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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'd aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.

Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Just stay on the good side of the local witch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'd have spend a year or two wildin' out in Ankh-Morpork.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As long as no sourcerer drops by :)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lord of the Rings, but fuck Gondor... I'll be chilling in the Shire living like fucking king.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Same, but I'd probably go with Bree. I'm a bit tall for the Shire. Also, Bree seems a little more lively and they have a thing called 'pints.'

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Live in the Shire, start up a pub called "Giant Beers" which serves pints, be beloved by the Shirefolk and live in pastoral luxury

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

And fuck as many midgets as your heart desires.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Pokemon sounds pretty nice, they even have free healthcare in the american stand-in

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air. Birds fly over. A fish splashes in the water. You could go anywhere, do anything, a whole new world is open to you. But you stay put for now and enjoy this peaceful bridge.

A child runs by. She avoids making eye contact and runs behind you. Then another, and another. “Kids these days”, you think, “always in a hurry.” Another child approaches, before he can slip by, you turn, and make eye contact. It’s on!

You each bring out your Pokémon and oh god, oh god, oh god, it’s god. The unfathomable, immortal deity who shaped the entire world, and it is taking orders from a child! and you have… a magikarp.

Before you can even speak, a blast of energy strikes your fish, killing it instantly. You are knocked back, stunned. The child frisks your pockets and takes your wallet. Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I Have No Meowth, and I Must Scream

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Only for pets, not for humans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Ash Ketchum gets bankrupted paying for his mother's hospital bills. The End.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not something from an anime because by season 4, there's like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they're doing planets.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But at the same time, if you train very hard you'll be able to do that too. That's how it usually goes for characters without magical abilities.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It's probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Hard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they're still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Hey you, you're finally awake....

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Earthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Roshar. With all the spren and fabrials, I could still have a decent time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Besides continuous war and blatant racism/classism in every aspect of every society, most of them with either fully blown feudalism and slavery or a untouchable aristocracy :D

Spren are cool though...

PS nice username!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Don't even need magic... just non-brown eyes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Interesting choice. As much as I love the setting, I couldn't see myself living in a place that has hurricanes on a weekly basis.

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

I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ‘you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.’ She is a very wise woman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Really? I feel like Scadrial is the better choice here. Though I haven’t finished the Lost Metal yet, so something crazy may happen at the end that makes me reconsider this lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura

I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I cannot understand why there's no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Harry Potter. I'd be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not at all! The entire Harry Potter franchise wouldn't exist!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Exactly. That's the entire point lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But you’d be living in England and probably get stabbed by some chav’s unregistered butter knife

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

The rest of the world exists in hp, not just the UK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If you live in the magical world in Harry Potter, wouldn't that make you a squib?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does Star Trek count as magical?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (6 children)

But there's Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought... Pretty magical stuff there...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. 

The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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

Ooo, if you aren't magical when you get there. There is an infinite number of things that will make you. But more importantly I want to live in a place that silly.

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

Azeroth, World of Warcraft. Rogues and warriors kick ass, and are still very powerful, even without magic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Star wars. Apparently anyone can learn to be a ~~magic user~~ jedi if they try hard enough. But even if that isn't an option, spaceships are also fun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Excluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don't need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.

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