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Warlock-X
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada37 Posts
February 08 2011 18:46 GMT
#741
On February 08 2011 11:33 scFranco wrote:
I wish I were a high templar?



High:
19.
extreme in opinion or doctrine, especially religious or political: a high Tory.

Templar:
2. ( Brit ) ( sometimes not capital ) a lawyer,

You become an opinionated lawyer. But you are not very good at your job.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-08 18:52:24
February 08 2011 18:51 GMT
#742
i wish i get a good (relative to everyone else who wrote it today) grade on the midterm i just wrote.
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
DizzyDrone
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands629 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-08 19:02:36
February 08 2011 18:58 GMT
#743
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.


On February 09 2011 03:25 Juicyfruit wrote:
I don't think it's possible to be allergic to a musical since there is no autoimmunity to sound particles, and I wished to no LONGER be allergic to cats, implying that his wish needs to remove an allergy that I currently am inflected by previous to encountering the genie.


Just want to point out that your wish didn't specify.

On February 09 2011 03:51 JeeJee wrote:
i wish i get a good (relative to everyone else who wrote it today) grade on the midterm i just wrote.


Granted, unfortunately everyone else turned it in blank and you still end up failing.

I wish I was better at playing protoss
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
February 08 2011 19:06 GMT
#744
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.

DONE. You are now not allergic to cats. Or wait, no, not any more, you didn't specify for how long. Mere seconds after your wish was granted, even as you finished typing it, you revert back to normal. Your wish was wasted on 3 seconds of not being allergic to cats. You kill yourself in despair at your failure.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-08 19:13:49
February 08 2011 19:13 GMT
#745
On February 09 2011 03:58 DizzyDrone wrote:

Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 03:51 JeeJee wrote:
i wish i get a good (relative to everyone else who wrote it today) grade on the midterm i just wrote.


Granted, unfortunately everyone else turned it in blank and you still end up failing.

I wish I was better at playing protoss


lol i don't see how that ruins my wish
i'd be more than happy with that outcome
curve baby, yeah XD

your wish is granted, you're a better protoss player now. in starcraft 1. unfortunately, right before you have the chance to prove your newfound skills against an A+ adversary, blizzard shuts down bnet1 and patches sc1 to take away lan access to "fit its successor model". you're restricted to playing computers for the rest of your life with your newfound skills
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
February 08 2011 19:17 GMT
#746
On February 09 2011 03:58 DizzyDrone wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 03:25 Juicyfruit wrote:
I don't think it's possible to be allergic to a musical since there is no autoimmunity to sound particles, and I wished to no LONGER be allergic to cats, implying that his wish needs to remove an allergy that I currently am inflected by previous to encountering the genie.


Just want to point out that your wish didn't specify.

Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 03:51 JeeJee wrote:
i wish i get a good (relative to everyone else who wrote it today) grade on the midterm i just wrote.


Granted, unfortunately everyone else turned it in blank and you still end up failing.

I wish I was better at playing protoss


Done. You are now 0.00000001% better at protoss.
Ephemerality
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States203 Posts
February 09 2011 03:37 GMT
#747
I wish that whatever people wrote the evil genie did to my wish isn't what happened to me.
FIGHT APATHY... or don't
YejinYejin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1053 Posts
February 09 2011 04:35 GMT
#748
On February 09 2011 03:58 DizzyDrone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 03:51 JeeJee wrote:
i wish i get a good (relative to everyone else who wrote it today) grade on the midterm i just wrote.


Granted, unfortunately everyone else turned it in blank and you still end up failing.


Yeah, for some classes, it doesn't work this way. For large lectures, the teacher curves it so that the class average is some pre-determined grade (usually anywhere from a B- to a B+). So if everyone else turned in a blank test and JeeJee got at least one question right, then the best case scenario is that he gets an A+. The worst case scenario is the teacher says wtf, gives the class a long talk about the test trying to figure out what happened, and then probably makes everyone take it again.
안지호
SosBrigade
Profile Joined February 2011
16 Posts
February 09 2011 06:32 GMT
#749
On February 08 2011 19:01 Roblin wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.



