View Full Version : I need the ability to stop time
Anthony1
10-29-2004, 12:15 AM
Man I wish I had some type of special ability to stop time.
If I could stop time, every night about 11am, I would stop time and play video games for about a 4 hour session. Then I would restart time and go to sleep.
Promophile
10-29-2004, 12:18 AM
Man I wish I had some type of special ability to stop time.
If I could stop time, every night about 11am, I would stop time and play video games for about a 4 hour session. Then I would restart time and go to sleep.
Its not hard. Just go to sleep at 3-4 like I do ;) . Luckily my first class starts at 1 pm.
Anthony1
10-29-2004, 12:20 AM
I only sleep about 5 hours per night as it is. I can't afford to get any less hours then that. Problem is I have two little kids and a full time job. Just not much available time.
And there are so many great games to play.
zektor
10-29-2004, 12:43 AM
Didn't they do that in The Outer Limits?
Anthony1
10-29-2004, 01:04 AM
Really if you think about it, the ability to stop time, for video gamers would be a really sweet thing.
If you are a hard core retro gamer, and you also love all the curent latest and greatest games on XBOX, etc, etc, then there really isn't enough time in the day to play all the games you want.
Unless you are unemployed, with no kids or wife or girlfriend.
But if you work, have kids, and a wife, then you know just how little free time you actually have. And then, with that free time, you have to further divide it up amongst various things. With playing video games being one of the primary things, but not the only thing.
Unfortunately, I also like sports on TV. Especially the NFL. I'm a NFL nut. I even play in a Fantasy Football league. I also like NBA Basketball. I live in Sacramento, and the Sacramento Kings are the only thing we got here.
So watching my NFL and NBA takes alot of my precious free time.
Then you have the internet. I like looking up stuff on the internet. I like messing around on forums like these, or looking at stuff on Ebay or reading up on things.
Then you have DVD movies. I enjoy a good DVD movie.
In terms of regular TV, I really don't watch much of it. I used to actually like those Reality shows, but I actually got sick of them. I do watch some MTV and BET and Fuse for music videos. Some times I just bounce around different channels.
But definitely, playing video games is something I love to do, and I try to play every day if I can, it's just that there are lots of times when I can't.
Man, I just wish I could get a 4 hour session in every day.
Once in awhile I call in Sick from work, just to stay home and get a couple of 3 hour gaming sessions in.
DigitalSpace
10-29-2004, 01:28 AM
Don't we all buddy, don't we all. LOL
MegaDrive20XX
10-29-2004, 01:33 AM
Unless you are unemployed, with no kids or wife or girlfriend.
Great, he just described my existing life as of now *dies a little inside just knowing how much my life sucks*
Man, that would be nice to have. I could beat all of my games, so that I don't feel guilty buying new ones, 'cuz that's how I feel when I buy a new game, play it for a couple days, then put it on my shelf when I get a new one.
Fuyukaze
10-29-2004, 01:53 AM
I second this motion! I to desire this, time stoping ability. For I would personaly use it for the most vile purposes on earth! No game store within my reach would be uneffected, no bank left with money, and no anime store would be left untouched for I would rob them blind and get away it! Genius! Bwahahaha........
On a more serious note, the thought has crossed my mind to consider a different aproach to time stoping. If the kenetics of mass is relavent to the precieved flow of time, then is it not posible that the ability to stop time does in fact exist and has simply gone unnoticed due to the subject (time stoper) and everything else in existance being effected in the process as well? True, if they stoped time indefinitly we would not be capable of having these conversations, but what if it was simply in intervals? How would we know it? Could we even notice it?
Push Upstairs
10-29-2004, 02:17 AM
Unless you are unemployed, with no kids or wife or girlfriend.
Great, he just described my existing life as of now *dies a little inside just knowing how much my life sucks*
Awww.... Well in honor of your story and the recent unearthing of that Mario on Ice video....
I CHOOSE YOU Super_Ghouls_'N'_Ghosts to be 2004's....
VIDEO PRINCE!
Yeah, being able to stop time would make driving to work a *whole* lot easier.
petewhitley
10-29-2004, 02:28 AM
God do I relate to that. I end up sleeping 'till noon on the weekends catching up on the sleep I lose by sleeping at 4am and working at 8am, due to videogames and all the other vices you've already mentioned. College students: working life is shit. Extend those glory days as long as you can, 'cause your first class is gonna start at 8am every day pretty damn soon.
