I’m not a scientist or qualified with any reliable technical knowledge about this, but I am aware that there’s a lot of plants that have chemicals in them that are identical to or closely related to the chemicals that are found in the human body.

I want to say that this is because we share some common chemistry with plants and that the mechanisms by which these hormones are created are some of the easier mechanisms for earth compatible biology to pull off.

After all, it does make sense that living creatures would adapt to eat foods that work with their bodies.

I’ll go one further and say it’s probably flock themselves going and tearing down the cameras so that the counties have to purchase more cameras.

Otherwise, the flock company would be sending imagery of the people that destroyed the cameras to the counties whose cameras got destroyed.

I mean, they are cameras. How is it possible they didn’t catch anything without the company themselves being complicit in their destruction?

Ricky Gervais origin story

Hit the gym

Do massive amounts of testosterone and steroids

Eat 4,000 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight every day.

Keep lifting.

Once you are ready to lift the shop, no one will be able to stop you.

I was thinking more fashionable and “stand-outy”.

Real hipsters, real performative hipsters, use arch.

You would either start your own life over with all the knowledge you currently have and a status screen,

or,

you would begin an entirely brand new life in a world of magic, remembering and knowing everything that you know, and having the status screen

We literally put the :3 right there and no one saw it

CachyOS user

If you take the magic route, you are guaranteed magical ability of at least C tier rank, and since you have the status window, you will be able to upgrade that through patient and dedicated practice.

This take lacks whimsy, and that’s my entire gripe with it.

If I can’t use the force to levitate a building or by simply calling on the spirits learn things that are verifiably true, then it’s not cool enough.

Sure, many of the things that we have may seem magical to a caveman brought here from 47,000 BC, but it’s not castles floating in the sky without a visible means of propulsion. It’s not mind-melding with a bird and seeing the world from its point of view.

We have an imitation of magic and not the real thing.

I’m sorry dude, that shit doesn’t wash off even with reincarnation.

I think the greater risk is being forcibly drafted into some sort of magical war because of the fact that you have magical ability.

You would keep your memory. It’s just knowing that the Cubs won the Super Bowl in 2015 doesn’t really do you any good in a world where there is no Super Bowl, or if there is, then it’s played with dragons.

Your memory stays intact with either decision.

The question is, do you want to have your knowledge be immediately applicable to you upon being born, or do you want it to be a wellspring of information that you can pull from in an entirely different world where physical labor is dramatically simplified by the use of magic?

The advantage of magic is magic. You might be able to make extra coin by developing simple technology like a bicycle or something, and selling them to other people, or if you’ve read a lot of do-it-yourself and how-to books over your lifetime, you might be able to improve people’s living conditions and make a good life for yourself in the process.

The advantage of knowledge in this world would be things like putting extra skill points into your intelligence until you unlock eidetic memory and then remembering every lottery number that has ever been played that you’ve ever casually seen in your entire life, every stock market notable maneuver or event, and every major and minor catastrophe that has happened over your entire life and then do things to either prevent them or capitalize on them.

I would make an exception in the case of trans people and allow them to be reborn as their preferred gender.

A crucial part of this is that there is an afterlife, so if there is some sort of judgment for you, whether beneficent or maleficent, that would be your alternative option.

No, it’s New Game+. You would start over back on the day that you were born.

Your superpower in this case would be your ability to remember events that have happened over the course of your life and potentially profit from them or to change their outcome, that and the status board and its ability to upgrade yourself or to give yourself perks in the process over the course of your life.

You keep your current knowledge either way.

The question is, do you want to live in a new fantasy world or relive this world, but starting over from when you were born?

I would also say that other than the spiritual act of reincarnation and afterlife things that there would be no manifestible magical powers in this world, the closest that it would come to would be having your status window.

Wasn’t he the kid that said “You have to use your hands!?”

And for the down voters out there, I’m a guy, and men’s haircuts are typically like 20 bucks, so a 50% tip is an extra $10.

It’s not like I’m shelling out a grand or something.