If you could go back in time to live a certain period, which one would it be and why? - The 40's were the best if you were german

Which one would you go back to?

  • 2010's

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • 2000's

    Votes: 6 14.0%

  • 90's

    Votes: 6 14.0%

  • 80's

    Votes: 5 11.6%

  • 70's

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • 60's

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • 50's

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • Further back (Post about it)

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • Nigger, Im off to the future, peace out. (When tho?)

    Votes: 6 14.0%
  • Total voters
    43
If I were so delusional as to think I alone cpild somehow change the course of World War II, go back to that time, in Germany if only the good guys could have won.. But so many feldgrau columns of fallen heroes, the very paragon of military discipline and most lethal instrument that was the deutsche Wehrmacht, persuade me that is folly. I'd like to think Bismarck's Germany in the 1870s but the music I listen to, that anyone listens to among others things would make me stand out like a space alien.
Were it possible, this is the sort of time and place I'd like to get to, perhaps with the ability to keep some of my modern predictions to myself...


 
Lame answer, but the early-2000's. Mainly because that was when the internet and general culture peaked, imo. The 90's and 80's were kino, don't get me wrong. It's just that dial-up sucked balls, and I don't want to go back to using that shit. The early 2000's was still well within the Wild West era of the internet. With shit like Newgrounds and YTMND and less fake and gay social media sites dominating the web like it does today. The early 2000's was the beginning of meme culture, and the internet in those days was still a place you could use to escape the bullshit of real life. As opposed to nowadays, where the internet is pretty much an extention of real life. Also, you could say whatever the fuck you wanted on the internet. The internet was just less corporate and regulated back then, and it should've stayed this way. While this is more mid-late 2000's, YouTube in it's early days was undeniably way better than it is now. Back then, it was way less corporate and people weren't trying to make careers out of producing audio-visual goyslop for zoomers. YouTube didn't have to cater to advertisers nor lazy as fuck parents who plopped their toddler in front of a tablet all day to rot their developing brains on Elsagate shit. People just made videos for fun, and it was the purest form of online video content. Shit was pretty sweet.
Plus, gaming in the early 2000's kicked ass. The Gamecube for instance was the quintessential Nintendo console, imo. Very few retarded gimmicks like the Wii and later consoles, while also still differentiating itself from it's PS2/Original Xbox competition. Main flaws with the Gamecube was lack of online play and use of proprietary mini-discs instead of normal DVD's like the PS2 and Xbox. If the Gamecube had those two features, it would've sweeped the floor with the PS2 and Xbox. Some of the best Nintendo games came from the Gamecube era. Including Super Mario Sunshine, Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker, etc. Even a few good 3rd-party games, such as Resident Evil 4. Not to say the PS2 and Xbox were shit. They were also good systems. The Xbox especially, imo. Being the first console that wasn't from a failing company to support online gaming. I never got to experience the Xbox much while it was still in it's heyday, but from what I've heard, playing the original Halo and shit like Counter-Strike online kicked ass for the console playerbase at the time. The 6th generation was a time where online gaming was starting to get good, while also not being monetized to hell in the forms of shit like DLC and online subscriptions and microtransactions, etc.
PC gaming also started getting good around the 2000's. With the release of Half-Life 2 and the beginning of indie games in the form of Cave Story. Both released in 2004, alongside Nintendo's best portable system the DS. A system which had a big library of awesome games, plus the ability to play older GBA games. The stylus gimmick was also way less intrusive than the later Wii's motion control bullshit. The DS did this while also being fairly powerful for a 2004 handheld. Being able to render decent-looking 3D models and being one of the first major handhelds to support online gaming.
People overall back then were just less political, for the most part. While you still had virtue-signalling patriotism spergs in the early 2000's, you could mostly ignore them. Unlike the wokeoids of the 2010's and today. People back then could just get along with one another. Even if they had opposing political views. Political correctness was less of a thing, back then. You could actually make offensive jokes without having some leftist faggot scream down your throat over it. You didn't have to walk as much on eggshells constantly

What I'm trying to say is the iPhone and the Obama administration was the beginning of the end for the golden age of Western culture.
 
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Let's see... Kinda wanna say 1981 (early millennial), maybe? That way, I could experience the 90s and its associated media and zeitgeist in my formative years (2011-2019 would've been 1988-1996), and have gone through the bulk of "the tutorial" without having to put up with the ubiquitous post-Columbine and post-9/11 security theater and metal detectors at schools and airports (I'd be HS Class of 1999). Though by the time the recession hits (I'd be college class of 2003) I'd have 5 years of work experience, which is... again, I'd be an early millennial. By then the internet will have long taken off, and the garbage that is soshal meedia emerging, and again, I'll have graduated college by then. I'd probably be doing the whole "settle down, marry, and have kids" thing a bit after the recession, like 2013-ish? They'd be Gen Alpha libtards lol.

Alternatively I could be born in 1990 and be college class of 2012 (last year of the recession) so that I can bring a rawr xd emo girl gf to prom, and still get through most of K-12 without the iPhone existing.
 
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1950s-early 1960s was best time for "mainstream" (White, straight, Christian, etc.) Americans
1990s was best time for Americans in general

If not to live in but just to visit, cities I want to see:
Hellenistic Alexandria
Tenochtitlan
Inca capital (actually can't remember name right now)
Cahokia
Renaissance Venice (may not really be a point, I don't know as it's all that different now)
Company rule Calcutta
Colonial/Antebellum Charleston (it was like a Las Vegas of the Old South)
Belle Epoque Paris (another one may not actually be that different)
Warlord Era Shanghai
 
Edwardian era, as long as I was at least genteel parsonage type wealthy.
1950s, if I was in the states.
1990s, if I could only pick one. Life was much better then.
 
To 2007 please, but I wan't to have a good credit score (borrow borrow GIBE ME MOENY) and to make the Big Short.
 
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