award goes to you

[@macroshaft5517]

M'aiq wishes he'd remembered to speak in the third person during his confession.

[@Blunderbussy]

Lazy nords, leave M'aiq alone

[@sudhish2272]

M'aiq The Liar, fucking WWI* is too confusing for meh...

[@marcedrichacedera9689]

Me: Brings a gun *Shoots* _Sorry this only works in later versions please update_

[@ncrtrooper8786]

MarcYTz underrated

[@marcedrichacedera9689]

@@td9250 I meant that in a good way bruvvv :/

[@marcedrichacedera9689]

Like "Shutt uuup" but in a good way cmon man im not that big of an a hole

[@YogoBites]

Dammit hate it when that happens

[@RegalCobra097]

Or it turns out to be a DLC you have to buy.

[@muhammadlee-]

Just pickpocket everything, if you get caught just load to your last save.

[@thesauceguy1809]

Stop! You have violated the law.

[@0-Templar-0]

Pay the court a fine or serve your sentace.

[@ted903]

> Resist arrest THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD

[@0-Templar-0]

(You're making a mistake...) There's no mistake. You're a wanted man... and it's time to pay for your crimes.

[@THX--nn5bu]

Thats fine but what ever you do dont kill the villagers chicken.

[@JonatasAdoM]

"Roleplayers hate him!" "Discover how this man destroyed the concept of time travel in one simple video"

[@malachi4838]

I mean I’m sure if you time traveled to the americas instead they would praise you like a god if you wore an elaborate outfit or something

[@zesargeantwinter5939]

@@malachi4838 then you realize it’s sacrificial robes

[@mariam-eq2fy]

Or go to ancient egypt

[@Aitocracy]

he didn't

[@strongman5243]

Lol

[@the_soggster3464]

I bet a 15th century knight out there thought to himself "man if I could travel back in time 400 years with my kickass plate aromor those peasants wouldn't be able to touch me."

[@dreamsong83210]

So underrated

[@mr.tiddles1779]

Agreed lol

[@the_soggster3464]

@@NerdyNEET Yeah but wealthy knights were probally pretty cocky and full of themselves with their social status so it seens like the majority would think that. And yeah they wouldn't have a massaive advantage but still a pretty good one unless a gang of bandits rolled up to the club with maces.

[@rey_nemaattori]

@@NerdyNEET Precisely! The Industrial Revolution gave us more improvements in technology, comfort, travel ability, quality of food and life expectancy than all the improvements in the milennia before that since the dawn of agriculture. A blue collar worker who slaves off 50+ hrs day nowadays in a factory, still has better education, food, life expectancy, hygiene, clothing, chance his children will live and better(although probably not bigger) housing than even the richest kings end emperors in the history of mankind prior to the industrial revolution. It's mind-boggling how good we have it nowadays.

[@R-Lee-]

Doubt it.

[@82Hooper]

I used to be a adventurer like you, until I took a 7.62 round to the knee....

[@skortana3760]

This comment is underrated

[@quentinking1188]

Right? Got a little shrapmetal myself

[@michaelmiller2835]

Time traveler our you trying to tell us the September 20th raid was a failure

[@johnqpublic2718]

@@quentinking1188 shrapmetal? do you mean shrapnel?

[@johnqpublic2718]

I took a round to the wrist a little over 2 years ago now. I have just recently been able to get back to doing basic exercising and playing my 6-string. I feel your pain. At least I didn't get hit in the knee... damn.

[@doppelminds1040]

Don't be a fool, we're in 2018... just go with your laptop and hack their security systems and transfer all of their gold and horses to your account.

[@chip-lol]

The Chronomancer * inhales Nvm

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Yeah, you right The Chronomancer, we could also take their horses and put them in the capot of our cars, we gonna pass from 50 horssepower to 150! They would look us awfully how we try to add the horses inside the car! LMAO

[@lightninglj]

just say you represent a germanic prince that has been held captive and you need gold to secure his release and in return he'll triple the investment OR "Your Swedish uncle has died and left you 1,000,000,000 gold that is currently being held in a treasury and they should give some you 45 gold to cover the treasury fee to secure its release"

[@watchling]

Remember to bring your bitcoin wallet so you can pay for the electricity when laptop needs recharging

[@DANKUSH7]

I'm dying 😂

[@thesenate5913]

Expectation: people kneeling to you because guns Reality: gets burnt at the stake for witchcraft and heresy

[@maxthibodeau3627]

they are the heretics, brother. THEY WILL FEEL THE WRATH OF MY BOLTER!!!

[@jimboonie9885]

Bring nukes somehow

[@Chosen_Ash]

Just shoot them

[@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam]

Until a guard suddenly dies affter a loud bang. Everybody ganna stop affter that

[@cookiecakeeater6340]

@@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam they know what a gun is

[@agentgumby4418]

*sees king's horsemen charging* *downs a 5 hour energy and Flintstones vitamin* It's Nerf...or nothin.

[@laura1443]

😂😂😂

[@kennynoble1223]

Well aren't you quite the jester??

[@ikjjaajjajaja5882]

You are not a clown, You are the whole circus.

[@jameshaydes6336]

Ikjjaaj Jajaja 🤡

[@carlacruz893]

Me in the middle ages: “How much money would you trade for this eolic mystical artefact “ *shows a fidget spinner*

[@estrofago]

*they kill u because u are a witch*

[@punonn6792]

pablo el tio perez they'd be like " what kind of sorcery is this?!"

[@MrJorge3010]

I'd definitely bring a bunch of useless crap to trade 😂

[@doubleuglysaedfg]

Witchcraft! Get him!

[@betterfly7398]

What does it do?!

[@lennertvandyck5185]

"Doctor! Doctor! I have a scratch on my finger." *Doctor takes rusty saw* *Doctor amputates your arm* *Also the other arm, just to be sure*

[@nathanb9396]

Lennert Van Dyck you have that coming if you visit the doctor all alarmed like that over a scratched finger

[@DamonNomad82]

The doctor seems to have quite the...disarming...bedside manner!

[@theoriginaldanster]

Can confirm this is how I lost my practice

[@Sheridan2LT]

@@DamonNomad82 Lol!!! Thanks No Mad! :D

[@ducx23]

that other arm and a leg is to pay the doctor

[@allwell06]

Imagine shooting a guy in the Middle Ages, then you just dissolve in thin air because u killed your great great great great great grandfather

[@potatochip1201]

With my luck It would probably be like that

[@exiusagron6660]

Yeah but that would create a paradox because how could you shoot them if you didn't exist to shoot them? Time travel is way too tricky to wrap your head around.

[@malachi4838]

@ohgas I think you would still kill your ancestor but then if you used king crimson before you disappeared then you should stay alive. In the jojo universe your ancestor would have been fated to die by your hand and cause you to also die but if you use king crimson then he will still die but you can negate fate and live on. In conclusion just use king crimson as you kill your ancestor or immediately after and then you shouldn’t disappear

[@finalcam1740]

What if you dissolve into thick air instead?

[@uandresbrito5685]

@@finalcam1740 That's a good one

[@hardishwan3668]

Bro I would just bring a bucket of purple colour 🤔🤔🤔

[@AWP_Luka_H]

Yes

[@Baalslegion07]

An incredibly well thought out plan! You would be filthy rich in no time!

[@ivonahumpalot538]

I don't get it?

[@julk1732]

@@ivonahumpalot538 purple is the colour of the wealthy, bc it is expensive as hell, so it would sell for much!

[@flupsdarups3897]

50000 iq and just say its purpur

[@BillyViBritannia]

just grow a beard, hit the gym and cosplay Zeus in ancient Greece with a camera flash mounted on your gun. You wouldn;t need to throw more than a dozen "lightning bolts" hopefully to convince people.

[@sociopathic_mc66]

Highly underrated comment

[@janzacharias3680]

hopefully

[@ikjjaajjajaja5882]

*Gun flashes* Peasants:FAST LIGHTNING!

[@JinoJiwan_Jari_Pensil]

You need to be white too

[@Sara3346]

@@JinoJiwan_Jari_Pensil IDK, it would help, but Zeus was a shapeshifter so you could just claimed that you had decided to spice things up.

[@DenterNu]

Me: uses flamethrower in medival ages. Every knight: "Imma kill this dragon" Edit: I am aware of greek fire but this is a joke.

[@rahulrai7910]

Lol

[@lordtabs]

😂😂

[@Agent_Matt_6]

Tank w/ napalm flamethrowers

[@bromomento5913]

Wait i thought middle age people know pyromancy

[@rioajipangestu776]

@@bromomento5913 depends wich timr

[@robertcorbell1006]

Sci-fi and fantasy author Poul Anderson actually wrote a short story called "The Man Who Came Early" about a US Army officer and MP who went back in time with a 1911 Colt.45 to Viking Era Iceland during the pagan period. He expected to save the day and get the girl but ended up instead being accused of being a sorcerer because of his "magic tool" and sparking a blood feud when he used the gun to cheat during holmgaang. He dies being hacked to pieces by a hoard of warriors after he runs out of ammo. They're shown to believe that his magic has failed him because the gods have answered their prayers. It also has a very clever workaround for the language barrier with him being trained in Icelandic as he was to be stationed there in the modern-day, allowing him to actually understand Old Norse due to how similar the languages are even now. This whole video reminds me of that story.

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

Reminds me of the story of usa vs caesar

[@babyramses5066]

...Ends up being hacked to pieces when he ran out of ammo. Lmao THIS. Relying on a loaded gun for protection actually sucks as a time travel strategy because you'd be forced to use it on a person or object to prove its superiority but doing this would immediately make the locals hostile towards you.

[@JosephVJP]

@@babyramses5066What’s also interesting is now you’re left with a useless weapon while everyone else has a weapon they’ve basically mastered.

[@CollinMcLean]

Probably not even really magic in their eyes. I know we like to think of medieval people as being of unparalleled levels of superstitious but people aren't idiots just because they lack modern tech. Once they examined the gun and the bullets they'd probably realize it's just some really intricate type of weapon and machinery. The Aztecs didn't think Spanish cannons were some sort of insane magic, they knew they could just run around them entirely. People are still people and they know how to connect dots.

