Everyone has a brand new organ that produces several chemicals most of which make removing the organ or attempting to stunt the production of said chemicals lethal; however, that's not the fun part. One of those chemicals is similar to Scarecrows terror inducing drug. Last but not least, this new organ increases production of its chemicals based upon the quantity of endorphins and/or adrenaline within the system.
You must change a paradise into a hell, by changing one thing...
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My one change is a sophisticated one: This world is a paradise, but it's the one as described in The Futurological Congress.
In the book, a man has woken up after a long freeze after his visit TO the Futurological Congress to a future world which appears to be paradise, but it is a chemically-controlled sort of world. Everything in it is augmented or controlled by the application of various compounds. Aggression is gone because there's something in the water keeping you calm, food is artificially inflated in terms of taste or scent, meaning it could actually be crap and not matter, and people even take snorts of things in order to experience the rush and illusion of them killing you if they don't like you. Moreover, language has moved on so that english is a bad and sloppy 1984-like derivitive...and everyone makes quaint-but-stupid jokes because their chem-addled brains are about as thick as molasses.
The whole world is not what it seems. It's actually all a cast-illusion brought about by the mascons, the compound meant to fool the brain entirely in terms of food, surroundings, and activity. What you see isn't what's happening, what you're doing may not be happening, and you may actually be living in a really shitty environment without even knowing...all while eating a hearty dish of gruel with grey lumps in it. This is done because the world needs to be controlled carefully due to over-population and contention. It takes a powerful counter-agent to cast off the effects of the mascons and the whole thing is terribly shocking.
Because the counter-agent originally used was actually a fake derivitive made to fool people who get too close to the truth, the real one shows that the world is ten-times as over-populated as originally seen, they're running out of real food to give to people or real possessions to pass around for the illusion of activity, the weather is like nuclear winter, and many people are running around as grotesque half-machine beings without even realizing it. The whole of the world is shit and you don't know it because you're controlled in a far more simpler and yet totally insidious way than the Matrix.
Or, alternatively, you're lying in a sewer somewhere.
Or, alternatively, you're lying in a sewer somewhere.
I have tinnitus from being around jet engines and gunfire while in the Air Force. And it never, ever goes away. I have yet to be able to tune it out and it has been over 10 years. I have to have a white noise generating device like a fan or something on for me to sleep, otherwise the noise will keep me awake for days. It is always there, always loud and annoying. I have a very difficult time hearing my 7 year old son as his voice is still high pitched and in the range that the tinnitus covers up.AlphaCookie said:
Everybody has a super powered sense of smell that you can't turn off
Everything and everyone is invisible
There is no gravity and nobody can move
Everybody loses the ability to understand basic maths
Everybody can taste the bacteria on their tongue
Everybody is itchy all the time
Nobody can sleep, ever
For everything that comes in a left & right pair, only the left is available
Every single person speaks a different language, nobody can understand anybody else in any way and everybody is lonely
The instant you fall in love you are separated forever
Everything and everyone is invisible
There is no gravity and nobody can move
Everybody loses the ability to understand basic maths
Everybody can taste the bacteria on their tongue
Everybody is itchy all the time
Nobody can sleep, ever
For everything that comes in a left & right pair, only the left is available
Every single person speaks a different language, nobody can understand anybody else in any way and everybody is lonely
The instant you fall in love you are separated forever
Wow, this is actually subtle as all get-out, and would no doubt be all the more effective for it.Master of the Skies said:
As for me, I'd have a massive clock that played "Never Gonna Give You Up" in its entirety every half hour.
Using a glass harmonica.
There would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, to be sure.
The thread parameter was "change 1 thing," not "change 10 things."Neyon said:
...ever try to break a plate-glass window? Or seen a 200lb man standing on a single slender wine glass?lacktheknack said:
I suppose if everything were as brittle as glass, anything of any strength would be insanely heavy.
...but you gave me an idea. Make everything and everyone feel as hard, slick and brittle as glass. No give to anything, yet everyone can still move around. Your blankets no longer bend. Clothing splinters and falls off if you try to move while wearing it (good luck putting any more on ever again). Your lover('s') body parts are now immovable and dry (penetration of any sort would be impossible). Food splinters as you eat it, and you taste nothing, as neither your skin nor the food are porous in any way. hair still grows, but refuses to bend without breaking; eventually everyone is either bald or very... spiky. Water is crunchy... yet somehow your body still processes it and goes on living. Speaking of... your excrement splinters on its way out, but it can't pierce you, it's not terribly painful... just very uncomfortable, takes a very long time and is difficult to clean up. Everyone would feel constipated all the time as a side-effect of this change.
Change one thing you say, well I hope this counts; I would change the mind of half the population to think that there chosen Religion, Philosophy, Science whatever is the correct one and cannot ever believe otherwise, however the one that I'd choose would be wrong on some fundamental level and if that's not an option I still think that there'd be those who disagree with it. Originally they'd work fine with the other half, but given time certain sects would grow and eventually it would turn into hell. Nothing destroys society quite like and inability to agree with one another.
The song in music video in Nouw's avatar is the only song that ever exists.Nouw said:
I thought I understood Korean, but that song is just soo incomprehensible.
Mandatory bimonthly Jeff Dunham shows. I don't care what sort of paradise existed outside of that, I would be off to the suicide tree with some rope.
Absolutely everything in the world, except the humans, bounces like on a trampoline! You'd have to chase anything you wanted, sleep would be horrible, it would be dangerous.. And imagine going to the toilet when it just bounces around... It would be hell!
i would just remove all the pupils from peoples eyes, suddenly this paradise has a uneasy suability of cold dead eyes staring, watching.
Send everything back to the days when personal computers were just coming out and make everyone stuck with what the Mac 1 gaave you. No modding or programming for advancement, youre stuck with 64kBs of ram and thats all you get. Everyone. For life. With a dial up connection if you want to hit the internet.
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You act like its that hard to drive yourself deafzama174 said:
.All bathrooms will require you to take one of those number tickets (like at the DMV), and there will be a minimum 45 minutes wait.
So, where will you be when diarrhea strikes?
So, where will you be when diarrhea strikes?
Air itself smell rancid in a way that's impossible to get used to. Forever, the world will smell awful. Since eating is tied to smell, things will taste worse, which will likely also be impossible to get used to due to the rule with the smell. That awful smell will become mentally tied with everything, including living itself.
Deal with it.
Deal with it.
I would make it so everyone would be hearing Just-in Beaver forever as background music.
Alternative: i would make people selfish which means they want to be better than the rest creating constant paranoya and competition. Oh, wait, thats not hell thats just life.
Alternative: Make them think its hell. That will bring insanity fast enough.
Alternative: Everyne sees another person exactly like how they themelves look. There is a mental disorder like that and trust me its not nice.
Alternative: i would make people selfish which means they want to be better than the rest creating constant paranoya and competition. Oh, wait, thats not hell thats just life.
Alternative: Make them think its hell. That will bring insanity fast enough.
Alternative: Everyne sees another person exactly like how they themelves look. There is a mental disorder like that and trust me its not nice.
I have a permanent runny nose. Am i in hell?Binnsyboy said: