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scFranco
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On February 08 2011 04:51 Rakanishu2 wrote: You just have to be really diplomatic and wish for something really simple. For instance, I wish my breadbox could create untraceable 5 dollar bills out of thin air, simply by opening and closing it, 1 bill per open/close cycle. Our reality will remain on its present course with the only change occurring to the breadbox. The breadbox can create infinite 5 dollar bills using this process. The last part is so the genie cannot "make" the FBI break through the window, or any funny business like that and discover my $5 machine. Or: Wish for infinite wishes: Wish that the Genie could interpret exactly what you mentally visualize with the wish and only execute that mentally envisioned wish. the second part of the infinite wish may work, but the first part does not. the obvious loophole the inifinite wish wish the genie exploits is that you don't specify your interaction with the wishes. are you the one making them or granting them? and the genie easily switches places with you so you become burdened with his curse. the $5 breadbox has all kinds of problems in that you specify that though the rest of the world remains the same, the breadbox does not. he can therefore make the breakbox unable to open/close or more likely as you specify the money is created from thin air he can make the transformation process of air into money have seriously negative biproducts such as the air inside the breadbox becomes noxious or rapidly increases global warming. not to mention the problems with inflation already mentioned. if you want money, i think your best course is to buy a lottery ticket, say I wish all these numbers hit [specifically state whenever the drawing is and the title of the drawing (i.e. so if you buy megamillions, he makes megamillions hit with those numbers and not superbucks)] and that although others buy lottery tickets at the normal rate with the normal frequency of winners and distribution of prizes, I am the only person to buy a ticket where all numbers match (this is to both prevent fraud investigations and ensure 6,000,000 don't make a claim to the jackpot piecing it out so you have almost nothing -- though i'd likely need to talk to someone about statistics to make sure to use language including standard deviations as the genie can otherwise claim that results that would incur suspicion were within statistical possibility despite their severe improbability) for [again speciffically state drawing] and the world is otherwise left unchanged and nothing makes me ineligible to accept the prize (you can also change yourself to be eligibile for the prize if for whatever reason you're currently ineligible for accepting lottery prizes here). personally, i don't think i'd make any wish without first consulting a lawyer to make sure i used the correct terminology, and my wish would likely be for the ability to fastforward and rewind life while retaining knowledge as i experience things and create an infinite number of save points so that i can easily recreate and restore any moment i wish. this ability would have heavy potential for abuse and negative effects to my psyche, hubris, and esteem as a result. honestly i likely would abuse it, so maybe the genie wouldn't mess with my intent. ;-) | ||
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flavorless
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scFranco
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On February 08 2011 11:46 scFranco wrote: I wish that dogs could talk. How could you possibly die from that? yeah, i feel when people are saying you die, they're missing the point of negative effects. they can be non-leathal unintendedly negative effects, such as using the talking dog example, dogs are horrible gossips that spread vicious rumors about you. | ||
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scFranco
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shinigami
Canada423 Posts
On February 08 2011 04:51 Rakanishu2 wrote: personally, i don't think i'd make any wish without first consulting a lawyer to make sure i used the correct terminology, and my wish would likely be for the ability to fastforward and rewind life while retaining knowledge as i experience things and create an infinite number of save points so that i can easily recreate and restore any moment i wish. this ability would have heavy potential for abuse and negative effects to my psyche and esteem as a result. honestly i likely would abuse it, so maybe the genie wouldn't mess with my intent. ;-) It's impossible because "the future" exists, which contains infinite possibilities. In any case, wish granted, but each time you use your power, you permanently lose one year off of your lifespan, essentially creating a new time of death each time. | ||
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On February 08 2011 11:51 shinigami wrote: It's impossible because "the future" exists, which contains infinite possibilities. In any case, wish granted, but each time you use your power, you permanently lose one year off of your lifespan, essentially creating a new time of death each time. see that's adding a negative effect and ignoring my consultation with a lawyer for proper wording, which isn't quite in the spirit of the argument, but neither is my wish. bleh. i had a point but lost it. let's get back to talking dogs. | ||
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scFranco
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shinigami
Canada423 Posts