[@pdxthomas]

So cool to see this story referenced! Though it truly is a short story, it remains one of my favorite time travel yarns. Highly recommended!

[@Cam-jm9lk]

I would just show up and not do anything substantial. I would act normal enough to talk to but tell them vague things about the future in the form of phrases like "Where I come from..." or "Back in my homeland." I would then sneak off and head back to the future, disappearing without explanation. When I get back to the present I'll do some research to see if there are any legends about me.

[@spartanwar1185]

"A legend tells of the mysterious figure who appeared as mysteriously and tracelessly as he disappeared" It'd probably go along those lines or something It'd probably be vague depending on how much of an effect you have on the world though

[@gulgunsatr4589]

When you come back you find a new religion and unhappened industrial revolution

[@SahiPie]

Cam That sounds like that one European aristocrat.

[@alexanderticonuwu7591]

@@SahiPie It would seem someone's already ahead of us.

[@jocosesonata]

Just use "Where I come from..." and "Back in my homeland..." on a daily business, or whenever you do something weird.

[@cassiapalladium2921]

Why do you need a first aid kit when you can buy health potions?

[@Phantom-el6oe]

Becose you dont have HP bar to fill. Maybe ask admins for some mods to fix that, time travel update wasnt planed back in those times

[@ubermenschmexa]

Because the fucking Potion Seller won't sell anything, even if you're going into battle.

[@glanni]

The real issue is that the vendors then had a reputation blockade which didn't enable trade until you were at least on "unsuspicious". That took a shit ton of grinding though, and the grinding quests were really shit, compared to nowadays. The other problem was that for new players on the server, without a guild the npc's were all on "unfriendly"; if you were 'lucky'. And even if you would manage to survive until you reached "unsuspicious" you still would pay ridiculously high prices.

[@smittywerbenjaggermanjensen69]

Marcel Monroe why would you buy health potions if you can just heal yourself with a spell ? Get some mana potions

[@thestrangecaseofharryhinde9473]

Same problem as health potion vendors.

[@chrisedwards3866]

A gun is probably one of the worst things to take with you - the moment anyone realizes what it is, they will recognize you as an unusual threat, not a good friend. You're only taking one gun, so you obviously don't intend to share it. I'd bring a bag of cheap solar-powered calculators. Maybe even a few sliderules (with instruction booklets so I can figure them out), which they would be able to reproduce. Add some solar powered calipers, a few micrometers, and maybe even some thermometers. But most important of all, I'd bring a bunch of wristwatches, preferably both solar-powered and self-winding mechanical. With accurate timekeeping, you can measure longitude. And if you can measure longitude, you can sail with far more accuracy than any person ever before. The cheapest Timex of today would be worth (literally) a king's ransom in the medieval era.

[@elizabethmcwhorter3445]

wow, that's a really interesting perspective.

[@biblicallyaccuratecockroach]

In regards to the watches thingy, your comment reminded me of a little curiosity I saw on a documentary years ago: the guy who made The Most Accurate Mechanical Clock Ever (TM), around early Rennaissance, precisely for the navigation issue, had to rebuild his clocks like four or five times because no one would believe that a clock could be so accurate, and it took his entire life for them to be convinced that yes, this clock can really be this accurate, can you pay me now for the clock YOU ordered fourty years ago that you specifically asked to be the most accurate ever, and start using his damn clocks XD

[@darius_sanguna]

Solarpanels, battery bank, laptop and an external hard drive filled with the accumulated knowledge of humanity, maybe even a few tools and stuff, and from there you can work your way up.

[@Dozornui]

Dude, if you can't make those things and some other things to improve your own life, you'll be wasting your time, 'cause all that scrap can be broken any time and you'll be not able to fix it or to make a new one. Also, for medieval time simple good old abacus is much better any computer stuff, because no one will be going to kill you for "talking with demons by ringing weird plate with buttons"

[@ihl0700677525]

Chris Edwards I would bring metallurgy, paper making, printing press and basic knowledge about magnetism. Also couple books about those subjects. When I first arrived, I would keep my head down. Work for a local shop or farm for a month or two, then go find and ask a blacksmith to be his apprentice, and then toiling for a few years. After that I would open my own printing workshop and start making books for the rich and also open a school to teach local people (i.e. commoners) how to read and write. Hopefully, a local noble or some rich merchants will notice my effort and become my patron. From that I would probably start a guild and spreading my knowledge in earnest (but not too radical as to attract church's attention). If local people are proved to be smart enough to learn my 'modern' metallurgy (i.e. 19th century metallurgy), I would introduce to them a modern gear mechanism, escapement design, electro magnetism, and steam engine. Otherwise I would just pursue merchant's life. Start selling bonds to people (and possibly founded the first stock exchange), fund an expedition to the Americas and Asia, selling my fine metalwares for spices, tea, and silk.

[@jkee9760]

"And so that's called electricty" "So how do you make this electricity work?" "..."

[@joshuaespinoza8325]

COPPER COILS SPINNING

[@samaurel6619]

A form of energy. In nature you see it as lightning. Moving magnets near metal coils.

[@reaganharder1480]

And then you've got a host of equations to teach them to actually make the electricity useful, and actually you probably have to teach them pretty well all modern math beyond like a 3rd grade level, and industrialization of manufacturing would likely be necessary to make enough wire to actually do much of anything with the electricity, and good grief this has become a very large project indeed...

[@saintlucus2359]

Hohoho, you see, I have watched Doctor Stone

[@Friemelkubus]

Jokes on you, I can make batteries myself. All I'd need is a bit of aluminium foil and f- I want back.

[@nroke1684]

1. Travel to the future 2. Aquire iron man armor and a nuclear fusion reactor in exchange for a firsthand account of history 3. Go to medieval times 4. Get immediately burned at the stake as a witch 5. Profit

[@whoooshifg5830]

Self distruct and nuke em

[@Alexander99602]

Unknown point. Observe how the future people look perplexed at you as someone from the past has a time travel machine

[@StefanCreates]

Why would they trade iron man armour and a reactor for a firsthand account of history if they clearly have time machines too since they're in the future?

[@narrenitsuwaru8052]

Stefan Well, what if they don’t? What if the time machines eventually became too difficult to manufacture, and so eventually the means by which to build one became lost. At that point, you could exchange that information for a massive sum.

[@thek2despot426]

@@narrenitsuwaru8052 But things like that just don't happen without _some_ cause; a technology that could once be made wouldn't just stop being manufacturable in the preservation of a robust scientific and technological society. For this to be the case one must imply that a massive deficit in our technological abilities ("became too difficult to manufacture") _must_ have occurred between the future date being travelled to and now, either in terms of material wealth and/or scientific learning. Both of which, given our current trajectories, would imply a massive and likely abrupt economic and societal downturn (nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, etc.) has taken place, and if that were so then yes, your knowledge of the present would be valuable, *but they would have nothing to offer you* (like a powersuit and micro-fusion) in return, making the point kind of moot as there would be no advantage to going to the future before going to the past anymore.

[@mattj790]

But imagine your K/D ratio

[@puppy3908]

well if it take 2 or 3 bullets to kill each person on average if you bring 500 bullets you could kill around 200 people.

[@filipovixx]

Suicidal Puppy infinite bullets!!!!!!

[@connorstaggs1691]

Suicidal Puppy not back then pal, think about their medicinal practices they would die after 1 bullet each

[@nathanaelgodson3994]

#noreload

[@panquecacomcafe3120]

Matt J imagine if you accidentally killed your ancestors

[@AFCAWorldBodybuildingArchive]

Damn, I never thought weight was such a big deal back then. My Morrowind character carries around a full Daedra armor, about 12 swords, 40L Skooma, 3 alchemy ovens aand enough random stuff to pimp every house in Balmora and he's completely fine :) It's a good leg and calves workout after all

[@Elliot_I_hate_this_feature]

AFCA - World Bodybuilding Archive that is nothing, I carried ~9000 in Dwemer scrap and another 500 in iron to level my smithing

[@Chronically_ChiII]

AFCA - World Bodybuilding Archive Calves workout is best workout.

[@JohnGrahamDoe]

That's all fine and dandy-- --until you take an arrow to the knee

[@callumunga5253]

+Elliot Smith What is this Smithing witchcraft of which you speak? There is no such skill on the isle of Vvardenfell!

[@soopahfly6692]

You're the resident pusher, aren't ya? that's a lot of skooma

[@Baconbits16]

A lot of these challenges sound like a great idea for a video game or DnD campaign. Showing up as a powerful mysterious nobody; making difficult decisions and connections to survive. Careful planning because all you have and do could just as easily kill you as elevate you. Scouring the world for resources and companions to repair, replace, or alter your equipment. Gradually becoming someone prominent and trying to figure out how to get back home or make a new one.

[@WinterB312]

Would make a good video game

[@strongman5243]

True

[@strongman5243]

Underrated comment

[@dread1262]

@@WinterB312 way ahead of yaa. forgotten city..

[@sinchrotron]

And we've got Forspoken....

[@GONZOMAF]

Goes back in time: *kills random guy* *disappears because that guy was your ancestor*

[@stevenwieland3810]

but then you couldnt even go back to kill him in the first place. U call it ''Grandfather Paradox''

[@ryjak955]

Steven Wieland Fuck. My head hurts now.

[@loremipsumdolorsitamet9542]

As Stephen hawking points out in his short story of time you won't be able to travel into the past because you can't overcome the speed of light. You will only be able to travel into the future.

[@loremipsumdolorsitamet9542]

@W Winterheart jep, the multivers theorem is the only possibility you could travel back in time without any paradoxes. But as stated before would a timetravel just be possible into the future and not into the past. (if corse based on our current knowledge of time and space.)

[@MlokLik]

what if you could enter a black hole with some special suit and watch as the universe reversed in time, going backwards, rather than forward, due to its near infinite gravity, able to pull things FTL...... then, just get out of the blackhole somehow and experience the past?

[@rwdplz1]

You have to go forward first, get a personal shield system and a good laser blaster with solar recharging cells, and a universal translator. THEN go back and conquer the period of your choice.

[@wayutakemura919]

We have a genius over here. Just bring a lot of historical record with you for the future WWIII might just have ended and they lost a lot of info.

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

Your commentary is most excellent and with a little more expounding you would do verh well.

