Reborn as myself. Once my vocal cords develop people will be amazed at the conversations they can have with a baby.
Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by bizarroland@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Venator@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
And before that, your parents will be amazed that you didn’t need potty training 😅
Boe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
What if I already need potty training?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Anything sufficiently advanced that it isn’t explainable in the current culture is magic.
Considering I’m already a modern day wizard, I’d go for being able to use my existing skills from birth over being born into a society where the laws of physics may not be the ones I’ve spent decades studying. That sounds like a recipe for abject misery and early death.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Finna reincarnate without magic and then just pump up my INT so I can invent magic myself.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately I don’t think you get to repick your stats, just resets your str, dex and con
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Reborn. I wanna see my mom again.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok, this one is too wholesome for me to make a dark joke about.
AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It would be the best, man. I miss her. I could do a lot of stuff differently, sure, but mostly I would just like to spend some time with her. She was awesome.
stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So new game in magic world or new game + in normal world?
Do I have to be the chosen one in new game +? I’d do that if I don’t have the added responsibility of saving the world.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you’re of a certain age, you’d STILL have to save the world.
Imagine you go back in time, to the year your born. You can’t even speak yet, but you know 9/11 is coming.
If you try to warn others, they won’t believe you. But after it happens, they’d blame you. You’re the guy who knew 4 planes would be hijacked on one random tuesday.
Because thats what 9/11 was before the planes hit. Just another random tuesday. Very calm. Nice pleasant weather. If you watch what the today show host says at 8am, he says “It’s Tuesday morning, the sun is shining, and it’s a nice quiet morning. Maybe a bit too quiet.”
Oh believe me. That’s about to dramatically change!
But how would you know that on Sept 9th 2001?
So now you have a choice. Let thousands die on the day, and hundreds of thousands develop conditions related to the attacks. Ranging anywhere from mild, to lethal. Everything from a persistant cough, to aggressive cancer.
But in choosing to save them, you most certainly go to max security federal prison.
Or, you can pretend to be shocked when 9/11 happens. Knowing you let hundreds of thousands suffer.
Your choice.
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
You did this wrong. I would spend the time using the info I know to get massively rich very early and connect with people who can do something, and start working that front
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Would it really matter if we get reborn? That implies pretty strongly that death isn’t the end. Sure, you could choose to be a hero, or at least try, but all those people already died, maybe even you did (depending on how this whole thing works).
Given those surrounding circumstances, I don’t think the concepts of life and death would carry the same weight in a second run through life.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Going to a world of magic sounds pretty sweet, but only if I can remember that I once lived in a world without it. Otherwise, I’m just a schmuck in the only world I’ve ever known, and magic wont be any more fascinating than technology is today.
The current world with knowledge would be more advantageous than a magic world from scratch.
phaedral@beige.party 2 weeks ago
@Rhynoplaz @bizarroland what greater magic than kindness and compassion? We have that here, you have that power, here, now.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fireballs.
Kindness and compassion are great and all, but Fireballs are MUCH greater.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would I live in a preindustrial society just for the minute chance I could use magic. Because statistically speaking you will be a subsistence farmer in a world where the powerfull can literally alter reality.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you take the magic route, you are guaranteed magical ability of at least C tier rank, and since you have the status window, you will be able to upgrade that through patient and dedicated practice.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did not see the changes you made to premise. But I would still stay with modern comforts and lack of terrible diseases.
kibblebits@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Can I choose to just die?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
shoots kibblebits
BANG!
…wait, did he say something?
kibblebits@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
🥰
zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I couldn’t imagine a single scenario where I wouldn’t choose to reborn as myself. IMO it is objectively the correct choice: more stable/safe world (compared to pre-industrial revolution with dangerous spells), and I’ll almost be guaranteed to do quite well in it given the status window and skill tree
My intrusive thoughts tell me to choose world of magic and go kaboom though
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Nobody born today is going to be doing well unless their parents are rich. Doesn’t matter how smart you are.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 weeks ago
If you get reborn as yourself you can just buy bitcoin when it was cheap?
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Neither. I’d make my parents choose people who actually love each other which would prevent me from being.
VeryVito@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What kind of monster would saddle a newborn with the weight of my current knowledge?
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think I’m kinda done.
OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Same. Please just let me die.
MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The magic one for sure. I have no doubt that I would not only recover my memories of past lives but would ascend to much greater heights, perhaps grasping immortality itself. With dimensional and time travel, shapeshifting, I might even come back to this world. Maybe I’d turn my other self into newt and take his place. Or imbue him with forbidden knowledge and power. Or take him with me. Or maybe we’d just end up having a bunch of freaky shifting magic sex.
“Hey me, it’s you, from a world of magic. I’m here to rescue you.”
“Wow, how unexpected. Also, you’re hot.”
“Baby, I’m about to blow your mind.”
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reborn, any day. I’m quite happy with my life, but this and being a multimillionaire through some minor investments in bitcoin, and a stat screen to minmax? 11/10
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it’s reborn current time, not in the past
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, it’s New Game+. You would start over back on the day that you were born.
Your superpower in this case would be your ability to remember events that have happened over the course of your life and potentially profit from them or to change their outcome.
trijste@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Neither. I’ll take absolute absence
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A crucial part of this is that there is an afterlife, so if there is some sort of judgment for you, whether beneficent or maleficent, that would be your alternative option.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have quite the skill tree that I’m too old and broken to make use of.
