This is now the hypothetical scenarios thread. Any objections?
Contact a Patent lawyer.Contact a Patent lawyer.
Apply for patent.
Contact investors.
Hold trials.
Market cure.
Make millions worth of profit while saving the world.
Yeah but don't you need to prove you have the cure for cancer before people will invest?
-Cancer-I'll combine the patent plan with the mass publication plan. First, learn enough about the cure that I can basically explain how it works, and use this knowledge to clandestinely persuade the parents of local child cancer patients that I'm for real. Use my patent ownership to terrorize outlets and force them to provide at a reasonable price, ala Ben Franklin. I will also publish my identity with the cure and immediately afterward head down to the children's hospital and distribute the originals to terminal cases on camera. Do as many interviews as possible to avoid getting blackbagged, claim I invented it in my house on accident (not untrue, in a Jedi sense).
The machine will permanently remove major obstacles to human civilization, but for a price.This is clearly a malicious genie scenario. The first option will create biological symmetry and cause the extinction of all life, the second option will make us blow ourselves up and destroy civilization, and the third option will suck up everybody's souls into a giant red sphere in orbit and destroy individuality. Any of the options will assist these forms of destruction by the chaos of causing mass death, and me dying instead is to prevent me from telling anybody about the danger if there isn't mass death.
The options are
1. - permanently remove the ability for diseases to develop antibiotic resistances (and remove all current medical resistances)
2. - humanity is provided with an infrastructure system and detailed schematics for the building and operation of fusion power generation plants.
3. - Remove all national distinctions and cultural tensions (unite the world)
Each option you choose will result in the spontaneous death of 1/3 of the world's population. (you are excluded)
You may substitute your life in payment for one of the options.
New Hypothetical Situation.3 doesn't appeal to me. What of the many benefits of cultural diversity?
You, and only you have access to a specific machine.
The machine will permanently remove major obstacles to human civilization, but for a price.
The options are
1. - permanently remove the ability for diseases to develop antibiotic resistances (and remove all current medical resistances)
2. - humanity is provided with an infrastructure system and detailed schematics for the building and operation of fusion power generation plants.
3. - Remove all national distinctions and cultural tensions (unite the world)
Each option you choose will result in the spontaneous death of 1/3 of the world's population. (you are excluded)
You may substitute your life in payment for one of the options.
No one will ever know about your access to the machine and the decisions you make.
New Hypothetical Situation.Number 3, and probably sacrifice myself to do it.
You, and only you have access to a specific machine.
The machine will permanently remove major obstacles to human civilization, but for a price.
The options are
1. - permanently remove the ability for diseases to develop antibiotic resistances (and remove all current medical resistances)
2. - humanity is provided with an infrastructure system and detailed schematics for the building and operation of fusion power generation plants.
3. - Remove all national distinctions and cultural tensions (unite the world)
Each option you choose will result in the spontaneous death of 1/3 of the world's population. (you are excluded)
You may substitute your life in payment for one of the options.
No one will ever know about your access to the machine and the decisions you make.
3 doesn't appeal to me. What of the many benefits of cultural diversity?Presumably the magic genocide box maintains the diversity, just gets rid of the tension and borders and similar such messes. All the benefits of cultural diversity without the xenophobia and murder.
This3 doesn't appeal to me. What of the many benefits of cultural diversity?Presumably the magic genocide box maintains the diversity, just gets rid of the tension and borders and similar such messes. All the benefits of cultural diversity without the xenophobia and murder.
Number 1: death is actually important for ecology, so I wouldn't touch this one.This dosent mean that diseases stop existing, or killing other organisms. It dosent affect natural immune responses and stuff, just antibiotics. Basically, it just means that when we try to treat something it will usually be successful.
Here's a new hypothetical:
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
Here's a new hypothetical:Steep by step plan:
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
The note explains that you've been chosen to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse. In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin. You're expected to mobilize and unite humanity to be as ready as possible for this threat, the nature of which is currently unknown to you.
The note also explains that the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.
What do?
It's kinda funny to say "Oh yeah it preserves diversity without bloodshed and is great and all" while at the same time killing 2.3 Billion people.This3 doesn't appeal to me. What of the many benefits of cultural diversity?Presumably the magic genocide box maintains the diversity, just gets rid of the tension and borders and similar such messes. All the benefits of cultural diversity without the xenophobia and murder.
Here's a new hypothetical:Ideally? Take over the world. Barring that? Use it to convince certain world leaders (or potential world leaders, who could be world leaders if given phenomenal power) to obey my will long enough to worry about da aliums. Five years isn't a lot of time though. It'll take five years at least to thoroughly cement my grasp on power, and buildup, itself, would take much longer. Hmm. Five years is a short period of time. In the interests of time, I'd develop my abilities to allow me to subliminally message large sections of the population; which I will use to whip them into an angry frenzy demanding more militarization and fear of aliens (if people without psychic powers can do this, surely a psychic person has the power to kick it into overdrive). No matter what I'd ideally like to keep one vial for research purposes.
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
The note explains that you've been chosen to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse. In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin. You're expected to mobilize and unite humanity to be as ready as possible for this threat, the nature of which is currently unknown to you.
The note also explains that the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.
What do?
Here's a new hypothetical:Drink one vial and start training magical healing. When invasion comes, chug the other four vials and use my newfound godly power to keep myself from dying to overdose. Vaporize ayylmaos.
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
The note explains that you've been chosen to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse. In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin. You're expected to mobilize and unite humanity to be as ready as possible for this threat, the nature of which is currently unknown to you.
The note also explains that the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.
What do?
I mean if someone walks up to you and claims they've got the cure for cancer and want to cure your sick kid, you don't trust this fucker one bit.If you're referring to my plan, I was going to emotionally manipulate the parents of terminal cases. People try to use homeopathy and autism cures, the desperate will believe anything. Or at least one of them will, which is all I really need.
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I feel like most of the people (Loud Whispers excluded) here forget that you have to prove that your cure actually cures cancer before anyone believes a word out of your damn mouth.Completely irrelevant to the primary reason you immediately back up and disseminate the information necessary to create the cure to as many places as possible, in whatever format is easiest to continue to propagate. Point of as immediate as possible and public publishing is entirely so there's little to no chance mankind loses it. You can work out the rest of it once it's in several dozen different servers and it's not going to functionally disappear if you get hit by a truck or some shit while you're working on whatever step 3 is.
New Hypothetical Situation.1. Gods no, if the implication is that evolution ceases to be
You, and only you have access to a specific machine.
The machine will permanently remove major obstacles to human civilization, but for a price.
The options are
1. - permanently remove the ability for diseases to develop antibiotic resistances (and remove all current medical resistances)
2. - humanity is provided with an infrastructure system and detailed schematics for the building and operation of fusion power generation plants.
