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Author Topic: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?  (Read 9907 times)

GamerKnight

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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2011, 08:17:52 pm »

And that challenge will naturally be to create life.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2011, 08:19:28 pm »

You would get bored of being 'all powerful' fairly quickly. Take the hard road, for the sake of your own sanity.

I suspect the lives of the mighty (rich, influential, lucky, or in this case superhuman) are no less legitimate or engrossing than the lives of the meager.

Oh, I assure you that the lives of the mighty are fun times indeed. I've written about them. But there's a difference between 'mighty' and 'can do anything'. Once you have the latter kind of power, you no longer want anything. Except a challenge.
'How can you get bored if you can create anything? Per definition, anything should include "something to keep you challenged forever", no?
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2011, 08:21:04 pm »

A rubiks cube the size of a galaxy?
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2011, 08:21:48 pm »

'How can you get bored if you can create anything? Per definition, anything should include "something to keep you challenged forever", no?

And that's why we're here.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2011, 08:23:05 pm »

I would probably get bored rather quickly, as with anything, but really one thing that i really really want to be able to do is fly, nothing else really, except maybe for an infinite chocolate spring or something
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2011, 08:38:30 pm »

I would travel back to the year 1937, and ensure that the Hindenburg was filled with helium rather than hydrogen, preventing the fatal accident and allowing large zeppelins to remain popular into the modern day, because zeppelins are awesome.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2011, 08:42:25 pm »

Create someone who has exactly equal power as me to be my opponent.  Weight it in such a way that it's extremely unlikely we'll ever be able to actually destroy each other.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2011, 08:45:02 pm »

I would travel back to the year 1937, and ensure that the Hindenburg was filled with helium rather than hydrogen, preventing the fatal accident and allowing large zeppelins to remain popular into the modern day, because zeppelins are awesome.

There were actually much worse airship accidents back then, and most of the people on the Hindenburg actually survived.

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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2011, 08:46:17 pm »

I'd get myself a ridiculously large Katana, limit my power to relatively small but destructive things (Fireballs, shooting lightning. Standard magic), and go on a series of awesome fantasy quests. Also sci-fi quests. Also anything else that looks like it could be fun and exciting.

Because after seeing my first Anime, I've always wanted to be a stereotype.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2011, 08:52:42 pm »

What about turning the moon into a clock-work watch? You would have to design it yourself and will it into existence and it would tell the time!

On a related note, does anyone know of a clock-work simulation game?
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2011, 08:57:47 pm »

On the note of swords, a blade so thin it slices atoms (lol) ordinary in size, unbreakable and always safely tucked away in my personal hammerspace (swordspace?) for when i need it to split the clouds in one awesome high powered swing
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #26 on: February 11, 2011, 09:01:06 pm »

Become a superhero/God-Emperor of Mankind and use my power for the good of humanity. Because, honestly, how could I not want that? I know it's cliche in fiction, but if I could actually do it there would be no choice in the matter.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #27 on: February 11, 2011, 09:03:27 pm »

I would make MetalSlimeHunt a girl in a pretty pink dress, and he would enjoy it because that is how I bent reality for my own sick amusment.

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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #28 on: February 11, 2011, 09:04:09 pm »

I'd annihilate the armies of the world and establish a benevolent dictatorship under my rule, enforced by machines programmed with my morals. I'd then create long range personal teleportation devices and give them to everyone, then give everyone an Earth-like planet each and allow them total reality control over their own planets. Earth would then be perfectly preserved as a historical site.
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Re: What would you do if you could bend reality to your will?
« Reply #29 on: February 11, 2011, 09:05:07 pm »

So RL Minecraft?
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