Remember that old reddit post where someone asked "what if a battalion of marines were suddenly zapped back to the roman era with all their gear and stuff, what would happen?" and somebody answered with a full on novel they titled "Rome, Sweet Rome" and some time later some Hollywood dude bought the rights to it?
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Guns.
"Y'all don't need to stab Julius. I got you. And you, too, Brutus."
Modern cannabis seeds, because if I'm going to be in Ancient Times I still don't want to smoke schwag.
Holy shit man!
— Julius Caesar
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A sports almanac would be all I need
A (tape) camera to document how I obliterate the roman empire by spreading pathogens that have yet to evolve but I have developed immunity for.
And something like a time capsule to burry the camera in.
Keep in mind that there were of plenty of pathogens back then that you aren't immune to now. A good example is smallpox
Well I didn't expect to survive anyways
Managing expectations 👌🏼
Dont want to be that guy, but the platic softeners inside the tape will most likely evalporate, causing the tape to break up und cruble to dust as soon as you try to play it. The magnetic orientation of the bits will also degarde. Manufacturers give an expected shelf life of 30 years for any magnetic storage medium.
Yeah I was aware of the bits that's why I said tape. I know there's some kind of tape they use for long term data storage so that's why I said tape. There has to be some way to store it that long...
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I don't think you would survive either. People wasn't stupid back then and you'd probably quickly get fridged for being a walking curse.
Do I look like i mind get fridged?
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History books
A bag of dildos to hand out at parties so I can be dildo guy
And will you recollect it after the party ? And give it out again to different people in another party ?
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