u/Pointless_Storie

It’s extremely detailed (obviously) and about everything. Life, the universe, Heaven, Hell, etc.

God will take your feedback with extremely serious consideration.

Try to be constructive and not insulting though. Don’t overplay your hand. That tends not to work well with omnipotent deities.

You can also decline, in which case the survey goes to the person you most hate in the entire world.

What do you do?

The person is definitely telling the truth and cannot be wrong because Fate.
Tomorrow will definitely be the best day of your life.

However, this doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed to win the lottery or something. Or even that anything at all interesting happens. It’s just going to be the day in your life that you consider the best.

After that every day will be worse than that one.

So what do you do with that information?

You were given access because the magic machine decided to give you access randomly.

There are recordings of every possible kind.
Perfect audio and video, both from your perspective and from a neutral 3rd party perspective, logs of all your actions and thoughts, biometric data, etc.

The data is 100% accurate.

Where is this stored? In a magic building you can enter whenever you want. No one else has access.

So anyways what do you do?

The price is free.
The contracts can last any length of time, but must be a minimum of 1 month.

The employees of the company are hired to follow you around and stop you from doing whatever you requested.

For example, if you want to have them stop you from smoking, they’ll do everything from a verbal warning to blocking you from entering a store to buy cigars to pulling them out of your hands, to even locking you in a room until you stop. The severity depends on the situation.

The employees are all physically far superior to you and have unwavering commitment. The exact number present with you varies, but it’s always enough to easily overpower you. They’re also way smarter than you so you can’t trick them. They can even be magic if you want. Nothing will persuade them to stop their goal, but they’re fairly nice and polite otherwise. Also 0% chance they’ll abuse you in any way.

Do you choose to use this company?

The magic detector knows exactly how happy you are with your life. There’s no tricking it in any way. It can also give you a comprehensive breakdown if you want.

The money is perfectly legal because reasons so there’s no worries there.

In lots of stories, the main cast of 10 or less people has to tackle a problem.

And they win cause that’s the story, but it does often raise the question of “why didn’t an army or a group of 100 people do this”?

And lots of the time, there’s no real answer. The author just distributes plot armor.

The army or large groups just have 0 intelligence. Or their weapons don’t work for some reason. Or the monsters kill them easily but struggle to kill the main characters.

Meanwhile the major characters have regular brains and success rates.

And yeah I get it. Stories are often more focused on individuals, and narrative focused on individuals has to distribute “importance” and “dramatic moments” accordingly and have “economy of interest” or whatever, but it’s just annoying sometimes.

So how do you deal with this problem?

Though arrogant and looking down on you, the rich person in this case will definitely honor the deal.

Do you accept the challenge?

Let’s say people in this world are born with magic.

But some are born with way less magic than others, to the point where it’s basically a disability.

For these people, there’s a slur, which also means a combo of “weak” and useless”.

This is important because the protagonist accepts that he’s “weak” but doesn’t think he’s “useless”.

So the story is basically about how this disability impacts this person’s life prospects: no one takes him seriously, he has trouble getting into relationships because few people want someone like him, limited job prospects.

The protagonist isn’t the type of person to give up though, and keeps lowering his expectations to try to find happiness.

He still ends up having trouble, not able to find a suitable relationship, and being forced to work with his family instead of finding a real job outside. But he does his best to try to be useful. To find happiness.

This all comes to a head when 1 day, while everyone else is gone for some trip a monster attacks his home town.

The man knows he’s no match for this thing, but there’s no one else around to help, and his home will be destroyed.

So he grabs the best weapons he can find and uses his knowledge of the monster and the highest success rate tactics to try to beat it. He’s in his prime and will never be stronger.

He loses.

When his family returns (he somehow survived) his sister apologizes to him, saying it’s not his fault, that “we should have had someone here.”

And the man is crushed, cause “no one. I am equal in strength to no one.” And for the first time in his life, he calls himself the slur. He is [weak] and [useless].

The end.

What do you think?

(I have tried)

Thinking of a scenario like this:

There’s a little girl who can see the future, and what she sees has a 100% chance of happening.

What she sees is her older brother taking her cookie and eating it, so she gets mad at him and blames him for it.

The brother initially has 0 intention of taking her cookie, the thought has never even crossed his mind, but she eventually irritates him so much that he takes it out of spite, which of course, fulfills her prediction and “vindicates her”.

The parents eventually learn about this and kinda realize that she caused the whole situation, but how do you explain to a kid what a self-fulfilling prophecy is?

