Three wishes from a Genie

[CupOfWater]

So.

You are visited by a blue genie, real disney-style, and he grants you 3 wishes.
What would you wish for? Trickery like "all my vishes to come true" or "I wish for 1000 wishes" are not allowed, and will send you to jesus camp.

I would wish for:
The ability to control, and manipulate, time and space
Invisibility (not permanent of course)
Higher self coinfidence and self esteem.

 

[Salv]

I reckon I'd wish for omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence
That's borderline trickery though.

So I guess I'd have to wish for supreme intellect. The ability to grasp just about anything on a fundamental level. Secondly a vast amount of knowledge and thirdly a brain that can actually handle the raw computing power.
Dammit, I guess I'd be so huge and require so much energy to operate I'd be bound to a bed and have an IV continuously pumping nutrience into me.

Hrm, I think it's probably a good idea to rethink this one.

 

[nasher168]

I would ask for supreme intellect, then I would think about what else I want.

 

[Josan]

2 cokes and some chips!

 

[scikidus]

I would wish for:
The ability to control, and manipulate, time and space
Invisibility (not permanent of course)
Higher self coinfidence and self esteem.

Your first wish gives you your second.

 

[CupOfWater]

How so?

 

[Squagnut]

A really decent telescope with all the trimmings and a guaranteed 200+ clear nights per year.

A guitar that is just so.

Not to have cancer.

 

[Deleted member 499]

The ability to not overthink everything I consider saying or posting

The ability to create objects (I'm happy either with the magical interpretation or the technical skill one)

To no longer be mildly freaked out by CupOfWater's avatar

What would you wish for? Trickery like "all my vishes to come true" or "I wish for 1000 wishes" are not allowed, and will send you to jesus camp.

What if someone wishes away Jesus camp first? :twisted:

 

[Josan]

What if someone wishes away Jesus camp first?

Ohh

Wish 1: Remove the Hovind bloodline
Wish 2: Remove Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort
Wish 3: Make Jesuscamp turn into League of Reason camp!

 

[Raistlin Majere]

One: Lock Fred Phelps in a gay bar for eternity.
Two: The ability to help IDiots and others grasp the concepts of evolution and abiogenesis.
Three: A way to fly in space so that I could see other galaxies up close. Mind you, I'd also have to be able to fly quickly so that I could make it to multiple ones before dying of old age

 

[scikidus]

How so?

If you can distort space, you can simply bend all electromagnetic radiation around you and restore it on its path once it passes you. Ergo no light reflects off of you, and you don't block the path of any other light. Ergo you're invisible.

An unfortunate side effetc of this trick is being blind. Unless, of course, you somehow duplicate the light waves so those that would enter your eye do so, and those that don't don't.

 

[Aught3]

1. Wisdom
2. Immortality
3. Super fast spaceship of awesome

 

[CupOfWater]

The ability to not overthink everything I consider saying or posting

The ability to create objects (I'm happy either with the magical interpretation or the technical skill one)

To no longer be mildly freaked out by CupOfWater's avatar

:?

What's wrong with my avatar?
It's a cute kitteh. With human eyes and... teeth. :|

 

[Deleted member 499]

What's wrong with my avatar?
It's a cute kitteh. With human eyes and... teeth. :|

There's nothing wrong with it and tbh I'm not really sure why it does. It's just.....that grin......he's clearly planning something!

 

[edib0y]

Probably not my real choices, but here goes:

• Supremer than all of your's supreme intelligence
• Ability to manipulate space and time

These two are nothing new and special, and they would probably be real choices.

The third, however, is the har one. For now

• Prince of Persia / Prototype / Spiderman / Matrix free running and fighting abilities

As I have just finished Prototype, and Prince of Persia is one of my favorite games, this would be my quick choice. I have always fantasized how awesome it would be to be able to leap huge distances and jump from great heights so that the ground breaks, and run up wall and backflip in some awesome way and so forth. And, combined with my ability to slow down time, it could be really cinematic for me.

