@xinjinmeng Excuse me, why do I deserve to be called out like this?
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@Phorm This reminds me, I was pondering Genie Metaphysics the other day after another horror-fantasy binge, and I was wondering what would happen if someone just grasped the nettle and wished: "I wish we could just all have something nice for once without some cynical asshole screwing it up," leaving the granter to deal with the implicit callout.
Doesn't really apply to you, because it's more for the Cruel Twisted Genies, not the Fun Peril Genies like you, but I still wanted your feedback...
Too much djinnformation
I am immediately reminded of the conclusion to "Roadside Picnic", wherein the final words of the story are the wish "Happiness, free, for everyone, and let no one be forgotten!"
Though that might be a bad comparison, really, given the mechanics of that story.
Hrm, were I to wager how my ancient malevolent Djinn forbearers were to interpret such a wish, it would be along the lines of dismal hope.
Everyone would get something nice for once. And then it'd be over, and gone, and we'd all be that much more miserable for having experienced how things COULD be, and struggle desperately to go BACK.
Standard human stuff, really. Turns out you don't need to do elaborate twisting most of the time. Humans do a good job of twisting up themselves.
. . .
Now if -I- got that wish, depending on who's making it, there'd be a worldwide geniefication orgy. With some amount of latex, gender warping, dronification, etc. thrown into the mix. We'd all fall down the bottle for a day, then just go about normal life the day after feeling refreshed and boy wasn't that a wild dream I had last night...