3. - Remove all national distinctions and cultural tensions (unite the world)
Each option you choose will result in the spontaneous death of 1/3 of the world's population. (you are excluded)
You may substitute your life in payment for one of the options.
No one will ever know about your access to the machine and the decisions you make.
Here's a new hypothetical:The first thing I would do is collect four companions, together we five would form the illuminati, with a combined warchest of one million dollars with each individual drinking one of the vials. In this manner we would maximize the psionic output per vial, assuming of course whatever is in the vial cannot be replicated (because otherwise this may turn into "I wish for unlimited wishes"). Between the five of us, maintaining communication through regular psionic meetups with our Grand Illuminator/Commander (I imagine selecting who our GI would be would be a rather simple case of electing the individual with the best communication and psionic potential). The four delegated Illuminators would thereupon be tasked with recruiting members to their factions in North America, Europe, East Asia and Southern Asia, which would allow the four delegated Illuminators to concentrate their efforts on dominating in the shortest time the largest population of the most influential Earthlings. Within five years, domination of majority of the public is unlikely, but domination of the elite is far more achievable. The Prime Illuminator themself would not look for any specific geographical locale, but would instead begin construction of
You have a briefcase. It appeared on your bed(or equivalent) this morning, out of nowhere. In the briefcase are 5 vials, a million dollars, and a note.
The note explains that you've been chosen to prepare humanity for the impending apocalypse. In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin. You're expected to mobilize and unite humanity to be as ready as possible for this threat, the nature of which is currently unknown to you.
The note also explains that the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.
What do?
2. While this is objectively the best option, I am concerned that the spontaneous death of 1/3rd the world's population would actually do more damage than fusion power would do in benefit. Humanity can deal with 1/3 of the population dying, but 1/3rd the world population dying at random all across the world? There's a fair chance of everything going completely tits up with world leaders, scientists and vital infrastructure personnel just up and dropping in what the doom prophets would be jumping to call rapture as the third world war begins amidst the chaos.
My biggest concern in the aftermath, whether or not there is an invasion, whether or not mankind is victorious is what happens when the psionics die. Will their descendants form dynasties of psionics, or does the psionic power die with them? Would future psionics be able to maintain a centralized galactic state, or would it collapse like Alexander's Empire, going to the strongest? I suppose the alternative would be to attempt to create an Immortal Man Emperor of Mankind, thus ensuring no succession crises like that
This is a good point. It'll basically be the Black Death come again, except across the entire world instantly rather than just Eurasia, with all the attendant socio-economic upheaval and war. Hell, just gathering burying the bodies alone before they start to rot could be an uphill task especially in urban areas. And modern economies definitely can't survive the loss of 1/3rd of the workforce in any recognisable fashion: this will also be the mother of all economic recessions. It also took the world population 2-3 centuries to recover to pre-Black Death levels, so really, sacrificing 1/3rd of the world's population for any of the three options is unthinkable in terms of advantage gained.Aye. Even worse than the black death too, in that the deaths are spontaneous, while the black death ravaged over decades allowing people to (broadly speaking) accommodate, plan and prepare for it. 1/3rd of the world just dying at once at the same time - I imagine the shock alone would kill many more, it could very well turn out to be one of those ironic things where humanity then has fusion power but human civilization collapses. One shudders even to think how humankind would even go about the rest of their lives having experienced such an unknown and terrifying mass death event, the cults that would ensue would be fanatical
In the grim darkness of the 39th millennium there is only the search for ayylmaos to fight."Somewhere, some incredible ayyylmao is waiting to be killed." - Carl Sagan
In the briefcase are 5 vials...In 5 years, an alien invasion will begin...the vials grant psionic powers to anybody that drinks one, drinking a second will temporarily supercharge one's powers to the point of being a one-man army, but a third will be lethal.The first thing I would do is collect four companions...with each individual drinking one of the vials. In this manner we would maximize the psionic output per vial
The first alien arrives, his psionic powers are exactly 10% stronger than those granted by the vials. He hunts down you and your companions one by one and eliminates you because you have no way to power-up.That situation would actually be very beneficial to my strategy. For starters, the first alien would have to get through the orbital forces first. Then it would have to make landfall on a fortified Earth, before navigating its way through a militiarized and heavily policed Earthling society - all unnoticed, which would nearly be impossible. It would then have to track down one of the human psionics despite the human psionics residing in heavily fortified and secretive bases with no need for contact with the outside world, and then have to kill one of the human psionics. Assuming it doesn't do anything like step on a landmine or eat bullets and missiles, it then has to defeat the human psionic with a mere 10% advantage in power, which would not exactly be much when considering reinforcements from conventional human forces.
You have failed the test and Earth is destroyed to make room for an intergalactic highway.
the first alien would have to get through the orbital forces first.The psionic bends space around itself, making it's ship invisible to all automated defenses.
It would then have to track down one of the human psionics despite the human psionics residing in heavily fortified and secretive bases with no need for contact with the outside world10% more psionic power allows it to sense lesser psionics anywhere in the galaxy, while hiding it's own presence from detection by the weaker psionics.
it then has to defeat the human psionic with a mere 10% advantage in power, which would not exactly be much when considering reinforcements from conventional human forces.Conventional human reinforcements are incapable of perceiving the psionic as a threat or anything out of the ordinary. Psionics basically trump all non-psionic defenses.
Upon killing that human psionic, this then reveals that the alien invasion has begunThe alien does not kill it's victims immediately. Upon overwhelming their inferior minds, it takes control of them and forces them to act normally until it has finished neutralizing all potential threats.
we're talking a psionic that's 110% capability versus the other four psionics at 400%Psionic powers are not additive in that fashion. It would be like 4 guys with guns against 1 guy with a tank. Those 4 guys are going to be wishing they had that temporary army.
Moreover, there is also the risk that the vials themselves are the ploy used by the aliens to conquer planet Earth, using psionic Earthlings to subjugate planet Earth in the most efficient manner possible before usurping and assuming command over the institutions and networks the psionics have crafted.So, you're handed a weapon and presented with an overwhelming enemy, and you refuse to use the weapon on the grounds that it might be what the enemy wants you to do? You're definitely screwed if you don't use the weapon, so you gotta take that risk.
STUFFEverything you just said is an assumption based evidence not provided in the initial hypothetical. Saying psionic powers are not additive? I'm sorry, I'll need to see your degree in Psionics to trust you on that one.
I'm sorry, I'll need to see your degree in Psionics to trust you on that one.
I dunno... is it important to the discussion?
I mean even if the aliens aren't that powerful... typically the fact that they can fight us from space... from perfect safety... pretty much dooms us.
I dunno... is it important to the discussion?
I mean even if the aliens aren't that powerful... typically the fact that they can fight us from space... from perfect safety... pretty much dooms us.
What part of "psionics trump all non-psionic weapons" aren't you understanding? Our psionic humans will simply generate light-barriers to protect our cities from the alien spaceship weapons. All we have to fear are the superior alien psionics, and then only if we don't have power-up vials to make our psionics stronger than theirs.