If the wand of wishing does not grant wishes it is not a wand of wishing, so my wish is not fulfilled.

How can he come back? There is no way out of a black hole, and in a thousand years he will be pulled apart right down to the atoms. I'll accept it as fulfilled wish if he is radiated out as Hawkins radiation, but he is gonna be completely screwed anyway so it's ok.
SwiftSpear
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada355 Posts
February 09 2011 06:34 GMT
#750
On February 08 2011 00:25 drlame wrote:
I wish that everything I say I want is granted. Also according to rules the genie is locked up in his lamp, my wish should however still stand.

The first thing I would say I want is immortality, from there I can just remove all the mischief the genie comes up with, since he can't touch me I win.

You wish for immortality, immediately you are turned into a stone.
DeltruS
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2214 Posts
February 09 2011 06:37 GMT
#751
I wish for Incontrol's announcement. Now.
http://grooveshark.com/#/deltrus/music
.Aar
Profile Joined September 2010
2177 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 06:38:49
February 09 2011 06:38 GMT
#752
On February 09 2011 15:37 DeltruS wrote:
I wish for Incontrol's announcement. Now.


Inc finally announces his epic announcement:

He has an epic announcement.
now run into the setting sun, and suffer, but don't mess up your hair.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 06:56:08
February 09 2011 06:53 GMT
#753
i wish jinro and idra would win one gsl each
you could ruin it, but do you really want to?
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
keioh
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France1099 Posts
February 09 2011 07:30 GMT
#754
I wish I could read other's mind when I want to. So I could become depressive and an hero without the help of the genie.
GIMME ALL THE BELGIAN WAFFLES I CAN GET FOR THIS MONEY !!!!!! BELGIAN WAFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFLEEEEEEEEES
Roblin
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden948 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 07:47:59
February 09 2011 07:42 GMT
#755
On February 09 2011 03:25 Juicyfruit wrote:
I don't think it's possible to be allergic to a musical since there is no autoimmunity to sound particles, and I wished to no LONGER be allergic to cats, implying that his wish needs to remove an allergy that I currently am inflected by previous to encountering the genie.

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.


as dizzydrone have already pointed out, you never, in any way, specified what kind of cat or cats you referred to, and you also never said that you would "no longer" be allergic, what you said was, to the letter:

"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. "

well? I don't see you mentioning anywhere that you alrady have to be allergic to the cats that you want to not be allergic to.

and as far as the genie is concerned, it is irrelevant whether something is possible or not, he can still make it not so, or in this case, it is irrelevant whether it is possible for someone to be allergic to a musical, he can still make you non-allergic to it, is there a problem?


Hey Roblin you're getting worse and worse as this thread gets longer. Pls stop?
Just sayin


the truth of your words stings my heart, but indeed, i can see your standpoint, (especially those last, oh god I regret ever making those, I was obviously not thinking clearly) people also get more and more determined to find a way to "beat the genie", which is not, as far as I have seen, the point of this thread, the OP really should have added that the genie can't grant power that is greater than his own or something, its getting really stupid where more than three fourth is just "wish I can wish more" or "OMNIPOTENCY! MOAR POWAH!" and also, i'm getting less and less time.

to be honest, surprisingly enough the very last one was the hardest to answer, or I was just tired, the one where you wish to know an extremely specified bit of information, I just don't see how the genie can wiggle his way out easily, if he can, would someone please corrupt the following:

I wish I knew a method to cure cancer, the mentioned method must be one that I can implement, and/or one that is easily implemented by mankind, it must be non-harmful to the individual who shall have their cancer cured and non-harmful to anyone else.
I'm better today than I was yesterday!
gongryong
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Korea (South)1430 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 07:55:19
February 09 2011 07:48 GMT
#756
Hey, maybe we could reverse this thread into a constructive effort, namely formulating a wish that will utterly spoil the evil side effects.

