Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-29564364-20180313133340

DYBAD wrote: The scenario here is that all 7 billions people suddenly gain the 2 powers of their choice, so statistically speaking you can be sure at least a few millions will be smart enough to nail the broken jackpot. Try to imagine what it would be like to have a few millions demi-gods around with very different morals (if any at all - human nature being selfishly amoral at its core, and immense power being extremely corrupting) and no higher authority to keep them in line.

Doesn't take a genius to realize that the situation would explode beyond imagining fairly soon, and the overwhelming majority of demi-gods would be either wiped out in the process or massively perma-crippled - not even mentioning the 99.99% of lower-tiers power users, who would have most likely been enslaved as expandble cannon fodders for the domination wars of the greater powers upstairs. Exactly. Why do you think I picked Preemptive Adaptation?

As far as I can tell, the only way to win is just not to play ^ ^; Leave all the craziness behind, find a better world impossibly far away amongst the infinite realities (preferably one with a Lawrence-like authority figure to keep things civil and flatten wannabe invaders - notably from your original world), and build your own happiness there. The idea of a utopia has always sounded awfully boring to me, especially a monarchical one... Personally, I'd rather stick around and enjoy the show until the very end, standing in the middle of the mayhem, eating popcorn and laughing as I derive much entertainment from the futility of all attempts to inflict any kind of harm to me. Only once the current planet/universe/reality is rendered uninhabited by sapient life will I venture out in search of a new one.