Hypothetical continuation!
Okay, so, assuming you've beaten the aliens, you now have quite a bit of new technology and biology to analyze. What will you do now? Will you lead humanity to the stars? Will you take control over Earth permanently? Will you try to discover how psionics work? What will you do?
Hypothetically, say that you're shitposting on Bay 12 in a thread started by Neonivek about a hypothetical situation, and as you read through the posts you eventually come across a scenario posted by DPRK Threadlord and sexy beast MetalSlimeHunt, where he gets all weird about the thread's purpose and acts self-aggrandizing like he always does.
How do you respond?
Hypothetical continuation!All of the above!
Okay, so, assuming you've beaten the aliens, you now have quite a bit of new technology and biology to analyze. What will you do now? Will you lead humanity to the stars? Will you take control over Earth permanently? Will you try to discover how psionics work? What will you do?
Who died and made us king?You did, if you oppose my glorious and enlightened rule. The tragedy of our times, but necessary if we want to create the world of the future that
Hypothetically, say that you're shitposting on Bay 12 in a thread started by Neonivek about a hypothetical situation, and as you read through the posts you eventually come across a scenario posted by DPRK Threadlord and sexy beast MetalSlimeHunt, where he gets all weird about the thread's purpose and acts self-aggrandizing like he always does.Mostly ignore him in favor of expounding on how I intend to pervert the most recent hypothetical to conquer the Solar System, pausing to speak self-referentially in response to the above.
How do you respond?
I use the advanced knowledge gained from the aliens to annihilate the entire Korean peninsula, most of Indonesia, Hawaii and all the other Pacific Islands, a large portion of China, Japan, half of Australia (the shit half with nothing in it), a significant chunk of Africa, and then MSH's house in wherever he lives, just for good measure. I then lead the remaining human population into space to conquer everything in the universe. >.>Wait wait wait, hold up a second there. People live in Australia? ??? Why? Why would anyone do that? Who thought that was a good idea? What led someone to thinking that was wise?
Hypothetically, say that you're shitposting on Bay 12 in a thread started by Neonivek about a hypothetical situation, and as you read through the posts you eventually come across a scenario posted by DPRK Threadlord and sexy beast MetalSlimeHunt, where he gets all weird about the thread's purpose and acts self-aggrandizing like he always does.
How do you respond?
New hypothetical: you've discovered a godless, forsaken continent to the south with strange and hostile wildlife. Can you imagine any reason to colonize this barren landmass that isn't an extended form of mass-suicide? And if so, how?Send all the criminals and let them set up a colony for the empire.
New hypothetical: you've discovered a godless, forsaken continent to the south with strange and hostile wildlife. Can you imagine any reason to colonize this barren landmass that isn't an extended form of mass-suicide? And if so, how?
New hypothetical: you've discovered a godless, forsaken continent to the south with strange and hostile wildlife. Can you imagine any reason to colonize this barren landmass that isn't an extended form of mass-suicide? And if so, how?GOLD! OIL! Other underground natural resources! Also, a place to live. Overpopulation isn't a concern anymore.
The psionic bends space around itself, making it's ship invisible to all automated defenses.Then assuming all manned vehicles also fail to stop the alien, we have learned the alien invaders manipulate space itself and are potent psionics.
10% more psionic power allows it to sense lesser psionics anywhere in the galaxy, while hiding it's own presence from detection by the weaker psionics.If we hold this to be true. I argue the contrary, given that more power makes things more visible, but ey, reality warping ayy lmaos are dangerous so let's assume the worse. My proposition proposes that the vials be divided between 5 people, which gives the maximum psionic potential over the longest period of time - literally only limited by the lifespan of the psionic humans in question. Assuming that the psionic ayy lmao is capable of infiltrating planet Earth without any of the 5 psionics from noticing that something more powerful than them has arrived, how on Earth (or indeed, out of Earth) would your proposal be better?
Conventional human reinforcements are incapable of perceiving the psionic as a threat or anything out of the ordinary. Psionics basically trump all non-psionic defenses.Then the alternative is having one human who is capable of perceiving the psionic threat for four temporary instances. If there are more than four aliens, of if the aliens attack outside of those four instances when one human is overpowered, mankind is defenceless and will certainly perish defenceless. On the contrary, having five psionics direct the defence, it doesn't matter if the humans cannot perceive the alien - the psionics can, and can direct the reinforcements to kill the aliens.
The alien does not kill it's victims immediately. Upon overwhelming their inferior minds, it takes control of them and forces them to act normally until it has finished neutralizing all potential threats.The problem is that this then creates a very visible blackspot upon the already established illuminati network - it would be akin to a city full of lights, with one district suddenly having a blackout, a blackout visibly spreading in a certain direction. Normal human information analysis would be able to reveal the geographic locale of the alien, especially with the five psionics spread around the Earth - even if each individual psionic cannot sense where the alien is, because its magic psionic powers means it is more powerful than Sonic OCs, they can see where the humans formerly under their control have blacked out of the grid.
Psionic powers are not additive in that fashion. It would be like 4 guys with guns against 1 guy with a tank. Those 4 guys are going to be wishing they had that temporary army.Whose to say that they are not? This alien has 110% the power relative to one individual with one vial at 100%. Someone who is 10% stronger than me and 10% tougher than me cannot help but be overwhelmed if there are five of me. It is like a beetle that is 10% larger than and vastly tougher and stronger than any individual ant. Yet two ants is enough to kill the beetle in safety, five ants is overkill. This is again assuming that all of humankind is ineffectual against the enemy, which is a big assumption to make - the note explicitly commanded us to mobilize humanity, one of the foremost details is that humanity will be of paramount importance to the defence of humankind.
So, you're handed a weapon and presented with an overwhelming enemy, and you refuse to use the weapon on the grounds that it might be what the enemy wants you to do? You're definitely screwed if you don't use the weapon, so you gotta take that risk.No, I'm handed a weapon and presented with an enemy I don't know. I don't know what they want, what their capabilities are, whether they exist, what form they exist in, are they psionic, are they a swarm of critters, a mechanized borg, an extragalactic colony of long lost humans, a bunch of FTL pacifists etc.
New hypothetical!Prestidigitation, at least so long as it stayed cantrippy and I could ignore that 1/day thing. Least wish for the win.
You find a spell book on your bed, and as you touch it, you feel it bind to you.
Choose any one D&D 3.5e or Pathfinder spell, 6th spell level or less, and you can now use it once per day, ignoring material cost. What class the spell belongs to doesn't matter. What is your choice, if any?
New hypothetical!Prestidigitation, at least so long as it stayed cantrippy and I could ignore that 1/day thing. Least wish for the win.
You find a spell book on your bed, and as you touch it, you feel it bind to you.
