You've received a great power, what do you do with it?

RACISM said:
Seriously, the human body needs gills.
Click to expand...
In order for that to work, the gills would either have to be really big, or the body would need to be cold-blooded. The latter could limit the range the species could live in, but maybe that's better than moving anywhere possible - like to frozen pine forests where it's night for half the year, or to deserts (like with Phoenix or Las Vegas).

And of course the way the brain works could also use some redesign.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
In order for that to work, the gills would either have to be really big, or the body would need to be cold-blooded. The latter could limit the range the species could live in, but maybe that's better than moving anywhere possible - like to frozen pine forests where it's night for half the year, or to deserts (like with Phoenix or Las Vegas).

And of course the way the brain works could also use some redesign.
Click to expand...
I hate the fucking cold so I'd go with really big gills.
 
  • Like
  • DRINK!
Reactions: Aspiring Artist, ToroidalBoat and Shamefur Dispray
RACISM said:
I  really hate the cold.
Click to expand...
You would not fit in with the master race of bear people which I would create. I might also uplift crows and ants while I'm at it because I want to see how effective a spaceship crewed by cybernetic ants networked into a sentient AI would fare.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Like
Reactions: Aspiring Artist, Mesh Gear Fox, Meat Target and 3 others
I would see if I could set myself up as a dictator of my own country, somewhere. There are many ideas I would like to implement like using advanced nuclear reactor designs for energy and then using their process heat to create carbon-neutral dimethyl ether fuel or district heating...so I would like to see what it is like to run a nation.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Aspiring Artist and Mesh Gear Fox
If I suddenly had great powers I probably wouldn't do anything with it, because playing god seems like a recipe for disaster.

Plus if you keep going about your business and things go bad then at least you can say it mostly isn't your fault. If you have some inordinate advantage, you have to take inordinate responsibility for the outcome.

Anna O said:
Imprison all men as a social experiment. I want to see what a large-scale modern society made up of only women would look like.
Click to expand...
Oh yeah? Until they started arguing and realized they had nobody around to complain to about other women who wouldn't immediately run and tell everyone, and started taking the men out of prison.

I'd give them a few weeks before they started "borrowing" men from the camps. Look, we just need them for physical labor. We definitely aren't going to keep them to lay around watching Netflix with and to tell about our annoying co-workers.
 
  • Dumb
Reactions: Anna O
Meat Target said:
Establish Meatopia, a TradCath Far Cry 5-style principality. Ammo and booze are the official currency.
Click to expand...
Imagine a government that, when someone pays their taxes with bullets that do not work with any existing firearm, they then produce a firearm capable of firing it.

This is how we get a modified Browning M2 HMG that fires .50 BMG necked down to .223
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Like
Reactions: Aspiring Artist and Meat Target
Build safe haven for all the stray cats in the world. Command people I control to find a way to communicate with cats. Build an entire army division consisting of cats called the Meowrcenaries.

Then, with combined force of human and cat resources, I will seize a mass of land to build my own country, with this as the national anthem:
 
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: Myra, Aspiring Artist and Stabmaster Arson II
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back