/u/SirReginaldTheIII's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
[WP] In the future instead of sending criminals to prison they get sent to receive new personalities. Through the magic of intensive brainwashing, criminals are reborn as law abiding citizens. You for some reason, keep committing crimes even with your new Happy-Go-Lucky personality.
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[WP] In the future, criminal Artificial Intelligence is not destroyed, but is instead installed on harmless appliances as punishment. Enjoy your new career as a Roomba with psychopathic tendencies.
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[WP] Prison for supervillains wasn't what you expected. Instead of iron bars you get a 5 star resort and you can leave whenever you want. It's so good infact that some villians never leave...
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[WP] The search for extraterrestrial life on Mars takes an unexpected turn when the Mars Rover sees an alien probe searching for the same thing.
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[WP] You're a supervillain who left his lair to go grocery shopping. While wearing your usual disguise of a ball cap and sunglasses you see someone familiar. It's your nemesis in the diary isle wearing the exact same disguise.
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[WP] You meet a blacksmith who claims that his weapons "could slay satan himself". As Satan yourself you want to humor him and challenge him to a duel.
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[WP] In the future, all AI programs are preprogrammed with an internal therapist so that they can vent and to prevent them from going full Skynet. You were the unfortunate digital soul that got paired up with the world's most disgruntled Roomba.
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[WP] Astronomers pick up a vague binary transmission from a mysterious satellite orbiting Earth. The message reads: "Warning: Humans Present. Make Contact At Your Own Risk". Now it is abundantly clear why we haven't met aliens yet.
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[WP] Hell wasnt what you expected. Instead of fire and brimstone it's a crimson casino. There people gamble parts of their soul for the jackpot of ascending to heaven. You're the first person in a century to win.
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[WP] In a multiverse of infinite possibilities "Fiction Tourism" has become newest trend in alternate reality vacations. People travel to universes where fiction is fact and live like their favorite character. Your vacation ends abruptly when you find our your home universe has been destroyed.
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