Choose any one D&D 3.5e or Pathfinder spell, 6th spell level or less, and you can now use it once per day, ignoring material cost. What class the spell belongs to doesn't matter. What is your choice, if any?
If it'd still hold the 1/day thing, probably mage's lubrication. If you have to choose a spell it might as well be the one that lets you choose a bunch of other ones. Probably something better than that specific one for the same effect in some 3.5e or pathfinder splatbook, but eh, close enough.
... though depending on if summoning works and you can hunt up a spell that lets you call in efreeti or somethin' that can still cast wish, well...
Actually wouldn't work by rules as written, I think, assuming they're in effect. At some point summoning was clarified such that things specifically summoned can't/won't use effects with an XP cost... such as wish. There's other spells that get around that (stuff that binds or calls, ferex), but using SM 6 or whatev' probably wouldn't work. Planar ally (or whatever it's called) or something might.
In any case, any class was specified. I'm sure there's some prestige class or random splatbook out there with a variant/non-standard class with something that would work. I just don't know what it'd be and ain't about to start looking.
You also get a can of spray you can use to convince any one person that this is true by spraying them in the face. What do?Insufficient spray, MetalSlimeHunt.
New hypothetical: you learn that a magnitude 11 earthquake will strike California one year from now. As a side note, you no longer need sleep. What do?Be the most productive individual in the world, haunted by a life without dreams. Also California gets destroyed by a mag 11 earthquake because I'd probably forget to warn the Californians, or else not know how to convince them to leave their homes without starting an apocalyptic cult. And can you imagine founding an apocalyptic cult and then getting proven right?
You suddenly realize you only have 30 days left to live before you will die of an unstoppable and thankfully painless heart attack. You also get a can of spray you can use to convince any one person that this is true by spraying them in the face. What do?I think it would be entertaining to be all mysterious and shit, telling everyone cryptic nonsense about having to go away on the date you expect to die. Settle all your accounts in order before you "depart for another journey" and spread mystical bullshit as far and wide as you can in those 30 days. Also I'd definitely take up skydiving on day 30
this thread shall not die.I wouldn't ask for a sword, because it's a trick question. If he was offering a non-fictional sword of choice perhaps, but he's instead offering to provide a sword that does not exist with the expectation of punishment if he can't deliver, and he can't deliver because the sword doesn't exist - thus this is clearly the setup to an obscure /tg/ porno or a magical realm situation, in which the only way to win is to not play
A mysterious stranger sends you an email offering to give you a fictional sword of your choice. He warns that asking for a sword that oversteps his means means you will suffer a punishment of some kind.
Do you ask for a sword? If so, what?
Gun parts stay, guns that are made in the middle also vanish and reappear at the same time.
If it only depends on whether it looks like a gun, can we disguise it? Or paint it lime green or something?If it would be recognized as a gun, poof. If you can disguise it, it might stay if the disguise is good enough.
you learn that a magnitude 11 earthquake will strike California one year from now
New hypothetical. You come to consciousness holding an unloaded pistol in front of a corpse filled with bullets from that pistol. What do?Turn myself in because I'm having some sorta of extremely serious mental and probably physical health issue and just killed someone?
New Hypothetical!
You are the president of the country you were born at, and russia* say "become part of russia or we will throw atomic bombs at your country", do you:
A) Accept the deal
or
B)Don't accept the deal and so russia will bomb you.
*if you are from russia, the country that will bomb you is USA.
New Hypothetical!
You notice a bomb in your basement. If you didn't have a basement, you have one now. The bomb's display says it's going to go off in 30 minutes.
What do?
If they're warning me first they've basically given me the opportunity to launch a preemptive strike, which could greatly reduce the amount of damage my country takes in the first place. Also we have more nukes than them. :P
I'm less than 30 minutes travel from the beach, put the bomb in a bag, catch a tram, throw it into the ocean at the 5 second mark. Not sure the cops can remove the bomb quicker than I could throw it in the ocean.Since we don't know what sort of explosive the bomb uses, this could cause massive ecological damage. A concrete basement would be a safer place to let it explode, especially as doing so doesn't require touching the bomb. In my opinion bomb disposal is best left to the professionals.
New Hypothetical!Cook a curry in under 29 minutes, use the last minute to eat the curry. If the bomb was legit I am dead, if it wasn't, I have curry
You notice a bomb in your basement. If you didn't have a basement, you have one now. The bomb's display says it's going to go off in 30 minutes.
What do?
New Hypothetical!The UK does not have a President, which means that I would be asked to abolish Parliament and the Monarchy or else face atomic destruction. I'd probably then go with option B-1, wherein we're gonna get bombed so bomb them anyways and just kickstart WWIII because hypothetical putin is being unreasonable
You are the president of the country you were born at, and russia* say "become part of russia or we will throw atomic bombs at your country", do you:
A) Accept the deal
or
B)Don't accept the deal and so russia will bomb you.
*if you are from russia, the country that will bomb you is USA.
Extra rules:
1-If you tell them you will bomb then back if they do this and pick choice B, they will still bomb you
2-If you bomb them first and pick A then wont bomb you back, if you bomb them first and pick B they will still bomb you.
New hypothetical! Every human on earth falls up instead of down for ten seconds, then gravity resumes as normal. Every year at the exact same time, the same event occurs. How does society change?
New hypothetical! Every human on earth falls up instead of down for ten seconds, then gravity resumes as normal. Every year at the exact same time, the same event occurs. How does society change?How would weights, air and pressure affect this. This would alter what happens to divers caught in this anomaly greatly
The various space agencies of the world would use it as a launch day, saving millions in rocket fuel.
Ninjaedit: nevermind, if it's only humans that fall up, this won't work.
That's not how oranges work.
you should take the orange, cut it in half, put them together to make a whole, and then shove it right into your a...That's not how oranges work.
Oh wow!
Look at this person, they're so intelligent!
you should take the orange, cut it in half, put them together to make a whole, and then shove it right into your a...That's not how oranges work.
Oh wow!
Look at this person, they're so intelligent!
No, that's exactly how how holes work.
Would boxers have malice for each other in the ring?
"And boxer Harris is unaffected whatsoever by boxer Harry's punch! Looks like that punch had some malice behind it!"
There are other issues. What defines harm? If one were to attempt to kill another player in Minecraft, with malice(I want your diamonds!), would any damage occur?
Don't see how Magic is going to make more dictators and bullshit than Advancement.
New hypothetical: The oceans are rising for no apparent reason. By 2050, only some mountains will be above water even partially. What you do? What world do?
All I could do is save for a large boat, learn to fish, and make some sort of boat greenhouse thing for some plants. The only thing I could see helping more than just me is a lot of research being thrown into underwater habitats, and even then there'd NEVER be enough for all 7 billion for us to survive.
Everyone knows rain comes from God having her period.Sigged.