On February 08 2011 11:54 Feb wrote: see that's adding a negative effect and ignoring my consultation with a lawyer for proper wording, which isn't quite in the spirit of the argument, but neither is my wish. bleh. i had a point but lost it. let's get back to talking dogs. Hmm, I see what you're getting at: Perfect defense through a thoroughly specific wish... I suppose it depends on the environment conditions, but for this situation, it was mentioned that the genie was previously human and can still make human mistakes... One example could be "your wish is too long for me to remember." Either way, the environmental conditions set by the OP make it impossible for wishes to come out perfect. Edit: Fixed bolding. | ||
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stalking.d00m
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On February 08 2011 11:50 scFranco wrote: That's far from the point though, any other wish would destroy the universe. I would explain how my wish saved the world to everybody, become a hero, and earn the title president of everything. From that point, all my wishes would be granted by people. You go to the UN and tell them that you met an evil genie and that by not making a stupid wish you saved the world and hence, you should be made world leader! They burst into laughter and you are sent to Arkham Asylum despite your constant screaming that you are not insane. Your attempt was futile and they throw you in the cell. You are now between Joker and Scarecrow. Have Fun! PS: This was genie's plan all along! | ||
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Roblin
Sweden948 Posts
On February 08 2011 01:59 Iracor wrote: I'd wish for the genie to feel the pain he causes onto others to himself, but tenfold. Does this make me sadistic? wish granted, he immedietly makes everyone on earth so happy they forget to eat and sleep, and the genie (whom doesn't need to eat or sleep) feels that happiness tenfold. On February 08 2011 02:09 Roe wrote: I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was a baller I wish I had a girl that looked good I would call her Wish I had a rabbit in a hat and a bat and a 64 impala wish granted, you are 50 feet tall. wish granted, you will spend the rest of your life playing crocket. wish granted, you now own a baby girl made of chocolate, she owns a cellphone, so you can call her. wish granted, you now have a dead rabbit in a hat, and the hat is in the stomach of 64 impalas, theres also a bat somewhere in there. On February 08 2011 02:09 Juicyfruit wrote: I wish to not be allergic to cats, with no otherwise consequences to my physiology or any change to cats at all directly or indirectly, and everyones perception of cats would still remain the same as well. wish granted, you are not allergic to cats. v those cats. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats On February 08 2011 03:19 SosBrigade wrote: There has got to be a way to wish for more wishes somehow. I wish for a wand of wishing with infinite charges. I wish to become god. How about just screwing the genie over: I wish for a genie to be teleported to the other side of an event horizon of a black hole at this very instant. wish granted, the wand of wishing will not fulfill wishes though. wish granted, you become a figment of peoples imagination. wish granted, he dissappears for 1000 years before coming back on earth. On February 08 2011 04:27 Daliniues wrote: I wish I could teleport, but only I move. Upon arrival I will be wearing the clothes I had on at the time of teleportation. My structure will not change while teleporting. I teleport not move fast or move through a different dimension. I can only teleport to places I can see or imagine, to prevent teleporting into walls. Other than my ability to teleport nothing else in the world will change, and nothing about me will change. you must grant this within the next second(To prevent plotting) Take that genie! wish granted, you can teleport a maximum distance of 1 nanometer, you can teleport only once per hour. On February 08 2011 04:30 b0rn wrote: I'd definitely wish for more wishes and more genies with extra wishes with more wishes like sub genies like sub wishes like moarr wishes! xD wish granted, the world is flooded with genies that can grant wishes, they just don't want to. On February 08 2011 04:51 Rakanishu2 wrote: You just have to be really diplomatic and wish for something really simple. For instance, I wish my breadbox could create untraceable 5 dollar bills out of thin air, simply by opening and closing it, 1 bill per open/close cycle. Our reality will remain on its present course with the only change occurring to the breadbox. The breadbox can create infinite 5 dollar bills using this process. The last part is so the genie cannot "make" the FBI break through the window, or any funny business like that and discover my $5 machine. Or: Wish for infinite wishes: Wish that the Genie could interpret exactly what you mentally visualize with the wish and only execute that mentally envisioned wish. wish granted, you cannot open your breadbox, thus a 5 dollar bill will appear every time you open it, which is never, thus the wish is fulfilled. for the record, the concept of wishes that state: "whenever X happens, Y should happen" is extremely easily solved by simply making it impossible to do X, since that fulfilles the wish. wish granted, the genie have no obligation to grant those wishes though. On February 08 2011 06:50 albis wrote: i wish i could turn into any animal, at any time, for any length of time, as many times as i would like, while keeping the brain capacity and functionality of my human self. wish granted, whenever you want to, you can turn into a random animal at will, if the type of animal you turn into cannot survive in the