Anthony1
10-29-2004, 02:38 AM
God do I relate to that. I end up sleeping 'till noon on the weekends catching up on the sleep I lose by sleeping at 4am and working at 8am, due to videogames and all the other vices you've already mentioned. College students: working life is shit. Extend those glory days as long as you can, 'cause your first class is gonna start at 8am every day pretty damn soon.
Yeah, no question about it. Those of you that find yourself in situations in which you can game for crazy hours every day, you should do it as much as possible while you still can, because those times are going to dissapear once you have a job and a wife and kids.
Steven J. Lumas
10-29-2004, 07:54 AM
If I could stop time I'd do it right away, then smash the watch to bits. Then I would walk around gathering all of the FREE stuff, especially the package goods we were never allowed to have in the house when I was growing up, like "Sardines 'n Mustard"! or that peanut butter that's mixed IN with the jelly ! Every once in awhile I'd hold little marionette shows using real humans caught in unusual positions and frozen in temporal stasis and call my show "Bet You Didn't Expect THIS To Happen !". At some point I'd probably throw a TV through a glass window just because I could. Think about it, the possibilities are endless.
Flack
10-29-2004, 07:58 AM
I think it you stopped time all your games would be on pause until time started, defeating the purpose.
captain nintendo
10-29-2004, 09:42 AM
I think it you stopped time all your games would be on pause until time started, defeating the purpose.
Party pooper :P
anagrama
10-29-2004, 09:51 AM
If I had the ability to stop time, I'm pretty sure that playing videogames would be waaaaay down the list of things I would want to do ;)
Cauterize
10-29-2004, 10:14 AM
Unless you are unemployed, with no kids or wife or girlfriend.
Great, he just described my existing life as of now *dies a little inside just knowing how much my life sucks*
Dont be hard on urself.. im sure if you ran thru the streets naked with ur rarest game, some girl would want you...
autobotracing
10-29-2004, 11:05 AM
to hell with stopping time LOL I would much rather go BACK in time to the good ole days when I was still in high school except this time I would have did like my mom told me. :P
Now im 23 ,a single parent with a 4 year old son , and work 45+ hours a week @_@ :eek 2: x_x :hmm:
rbudrick
10-29-2004, 12:37 PM
I blame the government....where the hell do our taxes go? They should've been able to accomplish time stopping by now! Or maybe they did and we didn't know it because time was stopped...
-Rob
Mr.Faxanadu
10-29-2004, 01:00 PM
I find it harder and harder to sit down and have a solid block of game time. This is why emulators are good! You can game for however long you want and do a quick save state when you have to leave. I use to hate having to find a save point :angry:
drdrew1469
10-29-2004, 01:07 PM
yeah, it would be nice to stop time for a while, but i'm just as happy with my powers of invisibility :evil:
"i-i-i don't know. s-s-sometimes i-i-i just l-lose t-time"
10 points for guessing the movie
Rogmeister
10-29-2004, 01:13 PM
This was actually done on The Twilight Zone, not The Outer Limits. The guy had a stopwatch that stopped time. Unfortunately, it broke and everyone but the guy was stopped, apparently never to move again...
With that said, why start at 11? Play earlier...who needs to watch today's crappy TV shows anyway?
o2william
10-29-2004, 01:35 PM
This was actually done on The Twilight Zone, not The Outer Limits.
The Twilight Zone episode is called "A Kind of Stopwatch." McNulty (the guy who gets the watch) uses it to commit crimes. But he gets his when the watch breaks. :evil:
The Outer Limits (the '60s version) has an episode called "Controlled Experiment" where two suspiciously human-looking aliens can pause and slow down time to study the phenomenon of murder. Interesting concept, but it kinda falls flat in the execution.
Wow, I can't believe I know all that off the top of my head. I'm a total geek.
@topic: I've always wanted this ability. Assuming you didn't age while time was frozen, I'd sleep with time stopped so I could get enough hours of sleep for once! I'd also get in some extra videogaming... but would the games even function if time was frozen? :hmm:
Rogmeister
10-29-2004, 05:34 PM
Wow, I can't believe I know all that off the top of my head. I'm a total geek.
You probably would've come out as an even bigger geek if you'd mentioned that that Outer Limits episode featured Grace Lee Whitney...Yeoman Rand of Star Trek... LOL
MegaDrive20XX
10-29-2004, 05:56 PM
Unless you are unemployed, with no kids or wife or girlfriend.
