What is your favorite time period and why?

[BakaFawkes]

Biblical times, by far. It would be scary considering everything you do is punishable by fiery death, but hey.

It would be cool to meet all those famous people we're all named after, huh?

[MrRazot]

1600's-1800's


The time of progress and Gentlemanship

[dingozipper]

American 1950's, because music, clothes, culture. Hold the prejudice.

[Sparky15756]

1970's and 1980's because of Queen

[KittKat chunky~]

Hmm... Interesting question actually... I think I would have to go with the Victorian era, simply because of the growth of the steam industry and steam power is best power 

[Nobi]

My favorite time period of the past would probably be the period of time roughly 2,000 years before our own; that is, the time of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. I used to be OBSESSED with ancient Egypt. Even today, I could tell you all sorts of random stuff about that time. For example, the ancient Egyptians thought one could get rid of a toothache by sucking on a dead rat. The ancient Greeks were so misogynist that the men actively pursued homosexual relationships over relationships with women. In ancient Egyptian royal families, incest was required in order to keep the royal blood pure. This culture can be seen in the stories of their pantheon, where the gods and goddesses are pretty much all related to one another in some way.


When it comes to the future, I find the coming decades to be the most intriguing. I love the cyberpunk aesthetic, and I particularly enjoy cyberpunk as a subgenre of speculative science fiction. While most cyberpunk authors have the same aim as many sci-fi authors who write about the distant future—which is to extrapolate on where humanity's malpractices will lead us—cyberpunk presents a much greater sense of urgency and immediacy. They're basically saying that, if we don't act right now, this is where we'll end up.


Also, I just love cyborgs and androids/gynoids. Mostly gynoids... 

[rookthebunwolf]

wild west, or now.... horses, revolvers, leverguns, badassery....or....internet porn...


so hard to choose

[Gothy]

The 1950's; because of the clothing, mobsters/gangsters, and black '50's Cadillacs. I don't like how they look now. :C

[Arylett Dawnsborough]

I think now is my favorite time period.


It's because I'm young, I'm at my prime, my mind's not too fuzzy or completely off the walls with hormones to understand things, and I have the best technology available at the tips of my fingers. What more could I want, really? Yeah, I'm boring. But honestly, I also do not know enough about the past to decide whether or not it is my favorite time period. I'm too young to have lived very long, and I can't say much about the 90's as I was a kid without a clue or a brain back then. For me, it's best to experience something before I can actually say how I feel about it.

[Nobi]

I think now is my favorite time period.


It's because I'm young, I'm at my prime, my mind's not too fuzzy or completely off the walls with hormones to understand things, and I have the best technology available at the tips of my fingers. What more could I want, really? Yeah, I'm boring. But honestly, I also do not know enough about the past to decide whether or not it is my favorite time period. I'm too young to have lived very long, and I can't say much about the 90's as I was a kid without a clue or a brain back then. For me, it's best to experience something before I can actually say how I feel about it.

Well said, Arylett. I didn't think about it that way.

[Maine]

I would have to say the Middle Ages, when things were a lot more simple, or complex depending on your views.
Also a great time for architecture, art and society; pretty much the foundations of all three came from this era.

[Geo]

My favorite time period is the civil war. The reason is because I do civil war reenacting. Im a union soldier I get to shoot a 1863 Springfield repop. It's so much fun!!!!!

[Rexodus]

My favourite time period must be the renascence period in Italy. I know that it is because I have been highly influenced by Assassin's Creed but in my eyes that time period was simply a beautiful one. You had the amazing mind of Leonardo Da Vinci around at that time, and he was one of, and in my eyes, the best minds of that time period - he is my artistic, and inventive, role model and is the inspiration behind most of my creations. Then there is the architecture of the time. The buildings, big or small, were ones that you would expect to find in a movie in these days, simply awe worthy.

Although I have many different preferred time periods, this is one of my favourites.

[KoalaJen]

Favorite time period? Hmm, I'd have to say in the generality of that question, it would have to be the Cambrian period. The lands were pristine and virgin, volcanism was shaping the super-continent, the sea was teeming with many new creatures, some of the first recognizable ancestors of us terrestrials. Heck, even my favorite little creatures, the trilobites, are just dominating the seas. It was born from an apocalypse and will die to one as well, but during that short period of calm, life was everywhere and it had adapted many of the things we take for granted today, like our spines.

What a time to be alive, not like now where we're at the start of a mass extinction event. But at the start of the genesis for the biodiversity all around us, no matter how common or exotic it is.

It's not the first life that sprung out of the geothermal pools, it's not the first time life left the seas, but it's one of the most important time periods for life on Earth. If I could, I'd just stand at that primordial sea in my life support suit and cry because it's just so beautiful and inspirational to me. Who knows, perhaps I would even see the first molds clinging to the rocks on that long distant shore, hundreds of millions of years ago.

[Serib]

The Beginning.