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If you choose to be reborn, you will not have magic powers, but you will unlock a status window and a skill tree that you can use to give yourself new skills and abilities and improve your physical characteristics.

You'll get the same thing if you choose to be reincarnated, however, magic will be a factor. And the age of the world will be somewhere like 50-ish years before the full rollout of the industrial revolution, technology-wise. (minor clarification, you keep your current knowledge either way)

However, you will not be the hero or the chosen one. You're just going to be a person with a perk.

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[–] TAG@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I would never choose to be reborn as myself with my current knowledge. I would know how my life could turn out without knowing all the steps I did to get there. I don't think I would be able to get my wife to fall in love with me and I know that I would never be able to find the exact breeder that sold me my dog.

As much as I would love to imagine how much better my life will be if I made the right decision at some juncture, I would not want to lose out on all the treasure I discovered taking the wrong road.

Sure I would be able to see loved ones who have passed, but would I be able to enjoy that extra time knowing that they will soon develop a disease that will kill them?

[–] Godthrilla@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think I would choose to forget everything, and have a chance to be reborn in a world where everything is new

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 8 hours ago

This is commonly referred to as death.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Magic no question

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please clarify the details.

Is it reincarnated into a world without magic, retaining all of your knowledge just in a preindustrial revolution knowing and timeline will remain the same minus the changes I make? (Like everything that happened without human influence such as earthquakes, volcanoes, stellar phenomena etc would still happen at the same times, but magic now exists and I don't have it?

And the other choice. Being reincarnated into a magic world without knowing who I am or anything I knew in my previous life but I will have a magic system to utilize that I'm fully informed of? And also does everyone in this magic world have magic or would I be a rarity or at least uncommon as someone who can use magic?

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You would either start your own life over with all the knowledge you currently have and a status screen,

or,

you would begin an entirely brand new life in a world of magic, remembering and knowing everything that you know, and having the status screen

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for the clarification!

Magic me allllll the way!

[–] Edge004@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Magic world. That sounds more fun and interesting to me

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

i would want to be reborn in world with magic with my memories so i would appreciate more

[–] bookie@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

I'd rather be reborn as myself with my current knowledge, that way I have more time to learn. I'd do so many things differently.

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Magic easily. Why would I want to come back into a world like this?

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Same. Please just let me die.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would I live in a preindustrial society just for the minute chance I could use magic. Because statistically speaking you will be a subsistence farmer in a world where the powerfull can literally alter reality.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you take the magic route, you are guaranteed magical ability of at least C tier rank, and since you have the status window, you will be able to upgrade that through patient and dedicated practice.

[–] fenrasulfr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I did not see the changes you made to premise. But I would still stay with modern comforts and lack of terrible diseases.

[–] MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The magic one for sure. I have no doubt that I would not only recover my memories of past lives but would ascend to much greater heights, perhaps grasping immortality itself.

All the amazing adventures to bizarre worlds await.

With dimensional and time travel, shapeshifting, I might even come back to this world. Maybe I'd turn my other self into newt and take his place. Or imbue him with forbidden knowledge and power. Or take him with me. Or maybe we'd just end up having a bunch of freaky shifting magic sex.

"Hey me, it's you, from a world of magic. I'm here to rescue you."

"Wow, how unexpected. Also, you're hot."

"Baby, I'm about to blow your mind."

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reborn as myself with my knowledge.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Young people don't listen to old people. But, if the old person is myself, then I'll listen... when I'm young again.

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, this question... like, this isn't even a question. So much stuff I would re-do...

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I couldn't imagine a single scenario where I wouldn't choose to reborn as myself. IMO it is objectively the correct choice: more stable/safe world (compared to pre-industrial revolution with dangerous spells), and I'll almost be guaranteed to do quite well in it given the status window and skill tree

My intrusive thoughts tell me to choose world of magic and go kaboom though

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I would take magic if it's summon spell.

[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Reborn as myself. Once my vocal chords develop people will be amazed at the conversations they can have with a baby.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And before that, your parents will be amazed that you didn't need potty training 😅

[–] Boe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

What if I already need potty training?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anything sufficiently advanced that it isn’t explainable in the current culture is magic.

