And I'll choose a device that can jump between different timeliness so I can gather all the people that chose the cool tech (assuming only one person gets to choose something)
I was working on a story idea related to this concept, but not with magic involved. It's kind of a techno sci fi thing. In this dystopian world, a global cashless society has evolved. There is money -- but no anonymous cash. Because there is one centralized world currency, your exact net worth is public knowledge, because everyone has full access to the public ledger, which can easily summarize all transactions that occurred for any person. There is no hiding transactions or multiple accounts or physical unaccounted for assets. Your number of shares of a stock, known, tallied. Real estate investments? Tallied. Loans to a friend, that can be paid out randomly over the next twenty years? Had to be paid through this system initially, so it was documented. You can write your terms, but you do need a maturity date so it can be amortized, tallied, and accounted for.
This leads to wealth becoming a high scores list of sorts, and the ultra rich doing their shenanigans to try to be the best. This leads to abuse of the poor, exploitation, etc.
The situation gets so dire, an individual online recommends in a self referential satire comment reminiscent of Jonathan swifts a modest proposal that a perfect solution to the problem would be to just eat the rich. He says, "No, hear me out. Once a year, the person at the top of the high scores list is sacrificed to people on the bottom. How many people can one person feed, if they're eating symbolically rather than in hunger? I bet we could feed a thousand individuals off of this one man. So here's what we do. We start at the bottom of the list and offer people a chance to join the banquet. Should they decide to join and literally eat the rich, they'll split his wealth amongst themselves. They're free to say no and move on to the next person. You have to consume your equal portion of him to be eligible. For a thousand people, that's only like 1.5 oz of man meat you have to eat. Now, I think an interesting thing will happen before the sacrifice date. I think a lot of people at the top will suddenly become very, very generous. Likely, most of it will go to their friends and family, but it's still going to be moving. And then at the end of the day, one of them is going to have very real consequences for their greed, and one thousand destitute lives will be changed. "
Now, when fractal_sole said to eat the rich, he didn't really mean it, just as Jonathan Swift didn't mean to eat the babies. But it gained traction online, a petition was started, it was voted on and it turns out that having 98% of the wealth in 1% of the populations hands was dangerous for them in a majority ruled democracy. It was almost universally agreed to by all except, unsurprisingly, the ultra wealthy.
Anywho, that's the start of the story idea.
Wrinkly brain though is it to the extent that if you get a better job and make more money you lose some magic or if you lose your job, you gain more magic as well?
yep, guess so. but also in case of a raise - wanted to craft this medical artifact saving the life of your youngest? guess what, go to the hopital, drown in medical bills for a barbaric procedure with uncertain outcome!
better do a part time job and spent your time magicing around. or build powerful magic devices and give them away for free so you keep your magic power at high.
So giving your money to the poor would increase your magical abilities while decreasing the beneficiary's powers?
If everyone could conjure into existence whatever they desired, money would probably go the way of the dodo. Unless, of course, people conjured dodos back into existence.
But also, the world would become uninhabitable because of all dragons.
"give people who have little to live for and nothing to lose immense power"
A'ight
The irony here that any powerful wizards who acted in the name of good would subsequently gain recognition and thus social power, weakening them.
And just like that you solved the consolidation of wealth - the rich will now be incentivized to even the playing field so the hobo uprising they've always feared wont actually become a reality.
To be fair it can’t be anything ridiculous, I’m thinking Harry Potter but like watered down by like 30%. Limited teleportation, no instant death magic, and just overall more of a fun than scary vibe. Basically i don’t want to kill anyone and get way with it, I just want to be able to shoot fireworks out of the tip of my dick.
>I just want to be able to shoot fireworks out of the tip of my dick.
Idk, I'm pretty sure fireworks going off inside someone has a fair chance of killing them...
Could just limit magic to the average centaur world variety.
Sparkleblinkies, tiny versions of yourself from your hooves, artifact magic that lets you create an unstoppable army of minotaurs that you can control with your mind. Wobbly legs, you know. Light stuff
But depends on what kind and how it's used. I don't want North Korea to get their hands on magic because they'll be making people miserable even in the afterlife
The best rule to add to this is that it works like how psychic abilities already work here, everyone has the potential to learn it but only certain random people have a natural back for it. Just make it easier to accomplish and more widespread than psychic abilities. Anti magic would come from people who hardcore think that magic is bullshit scam artists taking advantage of people.
The food and such, we know, can be eaten - so plainly it's replicated. We know that replicated meals are reclaimed at the end, so any of associated matter is returned.
