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Zeus 10/16/18 7:01:38 PM #41:	Metalsonic66 posted... Zeus posted... However, just cutting the opening and closing narration That's the best part! Sometimes, sure. Other times it doesn't add a lot to the episode itself (like when Rod says, "No explanation needed," at the end of the one episode), but it's just cool to see Rod Serling. wolfy42 posted... ~~Dude breaks his glasses!!~~ (You just need the last scene really). ~~It's a cookbook!!!~~ I mean, so many could pretty much be broken down into like 1 minute really lol. Need more than the last minute for it to have significance. And I think "To Serve Man" was edited to a 3-minute one and still worked really well. darkknight109 posted... Nothing I stated requires access to the person's memories. And if you don't know their mannerisms or something they should know, that's still not likely to "out" you. If, one day, someone I was close to seemed to not know me or couldn't remember where they lived, my first thought would not be, "Hmm, they're probably being possessed by someone with supernatural powers and forced into doing something against their will," it would be "I think this person might be having a mental health crisis." Which, if you're possessing a dictator or someone else who needs to be seen as competent to hold onto their power, would be almost as good. Okay, then how are you going to know whether something did or didn't actually do something? Or are you just going to have people give false confessions while not actually knowing that they did something? darkknight109 posted... Why would you need a job if you're already earning ridiculous sums of money? And I don't know if being someone's revenge-rebound is my idea of being lucky... Some have perks beyond money. After all, a lot of people would love to star in a movie or be a temporary replacement in a bad. Hell, I would imagine most of the people here would love to design video games. Plus other people would rather work for their money rather than just having it handed to them. And having hot women throw themselves at you is being extraordinarily lucky. darkknight109 posted... The problem is you just named four things that luck would save you from that are all extremely unlikely to begin with. I don't have superpower-level luck and I've never been shot at, never been in (or anywhere near) a serious car accident, never had someone break into my home, and never caught a disease that seriously threatened my health (admittedly that last one tends to be a more pertinent issue the longer you live, so I'll give credit to luck on that one). This is exactly why I pointed out what I did in my OP - how much stuff in your day-to-day life really comes down to luck? Not much of consequence. Then you already live a luckier life than me and many other people. You might even have that super power right now! darkknight109 posted... Not to mention, depending on how possession works, you could potentially gain immunity from aging (which luck will not save you from) if body-hopping does not require your original body to still be alive. Any time you near death, you could simply possess someone and continue living in their body (and you could even retain all your material goods/wealth by willing it to them) - this, of course, would be an extremely unethical method of immortality, since you would effectively be killing someone in order to gain their remaining years, but it does give you the option to extend your life almost indefinitely. Which is what I was talking about earlier. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:910645019] in Choose a s... [t:77102984]...</cite> <quote><cite>Metalsonic66 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>However, just cutting the opening and closing narration </quote> That's the best part!</quote> Sometimes, sure. Other times it doesn't add a lot to the episode itself (like when Rod says, "No explanation needed," at the end of the one episode), but it's just cool to see Rod Serling. <cite>wolfy42 posted...</cite> <quote>Dude breaks his glasses!! (You just need the last scene really). It's a cookbook!!! I mean, so many could pretty much be broken down into like 1 minute really lol.</quote> Need more than the last minute for it to have significance. And I think "To Serve Man" was edited to a 3-minute one and still worked really well. <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>Nothing I stated requires access to the person's memories. And if you don't know their mannerisms or something they should know, that's still not likely to "out" you. If, one day, someone I was close to seemed to not know me or couldn't remember where they lived, my first thought would not be, "Hmm, they're probably being possessed by someone with supernatural powers and forced into doing something against their will," it would be "I think this person might be having a mental health crisis." Which, if you're possessing a dictator or someone else who needs to be seen as competent to hold onto their power, would be almost as good.</quote> Okay, then how are you going to know whether something did or didn't actually do something? Or are you just going to have people give false confessions while not actually knowing that they did something? <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>Why would you need a job if you're already earning ridiculous sums of money? And I don't know if being someone's revenge-rebound is my idea of being lucky... </quote> Some have perks beyond money. After all, a lot of people would love to star in a movie or be a temporary replacement in a bad. Hell, I would imagine most of the people here would love to design video games. Plus other people would rather work for their money rather than just having it handed to them. And having hot women throw themselves at you is being extraordinarily lucky. <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>The problem is you just named four things that luck would save you from that are all extremely unlikely to begin with. I don't have superpower-level luck and I've never been shot at, never been in (or anywhere near) a serious car accident, never had someone break into my home, and never caught a disease that seriously threatened my health (admittedly that last one tends to be a more pertinent issue the longer you live, so I'll give credit to luck on that one). This is exactly why I pointed out what I did in my OP - how much stuff in your day-to-day life really comes down to luck? Not much of consequence.</quote> Then you already live a luckier life than me and many other people. You might even have that super power right now! <cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>Not to mention, depending on how possession works, you could potentially gain immunity from aging (which luck will not save you from) if body-hopping does not require your original body to still be alive. Any time you near death, you could simply possess someone and continue living in their body (and you could even retain all your material goods/wealth by willing it to them) - this, of course, would be an extremely unethical method of immortality, since you would effectively be killing someone in order to gain their remaining years, but it does give you the option to extend your life almost indefinitely.</quote> Which is what I was talking about earlier. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... 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