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The rule could be anything, as funny or as serious as you want. The universe will progress in a similar way that it has up until this point, unless your changed rule prevented it from doing so.

Some examples might be:

  • The invention of currency is not allowed.
  • Iron is slightly less stable.
  • The Ancient Greeks are able to cultivate Silphium, which does not go extinct now.
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm going to keep this for when I have to explain non-Euclidean spaces during game night.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

That was great, thanks

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Instant karma. Weighted based on intent. E.g. If CEO cuts benefits to improve his stock value, then his balls explode. If a driver accidentally cuts someone off but feels bad about it, a full mosquito hits the windshield.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Like...a mosquito that just ate a large meal? Or like "one whole ass mosquito"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Never go full mosquito

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Greed is removed from the list of possible emotions/personality traits.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Great. Now everyone's horny.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You say that like it wasn't intended.

Welcome to my world.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

That was gonna be my change

Everyone horny all the time

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Native Americans are immune to European diseases.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Cats speak french, except in any situation where they can be recorded or transcribed, or when a french speaker can hear them. They also aren't very good at speaking french, but it's impossible for anyone to know that.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

All sentient beings have photographic memories and, through DNA, they can store and recall all of their previous ancestors' memories. All the way back to their oldest sentient ancestor.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Basically Assassin’s Creed

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is born

immediate ptsd from the memory of my parents plowing passionately which ended with my creation

crawls to the roof and jumps

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A necessary requirement for higher intelligence is proper, functioning empathy. If you lack this, you're just... Incapable of intelligent thought beyond that of a particularly stupid dog

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Humans do generally have proper functioning empathy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

dogs, too. such a strange take

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Being bad or evil is literally bad for your health.

The better you act, the better your health - great teeth, good muscle, low fat, high fitness, good looks, and longevity (to a point), no addiction or mental health issues, selfless with no crazy ego. Ie Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel!

Health can fluctuate based on behavior but it always drops 3x faster than it improves. So if you fuck around on your wife, your teeth go bad, or you start balding etc. cheat on your taxes, or lie maliciously (excl. good lies like Santa) you start to get fat n ugly.

If you're a miserable prick who fires staff, scams people, bribes, hires children for sweatshops or harms people just to increase profit or boost share price you get cancer. But if you help those people then you may be cured provided you handle it really well and undo all the damage.

You attack someone, pedal harmful drugs or hoard unnecessary wealth, you go blind/deaf until you earn it back, more than once and it becomes permanent, each time after that you lose a limb for good.

You intentionally harm or kill someone via murder, drink driving, rape etc then it's game over via a slow, long, painful debilitating disease that's contagious to anyone you like or care about, ensuring you die alone.

To help identify the good/bad, your gut instincts are 10,000x more powerful and obvious to warn you of the dangers or benefits of each choice.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is "being bad" decided?

If it's decided internally ("bad" is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.

If it's decided externally (there's an universal definition of "bad"), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?

That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is why this one wouldn't work in any meaningful way. Good and bad is a human creation subject to the individuals perception.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel

Mother Theresa was a monster who got off on the suffering of others.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No quantum mechanics. Things have concrete properties even when no one's watching, and they can all be observed at the same time. The universe is complex but understandable.

Also, P=NP and π is 3.33 repeating, just for the lols.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Karma now has a maximum of one hour turnaround time.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Base 36 counting becomes predominant.

0 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 A B

C D E F G H

I J K L M N

O P Q R S T

U V W X Y Z

Also the point at which hundred changes over to thousand gets pushed back by a power, so 6KL2 is Sixty Kay Hundred Elty Two, while 8,A59G is Eight Thousand Ayty Five Hundred Ninety G. Same with the changeover to Millions, Billions, Trillions, etc.

Probably wouldn't change that much practically, but it'd make "Ten" a square that's also the product of two prime squares, and it's divisible by a lot more ways than the current number base, and it makes "One Thousand" the square of "One Hundred" the same way "One Hundred" is the square of "Ten" and that "One Million" is the square of "One Thousand."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Found the nerd

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

No religion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Nice try God, I'm not getting you out of this one.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There should be at least 6 more ducks this time.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Silphium was recently rediscovered so it's no longer considered extinct just highly endangered.

Aside from that, I would make it so that instead of having mental illness you would have magical powers.

Schizophrenic? Nope you just talk to the Dead. Adhd? Nope, you're an elemental wizard. Bipolar? Nope, you're either a healer or a necromancer. Depressed? Nope, you're just low on mana. (Major depression means that you're suffering from a curse) Psychotic? Nope, you're suffering a mana storm Narcissistic? Nope, you are an illusionist. Autistic? Nope, you're an enchanter.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'd increase the speed of light.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Planck’s constant isn’t.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stupid thoughts become painful.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Humans are neutrally buoyant in Earth's atmosphere

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

CO2 doesn't cause extra global warming above 300ppm

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Life isn't possible

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The angles in a triangle now add up to 179°.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One free wish for any and every person who achieves something truly outstanding for mankind as whole (only positive achievements).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Positions of power are filled by people who are not interested in holding power.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you eat a piece of cheese, you get to levitate for 10 seconds no more, no less. Doesn't matter the size of the cheese or the type (this includes lactose free).

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

gravity is now a personal choice

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

let's get rid of the inverse square law. falloff is now linear.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

No sentient beings this time plz

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