Submitted 5 hours ago by bizarroland@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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.
Finna reincarnate without magic and then just pump up my INT so I can invent magic myself.
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.
Yeah, this question… like, this isn’t even a question. So much stuff I would re-do…
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
Reborn as myself. Once my vocal cords develop people will be amazed at the conversations they can have with a baby.
I don’t want to live another life.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
I think the greater risk is being forcibly drafted into some sort of magical war because of the fact that you have magical ability.
Neither. I’d make my parents choose people who actually love each other which would prevent me from being.
Can I choose to just die?
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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
I would make an exception in the case of trans people and allow them to be reborn as their preferred gender.
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!
Reborn. I wanna see my mom again.
Ok, this one is too wholesome for me to make a dark joke about.
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.
You said “with your current knowledge still intact”. If that means I can know beforehand which things I’ve already invested in which didn’t pay off and those which did (and I mean relationships, careers, life choices, not necessarily money) that alone would be a massive perk. You want to give me physical perks on top of that, I’m not complaining. But the deal was already a no brainer.
If there isn’t knowledge remembered then I’m a bit ambivalent about which of the two. I think I might go for magic but if you strip all memory away I would have nothing to compare it to.
You would keep your memory. It’s just knowing that the Cubs won the Super Bowl in 2015 doesn’t really do you any good in a world where there is no Super Bowl, or if there is, then it’s played with dragons.
First one. Need to stock up on amphorae first though.
Don’t forget your biscuits.
This is not really the right community, but I wanna play anyway lol.
If I’m getting your scenario right, the choice is between being you, but not having access to the Wizard class (or whatever it would be called) and limited to other classes; or not being you at all in terms of consciousness and being a wizard.
If that’s accurate, what would be the point of reincarnation? You wouldn’t get to enjoy any of it as your self. So unless the scenario factors in souls having memory and you’d get to enjoy it that way, it seems a pretty bad choice in terms of experiential immersion.
So, obviously, with that in mind, I’ll take the brand new body, thank you. Though if I can’t do so with my people also being present, I’d opt out entirely. I’m not sacrificing the good in my life, abandoning the people that love me and rely on me, just for an adventure. That’s what d&d is for, you dig? Taking an adventure like that without at least my wife is a hell no.
Your memory stays intact with either decision.
The question is, do you want to have your knowledge be immediately applicable to you upon being born, or do you want it to be a wellspring of information that you can pull from in an entirely different world where physical labor is dramatically simplified by the use of magic?
The advantage of magic is magic. You might be able to make extra coin by developing simple technology like a bicycle or something, and selling them to other people, or if you’ve read a lot of do-it-yourself and how-to books over your lifetime, you might be able to improve people’s living conditions and make a good life for yourself in the process.
The advantage of knowledge in this world would be things like putting extra skill points into your intelligence until you unlock eidetic memory and then remembering every lottery number that has ever been played that you’ve ever casually seen in your entire life, every stock market notable maneuver or event, and every major and minor catastrophe that has happened over your entire life and then do things to either prevent them or capitalize on them.
Ahhhh, that makes it much easier to choose magic. As long as I don’t have to leave my people behind, I’m down for that
Neither. I’ll take absolute absence
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.
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.
The timeline is changed. Skateboards are now square wheeled. You either know how to make it roll, or you hurt yourself.
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?
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.
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.
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
I think it’s reborn current time, not in the past
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.
I would like to experience something new, so would go with magic. As long as it’s not too wrapped up in religion. I’ve enjoyed my arc here, but don’t need to repeat it - and safe from being a chosen one is itself a perk.
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.
@Rhynoplaz @bizarroland what greater magic than kindness and compassion? We have that here, you have that power, here, now.
Fireballs.
Kindness and compassion are great and all, but Fireballs are MUCH greater.
Option 2. Much easier to get set for life.
Besides, magic already exists. We just know how it works now.
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!!!
Settle down.
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.
What kind of monster would saddle a newborn with the weight of my current knowledge?
Let me finish this play through and get back to you.
Option Two. Butt only if I can erase the memory of the clap your mom gave me.
I’m sorry dude, that shit doesn’t wash off even with reincarnation.
Second one
Myself with knowledge no question future knowledge and ability to make different choices way too valuable, even if i had no skill tree at all.
The magic one please. I need a mind reset anyways, knowing what i know today is no resource,it’s a handicap.
shirasho@feddit.online 1 hour ago
Give me a new body and a brain without chemical imbalances, please.