[@3rdreichball525]

Dont go without robot minions either. I would develop advanced nanotech to inject in people like the borg. Once i have assimilated my rag tag band of viking warriors ill invade the rest of Europe until i have turned all kingdoms into cybernetic minions to do my bidding.

[@setha.4283]

This would make a great book.

[@chicomendes3268]

Yeah let me quickly reanimate myself into the terminator (with my own conscience), and take along a couple armoured turreted bears.

[@gilishaky8434]

I wish this was the plot of game. Like just imagine how fun this would be, seeing how long you can survive and just fucking around.

[@Dibbles115]

If i ever make a game, Im gonna do this

[@LolLol-lb6iu]

@@Dibbles115 just imagine, like you start in our times, and you can bring some things with you, and then people will react to you depending on what you brought, as a variant you could have different times (Roman Republic's fall, 100 years war, Ottoman Empire's rise, Mongolian invasion, Spanish colonization, the Great Northern War, 7 Years War, American War of Independence, Austro-Prussian war, Franko-Prussian War, pre WW1 and its first part, same for WW2). Just imagine speaking to Caesar, Genghis Khan, George Washington, Bismarck, or even kill baby Hitler. So, pretty much Assassin's Creed))

[@Noelciaaa]

@@LolLol-lb6iu i think different times would be either new installments in the series or at least dlcs. it would be too much content for one game. it would be complex enough with programming all the thousands chain reactions and combinations of results bringing in and dealing with different stuff could cause. but yeah it would be mad fun. probably become my fave game of all time. and i like the most realistic approach which would actually make speaking to these historical figures almost impossible, and not /really/ the main drive for playing, it would be mostly fueled by the joy of experimenting and just trying to first survive at all, then live a decent life, only then try to go further and do grand things

[@dej00r]

This idea is amazing!

[@redacted6592]

@@Dibbles115 same.

[@thetayterminator1436]

The language barrier is what always kills this fantasy, so unless you take guns and a small armed militia, you really couldnt take anything into that timeline that would make you wealthy because you would be a stranger to them in their lands, unable to really communicate. Any lords in the area that were alerted to your presence would most likely think you were a theif, trying to sell your previous score of stolen goods and they would most likely cut your off hands, just to be safe, even if you were trying to tell them you you were a priest the whole time lol, without a way to communicate, you wouldnt get very far in those times. But if you do want to make money and stay safe, Than you go with lots of guns, ammo and a well armed militia to protect you and eachother with and you find the richest lord or king to be a Mercenary for. At least until you can speak the language Just be careful, cause they'll kill you when you sleep to get those guns, but then if they reneg on any deal like that, then you just kill the lord, or hell kill the king, and sit on his throne, if you and your militia storm the castle they could never get you out. You could stay until you ran out of bullets, and then your . …..Royally Fucked! Lol Pun intended!

[@generaldurchbruchmuller]

So, the langugae barriere, i am from Bavaria, the Bavarian Dialect didnt changed much in the last few hundrets years, i think it would be totaly possible to somehow talk and try to look like a merchant from far lands

[@Chosen_Ash]

I would go in the with and mg42 and just shoot people that were dicks

[@DuckieMcduck]

The reality is that bringing something back to the past is only as worthwhile as how much you can do with it. With a gun and crew you can kill people and force yourself into places sure, but if you don't have any sort of long term plan you'll eventually devolve to just being like other people in an era without toilet paper, at which point you lose. Knowledge on more industrious topics (chemistry, medicine, engineering) and how to apply them in the place you're going o would earn you a lot more than roleplaying as a lightning bolt for the local lord to throw at his enemies.

[@thetayterminator1436]

@@DuckieMcduck exactly, thats where you could really have fun being a man from the future. If you could go back and build the first machining platform that can cut metals to exact dimensions, then from there you can build the first factory that builds machining equipment and you could start the industrial revolution on a dime within 10 to 15 years the world would look nothing like it did when you got there. Of course the other things you take with you are a few biology and chemistry books, and instructions on how to make antibiotics and other medications, and how to break down raw Oil into all the difference Petroleum Products; kerosene, lubricant, Motor Oil, Gasoline, Diesel etc. The reason you need to build a machining factory as soon as you get here is because without it, you cant really build machines that could run on those fossil fuels because a blacksmith cant build exact precision and duplicate it over and over, to try to make something like a piston. Me personally, I think it would be cool to go back to a time when resources were abundant and people were used to something like building a house taking a long-time. Well what if you introduced them to some modern tools. You might be able to eradicate homelessness for once in the history of this damn planet.

[@paulallen8109]

​@@DuckieMcduck "Knowledge on more industrious topics (chemistry, medicine, engineering) and how to apply them in the place" And therein lies the problem. You lack the foundations in the society to apply that knowledge. Most of what you need as a foundation to build upon won't be around until the 1850's. Suppose you know how an internal combustion engine works in detail and manage to explain this to a Medieval scholar. You still can't manufacture even the engine block much less smaller, more complex parts such as a carburetor, fuel pumps and spark plugs. Casting processes are awfully crude and milling machines are still centuries into the future. How will you even manage to create a crude steam machine without the ability to make the parts? Do you want to show them how to make a steel bridge or steel building? Good luck, without a huge blast furnace you can't even produce steel in sufficient quantities. Do you even know how the chemical process of a modern blast furnace works? How will you be able to build a strong enough furnace which can take the very high smelting temperatures? Want to "invent" concrete for them? Good luck. You need aggregate cement first. Do you know what it consists of? They have crude concrete in the Middle Ages but none of that will be very useful for you. Also, concrete structures crumble fast without steel bars - which you don't possess in the quantities needed unless you invented the Bessemere process some 500 years ahead of time (and also solved the blast furnace problem). As for chemistry. Sigh. Aside from alcohol what could you possibly make? You need a whole chemistry industry just to make anti-septics. Medicine? The only thing you can possibly teach them is that wounds should be kept clean and that there is something called germs which we can't see but still exist and spread from people to people. Let me give you an example of how the manufacturing of certain products and goods are impossible once you reach a certain time period. Imagine if a computer designed from 2021 brought a modern laptop to the 1950's. Explaining how an integrated circuit and microprocessor works to 1950's computer scientists is the easy part. Unfortunately they lack the tools and technology to manufacture 21st century integrated circuits. There was somebody who suggested what a F-16 fighter traveling back to 1917 in WWI could do. Somebody more knowledgeable in technology stated that they simply can't reverse-engineer a F-16 in 1917 eve with technicians explaining to 1917 aviation designers how it works. Here's the funny part. They couldn't even replicate the RUBBER used in the wheels of the landing gear in 1917 much less manufacture composite materials for which advanced machines are required. There's a sci-fi novel called "The Man Who Came too Early" (1956) a 20th century American engineer somehow time-travels back to Iceland during the Viking Age. He was stationed at the American base on Iceland and speaks Icelandic which has changed little from the Viking age. While trying to implement his modern day engineering knowledge and theories for modern bridges and such he quickly realizes there's no practical way for him to build any of that with the crude tools and smithy they have. One viking observer retells one of the many failures of this American to his friends and says:"This man says that he lacks the tools to create the tools he needs." Like I said. Unless you just plan on demonstrating the most crude manufacturing methods which are possible with the "technology" they have in the Medieval era, your vast knowledge of modern medicine, engineering etc is useless.

[@paladinpv8460]

*brings back a 20$ fantasy sword, Sells it for huge stacks of gold Me: *STONKS*

[@whade62000]

Thing is give how advanced modern smelting is in comparison that may actually be a legitimate way That is, until you try to sell it for too much and it turns out you can't say where you got it and get accused and jailed for stealing from a noble

[@pkbjorn35]

They would kill you after you sold them a cheap chinese cast iron POS sword

[@lgnd2k3]

@@pkbjorn35 lol

[@Opachki69420]

@@pkbjorn35 they would be dead because someone with a proper sword would just break it with a hard swing and kill them

[@georgemuller3998]

@@pkbjorn35 Chinese weapons were considered of higher value during a gap of time.

[@Gun_Talk]

Why would i care about all the weight I'm carrying when I can buy endurance potions and strength potions?

[@duikmans]

I would sell them EPO, amphetamins, steroids...

[@michaelmiller2835]

Dragon shout = shotgun?

[@schwarzerritter5724]

But I already memorized my "This is my Boomstick!" speech.

[@russelltodd5255]

Shop smart, shop S-Mart!... Ya got that?!

[@kilstradamus197]

Alright, you primitive screwheads, listen up....

[@Gotliche4697]

See this... This is my *BOOMSTICK!!!*

[@animwarhd3125]

And I would love to hear it.

[@TheRealBillix]

Evil dead?

[@nullskull-everything5495]

Bring multiple friends who also are well versed on the Middle Ages with rare salts like pink salt or Even sea salt, you could also bring dye, cloth, leather, grain, meat, and if you and multiple people act like traders and bring some coin you might just pass as people with expensive wares.

[@hmmmooops]

Once you are out of ammo, remove the stock AND END THEM RIGHTLY

[@keeganmc0073]

Alex Dagos end them rightly in the modern way

[@umarmars47]

Alex Dagos Underrated comment!!!!

[@thomaskwei9119]

So, I’ll take the grip off my AR and throw it at them?

[@tobicalitz9988]

Certified Map Staring Expert (Chaos Titan approaches) Commisair "A fix bayonettes!!!"

[@rick149ou]

Bad Idea. You'll very likely kill one of your ancestors.

[@AgressivePigeon]

* goes back to ancient Greece * Whats up? Socrates: What IS up?

[@tlotpwist3417]

I'll do you a better one: WHY is up?

[@thatguyjayce4467]

@@tlotpwist3417 why is up, "UP"?

[@oceanusprocellarum6853]

*VSauce music starts playing

[@levk6688]

@@tlotpwist3417 I'll do you one better WHO is up?

[@kyle18934]

When is up?

[@ColdNorth0628]

I will just wear purple and strut on in.

[@themightiestofbooshes9443]

this man gets it

[@noldyn8930]

carlos conde You'll probably get fucked up for your clothes

[@themightiestofbooshes9443]

The thing about purple dye back then was, it was so expensive to dye clothes purple that it was impractical. Only if you had about all the money in the world could you possibly afford purple dye. That's why red was more common. You still had to be incredibly wealthy, but it wasn't too expensive that it was impractical as a dye. Wearing purple is a sign of your immense wealth and status.

