If You Could Have One Thing From ANY Piece Of Fiction, What Would It Be?
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Just a goddamn functional teleporter device from anything that has one. Would make my life that much easier.
Power-wise? Time manipulation. Or just manipulation of my perception of time, if that's not possible. As long as I need to think about any problem, the ability to fast-forward through the boring parts of life, reading anything instantaneously, having perfect reflexes because I can just slow the action down to a more manageable speed... it avoids all the usual problems of superpowers by not giving me any abilities that are technically beyond human capability, just makes my mind faster than anyone else's. Or if I get to distort the flow of time itself, it rolls teleportation and super-speed and invisibility and all sorts of other cool powers into one.
Tech? An Omni-tool would be magnificent, between the supercomputer on my wrist, the the microfabber that can break down almost anything into gel and then use that to construct whatever I choose in minutes...
Or maybe a neural computer, allowing me to access all the resources of the internet with a mere thought, perform instantaneous computations with mental commands, and record virtually anything I see, hear, or think.
And of course a sonic screwdriver would be nice. I'd want a variant that worked on wood though; that oversight would just get embarrassing after a while.
Character? First impulse would be Tali. But then I remembered that there's no food for her on earth, or any other planet we have access to at this time. Garrus has the same problem. And once past my first impulse, I had many problems. Twilight Sparkle or Fluttershy? Mordin or ED-E? Simone the Digger or Agatha Heterodyne? Too many choices, and since they're all options as soon as I picked one I'd feel terrible for missing my chance to meet the others. Not to mention the moral implications if I'd whisked them away from their world and into ours without their knowledge or consent. Better to stay away from this category.
I thought about a fully equipped SR2, but a) that seems like cheating and b) there's no way we could reverse engineer that tech.
Meanwhile, I'd stay away from true timetravel, just because I know that I'd try a paradox for the lulz and end up unraveling the universe.
And immortality... I'd love to live for a few centuries in good health. Even millenia. But I want a way out; I cannot comprehend eternity, and there'd probably come an aeon that I got bored and either wanted to die or went truly and utterly insane.
Tech? An Omni-tool would be magnificent, between the supercomputer on my wrist, the the microfabber that can break down almost anything into gel and then use that to construct whatever I choose in minutes...
Or maybe a neural computer, allowing me to access all the resources of the internet with a mere thought, perform instantaneous computations with mental commands, and record virtually anything I see, hear, or think.
And of course a sonic screwdriver would be nice. I'd want a variant that worked on wood though; that oversight would just get embarrassing after a while.
Character? First impulse would be Tali. But then I remembered that there's no food for her on earth, or any other planet we have access to at this time. Garrus has the same problem. And once past my first impulse, I had many problems. Twilight Sparkle or Fluttershy? Mordin or ED-E? Simone the Digger or Agatha Heterodyne? Too many choices, and since they're all options as soon as I picked one I'd feel terrible for missing my chance to meet the others. Not to mention the moral implications if I'd whisked them away from their world and into ours without their knowledge or consent. Better to stay away from this category.
I thought about a fully equipped SR2, but a) that seems like cheating and b) there's no way we could reverse engineer that tech.
Meanwhile, I'd stay away from true timetravel, just because I know that I'd try a paradox for the lulz and end up unraveling the universe.
And immortality... I'd love to live for a few centuries in good health. Even millenia. But I want a way out; I cannot comprehend eternity, and there'd probably come an aeon that I got bored and either wanted to die or went truly and utterly insane.
Pinkie-Pie-Party said:Well I don't think I'll be dying very often, so it won't be so bad. I think I could live with it. And a Prism is a person who can draft from all colours of the spectrum from Brent Weeks's other book 'The Black Prism'. Where's my damn cookie???CrazyBlaze said:Pinkie-Pie-Party said:Damn you, I knew what I wanted before you said that. Now I'm torn between two.Nouw said:
Think I'll be original and say the black ka'kari from the Night Angel trilogy
Azure-Supernova said:
Ninja'd. I think you guys forget though that the people closet to you die in order to keep you living. So thats a pretty bad trade off.
For the sake of chosing something from another piece of fiction I choose to be a Prisim. Cookies to anyone who knows what that is and were its from. But I do kinda want the RedKa'kari. Power over fire.. Score.
*Gives Pinkie-pie- party a cookie. *
There you go. On a similar note what is your favourite Brent Weeeks book? I know there is only four (five later this year)
On a unrelated note when people say Vin they mean Vindictus right?
Nom nom nom, I do like cookiesCrazyBlaze said:
Favourite is Shadow's edge I think, though the trilogy really needs to be appreciated as a whole.
As for the vin thing, no idea.
OT: Another good one to have would be the Space ship from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, 'Heart of Gold'
If I wanted a nukeproof mecha of destruction, I'd have asked for an Evangelion. About a billion times as manouverable, and it can actually be piloted by one individual.Da Orky Man said:You would chhose this:Rowan93 said:
Over this?
Yeah, I went there. The ACU can be taken out by a single nuke, and is therefore not good for taking over the world. Try nuking that thing, and it'll throw them straight back at you.
The point of the ACU is the ability to build things - to get from nothing to a well-defended base with an ICBM silo and hundreds of tanks takes about two hours. That it's a kick-ass giant robot is just a bonus.
This cookie is bittersweet. I don't want itHeimir said:
EDIT: Actually, sorry, it wasn't any of my business. It just seemed unnecessarily rude was all.
The Sphere from Michael Crichton's, well, "Sphere". After entering it I would be able to control reality simply by thinking about it. I would then proceed to acquire all the awesome stuff people have listed in this thread
I haven't read the book, but I've seen the movie and... most of said movie is made of reasons why you don't want The Sphere.DasDestroyer said:The Sphere from Michael Crichton's, well, "Sphere". After entering it I would be able to control reality simply by thinking about it. I would then proceed to acquire all the awesome stuff people have listed in this thread