Mind controls you. Congrats, you're now a thrall of Sauron who's trying to use you to figure out how to get into your universe.
Or at least I think that's how it works.
It's not like throwing the ring into mount doom is the only way to defeat sauron, especially with all the other fictional stuff we're bringing in.
Ahem. Point being, Sword What Seals The Darkness seals the darkness.
New hypothetical.
Whenever a person dies, their body explodes. Think "hand grenade". How does society change?
New hypothetical.
Whenever a person dies, their body explodes. Think "hand grenade". How does society change?
New hypothetical.
Whenever a person dies, their body explodes. Think "hand grenade". How does society change?
All diseases become Ebola.Diseases would get a big advantage if they kill the victim, unlike how things work now. Expect more deadly diseases to evolve, due to the new possibility of spreading via human shrapnel.
Yes, but you don´t need to stick really close to each other for a chain reaction, considering bone sharpnel and the like...
How soon does the body explode? The scenario is wildly different depending on if it's on the last breath or, say, 5 minutes later. You could go even closer and say that receiving an unsurvivable wound counts as "being already dead" even if you're still showing life signs.We can go with two different hypotheticals: Last breath, and 10 seconds later.
How soon does the body explode? The scenario is wildly different depending on if it's on the last breath or, say, 5 minutes later. You could go even closer and say that receiving an unsurvivable wound counts as "being already dead" even if you're still showing life signs.We can go with two different hypotheticals: Last breath, and 10 seconds later.
What if they later rise as zombies and are subsequently re-killed?
New hypothetical: You can choose to remove, permanently, one concept from every human being's mind... except yours and seven other randomly selected human beings. Would you choose to do so, and if so, what concept?
The notion of absolute truth. People would immediately understand the scientific method, and we'd quickly find ways to deal with all the PoMo weirdness. Also folks' communication skills would improve since they'd no longer assume the other person thinks the same way they do.The year is 2038. It has been 21 years since the beginning of the Grand Malaise, though now most know it as the Suicide Plague. The human race now stands at 2.3 billion members, with a global average fertility rate of 0.15. It has been 18 years since mainstream politicians began accepting endorsements from the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. It has been 12 years since the cults were legalized, and 9 since they were granted public education exclusivity. It has been 4 years since emergency services were formally pulled from rural areas. It has been 1 year since the production of alcohol was outlawed.
The notion of absolute truth. People would immediately understand the scientific method, and we'd quickly find ways to deal with all the PoMo weirdness. Also folks' communication skills would improve since they'd no longer assume the other person thinks the same way they do.
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Oh! And for the additional forum given by Network I choose Facebook.Ha. Didn't think of that.
Everyone I use Sanity on will be given Network and instructed to pick another forum maximizing for largest user base more than anything.Didn't think of that either.
Take every power, proceed with the awesome action movie antics.And finally I didn't think of that either. Although my intention was that you could only take an additional power once. Not that it changes much for your Networking.
Just a few powers with 1-day or longer cooldowns won't be enough, and 40 hunters isn't much on top of the entire population of earth.
This could very easily be a forum game.I'll think about it. If it does become a forum game, I'm removing Network, good grief.
every inch of the ocean they suspect you of hiding in.Ah, there's the rub: No need to let them suspect anything. Fake your own death, teleport to prepared shipwreck somewhere.
The militaries of the world, having become united in the cause of hunting you down, will surely begin searching and depth charging every inch of the ocean they suspect you of hiding in. Joined by both merchant and civilian vessels, in fact.
Go to the ocean floor and kill the yeti crabs for food.You don't need food, it's only a month.
Also, with Urist's permission, I might make this into a forum game myself. I've never GMed before and I'm not sure if I'll have the time (or the motivation), but it's a possibility.You have my permission. If you'd like, I could mentor you. I've done several forum games myself and could help run this game, I'm liking the concept.
Acquire large box, get inside box, sink box...What kind of box can survive the massive pressure at the sea floor?
Acquire large box, get inside box, sink box...What kind of box can survive the massive pressure at the sea floor?
Until a hunter pinpoints you in space and repurpose some ICBMs sans warheads to shoot you with an enormous kinetic projectile, that plan wouldn't be so bad. Except for the radiation. And searing heat slash bitter cold.
Of course, once everyone regains their sanity there are probably still going to be several kinetic kill vehicles headed your way. So before that happens, either wish for a photo of Earth or, if that doesn't work due to the photo being created by your power and not actually taken by a camera, get a radio and a printer so someone can send one once they stop trying to kill you. This means you'll have to choose teleport as the one power you keep, but that would probably be my choice anyway.-- Or you could just bring a photo with you.
Assuming that teleport doesn't allow you to bring along objects (aside from maybe clothes you are wearing)Teleport lets you bring along anything you can carry.
Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?
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One day, you wake up in the world of Minecraft, with all the attributes of a Minecraft character. What do you do?
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A mysterious box shows up on your doorstep or equivalent. The box always contains various works from up to ten years in the future(games, books(fiction and non-fiction), music, art, magazines, the like). How does this affect your life?
D&D, but I'm the GM.
Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?I read this in a webcomic once, but the obvious choice is a wet T-shirt contest. Even if your chest isn't particularly manly or womanly, it's likely to win over a bare ribcage.
Something or other killed you. You wake up to find Death standing over you. Turns out the whole "game with Death" thing is real, and you can choose what game you want to play with him. Keep in mind he's been doing this for millennia and has likely been challenged to a very wide variety of games. What game do you challenge him to?I read this in a webcomic once, but the obvious choice is a wet T-shirt contest. Even if your chest isn't particularly manly or womanly, it's likely to win over a bare ribcage.
Any sort of beauty contest would work, really.
Obligatory. (https://xkcd.com/393/)
Just shrink the hats so they fit inside each other like those Russian dolls.
What does the fungus hat doGives you power over fungus!
What does the fungus hat doGives you power over fungus!
Make magical mushrooms! Control magical mushrooms! Give someone toe infections!
Is that supposed to be sung to the tune of "everybody wants to rule the world"?What does the fungus hat doGives you power over fungus!
Make magical mushrooms! Control magical mushrooms! Give someone toe infections!
Everyone loves/Magical Trevor/Cuz the things that he does/Are ever so clever
New hypothetical. For the next three days, all six-sided dice roll nothing but sixes when thrown. What happens?
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I'm not sure if that's in the spirit of this thread. Ah well.
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I'm not sure if that's in the spirit of this thread. Ah well.
This. But I will vote upon the pyre of your poll.
Sell the historic manuscripts to museums and collectors for as much money as possible. Retire, proceed to enjoy the vast amount of reading material.Sell the historic manuscripts to collectors for as much money as possible in order to fund a scientific/industrial complex based mostly on plagiarizing future textbooks.
You don't sell the whole thing. You sell the books, because because the place contains every book they're still going to be there tomorrow so you can sell them again.