environment you currently are in, you will panic, not be able to think clearly, and be unable to turn back unless your life is no longer threatened. did I forget to mention that 99% of animal species are bacteria? On February 08 2011 06:51 TrinitySC wrote: no. the moment you become omnipotent you can do just that yourself, because you will be omnipotent too. ... >_> resistance is futile, it's just a "my super duper mega awesome power thingy is super duperer than your duber mega awesoem power thingy" clusterfuck. it can go on forever. or you could just say "give me everlasting absolute omnipotence" irrelevant, I said: "when you make your wish" not "when you become omnipotent" they erase you before you become omnipotent. On February 08 2011 07:07 jinorazi wrote: i have a win: make me the only Q in existence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek) wish granted, you become a letter in the alphabet. On February 08 2011 07:19 Fenrax wrote: My wish is, that everyone who ever stated that he would just wish for more wishes or infinite wishes, gets severely beaten up. Go ahead, be creative with your retribution on me, as long as these morons get their ass kicked, I'll take it. wish granted, the genie is pleased that he has the cooperation of a human to stop people from being stupid. he gets severely beaten up. On February 08 2011 11:24 scFranco wrote: I wish that the genie no longer had the ability to grant wishes. GENIE DISARMRUUUUUUUUUU wish granted, you become the genie. On February 08 2011 11:33 scFranco wrote: I wish I were a high templar? wish granted, you are a 50 feet tall, 1 feet wide knights templar On February 08 2011 11:39 Ridiculisk wrote: I wish for the ability to alter reality at a whim. Then anything the genie does I can just undo later after I explode him. :D profit? whim? I'll take it you meant the third interpretion. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whim wish granted, a whim is created for you somewhere in the universe, only you can use it to alter reality, go find. On February 08 2011 11:46 scFranco wrote: I wish that dogs could talk. How could you possibly die from that? wish granted, all dogs cease to exist, all humans become dogs. the transformed humans can still talk, thus all dogs can talk. On February 08 2011 11:57 scFranco wrote: I'm telling you dude, the only way to defeat a genie is to wish for something without potential benefit or potential harm. you have a point, a good one was "I wish this wish did exactly what I want it to do", which in essence, did nothing, end of story. | ||
Sevryn
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Roblin
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On February 08 2011 19:04 Sevryn wrote: my wish is to know what thing incontrol is hyping right now wish granted, you know exactly which letter of the alphabet that inControl had his mind on the exact moment you said "right now". | ||
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r2ddrew
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Thezzy
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Krikkitone
United States1451 Posts
On February 08 2011 11:39 Ridiculisk wrote: I wish for the ability to alter reality at a whim. Then anything the genie does I can just undo later after I explode him. :D profit? You get the ability to alter reality at a whim, soon you realize Your mind is part of reality and you don't even know what changes you've made, .. and the flleting thought comes I wish I was never born.....and so it is. | ||
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Krikkitone
United States1451 Posts
On February 08 2011 11:46 scFranco wrote: I wish that dogs could talk. How could you possibly die from that? Simple, dogs can talk, to each other, telepathically, they realize they are far more intelligent and in a few weeks orchestrate the complete enslavement of humanity (and the extinction of all other large carnivores). [note, the psyche of the group dog mind is incredibly sadistic, torturing people for fun] | ||
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Juicyfruit
Canada5484 Posts
Useless genie is useless and illogical. Gobacktolamp, you have failed at troll and broker the rules. The genie needs to make a wish that corresponds logically with what was asked. The genie therefore broke the contracts of his own game. I complain to his manager and he promptly gets canned. | ||
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whiterabb1t
Belgium681 Posts
On February 08 2011 19:01 Roblin wrote: + Show Spoiler + On February 08 2011 01:59 Iracor wrote: I'd wish for the genie to feel the pain he causes onto others to himself, but tenfold. Does this make me sadistic? wish granted, he immedietly makes everyone on earth so happy they forget to eat and sleep, and the genie (whom doesn't need to eat or sleep) feels that happiness tenfold. On February 08 2011 02:09 Roe wrote: I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was a baller I wish I had a girl that looked good I would call her Wish I had a rabbit in a hat and a bat and a 64 impala wish granted, you are 50 feet tall. wish granted, you will spend the rest of your life playing crocket. wish granted, you now own a baby girl made of chocolate, she owns a cellphone, so you can call her. wish granted, you now have a dead rabbit in a hat, and the hat is in the stomach of 64 impalas, theres also a bat somewhere in there. On February 08 2011 02:09 Juicyfruit wrote: I wish to not be allergic to cats, with no otherwise consequences to my physiology or any change to cats at all directly or indirectly, and everyones perception of cats would still remain the same as well. wish granted, you are not allergic to cats. v those cats. