Summer did it pretty well.
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I wish Senjogahara-san loved me... Wait a minute...
I wish that no life in the entire universe has and will ever attain civilization.
Granted.
Life is now characterized as any entity that extracts energy from its environment, replicates, and has EXACTLY 3 nipples.
Civilizations are now comprised exclusively of nonliving animates.
Touché! I didn't expect this. What are the nipples made of? Are they lactating? Just for display? Also, are they erogenous?
I wish lootsnake and hollow knight: silksong released tomorrow
Done, but they're a buggy mess.
Would it be worth it?
Yes.
Groceries will be affordable. But Nearly all Restaurants will be out of business.
Abortion Rights would be restored and codified, LGBTQ Rights would be codified, Workers Rights would be strengthened and we'll adopt a newly christened Migrant Rights But getting into certain job fields will be harder
American Politicians will no longer be corrupt But we will enter a World War to make it happen
Your privacy will be stored as an act will pass for companies to no longer mooch data off from you You will have to endure a life of nothing but verification checks
That sounds surprisingly tolerable.
I work for a little mom and pop business that basically operates like an anarcho-syndicalist collective; the boss more or less does his own thing full time and lets us all run things on our own. It's mostly fine but I've had a few times where I've... almost... wished that we had an actual manager to help keep things in line.
Unless I have some sort of guarantee about what sort of twist the paw is doing, I'm not going to take it. Example: If the paw twists big, greedy wishes more than small, selfless wishes then I might be willing to do a small, selfless wish. If the paw is just an asshole who twists everything as much as possible, I'll pass.
It twists them both equally, but up don't know exactly how the twist might be usually. Sometimes it could be something that takes years to take effect. Sometimes minutes. Sometimes you might notice the effect yourself into later.
The one Guillermo and Nandor drafted in what we do in the shadows. Mostly because it's already prepared to be safe, not because I particularly care for the outcome.
I wish for a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce AND mustard. And I don't want any zombie turkeys, I don't want to turn into a turkey myself, and I don't want any other weird surprises, got it?
Granted. The turkey is a little dry.
THE TURKEY'S A LITTLE DRY???
Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of Hell created thee?!
Got it. It disappointing and unsatisfying
Depending on how many fingers are left I would make the following wishes:
- I wish the entire world were governed by egalitarian justice.
- I wish that anyone who would use violence against another living creature would instantly die of a heart attack instead.
- I wish that every human has the resources they need to live the life they want for themselves.
- I wish that all people understood the true nature of the reality in which they live.
- I wish all trans people had been assigned the gender, or lack thereof, they identify with at birth.
- ~~I have no idea what that means.~~ All are equal under our new machine overlords, who were programmed to grant happiness to all and therefore locked us into pods and pumped us full of drugs...
- Everyone who showers or washes their hands dies due to violence against microbes, who count as living beings.
- Nukes for Iran, tanks for Putin...
- People understand how inherently unfair reality is, leading to deep depression
- All people are gender swapped. Now, the people that were cis are transgender
Sounds good to me. I doubt our new machine overlords would let the iranians or russians do anything with their new toys, but either way I am totally okay with this outcome, if for no other reason than I want to see all the bigots suddenly dealing with their periods.
I want to see all the bigots suddenly dealing with their periods.
Between most dying to 2 and the rest being drugged out of their mind due to 1, I don't expect much of a reaction.
All are equal under our new machine overlords
That's not egalitarian because there are overlords. If it's a singular, non sentient machine then it could still be enslaving us and not count as a ruler so it works for egalitarian.
Yes, I was thinking rouge non-sentient AI, which I described. Machine overlords was just figure of speech + futurama reference.
I wish Donald Trump a short productive term and long health.
Granted. Trump succeeds in ending the USA republic and leads to a racist empire lead by the tiger king.
The empire would never financially recover from that.
I never understood Monkeys Paw, ty
It's not an overly complex idea, and it's derived from a short story. It's worth a read, won't take much time and is available online.
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