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Which Lucky Charm do you choose?

heart
0
No votes
shooting star
1
2%
horseshoe
3
6%
clover
16
33%
blue crescent moon
3
6%
unicorn
20
41%
rainbow
4
8%
red balloon
0
No votes
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2
4%
 
Total votes : 49

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Postby Neanderthaland » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:41 pm

The unicorn charm is objectively the best, as demonstrated by the excellent webcomic A Better Place

Although I'd be tempted to get the "running faster than the speed of light" one. This breaks physics in all kinds of interesting ways, and I'd be interested to see how that works. It's very likely that doing this, even for a second, would destroy you and everything around you in atomic fire.
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Disgraces
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Postby Disgraces » Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:47 pm

Use the unicorn charm to create something akin to the clover charm
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:11 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:The unicorn charm is objectively the best, as demonstrated by the excellent webcomic A Better Place

Although I'd be tempted to get the "running faster than the speed of light" one. This breaks physics in all kinds of interesting ways, and I'd be interested to see how that works. It's very likely that doing this, even for a second, would destroy you and everything around you in atomic fire.

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Postby Comerciante » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:13 pm

Adamede wrote:Clover. My luck needs all the stat boosts it can get.

Anything multiplied by 0 is still 0.

Better go for flat buffs before you can try for multiplicative.
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Postby Chan Island » Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:36 pm

Obviously the unicorn because I could use it to make devices that do all of the others.

The only other acceptable one is the clover, because luck is nice.
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Postby Sundiata » Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:48 pm

Kannap wrote:[*]the clover charm grants you extraordinarily good luck

I'd have to choose this one, good fortune pays dividends.
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Postby Eahland » Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:06 pm

Neanderthaland wrote:The unicorn charm is objectively the best, as demonstrated by the excellent webcomic A Better Place

Although I'd be tempted to get the "running faster than the speed of light" one. This breaks physics in all kinds of interesting ways, and I'd be interested to see how that works. It's very likely that doing this, even for a second, would destroy you and everything around you in atomic fire.

I prefer this take on it, if only for the sentence, "Thermonuclear interactions, such as hydrogen fusion, may take place in the tomato sauce."
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Postby Xmara » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:30 pm

Unicorn. I'm a very imaginative person, so this would be my dream. The possibilities are endless if you know what you're doing, and you can exploit loopholes to get anything you want, even if it is "real."

Money? Well, the majority of the world believes in money, but they don't believe in a magic wallet that contains infinite money.

A new car? How about creating a car that not only can drive, but also has a super-secret teleportation function that only you can use.

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Postby Auphelia » Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:07 pm

I do have a few clarifying questions before deciding.

The Heart: Do you have control over these objects or are they essentially other people you have given life to? Also, are they physically able to move and speak or is a chair still a chair, but you and it now know it is alive and trapped in some sort of hellish half-existence?

The Shooting Star: How far and fast can you go? Is it based on your own endurance or does it take no energy at all? Is the weather a deterring factor, with a rainy day grounding you?

The Horseshoe: I can only assume the physics will prevent death or injury to you or those around you, but how far can you go and how much fine control over movement do you have? And if your perception of time is able to allow you to avoid running through people, do you experience time as if you were running from, say, Shanghai to Paris, or is it as nearly instantaneous as it actually is?

The Clover: Does this luck only apply to things that are truly random, or can it even go so far as to influence people into agreeing with you and similar things? Also, does this make all random events 100% go your way, or does it merely nudge impossible things into more likely events or likely events into near certainties?

The Blue Crescent: Does this make your clothes and objects you hold invisible as well, or will be have to be nudists? Also, does the environment around you react to your presence, or must you worry about footprints and being in fog or rain or a windy/dusty day? Also, also, does this also make you intangible, or must you be careful not to bump into people lest you get caught?

The Unicorn Charm: Once you create the impossible, must you hide it before people realise it is real and it then disappears? Or must it simply be made before think it is possible? A flying chariot pulled by golden tigers with wings of fire becomes a lot less impossible once it's next you you in a McDonalds parking lot.

The Rainbow: Are there range limitations? How specific must you be about where you want to go? Can it take you into locked or sealed places? Will it take you somewhere you cannot survive, even if you do not know the environment is hostile?

The Red Balloon: Are you also impervious to water pressure and temperature as well?
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Postby Victorious Decepticons » Sat Mar 06, 2021 11:12 pm

Unicorn! I am very imaginative, and could have anything else I wanted. Even better, I'd be able to do it in fantastical ways if I wanted to - without having to get a doctorate in physics, or even try to explain how my stuff works, for that matter.

Of course, I am assuming that the power would not be negated once the majority saw my creations in full existence. After all, I would not be doing low-key things with this power.
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Postby Infected Mushroom » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:15 am

the red balloon gives you the power to breathe underwater

... what?

