donaldhobson
donaldhobson t1_j5rlqm0 wrote
Reply to [PM] Prompt me with a fight scene (preferably something with superpowers, but not required) between 2 well known characters (from any series) by f---thezodiac
Fawkes (phoenix from harry potter) vs Elsa (frozen)
donaldhobson t1_j5rgnkj wrote
Reply to comment by Writteninsanity in [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
I wish you were no longer bound by the rule that wishes had to be unique.
donaldhobson t1_j5rfwpc wrote
Reply to [WP] All adults can make a pilgrimage once a year to a genie and attempt to make a wish. However, the genie will only grant the wish if it's never be asked for before in all history. Most people never get their wish. On your 18th birthday you make the trip and are surprised to get your wish. by shadowkyros
A slip of paper telling you the answer totally fails to materialize. Clearly you will enjoy figuring it out more than being told the answer. But that can wait for later. You step out onto the peak of Olympus Mons, ignoring the laws of physics that keep different places different.
"Granted" replies the genie, with a swirl of light. On a deep metaphysical level, reality twists. The laws of ethics become as hard to break as the laws of physics were. The laws of physics become as easy to break as the laws of ethics were.
"Really, that worked" you mumble. "Has no one in the world got the least bit of imagination? You just have to phrase your wish to do what you want, while also squeezing in some random password. Actually how come no one asked for anything that world changing before? Am I the only person with any imagination? "
A slip of paper telling you the answer totally fails to materialize. Clearly you will enjoy figuring it out more than being told the answer. But that can wait for later. You step out onto the peak of Olympus Mons, ignoring the laws of physics that keep different places different. With a whim, ski's appear around your feet. Untroubled by temperature or atmospheric composition, you begin to ski.
donaldhobson t1_iykp874 wrote
Technologically is it possible. Sure. Most of the failure modes are non-fundamental. Everything from the company going bust. The containers of liquid nitrogen springing leaks, or the world being destroyed. If we get a utopian singularity, then any vitrified people will be quickly reanimated. (95%)
donaldhobson t1_iwo2kr4 wrote
Reply to comment by DiligentFox in [WP] You are a member of an ancient secret organization that collects and protects every type of book - fiction, real, scientific, spiritual, safe, old, new, and forbidden. However, there is a book so dangerous that your superiors are willing to erase it from history, and you are curious why. by N00B00N_IOO
I sneak along the corridor. No one is around. I slip into the room and open that mystery forbidden book.
I see a date, 1962. A scribbled authors name, Feynman perhaps. Technical drawings and calculations cover the paper. An object, perhaps the size of a large suitcase. Some common electronic components. A few mechanical parts. And in the middle, a pair of spheres labeled "Thorium". And an estimated blast of several mega-tonnes.
You realize what this is. A nuke. And one of such elegant simple design that any reasonably skilled and equipped person could make it. Gone is the need for centrifuges, to mine many tonnes of uranium to get enough U 235. Gone are the high precision timing sequences, even the need for chemical explosives. Half the parts here are from a repurposed alarm clock.
Slowly you close the book and walk away, understanding why some knowledge should be hidden.
donaldhobson t1_j5rpnjz wrote
Reply to [WP] "Infinite wishes?" The genie laugh out loud one more time "what, you're not smart enough to use 3 wishes?" wiping its tears from laugh you get more and more frustrated every time, as you try to find a loophole it just laugh out loud even more while mocking and gaslighting you just like this. by veritasmahwa
You say nothing. You had considered other possibilities. You had considered " I wish for everything I would wish for if I had unlimited wishes time and wisdom". You had considered "I wish for the best possible thing to happen". But overall, you decided that wishing for unlimited wishes was the safest, most controlled way to bootstrap yourself to the sort of world you want. You hold your carefully chosen list of wishes and wait, ignoring the genie. Then, flipping to page 83, you read off the next wish.
"I wish that you don't attempt to manipulate me, impart false beliefs into my mind or psychologically attack me"