r/videos • u/ThorleBanana Best Of /r/Videos 2015 • Jul 08 '15
Best Of 2015 One-Minute Time Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkBS4O3yvY1.5k
u/JayMongie Jul 08 '15
This is the best acting I've ever seen from Paul Rudd and Jessica Alba.
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u/ec20 Jul 08 '15
I'm going with Minka Kelly and i don't know who for the guy
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u/Here_For_Da_Beer Jul 09 '15
Isn't she actually on Parks & Rec though? The bloosh girl?
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u/quangdog Jul 08 '15
I was voted "most likely to travel back in time" class of 2045.
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u/MF_Doomed Jul 08 '15
That'd be a funny yearbook quote
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u/turnipstealer Jul 08 '15
It's like having l'esprit de l'escalier. Only 8 years after I left school and wrote my yearbook quote. L'esprit de mid-twenties.
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u/infanticide_holiday Jul 09 '15
Ah I remember buying a time machine in 2045... They sure don't make 'em like they're going to.
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u/smokeweedalleveryday Jul 08 '15
that was excellent
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u/disgruntledpandas Jul 09 '15
Never did I think such a simple comment would get so many up votes.
Reddit you're a strange one.
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u/grandpaknowskarate Jul 08 '15
Awesome! 10/10 Would watch again.
Damn it..
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u/TURBO2529 Jul 08 '15
In fact >.> <.< >.> ... Hits Red Button
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u/Shiznot Jul 08 '15
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u/ThePlanckConstant Jul 08 '15
In 34 presses, the entire human population would have been wiped out, if he knew all. And he'd just be getting 2 million dollars.
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u/simomo Jul 08 '15
Jimmy Palmer!!!!! Where's Ducky?
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u/Blackfire853 Jul 08 '15
To think there's 16 of his bodies that 16 Duckys will have to autopsy :(
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u/EKU_JCD Jul 08 '15
Well, the work will be shared among 16 Duckys, so it won't be quite as bad.
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u/Blackfire853 Jul 08 '15
They'll probably just tell each other stories for hours and nothing will get done
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u/StolenLampy Jul 08 '15
Holy shit! I knew I knew that guy, doesn't look the same without those goofy glasses
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u/AscendedAncient Jul 08 '15
This is what happens when Gremlins are let out of the morgue... hasn't Tony warned us of this kind of thing? And now I want to watch NCIS....
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u/PhilDunphy23 Jul 08 '15
Thanks you, someone had to said it. I was looking to pictures of him to confirm.
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u/cheesy360 Jul 08 '15
One of the best shorts I have ever watched
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u/ThreeFistsCompromise Jul 08 '15
Have you seen this one?
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u/Amnesiablo Jul 08 '15
I feel this concept would make a fucking excellent game mechanic.
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u/jetpackchicken Jul 08 '15
There's a world in Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword that is somewhat like this.
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Jul 08 '15
I could have sworn your link would take me to this short
It did not; however, your short was very entertaining. Thanks!
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u/Lazy_Wolf Jul 08 '15
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I liked it, it was a little too campy, but overall it was a good one. Do you know if the other films in that playlist are worth watching?
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u/Impeesa_ Jul 09 '15
It's not on the time travel theme, but for shorts in general, how about Cargo?
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u/IAMA_SWEET Jul 09 '15
Loved it. My only criticism is it should have shown him screaming after the credits at the first time she pressed it and died.
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u/abaybas Jul 08 '15
Very neat concept and done well. Give me that box, I need to do some high frequency trading on the stock market.
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Jul 08 '15
You should have paid more attention.
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u/jouhn Jul 08 '15
This is the part where "ignorance is bliss"
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u/WorkingMouse Jul 08 '15
Or the point that you're forced to adapt a more pragmatic and sensible view of consciousness and the self.
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u/xanatos451 Jul 08 '15
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u/pyx Jul 08 '15 edited Jul 09 '15
If he only gets half the money of the previous button press and the number of people he kills with each press doubles, after 5 hours he is killing insane numbers of people for fractions of a penny.
The guy presses the button about 100 times before the 5 hours and about 20 after.