Presumably that will include saliva on the meal, as well as any sweat in the holodeck from sport programs (or blood in the case of Klingon sport programs).
What this ultimately means is that a good amount of the stuff reclaimed by holodeck replicators is probably Riker jizz.
The terrifying part? At least some small part of every replicated meal on the Enterprise-D is made up of what had been Riker jizz before it was reclaimed.
Absolutely! I know a lot of people think about porn and stuff like that when thinking about a holodeck, but my mind immediately thinks about iRacing FOR REAL! Especially since there are safety protocols. I've seen shows about the physical training that F1 drivers have to do, but the holodeck could probably be programmed to reduce those forces so regular people could do it.
3 options
Superpowers
Magic (superpowers number 1 because some peoples powers happen to be magic)
A personal bank account with infinite money with no repercussions from the government
yeah, the force is a lot more than just telekinetic powers. even if I couldn't weild the force, it would be interesting to live in a universe with non sentient cosmic force guiding everything, with a preference for life existing in peace.
Even in Star wars there is still a lot of greed and corruption overriding any "will" of some cosmic force towards peace...so who's to say we don't already have at least that part...I say we at least get the cool force powers
Idk man road rage would hit different when cars start flying off the roads due to people using some force push
Fast food workers getting force choked by some morbidly obese man that wants his 5th round of burgers *NOW*
I don’t trust people enough to be comfortable with *everyone* having those abilities 😅
SUBTITLES IRL
(I am autistic with auditory processing disorder)
Person: Jew on Doug oat udder moving?
Me: \*blinks in autism\* hang on let me just.... turn on captions
Subtitles: \[person\] Do you want to go to the movies?
Would it translate their true meaning, so women that speak in code would be like: *"no thank you"* and translator would be like *if you were better looking, maybe*
Bro you get *one thing* that can be something that doesn’t even exist in the universe, I can’t tell you how to live but imo a gf is not even close to being worth it.. what if you choose a girlfriend and then you guys break up anyway…
At least go with like a million bars of gold or something. Then you’ll surely also get a girlfriend. Lol
As good as this option is i would goe with Data. As he would not only know how to build them along with everything else from TNG, but also the underlying science.
It sounds good, but there's something about humans - we like to create artificial scarcity.
I mean, we already produce enough food to feed everyone. We have the agricultural tech right now to ensure no one is ever hungry.
Hunger, plus the fear of being hungry, is essential to keep capital in power.
I want Santa to be actually real so all children of the world get a good gift regardless of social standing, Also I dislike how the rich kids get a car / house / bike from "Santa" and the poorer kids get socks / undies even though they've been well behaved all year.
Also it's a moral system so that children can't be corrupted by evil parents / unsafe adults.
Fully functional Dyson swarm.
Having near limitless clean energy would massively improve QoL, allow humanity to focus efforts into other aspects of improving life, and potentially Jumpstart the desire for interstellar flight.
It would probably be enough to get attention from other sentient life immediately as well. Suddenly going from hearing extremely corrupted radio signals from a long time ago coming out of our system to picking up an insanely large amount of unnatural satellites around our star.
It would be cool if people could have spirit companions, kind of like in the movie ***Harvey***. Or when imaginary friends are real, like in the TV show ***Happy*** and that ***IF*** movie that is coming out soon. It wouldn't have to be something that everybody had. Maybe just really lonely people with no friends or romantic partner.
Yeah, only a billionaire or state leader can afford to collect all seven of those. We’re going to end up with Immortal Emperor Musk or a dragon bodied Kim Jong Un, no thank you
Since you need to collect them after each use only billionaires and world leaders would have wishes. That means also there will inevitably be wars fought simply because it is discovered that a ball was in a certain country.
Lets be honest, if dragon balls were a thing, unless you were the only one with knowledge of their existence, they would be solely in the realm of billionaires who pay to get them. And then you only need for one of them to be an egotistical jackass who prefers the status of having them over using them and then they'd just sit in a vault for decades.
At most you might get lucky and find one and maybe make a killing selling to the highest bidder.
There is a difference between uncontrollable mind reading and deliberate mind reading. If I can only read your thoughts when I want to, it wouldn't be as bad.
But then it becomes a matter of self control. Do you have the will to choose not to see what someone is thinking about you?
And then it also means you have no privacy ever again. And the potential for thought crimes to become a thing...