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats On February 08 2011 03:19 SosBrigade wrote: There has got to be a way to wish for more wishes somehow. I wish for a wand of wishing with infinite charges. I wish to become god. How about just screwing the genie over: I wish for a genie to be teleported to the other side of an event horizon of a black hole at this very instant. wish granted, the wand of wishing will not fulfill wishes though. wish granted, you become a figment of peoples imagination. wish granted, he dissappears for 1000 years before coming back on earth. On February 08 2011 04:27 Daliniues wrote: I wish I could teleport, but only I move. Upon arrival I will be wearing the clothes I had on at the time of teleportation. My structure will not change while teleporting. I teleport not move fast or move through a different dimension. I can only teleport to places I can see or imagine, to prevent teleporting into walls. Other than my ability to teleport nothing else in the world will change, and nothing about me will change. you must grant this within the next second(To prevent plotting) Take that genie! wish granted, you can teleport a maximum distance of 1 nanometer, you can teleport only once per hour. On February 08 2011 04:30 b0rn wrote: I'd definitely wish for more wishes and more genies with extra wishes with more wishes like sub genies like sub wishes like moarr wishes! xD wish granted, the world is flooded with genies that can grant wishes, they just don't want to. On February 08 2011 04:51 Rakanishu2 wrote: You just have to be really diplomatic and wish for something really simple. For instance, I wish my breadbox could create untraceable 5 dollar bills out of thin air, simply by opening and closing it, 1 bill per open/close cycle. Our reality will remain on its present course with the only change occurring to the breadbox. The breadbox can create infinite 5 dollar bills using this process. The last part is so the genie cannot "make" the FBI break through the window, or any funny business like that and discover my $5 machine. Or: Wish for infinite wishes: Wish that the Genie could interpret exactly what you mentally visualize with the wish and only execute that mentally envisioned wish. wish granted, you cannot open your breadbox, thus a 5 dollar bill will appear every time you open it, which is never, thus the wish is fulfilled. for the record, the concept of wishes that state: "whenever X happens, Y should happen" is extremely easily solved by simply making it impossible to do X, since that fulfilles the wish. wish granted, the genie have no obligation to grant those wishes though. On February 08 2011 06:50 albis wrote: i wish i could turn into any animal, at any time, for any length of time, as many times as i would like, while keeping the brain capacity and functionality of my human self. wish granted, whenever you want to, you can turn into a random animal at will, if the type of animal you turn into cannot survive in the environment you currently are in, you will panic, not be able to think clearly, and be unable to turn back unless your life is no longer threatened. did I forget to mention that 99% of animal species are bacteria? On February 08 2011 06:51 TrinitySC wrote: no. the moment you become omnipotent you can do just that yourself, because you will be omnipotent too. ... >_> resistance is futile, it's just a "my super duper mega awesome power thingy is super duperer than your duber mega awesoem power thingy" clusterfuck. it can go on forever. or you could just say "give me everlasting absolute omnipotence" irrelevant, I said: "when you make your wish" not "when you become omnipotent" they erase you before you become omnipotent. On February 08 2011 07:07 jinorazi wrote: i have a win: make me the only Q in existence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek) wish granted, you become a letter in the alphabet. On February 08 2011 07:19 Fenrax wrote: My wish is, that everyone who ever stated that he would just wish for more wishes or infinite wishes, gets severely beaten up. Go ahead, be creative with your retribution on me, as long as these morons get their ass kicked, I'll take it. wish granted, the genie is pleased that he has the cooperation of a human to stop people from being stupid. he gets severely beaten up. On February 08 2011 11:24 scFranco wrote: I wish that the genie no longer had the ability to grant wishes. GENIE DISARMRUUUUUUUUUU wish granted, you become the genie. On February 08 2011 11:33 scFranco wrote: I wish I were a high templar? wish granted, you are a 50 feet tall, 1 feet wide knights templar On February 08 2011 11:39 Ridiculisk wrote: I wish for the ability to alter reality at a whim. Then anything the genie does I can just undo later after I explode him. :D profit? whim? I'll take it you meant the third interpretion. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/whim wish granted, a whim is created for you somewhere in the universe, only you can use it to alter reality, go find. On February 08 2011 11:46 scFranco wrote: I wish that dogs could talk. How could you possibly die from that? wish granted, all dogs cease to exist, all humans become dogs. the transformed humans can still talk, thus all dogs can talk. On February 08 2011 11:57 scFranco wrote: I'm telling you dude, the only way to defeat a genie is to wish for something without potential benefit or potential harm. you have a point, a good one was "I wish this wish did exactly what I want it to do", which in essence, did nothing, end of story. Hey Roblin you're getting worse and worse as this thread gets longer. Pls stop?  Just sayin | ||
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