• thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Alright, I guess I’m gonna have to be the one to ask: What is actually going on with the blue homie’s nips in this one?

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    5 months ago

    I wish for more genies. I wish that I could wish for more wishes. I wish for the ability to grant my own wishes. I wish that every wish I’ve ever made/will make comes true. I wish for the genie to lose the ability to count.

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      5 months ago

      Devil’s advocate here. The whole point of having the wish-giver be a sentient being is to filter bullshit loopholes like that. I like the idea of a highly moderate genie that takes his job seriously

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      5 months ago

      Historically genie (Jinn) wishes are always Monkey Paws, you just got shitted on six ways from Sunday, not least of which is being turned into a djinn.

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        5 months ago

        Alithea Binnie : There’s no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale. None end happily. Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.

        Genie : But you and I are the authors of this story, and we can avoid all traps.

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      Just use a lot of “ands” in the first wish. I wish for a pile of money and a jetpack and a lava lamp. Now I still have two wishes left

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    5 months ago

    It took me far too long to get this one - like why would an all-powerful genie be vulnerable to such a simple science trick? But probably what made the genie be that powerful was the voice of Robin Williams or Will Smith, and all other genies are inferior:-P.

    • Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      Because he knew that the guy did not wish for sunglasses that immunes them. So the guy wishing has no idea he had wished

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      5 months ago

      or Will Smith

      *triggered*

      No offense, but Robin Williams stands alone on that pedestal. (Please don’t slap me)

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        5 months ago

        It’s a voice acting job - he’s in another, separate room, so we should be safe. Yeah he had a great career, then that, and that’ll be all that we remember for a long time if not forever.

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      5 months ago

      Damn, I must be under-caffeinated. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out why the dude would have neuralized himself.