Corrupt-A-Wish

[E-102 Gamma]

I wish for a portable EM field generator!

Wish granted!

Unfortunately for you, however, it's powered by an ARC reactor and is always on. You can't even pick it up!

I wish for sunshine!

[Rman Virgil]

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Corrupt-a-wish!

The rules are simple:

I make a wish, and the next person to post finds an ironic way to derive bad consequences from granting the wish, or to otherwise tag a downside to it, and so on and so forth.

If a wish is uncorruptable, there are two courses of action: corrupt it anyways, or answer the wish with "not granted".

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[E-102 Gamma]

I'm just trying to keep the thread alive, and I'm not above feigning bipolar disorder in my attempts to do so.

[bendib]

I wish for a portable EM field generator!

Wish granted!

Unfortunately for you, however, it's powered by an ARC reactor and is always on. You can't even pick it up!

I wish for sunshine!

Wish granted! You get a sunburn.

I wish I payed attention in math class when I was younger.

[Rman Virgil]

I'm just trying to keep the thread alive, and I'm not above feigning bipolar disorder in my attempts to do so.

Subverting game rules is called cheating. But heh, to keep the game alive.

There's a very good reason for that rule. Making light of a serious mental illness doesnot absolve you of an eggregious over reach that compromises the games integrity and vitality.

I can explain the wisdom of that rule and why it shouldn't be violated, if anyones interested.
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[AWarZoner]

@Rman Virgil It's not the end of the world.
@E-102 Gamma Please obey the rules.

I wish I payed attention in math class when I was younger.

Wish granted you payed attention but you forgot everything.

I wish for a bomb!

Andrie

[E-102 Gamma]

I can explain the wisdom of that rule and why it shouldn't be violated, if anyones interested.

Enlighten me, please.

I wish for a bomb!

Wish granted.

You ARE the bomb! Literally!

*Runs away really fast and stuff*

I wish for a defragmentation grenade.

[Rman Virgil]

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I wrote this post 14 hours ago but held back, questioning its value and motivation. I've certainly had my own fair share of miss-fires and errors of judgement. In the end I decided to go ahead instead of letting it slide. It is all I have to say on the matter and I don't seek to pursue further discussion. Whatever this becomes going foward will do so without my engageing it.

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This game is a simple template, or form, within which you can make an attempt to create entertaining irony & inspireing humor, one turn at a time, just for the fun of it.

The art of sparkling humor can be as exacting as good code or it can be as unforgiving as bad code. When you write bad code chit craps out or nothing happens. When you write something that is more pedestrian and dull than funny, that is not entertaining or inspireing, there is dead silence.

Like stand-up, you can't re-do a stink bomb performance until the next time it's your turn to perform. Here that translates into it's up to somebody else to transcend the dead silence of your stink bomb with a creative, sparkling, ironic comedic bit of their own. Thus the rule elegantly promotes raising the bar, or at least maintaining a higher quality of posting. Darwinian selection in a sense. So it's not merely keeping the game thread alive at any cost, including cheating, but rather keeping it alive through comedic excellence even if that means less quantity for more quality. And that's the heart of a good game's rules - they encourage excellence over medocrity within a clearly defined construct that is consistently fair and not subject to the caprice of special interests and self-serving bias.

If you bomb, you gotta man up and just live with it until its your turn to do a better job of it next time. Subverting the rule of the game merely promotes the uncreative, dull, uninspired, bombs that result in silence or a gaggle of self-indulgent, tone deaf, desperate, effussions that are anything but entertaining or the least bit humorous.

Starting to remind me of those American Idol tryouts where they interview the singers and their family and friends before they perform in front of the judges for the first time.

"Oh yeah, I been singing since I was knee high to a toad stool. I just luv belting it out."

"Oh yeah, she's a veritable songbird."

