Other than having technology not of the era or referencing events yet to happen, what more subtle things could out someone as a time traveler?
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He speak with a strange accent and slang and behave like a tourist, possibly knowing the place but not entirely familiar how it used to be. Think of him like an immigrant who lives in the country but doesn't speak the language.
I asked about time travelers, not Americans.
I think picturing an american who has read about england, and does a decent fake accent could be a good reference point.
Like with some slip ups.
That and speaks about ideas that either are 1) not thought yet (computers, cell phones, cameras everywhere) 2) social expectations being vastly different (gender and race roles).
everyone around you dying from the exotic future/past diseases you bring with you
I'm thinking of the short story where the time travelers go back to the 1930s as stress relief from their jobs as WW3 weapons scientists and one guy decides to bail and stay in the 1930s.
He gets outed by a timecop because he doesn't tug his pant leg up when he sits down, because he's not used to wearing that style of clothing.
... why the frick would anyone go to the 1930s as a "leisure" period?
>Great Depression in full swing, globally
>North America is a clusterfrick of poverty
>South America is just South America
>Europe is fricked in 20 different flavours
>China and Raj at their worst
>Japan and Co. is kinda ok, except it's 30s Japan, so it's 3rd world shithole that also decided to go full moron with military spending
>Colonial Africa at its shittiest, since no budget for anything
>Australia still recovering from losing to emu
Literally pick a decade earlier and it's all dandy (unless you're a Germ or a Chink)
They want to see the premiere of Snow White.
>He doesn't want to experience the height of Clipper flights
>He doesn't want to ride the Orient Express at its height either
>He doesn't want to visit Dresden before it gets firebombed
>Or Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Shanghai, Nanking pre-destruction/desecration
There's a lot to do in the 1930s.
All of those things could be done in 1920s without also having to see malnourished beggars everywhere.
He wants to drink and not risk getting caught in crossfire?
>South America is just South America
Jej
You guys would get outed as a traveller. I would use my Invis cloak, visit the Hawkings party, and try to assassinate John Titor before he's born like everyone else does. It's not that hard to fit in, just smile and wave and pretend you're from now.
I used my time machine to kill the man who ordered the deaths of 60,000 israelites in 1940s Germany. Hold on, I've just been handed a note, one second.
Oh... oh no, OH NO! OH FRICK!! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?
>assassinating John Titor
>not marrying and knocking her up
Time travel would be wasted on you.
John Titor is a real person and was here on Ganker. It's so weird to see an anime character based on him.
Are you moronic?
Are you moronic? John Titor posted here with stories about the future. Anime character was based on him.
I asked Titor some questions and he just gave me an "I don't know what you're talking about."
Wait. Frick. I can't find them on google. I never saved screenshots. Not the 2016 ones, this was maybe 2003, 2004. Did no one screenshot that? It was popular, there were archives, he'd answer questions. It's like it's gone. Is anyone here old enough to remember John Titor on Ganker?
Anyone? Anyone who remembers Moot and Snacks and Cracky-chan and wiener Mongler. Titor was here, I swear it, I'm not moronic!
John Titor is as much of a real person as the anime character version is.
Not the anon you replied to, but are you sure you didn't see something like this (https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/John-Titor/5-1728878/?page=48#) and aren't mandela-effect'ing the hell out of this?
Titor's original posts were on some time travel institute message-board, not Ganker.
If Titor came from here, that would be Ganker's great claim to fame, what everyone would associate w/Ganker.
No, it was before that. He didn't talk about Trump. Not much was going on in the old days and people asked him "Why Ganker?" "How does time travel work?" "Did you know you're an massive role playing gay?" and that sort of thing. I didn't pay a ton of attention to it, just thought it was weird when it got mentioned in the first episode of Stein's;Gate and then when other stuff came up later, I was like what the frick? Yeah, he was here looking for his IBM thing and talking about timelines. I only got one response, and didn't think it was worth trying again because he had his story, and his story was the there's some war that happens but it wasn't going to happen, a bunch of spelling errors and he seemed like some dumb kid talking about where he grew up but we really didn't know what he was going to say next and that was interesting because other times he'd go off about being locked in a weird room and meeting presidents.
It was like a game where someone might have the right question that unlocks the rest of the story.
Ah yes, the strange future technology of 'sunglasses' (invented in 1899), a t-shirt bearing the logo of a 1930s hockey team, and a 1940s Kodak camera.
All things that no one would expect to see in 1941.
a pretty subtle but obvious one is behavoral tics like flicking your wrist to check the time, or reaching into your pocket to check your phone.
you can make up behaviours to suggest future habits e.g. touching your temple to activate an implant
Some phrases can also out you, even saying "It's on my bucket list" can tip off the timecops.
Asking what year it is
> Go back in time to the Roman city of Pompeii.
>Ask in perfect latin "Where is the volcano?"
>"Romans are like "Wut?"
>"Sorry, I meant mountain."
The person absolutely kills it at gambling and is always on top of the important news. Something massive will go down and they won't blink an eye, as if they somehow knew ahead of time.
winning a lottery
They'll just think he's weird
>not surprised by dramatic news stories
>strongly rejects some contemporary scientific beliefs or models
>wears clothes strangely or inappropriately informally
>lacking in practice at contemporary leisure activities (spent childhood on Xbox not at the piano)
>skin and teeth in excellent condition
Autistic people and israelites are time travelers, I knew it!
>Autistic people
>Hygiene
Anon I...
That's a problem that occurs due to sensory overload during bath time in pre-adolescence. Kids who have their limits and boundaries respected don't grow up to by hygiene-averse. In other words it's a bad parenting problem.
They're freakishly obsessed with hygiene compared to those around them.
Well, if he came decades or centuries from the past, he would likely die within days or weeks. As his immune system wouldn't be up to date with the latest mutations among diseases.
So if one picks up Hannibal to test if skills in ancient warfare translate to the modern battlefield, he would shit himself to death from germs we never bothered to care about. Then we try again with Caesar in a biohazard bubble, and find out ol' Julius was allergic to plastic.
Watch the Star Trek TNG episode "A Matter Of Time"