It's a like regular computer, but because it's magic it's always up to date with the latest features and will never stop working on its own.

It has an app that will tell you the future if you use it.

If you tell the app what you want to know about the future it can show you the answers in text, picture, or video forms.

What it says has a 99% chance of being correct.

The 1% time it's wrong will vary greatly on how "wrong" it is.

For example, if it tells wrongly tells you that tomorrow you're going to go to a restaurant and order food there while wearing a green shirt, it could be wrong cause you actually wear a red shirt.

Or maybe you go to a different restaurant. Or maybe you never go to any restaurant tomorrow.

I think you get the idea.

If you ask about the same thing multiple times, it will always give the same response, so you can't just tell if it's wrong by running it 1000s of times on the same scenario.

Anyway, what do you do with this computer?

There’s no catch, if you can complete the task you get the money. There’s no negative consequences either way.

You don’t have to enter a race or a tournament, you just have to run the distance straight in a place where the billionaire can see you.

What do you do?

Like no real reaction to any jokes, inconsistent attention, basically doesn't care if the Comedian lives or dies.

Pure Apathy.

Just off the top of my head, here are popular work of Fantasy that include "Chosen ones" and "Prophecies":

Lord of the Rings

Game of Thrones

Wheel of Time

Harry Potter

The Chronicles of Narnia

So some of the popular and influential Fantasy books/series of the last 75 years basically.

If we include movies, we get Star Wars and Dune. And some of the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). Some pretty popular stuff there going back about 50 years.

If we include Anime & Manga in Fantasy, we get Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach. Some fairly popular series there spanning at least 25 years.

And if we include video games we get stuff like Skyrim, God of War, etc.

So I think we can reasonably conclude that "Prophecy of the Chosen One" is basically a genre-defining trope. One that audiences and authors love.

So why do the people here not?

If you actually follow the plan and do all the steps it will definitely work.

Who gave it to you? A god probably.
What’s in the plan. Steps to take, people to meet, skills to master, things to do, etc.

Anyway it’s a pretty intensive plan. The steps involved would literally take the equivalent of 8 hours of true work per day, every day, for 10 years.

Consider it basically equivalent to a full time job.
(It may or may not require you to take certain jobs as part of the plan. Depends on the person honestly.)

It also has to be continuous. You can take some breaks, like maybe a few days or weeks but if you stop for too long, you have to start over.

So what do you do?

The pill came from the Science God or something.

The pill definitely works. There’s no other effects except for increasing intelligence.

You can also choose to throw the pill away.

You can also give it to someone else.

You only can get 1. It’s impossible to replicate.

What do you do with the pill?

Decided to invent a creature that defies perception for fun. Kinda basic but the concept seems fun enough.

It’s basically a creature you can’t see, hear, smell, or taste. You can’t tell what temperature it is either and if you physically touch it, you won’t know that you are touching it.

For example, if it stood in front of you and you walked into it, you wouldn’t know that, you’d kinda just wonder why you’re not moving forward anymore or why you can somehow lean on “nothing”.

If it started hitting you, you wouldn’t register it as hits, you’d just wonder why things are suddenly hurting the same as if you’re being punched or something.

If it stood in front of an object, because you can’t visually perceive it, you’d wonder why you can’t see the object anymore.

So what do you think? If someone was stuck in a house with one of these could it drive them insane?

Decided to invent a creature that defies perception for fun. Kinda basic but the concept seems fun enough.

It’s basically a creature you can’t see, hear, smell, or taste. You can’t tell what temperature it is either and if you physically touch it, you won’t know that you are touching it.

For example, if it stood in front of you and you walked into it, you wouldn’t know that, you’d kinda just wonder why you’re not moving forward anymore or why you can somehow lean on “nothing”.

If it started hitting you, you wouldn’t register it as hits, you’d just wonder why things are suddenly hurting the same as if you’re being punched or something.

If it stood in front of an object, because you can’t visually perceive it, you’d wonder why you can’t see the object anymore.

So what do you think? If someone was stuck in a house with one of these could it drive them insane?

It’s a normal coin toss. Predict the side that lands heads up. She isn’t going to do anything to manipulate the outcome.

Walking away doesn’t curse you or anything. Your life continues as usual.

Why is she doing this? Because it’s your “lucky day”.

What do you do?

Your doppelgänger seems like a nice person, but after seeing you they’re a little paranoid that you’re going to steal their life. Being a nice person, your doppelgänger decides to communicate this “irrational” worry to you directly.

What do you do?