You know who Mister Miracle is? DC Comics, his name is actually Scott Free, he’s married to Big Barda, he was raised by Darkseid, but is actually a good guy. Anyway, in 1989, one of the plotlines in the MISTER MIRACLE comic (in which Scott Free and Big Barda quit the Justice League in order to move to the suburbs and work in a repair shop and a daycare respectively) is when Oberon finds one of the magical chemicals from Apokalypse, and discovers that, if you spray it on things, they become sparkling clean AND repaired and tidy and everything. He starts marketing it as “Mister Miracle’s Miracle Clean”, until the EPA makes him stop, since it turns out it also makes things evil if you use it enough.
Anyway, my POINT is, I would TOTALLY use that, even if it made my kitchen evil.
I consider the whole New Gods/Apokalypse thing to be a fundamentally hopeful message. The whole idea of the Mister Miracle/Orion trade: if your nature is good, but you are raised to be evil, you will end up good. Trickster-y and mischievous, perhaps, but good. On the other hand, if your nature is evil, but you are raised to be good … you will ALSO end up good. Grim and dark, perhaps, but good.
Either way, good wins. Orion’s good parenting overcame his evil nature; Scott’s good nature overcame his evil parenting. Good is stronger.
As a hobbyist magician, I would probably use a magic wand to figure out new ways to learn the identity of a spectator’s chosen card without the need for sleight-of-hand. I’d be using real magic to refine my magic tricks.
(I’d be the envy of all my peers, until magician comes along with a sleight-of-hand trick that stuns the audience more than my real magic.)
Speaking as another amateur magician, the trick to that is to make sure that it looks like there is a trick to that, and that, if the audience just thought hard enough, they’d figure it out. Just doing stuff is boring.
My grandfather was a hobbyist magician as well, and taught all of his grandchildren at least a few basics. This means that, at one party, we were all able to do a mind-reading thing without planning it ahead, because we all knew the same set of signals. So, even though we’d not planned to, different grandchildren could walk in and out, realize that someone was doing the mind-reading thing, and signal.
Impressive as heck, even for people who knew approximately how these things work, because nobody could figure out who the confederates were, because we ALL were. So there was never a specific person to look for.
I did some magic a long time ago, but I gave it up.
I couldn’t get over the fact that folks were fooled. Once I figured out a trick I figured that everyone else would see how it’s done, too.
Me: *disappears a coin*
Someone: “Whoa!”
Me: “Don’t pander.”
I don’t know. I can’t imagine having to the deal with the ASPCA every time I need to refill my car. I think that I would have to do with a magic carpet. No sheepies were harmed in the making of my new carpet XD
Let’s see. Assume a newt eye is about a millimeter in diameter. You’d have somewhere around four million newt eyes in a gallon. That’s two million newts.
The cheapest news are something like $10 at a pet store. So that’s about twenty million dollars per gallon.
Not really a bargain. Unless the wand can also give you an unlimited supply of newt eyes!
While you’re at it, would you mind replenishing the world’s supply of fossil fuels? Maybe even enchant the stuff so that when it’s burned it goes right back into the ground instead of into the atmosphere.
Newt eyes… You get those at whole foods, right?
In this instance, what I’d expect to read for most guys is…
“Man dies from low blood pressure, after blood goes into magically enlarged phallus”
…remember to first wish for the body that can handle it :U
Newt eyes = 10 times as expensive as regular unleaded gas so savings wiped out… use something as magical – cold fusion.
Or just create “Mr. Gas”.
Adventures usually require TONS of walking around and stuff. I’m with Bug on this one for sure. Well, plus Mirvanna’s comment up there…
Fine. YOU might be in the garage with your magical car, but I’M going to be in my kitchen looking at my spotless floor that I never mop.
But, yeah — if I had magic powers, I’d use them for housework long before I used them for adventures.
Oh hell yeah, if my place was clean, people’d be all “you sold your soul for magic cleaning abilities, huh?”
