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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

True love is actually a great wish. Money runs out, the earth doesn't have the resources to power an x-wing, super dude can't do anything super or else society will now expect him to be Superman, which is a huge responsibility anyone reasonable would want. But TRUE LOVE, the fucking stuff from Disney movies? I'd take that in a heartbeat, then proceed to do a lewd photoshoot with my partner on the defunct x-wing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If he has a a personality disorder that could be a cause of the inability to form or maintain relationships, wishing for true love might not last either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Super dude can use his super powers to steal the X-Wing and then fly off to another planet and find true love there. True love that can do some freaky alien sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

As someone who once had true love... True love is the wish 100% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one concerned there's a wishing fountain that anyone can use? Even Republicans.

jk..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I wish everyone else but me would be miserable!

Huh, it's what they're wishing for every day anyway nothing would change

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The hydrologist in me always asks: why dig a well at the top of the hill? Surely that is more effort than digging it at the bottom of the hill where the water table is closer to the surface.

But I guess wells like this predate modern hydrology. And outhouses and such could be polluting the water as it flows down gradient. So the water at the top of the hill was likely cleaner and safer to drink...

I'd wish for clean drinking water in every well. ;)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Conjecture: if you assume people also live on the hill, it would be easier to carry pails back down than to carry them up from the bottom of the hill.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Only in a 2D world with the directions being limited to "up" and "down". Carrying it laterally around the circumference of the hill would be equally probable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well the girlfriend still gets a wish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I love this comic, seen it first I think a decade ago.

Of course it’s already funny on the surface, but it also makes you stop and think about what you would choose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

If you wish for anything other than the end of deadly conflicts between humans or something similar then you need to think about your priorities real hard...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is it really true love, if a wish compelled it?

Millennium Falcon. Just saying.

Actually, I think I’d rather a Ton Falk, complete with a collection of fighters/bombers to go with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yep, that's the thing. The girl was walking around and got commandeered into loving this guy. So much for the illusion of free will.

I would also have asked for a starship: reverse engineer that and you've single handedly saved the human race from the climate disaster.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

But what if it simply found his true love on this world and teleported her to him?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah, it's magic, it can just make it so that the girl happened to be in the right place. Maybe it told the girl that she would find true love there and she decided to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She wished for true love too, Wich is why he is there at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

But if that is true, then he had no free will. He was there because of her wish!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We're getting into the nature of free will, whether or not it exists at all. One of the hardest questions we've never really been able to answer, and quite possibly never will.

What if the well is merely looking into the infinite possibilities and determining who the true love is based on what will happen anyway? What if she also made a wish at another well at the same time, also for true love? What if she didn't exist at all, prior to his wish, and was created as his true love?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's compulsion all the way down..