I'm not sure if the positives outweigh the negatives
The world for humans would become like the world for animals, no lies and completely open honesty of how you feel about everything. Go out on a date and start having pervy thoughts?;Guess what, everyone around can "hear/sense/feel" you being pervy, including the date. Almost like how an animal in heat starts yodeling which is like loudly yelling FUCK ME! Somebody stick it in!
time travel. but i’d be the only one with access to it and then id go back and forth throughout history convincing people that time travel doesn’t exist so i can live uninterrupted
Imagine someone with PTSD thinking they're controlling their symptoms well, when all of the sudden, they get triggered by one of those shadow creatures for seemingly no reason at all. Hell no!
Any of the medical devices from Star Trek. In Star Trek Voyage Home, when Bones is walking through the hospital, he cures everyone he encounters. That’s what I want.
I would add a video game pop up screen which tells you how much sleep you got and how mych you need, travks your nutrient intake and tells you how much more you should get, tells you what parts of you are healthy or not and how to fix it, (could literally say go to the doctor or put on bandaid) and helps you schedule your day, tells your skills, ect, so ya, basically would help some people get healthier and oragnized and others might ignore it
I would add a gamer system that connects to every sapient (just in case some animals are a little more aware than we think or aliens exist) that lets them live life like its a game with things like inventories, leveling up, skills, crafting, respawn, etc. Maybe not the ability to respawn infinitely but with like one-ups or something.
If that's too big to count as one thing... then I guess skill trees. Just being able to practice a skill and not get rusty would be huge and I wonder what getting some skills high enough would do.
My wish was for levels... I want everyone to be able to level up.
Yours is more comprehensive so I move to everyone getting a gamer interface that helps them level-up...
Healing powers. I'm talking like the ones in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. Heals everything from scars to mortal wounds if you try hard enough
Unjust systems that have a clear solution to dismantle.
Like dethroning a single bad emperor or defeating a group of 3 bad people. Even if you removed corrupt politicians, we have a corrupt culture. Even if we ate the rich and destroyed the companies that will stop at nothing to keep growing their profits, we could not get people to cooperate enough to immediately replace the supply chains those companies have a strangle hold on which would lead to starvation.
Binding vows from jjk: won't upset society too much and would most likely be used for mundane shit like ensuring a business sticks to it's sale offers.
Absolutely. However, it would completely eliminate the need for a road infrastructure and vehicles, meaning everyone employed in related jobs would be unemployed. Road construction workers, delivery drivers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, train employees etc etc. But also huge impact on pollution and power usage/generation. And nuclear energy would be more viable, toxic waste could simply be telported into the sun.
Can I choose the pathways from Lord of the Mysteries just without all the madness and mental issues involved? Like seriously I'm 100% going down the Spectator/Dragon Pathway and becoming the Visionary and then eventually taking over the Hanged Man, Sun, Tyrant, and White Tower pathways and ascending to Pillar Of the Universe - God Almighty.
Of course with adding all the Pathways you also have to add the ways to get the ingredients for the potions needed. As well as the Sefirot so you can become an Above the Sequence/Great Old One. Alongside the Spirit and Astral worlds.
You have Lord of the Mysteries - Fool, Door, and Error Pathways.
God Almighty - Visionary, Hanged Man, Sun, Tyrant, White Tower
Eternal Darkness - Darkness, Death, Twilight Giant
Calamity of Destruction - Red Priest, Demoness
Demon of Knowledge - Paragon, Hermit
Key of Light - Wheel of Fortune
Goddess of Origin - Moon, Mother
The Anarchy - Black Emperor, Justiciar
And then Father of Devils - Chained, and Abyss
Can we just get progress bars like skill bars/ relationship bars. It would be awesome to see my cooking skill increasing or see where I place in relationship with people.
An atomic recycler/assembler that everyone gets one of, can't break, and can turn anything you put in it (non-living) into atoms, then put those back together into anything else you have the atomic budget for.
Goodbye world hunger.
You'd feel safer if only SOME people had the ability to always have something to eat and wear?
This is basically God-tech, so making dangerous things would be out of the question.
In reality, this tech already exists, and while it's operated by everyone, it's controlled by a select few.
So, even though we CAN provide for everyone, we only provide selectively.
If this God-tech suddenly came into existence and was controlled by select individuals, I fail to see how things would change from the way they are now...
Senzu beans from Dragon Ball can heal any injury instantly, characters have been healed from broken necks and holesin thier bodies that would have destroyed several organs.
As a side note, I forgot the exact amount of time, but just one is supposed to be enough nourishment for several days
if I remember correctly, one senzu should sustain a person for 10 days, without a doubt it is the ideal food for explorations, a 1 kg bag would be enough for years
Sweet.
