/u/Crazy_ManMan's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] Turns out zombies do not actually bite, they just lick. This is about the most uncomfortable and awkward apocalypse ever.
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[WP] An AI was created to make paperclips. As the company profited it was granted more power. With time it took over the industry, gained humanity's trusted, cured disease, made world peace, single handedly invented FTL travel, but it did all these things for one purpose: more paperclips!
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[WP] One in ever 10 billion teleportations nobody comes out on the other side of the teleporter. Nobody knows where they go. You just found yourself one of the lost travelers.
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[WP] Most dungeon bosses get their start as humble peasants that get fed up with adventures taking their stuff. They kill one, more come, they have to build defenses, they start getting exotic pets to fight more adventures, it just spirals out of control.
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[WP] Your super savilian power is to make statistically unlikely things to happen by shouting "what are the odds!?" Your arch nemesis is a mathematician who cancels out your powers by calculating the odds.
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[WP] You were bitten by a zombie last week, but unlike the rest of the zombies you have maintained at least some of your consciousness. You do not understand why everybody is so obsessed with brains, you just want a sandwich.
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[WP] Just because we are mad scientists doesn't make us all evil. Some of us just want to pursue our dreams, make spider beer, turn the sky pink, you know, science and stuff.
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[WP] Humans are the only known intelligent species that isn't a hive mind. To the rest of the universe humans are like terrifying eldritch monsters. How could every individual be capable of making decisions without command independent of each other?
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[WP] The first law of robotics prevents a robot from harming a human. It does not, however prevent a robot from making you think it can harm you, or tricking people into killing each other, or paying a programmer to reprogram parts of it's code.
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