"Immortality, obviously."...wrong, wish for a happy immortality with everyone you love

I'd probably just wish for people to stop multi accounting though

Dexter+1,
Zmaj+2

Oh and omnipotence has to be the one for me too.

jmo, happiness and love are emotions inside you, not something in the world around you. Wishing for eternal happiness and love would turn you into some sort of zombie who is happy and loving by default.

Screw omnipotence. I want omniscience. I'd rather know everything than be "all poweful".

"Also as long as the amount of money you had wasn't widely known, and you didn't spend too much all at once (anything larger than a stastically insignificant amount) 100 Trillion dollars wouldn't necessarily have any effect on the economy"

Problem is that my bank would immediately know I have $100T (presuming it's placed in a bank account; I don't really want to have to have a "money room" in my apartment where I stuff $100T), and then their records would change to indicate this, and then shit would go south in a hurry.

@omniscience/omnipotent/mindreading - That's creepy and terrifying (omnipotence only if you choose to use it for mind-reading). One's thoughts are the final sanctuary of privacy. I would have to think this fundamentally immoral.

"Screw omnipotence. I want omniscience. I'd rather know everything than be "all poweful"."

If you know everything you'd be pretty close to all powerful. The only exception being when a situation arose that had no solution.

1 million is nothing these days, that cash would come and go so fast your head would spin.

I would wish to be 20% better at everything.

"One's thoughts are the final sanctuary of privacy. I would have to think this fundamentally immoral. "

Dude, have you ever watched "What Women Want"? I just want that, but with an on/off switch. Think about it. At work you get to do *exactly* what your boss wants every time and put yourself on the fast track for promotion. Once you're high up and you're doing negotiations for other companies you can read the other delegation's minds and know what their red lines are. And then on the weekends you're the greatest man ever for any women you choose. Come on. It'd be fantastic.

And you'd be able to blackmail pretty much every leader on the planet and use this power to make yourself the first leader of the UN with any real power and bring about a new age of peace and prosperity :D

I'll admit goldfinger's mind reading wish has flaws, but it beats the hell out of dexter morgan's wish to scrap Christmas (which is what it essentially is)

Eternal source of thermodynamic free energy somewhere in the universe. ulytau-Heat death of the universe 1:0

I may be verging on the completely insane with this one, but what about a wish for little cartons of milk in hotel rooms which actually taste of milk?

"Dude, have you ever watched "What Women Want"? I just want that, but with an on/off switch. Think about it. At work you get to do *exactly* what your boss wants every time and put yourself on the fast track for promotion. Once you're high up and you're doing negotiations for other companies you can read the other delegation's minds and know what their red lines are. And then on the weekends you're the greatest man ever for any women you choose. Come on. It'd be fantastic."

Sorry, but it's innately human to push the boundaries. When you come in at 9 to work you're trying to figure out what would get you ahead with the boss, when you work late at 7 you're unlocking his office with the key whose location you mind-read to get some sensitive papers out of his desk to blackmail him into a promotion.

Besides, if you're going to be a mind-reader, just go all-in and spend your time in the bad parts of town. You know how big an influence you could be on somebody else's life? You'd understand people as well as they understand themselves. Go sit down, talk to people. Change some goddamn lives. Don't waste it on the corporate world and chasing women, you can succeed at those without mind-reading.

It sucks to be lectured on the proper use of supernatural power one doesn't have.

krellin would ge great at that though, we need krellin in this thread.

Which of course reminds me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0y5dHmVRIc

I would wish for a full ride to Berklee. I could make my way through the rest of my life from that point on. To follow in the footsteps of Bill Chase is all I'm concerned about... - [BCAC]

KA Berklee doesn't accept WV hillbillies.

@ Draugnar

I could pay off all US debt, give a few trillion to the military-industrial complex just to see what happens, set up a 40 trillion dollar rainy day fund in case the Democrats get back into power, give a few trillion to Veterans' Affairs, donate to a handful of charities, and live in absolute luxury with the rest of the money.

lol wait a sec gunfighter, republicans rack up just as much debt as Dems do, right?

Yes, dems spend more, but neither party has shown itself capable of balancing the budget.

http://jimcgreevy.com/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html

Yes, I know Obama isn't on there, and I'm not defending him - I'm just saying you can't really make that insinuation.

@Eden - you're right. Corporate advancement isn't the way to go. I much prefer what Octavious would do with my superpower :D

Omniscience would be my first wish choice. It's evidently the best pick possible under any circumstances.

Unfortunately, this isn't a 3 wishes thing and I can't ask for unlimited range, force & precision telekinesis for the second, and removing the ability for genies to grant wishes and otherwise affect the space-time continuum any further from the point this wish was granted as my third and final choice.

I would wish to have the ability to kill anybody by touching them on the top of the head, while being immortal myself.

I would then touch myself on top of the head and laugh as the world exploded.

Actually, you know what I'd wish for? A gate-based teleportation system. In an instant, it would render trucking, shipping, the whole freight transportation industry obsolete and help fight global warmi....

Scratch that. If I really wanted to help the world with a wish, I'd wish for a permanent, stable, sustainable climate with predictable weather patterns. BAM, solved global warming.

^Genie: "Ok, I'll render the planet barren for you."

Complete understanding of all the physics that govern our universe.

hey what happened to my cell phone?!?!?!?