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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Nah, of the things pictured I'd go with money and find love the old-fashioned way.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Being Superman is probably the best. Functionally immortal, perfect disguise is just 1 pair of glasses away so you can still find love, hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago

hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

Easy there, Homelander

[–] CurlyMoustache 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, you can find true love but but you can never have sex again. No human would be able to survive your orgasms

[–] Oograh 9 points 2 years ago

"The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom, and that'd kill him" - Brodie Bruce

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Immortal

That's fun for the first million years or so but then get a little boring. Then about about a billion years when the sun starts heating up and effectively scorches and sterilized earth, you better hope humanity has found a different place to live. By the time the universe dies of heatdeath, you will have gone insane from trillions of years of lonelyness

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure if you are superman you can find another planet with intelligent life.

Else, maybe you can terraform some other planet and help humanity move there, you are fu**ing Superman after all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

By the time heat death occurs you'll have lived for trillions over trillions over trillions of years (10^1500 earth years if I recall correctly), probably alone because everyone died except you. Them heat death occurs, meaning no more planets, no more stars, not even black holes will be left You'll then spend eternity in a black void with nothing.

Fun times!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Once you have a ton of money how do you separate true love from people who just want to be around you for your money? Look at the personal lives of billionaires. These are highly dysfunctional people.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

True love won't solve life's problems either, lol. Dysfunctional people will dysfunction. I say money, so that you can afford therapy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I mean, I wasn't thinking billionaire level of money. But even if I was, you don't have to disclose you're a billionaire when going on a date.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like professional match makers would be the best way. You get the personalized touch of a real person, and have an intermediary if things go bad.

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[–] De_Narm 74 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Just saying, the loving wife he just spawned in would probably gladly use her wish on whatever he wants too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She already used it on the perfect hair-doo.

[–] Madison420 16 points 2 years ago

That swoop do be swoopin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

True, that's a lovely reminder. Seriously everybody, stop scrolling and ponder this.

[–] Espi 7 points 2 years ago

She probably also wished for true love

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Everyone in here talkin about love, superman, etc.

Im sitting here looking at the most bizarre take on an xwing i think I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Gotta keep those Disney lawyers off your back.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It appears to be a Λ-wing rather than an X-wing...

[–] ultracritical 5 points 2 years ago

Cause it's not. It's a knock off of the e-wing, the legends successor to the x wing that wasn't used much cause it kinda sucks. Though it might be in Ashoka now too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

just wish to have perfect disguises then disguise yourself as a different customer.

if it's a good wishing well it shall be fooled, as you asked for perfect disguise

[–] Custoslibera 21 points 2 years ago

Just wish for more wishes.

You’re convoluting a process that doesn’t need to be.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Now she can wish for a Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus and they can both be happy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Gonna need that wheelbarrow of money to pay for fuel though.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd be happiest with true love over an x-wing, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if, they're one and the same??

[–] Noodle07 4 points 2 years ago

R2d2's love is all you need

[–] Acters 4 points 2 years ago

I find this comic weird. If the woman is his true love, then he would love her more than anything. Either the well failed at the wish or it can only make a wish that can come true at a single moment but not forever(like ending world hunger would only be solved for the moment but not in the future). Either way, I think the last panel should have the guy falling head over heels in love with her as that was the wish he had made.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Have philosophers managed to put together a universal best wish?

The best thing I can think of is: true and abiding justice for all of humanity.

I'm sure there's a monkey's paw in there somewhere, but I feel like it would potentially have the best outcome for as many people as possible?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So vague, what does "true" justice even mean? If I was an evil ~~genie~~ well, I would make you regret that wish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wish for omnipotence. Now you can do whatever you want. Now that you have that, make yourself incrementally smarter so you can better define smart each time. Become indestructible, but not like a super strong dead piece of metal like that asshole well would've done. Then transform the human race into a spacefaring utopian, post scarcity society where your new smartass self defines what that is. Basically become a real benevolent god.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Wishing, well...

[–] niktemadur 9 points 2 years ago

That looks like a Federation shuttle with a Rebellion paint job.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So... We're just posting 20 year old web comics now?

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[–] Jerb322 4 points 2 years ago

I should have gotten a falcon....

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