For some reason I'm reminded of thisYou don't sell the whole thing. You sell the books, because because the place contains every book they're still going to be there tomorrow so you can sell them again.
So you're saying I could burn it to boil water and generate infinite electricity?
New hypothetical. You somehow now own a library containing at least one copy of one book ever written(and one copy of every book that will be written for the next ten years). What do?Well you'd probably want to get a priceless historical book from the library of Alexandria or Bagdhad or something. Either that or top sekrit documents from a government detailing how the moon landing was faked because the moon isn't real
Turns out both the Alexandrian and Bagdad libraries only held ancient fanfiction and furry porn. Sorry.
Re called the Two Contendors before Him. He passed Divine Jugdment upon Them for Their wrong-doings. He demanded that They cease their quarreling. Seth appeared to agree. He invited Horus to stay with Him in His palace.deepest lore (http://www.theologywebsite.com/etext/egypt/horus.shtml)
One evening, as the two lay together resting, Seth inserted his penis between the thighs of Horus. Horus, however, unknown to the Dark Lord of Storm, had caught Seth's semen in His hand. With the help of His mother, Isis, He placed His own semen upon lettuce growing in a garden; lettuce that Seth was to eat.
Seth spake unto Horus, "Come, let us go, that I may contend with you in the Court." Within the Court, Seth declared, "Let the office of Ruler be given to Me, for as regards Horus who stands here, I have done a man's deed to Him."
Horus laughed and said, "What Seth has said is false. Let the semen of Seth be called, and let us see from where it will answer."
And so Thoth, the Self Created, called upon the semen of Seth. The answer came from a far-away marsh, where Isis had long since deposited it.
Horus said, "Let mind be called, and let us see from where it will answer."
Then Thoth laid His hand on the arm of Seth and said, "Come out, semen of Horus!" And it spake unto Him, "Where shall I come out?" Thoth said to it, "Come out of His ear." It replied to Him, "Should I come out of His ear, I who am Divine Seed?" Then it came out as a Golden Sun Disk upon the head of Seth. Seth became very angry, and He stretched forth His hand to seize the Golden Disk.
This thread will never die if I have anything to say about it.CLOSE IT YOU FOOL BEFORE THE CATSPLOS-
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You open your closet one day to find it stuffed full of living cats(of various species). What do?
cats(of various species).I'd probably get mauled to death by a cougar.
Um. Run out of the house and call animal control.Animal control, while rather confused, manage to get all the cats out of your closet. The portal in your closet, leading to the Plane of Cats, is another story.
Um. Run out of the house and call animal control.Animal control, while rather confused, manage to get all the cats out of your closet. The portal in your closet, leading to the Plane of Cats, is another story.
Become rich and famous due to discovering interdimensional portals.
Make one portal to the universe of infinite matter and another portal to the universe of infinite antimatter. Harness enormous amount of energy to power the whole world. Primarily clean transportation and clean water.
Make one portal to the universe of infinite matter and another portal to the universe of infinite antimatter. Harness enormous amount of energy to power the whole world. Primarily clean transportation and clean water.
HAVE YOU EVEN PLAYED DOOM
Make one portal to the universe of infinite matter and another portal to the universe of infinite antimatter. Harness enormous amount of energy to power the whole world. Primarily clean transportation and clean water.
HAVE YOU EVEN PLAYED DOOM
I paid as much attention as doomguy did
You open the portal to the universe of infinite antimatter.It doesn't really matter what the antimatter is shaped like when you're annihilating it for energy anyway.
... why is the antimatter made of cats?
Not fuckin hell, matter and antimatter.Yeah, it's not like UAC and Black Mesa were delliberatedly trying to trigger transdimensional invasions either.
You open the portal to the universe of infinite antimatter.It doesn't really matter what the antimatter is shaped like when you're annihilating it for energy anyway.
... why is the antimatter made of cats?
Reverse-engineer the formula, obtain human brains, produce formula using human brains, inject aliens.But we need only the best brains. Brains like genius. Believe mE
Go to Vegas with my million euro.
Put chunks of putty in the food of random people at the buffet
kill self day before invasion
3- If knives were made out of butter they wouldn't be able to cut things very well now would they how would we eat steaks hmm?Stuff it all in at once, like a MAN.
Escalator: This magical amulet makes the user escalate any situation.
Quick Buck: A dollar that enhances its owner's salesmanship ability to absurd levels. Those who have been sold to will realize their idiocy after a few hours, and inevitably sue(or take things to an even worse level).
Intrest:
This is a simple silver coin which creates an exact copy of itself once every second, which will then start making it's own copies. If any of the coins are melted down or otherwise stop being coins, they lose the magical effect and become inert silver. Side effects of this item may include making silver valueless.
What the area a nuke can effectevly destroy?Depends on the weapon. Most nuclear weapons are designed to destroy medium-large cities, but the biggest, theoretical ones could destroy entire small nations.
Probably sit down together and talk about the interesting ramifications of there being two of us and how we'll diverge from that point onwards.yeah but two people in a room with identical ideas who sit around confirming each other's opinions and beliefs is basically a circle jerk anyway, so why not go all out?
Agree not to do the whole "kill the other and take their place" thing, work together instead. There are now two of me to throw at any given problem.
Hey now I only have to work part time. We just split our life in half for maximum laziness time.You still need to feed both yourselves. You might get away with sharing a room and bed because you're literally the same and thus have no need for privacy, but some costs will certainly go up.
Thousand seems pretty decent, but it would take a good bit of day to day planning. Is there no way to acquire more money? Like, I'm guessing the prompt would require you to not work or earn your own income from a job, but could you invest the part of the $1000?The thousand comes with no strings attached. The billion comes with the string you see. The mystery option comes with the mystery strings.
There's no guarantee the seven will value the lives of their families over ending my own life.There's no guarantee of anything, but is seems statistically very likely that if the seven are chosen randomly from the population that at least one and probably a lot more of them have valuable loved ones. And if even just one of them does, they'll use that special power of theirs to the fullest to prevent the others from nuking me.
Would the stasis spare us?
Nobody wins, because then they couldn't milk a sequel.
The reboot need to be grrity and realisticNobody wins, because then they couldn't milk a sequel.
Just reboot it a few years later
It's time to pick some talents! Assume they're cumulative.
