This Or That?

First one, and don't even need the hero label.

Write your own book
or
Develop your own game?

Develop your own game, unsurprisingly I find games would be a better conduit for me to communicate a story.

only play 1 job, and no others

or

play a different job at every activity? not playing the same job again until all other jobs have been played.

1 job. I'd rather feel competent and helpful every time I showed up to something in-game than have variety, but also contribute as much as an unplugged toaster.

in a similar vein...

Be employed at something you hate for life, but live in extreme comfort;

Be employed at your passion, but barely make ends meet.

For my passion to be a job I also have to have traits and be good at things that aren't my passion, so the two could be one and the same and wind up just being the first one, heh. So I guess the hate but extreme comfort one.

Have one of them cysts where when it gets lanced the pus is thick and just keeps on coming like on your back or foot or something

or

Grow an abscess on an internal organ that requires a minor surgery to remove

cysts, no surgery thank you.

Legally blonde

or

Devil's Advocate

Unfortunelly i didnt watch neither, but i will pick legally blond because blondes are always good choices despite being legal or not.

Being illegal just adds the thrill in it.

So, fixing a:

Bug you have no clue where to even start looking at

Or

Bug that contradicts your expectations / knowledge

Bug that contradicts your expectations / knowledge, As this is the superset that contains all bugs :D

for Thanksgiving:
No Turkey

or

No mash potatoes?

Turkey is just chicken, but worse. Potatoes are a gift from god.

9 hour drive (scenic weather, minimal traffic)

or

1 hour flight (economy class+2 hours of airport ***)

1 hour flight, easily. Less easy if someone else is driving, but still flight.

Expensive vacation that is basically your "dream" vacation

or

Free vacation that is about half what you want, half things you find annoying.

First- gimme the 9hour drive any time in my lifespan. As someone who developed Adult Onset Epilepsy and hasn't been able to drive for 6 years now, my greatest sadness is that loss of independence and freedom to just drive.

Now, to properly answer:

Expensive Vacation. I'd rather something ideal but rare than something I tolerate frequently because it happens to have one or two snowflakes in the mix.


Live as borderline royalty in a 3rd world nation;

Live at the edge of poverty, but still able to sustain yourself, in the United States.

Live at the edge of poverty. Grow up this way, and really dont have a problem going back to it.

Work with an someone who lacks the social skills to properly present his ideas with out sounding condescending and rude, but you know he doesn't mean it that way.

Or

Work with someone who lacks basic human hygiene.


Neither person can have their behavior corrected, it is just who they are.

Work with someone who lacks social skills. You can always tell them to *** off when they get annoying with their tone.

Have the perception to know:

When you're time is up
OR
How your time is up

Both situations are an example of my older brother, so I read this as which characteristic of my (genius engineer) brother would I delete? I'd prefer he brush his damn teeth and shower on the reg.

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Amazing athlete your whole life, all the trophies and medals all the way into college, where you compete at a low tier D-I school where you're the best OR

Spend your life grinding it out, always correcting technique to try to be an team all-star to receive only above average success with a massive breakout at age 21 that lands you on the Olympic Team for one year before you retire.

Richybear's: When your time is up. The how of it would drive you more insane, because it'd either be so specific that you'd try to avoid that situation, only to bumble into it anyway, OR it'd be so general as to give you anxiety the rest of your life.

Knowing the when could still be unsettling, but then you could at least plan.

Sahzi's: The Olympic option. At least then you get big recognition after a career of being snubbed. The first option is big fish in a small pond, basically, and it would never feel good later in life meeting people from outside of your circle that you'll never know for sure if you're as good as them etc.

Work in a nuclear plant in a position that has you occasionally maintenance the reactor when it's powered down?

or

Work on an oil rig in a diving position that sees you go underwater routinely for exceptionally dangerous but short maintenance?

I've seen those Rig dudes. I, good sir, am certainly not one of them^^ Then again, Homer Simpson managed in a Nuclear Power Plant for what- almost 40 years now?

Gimme the nuke life.


No mobile devices in your life for the remainder of it

--or--

No more gaming in your life for the remainder of it.

Homer Simpson in the nuke plant definitely became 1000x more hilarious to me after working in one while in the Navy. Very much not far from the truth.

Also easily no mobile devices. Screw cell phones!

Get beaten up learning martial arts by practicing in extremely practical manner of actually performing the full on techniques on one another

or

Learn martial arts in a highly restrained manner, such that you never really get hit, but also never really know what your techniques will do when employed for real?

Delta P says NOPE! No thanks! lol

edit: we all know the crab in the pipe video/GIF I'm sure. Yikes

As someone who isnt fond of feeling pain, I would go with second option.

I really dont have the body foundation for physical confront, so I would decide to train only the bare minimum without compromising my integrity, and when the violence is necessary, I would resort to your other advice:



Now

You cheer for a team. Soccer/football in my case, but you can think about your favorite one here.

That sport promotes championships with knock-out phase leading to the champion.

The team you cheer for was defeated early in the knock-out phase. The one team who did it went to the final match.

So what would you prefer?

Cheering for the team that eliminated your own

OR

Cheering for the opposite team that eliminated your own?

Cheering for the team that eliminated your own, rather be defeated by the champions then just another losing team.


sick in a Hospital bed for 1 week

or

sick coughing feeling tired and awful for a month, but no hospital stay.

Sick in a hospital bed for 1 week. Sure, it'll be expensive, but then I wouldn't have to put up with my wife and coworkers ignoring my malady(ies) and acting like I'm fine and bitching at me for being too tired / lazy etc.

Be the destined hero that can make the special sword appear/do its thing/beat the bad guys/gods?

or

Be the strong man on the destined hero's team who somehow still hits harder than said hero in spite of using mundane weaponry?