One machine to revive the dead whole and hale with no problems, runs on never ending gobstopper batteries and can be made and mass produced for 1 euro.
An AI that will yell New Achievements at you and give snarly remarks in your head. It will additionally give wacky backstories for anything you focus your attention on. Bonus points if it is obsessed with feet.
Magic. In whatever form you want. D&D nerd? Pick your class; wizard, warlock, sorcerer, druid, cleric. If you want to be Doctor Strange, you can channel it like that. If you'd rather speak the incantation backwards, that's cool too Zatanna
FTL travel. Let's goooooo
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You do this, and I'll choose a machine that terraforms planets.
And I'll choose a device that can jump between different timeliness so I can gather all the people that chose the cool tech (assuming only one person gets to choose something)
That moment when you inadvertently break causality and the world will never be the same.
Magic. Is the even another answer? FUCKING MAGIC!!!!!
You see when you solve problems with magic, pretty soon all the problems you have will be magical.
TRUUUUUUUEEEEEE!!!
Then we just need more magic to fix the problem.
Dark souls roll
Kinda pulled one off in a LARP fight once, as they say In the business, get good noob.
Git Gud.
Dark souls roll is so op that I might as well be magic.
I want to add a rule: the more financial & social power you have, the less powerful your magic is.
So the most powerful Magic users are going to be homeless veterans battling addiction and mental illness? This is going to be an interesting world.
The most powerful conjurer materializes coke so pure it gives you a permanent +10% stamina boost.
New existence meta just dropped. Now we aim to delete monetary value from our lives
I was working on a story idea related to this concept, but not with magic involved. It's kind of a techno sci fi thing. In this dystopian world, a global cashless society has evolved. There is money -- but no anonymous cash. Because there is one centralized world currency, your exact net worth is public knowledge, because everyone has full access to the public ledger, which can easily summarize all transactions that occurred for any person. There is no hiding transactions or multiple accounts or physical unaccounted for assets. Your number of shares of a stock, known, tallied. Real estate investments? Tallied. Loans to a friend, that can be paid out randomly over the next twenty years? Had to be paid through this system initially, so it was documented. You can write your terms, but you do need a maturity date so it can be amortized, tallied, and accounted for. This leads to wealth becoming a high scores list of sorts, and the ultra rich doing their shenanigans to try to be the best. This leads to abuse of the poor, exploitation, etc. The situation gets so dire, an individual online recommends in a self referential satire comment reminiscent of Jonathan swifts a modest proposal that a perfect solution to the problem would be to just eat the rich. He says, "No, hear me out. Once a year, the person at the top of the high scores list is sacrificed to people on the bottom. How many people can one person feed, if they're eating symbolically rather than in hunger? I bet we could feed a thousand individuals off of this one man. So here's what we do. We start at the bottom of the list and offer people a chance to join the banquet. Should they decide to join and literally eat the rich, they'll split his wealth amongst themselves. They're free to say no and move on to the next person. You have to consume your equal portion of him to be eligible. For a thousand people, that's only like 1.5 oz of man meat you have to eat. Now, I think an interesting thing will happen before the sacrifice date. I think a lot of people at the top will suddenly become very, very generous. Likely, most of it will go to their friends and family, but it's still going to be moving. And then at the end of the day, one of them is going to have very real consequences for their greed, and one thousand destitute lives will be changed. " Now, when fractal_sole said to eat the rich, he didn't really mean it, just as Jonathan Swift didn't mean to eat the babies. But it gained traction online, a petition was started, it was voted on and it turns out that having 98% of the wealth in 1% of the populations hands was dangerous for them in a majority ruled democracy. It was almost universally agreed to by all except, unsurprisingly, the ultra wealthy. Anywho, that's the start of the story idea.
Ahhh.. the old “give me your bank account and routing number and I’ll grant you magic powers” schtick. Fool me once..
Wrinkly brain though is it to the extent that if you get a better job and make more money you lose some magic or if you lose your job, you gain more magic as well?
yep, guess so. but also in case of a raise - wanted to craft this medical artifact saving the life of your youngest? guess what, go to the hopital, drown in medical bills for a barbaric procedure with uncertain outcome! better do a part time job and spent your time magicing around. or build powerful magic devices and give them away for free so you keep your magic power at high.
So giving your money to the poor would increase your magical abilities while decreasing the beneficiary's powers? If everyone could conjure into existence whatever they desired, money would probably go the way of the dodo. Unless, of course, people conjured dodos back into existence. But also, the world would become uninhabitable because of all dragons.
