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Would You Rather

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Welcome to c/WouldYouRather, where we present you with the toughest, most ridiculous choices you never knew you had to make! Would you rather have a third arm that's only useful for picking your nose, or be able to talk to animals but only if they're wearing hats? Yeah, it's that kind of vibe. Come for the absurdity, stay because you've clearly got nothing better to do with your life.

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

For five minutes every year. It would make barely any difference to my life.

The other way around sounds great at first - you'd have tons of free time to do whatever you want, and you wouldn't age during that time. But nothing would function because time is frozen. No internet, no electricity for listening to records or watching a DVD. You could not in any meaningful way interact with your world. A year of this followed by five minutes of real time would surely drive anyone insane after a while.

If we're being really real, both ways kill you the first time you try them because your body would cease to function.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey! No ruining the fun with technicalities!

This should be a rule lol. Stay in spirit of the community.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No human interaction for so long would destroy a person.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

No. Ive done something pretty close, and I'm...

Oh,

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Listening to records or watching DVDs? My brother in V'Ger, are you sure you haven't experienced any time dilation effects already?

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Second one is torture. Imagine to try to listen to a juicy gossip but have to wait one year for every 5 minute clip.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do I control when it happens, or does it just happen. For example in the second option, do I have to wait a frozen year EVERY five real minutes? Or, could I wait longer than 5 minutes if I choose to?

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can wait longer than 5 minutes but over the course of one year you have to have completed those pauses or else they'll all happen at once at the end of the year.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Assuming that all my gadgets work normally while time is frozen, an extra 105,000 years every year might actually give me enough time to accomplish something. Maybe.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol, being a creature outside of time, a sort of ethereal inhuman beast that always has an answer, whose every bar order is a literary masterpiece that's seen a thousand thousand drafts, who has read everything watched everything never seems to sleep, and doesnt seem to remember who thr people around them are, what the contexts of their conversations are. Whose relationships are all strange uncanny one sided and distant.

I give you like a month before you turn into that.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A month? I have ADHD, I already AM that!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say, that sounds awfully familiar!

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Right? I wasn't even thinking about that until they started describing everything I already do!

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Bump it up to 10 minutes every year, so I can exclusively earn a living performing Louvre like heists.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

So I would take 1 year every 5 minutes especially with the whole can be delayed thing you have. Thing is. Does the earth have enough food to sustain me for the period and even if it does will there be mass starvation after a period because of all the food I consume and now that I think of it how big a sewage system is needed. I mean I could only use any particular toilet once.