7 Least Responsible Uses for Time Powers

everyone knows time travel must be used responsibly to maintain the delicate flow of history no talking to your past self no accidentally killing your grandfather no accidentally not killing your grandfather if you did kill your grandfather see it's it's complicated but video games don't appear to get the message regularly serving up spectacularly irresponsible uses for the awesome power of time travel like messing with time for personal profit or simply to murder dudes in hilarious ways seriously guys take it down a notch this is like paradox central here are the least responsible uses for time travel along the way the West boilers for the following time is rarely used as a targeted weapon except when Mike starts talking to me about cars and I can feel myself aging out of boredom I think we can all agree that but in 2010 shooters singularity you could play around with what was called the time manipulation device or TMD for short this advanced piece of tech to age and de-aged the matter of your choice to get around the environment or just to break it down and reach the soldier cowering behind it a nifty piece of gear the tmd lets you play around with the ravages of time but it wasn't just limited to meddling with the time stream of stones or big old boats you also have the ability to age your enemies to spooky skeletons or quote renew them turning the matter of their bodies into their original state ie a whole group of gross cells kind of disappointed you candy age them all into babies but to be fair the childcare costs would be astronomical still if you didn't want to turn them to dust or marsh there was an upgrade to the aged and renew properties of the tmd called revert with this you could turn your enemies into horrific monsters look this was all in the aid of fixing history but to be honest try telling that to the guys who ended up inside out as a result of our gleefully irresponsible time meddling although although if we do end up fixing history then technically none of the bad stuff we did ever happened so has a clean right loophole at the start of The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask hero link has a lengthy to-do list first he's got to figure out how to get back to his human self having been transfigured into a Deku scrub by the villainous Skull Kid then he's got to work out a way to use his ocarina time-travel powers to stop the moon smashing into the land of termina and ending all sentient life and finally he has to figure out how to stop getting attacked by this tiny dog but if escaping a dog and stopping everyone dying in a Moon inferno sounds too much like hard work you could always use your time-travel powers to cheat at the lottery you know like a hero the lottery shop is found in terminus West clock town and for a 10 rupee fee will offer you a chance to win 50 rupees a significant chunk of change especially when you've just started the game the only problem is you can only win by correctly guessing that day's winning three-digit number which is revealed every evening or it would be a problem except oh yeah Lincoln honk on his ocarina at any point to travel back in time and throw down ten rupees on a ticket that cannot fail because he's seen the future and has decided to use this awesome power to fatten his wallet [Music] once you bought a ticket the only thing left to do is skip ahead to the evenings draw or perhaps let the day pass naturally while you savor your impending wealth killing time by trying to kill tingle ah really thought that might break his legs oh well maybe we can pay someone to snap tingles ankles with all the dough we're raking in rinsing the terminal lottery three days in a row and doubtless ruining the lottery owners livelihood [Music] ah sweet smell of easy money right what was it we were supposed to be doing [Music] oh yeah the moon [Music] what is the first thing you would do if you're a time-traveling velociraptor from the future I know Julius Caesar and become the new emperor of Rome but after that we wager that the obvious play for a dinosaur with the powers to travel through time would be to avert the catastrophic asteroid collision that ended dinosaur supremacy on earth and yet that's not something the hyper intelligent race of nano soars from 1998 nano saw for a home computer are apparently bothered with attempting having risen to dominance in the Year 41:22 after a plague wiped out humankind this super smart breed of dinos have developed not only time travel but are mounted guns and jet packs where were girls despite this superior tech you a weaponized Raptor are sent back not to save your ancestors from extinction but to steal eggs hmm specifically your job is to kidnap five dinosaur eggs from 65 million years ago and bring them back to the nanus or future a task that has made more difficult by the fact that you've traveled back to just 20 minutes before the asteroid impacts which means the game can only ever last 20 minutes max before everything in sight is atomized [Music] also making life harder our other dinosaurs although not that much harder seeing is none of them have lasers and the fact you can only carry one egg at once into a time portal I guess the time-traveling dinosaurs never mastered baskets technology not so smart after all please don't travel back in time to eat me I guess we're good dear brother these holes in the thin air continue to pay dividends I know not which musician you borrow your notes from but if he has half the genius of the biologists I now observe well Columbia as a wise woman once sang girls just want to have fun but one girl that couldn't was Bioshock Infinite's Elizabeth see she was locked up in a tower due to big spoiler not actually being from this universe the scientific residents of the floating city of Columbia have stolen her as a child bringing her back to a tear in space and time but it wasn't just babies something much more valuable got stolen this way intellectual property see as you wandered Columbia as Booker DeWitt you may have heard some familiar tunes for instance in battleship Bay where an 80s anthem can be heard in pipe organ form it's just a set of elaborate pumps and rain catchers and this barbershop quartet you sing a song familiar to any fans of coastal themed boy bands this was all because Albert Fink supposed genius composer of Columbia had actually just heard a bunch of tunes through tears in space and time teams that had definitely not been released in Columbia's 1912 instead of being an insufferable hipster and saying well I like them before they were even born think instead scribbled down the tunes and re-recorded them in plinky plinky old-timey style pretending to have written them himself while sharing the secrets of the tears with his industrialist brother I have taught you a fool dear brother when you told me that you heard wonderful music trumpeting from holes in the thin air I began to doubt your mental integrity but not only have you made your fortune from these doodads you have for me as