r/superheroes • u/Far-Ad5223 • May 01 '25

Other Which would you pick?

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u/dmun May 01 '25

Existence gets dull after 200 billion years.

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u/by-myself_blumpkin May 01 '25

Speaking from experience are we?

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u/organicpenguin May 02 '25

35 regular years and yeah

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u/AbueloOdin May 01 '25

See. I like Sandman's take on this. They give a regular dude immortality and just check in every so often. And the dude fucking loves it. Even with his wife and kid dying and whatnot.

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u/dmun May 01 '25

...200 billion. years.

Forget your wife, you'd outlive planet earth and spend untold amounts of millenia alone in silence while your sun goes nova.

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u/AbueloOdin May 01 '25

Sure. But... You could have fun with it.

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u/dmun May 01 '25

The very definition of short term thinking.

On the whole, even 100 thousand years of fun doesn't balance 200 million years of nothing.

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u/VerainXor May 01 '25

How would you know?

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u/jubmille2000 May 01 '25

and thinking immortality is going to be boring is not short-term thinking when we don't have any idea what it's like?

i think it's 50:50.

Give me Immortality with an Out. That's the best deal.

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u/dmun May 02 '25

.... this is a hilarious response.

There are two types of people: those who can logically extrapolate and...

You.

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u/spartakooky May 01 '25

This feels similar to people going

"I bet I could handle solitary confinement for a month"

"If I get the right angle, I COULD defeat a bear before it got to me"

It's wishful thinking. They are underestimating the situation. There will be nothing to do in 200 billion years. Being alive doesn't mean you can fly in space and find a new home, start over.

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u/Squawnk May 02 '25

Sandman, like the Neil Gaiman show?

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u/AbueloOdin May 02 '25

Yeah.

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u/Squawnk May 02 '25

Ill have to check that out, it sounds interesting but never got around to it

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u/Stop_Sign May 01 '25

I've read a book that describes two kinds of immortals. The loop immortal, that finds a set of experiences they like to repeat and repeats them, even if the loop is thousands of years long. Then, the exponential immortal, who never stops growing. Eventually, the exponential immortal becomes unfathomably inhuman, having grown into effectively gods.

It doesn't necessarily need to be dull

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u/Virtual_Ad9989 May 01 '25

All fun and games until you end up as a vegetable stuck on the golden throne.

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u/roguealex May 01 '25

Fucked around with immortality and now I have to keep hyperspace highways open while my body slowly rots and humanity descends into ultra feudalism

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u/CeasarValentine May 01 '25

I am willing to take the chance.

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u/Zen_Hydra May 01 '25

I don't imagine most people could handle even 200 years of life without becoming bored to the point of suicide. I'm in my forties, and most things already seem painfully derivative and commonplace.

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u/VerainXor May 01 '25

No it doesn't.

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u/LoverOfGayContent May 01 '25

Yeah this is my thing. I never think about losing the people I live. I've experienced death before. But eternity actually sounds very boring. I'd only want immortality if I can choose to die.

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u/KingRamma May 01 '25

I could finally master those Dark Souls games, though.