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Offline AKKuya

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If You Could Snap Your Finger
« on: October 24, 2026, 11:20:46 AM »
I do possess a sinister sense of humor.  I came up with a scenario that if I could snap my finger, then I would sit back and enjoy the misery.

I would instantly remove all forms of electrical generation worldwide placing the world to pre-1870s.  No communication, powered transportation, and refrigeration dominates the landscape.  That being done, I would take into account the safety of aircraft in flight to land, submarines underwater to surface and head to port, nuclear reactors powered down, elevators in motion stop on a floor, ships at sea allowed to port, and any other safety measures taken including the return of people in space back to Earth.

With the snap, all people are returned to perfect health.  All diseases, mental conditions, and limbs replaced plus any other smaller issues resolved.  Hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and mental institutions are no longer needed.  I'll get to why prisoners can be released shortly.

With people restored to perfect health, the snap will include an end to aging, people can't die, a person can't harm another person, people no longer need to eat or drink, all pregnant women will carry babies to childbirth, all infants and toddlers and children will grow to adulthood and stop, and no new pregnancies after the snap.

If a person tries to harm another person, then the attacking person experiences tremendous pain.  This will stop stealing, rape, and murder.  Prisons are not needed.  Criminals are neutered.

This sounds like utopia.  Many ways it is.

Ask yourself one question. How long will it be before people go mad?

The first 20 years will be celebrating.  The next 30 years will be the new normal.  Starting at 70 plus years after the snap, the human mind will become bored with no change. 

Built into the snap, I would place a time limit that I only know.  From the onset of people being in misery until the end of the time limit, that would be my perverse form of amusement.

People who spent decades jumping from high perches and not dying on impact and other death-defying acts, people not having to cook, people nit having to work a job, people never having to worry about safety, and people tired of living would one day find themselves back before the snap never knowing why this happened.

Once people started dying, stomachs began to growl, thirst reappeared, and pregnancies returned, humans will be rejoicing again.  Then, the rebuilding of civilization begins.  What new world would emerge?

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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2026, 12:55:12 PM »
Thanos did this already.
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2026, 01:45:46 PM »
I gotta say, I never understand what your trying to get at. BTW what squad are you in? I don't recall ever seeing you in game?  :rock
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2026, 10:57:05 PM »
Thanos did this already.

No, he didn't.  He snapped to remove 50% of all life from the universe that he believed couldn't support all existing life.  A flawed supposition that sounded good on film but totally unrealistic.  At best, he was member of a Type 2 civilization's worth of knowledge and technology maybe close to a Type 3 civilization.  He did not have the ability to know the complete state of the universe to every planet, moon, asteroid, space station, and spaceship that orbited every star in each of the two trillion plus galaxies in the observable universe.  it would take a being from the theoretical Type 4 civilization to possess that ability and information.

My snap is totally different.  Read and compare again.

I gotta say, I never understand what your trying to get at. BTW what squad are you in?

The purpose of the O'Club is for fun topics and serious topics.  I usually prefer the first.  I enjoy making people think outside of the box.

BTW what squad are you in? I don't recall ever seeing you in game?  :rock

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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2026, 02:04:33 PM »
No, he didn't.  He snapped to remove 50% of all life from the universe that he believed couldn't support all existing life.  A flawed supposition that sounded good on film but totally unrealistic.  At best, he was member of a Type 2 civilization's worth of knowledge and technology maybe close to a Type 3 civilization.  He did not have the ability to know the complete state of the universe to every planet, moon, asteroid, space station, and spaceship that orbited every star in each of the two trillion plus galaxies in the observable universe.  it would take a being from the theoretical Type 4 civilization to possess that ability and information.

My snap is totally different.  Read and compare again.

The purpose of the O'Club is for fun topics and serious topics.  I usually prefer the first.  I enjoy making people think outside of the box.

The AK in front of Kuya is for Arabian Knights.  I no longer play the game actively right now.  Things can always change later on.

Ask other players who I am and what I've done in the game both in the MA and in Special Events over the years.  I started playing in 2007.

Well that answered my questions lol.  :salute
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2026, 02:57:47 PM »
A zillion problem can emerge from a lot of that.

Just think off all the problems of over the top extreme over population. The list is long.

Despite pain, suffering and grief,… there’s still something to be said about Darwinism.

A lot of times wisdom evolves from bad experiences

The world is evolving as it should, it wouldn’t be the first time human type species went extinct. We make the planet suck. Native Americans have it right,…..well except for the killing and pillaging each other. Oh wait!

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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2026, 11:09:12 AM »
If humans live, then Earth will die?  If humans die, then Earth will live?

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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2026, 11:12:23 AM »
Earth already has a time of death. It will be swallowed up by our star when it turns into a red giant in about 4 billion years. Give or take.
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2026, 11:20:33 AM »
I'm glad I'm not God. You should be too.  ;)
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2026, 12:33:49 PM »
If humans live, then Earth will die?  If humans die, then Earth will live?

No, not exactly my point.

Just saying, we did harm. Nothing a human does or doesn’t will save earth. We MAY prolong or shorten its demise, we aren’t going to save anything. Nothing we invented aids it.

Several times earth has gone through layers of extinctions. But it’s existence isn’t on a wrist watch. It’s 100s to millions of years. If we weren’t here with cars and industries it wouldn’t speed up. Just a fact.

Natives had it right, take only what you need, keep it clean, and evolution in motion.
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2026, 04:05:36 PM »
I could snap my fingers and make Aces High the #1 computer game in the world.
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Re: If You Could Snap Your Finger
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2026, 09:20:57 PM »
I could snap my fingers and make Aces High the #1 computer game in the world.

It already is, its just that not that many people know it......... yet   :devil