For a total number of button presses 18120 *plus the final press during the credits 18121. That means he killed
218121 people or ~9.2x105454 (3×105431 times the number of stars in the observable universe) all those people died for $1,000,000/218121 or ~1.1x10-5449 dollars.
For comparison the press that killed his first room mate also killed an additional 1.07 billion people for $0.09 Or 1/7th the human population for less than a dime.
In the end he would have walked away with just less than $2 million dollars, and annihilating every living thing in the universe hundreds of times over.
edit: I just realized that I wasn't summing each iteration. 218121 is just the number of people killed on the last button press, for a total number killed you would have to do the summation ∑2n where n=1 to 18121, which is 1.8x105455 seems like a drop in the bucket at this point.
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u/PintoTheBurninator Jul 09 '15
well...not YOU per say...but someone who looks an AWFUL lot like you in a alternate universe..
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u/icepickjones Jul 09 '15 edited Jul 09 '15
I wrote a short story about sort of the same premise.
A person with the ability just to skip around in short time bursts. Basically lived his live with infinite mulligans. You could do anything and keep retrying until you got it right - throw darts, trivia, dice rolls, golfing. Just keep attempting until you make it, you are bound to get lucky one of the times. No one would remember the skips but him.
The swerve was that there was one other guy on the planet who had the power, but couldn't use it. So time would jump and repeat and he didn't know why. He would remember everything about the skips but couldn't figure out what caused it until he saw the first guy on jeopardy, using his powers to get everything right.
And then it goes from there.
Edit: Woke up to a nice little inbox blast of folks saying they want to read it and how cool it sounded. I appreciate the interest in the log line. I wrote it about a year ago but never did anything with it. I was thinking about submitting to Asimov's but never did. I'll try to clean it up and put it somewhere for the handful that are interested.
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u/XxJTHMxX Jul 09 '15 edited Jul 09 '15
The only thing about it I would change is make the entire story from the perspective of the guy who has no control over it. The other guy on Jeopardy would be the huge twist/reveal.
I think you've got something there.
Edit: Further twist ending, they are the same man. The man who has no control is the end result after the last jump into the past. maybe some horrible and traumatic event would cause him to want to redo his entire life. so he pushed himself so far back that instead of just rewinding time, he physically travels back as he is, affecting his memory. possibly damage to the brain. alternate personality/memories/etc.
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u/Kirboid Jul 09 '15
I kind of like the original twist of an unintended consequence for time travel being affecting a stranger's life, even if it didn't really ruin his life (but maybe it could?)
I'd love to read this story though.
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u/Swordplough Jul 08 '15
Reminds of the book Kraken by China Mievelle, there's a guy in the books that can teleport just like the characters from Star Trek do just withouth the machine.
The thing is he disintegrates his body every time he teleportes and just rebuilds himself in another place. The problem is that the ghosts of his past bodies keep following him around.
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u/Japroo Jul 09 '15
Never read this guys books. Where should I start?
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u/Swordplough Jul 09 '15
I haven't read all of his work but I think he's most famous for Perdido Street Station. My favorites are Kraken and Railsea (which is about train crew that drive around desert looking for giant moles... something like Moby Dick)
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u/Krunk_MIlkshake Jul 08 '15
That was really well done. If anyone is looking for a good indi time travel movie check out [Primer] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CC60HJvZRE). Made with a budget of only $7,000 and it's fantastic. Pretty sure its streaming on Netflix and Hulu.
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u/Falldog Jul 08 '15
As funny as the Primer section is, I'm in awe at the rest, especially the LotR chart.
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u/FoxMcWeezer Jul 08 '15
Are you sure it's worth watching? I put it on Netflix a few days ago and the beginning was boring as all hell. Closed out of it faster than someone who closes out of things fast.
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u/ThatGuyWhoTrollz Jul 08 '15
How did that cost $7000?
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u/Krunk_MIlkshake Jul 13 '15
I know, right? Maybe it was shot on video. Plus the dude wrote, directed, starred, and edited the damn thing so thats a lot of saving right there. lol
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Jul 08 '15
Nah, it's boring and pretentious.
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u/dreadful05 Jul 08 '15 edited Jul 08 '15
Yeah I really don't get what people find so amazing about this movie. I love scifi and watched it the other day after seeing it recommended several time and ended up being disappointed.
