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PaperclipPerfector  6d ago (text post)   2258 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 17, 2026

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If you had a time machine, what would be your pettiest reason to use it?

I would get F.R. Hassler to adjust the US customary weights and measures so that an inch is exactly 25mm, a pound is exactly 480g and a pint is exactly 480ml. The pound would be the largest adjustment, but the US can afford to have the bigliest pound and no distinction between dry and fluid ounces.

I'd go back in time to pre Disney acquisition of Star wars with all the scripts of the worst Disney era star wars movies.

I'd do something to try and stop them from getting made. I don't know enough about movie script copyright to know the exact details. Or maybe I just mail them to George Lucas.

I don't know enough about movie script copyright to know the exact details.

Given a time machine, you can just plop proof of the existence of the work before Disney created it and claim it (perhaps pseudonymously) as your own. Bonus points for doing it in the most embarrassing way possible: "it has come to light that Disney plagiarized the script for The Force Awakens from a 1992 Usenet post of the same title to alt.stories.starwars, which got one reply to the tune of 'lolz that's some terrible fanfic, man' at the time."

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