[@swallowxx]

That's why byzantine emperors used to wear purple clothes and stuff. It was extremely expensive.

[@malnutritionboy]

no. wealth dictates power. if you brought a whole lot of that purple dye you got yourself an army.

[@gattzflappa6306]

You shoot the evil King and every one starts shouting "king slayer" and you head ends up on a spike. Because being a king slayer was super frowned upon throughout much of history.

[@chrisw3164]

Welp, time to get the MP5 out

[@patrickmartin2202]

Unless you're Roman.

[@patrickmartin2202]

Well ya they'd frown but only frown the Roman's just took the country.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

ChrisW good plan until the king’s fleet of archers pick you off when you go to reload.

[@codebracker]

He killed one king and everyone started calling him Stoneface the kingslayer, it's not like it was a hobby!

[@mrmacedon]

Bruh i would buy their whole Castle and troops with 20kg bag of salt

[@Krawurxus]

People tend to overestimate the price of salt in the Middle Ages. Consider that salt wasn't just used in cooking but also in preserving food, and for that you need a lot of it. To get it you can just mine it or boil sea water. Every household but the very poorest would've always had salt on hand. Try bringing stuff that's either extremely difficult or impossible to make or something that requires long and dangerous transportation routes. Clean cooking oil, cinnamon, pepper, clear glass or even just ordinary household sugar would be great trade goods. Anything made from aluminum would be priceless. You can bring a bag of your old plastic bottles or jugs and cooks as well as housewives and anyone who travels would kill each other over them since they had no storage vessels that could form an airtight seal and were sturdy and light at the same time. Wheat flour was relatively rare and highly sought after as well - most households lived on rye or barley breads and gruel and even those who could afford it would reserve white bread for special occasions, and you could sell it way under the local asking price because of how cheap it is for us. I mean shit, bring a box of good quality paper notebooks, some bottles of ink and a fountain pen to sell to a monastery and you might actually be able to afford that castle. I spend way too much of my time at work thinking about these things ;)

[@MrKrusten]

​@@Krawurxus I heard pepper was so valueable in certain times, you could pay your debts with it. I would also like the idea that you could teleport back and forth in time to bring stuff and experiment with certain goods. You could bring quality steel with you. Heck you could buy burgers from burgerking. I bet the would sell for alot in the middle ages considering how "otherwordly" it would taste and look like. It might become a food for kings and nobles. And unlike skallagrim i wouldnt advise bringing a sniper or hunting rifle with you. I would take a semi or fully auto rifle with 100 round mags. It makes the difference between fighting off a few people and being able to decimate 20 charging cavalry. And if you arrive with serious armor like those "juggernauts", a 100 round mag you could spread so much fear and terror among people no bandit would dare coming near you when the word spreads there is some kind of demon who can kill 20 horsemen with ease and eat arrows like they are flies. I think it some point you would have to take over a small village or a "fort". Where you can rest and be safe when you are not wearing your combat armor. And with the money you made you could pay to have guards or even befriend someone. I agree its really exciting to think about this scenario

[@Krawurxus]

@@MrKrusten Sure, traveling back and forth at a whim would be great and make the whole thing much safer and more convenient. The price for pepper was heavily dependent on availability, especially before sea routes to China and the Middle East were discovered because getting it meant months of overland travel through unfamiliar terrain with a caravan full of valuable goods. Same for cinnamon, saffron etc. but generally it'd fetch a good price, certainly at the quality you could deliver. We have no way of knowing how well received a modern burger would be in the Middle Ages. Chances are pretty well if you leave out the mustard and ketchup which people wouldn't be used to, and people would certainly appreciate the quality and the fact that it contains meat at all. Medieval people would be on a vegetarian diet most of the time, partly because you were only allowed to eat meat on some days due to religious reasons (lent and such) and because most people would only slaughter an animal if it stopped producing milk or laying eggs, which were a much more valuable and reliable food source. Hunting required a permit which people without either money or influence weren't granted. So having meat just because you feel like it was a display of wealth, showing you didn't really need that chicken or that cow or were allowed to go hunting. Meat is also highly perishable so unless you were gonna cook and eat the whole animal at once you had to either prepare preservation measures or get some others on board to quickly sell off the surplus. Also, some may have preferred to sell an animal for slaughter and just pocket the money, covering part of the cost for a new one. People also like to think they'd have to fight off armored knights constantly, but in day-to-day life you'd never even see anyone wearing armor. That's like expecting a modern soldier wearing full combat gear every day. Of course they only do that on deployment and even then only when they know they're gonna see action.

[@ccvcharger]

@@Krawurxus why travel back and forth. Pepper comes from plants, and given the right kind of knowledge, you can grow them in virtually any climate. A modern day horticulturist would make a killing in the Middle Ages, as they would know what plants to sell where, and what to tell the locals about those plants. Not to mention the poisons and drugs that can be made from plants.

[@Krawurxus]

@@ccvcharger It'd be easier to just get whatever supplies you need from the present. And maybe you'd just want to take a shower. Stranding yourself in the 12th century isn't nearly as fun as you might think, no matter how well prepared you are. Supplies run out and unexpected situations arise. So a week or two might make for an interesting vacation, anything beyond that quickly becomes an ordeal. To hammer that point home: Compared to people in the Middle Ages we don't live like kings - we live like gods. No matter their resources, no king could have had the kind of lifestyle we enjoy: We make light appear with a wave of our hand or the press of a button or a spoken word, have multile places in our house where clean, potable hot and cold water flows at our whim. Our surroundings are kepte at a stable, comfortable temperature even in the coldest winter. We can directly talk to anyone on earth whenever we want and be anywhere on earth in a matter of hours. We can access the wealth of all of humanitys knowledge in seconds. Almost any goods we want are delivered to us in a few days at most and we need not fear a bad harvest and starvation because we just go and buy what we want without a second thought. Our food is kept fresh for days, even weeks and of the highest quality. Our surroundings are absurdly clean to Medieval people, and we have medicines that easily and reliably cure most diseases that would condemn any of them to a lifetime of suffering and an early death. Going back to a completely medieval life with no option to return to the present would suck a lot. BTW: Pepper needs a pretty hot climate to grow and can't tolerate frost at all so most of Europe is out for cultivating it 😉

[@GothamClive]

To overcome the language problem you should learn Latin. This way you could pretend to be an educated foreigner and the local social and scientific elite could communicate with you.

[@bradenpotts]

This is probably the best plan I have heard, there is still the matter of how you would dress and an excuse of where you are from. I’ve thought of wearing maybe pants with just a button and no zipper, and a button up trench coat with possible fir lining or something and try to tell them I am from the East like the Ural Mountains or something, somewhere far and most importantly foreign to the place I am going. I had heard someone say something about learning Byzantine Greek and pretending to be a Greek scholar before but that could be a hit or miss especially with how much the Catholic Church disliked Greek orthodoxy and discouraged the learning of Greek except for by very few people

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

That’s possible, but that means you could only talk to people of the church or high born nobles since merchants and peasants didn’t have education so wouldn’t speak Latin either.

[@MrChristianDT]

Maybe not, but they'd sure as hell understand you were speaking Latin when they hear it & bring you to someone who can understand you.

[@atcera8714]

People today can read and say sentences, no one can actually 'speak' Latin, it's close to being a dead language

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

@@atcera8714 kinda But people in the Catholic Church still can “speak” it as many big sermons are still held in Latin.

[@yaboiyaboy9980]

Maybe someone already went back in time and wrote the throw the pommel thing in that fencing treatise to mess with us. Maybe the reason why that joke never dies or gets old is because it's actually a temporal paradox created by this time traveler. Maybe he also brought back future bacteria and created the black plague.... Maybe it was Scholagradiatora...

[@joaosimao6325]

Ok this is getting pretty deep now. Please coontinue

[@kristofferp5480]

Matt Easton that rascal! Should've suspected this!

[@whisperingbardasmr6569]

I had a dream that I time traveled with Skall to the Middle Ages then we got attacked by bandits so I unscrewed the pommel of my sword and ended them rightly then someone wrote about it in a manuscript.

[@whisperingbardasmr6569]

I had a dream that I time traveled with Skall to the Middle Ages then we got attacked by bandits so I unscrewed the pommel of my sword and ended them rightly then someone wrote about it in a manuscript.

[@heartscaless]

The book Timeline by Michael Crichton presents this issue beautifully. The researchers in the book spent their whole lives researching medieval culture, and prepped for months prior to their expedition, and were still HORRIBLY unprepared for almost all of the reasons mentioned in this video.

[@DarkPlayerRE]

Just sell salt

[@dwighttheislander7369]

Dismas oh yeah it was worth it's weight in gold

[@leirbag1595]

1- Buy a ton of salt in the present 2- go back in time 3- trade it for gold 4- come back 5- ... 6- Profit!

[@dillionhouston2163]

Leirbag15 rinse wash repeat

[@nicoruppert4207]

Or Aluminium (it was worth more than even gold and today people make silly hats out of it)

[@chistinelane]

We literally have a huge mountain of salt today that nobody knows what to do with. We have waaaaaay to much salt.

[@GruntyGame]

"I hail from New South Wales." "So you're a Welshman?" "No, it's a region in the British colony of Australia." "Austria?"

[@foty8679]

You mean The Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen (that was the full name)

[@GruntyGame]

@@foty8679 I'm glad we have more marketable names for places now.

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@foty8679 the full name of wales,south wales or new south wales

[@henriquetolentino1055]

@@Bruh-hq1hx he said "imperial" so probably new south wales i guess

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@henriquetolentino1055 what about new north wales or zealand

[@viany9557]

“It’s England, just walk up and talk to people.” The Irish: Observe.

[@DavidLinn]

there are no comments to the 138 likes this has. can someone please explain?

[@Marc-jq7nc]

David Linn No, I don’t think I will

[@lagseeing8341]

@@DavidLinn we are all irish

[@yspy_1801]

Im Irish... Northen

[@MaxTheLegoBrick]

Some Irish scents are so different from common British English that they sound like a different language.