Great, he just described my existing life as of now *dies a little inside just knowing how much my life sucks*
Awww.... Well in honor of your story and the recent unearthing of that Mario on Ice video....
I CHOOSE YOU Super_Ghouls_'N'_Ghosts to be 2004's....
VIDEO PRINCE!
Yeah, being able to stop time would make driving to work a *whole* lot easier.
oh man, he went 1988 on me! that is so not teh cool :/
Sanriostar
10-29-2004, 08:37 PM
Think about this as a Quantum:
Time Stopped: No electricity 'cause those lil' electron buggers would need to flow. BUT: Your relative speed would increase phenominally: atoms of people and other things would have stopped vibrating: you could walk through them! You could take "all the time in the world" (Thank you, Mr. Merideth, just to stay in a TZ thread) to find the one person in all the world you'd want to give a sock in the jaw to, and if you could control the flow speed to time, hit him/her so many times that thier jaw would shatter, your fist would have a relative speed of, say, sound. NutzNutzNutzNutzNutzNutz......... :eek 2:
kainemaxwell
10-29-2004, 09:17 PM
I know I do, give me time to relax and unwind from work, or least give payback to stupid customers at the store.
Aussie2B
10-29-2004, 10:59 PM
I don't know about you guys and your college days, but I sure as hell don't have tons of time to play games. o_O All I got in my life is a boyfriend I live with and 2 classes (which I go to 2 days a week), and I'm STILL overloaded with work. Between him, chores, struggling to find a job, and studying and doing assignments, I got hardly any time at all for gaming. :( I can't wait to have a career and be able to go home and leave work AT work. Instead of thinking about all the fun I can have each 4-day weekend I have, I'm thinking about how much studying I can accomplish each day I have off. It's never enough, though; I'm permanently behind. :/
Phosphor Dot Fossils
10-29-2004, 11:10 PM
Wow, I can't believe I know all that off the top of my head. I'm a total geek.
I nominate you to help me with my Outer Limits episode guide, William. LOL
Besides, if you're going to talk about manipulating time, and video games, we might as well combine the two and get:
http://www.thelogbook.com/pf/dalek/game1.jpg (http://www.thelogbook.com/pf/dalek/)
;)
Push Upstairs
10-30-2004, 12:16 AM
oh man, he went 1988 on me! that is so not teh cool :/
It sure beats being "plaid pants bowser riding a golf cart on ice"
MegaDrive20XX
10-30-2004, 12:19 AM
oh man, he went 1988 on me! that is so not teh cool :/
It sure beats being "plaid pants bowser riding a golf cart on ice"
well that's true...or a "come up and see me sometime" whore princess
Man, that reminds me NEVER to click on ANY video that says "ON ICE" at the end of the topic... x_x my eyes!
Push Upstairs
10-30-2004, 12:37 AM
Now we know..
And knowing is half the battle. YO JOE!
I only mentioned "Icecapades" to my girlfriend and she immediately knew that the video i had just witnessed was shit.
MegaDrive20XX
10-30-2004, 12:40 AM
Now we know..
And knowing is half the battle. YO JOE!
I only mentioned "Icecapades" to my girlfriend and she immediately knew that the video i had just witnessed was shit.
G-IIIIII JOOEEEE!
Sanriostar
10-30-2004, 03:08 AM
Wow, I can't believe I know all that off the top of my head. I'm a total geek.
I nominate you to help me with my Outer Limits episode guide, William. LOL
Besides, if you're going to talk about manipulating time, and video games, we might as well combine the two and get:
http://www.thelogbook.com/pf/dalek/game1.jpg (http://www.thelogbook.com/pf/dalek/)
;)
...and I thought I was the only one to have this....
If I could stop time, every night about 11am, I would stop time and play video games for about a 4 hour session.
Dude, if it's night where you live at 11:00 A.M. you have more serious things to worry about than thinking about time manipulation. :P
drdrew1469
11-02-2004, 10:36 PM
Your relative speed would increase phenominally: atoms of people and other things would have stopped vibrating: you could walk through them! You could take "all the time in the world
Yes, it would 'increase phenominally' but not 'relatively', but 'actually', as you would be moving at the speed of light as others were moving normally (haha, before you even think of a game to play, you've already finished it a million times and put it away. LOL ) 'you could walk through them'...ah, that just sounds scary and wrong O_O hmm, maybe i'll see if i can find something like this in off-topic and go into my 'theoretical analysis of everything' LOL
drew