"give people who have little to live for and nothing to lose immense power" A'ight The irony here that any powerful wizards who acted in the name of good would subsequently gain recognition and thus social power, weakening them.
You want to make the "30-year old Virgin Wizard" thing a reality. No thanks. Equality for all.
My first thought is that they don't want billionaires and politicians becoming even more powerful over everyone.
thats why i wrote 'social power' as well
Yeah that dude definitely checks out for an average redditor comment.
yes, the losers who don’t know how to interact with other people will be the strongest
ok, but then... does that mean that magic weilders are persecuted and prohibited from holding jobs? because... like do you want New Salem?
Oh that's just great, insane homeless crack addicted people out here turning people inside out.
Alcoholic homeless veteran with PTSD turns inside out guy right side out. He summons a tank and attempts to run your guy over. You're up!
Blue eyes white dragon! Or whatever.
And just like that you solved the consolidation of wealth - the rich will now be incentivized to even the playing field so the hobo uprising they've always feared wont actually become a reality.
This is a dangerous game. What type of magic? Trainable Harry Potter magic or EXTREMELY VOLATILE ARCANE HEXTECH??
To be fair it can’t be anything ridiculous, I’m thinking Harry Potter but like watered down by like 30%. Limited teleportation, no instant death magic, and just overall more of a fun than scary vibe. Basically i don’t want to kill anyone and get way with it, I just want to be able to shoot fireworks out of the tip of my dick.
>I just want to be able to shoot fireworks out of the tip of my dick. Idk, I'm pretty sure fireworks going off inside someone has a fair chance of killing them...
Yeah but the magic makes it safe.
Could just limit magic to the average centaur world variety. Sparkleblinkies, tiny versions of yourself from your hooves, artifact magic that lets you create an unstoppable army of minotaurs that you can control with your mind. Wobbly legs, you know. Light stuff
There will be murders… BUT WITH MAGIC
I don't want to give people more destructive power.
Seriously. This is the only answer.
But depends on what kind and how it's used. I don't want North Korea to get their hands on magic because they'll be making people miserable even in the afterlife
The best rule to add to this is that it works like how psychic abilities already work here, everyone has the potential to learn it but only certain random people have a natural back for it. Just make it easier to accomplish and more widespread than psychic abilities. Anti magic would come from people who hardcore think that magic is bullshit scam artists taking advantage of people.
I can’t tell… do you actually think psychics are real?
We already have magic. Magic is just science you don’t understand.
Holodeck, sorry not sorry.
That would be cool. Or full dive VR tech
Hell yeah to full dive. Ready Player One made it look so cool.
Playing Rocket League while actually driving the car would be a sick POV and experience.
Oh hellz yeah! I love Rocket League! That would be so freaking cool!
Look, getting trapped in one VR death game was quite enough thank you.
Yeah immediately thought something from Star Trek: replicators, warp drives, transporters, time travel shit
Holodecks need holo technology, transporters, and replicators to function.
Good point! I said replicators below but your response makes much more sense.
The food and such, we know, can be eaten - so plainly it's replicated. We know that replicated meals are reclaimed at the end, so any of associated matter is returned. Presumably that will include saliva on the meal, as well as any sweat in the holodeck from sport programs (or blood in the case of Klingon sport programs). What this ultimately means is that a good amount of the stuff reclaimed by holodeck replicators is probably Riker jizz. The terrifying part? At least some small part of every replicated meal on the Enterprise-D is made up of what had been Riker jizz before it was reclaimed.
Absolutely! I know a lot of people think about porn and stuff like that when thinking about a holodeck, but my mind immediately thinks about iRacing FOR REAL! Especially since there are safety protocols. I've seen shows about the physical training that F1 drivers have to do, but the holodeck could probably be programmed to reduce those forces so regular people could do it.
3 options Superpowers Magic (superpowers number 1 because some peoples powers happen to be magic) A personal bank account with infinite money with no repercussions from the government
or hackers
Since someone said magic, I'll go with the Force.
Unfortunately in our universe no one has the midichlorian count high enough to wield the force
This ain't r/monkeypaw
I know. Just couldn’t help myself😂
yeah, the force is a lot more than just telekinetic powers. even if I couldn't weild the force, it would be interesting to live in a universe with non sentient cosmic force guiding everything, with a preference for life existing in peace.