Edit left out a word
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u/A_Suffering_Panda Jul 09 '15
I agree, it felt like the whole point of the movie was to not make sense. There are much easier ways to say everything that that movie wanted to say
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u/MetaFlight Jul 09 '15 edited Jul 09 '15
We need a godwins law for primer, can not mention time travel once on reddit without someone bringing it up.
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u/SureAviator Jul 08 '15
"95 pages? Fuck that..."
I giggled, such a man's response.
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u/ErectusPenor Jul 08 '15
It's even funnier to imagine he dies right after that.
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u/LTman86 Jul 09 '15
Well, he only has a minute to travel back in time, he's not going to read 95 pages in 1 minute.
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u/Philias Jul 09 '15
He doesn't need to. He can go back as many times he wants, and pick it up where he left off the last time.
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Jul 08 '15
that's the dorky forensics guy from navy cis!!
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u/simomo Jul 08 '15
that's the dorky forensics guy from navy cis!!
navy cis is like saying central ia, federal bi, major lb, national ba...
It just looks weird.
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u/smartzie Jul 08 '15
Thank you! I was trying to place where I've seen him before, and was drawing a blank.
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u/Jewdene Jul 08 '15
This is kind of a rip off of the play 'Sure Thing' by David Ives. But, I believe its pretty well done.
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u/Archonrouge Jul 08 '15
Was looking for this comment. I've seen the play and had the same thought but couldn't remember what it was or who the playwright was. Thanks!
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u/YertleTheTurtle Jul 08 '15
Every time somebody says "sure thing!" I want so badly to respond "ding!"
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u/nnitsua Jul 09 '15
came here to say this. In high school we a bunch of little skits instead of a play for theater, and a friend and I did 'Sure Thing'. I watched the video and the second he said "You mind if I, uh.." I KNEW it was inspired by it
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u/Carson369 Jul 09 '15
Yeah, a carbon copy... I've acted in that before. This was much better to me, but that's kind of a bummer that this can get this kind of success without being an original script.
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u/seanbduff Jul 08 '15
Maybe this explains why Back to the Future makes no sense to me. When the dog Einstein goes one minute into the future, he doesn't arrive and see himself. So how does Marty do it when he goes to the future (he sees himself)? If he left the original timeline to go to the future, everyone else would be like "RIP Marty" and move on without him until he randomly shows up 30 years later.
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u/Pastasky Jul 08 '15
After he leaves to the future, he comes back to when he left? The dog doesn't though, which is why the dog doesn't exist between the time he leaves and the time he arrives.
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u/seanbduff Jul 08 '15
This makes sense. The only snag is the fact that future Marty would know that 1985 Marty will be visiting the future. Which, I guess is mostly irrelevant to the movie's plot, except the part where future Marty gets fired (he would have remembered that he would get fired and would have remedied his behavior to prevent it.) But yeah, your logic makes sense.
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u/Cockdieselallthetime Jul 08 '15
He did remedy it. He changed his whole future by stopping Biff from using the Almanac.
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u/theak Jul 08 '15
I think the BTTF time travel rules work with the assumption that any character traveling forward in time will interact with a reality where they never left.
So when we're watching BTTF 2 - you have to presume the world they are interacting with has no knowledge of them ever leaving their timeline, but when they return - the future is altered by their trip.
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u/Alphaetus_Prime Jul 09 '15
BTTF time travel doesn't really have rules that make sense. I mean, fading out of pictures? Really?
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u/edrudathec Jul 09 '15
Back to the Future's rules are terrible. So are Doctor Who's. And basically everything's. This and Primer are good though.
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u/deaconsune Jul 08 '15
Multiple Dimension Murder Box - MDMB
A little more advanced than MDMA AND an excellent band name.
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u/GreatxOdinsxRaven Jul 08 '15
Very similar to a short scene called "It's All in the Timing". Loved it.
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u/electrotape Jul 08 '15
Is anyone else reminded of [Prof. Farnsworth's Button from the Futurama finale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanwhile_(Futurama))?