Then she (he)opens their mouth before the judges and it's - WTF ! Girl (guy) can't even hit a note or carry tune. All you can do is cringe. And maybe that's entertaining in it self for a little bit but, sooner or later, you wanna hear someone that can really sing. With humor it's sooner than later that you wanna be charmed by someone's bit that makes you at least chuckle and not cringe.

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No... it's not the end of the world or the begining of the world. Nor is it a Gryffin, a pear tree, a bottle of lemon grass, honey flavored vodka or a cow with shark gills. Invoking a logical fallacy is not gonna dismiss the fact that breaking a game rule is cheating and cheating undermines the value of a game.

Can you imagine a baseball game where a batter has 3 strikes but instead of walking back to the dugout to give the next batter a chance to get a hit he decides he's entitled to a fourth pitch and swing. Whatever that becomes, it ain't baseball anymore.

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Now as far as making light of bi-polar disorder. I've known a few otherwise lovely individuals in my time who have suffered the malady until they no longer could and committed suicide. Unless you're a comedic genius like Richard Pryor who could make brilliant comedy out of his own near fatal heart attack and suffering 3rd degree burns over his entire body as a result of setting himself on fire free-baseing cocaine, then I'd stay well clear of such subjects to make funny.
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[bendib]

Wish granted! You get a copy of the Windows 95 FAT16 defragmentation program, which then explodes.

I wish derp.

Now that I have wished for derp, allow me to say the following: To a certain extent I can see both sides of the coin, in a unique perspective which I will explain. A huge number of my posts have all been posted in this thread, because I love this game. If this thread were to die, I would be quite sad indeed. I therefore can completely understand the desire to "bump" it and I can justify it wholly. However, I find the method of answering one's own questions to not really be a big deal, but when done more than once becomes annoying to see and harms the game's legitimacy.

As far as making fun of people with mental illness, I am sure Gamma meant no harm. I can relate to this. I often jokingly call myself insane. I'm not really "insane", but I have had a crippling form of OCD known as Pure-O OCD for over three years. It has nearly drove me myself to suicide. This form of OCD works by taking, incrementally, your worst fears, making you suspect they are true, and torturing you with it. If you ever succeed in disproving the fear \, it picks another fear you fear even more, and your mind starts to churn on the new problem, causing levels of stress and pain that can be used to power an electric chainsaw.

That said, when someone makes an OCD joke, I am not offended, as long as it wasn't intended as an attack. I doubt many are offended.

[E-102 Gamma]

I didn't mean to upset anyone. My apologies to anyone who may have felt hurt by my remark...

I wish derp.

Wish granted!

You get a useless machine that turns itself on instead of off. This is ironic, because it must be on in order to attempt to turn itself on. Derp.

Did I mention it can file your taxes?

I wish for a fully-functional, human-sized hamster ball.

[bendib]

Wish granted! You crawl inside but can't get it open again once inside.

I wish for deep knowledge of the 2.3.x netcode, so I don't have to dig around for every idea I have. :^|

[Lord Apocalypse]

Wish granted.

After learning every dark mystery of the netcode you have a stroke and can now only speak netcode. (my poor aunt can only say da da da da. Kinda funny as you can actually understand her anyway based on body language and inflection)

[AWarZoner]

Wish granted.

After learning every dark mystery of the netcode you have a stroke and can now only speak netcode. (my poor aunt can only say da da da da. Kinda funny as you can actually understand her anyway based on body language and inflection)

What's your wish??

[Lord Apocalypse]

err.. forgot that.

I wish for no more wishes

[E-102 Gamma]

I wish for no more wishes

Wish granted! You receive an 800-pound gorilla that has had way too much caffeine.

Did anyone else hear about those drones that Dominoes is now using in the UK to deliver pizzas? Yeah. Those would be pretty lame compared to giant dragonflies that deliver pizzas.

So I wish for it to become common practice for pizza joins to employ dragonflies with 5-foot wingspans to deliver pizzas to their pizza-craving customers.