If you have real life Dragon Balls....

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:42 am

Basically, the ability to bend reality and the laws of the universe that affect me and everyone else to my will. That way, I'd be able to do anything.

After that, an infinite supply of money, because I'm a greedy little Oolong.

Lastly, a three-foot hoagie.
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Gounks » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:45 am

Oooh! This is hard.

First 3 that came to mind:

1. Being able to fly or "jump"
-Who doesn't want to be able to do that? You don't have to be stuck in traffic.. You can visit different countries and etc etc. Although my next wish sort of ruins it really...

2. Riches. Money, money, money.
-Not only for myself, but to give to my family too and to let my and sibling's children and grandchildren have wealth too when needed.

3. Uhh... Going for the obvious one here... Being able to eat anything and not be effected?
-Don't know, run out of wishes to be honest. Either this or more wishes. Although who would seriously love to carry on with their lives and eat whatever they want without having to do their daily exercise!? Could be awesome and helpful in a long run; espeically if you have lots of money.

Pretty lame and average wishes really...
If anything, I wouldn't wish for immortality. Sure it could be great and all, but I just don't think I could live after everyone I know has passed on... Plus I would get extremely bored with life :/

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by dbboxkaifan » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:23 am

1. Perfect Health.
2. Perfect Body.
3. Money for everyone in the world.
Storm101 wrote:1. Have all the powers of Buuhan.
What is a Buuhan? :?
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by SSJGarfield » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:30 am

My wishes would be:

- To be a powerfull Saiyan (To bring world peace by getting rid of all the dictators and terrorist organizations in the world)
- Bring back all the animal species that went extinct due to human interference (Such as the Dodo, Tasmanian Wolf, Moa and maybe even the Woolly Mammoth)
- Having a breeding herd of Parasaurolophus dinosaurs

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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:05 am

-Perfection
-Immortality
-Tons of money for the whole world
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:06 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:
Storm101 wrote:1. Have all the powers of Buuhan.
What is a Buuhan? :?
It's a fan term for Super Boo after having absorbed Gohan, Goten, Trunks and Piccolo.
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Saiga » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:12 am

1. Infinite wealth.

2. Immortality for me

3. Immortality for my fiancee

Although, I'm not sure immortality is such a great one if I can only give it to one person at a time... maybe I could make a wish that all my loved ones live long and healthy lives instead of being immortal?
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:15 am

I'd personally hate immortality, because life sucks enough as it is and I think I'd go mad with boredom, as well as the emotional pain of having to see my loved ones die one after the other.
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Fox666 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:56 am

Storm101 wrote:2. Infinite money (since I'd still rather do things the nice and moral way)
dbboxkaifan wrote:3. Money for everyone in the world.
DBZAOTA482 wrote:-Tons of money for the whole world
Saiga wrote:1. Infinite wealth.
You know, because of inflation, automatically all money would lost value...

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Saiga » Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:04 am

Fox666 wrote: You know, because of inflation, automatically all money would lost value...
Won't inflation only occur when I spend it, putting it back into the economy? I wouldn't go absolutely crazy with it anyway, it'd be mainly so I don't ever have to worry about money again, which would be a major stress relief. Nobody will probably believe me on this, but even with infinite money I wouldn't spend just for the sake of spending.
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Fox666 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 11:20 am

Of course there are more problems with wishing for money.

All bills have a serial number that is listed in governmental agencies, so even if you actually have a magical money machine it would still be considered falsification because of the serial number. To solve that problem you would need to ask for money that is owned by the government, and it quite doesn't solve the problem: if all of a sudden tons of money disappeared, and you show up with bills of the same series you are going to get in trouble.

And there may be an even bigger problem, if you are spending tons of money, and you don't have a job that makes tons of money and a reasonable explanation, the revenue service will just arrest you no matter what.

Perhaps asking for finding a mine of gold in your yard would be easier.

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:30 pm

Fox666 wrote:You know, because of inflation, automatically all money would lost value...
Exactly. Fuck money. I hate how much overarching value/relevance it has in our society, and that anyone that doesn't have it is automatically deemed worthless. I'd just want enough money that it'd be a non-issue, to the point that I could drop a ten pound note into a drain and not give a shit.
Fox666 wrote:Of course there are more problems with wishing for money.

All bills have a serial number that is listed in governmental agencies, so even if you actually have a magical money machine it would still be considered falsification because of the serial number. To solve that problem you would need to ask for money that is owned by the government, and it quite doesn't solve the problem: if all of a sudden tons of money disappeared, and you show up with bills of the same series you are going to get in trouble.