[@Diegossdelarosa]

3021: "Being a time travel in the digital ages - probably sucks!"

[@Ditidos]

I mean, possibly. After all, if you are accustomed to low gravity enviroments and telephatic comunication (thanks to brain chips), it's going to feel very clunky going to the early 2000s, that said maybe having augmentations could solve that and make your life in the information age not as bad.

[@lordaniolist]

"Doctor I have a paper cut, can you mend me?" *Hacks off arm*

actually being a healer would be pretty awesome there , i bet you would get fortunes for curing the rich

[@comradeurod9805]

@ or you'd get tortured for witchery

[@gamergrill4933]

My head hurts Solution: hit it with the hamer Im not joking that's true midle ages method

[@lordaniolist]

@@gamergrill4933 It'll definitely stop the headache.... eeeeeeh!!!

[@tahabashir3779]

@@gamergrill4933 pls tell me you're being sarcastic.

[@georgesears934]

I'd argue that wearing funny clothes and speaking modern English is actually your best bet for blending in. If you show up dressed in a rough approximation of what the locals were dressed in with a broken accent and no connections they'd probably think you were some kind of spy or an insane person. Meanwhile if you show up in a hoodie and loose fitting sweat pants while speaking in a completely unintelligible language and haggling with alien coinage (no paper money since that wouldn't catch on until the late renaissance) they'd probably just assume you're some foreigner from the east, maybe a trader or a merchant if you're carrying around a lot of exotic modern produce and strange money. Going out of your way to not blend in may be a better alternative than trying to act like one of them since you'd probably end up falling into the uncanny valley while attempting to fit in, whereas just not bothering could make them drop their guard. So long as you don't do anything that would make you look like a witch or a sorcerer (bringing electronics, for instance).

[@Kurainuz]

also modern colors were very expensive at the times so even more to the trader facade

[@The_Legend27]

Erik Gonzalez And getting an audience with a noble would be easy, just bring a shitload of purple bathrobes with you.

[@Didacmmv]

Trustory, as long as you fix the security issue, I very much doubt any trader would walk with his goods and no mercenaries.

[@georgesears934]

+Dídac Mateu Martínez de valdivieso Well naturally that's when you whip out your assault rifle while blasting Metallica on your portable speaker! Or alternatively just invite a few friends on your time travel expedition to act as your guards, have them bring modern but slightly exotic reproduction weapons (Chinese Daos, Persian Shamshirs, etc) so that none of the locals could tell that they weren't authentic. Some of them (mostly craftsmen and smiths) may be able to tell that a reproduction English longsword is "off", but I doubt anyone who's never seen an eastern sword in person and has only heard about them through rumors and secondhand accounts would be able to tell that your buddy's talwar wasn't the real deal.

[@Didacmmv]

I still think a singing box would be pretty satan like to them, even the hellish noise making metalic sculpture like things that kill people instantly without trace other than a hole, I vote for the reproduction swords, complete "immersion" and social engineering

[@bostaffandbrains6234]

I like to think that if we ever actually figured out how to travel into the past, and if it's even possible, by that point we would have armored time traveling mech-suits and stuff designed to counter the issues you bring up :-P Also, I may be late to the party, but I'm so happy I recently and finally found your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@ThorsteinnMemeson]

On the subject of trading valuables. Bring aluminium. In the middle ages it was incredebly rare and precious. Aluminium is very hard to mine and extract without modern tools, so you could potentially carry around something thats worth more than gold and weighs much less.

[@lucasoparowski6911]

Hell just bring AR500 that would be wayyy better quality than anything they have.

[@clonemarine1]

Aluminum was not properly discovered until 1825. At that point, yes, it was a luxury metal. But that's post Napoleonic-Period. Maybe you could trick them into thinking it was ultra-light silver or something.

[@novadjsau]

Thorstein Memeson except like he mentioned in the video. Being alone with no connections and having something of high value on you. Would make you a very attractive target for lots of the locals

[@ThorsteinnMemeson]

Hmm yeah, some weird stranger walking around with lots of a weird valuable metal would be very suspecious, as well as a prime target for robbers. It was just a shower thought. And yes alluminium was only discovered in 18th century, kinda forgot that. Dont know if that would make aluminium worth more or less in the medeival era though...

[@Vitorruy1]

Thorstein Memeson they would put the aluminum on a scale, see it wasnt silver and detain you for trying to fool them.

[@stefan1924]

Get an invisbility cloak from 2520, get a good camera, make a lot of footage and get the hell outta there.

[@zurytan]

Big brain

[@Noelciaaa]

found a comment with a suggestion that is actually very likely to work. and it's actually the safest for the timeline stability bc even going a bit further and stealing some things could cause a butterfly effect. simply filming without being seen? brilliant.

[@stefan1924]

@nathaniel gray Use a flying carpet

[@ultimateking2238]

@Theodoric MacCambell Not if you're invisible

[@ultimateking2238]

@Theodoric MacCambell Both could work, but I meant invisible

[@GardenFootCreature]

*Pulls gun* "Give me all of your gold" *Mercenaries pull pommels* "Whomst'dve thou be knave" *drops gun*

[@xmm-cf5eg]

*Pulls out Blunderbuss shotgun capable of launching pommels* "Whomst'dve indeed."

[@mspencer243]

Idiots

[@dynomite463]

Just take out the butt stock Welcome to the future.

[@bobbobbington6245]

The future is now, old man

[@mspencer243]

Who needs pommels if you have buttstocks? Its 2017 kids.

[@bradenpotts]

My French professor was very adamant that we could go back farther in history knowing French than knowing English as it has seen less change than what English has over time.

[@GOTOHELL57331]

Not so. Old French was pronounced very differently to modern Parisian French. It sounded a lot closer to how it's spelled, just like with Middle English.

[@denispopescu913]

Scrisoarea lui Neacșu (Neacșu's letter) - 1521 is "the oldest preserved document, written in Romanian . It was discovered in 1894 by Friedrich Stenner in the National Archives of Brașov County, where it is still preserved today. The original paper document, with seals applied on the back, refers to the Ottoman military movements on the Danube and the passage of Mohammed-Beg through Wallachia." The language is still understandable to a Romanian speaker of today.

[@bradenpotts]

@@denispopescu913 wow awesome

[@wtalkie]

@@denispopescu913 Interesting. It always fascinates me the idea that we can understand ancient documents. As an Arabic speaker, I can read inscriptions and documents from 1500 years ago with complete comprehension mostly because of the Quran and Hadith that most of us memorize. It preserved the old Arabic language that we now call Fusha (the most eloquent).

[@denispopescu913]

@@wtalkie Fascinating, isn't it? It brings a sense of continuity and belonging hardly to be achieved by other languages. Especially languages which have suffered from major changes until they reached their present day form

[@54356776]

I would just leave stories about the modern era and come back to the present to watch historians desperately trying to figure it out. 😂 "Who was Count Noob Slayer ? And where was the province of Memetopia located ?"

[@joshjones6072]

Lool

[@penetratorx6496]

Nice comment

[@SUSHlMII]

didnt saw that coming LOL

[@prometheus9096]

the guy that started to paint all those snails across medieval books :D

[@ccvcharger]

And the peasants did lol at the musings of this strange traveler.

[@ledlg1676]

You should bring a flashbang. When you timetravel into powerful Christian court you can throw it, and afterwards pretend the blinding light was heaven breaking open, and you coming out. You might get a long way if you sell it well.

[@swolzer]

yeah but i think pretending that youre god is big big deadly sin

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar3808]

@@swolzer Just pretend you're an angel then, ezpz

[@janicnevim3969]

damn, this idea deservers more attention, it could really work, if you did this and proclaim yourself some sort of messiah.

[@SeaguIISoup]

@@janicnevim3969 just start a cult ezpz

[@NiquelBones]

@@swolzer who cares lmfao not like theyll find out anytime soon

[@ab6617]

Bring a drone and stay hidden and fly it around for a few weeks with a recording announcing the coming of God. Then come down with your rifle and use it for effect a few times. Should be good to go ruling the kingdom Edit: mount a healthy sized cross on top of your scope. Your tool is now a sinner locater.

[@faniefrikkie6868]

pretty good actually

[@comradedyatlov2010]

Holy shit hahaha

[@SaltCane]

Hey, that's pretty good.

[@vladtepes2667]

Your pretty good.

[@PrinceJes]

Sounds dumb

[@drew8520]

Essential list of things for medieval time travel: Speak Latin. Wear traditional medieval armor like Brigantine and gambeson. Learn medieval combat (swords and bows). You don't want to stand out too much Bring a handgun or two and ammo. You can easily carry that without drawing attention and it's good for emergencies. Carry medical supplies. Like a lot. General antibiotics are great, since bacteria was less resistant back then. But make sure you have specific tratements for common illnesses. Also know how to make medicines (you can make penicillin with moldy bread for example). Have a good cover story

[@EurofighterTyphoon-EF2000]

Mounted Minigun on an Apache

[@wesleyng3045]

"People traveled in groups" Me : laughs in 3000 rounds per minute

[@gordordf1091]

hahahahah laughed so hard when i read your comment. Pretty clear they couldn't win an argument against that many bullets :D

[@tappajaav]

There's nothing like good ol' fashion brrrrrrrrrt - until you run out of ammunition and then fuel.

[@porkyminch1640]

It costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds

[@tappajaav]

It costs $0 to eat this sandvich for 4 seconds *gets backstabbed by a spy*

[@yspy_1801]

Ur Gun runs out of amo, suddenly 5 arrows are coming in Hot You : Cries

[@Threetails]

Honestly, the best way to survive time travel in the Middle Ages: Learn to read and write Latin in the correct hand for the era you're traveling to. Learn the vernacular of the era. Get an exacting replica of the sort of outfit a well-heeled pilgrim would wear. Tell them you're an earl from a made-up kingdom on your way to see the shrine of a major saint in the area. Travel with an "entourage" of trusted people from your own time who are trained in HEMA and first aid. Stay in abbeys and use pilgrim accommodations at inns. That's the only way you could arrive in some place with no connections and not seem suspicious. Also, you would have to leave the gun at home because they'd probably guess what it was if it's after about 1350 and if some rogue knight heard there was a traveler with a most exquisite sort of handgonne that could fire multiple times without reloading nearby, he'd be so eager to get his hands on it he'd get a couple of his lackies to hunt you and your party down. You'd have to be lucky a dozen times, but Sir Wants-Your-Gun only has to be lucky once.

