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Would you stop time if you could?

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Darwin333 said:
I was making the assumption that chemical and mechanical things that you initiate would still work. Otherwise even a bicycle wouldn't work and banging all the hotties would be a no go because their pussy lips would be immovable. They'd basically be heavy mannequins, the best you could do was be a peeper.
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You perfectly summed up my interpretation of this fantasy.
 
Oh lord I'd be tempted bang all the chicks. Oh my... some of the coworkers I know... one flirts with me too (catch her gazing me, smiles).
 
Darwin333 said:
I was making the assumption that chemical and mechanical things that you initiate would still work. Otherwise even a bicycle wouldn't work and banging all the hotties would be a no go because their pussy lips would be immovable. They'd basically be heavy mannequins, the best you could do was be a peeper.
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You might be able to push stuff aside with some effort, the question is whether it stays in the same location you push it to or 'flows' back. Even the air and your clothes would be an issue otherwise.
But chemical processes? If you get a spark to appear it will just hang there unless you move it around. That's also the reason why I mentioned needing or being to absorb nutrients in my first post, you would otherwise have a little issue with drinking and eating being impossible. If anything you trigger unfreezes to complete what you started you would be able to awaken other people too. If only something in your body will 'awaken' and otherwise will just be moved then the only way to use explosives would be to have them go off inside you, which might cut short the 20 years.
Bicycles should still work as long as friction works, but might be heavy as you have to push against the air too.
And yes, sex with hotties might also be less nice than what people are expecting. If you can move them unless it tries to return to the original location nothing would 'bounce back'.

If you need air, food and water and only your physical body moves you would suffocate soon, so you would need to either freeze time selectively or have a zone around you in which stuff is not frozen (or indeed have everything you trigger/touch unfreeze, which would most likely cause a chain reaction by the air you breathe out to unfreeze everything it touches, or cause you to suffocate the moment you stop moving around as the air pocket you are in fills with CO2 (good luck sleeping!)

If you don't need any sustenance and everything you touch won't provide you with more than normal (non-frozen) resistance you could do a lot though.

Oh, and I overthink stuff like this 😀
 
Darwin333 said:
Laundering doesn't mean what you think it means
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It does, I just don't seem to understand everything that is required to actually get away with it. I assumed the first step would be matching serial numbers. If you disperse them in other people's wallets, while taking unmarked bills from them, you'd circumvent that. I'm sure there are many other aspects to worry about such as someone discovering you suddenly have a mountain of cash, but I'm sure over 20 years one could think of some method of hiding it, like literally hiding it, and using it incrementally.
 
Nashemon said:
It does, I just don't seem to understand everything that is required to actually get away with it. I assumed the first step would be matching serial numbers. If you disperse them in other people's wallets, while taking unmarked bills from them, you'd circumvent that. I'm sure there are many other aspects to worry about such as someone discovering you suddenly have a mountain of cash, but I'm sure over 20 years one could think of some method of hiding it, like literally hiding it, and using it incrementally.
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Why not just skip the first step and steal what is in peoples wallets in the first place? No real need to replace it, fuck em, you are frozen in time for 20 years the least they can do is come off a few twenties. And having a mountain of cash isn't all that great if you have to spend it at such low levels as to not get noticed by the IRS. It's like having a relatively low paying side job without having to do the work, definitely not worth spending years gathering the funds to do even if you don't age.
 
Skyclad1uhm1 said:
You might be able to push stuff aside with some effort, the question is whether it stays in the same location you push it to or 'flows' back. Even the air and your clothes would be an issue otherwise.
But chemical processes? If you get a spark to appear it will just hang there unless you move it around. That's also the reason why I mentioned needing or being to absorb nutrients in my first post, you would otherwise have a little issue with drinking and eating being impossible. If anything you trigger unfreezes to complete what you started you would be able to awaken other people too. If only something in your body will 'awaken' and otherwise will just be moved then the only way to use explosives would be to have them go off inside you, which might cut short the 20 years.
Bicycles should still work as long as friction works, but might be heavy as you have to push against the air too.
And yes, sex with hotties might also be less nice than what people are expecting. If you can move them unless it tries to return to the original location nothing would 'bounce back'.

If you need air, food and water and only your physical body moves you would suffocate soon, so you would need to either freeze time selectively or have a zone around you in which stuff is not frozen (or indeed have everything you trigger/touch unfreeze, which would most likely cause a chain reaction by the air you breathe out to unfreeze everything it touches, or cause you to suffocate the moment you stop moving around as the air pocket you are in fills with CO2 (good luck sleeping!)

If you don't need any sustenance and everything you touch won't provide you with more than normal (non-frozen) resistance you could do a lot though.

Oh, and I overthink stuff like this 😀
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Hmm, I wonder what the resistance would be if all of the molecules in the air were actually frozen. Wouldn't it be really really damn high, like impossible to move through high? And if coochie lips are stuck together why would a bicycles peddles, chain, wheels and handlebar move? If people 'bounce back' why wouldn't the bike?
 
Darwin333 said:
Why not just skip the first step and steal what is in peoples wallets in the first place? No real need to replace it, fuck em, you are frozen in time for 20 years the least they can do is come off a few twenties. And having a mountain of cash isn't all that great if you have to spend it at such low levels as to not get noticed by the IRS. It's like having a relatively low paying side job without having to do the work, definitely not worth spending years gathering the funds to do even if you don't age.
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Because then you're stealing from honest, hard working people, and not an evil, capitalist bank. Like I mentioned in my first post, you could stick a bit extra in their wallet while you're at it.
 
All you people stealing money... tsk tsk tsk. I would steal money from bad people and put it in the wallets of good people.
 
Nashemon said:
Because then you're stealing from honest, hard working people, and not an evil, capitalist bank. Like I mentioned in my first post, you could stick a bit extra in their wallet while you're at it.
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So instead you are slipping them illegally obtained money that might be flagged?
 
most of my days are spent thinking of my mom and my dog... I don't really care if the scenario works, i'm tired of dreaming about them every other night.
 
Chaotic42 said:
Sure, though I'd rather spread it out to something like one year every other year.
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Now that I could do and come to think of it most motorbikes don't have batteries or electronics so why couldn't we zip around on those instead of some bullshit bicycle? Hell I push started my old Ford Ranger many a times when the starter went out and I couldn't afford to fix it for a few weeks..
 
I'd feel bad about taking food and water to survive, so I'd have to go around and take money from drug dealers or find some other morally acceptable way to make up for the stuff I need.

So all of that said, if I could figure out how to do a lot of construction type stuff, I'd take 100 years and try to improve the infrastructure and day-to-day lives of people during the pause.
 
I don't know if this has been talked about, but how would you eat food if time was stopped? Would food magically stay "frozen" but remain edible?
 
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