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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That man is going to get an extremely brutal lesson in the difference between absolute and relative values.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In true genie fashion, the only change in their life is that now, a single occasion where a racist person decided not to hold a door open for them, changes so that they do.

Genies are all about malicious compliance.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)

South Park video game's difficulty level is directly tied to the skin color as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What's funny about that is the "difficulty slider" doesn't actually affect gameplay.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

"Just every other aspect of your life."

I don't remember if it does in Stick of Truth, but it does affect some things in Fractured But Whole.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

He was later rejected by his family and ended up homeless and struggling.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

Should've become old as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

“Black, white, you’ll still not experience what it’s like to be blue. Or have your deed of slavery cursed into a literal lamp.”

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Hope they made him suburban rich too

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Say what you will, but the genie never misses ab day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Genie: congratulations you are now a health insurance CEO! You will not know suffering for the rest of your days

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I didn't see the eyes at first and though the mustache and beard were representing them, turning the genie into biblically accurate version

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

easy is relative. all depends on how you see the world. while there is quantitative evidence for genetics to play a part in it, ease can be changed just as much by the person as by the environment.

[–] this 4 points 6 days ago

You can't see it but the genie also changed his name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

And the twist is that he now is a Traveller in Ireland

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

wouldve been more effective to just make him rich

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I need to watch the wishmaster series. Of all the stuff with the concept of evil genies that twist the meaning of wishes into anything BUT the intention of the wisher, it would be that. Or so I heard.

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