[@Origami84]

Not bad. I think i can beat this, though: Copy your points 1 and 2, but travel as a low-quality art merchant. You have a small cart, or donkey, filled with small pictures of saints, religious scenery etc. Say you are the painter, and you are travelling like this searching for a noble patron, selling your practice.works as a way to feed yourself. You would be seen as 1) a good christian 2) reasonably welloff, but not so much that they would have to kill you, only enough to pay its bill 3) someone that the local noble would be interested into meeting.

[@bleeksbentbits3150]

Sounds like you've trodden the mysterious corridors of L-space a few times yourself....

[@maxxyang3723]

Sir Wants-Your-Gun only has one chance to be lucky

[@CaptainWobbs]

This is also true: Machine guns are really good at killing multiple people. If you and your squad are equipped, I’d bet my money on the more well-equipped contenders. And if word also gets out that the person who came to try and take your weapon was completely obliterated along with his whole posse, I’d wager people would be less eager to pick a fight trying to nab anything. Even more so with any subsequent victories in similar situations. I admit it would be dangerous, but from my understanding, good quality full plate armor made you nearly invincible to most weapons back in the medieval period. And as for the few that could still pose a threat, aside from something totally overkill like a ballista, you could probably take said weapon’s wielder out at a very safe distance with minimal effort when considering your own choice in weaponry. But hey, this is just my brain trying to logic out a solution based on what knowledge I do have. I’m certainly no expert, and if humans are one thing, it’s unpredictable.

[@sicthemutt]

Dude chill

[@Haerknox]

i wonder how good their graphics cards were

[@Zarrocification]

and if there are those annoying ads you sometimes have to watch before logging into their wlan

[@travv88]

Probably only 2mb or some shit

[@BVargas78]

They still used 56k dial up. That's why they call it the dark ages.

[@dekutree5979]

They had -12gb VRAM

[@thesandvitchman1234]

The new "oil canvas" card

[@MrHenhen5]

This must be a common thought, I had a dream I was a sniper who was up on a hill far away sniping archers whilst a siege is occurring, then I remember calling in air support and an attack helicopter strafed the castle... Then I realised I might have played too much CoD

[@strongman5243]

Lol

[@Eric4bz]

Chances are you going back in time and introducing advanced germs and viruses that have evolved to be slightly irritating to a modern healthy person who has access to vaccinations and health care would probably ravage the landscape of people who haven't evolved their immunity that far.

[@kemuli2857]

This is the most likely scenario, diseases. Either you die or everyone else around you dies. It wont be a pretty sight.

[@massi9824]

The black plague is very much alive but we are immune to it, and if you got it back in the middle age I don't what would happend

[@IzzyLovesRock]

MrPanos2000 Bubonic plague wouldn't be much of an issue with modern knowledge. We know it was the rats that used to spread it, something they didn't know at the time. Once they figured that out it was handled.

[@IzzyLovesRock]

MrPanos2000 Lol, relax my dude. I meant nothing by it. Just having an interesting discussion on YT.

[@IzzyLovesRock]

MrPanos2000 No harm no foul, my friend. I empathize with your shitty day, I had one yesterday.

[@thishandleisntavailable42069]

"I have a modern gun, I am invincible!" Rifles don't have pommels.

[@DeepRuffian]

Bloody Heretic guns are useless you can't end them rightly

[@lightningandcloud]

but all my glock mags have pommel base plates helps with tactical and speed reloads. pommel has weight so mag drops easily, is a pommel shape easy to grip from glock or mag holsters, added weight steadier aim less felt recoil, pistol whipping is much improved all kinds of benefits or at least they outweigh some negatives. :)

[@DeepRuffian]

lightningandcloud i don't count that as a pommel. The pommel has to be a part of the weapon. Its better to throw the slide as an improvised pommel.

[@theeviciousbear8263]

No but I guess explosive rounds will do the trick

[@aldor9357]

You still can pommel with the butt of a stock

[@kkonstantinosss2]

All you need to do is travel back in time to 2009 and mine bitcoin.

[@jasonhatt4295]

Or travel back in time to 2008 and invent bitcoin!

[@e.eriksson8191]

Or buy bitcoin when it's starting out. In 2010, 1 bitcoin was valued at 0,06 USD. Now it's 18000 dollars. AAAAAAAAAA.

[@soundninja99]

Money can help change the future in a much more predictable way than changing the past. I'd much rather have resources in present times than go back in time.

[@ethanbolt10]

I second what Arnold says

[@q1w2e3621]

1996

[@jsihavealotofplaylists]

Something nobody ever goes into depth about is... how much time do you have to prepare, can you go back and forth in time, how much are you allowed to take etc.

[@arandomperson5434]

Knight: my armour is the most quality and impenetrable by most arrows. 50.BMG: *WHAT ARMOUR?*

[@antonius6257]

Shrek

[@charlesdemers1197]

Is your username a reference to Fallout 1?

[@PotatocannonLol]

@@charlesdemers1197 I'm 90% sure that its from the holy grail (movie) or worms.. though worms ripped it from the movie

[@charlesdemers1197]

The RedNeckEngineNerd Darn it

[@dustinontaiyabbi5608]

5.56 would pen that armor

[@DemoniteBL]

Bring lots of armored vehicles that can carry a life supply of ammunition, food and fuel. You might need a pretty big portal though.

[@thetemplar8167]

This remembers me of the anime GATE

[@hans8069]

Lol I can imagine armored cars with m2 50s on the roof laying fire on hundreds of middle age knights

[@The_Knowledgeseekers]

Don't forget your sabre turret

[@davidtitanium22]

I think bringing at least a group of friends trained in survival is good enough if you only want to survive

[@finsfan90]

There are no modern battleships. Last one in service was a WWII one that saw action in The Gulf War.

[@emmanuelglazer1247]

I would just bring my double barrel and explain "THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK"

[@ninponighthawk]

Emmanuel Glazer but do you remember the sequence of words for the necronomicon is the real question

[@emmanuelglazer1247]

Archangel Gaming klatu verata nectar oh wait

[@danbardos3498]

Emmanuel Glazer All the time I spent scrolling to see if someone said this yet... and you guys made it totally worth it. :D

[@BiscuitHead22]

Gimme some sugar, baby.

[@marekogarek6329]

Have fun dying in your sleep or hiding in a forest to sleep and still dying in your sleep because a hunter followed you out of sight or closing yourself in a room and dying from a poison or closing yourself in a room at night alone, refusing food and dying from hnger.

[@artoy6575]

About languages, I know you gave England as an example but I wanted to mention this. It also depends on the language, a Spanish speaker could understand one from the 15th century, and if we extend the range to understand something and half transmit information we could include 1200 where if I remember correctly the "Cantar de mío cid" was compiled.

[@argentinajacuzzi1176]

Id ask everyone around whether they get to the cloud district often

[@thegrimhorseman]

What are you talking about, of course they don't

[@lancehandy6648]

Nah they dont. Too many knees succumbed to too many arrows to allow leisure strolls to the cloud distract.

[@brianvaneyll9852]

This is the best comment I've ever seen lmao

[@skortana3760]

Stfu Nazeem

[@reyntime1950]

They've heard of the high elves.

[@zeanomourph1]

"even worse, if a higher ranking individual has some kind of issue with you and they accuse you of something"... So anyway, I started blasting

[@Aliyah_666]

AK-47 noises intensify

[@jassys8334]

Indeed

[@seanmcloughlin5983]

Then all their friends swarm you because your one guy against their entire retinue.

[@thorodinson292]

@@Aliyah_666 drum fed 300 round 50 bmg machine gun.

[@Omen_Burrito]

@@seanmcloughlin5983 dude, they tried that on all the beaches in ww2. And they had guns of their own. What makes you think people with swords and inadequate cover and armor is gonna be any better?

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

Just wear purple clothes, look healthy well groomed, maybe wear some gold and people will assume that you're royalty.

[@tzimiscelord8483]

Having longer hair helps for this approach

[@roughsharkangular2034]

Can i wear my fedora?

[@NotSoProishNoob]

Just imagining a weeb cosplayer being worshipped by locals who don't know better.

[@Mirthfultale]

And get jumped

[@yoyobros99]

Tzimisce Lord Just get some fake hair: nobody had fake hair back then

[@chrisw3164]

A pistol might not be recognised as a weapon though, as far as they know it's just a piece of metal in a funny shape wich would be highly innefective compared to swords and stuff

[@robertcorbell1006]

Read the short story "The Man Who Came Early" by Poul Anderson. A guy who is an MP in the US Army stationed in modern Iceland is transported back in time with only a loaded 1911 Colt.45 pistol to the age of the Vikings. He's seen as a dark sorcerer who has to be taken down after he pulls a Raiders of the Lost Ark during a duel. The story is pretty much a piece-by-piece deconstruction of the notion of time-travelers attempting to change the past without any prior knowledge of a certain period. The author cleverly gets around the language issue by having him know Icelandic per his military training, which is the closest living language to Old Norse and has changed little in over a thousand years.

[@Gtmann]

Well if you were in a fight with some soldiers and you shot at them with your Glock 19 after a while they would understand it

[@The_Smiurgh]

@@robertcorbell1006 thank you

[@robertcorbell1006]

@@The_Smiurgh You're quite welcome. The Vikings in the story see his military haircut and note his strange dialect (modern Icelandic which is mostly intelligible) and assume he is a runaway slave. They ignore the pistol as it's assumed to be a religious talisman. He's put to work pumping the bellows for the local blacksmith forge and screws even a simple task like that up. He tries romancing a local woman, but her betrothed challenges him to a duel. He beats the Norseman to a pulp, dishonoring him by being defeated in the manner of slaves. He pulls a sword only for the soldier to shoot him. He then ends up on the run as a feared dark sorcerer until he runs out of bullets and is taken down by arrow and spear. They fear the wrath of the gods if they don't give a seeming master of "clever-craft" a proper burial. His body is unearthed in the 60s by an archeological team who are puzzled by a piece of rusty metal that resembles a pistol. Great story. Google it.