Considering I’m already a modern day wizard, I’d go for being able to use my existing skills from birth over being born into a society where the laws of physics may not be the ones I’ve spent decades studying. That sounds like a recipe for abject misery and early death.

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[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reborn. I wanna see my mom again.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok, this one is too wholesome for me to make a dark joke about.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would be the best, man. I miss her. I could do a lot of stuff differently, sure, but mostly I would just like to spend some time with her. She was awesome.

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[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So new game in magic world or new game + in normal world?

Do I have to be the chosen one in new game +? I'd do that if I don't have the added responsibility of saving the world.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you're of a certain age, you'd STILL have to save the world.

Imagine you go back in time, to the year your born. You can't even speak yet, but you know 9/11 is coming.

If you try to warn others, they won't believe you. But after it happens, they'd blame you. You're the guy who knew 4 planes would be hijacked on one random tuesday.

Because thats what 9/11 was before the planes hit. Just another random tuesday. Very calm. Nice pleasant weather. If you watch what the today show host says at 8am, he says "It's Tuesday morning, the sun is shining, and it's a nice quiet morning. Maybe a bit too quiet."

Oh believe me. That's about to dramatically change!

But how would you know that on Sept 9th 2001?

So now you have a choice. Let thousands die on the day, and hundreds of thousands develop conditions related to the attacks. Ranging anywhere from mild, to lethal. Everything from a persistant cough, to aggressive cancer.

But in choosing to save them, you most certainly go to max security federal prison.

Or, you can pretend to be shocked when 9/11 happens. Knowing you let hundreds of thousands suffer.

Your choice.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Would it really matter if we get reborn? That implies pretty strongly that death isn't the end. Sure, you could choose to be a hero, or at least try, but all those people already died, maybe even you did (depending on how this whole thing works).

Given those surrounding circumstances, I don't think the concepts of life and death would carry the same weight in a second run through life.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 10 points 2 days ago

You did this wrong. I would spend the time using the info I know to get massively rich very early and connect with people who can do something, and start working that front

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Going to a world of magic sounds pretty sweet, but only if I can remember that I once lived in a world without it. Otherwise, I'm just a schmuck in the only world I've ever known, and magic wont be any more fascinating than technology is today.

The current world with knowledge would be more advantageous than a magic world from scratch.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

If the Harry Potter universe taught me one thing, it is that a world of magic is a terrible place. Anyone could be anyone else transformed, people can read minds, etc etc etc., no wonder Alastor Moody became so paranoid.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Neither. I'd make my parents choose people who actually love each other which would prevent me from being.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

World of Magic, I don't wanna live through the Trump presidency again, nor gender dysphoria.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

What kind of monster would saddle a newborn with the weight of my current knowledge?

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I really don't understand what magic you think we don't have? Chances are you typed this question on a slate of crystal and wire that allows you to see and hear across the planet in nearly real time. There are people who, with the right tools can summon fire at their fingertips, unleash arcs of lightning, draw water from thin air, and make rocks that talk. We are surrounded by forces that both well mapped (at least locally) and are completely incomprehensible to the best of us. While we have not mastered the veil between life and death, we have certainly learned to draw it back.

You are, I fear demonstrating the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt. You're confusing the comprehensibility of the world with mundanity. We are living in a world full of "magic"... It just doesn't look like the magic you read about in old fairy tales, and importantly, it's not shared equally to everyone.

I'll take reincarnation with my mind intact.

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[–] shirasho@feddit.online 5 points 2 days ago

Give me a new body and a brain without chemical imbalances, please.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Reborn, any day. I'm quite happy with my life, but this and being a multimillionaire through some minor investments in bitcoin, and a stat screen to minmax? 11/10

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm assuming that all of the magic would be hoarded by the spellionaires. I'd be stuck in some warehouse loading an infinite number of potions that I can't afford onto a Pallet of Holding.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Maybe it would be more like a world where everyone has a nuke, which means that conflicts and tantrums are way more dangerous but otherwise people are generally more polite and reluctant to escalate conflicts that do come up.

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[–] trijste@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Neither. I’ll take absolute absence

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[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have quite the skill tree that I'm too old and broken to make use of.

Reborn with my knowledge of skateboarding? Yes please.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First one. Need to stock up on amphorae first though.

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