“Well, that’s not ALL it does… but, er… yeah…”
You know who Mister Miracle is? DC Comics, his name is actually Scott Free, he’s married to Big Barda, he was raised by Darkseid, but is actually a good guy. Anyway, in 1989, one of the plotlines in the MISTER MIRACLE comic (in which Scott Free and Big Barda quit the Justice League in order to move to the suburbs and work in a repair shop and a daycare respectively) is when Oberon finds one of the magical chemicals from Apokalypse, and discovers that, if you spray it on things, they become sparkling clean AND repaired and tidy and everything. He starts marketing it as “Mister Miracle’s Miracle Clean”, until the EPA makes him stop, since it turns out it also makes things evil if you use it enough.
Anyway, my POINT is, I would TOTALLY use that, even if it made my kitchen evil.
“Evil Bath gets you clean… *for all the wrong reasons*!”
— Oglaf
Ian; You notice how everybody that Darkseid raises turns against him?
He’s not a very good father.
I consider the whole New Gods/Apokalypse thing to be a fundamentally hopeful message. The whole idea of the Mister Miracle/Orion trade: if your nature is good, but you are raised to be evil, you will end up good. Trickster-y and mischievous, perhaps, but good. On the other hand, if your nature is evil, but you are raised to be good … you will ALSO end up good. Grim and dark, perhaps, but good.
Either way, good wins. Orion’s good parenting overcame his evil nature; Scott’s good nature overcame his evil parenting. Good is stronger.
I’ve always considered having the power to make your car brand new again… but only once, and only for 6 months – then sell it for top dollar!
Wait, that’s probably how my uncle’s dealership worked Xo
As a hobbyist magician, I would probably use a magic wand to figure out new ways to learn the identity of a spectator’s chosen card without the need for sleight-of-hand. I’d be using real magic to refine my magic tricks.
(I’d be the envy of all my peers, until magician comes along with a sleight-of-hand trick that stuns the audience more than my real magic.)
Speaking as another amateur magician, the trick to that is to make sure that it looks like there is a trick to that, and that, if the audience just thought hard enough, they’d figure it out. Just doing stuff is boring.
My grandfather was a hobbyist magician as well, and taught all of his grandchildren at least a few basics. This means that, at one party, we were all able to do a mind-reading thing without planning it ahead, because we all knew the same set of signals. So, even though we’d not planned to, different grandchildren could walk in and out, realize that someone was doing the mind-reading thing, and signal.
Impressive as heck, even for people who knew approximately how these things work, because nobody could figure out who the confederates were, because we ALL were. So there was never a specific person to look for.
I did some magic a long time ago, but I gave it up.
I couldn’t get over the fact that folks were fooled. Once I figured out a trick I figured that everyone else would see how it’s done, too.
Me: *disappears a coin*
Someone: “Whoa!”
Me: “Don’t pander.”
Off to be the wizard… of car maintenance.
I don’t know. I can’t imagine having to the deal with the ASPCA every time I need to refill my car. I think that I would have to do with a magic carpet. No sheepies were harmed in the making of my new carpet XD
Let’s see. Assume a newt eye is about a millimeter in diameter. You’d have somewhere around four million newt eyes in a gallon. That’s two million newts.
The cheapest news are something like $10 at a pet store. So that’s about twenty million dollars per gallon.
Not really a bargain. Unless the wand can also give you an unlimited supply of newt eyes!
But at least it would be a carbon-newtral energy source.
You are a bad person. I like you.
Much obliged!
You’d think with magic he’d get infinite miles to the gallon and it *would* fly. But maybe he’s just not skilled enough to pull off that spell.
I always figured magic spells would be a lot like computer programs…
We all wish we had supernatural powers to accomplish the most mundane of tasks.
While you’re at it, would you mind replenishing the world’s supply of fossil fuels? Maybe even enchant the stuff so that when it’s burned it goes right back into the ground instead of into the atmosphere.