[@The_Smiurgh]

@@robertcorbell1006 true i read it

[@user-vb1rv2lz5l]

Step.1 get a cold Step.2 cough on a pesant Step.3 destroy the world

[@samuraimedi4061]

Shoot just breathing would destroy humans, we carry so much they would not be immune to.

[@Tuckerscreator]

Stop, don't turn 1020 into 2020.

[@jlokison]

Works both ways, they had pathogens that no longer exists that we do not neccesarily have resistance to. Black plague still shows up every now and then, the only way infected have a chance to live is early identification and immediate medical treatment.

[@goncalobaia1574]

People please don't compare covid to some other pandemics along history, it is sad and ignorant, from both perspectives

[@CodexQuinn]

@@goncalobaia1574 When did anyone say anything about covid...

[@AuxenceF]

*travel back in time* Die in outer space because earth is moving Edit : stop trying to fix this XD the sun and the galaxy are also moving

[@josephpentony4804]

Underated comment

[@LilScotty10]

Auxence Fromont holy shit bro u didn’t have to blow my mind like that at 2am😂

[@Koronen_simp]

ah, an exurb1a fan

[@rateeightx]

You Clearly Didn't Make Your Time Machine Right.

[@gebreknefekalmoradiss3785]

@@rateeightx it's actually true, to turn time back and still be on earth's surface you'd have to have a machine that can alter both time and space.

[@Vidar_Odinson]

This... Is my BOOM STICK!

[@notforsaletoday1895]

💥

[@paxonite-7bd5]

VidarOdinson79 and you are S-smart! (Cinema sins)

[@Avanstarwa]

KLAATU VARADA N... N... Oh damn

[@SuperSonicMaster007]

William Halter always good to see another cotf haha

[@fujinwinds2514]

VidarOdinson79 now all you need is a chainsaw hand!

[@TD-ug4mg]

Its super nice of you to give both metric and imperial units. The reasons why the US still uses the imperial system is super interesting, one of which is its actually better in many applications because its built off factors of four rather than base ten math like metric. This is less useful in our very current time, but even going back as little as 80 years it makes a very big difference.

[@laisphinto6372]

nice cope Americans who still use the old british system that even they abondan because its shit

[@glengraham7080]

...and everyone has B.O, bad breath, intestinal worms and fleas. You can keep the "good old days" - I like living in a world of electronics, antibiotics and modern sanitation.

[@tappajaav]

Not to mention that it was not uncommon for people to act like children with their emotions.

[@funninoriginal6054]

@@tappajaav All the ages have that problem, no exception.

[@tappajaav]

That's true, but to much greater degree than in present.

[@bradcallahan3546]

Yeah.. look at the whole leftist movement. Enough said.

[@neriv9131]

Umm.... Freaky.... Sex

[@MoodyReaper]

Skalla: you can only do so much with guns Me: Brings a tank and more people

[@leonardjustinjsering7197]

Red flag and PAPA STALIN

[@leonardjustinjsering7197]

Tsar BOMBA is good enough.

[@themaninblack993]

How are you gonna fix the tank when it breaks down. What will you do when you run out of ammo/fuel.

[@J4ke_0805]

@@themaninblack993 nuke the fuckers

[@themaninblack993]

@@J4ke_0805 hell yea lol

[@ncrtrooper8786]

This man is the secretly a time traveler from the Viking days

[@kukifitte7357]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@insertnamehere8099]

NCR Trooper secretly? Nah

[@SvenDzahov]

I found out I'm a descendant of Harold Hardrada and lost my shit, I wish I could bring great great great grandpa to the modern age and show him how wealthy Norway is now

[@SRosenberg203]

When you said "10 archers" I just had a flashback to this RP game I used to play where the frequency with which characters were murdered by a bunch of bowmen popping out of the woods and filling them with arrows led to the creation of the "12 Crossbow Club". Yes, I was a founding member lol.

[@nikos731]

"The Pope might decide that you are in league with the Devil and you 'll have a bunch of crusaders after you". Sorry but this sounds immersely epic and awsome.

[@julian-vanilla8379]

nikos731 now get a speaker and play some epic music as you smite the enemy

[@forkrolls]

this is basically Shield Hero

[@2MeterLP]

Having a bunch of people trying to kill you sounds awesome to you?

[@forkrolls]

@@2MeterLP Yes

[@englishdicktionary1611]

@@forkrolls until they pierce your heart that is.

[@miquelvegamolina9032]

Just bring a smartphone with a solar charged and a full list of latin cristianic chorus and tell them that God send you, get the favor of the church and you're done.

[@this_is_patrick]

Yeah, a completely normal bum who haven't done shit walks into a church then proceed to call himself the second coming of Jesus Christ, of course they'd think you're crazy, dumbass, bringing any kind of modern electronics, even a toaster, is like magic to people in the 1800s, now try bringing them to the 1500s where the best tech they have is a sharpened stick made of metal, you'd be a god to them.

[@thedotgamer9592]

This is Patrick They did have cannons...

[@this_is_patrick]

TheDotGamer GD But they don't have weird glowy boxes with people in them, or ultra accurate hand cannons. Anything technological that we take for granted today would be magical to them. You'd either be praised as their new god-king or burned as a witch whom trap people inside handheld boxes.

[@thedotgamer9592]

This is Patrick Yes, but they did have better technology than swords

[@this_is_patrick]

TheDotGamer GD That was an exaggeration, of course they have better tech than bladed weapons.

[@MestisTheManiac]

>Arrive in the Finnish peninsula somewhere around mid-10th century >Language is still mostly mutually intelligible with modern Finnish dialects >Befriend a village blacksmith, telling him you're a smith journeyman looking for a master to work under >"invent" crucible steel with said blacksmith >Gift steel items to the local freesire (baron) >Get funded by the nobility to produce steel >Leave your blacksmith master in charge of operations and hiring apprentices as labor force, you're a mere journeyman after all >Use your funds to found a paper mill, claiming your skills as an engineer for "inventing" crucible steel >Create a written language for Finnish hundreds of years before its time and introduce it to the court >Start a grand pilgrimage to meet sages and ask them to embark their wisdom onto you as you write it down, hundreds of years before Elias Lönnrot >Basically write a version of Kalevala with no Christian influence >Witness your liege freesire rise in wealth and eventually become a count or even a petty king (equal in power to a duke), due to immense wealth and steel weaponry >As you return from your paganic pilgrimage, tell your liege of a prophecy where he must unite the Finnic tribes and make the Empire of Kalevala >Tell him you were divinely inspired by the thunder god Ukko to create pipes that spit fire and iron >"invent" rudimentary hand cannons out of your crucible steel >Create early artillery out of the same crucible steel >Witness as Finland unifies a millennium early and actually becomes a world power >Gradually popularize the written word in the courts of the newly formed empire, which would probably look like Greater Finland plus Estonia and Ingria >Reform the formerly scattered paganic faith into an organized religion with holy scripture >Laugh as Sweden and Novgorod never get to conquer Finnish/Karelian lands >Laugh as Christians can't convert the organized and formalized faith >Laugh as Finnish/Karelian paganism survives into the modern age >Laugh as you'll be remembered as a great inventor and a national icon >Die of an infection after you stub your toe I've been playing too much Crusader Kings 2

[@gasman5555]

*B O N U S R O U N D* -after creating paper and general literacy found scientific theory -using greater crucible power create the lens. both found new ideas in germ theory and astronomy. -invent everything up to calculus -create theory of gravity and be shunned -return from being shunned by introducing electricity -prove further that gravity works by showing mathematically the link between gravity, magnets, electricity, light -invent modern day flux and concrete -invent modern day perspective drawing. (SUPER EASY if you have taken any art classes) -cure scurvy, create vaccines, teach the dangers of mercury and lead, teach about antibiotics, create pagan Harvard -hire assistance to run experiments for you, after teaching about germ theory in pagan harvard and becoming the font of all knowledge teach genetics -Permanently blind yourself and tie a blindfold around your head to become the blind oracle. -end your days publishing half truths and prophecies written by your assistants and die comfortably in your 60s *E D I T* -found idea of evolution (which you changed to support pagan beliefs) -Teach that the Finnish are a superior race and invent Eugenics

[@sotijas]

kirkkojen katolla alkumuna ristin siasta

[@orokushi5953]

-flood foreign market with cheep books written in finish

[@Red-sm5so]

Mestis what about fucking? I know I know.. people back then were full of diseases but not all of them.

[@PaperiLiidokki]

Dude i would watch this lets play.

[@Zolwiol]

I've actually ran this thought excercise in my mind a lot of times and the only good way to carve a life out would be to use my education to MAYBE make a connection with one of the alchemists/scientists and pretty much get an apprentieceship. Again it relies on making connections but I came to a conclusion it would be the easiest one to make out of all middle/higher ones. Hell not that I think about it some modern farming knowledge might be actually the best way to get a good living then.

[@ghosturiel]

Are you trying to imply Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was not an accurate portrayal of what time travel would be like?

[@raidermaxx2324]

i was thinking of a Evil Dead 3, Army of Darkness...

[@geckoo9190]

What is that?, anopther parody of a yankee in king arthur's court?

[@Archbishop_of_the_Noodle]

You should try "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain

[@paulenan9636]

Ok, i read some german knight-novels from that time (they kinda sucked, though), so i guess that accent-thing isn't THAT bad in german. So, lets do this: 1. get a 20 man squad equipped with modern firearms into medieval Frankfurt. 2. Contact the local lord. (If necessary, by force) 3. Struck a bargain where you trade some additional firearms for one of those neat Zweihänders and some awesome black Reiter-armor. 4. Return home with some pimpin' souveniers. 5. Find out that in the current timeline those jackasses started a war against Europe and lost against England. 6. Find out England rules the world. 7. Stop existing, because time paradox reasons. ...sounds great.

[@Landsknecht25]

Paul Enan The accent that time was extremely heavy. If your german, search “Palästinalied“ to get an idea, although its older.

[@paulenan9636]

only read the tale of erek. Sucked hard, but was actually readable.

