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[Loud Whispers]

I dunno. I'd miss having hands.

Adapt, evolve, collect essence

[Egan_BW]

Coma cure sounds great, with the slight holdup that you'll be uh, in a coma. During a plague that's killing everyone. Not dying of plague isn't worth much if everyone else is either dying or ALSO in a coma, and you die of dehydration in your sleep or something. So it can be a good choice, but if everyone picks it, goodbye humanity.

Death cure will... probably incapacitate you too, requiring people with other cures to take care of you. And it'll hurt a lot and probably still kill you anyway.

Brain cure has a decent chance of killing you outright or else rendering you unable to care for people on the coma cure. Not a good choice.

Furry cure will... almost certainly save you, relative to the others, excepting coma. And the plus side is that it'll leave you awake and mobile and mentally stable, so you can make sure the people on coma don't just fucking die. And hey, might get superpowers!

Unknown cure isn't worth it when we already have two good options here. Depending on what it does, it could either be a boon for the remaining furry civilization, or just another set of bodies to care for. Hey, who knows! Even if I don't pick it, someone else will, so I don't have to wonder forever.


So. Ideally, pick furry to be a caretaker for the majority of people who took coma.

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...Well, they'll be useful to operate non-paw-compatible machinery for us until a few months later they explode from the cold.

[Grim Portent]

I assume Coma Cure putting you into stasis means you don't need to eat or drink, you're just fully vulnerable for the time it takes to end the coma. Which is a problem if you live anywhere you can't expect a building to stand for years without maintenance. Got a safe place to hunker up and it's the best option, but if you have plague immune dependants (pets) then it's not that good. No safe place to hunker and exposure or wild animals might kill you anyway.

[FallacyofUrist]

Except the Coma Cure doesn't actually remove your need to eat or drink. It'll slow down your metabolism(think hibernation bear) but you'll still need help.

[Grim Portent]

In that case the coma cure is out because if basically everyone has this disease and has to take a cure then you can't rely on basic infrastructure working right, let alone having someone able to keep you on an IV drip and bathe you for years. Whoever needs to care for you also needs to take a cure after all, as do the people who fix water pipes, drive delivery vehicles, grow food, etc.

Animal hybrid cure is probably the best in that case, some people will get screwed over but it's probably easier to adjust to 10% of the population dying and the rest having some odd physical traits than the ratios of dead to living the others leave behind even without the side effects they feature. A few people could gamble on the coma cure and hope that enough other people took more immediate cures to support them, but I wouldnt want to run that risk myself.

[FallacyofUrist]

It seems that I've accidentally made furries too OP. Welp.
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Of every novel by H.G. Wells, if you had to choose one to be self inserted into, which would you choose? And of a random Devil Fruit, a backpack full of Tinker bombs from Worm, or a rifle with unlimited ammo, which would you choose to aid you?

[NRDL]

Definitely 20,000 Leagues. Self insert myself into one of the guy's captured by the Nautilus, and try and join the crew. Like, legitimately try, not just play along out of fear and curiosity like the other protagonists.

*googles all the Devil Fruits*

Yeah, regardless of what I actually get it sounds freaking awesome, so I'll take that.

[Reelya]

How they treated Verne is one of the reasons to despise artistic elitism / hipster 'tude. Initially, critics and scientists loved his books, but then they became popular, so the French literary world did a 180^o, and said "well he must be shit then", piling scorn on him until he died, with him only coming back into favor many years after his death.

[NRDL]

Damn, it is Verne. My bad.

[FallacyofUrist]

Okay, let's broaden the horizons a bit.

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?

[NRDL]

I'd probably want to live on a Culture Orbital for a week. See if I can get access to some sort of virtual reality program that makes me live an entire lifetime ( preferably a hedonistic, carefree Culture lifetime ) in a second. If I can't, I'll just spend the week talking to Minds, getting into drug-fueled orgies, etc, etc.

[Loud Whispers]

Okay, let's broaden the horizons a bit.

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?

I feel like that would ruin me, like the Narnia effect

You're gone for a few hours but it's a whole lifetime. Permanently changes who you are and then you're back, but the ordinary world is ruined to you and you can't go back. Questioning everything you knew about the world as being so wrong on the most fundamental level. I'd probably ramp it up and make sure I'd die in the fictional world at the end of the week, so coming back to life would make it even more distressing but meaningful. I believe some of us experience such things which radically alter our perspectives of the world, like standing amidst the open ocean's powerful grip under the starry cosmos, seeing how close our flesh and bone is to its final permutation, a life lived in an environment from which home's comforts are nothing but distractions anymore, and the spirit is roused to great wakeful action. But nothing so radical as experiencing a true world, a different reality. Reminds me of a dream I once had in adolescence, wherein I gave everything up and took a ferry over to France and began walking east, following some path I was convinced was laid out for me. I saw so much, met so many, and after a lifetime I at last found a mountain to climb with a restful spot so sit at the top, and my journey was finished. I awoke, and was thoroughly startled to find it was all a dream that had taken place in hours. But imagine how much more rattling it'd be if you spent that lifetime in a certain reality? What an experience that would be. I'd probably pick the setting I went to completely at random

[x2yzh9]

If you guys could rule the world for one month and that's it, what would you do? At the end of the first month, all countries go back to their respective borders, but what you implemented still is in effect, or maybe for an added variable, it is with the knowledge that if you have not made the appropriate changes within that month-countries could hypothetically revert those changes, if you didn't use that month to maximum benefit. Or did we already discuss this earlier in the thread? I thought it would be a productive response to the topic.

[NRDL]

What's our level of control here? Do we only control governmental branches and powers, or do we have dictatorial control over the individual lives of everybody?

[Egan_BW]

Build a really tall statue of myself with a generator inside powering point defense cannons so that nobody can knock it down.