There's a plague going around. A rather nasty plague. It's spread so rapidly that basically every human on the planet has it now. There are those guys hanging out in Madagascar, but who cares about them anyways?ftfy
Do we get superpowers with the furry cure? Can we choose the animal/being we are spliced with?If you could pick and choose and have kangaroo legs, eagle vision, dog hearing and all that stuff that'd be pretty baller, but I'm imagining in this grimdark world you wouldn't be getting anime-tier animal splicing, you'd be getting serious congenital defects caused by the mismatch of gene expressions of humans with distant genetic relatives. Less elephant men and more elephant man
Do we get superpowers with the furry cure? Can we choose the animal/being we are spliced with?If you could pick and choose and have kangaroo legs, eagle vision, dog hearing and all that stuff that'd be pretty baller, but I'm imagining in this grimdark world you wouldn't be getting anime-tier animal splicing, you'd be getting serious congenital defects caused by the mismatch of gene expressions of humans with distant genetic relatives. Less elephant men and more elephant man
KHAJIIT HAS WARES TO SELL.Skyrim belongs to the lusty argonian maids
Do we get superpowers with the furry cure? Can we choose the animal/being we are spliced with?No control over the splicing, though it will tend to be mammalian.
No control over the splicing, though it will tend to be mammalian.Is that it? You sacrifice modern convenience of smartphones and other idle bullshit in exchange for actual powers? Yeah boi gimme dat otter lung capacity and sheit. Also don't pretend you're not worldbuilding a post-apocalyptic setting in which humanity has died out and been replaced by various tribes of hybrid human-animal chimeras
The Furry Cure won't effect your brain(the blood-brain barrier is a thing) but everything else is fair game. You might get super senses or whatever, but on the other hand, good luck using your smartphone with paws.
Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?No control over the splicing, though it will tend to be mammalian.Is that it? You sacrifice modern convenience of smartphones and other idle bullshit in exchange for actual powers? Yeah boi gimme dat otter lung capacity and sheit. Also don't pretend you're not worldbuilding a post-apocalyptic setting in which humanity has died out and been replaced by various tribes of hybrid human-animal chimeras
The Furry Cure won't effect your brain(the blood-brain barrier is a thing) but everything else is fair game. You might get super senses or whatever, but on the other hand, good luck using your smartphone with paws.
I see what you're up to
I dunno. I'd miss having hands.Adapt, evolve, collect essence
Okay, let's broaden the horizons a bit.I feel like that would ruin me, like the Narnia effect
You get the opportunity to live in one fictional world for one week. You enter at the time and place of your choosing. When the week's up(or you die), you're sent back to your original location, at the time you left, completely restored in every way to how you were before you left, the only difference being you keep your memories(filtered of infohazards and the like). In short, your only benefit is the experience. Our reality doesn't run on magic or whatever, so knowledge of spells or cold fusion or whatever the world you visited has won't help you here. So... where would you go?
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I don't know, just being a teen for the rest of my life does worth something, not too much though
We're basically talking about a civilization that fits into a space smaller than a hamster cage and probably needs less food
What would you do if you had those powers?Ban every google, reddit, facebook, twitter, instagram account and so forth, usher in the age of anonymous information for everyone. Seems like a no brainer. Also bullying /ck/ and /po/ seems mean, they never did anything to deserve death
As I said, I'd tell the Google management about my powers and offer to work on retrieving information for them for a lot of money. While anonymously taking a look at their databases (I want to see how that stuff works).Imo with such awesome power any amount of money is beneath you, and certainly Google management. You'd end up having a shot to bring back the wild west of the internet except in an age where there are billions of internet users, you can bet your rectums that working as a Google online content policer would be a grievous waste of potential and a certified crime against imagination
Yeah, I could enforce internet freedom. But then again, it's a free ticket for millions of dollars. Money, dear boy (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoneyDearBoy).Which is precisely what I'm getting at - you get X superpower, why chase after money of all things? It's the least compelling motive where extraordinary capabilities are concerned. The question is fundamentally asking what would you do if certain or all material constraints upon your will were removed overnight. Chasing after a material leverage for a constraint which does not affect you precludes the next inevitable question, what will you do when you have your desired sum of cash and that self-imposed constraint is gone?
But your opinion is your opinion. That's what this thread is about, what you would do with X superpower.
After obliterating 4chan and securing a job as a Google online content policier?Yeah, I could enforce internet freedom. But then again, it's a free ticket for millions of dollars. Money, dear boy (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoneyDearBoy).Which is precisely what I'm getting at - you get X superpower, why chase after money of all things? It's the least compelling motive where extraordinary capabilities are concerned. The question is fundamentally asking what would you do if certain or all material constraints upon your will were removed overnight. Chasing after a material leverage for a constraint which does not affect you precludes the next inevitable question, what will you do when you have your desired sum of cash and that self-imposed constraint is gone?
But your opinion is your opinion. That's what this thread is about, what you would do with X superpower.
Go mad with power immediately, if not sooner.
What if you had near-absolute control over websites, all with being completely anonymous? Like, the ability to ban or unban anyone, the ability to edit databases or code, edit posts, see people's IP, etc., all while maintaining complete anonymity?
I would basically act as a second admin to Bay12, except more active.Except I doubt Toady would appreciate some rando appointing themselves moderator.
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Then I'd offer my services to Google or the government, and then continue acting as a good admin for random forums.
Not if I do not announce my presence. It's as if the users just untraceably banned themselves. I mean, I could include a ban reason. Most forums support that feature.I would basically act as a second admin to Bay12, except more active.Except I doubt Toady would appreciate some rando appointing themselves moderator.
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Then I'd offer my services to Google or the government, and then continue acting as a good admin for random forums.
Same with whatever random forums you decide to mess with.
It'd probably end up giving them more work since they'll have to deal with unbanning and sorting out your victims, and trying to find out why and who is doing it.
This sounds increasingly like an untenable power fantasy and not a what ifAnd what? It's not like these powers are possible in real life. But this is getting pretty prolonged for a what if, I agree.
But on other, more ban-happy forums, these bannings would get buried under actual bannings. Especially if those forums are facing a troll attack and the moderators are overloaded. THAT would be helpful.
We watch Superman knowing that there is no laser vision or super strength, it's all about asking what we want to will into action and why. So for example, my desire to destroy all identifiable social media information and meta-information is because I desire an anonymous arena of free ideas and content, constrained not by egos or commercial interest, as my belief believes me to believe this will usher in the golden age of information - which to me, would be a more pleasing vision for how I would see the future unfold. I am guessing you in turn would be an online content policer because you believe dicking over helpless and acceptable targets would be 1. hilarious, and 2. conducive towards a moderated internet, which in turn would be for you a more pleasing internet. This is where the "what if's" become really delicious, because it effectively asks you to define your own character motivations if you yourself was a character in fiction, then ask how the world would respond to you if you were to become unaccountably and undeservedly powerful :]This sounds increasingly like an untenable power fantasy and not a what ifAnd what? It's not like these powers are possible in real life. But this is getting pretty prolonged for a what if, I agree.