[@aarontheperson6867]

actually you would already know that England rules the world, because if time travel is real, then that would mean that the future and past is already set and can't be changed

[@paulenan9636]

Son, i'm looking for some kickass Sword. You are looking for making my day harder than it needs to be. Don't do that. Don't make me think about complex time-paradoxon. Please.^^

[@DrakesdenChannel]

I still speak a variant of the Croatian language stemming directly from the proto-slavic language.

[@yeetmeister4980]

Man this brings back memories I remember once I didn't let some dude named Adolf into art school

[@blashimov]

Ember verse is Ancient Greece

[@darthsand8292]

IT WAS YOU

[@nehemz432]

You yeeted the one who mustn't be yeet.

[@MrFantasnick]

Damn it, I wanted to make that joke 😂 well played :P

[@jelambertson]

So you’re to blame for the whole anti-semitism thing?

[@terrorcop101]

I'm inclined to think that the first thing you need to do when time traveling is research, Research, RESEARCH! Know everything you can about the time and place you're going to, get everything you can that can help set you up when you get there. The second thing is to not go back alone. Take a number of people with different specialties and build a power base from which you can operate and fall back on when things inevitably go bad for you. Finally, expand your sphere of influence so that you can make connections, build a reputation, and finally start making an impact within your lifetime. Whatever you do, you can't rely solely on what you, a single stranger in a strange land, can carry on your person or possess for knowledge and experience.

[@metaparalysis3441]

if there is a reliable and reproduceable way to time travel, why not get the US or any other NATION to manifest destiny and get them to use their own powerbase to do the same thing, you don't even have to bother with going there yourself

[@Gorgy098]

Oi m8, you got a loicense for that boomstick, do ya?

[@my_cellium]

Listen up you primitive screwheads

[@GamingCinematicsPH]

15th century knight dreaming of conquering the stone age.

[@sneakytaze5336]

Nah, probs Rome first.

[@ion_force]

That's literally what happened to the aztecs/maya when cortez rocked up on the shore with his bois

[@MrAlepedroza]

@Dreymon Green r/whooosh

[@gachibass8630]

@@MrAlepedroza r/comedycemetery

[@InsertFilmGroupName]

Ian Fadie It was moreso the huge sums of enslaved tribes under the Aztecs rebelling against their crazy human sacrificey oppressors when meeting the Spanish. Just to find themselves under a new conqueror.

[@nikolaihel8106]

Funny how everyone fantasizes about going back in time just to mow down our great great great great great great great grandparents with modern weapons.

[@benyaminyaphiliandro2032]

Well but if time travel work like avanger endgame then we technically wont gone,necuase its another reality

[@mythrillmeyhem8998]

@@benyaminyaphiliandro2032 are you basing the idea of time travel off of movies I forget how it was actually said in endgame but you know the scene I’m quoting right?

[@mythrillmeyhem8998]

@Lady Mercy ?

[@xCorvus7x]

@@mythrillmeyhem8998 Benyamin was saying *if* it works as depicted in that film. Supposing you've taken them seriously, note that that is simply one idea for how time travel might work (so they are not basing it on movies but considering one idea that has happened to be featured in a film).

[@mythrillmeyhem8998]

@@xCorvus7x it was a joke chill

[@Nickle_King]

My favorite thing is people saying they'd be worshiped as a god if they brought a gun. Sure, you might impress some people, but if you REALLY wanted to shock them, bring an IPod full of music made with instruments of the time and a speaker with you. You will blow their minds. Also, this reminds me of a debate I had with someone about Dungeons and Dragons. They were complaining on the Weight system, mostly about food rations. Now, if all that ration was was a dozen sticks of jerky and a few carrots, I'd understand, but that's not what your carrying. You are an adventuring party burning calories faster than a snowball in the Saharan sun. This is salted meats and dried vegetables and probably a metal cooking pot and stand. That gets pretty dang heavy in bulk, kinda like how people forget that Ammo gets pretty dang heavy in bulk.

[@cultmecca]

Anything that attracts a lot of attention to you is bad. iPod would be bad bad. People would see it as a magical item which they probably wouldn’t initially care about, but if something weird happened in town shortly after you came, you could get blamed as putting a magical spell on someone. Also bandits and thieves would want the magical item and that’s attention you don’t want

[@darthimperious1594]

Step 1: Learn Latin. Step 2: Learn how to make Penicillin (or as many different antibiotics that can be made, in however crude a fashion, with medieval materials). Step 3: Go back to Contstantinople, 530 AD. Step 4: Ask to see a priest and say that you were sent by God to aid Justinian in his holy quest of reconquering the Roman Empire. Step 5: Offer your "divine knowledge" and work with the alchemists and priests to make antibiotics in time for the Plague of Justinian (541 AD). Step 6: See what happens when you have a resurgent Roman Empire that doesn't suffer the death of over 50% of it's population right at the peak of it's military successes. Step 7: Forewarn the Romans about the coming of "a great evil from the Arabian Desert" around 600 AD. Congratulations, you've butterflied away the two most damaging events in the Eastern Roman Empire's history. Sure, they may still overextend themselves and collapse anyways. But damn, history is going to be different. Optional step: Learn and teach them the Bessemer process for making high quality steel. They already know the steam cycle, so combined with this, you just started the industrial revolution in Medieval Rome. Railways anyone?

[@SteaksOnSpear]

based

[@garrettsattem4799]

Eddriic Floor and Tea no Probably not. You gave them the tech, sure. But now you got to teach them how to operate it, maintain it, etc. And how are they going to make more of that tech when they don’t have the means to do it?

[@empiredirt6530]

I'd rather destroy the Roman Republic before they fuck up Europe forever with their ego-mania

[@garrettsattem4799]

empireDirt As in, to cinders? Scorched Earth? Along with all of the knowledge they possessed?

[@hejalll]

Overextended ? *Britain left the chat*

[@Saviliana]

Time traveled: Day 1, you pee and poop somewhere in a village Day 2, people near the place you had release your No.2 start getting weird sickness Day 3, the local church and crowmen guild start to catch the same sickness too Day 4, the whole village caught sickness, you heard the near by towns start having this mystries sickness Day 7, the whole region had catch this ill, no one able to know what it was or the cause Day 10, people starts drop dead in their works, you had release the pladge. Day 40, the whole europe had been reduce into lifeless ruins, its spreading to africa, asia would be next, and autaum is coming, birds are flying to the west.....You had a hench that America would soon follow..... Day 100, you are maybe the last human on earth, good luck surviving the long night. Kids, don't forget you had carrying countless virus with you even if you were "healthy". Once you release your storage into their time, there is no return

[@vajoynus]

You're such a buzz kill.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

That was dark

[@Saviliana]

@@vajoynus Because I had been the buzz kill. I said what I know.

[@rachupranger9306]

Lol reminded me of this one episode of the Simpsons where homer time traveled back to the age of dinosaurs and accidentally sneezed in front of a T-Rex . This caused his germs to kill all of the prehistoric life lol.

[@multifreak4154]

Plague Inc. : Time Traveled

[@RIFLQ]

1. Sell genetically modified seeds 2. ... 3. ??? 3. Profit

[@catking7901]

Luke Skywalker this is the legend of the story of the giant turnip

[@BullFrogFace]

Wait a minute... Thats not luke

[@kronus4915]

Magic beans!

[@lihac5079]

Anakin you're not your son!

[@cocakoolaid2283]

You didn't fill number two and three, and you have two number threes

[@climhazzard115]

I think specific science and engineering knowledge could give your faction a massive advantage if you could get the influence to wield it, but I suppose that's the challenge. I'm sure I've already read such stories among the prolific isekai fantasy manga or web novels. For example, "Release that witch" Story of a guy with engineering knowledge that reincarnated into a medieval fantasy world as a prince, then used his knowledge to build a significant economic and military advantage for his faction. Unfortunately most of those isekai stories are trash, self insertion power fantasies where some average nobody from modern day gains a significant advantage in whatever fantasy setting due to his meagre knowledge.

[@davidharasymowicz8707]

2:26 what english sounds like to non-english speakers

[@venomsnek2231]

Underated comment

[@jiminieugotnojams_5229]

Omg XDshjffhgdg

[@inklingidea7054]

It sounds More like a mix of English, german, and Swedish

[@qamarashkar1881]

Not really

[@jinx8624]

Sounds more like German

[@madmannn9576]

Me in the middle ages: You guys take this gun from 2020, do research and speed up human intelligence and when I go back home it better be looking like motherfuckin Star Wars

[@bestgameplay831]

@Klaudia haha if they are then why don't they know how to use a computer?

[@arianaxdr7399]

better give them antibiotics, how to generate electricity and chemistry, the big problem is the mentality of the people of that time everything strange is something of the devil, we change when we begin to know where things come from

[@thanasis-_-]

Human intelligence hasn't changed for the last 1800 years

[@arianaxdr7399]

@@thanasis-_- we probably have the same number of neurons for thousands of years, but education made us 1000% more smarter

[@thanasis-_-]

@@arianaxdr7399 this is research and knowledge not intelligence

[@johno1544]

Doc Brown said it best in Back to the Future III. He said he was happy he didn't land in the Middle Ages because he would probably be burned at the stake for witchcraft.

[@Charizardlison]

witches were actually burned in the early modern period.. not the middle ages;)

[@jasonsexton8869]

A heretic, but yeah, it wouldn't have been pleasant for Emmet Brown :).

[@Masterwar15]

Klaus Hermann And you think that would stop them from BURNING THE WITCH!?

[@johno1544]

Heretic not witch your right :) man I have to watch that movie again.

[@RandomAllen]

Yeah but it all depends if Doc Brown weighs as much as a duck?

[@novicedruid8303]

Crossbows also work similarly to guns in terms of the firing arc and etc and might be among the closest weapons. Somebody with a crossbow was basically like a sniper in the middle ages.

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

What if I take enchanted golden apples?

[@funninoriginal6054]

With an Strength 2 potion and an Sharpness V Diamond Sword. Those poor Iron Armour knights wont stand an chance.

[@vive_faux6909]

Take a creeper spawn egg and fill up the castle with creepers

[@rekoken2911]

take soul sand and wither skeleton heads

[@xramejin]

I'd just take a bucket and drown the whole world from the sky. Then Charlemange accuses me of griefing. Good times.

[@rekoken2911]

@@xramejin than he asks the pope to become an operator so he can ban you