ANON SEEKS ANSWERS TO LIFE'S DEEPEST QUESTION

[erogappa]

What is love?

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[erogappa]

Are you serious? That's the worst thing I've ever heard.

[fortunesmiles]

That would be a strange thing to lie about...but it's definitely true. I've won the lottery multiple times, been in plane crashes on desert islands, been kidnapped by a serial killer, had family killed by meteor strikes, survived murder attempts, been brainwashed by the personification of ultimate despair, had my memory erased...and then there's ending up being brought here to be a god. The odds of that have to be pretty astronomical too, right?

If it wasn't for extreme luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all!

It does come in handy sometimes, though. I hardly ever have to spend money at vending machines.

[erogappa]

That's a really fucked up thing to have to keep track of.

Can you control it, or does it just happen?

[fortunesmiles]

Mostly it just happens. I can influence it a little, though; if I make something bad happen to me, then something good will usually follow. Of course, it's not that useful, because the good luck is proportionate to the bad luck, so minor bad luck will only get me minor good luck. And causing myself major bad luck...well, even if I wanted to, sometimes the good luck just cancels out the bad luck, if that makes sense. Like when I played Russian roulette; if the bad luck was risking my life, then the good luck was winning.

Besides, sometimes what my luck considers good luck...it may be amazing and unlikely, but it might not be something I'd really consider worth the bad luck. When I got kidnapped by that serial killer, my good luck was finding a winning lottery ticket in the trash bag he kept me in, but I was already rich from my parents' inheritance before that, so the actual value of that good luck wasn't a whole lot.

[erogappa]

Normal people might think that not getting killed by a serial killer would be good luck.

[fortunesmiles]

I suppose normal people have more to live for.

[fortunesmiles]

But in any case, it wasn't luck that he let me go! He just found out I didn't have anyone who'd pay a ransom for me, so he decided I wasn't worth bothering with.

[erogappa]

I cant believe he didn't kill you. Maybe you really are lucky.

[fortunesmiles]

My luck does tend to prioritize keeping me alive! Even when it's honestly ludicrous...but when you only have extreme luck, pretty much everything that happens to you is ludicrous.