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I'd probably just give myself a sports betting almanac. Until you asked that question I never fully appreciated Back to the Future 2.

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Would sports be fun if you already knew what was going to happen?

Speaking of gambling. I'm going to Vegas for a week during March Madness. Let me know if you'll be in town for a poker tournament.

No but it would be hella profitable. The rest of life would be more fun with an unlimited source of funds.

I don't think it'd be worth it. Unless I could delete my memory.

You like sports a hell of a lot more than I do if you would trade unlimited cash for the joy of watching games.

Also, it's an almanac so you could only look at the results when you needed cash.

I guess as long it was as needed almanac I'd be OK. If I was auto-infused with all sports predictions & knowledge I don't know if I could do it.

Well, the trick would be to just start watching the sports that didn't quite make it into the almanac. Snowmobiling ftw.

Offtopic, but:

When Marty goes into the future they should arrive in a future where he went missing (because he's traveling through time). Hence, the whole movie makes absolutely no sense at all.

I don't remember the series clearly, but he comes back much before that future event so he is not really missing at that time.

No, I'm talking about when he goes to the future at the very start of the movie (or end of BTTF1).

At the beginning of BTTF2 Marty travels to a possible future. One that would have become the actual future if he hadn't interacted with anybody and then gone straight back to 1985. Doc Brown's plan would have worked too if it weren't for those meddling kids.

Not necessarily, you're looking at time and dimensionality in a linear light (ba-dum-dusch!). In all seriousness, by traveling through time he could just be traveling to a parallel dimension (universe?) that has already progressed to a future time.

I generally try not to look for inconsistencies when watching sci-fi, as it kind of spoils the fun.

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