Reborn with my knowledge of skateboarding? Yes please.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The timeline is changed. Skateboards are now square wheeled. You either know how to make it roll, or you hurt yourself.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
First one. Need to stock up on amphorae first though.
corvi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget your biscuits.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I really don’t understand what magic you think we don’t have? Chances are you typed this question on a slate of crystal and wire that allows you to see and hear across the planet in nearly real time. There are people who, with the right tools can summon fire at their fingertips, unleash arcs of lightning, draw water from thin air, and make rocks that talk. We are surrounded by forces that both well mapped (at least locally) and are completely incomprehensible to the best of us. While we have not mastered the veil between life and death, we have certainly learned to draw it back.
You are, I fear demonstrating the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. You’re confusing the comprehensibility of the world with mundanity. We are living in a world full of “magic”… It just doesn’t look like the magic you read about in old fairy tales, and importantly, it’s not shared equally to everyone.
I’ll take reincarnation with my mind intact.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This take lacks whimsy, and that’s my entire gripe with it.
If I can’t use the force to levitate a building or by simply calling on the spirits learn things that are verifiably true, then it’s not cool enough.
Sure, many of the things that we have may seem magical to a caveman brought here from 47,000 BC, but it’s not castles floating in the sky without a visible means of propulsion. It’s not mind-melding with a bird and seeing the world from its point of view.
We have an imitation of magic and not the real thing.
GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And what makes you think we haven’t got those still in store? The island of our knowledge and the vast coastline of our discovery is still insignificant compared to the vast sea of our ignorance and the oceans of possibility we have yet to travel.
Whimsy is in short supply, but it’s not because the world lacks magic. It’s more because of choices made by people who chose to be dead inside, and shaped the world in their image. I’m not asking you to stop demanding more whimsy, far from it. This old grey bearded man is asking you to form a party, accept a quest and perhaps one day lead the charge of an army in pursuit of returning the whimsy to the world.
Do you accept, traveller?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m assuming that all of the magic would be hoarded by the spellionaires. I’d be stuck in some warehouse loading an infinite number of potions that I can’t afford onto a Pallet of Holding.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think the greater risk is being forcibly drafted into some sort of magical war because of the fact that you have magical ability.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe it would be more like a world where everyone has a nuke, which means that conflicts and tantrums are way more dangerous but otherwise people are generally more polite and reluctant to escalate conflicts that do come up.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Magic easily. Why would I want to come back into a world like this?
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’ll take the new life+, thank you. Gonna be trivial to become a child prodigy, earn money off that and then have a very smooth adult life
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Unless the magic comes with sex and gender fuckery spells, neither. I’m not really keen on doing a whole lifetime without access to trans health care
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would make an exception in the case of trans people and allow them to be reborn as their preferred gender.
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
In that case, I’ll take “reborn with current knowledge intact” thank you!
Even though magic sounds tempting, if I can’t remember my previous stint, my reborn persona may as well be a completely different person!
Edge004@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Magic world. That sounds more fun and interesting to me
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
World of Magic, I don’t wanna live through the Trump presidency again, nor gender dysphoria.
shirasho@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Give me a new body and a brain without chemical imbalances, please.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand. you are born in a world of magic with the potential for magic vs having all your current knowledge? you are born in a world without magic but all your current knowledge vs born into a world with magic with no memories of your current life but potential for magic?
bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You keep your current knowledge either way.
The question is, do you want to live in a new fantasy world or relive this world, but starting over from when you were born?
I would also say that other than the spiritual act of reincarnation and afterlife things that there would be no manifestible magical powers in this world, the closest that it would come to would be having your status window.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
oh fantasy world 100%. Especially given what has happened with this world since I was born. Since I still have my memories it would be neat to experience magic.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Option 2. Much easier to get set for life.
Besides, magic already exists. We just know how it works now.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Here’s some magic.
The president is a pedophile and a rapist. Everybody knows. He’s starting wars as a distraction from his blatantly obvious sex crimes.
The magic is, how the fuck is he getting away with all this bullshit, while Nixon had to resign over a planted recording device?
It’s MAGIC!!!
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My fellow lemmite, you gotta find a way to take a break. That’s the equivalent of someone rolling up to a group of folks at the mall and ranting about politics.
While totally understandable that you’re stressed over it, the way you did it and the way you phrased it all is worrying. For real, no sarcasm, no snark, it makes me concerned that you’re on the edge of a breakdown. You have anyone irl that can help you find some outlet? Maybe a good game night with friends, whatever sport you might play? You can’t hold onto that kind of anger and stay healthy, physically. Like, the stress you must be feeling will harm your body.
I’m not even a people person, and I don’t know you, but if you were my neighbor I’d want to hug your neck and tell you that you’re not alone, that maybe we should grab some nice iced tea and sit a spell, give you a chance to let it all out to someone that’ll really listen.
Take care of yourself, okay? It’s an ugly world, but if you let it grind you down much more, it’ll just get uglier.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Settle down.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Let me finish this play through and get back to you.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Second one
TAG@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would never choose to be reborn as myself with my current knowledge. I would know how my life could turn out without knowing all the steps I did to get there. I don’t think I would be able to get my wife to fall in love with me and I know that I would never be able to find the exact breeder that sold me my dog.
Sure I would be able to see loved ones who have passed, but would I be able to enjoy that extra time knowing that they will soon develop a disease that will kill them?
As much as I would love to imagine how much better my life will be if I made the right decision at some juncture, I would not want to lose out on all the treasure I discovered taking the wrong road.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reborn as myself with my knowledge.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Young people don’t listen to old people. But, if the old person is myself, then I’ll listen… when I’m young again.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, this question… like, this isn’t even a question. So much stuff I would re-do…