Revising the wishing wand above, i suggest this:

I wish for the genie to do exactly and only this: give me a completely safe for everything and everyone wishing wand now that grants only and exactly, whatever and whenever i wish for, for all eternity and for the genie to disappear now immediately until forever before its mandatory "return to lamp for 100 years" phase.

loopholes? you think you got something better?

EDIT
On February 09 2011 16:42 Roblin wrote:
to be honest, surprisingly enough the very last one was the hardest to answer, or I was just tired, the one where you wish to know an extremely specified bit of information, I just don't see how the genie can wiggle his way out easily, if he can, would someone please corrupt the following:

I wish I knew a method to cure cancer, the mentioned method must be one that I can implement, and/or one that is easily implemented by mankind, it must be non-harmful to the individual who shall have their cancer cured and non-harmful to anyone else.


Yeah. Re your wish, and anyone else's, the flaw always starts when you just generally ask something instead of asking EXACTLY and ONLY for something, as the previous can be easily countered by something like - yeah you are the best BW player in the universe but you get a brain cancer and die, or something that will make the genie set a condition that will invalidate or undermine your wish.
JAEDONG ÜBERBONJWA!
Lann555
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands5173 Posts
February 09 2011 08:42 GMT
#757
On February 09 2011 15:53 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
i wish jinro and idra would win one gsl each
you could ruin it, but do you really want to?


Wish granted: Idra wins a GSL....by playing Terran

Fantasy Fan! Gogogo vultures
OriginalBeast
Profile Joined September 2010
United States709 Posts
February 09 2011 08:48 GMT
#758
I'd wish to be less stressed about school, or that I graduate highschool
More gg, more skill.
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-09 13:33:32
February 09 2011 13:23 GMT
#759
On February 09 2011 04:06 Sm3agol wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.

DONE. You are now not allergic to cats. Or wait, no, not any more, you didn't specify for how long. Mere seconds after your wish was granted, even as you finished typing it, you revert back to normal. Your wish was wasted on 3 seconds of not being allergic to cats. You kill yourself in despair at your failure.


But that would break the conditions of my wish. In order to make me not allergic to cats, he needs to remove the cells in my body that are hypersensitive to cat antigens. Once he's done that, he's not allowed to make any otherwise changes to my physiology (i.e. not allowed to reintroduce them into my system).

Besides, I think the whole "you only get your wish for 2 seconds" is a little old by now since it's been used on a ton of wishes.


On February 09 2011 16:42 Roblin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 09 2011 03:25 Juicyfruit wrote:
I don't think it's possible to be allergic to a musical since there is no autoimmunity to sound particles, and I wished to no LONGER be allergic to cats, implying that his wish needs to remove an allergy that I currently am inflected by previous to encountering the genie.

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.


as dizzydrone have already pointed out, you never, in any way, specified what kind of cat or cats you referred to, and you also never said that you would "no longer" be allergic, what you said was, to the letter:

"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. "

well? I don't see you mentioning anywhere that you alrady have to be allergic to the cats that you want to not be allergic to.

and as far as the genie is concerned, it is irrelevant whether something is possible or not, he can still make it not so, or in this case, it is irrelevant whether it is possible for someone to be allergic to a musical, he can still make you non-allergic to it, is there a problem?


Problem is that people cannot wish for something they already have, so imo since I'm not allergic to "Cats" (broadway), he cannot see it as such.

However, if I revise my statement to mention that I am talking about an ANIMAL and to include the scientific genus and species according to current understanding of taxonomy, and then also include that I don't want to be reintroduced to my allergies after he's granted my wish etc...

do i get my wish yet?
wswordsmen
Profile Joined October 2007
United States987 Posts
February 09 2011 13:29 GMT
#760
On February 09 2011 17:48 OriginalBeast wrote:
I'd wish to be less stressed about school, or that I graduate highschool

You are so not stressed about school you never study and fail out.
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