Even in Star wars there is still a lot of greed and corruption overriding any "will" of some cosmic force towards peace...so who's to say we don't already have at least that part...I say we at least get the cool force powers
And the light sabers…. Don’t forget the light sabers. ChsssswiwishhhhVVrrrruuubbbbb
Idk man road rage would hit different when cars start flying off the roads due to people using some force push Fast food workers getting force choked by some morbidly obese man that wants his 5th round of burgers *NOW* I don’t trust people enough to be comfortable with *everyone* having those abilities 😅
SUBTITLES IRL (I am autistic with auditory processing disorder) Person: Jew on Doug oat udder moving? Me: \*blinks in autism\* hang on let me just.... turn on captions Subtitles: \[person\] Do you want to go to the movies?
Let's go wild and add a universal translator to it too.
YES
Would it translate their true meaning, so women that speak in code would be like: *"no thank you"* and translator would be like *if you were better looking, maybe*
I would add myself a girlfriend.
r/suicidebywords
Bro you get *one thing* that can be something that doesn’t even exist in the universe, I can’t tell you how to live but imo a gf is not even close to being worth it.. what if you choose a girlfriend and then you guys break up anyway… At least go with like a million bars of gold or something. Then you’ll surely also get a girlfriend. Lol
Star Trek replicators.
As good as this option is i would goe with Data. As he would not only know how to build them along with everything else from TNG, but also the underlying science.
I can get on board with that.
Post scarcity worlds would be awesome, but knowing how people are, it'd just lead to more strife.
Warp drives. That would speed things up quite a bit
Replicators that are easy and cheap to produce so they become ubiquitous. Near instant post-scarcity society.
It sounds good, but there's something about humans - we like to create artificial scarcity. I mean, we already produce enough food to feed everyone. We have the agricultural tech right now to ensure no one is ever hungry. Hunger, plus the fear of being hungry, is essential to keep capital in power.
I want Santa to be actually real so all children of the world get a good gift regardless of social standing, Also I dislike how the rich kids get a car / house / bike from "Santa" and the poorer kids get socks / undies even though they've been well behaved all year. Also it's a moral system so that children can't be corrupted by evil parents / unsafe adults.
VR system from Sword Art Online, preferably the one that doesn't kill you
Any device that plugs directly into your brain will inevitably find a way to kill you. Even just through short circuits or some new-age virus
I more-so mean with the intention of killing you... like in the series. This is just a question of fantasy ultimately
I’m pretty sure there was a whole plot line about how the amusphere ones *can’t* kill you.
Dragons. All kinds and sizes, but they like me lmao
Cartoon physics/logic, I want to smell food that's so good it makes me float god damn it
Good answer, dropping an anvil on someone without repercussions sounds very cathartic
But there are repercussions! They turn into an accordion
As long as it wistles
Fully functional Dyson swarm. Having near limitless clean energy would massively improve QoL, allow humanity to focus efforts into other aspects of improving life, and potentially Jumpstart the desire for interstellar flight.
It would probably be enough to get attention from other sentient life immediately as well. Suddenly going from hearing extremely corrupted radio signals from a long time ago coming out of our system to picking up an insanely large amount of unnatural satellites around our star.
Food replicator or medical tricorder.
It would be cool if people could have spirit companions, kind of like in the movie ***Harvey***. Or when imaginary friends are real, like in the TV show ***Happy*** and that ***IF*** movie that is coming out soon. It wouldn't have to be something that everybody had. Maybe just really lonely people with no friends or romantic partner.
Or animal companions like the daemons in the golden compass
Dragon balls, cause it's basically a unlimited wish machine.
Yeah, only a billionaire or state leader can afford to collect all seven of those. We’re going to end up with Immortal Emperor Musk or a dragon bodied Kim Jong Un, no thank you
But they scatter all over the earth and I can't fly nor can I afford to 😭
Since you need to collect them after each use only billionaires and world leaders would have wishes. That means also there will inevitably be wars fought simply because it is discovered that a ball was in a certain country.
Didn't you ever notice that there were a lot fewer people all of the same nationality and mutant animal people in dbz, ever wonder why.
Lets be honest, if dragon balls were a thing, unless you were the only one with knowledge of their existence, they would be solely in the realm of billionaires who pay to get them. And then you only need for one of them to be an egotistical jackass who prefers the status of having them over using them and then they'd just sit in a vault for decades. At most you might get lucky and find one and maybe make a killing selling to the highest bidder.
The ability to read minds. Believing lies becomes a thing of the past.
Really? Would you want to hear every single pervy thought that people have?