For real, I think someday when it's possible i will build or buy an exoskeleton that allows me to have at least some of those powers...

 

[Raistlin Majere]

Probably not my real choices, but here goes:
As I have just finished Prototype, and Prince of Persia is one of my favorite games, this would be my quick choice. I have always fantasized how awesome it would be to be able to leap huge distances and jump from great heights so that the ground breaks, and run up wall and backflip in some awesome way and so forth. And, combined with my ability to slow down time, it could be really cinematic for me.

For real, I think someday when it's possible i will build or buy an exoskeleton that allows me to have at least some of those powers...

Or you could just learn free running and/or parkour

Here's one kid that's pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSr1pozm6Y

 

[Ozymandyus]

So.

You are visited by a blue genie, real disney-style, and he grants you 3 wishes.
What would you wish for? Trickery like "all my vishes to come true" or "I wish for 1000 wishes" are not allowed, and will send you to jesus camp.

I would wish for:
The ability to control, and manipulate, time and space
Invisibility (not permanent of course)
Higher self coinfidence and self esteem.

I'm pretty sure that 'the ability to control and manipulate time and space' is all kinds trickery. I mean, you are almost asking for 4 things in your first wish! Though of course the difference between controllling and manipulating is a bit hard to say. and of course time and space may be the same thing. If we are allowed to be so general my wishes are really just 1:
The ability to control matter (and therefore, energy).

Pretty sure every other possible power follows from that. Time is just a measure of what has changed in matter and energy. Invisibility is just a measure of absorbtion and reflection of energy. Power is just a measure of our ability to affect matter and energy. Blah etc.

But I guess I will throw in the ability to know anything I want to know in there, in case it is not obviously covered, though I believe it is.

I add anything I want because: what has been seen... cannot be unseen.

I'll save the third for later. ( I suppose I should really wish for the ability to know anything I want to know first, and then make my wishes... but that may be cheating. And also, then I would never tell you people what my wishes were.

 

[aeroeng314]

My first wish would be that my next two wishes would be the two best wishes ever.

 

[edib0y]

Or you could just learn free running and/or parkour

Here's one kid that's pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSr1pozm6Y

Yeah, but I mean like uber-parkour. I mean, can parkourists jump form 20 stories building and make crater in ground, or run faster then cars, or even grow a huge blade of their hand?

 

[Jotto999]

1. Instant rapid regeneration. As in, you fall and break your leg, ten seconds later it has reformed to a completely healed state, in perfect condition. Or you get stabbed, and within a few seconds the wound has gone completely. I don't want to be immortal, because existing forever is IMO idiotic. I just want to be VERY hard to kill, and always have a young, fit, healthy body at all times (I would also be immune to aging, I guess). I could live pretty much as long as I want, the only way to die would be getting my head blown clean off or something like that. (Once I get tired of existing, I want some way to off myself).

2. "Omni-awareness". The ability to sense, and see anywhere without being there. So I could feel anyone's presence, I could look anywhere in the world. I want to look at secret documents right through the filling cabinet. and watch people do their combination to unlock bank vaults or whatever, or feel people's presence. Or I could be an immature 18 year-old guy and satisfy my eye-candy needs. The possibilities!

3. Teleporting. Pop up on any beach, on top any mountain. I would teleport five kilometers into the air, then let myself fall, then as I'm approaching the ground, teleport to the ground (I guess for this to work, teleporting would have to make all motion stop, or I`d keep falling at the ground). This would be so fun.

Would I be a total bastard with these abilities, looking into Swedish banks, teleporting into there, stealing whatever and then being almost impossible to kill? Actually, no. I mean I'd pop around and take a bit now and then, probably pull some pranks or whatever. But I wouldn't want to be a complete menace to society, I just want to live, go anywhere and see everything that's going on. Not become some uber-pain in the ass for other humans. In fact, I would use my abilities for good. (I'm not a psychopath).

Thanks I just meant in the sense I wouldn't die from old age.

Oh no no, I wasn't bashing you, I know what you mean. Sorry if that came across as an insult.