You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Oh wait, here's one
I could have sworn I'd gotten a less blurry shot at some point though
if only i could make robots who force everyone to be not oppressive and to distribute food fairly and stop bad people being born, and imperfect people like me
if only we could all live in separate worlds with people we feel comfortable around, so that i only have to deal with people i can deal with
lol
i'm not making fun, it's just comical because it's not the kind of thing i would ever say, is it?
i used to fantasize about having superpowers. i'd be indestructible and super fast and super strong, and i'd travel around helping people.
it kind of fell apart recently when i tried to apply reason to it, and now it's no fun anymore
if i could just have whatever power i wanted, i have no excuse for not becoming a god who protects everybody and prevents anything bad from happening, forever
The only thing I'd fantasize about is time-stopping and invisibility. They seemed more practical than becoming a physical god. But I never liked the idea of me actually getting those powers. 20 bucks says I'd end up less like Superman and more like Anonymous, and the world doesn't need another one of those. I might be able to balance it out and become a sort of Robin Hood, but power corrupts and so forth.
...Now I'm thinking about Harry Potter again. And that stupid time-travel watch. Yeah, yeah, time-travel's dangerous and unstable, but so's nuclear energy and we fiddled with that until it was safe to use. Frigging Ministry of Magic could have stopped Voldemort ages ago if they weren't a bunch of cowards.
Never mind the questionable legality of the date-rape potions that resulted in Tom Riddle.
this was posted to Imgur with the caption 'Anon buys Resident Evil 4', and i guess i've been hanging around here too much because i immediately assumed it was a story about anon buying the RE4 IP, even though that makes no sense
but that was where it started to go wrong, because i started to think, if i could control time like that, what's stopping me from being at two emergencies at once? who am i to decide who gets to be saved?
and from there it became, what's stopping me from being everywhere at once? if i can have whatever powers i want i have a responsibility to be everywhere at once
Heck, we invented the whole system of checks and balances specifically so no one body of government would gain absolute power and start subjugating folks.
dictators still subjugate people, and nobody can just storm in and fix it without making things worse, or at least running up against said system of checks and balances
not that there's any government i'd trust to save the world in any case
dictators still subjugate people, and nobody can just storm in and fix it without making things worse, or at least running up against said system of checks and balances
not that there's any government i'd trust to save the world in any case
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i just got something that was puzzling me a while ago, and now i'm feeling angry at myself for being stupid and unempathic
i think i owe Miko an apology
but i also feel like i'm going to say something insensitive
i went back and read an earlier conversation and it was basically everyone at each other's throats and me just blissfully unaware the whole time
like i'm on another planet or something
if only we could all live in separate worlds with people we feel comfortable around, so that i only have to deal with people i can deal with
lol
i'm not making fun, it's just comical because it's not the kind of thing i would ever say, is it?
i used to fantasize about having superpowers. i'd be indestructible and super fast and super strong, and i'd travel around helping people.
it kind of fell apart recently when i tried to apply reason to it, and now it's no fun anymore
if i could just have whatever power i wanted, i have no excuse for not becoming a god who protects everybody and prevents anything bad from happening, forever
but that's not a fun thing to imagine, somehow
@Central: Rozburg is taken.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
somewhat plausible greentext story
this was posted to Imgur with the caption 'Anon buys Resident Evil 4', and i guess i've been hanging around here too much because i immediately assumed it was a story about anon buying the RE4 IP, even though that makes no sense
but that was where it started to go wrong, because i started to think, if i could control time like that, what's stopping me from being at two emergencies at once? who am i to decide who gets to be saved?
and from there it became, what's stopping me from being everywhere at once? if i can have whatever powers i want i have a responsibility to be everywhere at once
"What about all those good powerful people" "Well they're the exception to this cause"
the world is a complicated mess, the last thing anyone really wants is to have to deal with that personally, whatever they aspire towards
that's what i think, anyway
but then when you're actually in charge, reality starts throwing you curveballs
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
the idea that absolute power corrupts absolutely is counterintuitive to me
suppose some people are just nice
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
dictators still subjugate people, and nobody can just storm in and fix it without making things worse, or at least running up against said system of checks and balances
not that there's any government i'd trust to save the world in any case
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i'm in a weird mood, i guess
mystery solved
a simpler time
left me with eyes that cry
how can i go on without you?
you took the part that once was my heart
so why not take all of me?
shame, it sounds like the kind of thing that has the potential to be interesting.
I didn't even know we had any Jains around here.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but it's because white people, right
i guess there's no reason American miko would have the same hair colour as Reimu
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
*waves big pom poms*
i hope it's not the bad teeth thing
i don't know my animes, i'm afraid
ignorance is vulnerability
something to be feared indeed