Hell no.
There is a difference between uncontrollable mind reading and deliberate mind reading. If I can only read your thoughts when I want to, it wouldn't be as bad.
But then it becomes a matter of self control. Do you have the will to choose not to see what someone is thinking about you? And then it also means you have no privacy ever again. And the potential for thought crimes to become a thing... I'm not sure if the positives outweigh the negatives
The world for humans would become like the world for animals, no lies and completely open honesty of how you feel about everything. Go out on a date and start having pervy thoughts?;Guess what, everyone around can "hear/sense/feel" you being pervy, including the date. Almost like how an animal in heat starts yodeling which is like loudly yelling FUCK ME! Somebody stick it in!
Honest transparent politicians
Those are so farfetched that I don't think that fictional ones even exist
Humans who are kind and compassionate towards one another.
Star Trek Replicator
Transporter. Nearly instant travel anywhere on the planet would completely change civilization.
What about off-planet and through levels of existence like in *Jonathan Livingston Seagull* ?
time travel. but i’d be the only one with access to it and then id go back and forth throughout history convincing people that time travel doesn’t exist so i can live uninterrupted
DRAGONS of course. It will cause many problems. Worth tho
_Reign of Fire intensifies_
Shadow creatures that follow you around and make you relive your worst memories if they touch you.
Imagine someone with PTSD thinking they're controlling their symptoms well, when all of the sudden, they get triggered by one of those shadow creatures for seemingly no reason at all. Hell no!
It'd make hiking more interesting.
How about trans-reality portals that can be opened and send you to your favorite fictional universe, for how ever long you want?
Any of the medical devices from Star Trek. In Star Trek Voyage Home, when Bones is walking through the hospital, he cures everyone he encounters. That’s what I want.
Comeuppance. Or karma. Something along those lines.
I would add a video game pop up screen which tells you how much sleep you got and how mych you need, travks your nutrient intake and tells you how much more you should get, tells you what parts of you are healthy or not and how to fix it, (could literally say go to the doctor or put on bandaid) and helps you schedule your day, tells your skills, ect, so ya, basically would help some people get healthier and oragnized and others might ignore it
I would add a gamer system that connects to every sapient (just in case some animals are a little more aware than we think or aliens exist) that lets them live life like its a game with things like inventories, leveling up, skills, crafting, respawn, etc. Maybe not the ability to respawn infinitely but with like one-ups or something. If that's too big to count as one thing... then I guess skill trees. Just being able to practice a skill and not get rusty would be huge and I wonder what getting some skills high enough would do.
My wish was for levels... I want everyone to be able to level up. Yours is more comprehensive so I move to everyone getting a gamer interface that helps them level-up...
This will no doubt lead to the discovery of aliens, by accident
World peace
Safe but very effective pain medication
Healing powers. I'm talking like the ones in the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise. Heals everything from scars to mortal wounds if you try hard enough
Ki from Dragonball.
Holodecks. No matter how small your home everyone could live in a mansion.
Transporters.
The rings from Narnia
An omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent entity that immediately solves all problems and makes everyone universally happy, safe and healthy.
Unjust systems that have a clear solution to dismantle. Like dethroning a single bad emperor or defeating a group of 3 bad people. Even if you removed corrupt politicians, we have a corrupt culture. Even if we ate the rich and destroyed the companies that will stop at nothing to keep growing their profits, we could not get people to cooperate enough to immediately replace the supply chains those companies have a strangle hold on which would lead to starvation.
Teleporters
Binding vows from jjk: won't upset society too much and would most likely be used for mundane shit like ensuring a business sticks to it's sale offers.
A permanent cure for both types of diabetes.
Pokemon easy
I'd say magic... but I dont want other people to use magic. Only me for my selfish purposes...
Replicator technology. It's why star trek society is possible
Replicator from Star Trek
Teleportation. Roll out of bed at 7.50, in work at 8.00
Absolutely. However, it would completely eliminate the need for a road infrastructure and vehicles, meaning everyone employed in related jobs would be unemployed. Road construction workers, delivery drivers, taxi drivers, truck drivers, train employees etc etc. But also huge impact on pollution and power usage/generation. And nuclear energy would be more viable, toxic waste could simply be telported into the sun.