Why is this a thing? What a random power. Who would suddenly go... “‘Kay I’m going to pick the superpower that lets me breath under the water.”?

What’s the point?
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Postby The Free Joy State » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:26 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
the red balloon gives you the power to breathe underwater

... what?

Why is this a thing? What a random power. Who would suddenly go... “‘Kay I’m going to pick the superpower that lets me breath under the water.”?

What’s the point?

You could go deep sea diving and gathering treasures from sunken ships, or -- in a non-plundering sense -- exploring the lost depths of the Titanic (and other notable wrecks if that's your thing) and photograph them so they are not lost to the ages. It would be invaluable for oceanographers studying reefs and undersea habitats.

Assuming said power also protected you from the bends.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:40 am

Questions on the unicorn charm:

1. Do my constructs cease to exist when a majority believes in them ?
Say - if I create a clean power source, will that stop to work once everyone has it ?
2. Is the requirement belief, not actual existence ?
Say - I could not create the God of Abraham or massive voter fraud in the USA ?

Though I probably will pick the luck charm :P
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Postby Socialist States of Ludistan » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:52 am

I actually think I’d pick clover, just think of the things I could accomplish with that, and it wouldn’t even turn around my entire world that much.
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Postby Calimama » Sun Mar 07, 2021 1:58 am

Heart sounds pretty terrifying ngl. I'd pick Clover, being extremely lucky is a boon in pretty much any situation.

Also heart reminds me of this for some reason.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:29 am

Calimama wrote:Heart sounds pretty terrifying ngl. I'd pick Clover, being extremely lucky is a boon in pretty much any situation.

Also heart reminds me of this for some reason.


Rememer Ma-Ti: heart is the greatest power.
In that cartoon it was at least. If the one wearing the ring was not a pussy ;)
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Postby Calimama » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:37 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Calimama wrote:Heart sounds pretty terrifying ngl. I'd pick Clover, being extremely lucky is a boon in pretty much any situation.

Also heart reminds me of this for some reason.


Rememer Ma-Ti: heart is the greatest power.
In that cartoon it was at least. If the one wearing the ring was not a pussy ;)


That Captain Planet reference went straight over my head.
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Postby The Alma Mater » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:48 am

Calimama wrote:
The Alma Mater wrote:
Rememer Ma-Ti: heart is the greatest power.
In that cartoon it was at least. If the one wearing the ring was not a pussy ;)


That Captain Planet reference went straight over my head.

The tvtropes page on it is fascinating.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ ... esomePower
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Postby Thepeopl » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:28 am

Unicorn, definitely. Dimensional gates, alternative universes, magic...
But will my extremely fast nano computer cease to exist if a real quantum computer is actually functional?

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Postby Calimama » Sun Mar 07, 2021 4:19 am

The Alma Mater wrote:
Calimama wrote:
That Captain Planet reference went straight over my head.

The tvtropes page on it is fascinating.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ ... esomePower


I love how there's a page dedicated to JoJo.
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Postby Northern Socialist Council Republics » Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:25 am

Kannap wrote:[*]the unicorn charm gives you the power to create things that don't exist - whether you imagine it or it's a creation of somebody else's imagination - mythical creatures, future technology, another planet with intelligent life in our solar system, etc. As long as the majority of humanity doesn't believe it exists, your imagination is the limit.

Being able to have whatever I want as long as it doesn't exist yet? Why would I ever choose something else?
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Postby Kannap » Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:44 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:
the red balloon gives you the power to breathe underwater

... what?

Why is this a thing? What a random power. Who would suddenly go... “‘Kay I’m going to pick the superpower that lets me breath under the water.”?

What’s the point?


The back of the cereal box said it gives Lucky the power to float, which seems useless when another charm gives you the power to fly. The ability to breath underwater is an improvement here.
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Postby The Free Joy State » Sun Mar 07, 2021 7:48 am

Kannap wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:... what?

Why is this a thing? What a random power. Who would suddenly go... “‘Kay I’m going to pick the superpower that lets me breath under the water.”?

What’s the point?


The back of the cereal box said it gives Lucky the power to float, which seems useless when another charm gives you the power to fly. The ability to breath underwater is an improvement here.

If it protects you from decompression sickness, too, I'd have thought it should be quite a useful skill.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:01 am

The Free Joy State wrote:
Kannap wrote:
The back of the cereal box said it gives Lucky the power to float, which seems useless when another charm gives you the power to fly. The ability to breath underwater is an improvement here.

If it protects you from decompression sickness, too, I'd have thought it should be quite a useful skill.

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Postby Destyntine » Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:48 pm

The unicorn charm is overpowered. Obvious choice.
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