And there may be an even bigger problem, if you are spending tons of money, and you don't have a job that makes tons of money and a reasonable explanation, the revenue service will just arrest you no matter what.

Perhaps asking for finding a mine of gold in your yard would be easier.
Don't try to make this realistic, man! :P
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Fox666 » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:35 pm

What about asking for a Death Note?

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Post by Piccolo Daimao » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:13 pm

Fox666 wrote:What about asking for a Death Note?
Oh yeah, but what if it fell into the wrong hands? Or what if I got really angry because my friend or someone did something to piss me off, so I wrote his name down, killed him, and later regretted it? Then I'd feel like shit, people that knew him closely would feel like shit, I'd have a ton of guilt and probably just end up burning the damn book.
Holden Caulfield in [b][i]The Catcher in the Rye[/i][/b] wrote:I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.

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Post by Castor Troy » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:07 pm

Fox666 wrote:Of course there are more problems with wishing for money.

All bills have a serial number that is listed in governmental agencies, so even if you actually have a magical money machine it would still be considered falsification because of the serial number. To solve that problem you would need to ask for money that is owned by the government, and it quite doesn't solve the problem: if all of a sudden tons of money disappeared, and you show up with bills of the same series you are going to get in trouble.

And there may be an even bigger problem, if you are spending tons of money, and you don't have a job that makes tons of money and a reasonable explanation, the revenue service will just arrest you no matter what.

Perhaps asking for finding a mine of gold in your yard would be easier.
This is the reason why I'd wish for mind control and have people give me money. I can also mind control the IRS to not bug me.

Having mind control powers would handle a lot of things. :mrgreen:

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Fizzer » Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:41 pm

If I had one wish, it would be a wordy one. Something like "Alter my mind in such a way that my conscious brain is aware of everything that my subconscious brain is aware of, I never forget anything, absorb all information, am intelligent enough to easy understand and store all of this information without ever having trouble with it, can delete information at will, as well as controlling all of my previously uncontrollable mental and bodily functions at will, which should be too easy to have to take notice of all of the time due to the super-boosted intelligence, but still be able to set anything to "automatic", and can ask myself any question and instantly know and understand a correct and satisfactory answer."

I'd say that's one wish, it's "rewire my brain". I'm just specifying how I want it to be rewired. I'd probably ask the dragon to "Grant the wish that I most want to be granted" instead of specifying all that, and it would do fine.

If there was more than one wish, my second would be a similar recreation of my body, so it would not age, and would be immune to all illness, could quickly heal from almost anything, is many times stronger, faster and more durable than anyone else's body and so on.

A third wish? I don't really know. In reality, I'd probably end up wishing to solve all of the world's problems (forgive the debts of countries that can't pay them, cure all illnesses and bring medical technology to its peak, enough food and water for everyone, the knowledge needed for cold fusion, renewable resources, fix the way all governments work to make them some sort of optimum, educate everyone on the truth about the world, so if there is one correct set of religious beliefs, let everyone know what it is so all the crap can end) instead of making some selfish wish, so let's go with that.

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by soulnova » Wed Jun 06, 2012 3:17 pm

1st wish - Have the abilities of the Z warriors, but if that's beyond Shen Long's power then at least have flying+using basic ki and make it hereditary.
2nd wish - Own a huge homestead in a peaceful natural spot with all services powered by a long lasting battery I can refill with my Ki every year or so.
3rd wish - A spaceship with functional FTL drive. Space exploration, here I go.


Money and Immortality are overrated.
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Post by Beji » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:26 pm

soulnova wrote:1st wish - Have the abilities of the Z warriors, but if that's beyond Shen Long's power then at least have flying+using basic ki and make it hereditary.
Money and Immortality are overrated.
^this without the hereditary part(cant trust my offspring generations down). No way would I wish for immortality and I dont need money if I can fly and have the strength and abilities of a Z warrior (or at least 5 times my base str now and can shoot a ki wave).

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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Son Satan » Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:37 pm

Kendamu wrote:I would probably first wish to be rich enough that my family and I would never have to work again.
Castor Troy wrote:1st wish: Mind control powers.
These for the first two, and probably the power to fly. I liked Troy's Shunkan-Ido idea, but then I realized that flight would be more fun. Not only does it seem like it doesn't use the Z-Warriors' energy to the point of exertion (not that Goku gets tired after a Shunkan-Ido), but I'd be able to see more sites and not have to know where the places are.
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Re: If you have real life Dragon Balls....

Post by Saimaroimaru » Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:12 pm

Reality Manipulation / Warping. With that I came grant my own wishes.

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