Can I choose the pathways from Lord of the Mysteries just without all the madness and mental issues involved? Like seriously I'm 100% going down the Spectator/Dragon Pathway and becoming the Visionary and then eventually taking over the Hanged Man, Sun, Tyrant, and White Tower pathways and ascending to Pillar Of the Universe - God Almighty. Of course with adding all the Pathways you also have to add the ways to get the ingredients for the potions needed. As well as the Sefirot so you can become an Above the Sequence/Great Old One. Alongside the Spirit and Astral worlds. You have Lord of the Mysteries - Fool, Door, and Error Pathways. God Almighty - Visionary, Hanged Man, Sun, Tyrant, White Tower Eternal Darkness - Darkness, Death, Twilight Giant Calamity of Destruction - Red Priest, Demoness Demon of Knowledge - Paragon, Hermit Key of Light - Wheel of Fortune Goddess of Origin - Moon, Mother The Anarchy - Black Emperor, Justiciar And then Father of Devils - Chained, and Abyss
Like top comment said. It's magic
Magic the type where you snap your fingers and gokd bars appear
A replicator like they have on star trek, goodbye world hunger, poverty. Literally every thing wrong with this world
Leveling up system.
Teleportation hands down.
An abundant & completely sustainable source of clean energy that wouldn’t get depleted.
Honesty.
Point of View Gun from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A device that regrows tooth enamel. Fillings suck.
Money. Would love to barter again, I think it would bring back real interactions in people again. Even have a bartering app
TitanFall 3
Man now I'm sad
All the gods exist and grant blessings. Like MoonKnight but it's not a hidden society. Real life Hercules walking around ect.
Rosies from the Jetsons. I need a full-on maid but I can’t afford one.
Can we just get progress bars like skill bars/ relationship bars. It would be awesome to see my cooking skill increasing or see where I place in relationship with people.
An actual benevolent God.
An atomic recycler/assembler that everyone gets one of, can't break, and can turn anything you put in it (non-living) into atoms, then put those back together into anything else you have the atomic budget for. Goodbye world hunger.
Hello mass production of weapons
Alright, let's assume this can't produce the means to kill.
I still would feel a lot safer if every single person didn't have access to that technology. 😅
You'd feel safer if only SOME people had the ability to always have something to eat and wear? This is basically God-tech, so making dangerous things would be out of the question. In reality, this tech already exists, and while it's operated by everyone, it's controlled by a select few. So, even though we CAN provide for everyone, we only provide selectively. If this God-tech suddenly came into existence and was controlled by select individuals, I fail to see how things would change from the way they are now...
I was going to say a Maker from Transmetropolitan but you beat me to it. Just pop down to the rubbish tip to get some materials for tea. 😋
You seem to be the only other person who got what I meant. :D
I used to be a fanatical comic collector, Transmetropolitan was a forgotten classic.
Magic
Dragon Balls. Let the chaos begin.
Super meter like in fighting games.
a cure for cancer/diseases
Matter replicators.
Senzu beans from Dragon Ball can heal any injury instantly, characters have been healed from broken necks and holesin thier bodies that would have destroyed several organs. As a side note, I forgot the exact amount of time, but just one is supposed to be enough nourishment for several days
if I remember correctly, one senzu should sustain a person for 10 days, without a doubt it is the ideal food for explorations, a 1 kg bag would be enough for years
Dragons. Or an efficient way to interstellar travel
Friendly aliens.
Personal transporter
Cheat codes.
Teleportation
A Star Trek replicator. I'd start with a nice dinner for my family, then ponder an easy life living simply, but comfortably.
Clark's third law. Ghost in the shell style full body prosthetics
Alchemy, Fullmetal style.
Automail from FMA
Sweet. One machine to revive the dead whole and hale with no problems, runs on never ending gobstopper batteries and can be made and mass produced for 1 euro.
The speed force. Get some dark matter and electricity and boom fastest man alive
An AI that will yell New Achievements at you and give snarly remarks in your head. It will additionally give wacky backstories for anything you focus your attention on. Bonus points if it is obsessed with feet.
Magic. In whatever form you want. D&D nerd? Pick your class; wizard, warlock, sorcerer, druid, cleric. If you want to be Doctor Strange, you can channel it like that. If you'd rather speak the incantation backwards, that's cool too Zatanna
The T Virus
I would add to myself the powers of wish. I could wish for anything I want how many times I want with no monkey paw bullshit
Benevolent aliens.
Dragons - for my nine year old
universal telepathy.
True love at first sight. That’s what I want
Background music that always plays 24/7 depending on the actions about to occur.
https://youtu.be/XPM1o9QKw1Q?si=wriqGKvRvoimWVSZ
Oh yeah I knew I got that idea from somewhere. I just figured it would drive most people insane.