Exactly.We watch Superman knowing that there is no laser vision or super strength, it's all about asking what we want to will into action and why. So for example, my desire to destroy all identifiable social media information and meta-information is because I desire an anonymous arena of free ideas and content, constrained not by egos or commercial interest, as my belief believes me to believe this will usher in the golden age of information - which to me, would be a more pleasing vision for how I would see the future unfold. I am guessing you in turn would be an online content policer because you believe dicking over helpless and acceptable targets would be 1. hilarious, and 2. conducive towards a moderated internet, which in turn would be for you a more pleasing internet. This is where the "what if's" become really delicious, because it effectively asks you to define your own character motivations if you yourself was a character in fiction, then ask how the world would respond to you if you were to become unaccountably and undeservedly powerful :]This sounds increasingly like an untenable power fantasy and not a what ifAnd what? It's not like these powers are possible in real life. But this is getting pretty prolonged for a what if, I agree.
So we learn about ourselves and others, 1337 hackermans of hypothetical vision
Hey KittyTac I'm legit one of the last people left on the forum that hasn't brought that up and is willing to defend you. Just fyi. You made a rude mistake and that's fine. I've done so many many times. As long as you learned literally anything from it, I support you.Just forget it.
I'd appoint LW as undisputed high queen of the internet, download a copy of every single game/movie/etc. on the internet, and put the powers away.IT BEGINS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBH4g_ua5es)
Oh, and sites similar to 4chan won't be spared from my rampages. Erased from existence. Incels will also be obliterated.Wouldn't unlisted imageboards be spared from your rampage?
Oh, and sites similar to 4chan won't be spared from my rampages. Erased from existence. Incels will also be obliterated.The users don't stop existing because just because you attacked their website. They'll just go elsewhere to other forums.
If they carry 4chan's personality with them, they're likely to just get banned without my intervention.Oh, and sites similar to 4chan won't be spared from my rampages. Erased from existence. Incels will also be obliterated.The users don't stop existing because just because you attacked their website. They'll just go elsewhere to other forums.
If they carry 4chan's personality with them, they're likely to just get banned without my intervention.Banning is no obstacle to them either tbh
Still, they would be less annoying without their "headquarters". At least people could deal with them more easily.If they carry 4chan's personality with them, they're likely to just get banned without my intervention.Banning is no obstacle to them either tbh
Pouring water on oil
Still, they would be less annoying without their "headquarters". At least people could deal with them more easily.The whole point of any non-hierarchical entity is that it doesn't have a headquarters, with any disruption to 4chan merely resulting in the distribution of its users across the internet like oil over water, spreading them to unlisted sites or communication channels where it's impossible to keep track of all of them. What you'd want to do to kill all of them by the source is just eradicate all anonymity and have it so that all usage of the internet requires identification to be displayed, so that what people post online has repercussions to their life, just as if they posted something on twitter or facebook
Repeat for every annoying, politically-charged community.
Did you read what my occupation would be? A corporate/government informant. That has been taken care of.Still, they would be less annoying without their "headquarters". At least people could deal with them more easily.The whole point of any non-hierarchical entity is that it doesn't have a headquarters, with any disruption to 4chan merely resulting in the distribution of its users across the internet like oil over water, spreading them to unlisted sites or communication channels where it's impossible to keep track of all of them. What you'd want to do to kill all of them by the source is just eradicate all anonymity and have it so that all usage of the internet requires identification to be displayed, so that what people post online has repercussions to their life, just as if they posted something on twitter or facebook
Repeat for every annoying, politically-charged community.
Did you read what my occupation would be? A corporate/government informant. That has been taken care of.A sole informant dealing with billions of people is a task which is beyond me, and probably you - hence why with such a power, the most likely way to have any measure of success would be to alter the environment and let everyone else do the work for you
The internet would be a warzone, I guess, as I would try to sabotage LW, Dunamisdeos, and George while furthering my agenda. I could make a forum game about this.I would immediately change it so that if you don't do 20 push ups or sit ups or squats every 1 hour, your internet bandwidth will slow to a tantalising crawl. This would hopefully have the desired effect of making everyone swoler
I suspect the only thing that would change about mine is that I'd end up sword fighting a Forumite on the rooftop, and no offense guys, but I'm in quite good shape and I'm a pretty big guy.
I think if someone six foot fought someone with dwarfism, that his size may compose some part of his advantageI suspect the only thing that would change about mine is that I'd end up sword fighting a Forumite on the rooftop, and no offense guys, but I'm in quite good shape and I'm a pretty big guy.
And I actually know how to use a sword. Which means that I know that how big you are isn't actually massively important when we're using swords. :v
I think if someone six foot fought someone with dwarfism, that his size may compose some part of his advantageI suspect the only thing that would change about mine is that I'd end up sword fighting a Forumite on the rooftop, and no offense guys, but I'm in quite good shape and I'm a pretty big guy.
And I actually know how to use a sword. Which means that I know that how big you are isn't actually massively important when we're using swords. :v
For years now, Berners-Lee and other internet activists have been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals control their own data and the internet remains free and open. But for Berners-Lee, the time for dreaming is over.My nipples could cut diamonds (http://archive.is/8Wfdx#selection-645.363-645.590)
I think if someone six foot fought someone with dwarfism, that his size may compose some part of his advantageI suspect the only thing that would change about mine is that I'd end up sword fighting a Forumite on the rooftop, and no offense guys, but I'm in quite good shape and I'm a pretty big guy.
And I actually know how to use a sword. Which means that I know that how big you are isn't actually massively important when we're using swords. :v
It's the size of the fight in the dog mate, not the size of the dog in the fight. Though, yeah, size can constitute some nice advantages. It also brings some disadvantages.
I know enough about sword fighting to want a shield, and I wouldn't be parrying because that's how you end up with sword halves.
I didn't mean physically fighting. Okay, while you are swordfighting, I establish an authoritarian internet.I would support this if the eternal sovereign authority was a self-learning chatbot
To be fair, any of the users here could be an advanced chatbot pretending to be a human.I didn't mean physically fighting. Okay, while you are swordfighting, I establish an authoritarian internet.I would support this if the eternal sovereign authority was a self-learning chatbot
To be fair, any of the users here could be an advanced chatbot pretending to be a human.thank you for your shared.input error#56 fellow human
Damned synths...The humans are... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDqHoxVHW_s)
Damned synths...The humans are... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDqHoxVHW_s)
What does he want?????
The robots are... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghFtR64y0XQ)
New hypothetical...There was this one lad who was a carpenter...
You gain the ability to touch a dead person and bring them back to life, provided they died in the past week. The restoration brings them back to good health(for someone of their age). You can't revive the same person twice.
What happens?
You are given a choice between the following options and must pick one.Lol I already picked option B
A: Over the course of the next 1 second, you feel the sum total of all the pain and suffering you would feel over the course of the rest of your life. Afterwards, you live your life feeling only happiness and no suffering.
B: over the course of the next 1 second, you feel the sum total of all the joy and happiness you would feel over the course of the rest of your life. Afterwards, you live your life feeling only suffering and no happiness.
C: as with A, except the 1 second of suffering comes to you at the end of your life.
D: as with B, except the 1 second of happiness comes to you at the end of your life.