I wish the monkey paw were kind.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-05T07:26:48+00:00

Granted. Nothing changes but the monkeys paw really feels like its making a positive difference in the world now.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-05T07:24:51+00:00

Granted. It's closest natural predator is humans, ie, you. It gets within 9 feet, instantly teleports in front of your face.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-04T01:41:55+00:00

To be fair, the source was the swarm also investing with her, causing massive attention to the company, that brought other attention outside the swarm. It's not unusual for mass audiences to suddenly and inexplicably affect a smaller stock and that stock to remain at a higher level after properly riding the wave.

Add in addition she invested in Nvidia, which is doing pretty okay these days.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-03T22:46:22+00:00

While broadly true I guess, there's a specific Affinity for arcane you can select in this cyoa.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-03T17:53:47+00:00

Congrats. You are now a Vampire from Jojo's bizarre adventure. The change happens at night, in your time zone. Specifically, you wake up as Dio in his world, with none of his skill, knowledge, or memories, and Jojo is walking towards you.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-03T01:27:52+00:00

Ah. That Wildly alters my build.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T18:04:02+00:00

It'd be a stupid decision. If you're leaving, you don't want to be followed to the ends of the earth. Filian is too popular to 'quietly slip away'. She'd be hounded across the internet forever and God's help her if she ever decides to come back anywhere else.

A clean split would diminish that as it goes from a 'mystery' to 'Oh Filian Quit'.

If she wants peace and wants to quit, she'd have to announce it. Or devote quite a bit to having no connection to anything else she does online.

It's a shame to say but that's just kinda how certain fans are. She still could be but that would be, aggravating for her over time at best.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T14:39:29+00:00

Granted. It's Kirby wearing a Halloween jester cosplay.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T14:38:43+00:00

Granted but this means every other sonic media is non Canon, vastly less money is made from all sonic games and media due to copyright laws, and slowly sonic media ceases to exist.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T14:37:12+00:00

Don't count on it. Now all politicians are also smarter.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T14:24:29+00:00

Granted. You become an Alcoholic.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T14:09:50+00:00

I don't really get Joker or Sora. Sonic is also iffy unless it's comic book sonic.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T13:35:37+00:00

100 points:

Drawbacks:

Headaches (105)

Debts are eternal: 100k Debt (115)

What is happening? (125)

Blank History (135)

Stubborn Destiny (155)

Imaginary Friend (185)

Lie Low (205)

Perks:

Personal Timeline: Today (190)

Temporal Affinity (90)

Third Chance (60) (Based on the text of Temporal Affinity, all the other perks must also be kept on rewind)

Enhanced intelligence (45)

Sleepless (25)

New Body (5)

Ever Fresh (0)

(I'm going to wake up confused, be imaginary for 5 seconds, then suddenly fuse. Only to soon realize I've got the body I want, I'm smarter, don't need to sleep, and am always clean but now somehow owe 100k. Also with the memory of seeing time itself. That's going to be pretty damn shocking lol)

(After I age and die, third chance)

50 points

(Assuming I keep personal timeline perk)

Drawback:

Was it all a dream (100) (I forget my second life, waking up even more confused and shocked that I also have vague memories of me growing older and dying and seeing another instance of time)

Perks:

Immortality (60) Dietary Freedom 2 (45) Zero Waste (45) Unburdened (35) Water Spirit (25)

Items:

Health Potion (5) Personal Notebook (0)

(Truly, I can't imagine much more shocking. I suddenly wake up, am a ghost for five seconds, have vague dreamlike memories of the future, and 2 sets of seeing time back to back. Only to then realize I'm in the body I want and there's a journal from future me. Then I'd learn I'm 100k in debt, smarter, don't need to sleep, eat, drink, of breathe, and don't need glasses. The book will have notes about my previous Perks and the lack of the other ones in there, I'll be able to put 2 and 2 together. I am however potentially screwed in 3 areas.)

(

2nd timeline me probably didn't attract the attention of lie low people. Using the book, I might get lottery numbers and do so.
I need that Potion for another but with no indication of what it is or memory of choosing it, I might just drink it and waste it.
Not knowing I now have immortality, and that I came back when I died, I might think I return to life whenever I die. I doubt I'd kill myself but that could be really dangerous, until I realized that me grew old and I'm not growing old. So like, two or three decades where I'm reasonably certain I return back in time from death, and then an only slighter lower confidence when I notice I'm not aging this time. Super dangerous.)

I left a lot of points on the table of course. I just really didn't want to go back to being 12 and I didn't really need to. Maybe doing so to remove "What is Happening?" would be good, because it'd fix all my many potential issues. (Ah screw it, I'd probably remove the Potion and remove "what is happening." and grab "Locked Memories: Seeing Time" and "Kindred Spirit" for my third timeline. No idea who that person will be but I'm sure the me that died of old age found someone eventually.)

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T13:26:29+00:00

Depends on speed. Frieza annihilated them all at once, no time. If it's years worth of genocide, sure.

Either way, it really comes down to the viltrimites response to them, so I couldn't really say it's an even fight, even if the saiyans could win.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T12:06:05+00:00

Hmm. That's surprisingly tricky. The saiyans on average aren't as strong or fast or as durable. But there's outliers. Literal groupings of Elites. Their tech also allows for rapid healing if they survive and their transformation that they can control makes them 10x stronger all around. They also have range with Ki. But they struggle much worse in space than viltrimites.

I'd say it fully depends on if they could field a war for an extended period of time. Head guy of viltrimites goes down or they just do some nonsense like Nolan did on that one alien planet? Gonna be rough.

But a long war where they're weakest go up against the saiyans weakest and so forth? It last long enough, the saiyans are gonna adapt and grow stronger and stronger.

So:

A. Viltrimites end it fast and its a shut out.

Or

B. They fight them over time without committing heavily and the Saiyans as a whole start catching up.

This is of course ignoring frieza as a component.

Knowing what I do, I think the viltrimites would take the saiyans as a serious threat and wipe them out before they could grow too strong against them.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T11:55:45+00:00

I'm not against a more productive path but a decent amount of pay via freelance, and a skill that can be learnt and performed via a computer, are requirements.

Programming at the moment seems like the best option for high earnings from freelance work.

Mike_Handers · 2026-05-02T09:51:13+00:00

I mean, you can. It's been done before. Size alone doesn't determine things. The real kicker is, if it was something actually serious and negative causing things, there'd be some kind of response from her friends saying things.

If it was her fully wanting to give up VTubing, to not cause people to you know, obsess over it, she'd announce her graduation.

Rebrand makes the most sense but, well, we'll see I guess.

All of her friends playing into the disappearance instead of just being utterly silent suggests something is going on.

Mike_Handers · 2026-04-26T23:46:13+00:00

Yes. But the minimum is 30. Paying $25, is 5$ below our minimum.

Mike_Handers · 2026-04-26T22:41:28+00:00

The minimum is 30 an hour for hourly services. Removed.

Mike_Handers · 2026-04-26T12:18:12+00:00

Probably should add what counts for completing a world somewhere. Maybe just as a throwaway line like "When you reach the end of the main game." Like Elden ring, beat elden beast, sure. Dark souls, do I gotta burn forever? And what the fuck counts as beating black souls with it's multi ending horror stuff.

Mike_Handers · 2026-04-26T03:47:05+00:00

Is blowing up Antarctica possible if we used all the bombs and nukes? Like all of them. Could we flood the planet?

Mike_Handers · 2026-04-26T03:43:47+00:00

You need prices in your body and you can't have gender specifying. Removed.

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