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[TheFerrett]

We started out with several fairly generic wishes. But did we miss one? If there's a wish you think we should be devoting the collective brainpower of the planet to, let us know here and we may open up a branch for it!

[ysabel]

Wish for Reality-Changing Powers.

(Because, you know, you can't generally wish for true omnipotence, but there's got to be some nearly-so subset that you can wish for.)

[Nazdakka]

What is the genie's policy on wishing for more wishes?
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[TheFerrett]

[The Paco]

A wish for the ability of flight? I've thought about that one a bit, and have figured a few fixes to common flaws for it. Such as most of the ones Superman conveniently skates around like vaccuum, high speed wind on flesh, acceleration, etc.
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[miles2go]

How about knowledge/intelligence/wisdom? How do you wish yourself smarter without blowing out your brain by wishing for more than a human being can comprehend and remain sane?

[Jacob Orlove]

Edit: nevermind.

[StephanCom]

For a long time, my favorite wish has been

The Wish for Time Control 1.0
"I wish to be able to control time for the entire universe or any desired subset or subsets, generally but not necessarily excluding my own subjective experience, in the manner of a VCR: pause, rewind, fast forward, including the ability to undo any changes I make to the time continuum"

Note that this neatly encapsulates most of the other wishes in the set, making them trivial or close to it.

Wish for lots of money/to be rich
Easy! Stop time and walk into the counting room of your local drug dealer, leaving with a bag of cash. Fast forward to tomorrow to find out the lotto numbers/stock prices/sports scores, then rewind to today and place your bets. It might be more fun to just take things, though.

Wish to find one's true love
Well, it might not help you find her, (the search is half the fun, and who says there's only one?) but once you do, it's a lot easier to woo her - freeze time, go get a dozen roses, and pull them out of thin air. Rewind and get rid of her boyfriend or un-say that stupid thing you said. Promise her the world, and deliver.
Also allows for creepy/kinky things like in The Fermata.

Wish for world peace
Freeze time and disarm soldiers, etc. Make miracles to convince the bad guys that Allah doesn't want them to do that. Selective assasinations to eliminate troublemakers. I also imagine pantsing the president on national TV.

Wish to return a loved one from the dead
Pull them out of harm's way, stop them from catching bird flu, fast forward them to a time when there's a cure.

Wish for happiness
Yeah, not so much. But it would make me happy

Wish for immortality
OK, that would be my other wish, generally combined with happiness as something like "to live as long as I want to, and want to as long as I live." But lacking that, fast forward to a time with better medical care, rewind to just before you put on the mispacked parachute, etc. You're immune to almost anything but an instant death that happens too fast to freeze.
Oh, yeah, and you can rewind your body to any age you want. I recommend doing it a year at a time, so as to not freak out the locals.

Wish to undo a personal situation
duh.

Plus:
Let's not forget the ability to find out just what really happened - screw the Zapruder film!
Freeze time during the final exams to look up the answers and get any degree you want!
Age your enemies to death!

A couple of specifics about my wording:

Freezing time covers 99% of my day-to-day stuff, but why not go for rewind/ff?
"Desired subset" because it would suck to freeze time and not be able to open doors, or have to walk to Ireland. I say walk, because the water would be frozen too, right? If I get three, teleportation goes on the list.
Multiple subsets would be very handy, though I think you could do without.
Undo, because I've read The Man Who Folded Himself and lots of other time travel stories and seen The Butterfly Effect. It's too hard to predict changes down the line, so you need to be able to experiment.
I thought about making it like a DVD player, rather than a VCR, to skip directly to a point, but I think FF/rewind (as long as you can do it subjectively fast enough) steps around problems like movement of the earth, materializing inside a new wall, not knowing precisely when you want to go to, etc.

I can't really think of anything I'd want to do that this power would not allow; some things might end up requiring a lot of personal effort, but that might be fun.

OK, please fix it for me, interwebs I'd especially like to know how to word bookmarking.

[inncubus]

In D+D wishes crop up relatively often.
GMs always find daft ways to screw the player over, and are maybe as bad as a "real" genie would be.
Is it therefore acceptable, in this forum, to discuss such fantasy wishes?

If it is, I'd be fascinated if we could come up with a way for a character to gain a level (the metagame concept) without having to fight an insurmountable challenge first.
The usual things being "I wish for x experience" "Ok a demon appears" ; "I want to be harder" "OK; you feel your flesh harden as your eyes conect with those of a greater basilisk"; or "I want to gain a level" "you're now standing on a step one inch above where you previously were".

[Ronfar]

True love? Who needs that! I want to make a wish to get laid.
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[MisterJTA]

[Jacob Orlove]

Edit: nevermind.

[Aliza]

Jacob: Fame and (positive) recognition?

[Fax Celestis]

I've got two wishes:

1. International Acclaim, Fame, Fortune, and General High-Charisma-ness
The problem here is how do you ensure that you're not going to get so sexy that everyone will jump on you and crush you to death?

2. Super Speed
I've always had a fixation on being able to move really really fast. But how does one make a wish that allows one to move like the Flash without (a) coming apart in the process; or (b) ensuring that one doesn't meet their untimely end by way of running into the Empire State at 900 mph?

[StephanCom]

I'm surprised no one else has picked up on the time control wish, as it would certainly help with a couple other wishes:

1) Art/Fame

If you just want to be famous, but aren't too picky, you could easily be the greatest magician ever. When you can stop time, you can make darn near anything appear or disappear, if you don't mind taking a lot of personal time. Moving the Statue of Liberty all by yourself might take a year or two, but it's workable, and you can always unfreeze your trusted confederates to help.

If you want to make art, just stop the world and spend years privately working on your painting/performance/whatever, and wow the hoi polloi with your output. Plus, a lot of 'ordinary' fame isn't talent, it's business politicking - be a fly on the wall in casting meetings, etc.

2) super speed

Well, you can freeze time and be anywhere instantly, that seems better than super speed. "But" you say "the fun part is moving fast, not getting there". Fine, amuse yourself, slow the world down to whatever speed makes it feel like you're going real fast and walk around moving cars, outrun airplanes, etc. Jog if you wish.