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[Dunamisdeos]

1: Post more hypotheticals

2: use briefcase to move to UK, buy nice house w/ underground bunker. Use camera to check on progress of volcano. Grow crazy-man beard, survive volcanocalypse.

Maybe bring the robot double and the gravity thing so I can pretend to be Obi-Wan Kenobi in the following wastelands.

[FallacyofUrist]

New hypothetical. This thread will not die.

You suddenly realize you only have 30 days left to live before you will die of an unstoppable and thankfully painless heart attack. You also get a can of spray you can use to convince any one person that this is true by spraying them in the face. What do?

[Egan_BW]

Spray self in face with can. Now I can simply believe that the knowledge of my upcoming death is an illusion caused by the can, and live the next 30 days as normal.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Spray my most loyal confidants, use their certainty to convince them to hold a surgeon at gunpoint so they'll give me a heart transplant. Spray said surgeon as well so they're more likely to go along with it.

[FallacyofUrist]

You also get a can of spray you can use to convince any one person that this is true by spraying them in the face. What do?

Insufficient spray, MetalSlimeHunt.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not playing your game, capitalist. I shall seize the memes of hypothesis!

[Egan_BW]

Just mix some filler in there.

[TheBiggerFish]

Okay, so FoU's hypothetical:

Take the time machine (camera) and...Something else, I suppose?

Can I take two of those cameras?  Because I want to reverse-engineer them and nothing else really appeals.

As for blueprints: Gravity device, cancer cure.

Use camera to prove I'm for real in controlled trial.

Patent gravity device, license to SpaceX and NASA and similar at a reasonable price.

Patent cure for cancer, release it on an open license (possibly after selling limited doses to rich people for money), manufacture and sell some if no-one else will.  Terminal patients, if nothing else, will thank me.  If we can determine which 10% of people will die, everyone will, and I mean it does depend on the definition of 'die'.

Meanwhile, work my way into everyone's pockets using proceeds from these efforts.  Take control of the world through lobbying or something.  Form world government under best principles from multiple nations.  Take over the world!!! but make sure no-one else can.

[FallacyofUrist]

this thread shall not die.

A mysterious stranger sends you an email offering to give you a fictional sword of your choice. He warns that asking for a sword that oversteps his means means you will suffer a punishment of some kind.

Do you ask for a sword? If so, what?

[Egan_BW]

Master Sword! Why? Because Master Sword!

[Loud Whispers]

New hypothetical: you learn that a magnitude 11 earthquake will strike California one year from now. As a side note, you no longer need sleep. What do?

Be the most productive individual in the world, haunted by a life without dreams. Also California gets destroyed by a mag 11 earthquake because I'd probably forget to warn the Californians, or else not know how to convince them to leave their homes without starting an apocalyptic cult. And can you imagine founding an apocalyptic cult and then getting proven right?

You suddenly realize you only have 30 days left to live before you will die of an unstoppable and thankfully painless heart attack. You also get a can of spray you can use to convince any one person that this is true by spraying them in the face. What do?

I think it would be entertaining to be all mysterious and shit, telling everyone cryptic nonsense about having to go away on the date you expect to die. Settle all your accounts in order before you "depart for another journey" and spread mystical bullshit as far and wide as you can in those 30 days. Also I'd definitely take up skydiving on day 30

this thread shall not die.
A mysterious stranger sends you an email offering to give you a fictional sword of your choice. He warns that asking for a sword that oversteps his means means you will suffer a punishment of some kind.
Do you ask for a sword? If so, what?

I wouldn't ask for a sword, because it's a trick question. If he was offering a non-fictional sword of choice perhaps, but he's instead offering to provide a sword that does not exist with the expectation of punishment if he can't deliver, and he can't deliver because the sword doesn't exist - thus this is clearly the setup to an obscure /tg/ porno or a magical realm situation, in which the only way to win is to not play

[FallacyofUrist]

I will singlehandedly keep this thread going if I bloody well have to.

All guns in the world disappear for thirty days, after which they reappear colored red. What happens?

If you got a sword from the mysterious stranger, you are given the opportunity to travel to one fictional world of your choice, keeping the sword. He says if you "beat" it, he will return you home. Do you accept the offer?

[TheBiggerFish]

What happens to gun parts?

What happens to guns that are made in the middle of that 30 days?

[FallacyofUrist]

Gun parts stay, guns that are made in the middle also vanish and reappear at the same time.

[Strife26]

Gun parts stay, guns that are made in the middle also vanish and reappear at the same time.

How gunlike do the guns have to be to vanish? Does an electronic fired weapon only vanish once a battery is installed? What happens to very early firearms that might just be a tube with a touch hole? If I fill an AR upper receiver with lead or otherwise demilitarize it, does it still vanish whatever lower I connect it to?

Do nongun parts attached to guns vanish too? Things like scopes, becoming progressively gun-like as we consider flashlights, slings, and people holding guns.