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For those who don't know, a Monkey Paw Wish is when you get your wish granted, but in an unexpected usually negative way.

Example:

  1. I wish human caused global warming would stop.
  2. It does, but because WW3 leads to Nuclear Winter.

The question here though, is what wish would you be willing to take even though it'll get monkey paw'd?

So basically you don't care if the consequences, or would be willing to take the sacrifice for it.

Others can come up with the negative scenarios if they want and the original wisher can decide if it's still worth it

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Don't you have 3 more wishes?

1 - I wish everyone had a monkeys paw

2 - I wish everyone had a genie that granted 3 wishes

3 - I wish everyone who saw a falling star could make one wish come true

4 - I wish the person who broke off the big end of a wish bone could grant one wish they desired

5 - I wish every cat and dog had a safe loving household to live in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

I wish Senjogahara-san loved me... Wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I wish that no life in the entire universe has and will ever attain civilization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Touché! I didn't expect this. What are the nipples made of? Are they lactating? Just for display? Also, are they erogenous?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Fine. The nipples are erogenous and also made of lead. That should help.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I wish lootsnake and hollow knight: silksong released tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Done, but they're a buggy mess.

Would it be worth it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

That sounds surprisingly tolerable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

You bring it to work at the museum and your coworker eats it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Granted. The turkey is a little dry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

THE TURKEY'S A LITTLE DRY???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of Hell created thee?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Got it. It disappointing and unsatisfying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depending on how many fingers are left I would make the following wishes:

  1. I wish the entire world were governed by egalitarian justice.
  2. I wish that anyone who would use violence against another living creature would instantly die of a heart attack instead.
  3. I wish that every human has the resources they need to live the life they want for themselves.
  4. I wish that all people understood the true nature of the reality in which they live.
  5. I wish all trans people had been assigned the gender, or lack thereof, they identify with at birth.
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)
  1. ~~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...
  2. Everyone who showers or washes their hands dies due to violence against microbes, who count as living beings.
  3. Nukes for Iran, tanks for Putin...
  4. People understand how inherently unfair reality is, leading to deep depression
  5. All people are gender swapped. Now, the people that were cis are transgender
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yes, I was thinking rouge non-sentient AI, which I described. Machine overlords was just figure of speech + futurama reference.

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

I wish Donald Trump a short productive term and long health.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Granted. Trump succeeds in ending the USA republic and leads to a racist empire lead by the tiger king.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The empire would never financially recover from that.

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