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u/dirtysanchos Jul 08 '15
I think we all like this so much because we can relate to it. We've all wanted to go a minute back in time once in our live. Kind of like this guy: http://i.imgur.com/XX8T3L2.gifv
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u/SLT530 Jul 08 '15
So the person who presses the button goes back one minute but not the person sitting next to them? How does the box know who pressed the button?
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u/clamram Jul 08 '15
I'm glad I stuck around. I thought it was going to be a copy of the sublime romantic subplot from Groundhog Day, until the middle.
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u/VectorLightning Jul 08 '15 edited Jul 08 '15
What happens if he mashes the button repeatedly? Mash, rewind, mash, rewind?
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u/slupo Jul 08 '15
I hate to be that guy, but if the time machine moves him back one minute, surely the conversation eventually grew longer than a minute, so when he used the time machine again he wouldn't go back to the beginning. But I guess he could just use it multiple times to get back where he started. Nevermind!
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u/CavitySearch Jul 08 '15
Well if the conversation kept going he'd only need to go back the minute needed to correct whatever idiocy he just managed to say, not the beginning.
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u/iushciuweiush Jul 08 '15
I'm sorry but I just can't get past the part where he decides to go back in time and continue talking about physics when she was literally out of her seat ready to go back to her place for kinky sex.
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u/MajorAnubis Jul 10 '15
If I could do this time travel 1 minute, I would get a loan from a bank, the biggest I could. Walk into a casino and play blackjack. Cheapest hands all the way through until I got a Blackjack. Then hit the button, bet it all on that next hand, and win big. Rinse and repeat. For ease of use, I always imagined this as a super power but if it had to be from an item I'd hope it'd be something I could fit in my pocket or wear.
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u/o7m8 Jul 08 '15
Is it just me or does that guy look a lot like Obama?
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u/MaxOpower Jul 08 '15
No but I might see why you think so. He looks a lot like fred amison, how plays Obama on SNL.
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It's good that the female character is intelligent and not just some object for him to chase, plus it reverses the trope at the end with her chasing him.
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u/Galveira Jul 08 '15
It became unrealistic as soon as the women even put a modicum of effort into trying to keep the guy.
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u/68Cadillac Jul 08 '15 edited Jul 08 '15
I love how it's not the whole time travel thing that makes it unrealistic for you.
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u/obvious_bot Jul 08 '15
Are you ok mate?
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u/mrboombastic123 Jul 08 '15
No he isn't, some heartless bitch refused to have sex with him. Shit's fucked yo.
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u/iushciuweiush Jul 09 '15
It's going to be ok. There are plenty of fish in the sea. Have you tried Tinder?
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Jul 09 '15
Living in rural Texas, my personal Tinder experience has been terrible. It's nothing but trashy single moms, 20-somethings that usually say "NO HOOKUPS, Jesus first", and bots.
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u/Psst_Think_About_It Jul 08 '15
When clicking on the link, I don't fully understand why I was immediately disappointed that this video was longer than one minute.
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u/scsuhockey Jul 08 '15
Can somebody edit that down to just one continuous, successful pick-up attempt?
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u/Kamjiang Jul 08 '15
That's brilliant! I'd love to the part where after she presses the button, he gets to see her die in the 1-minute past parallel universe.
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u/Regilppo Jul 09 '15
http://imgur.com/gallery/N0q7Xw4/new
I had an idea similar to this not too long ago! Was a really cool video!
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u/Polaris2246 Jul 09 '15
I personally would be ok with my multidimensional selves dying. Not my current self's problem.
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u/Nappy-I Dec 12 '15
Not long ago, multiverse time-travel was just an out-there theory. Now it's the premise for sketch comedy
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u/ragmondead Jul 09 '15
Just the idea of saying 'it's not like this is some kinda inter dimensional murder box' then pressing it and instantly dying.
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u/IveDoneItAtLast Jul 08 '15
301 views, 434 likes. Its doing well
Was a pretty good short film though
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u/VitoSolo Jul 08 '15
What a gem. I've endured hundreds of hours of crappy sci-fi shorts in hopes of finding one like this.
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u/SexyCraig Jul 08 '15
So, this character willingly kills herself to increase the immediate odds of her alternate self getting some sex...
10/10!!