well god only knows what he would be without plagiarism oh yeah alive you see Albert's brother Jeremiah kicks off a huge war thanks to the tears and amid the mess you discover Albert's body in his studio next to a terre playing girls just want to have fun in a style far less pipe organ e and more Cyndi Lauper [Music] well joke's on you Albert the cyndi lauper version was already a cover of a song by Robert hazard but he didn't know that alright hipster 17 years he lived through twice all of it mapped out from memory he knew the market trends before they occurred he had the tools to make a fortune and he did not all publicity is good publicity just look at any sassy fights between two fast-food brands on Twitter one person who should probably know this by now is Paul serene the time-traveling accent shifting Aiden Gillen faced bad guy in quantum break after discovering time is basically going to collapse in the future due to his experiments with a time machine serene hops back in time to 1999 and found monarch solutions his intention however is not to stop the time brake from happening but to build a time lifeboat for scientists who could maybe fix times breakages after what he thought was an inevitable disaster I have a team down there they will fix the fracture time will go on a time lifeboat is as expensive as it sounds so to afford it Paul uses the fact that he's traveled back in time to play the stock market as you declare find out when you examine this room filling set of whiteboards in his office near the end of the game on it you can see him noting to get involved early with internet join YouTube in 2004 before investing in 2005 when it launched and similarly with Twitter in 2006 rather tellingly there was no mention of vine or IP but Paul didn't want the public to be wary of a super evil working corporation at least not until all the dudes with guns appeared everywhere and it was hopefully too late for anyone to do anything about it so to earn the goodwill of the public serene made sure to invest in upcoming crises from preparing to help clean up the Deepwater oil spill to patenting drugs before breakouts of swine flu and then selling them cheap for even more good PR which all sounds like quite a nice thing to do until you remember it's all a smokescreen to make a bunch of money for his plan to sail a time-life boat to safety a plan which also involves killing anyone who gets in his way still looking at this timeline it seems like a sound investment for someone in 1999 would be post-it notes and whiteboards because Paul serene is going to buy loads of those in the future all right okay let's see if this works the ability to time travel is directly linked to high school popularity it's what scientists call the Marty McFly principle but it's all too easy for such immense power to be used for highly irresponsible ends as evidenced in life is strange which tells the story of Blackwell Academy students max Caulfield who at the start of the game mysteriously finds herself able to rewind time a power she immediately realizes she can use to impress her teachers like a right little Hermione the daguerreian process invented by a French painter named Louis Daguerre around 1830 somebody has been reading as well as posing nice work max throughout the game max occasionally uses her powers to do heroic things like save the lives of her friends but far more frequently tugs apart the delicate strands of the space-time continuum for spectacularly mundane reasons including reaching things off the top of a washer-dryer yes you have mad skills max just get a chair max but perhaps the pettiest use of Max's time distorting powers comes when she has to get into her dorm but finds the insufferable Victoria and her popular clique huddled around the entrance still saw about your smashing performance in class since you know all the answers I guess you have to find another way into the dorm we ain't moving at this point the responsible move would be to find another entrance or perhaps try talking to Victoria but why bother with social norms when you can use time reversal powers to engineer a convoluted ploy to first chase Victoria off the steps with a sprinkler what the hell then dunk a tin of paint all over her precious precious outfit oh hey Victoria Oh Victoria I love how you'll just wear anything in the end max never finds out for sure whether the deadly storm that sweeping in to destroy Arcadia Bay is happening as a direct result of her time rewinding but it's implied that it may be and what a chilling prospect was it really worth bringing death and destruction to a whole town just to wreck up Victoria's cashmere coat was it max yes No yeah correct oh yeah it was for sure sorry Anderson for a cautionary tale of the dangers of time travel look no further than dear sweet major Anderson in titanfall to rather than using time travel to ripoff pop music or dump paint on his high school enemies poor major Anderson was trying to investigate a mysterious weapon when a time jump glitched him cleanly in half bTW I found Anderson he's in the ceiling objective complete knowing that Anderson was a casualty of time travel you'd think we'd be more careful when jumping between times well we weren't this handsome looking hand where was far too fun and far too helpful as it allowed us to tactically hop back and forth in time to find roots around the complex avoid enemies to recompose ourselves and flank enemies through space and time only to jump back and take them out from where they least expected to be honest we felt a little bad about that last one as we did it over and over again to unsuspecting soldiers basically we use the unlimited potential of time travel to punch someone in the head when they weren't looking which honestly didn't feel very heroic what kind of jerk would do that ah okay I deserve that so those are some very irresponsible uses of time travel honestly are you trying to collapse the delicate folds you're unraveling the Rope of time video game people and frankly I've had enough just why I will never play another video game again in my life but can you think of any other irresponsible uses of time travel if so why not pop them in the comments because we'd love to hear from you and if you enjoyed this then why not watch another video this one up here it's from us it's about the boss battles that rocked us the hardest and this one down here is from outside Xbox it is about unintentionally creepy children in games and they will haunt you as they haunt us and if you did enjoy this then please subscribe and ring that Bell bye

Channel: Outside Xtra

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Keywords: Ellen Rose, Luke Westaway, Outside Xtra, andy farrant, mike channell, time powers, time travel, sigularity, majora's mask, zelda, legend of zelda, nanosaur, bioshock infinite, quantum break, paul serene, life is strange, titanfall 2, list, video games, funny, comedy, gaming, games

Id: FLPZaQ13eqo

Length: 16min 31sec (991 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 06 2019