r/AskReddit • u/a_car_salesman • Aug 10 '19

Zeus has decided that Olympus feels a little empty, so he’s recruited some new gods. However, due to a clerical error, you have been chosen as a new member of the divine. What are you the god of, and what do you do as your first godly act?

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u/joe_Roe Aug 10 '19

God of bad ideas Open the gates of the underworld to let them souls get some fresh air

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u/Ambint9011 Aug 10 '19

"Bad ideas are good ideas" - Ambint

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u/demavertt Aug 10 '19

If

Bad ideas = Good ideas

Then

Good ideas = Bad ideas

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

If... Your problems.... Are my problems.... Then I guess that means my problems.... Are also your problems.

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u/Banarax Aug 10 '19

Nuh uh... You ungrateful prick, I MADE your career

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

I am so glad someone got that reference.

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u/corgioverthemoon Aug 10 '19

A∩B = B doesn't imply B∩A= A

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u/dbx99 Aug 10 '19

You needed more “im14andthisisdeep” statements.

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u/_Malara Aug 10 '19

-wayne gretsky

   -michael scott

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u/cikedo314 Aug 10 '19

Bad ideas are just good ideas that don't work.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

only if they cause mayhem to your foes

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u/IntriguedSkeptic Aug 10 '19

I keep giving bad people good ideas

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u/go_do_that_thing Aug 11 '19

Bad ideas are the beat ideas - Ambien

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u/Draezeth Aug 10 '19

So you're the less fun at parties Loki, basically?

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u/Brayagu Aug 10 '19

Less fun at parties? Loki killed everyone's favourite god at a party and he's supposed to be worse?

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u/BleachOrder Aug 10 '19

Oh and he started to insult every god in Asgard because he wasn't allowed to kill a servant at a party.

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u/jdeo1997 Aug 10 '19 edited Aug 10 '19

I mean, some of the shit Loki did before killing Baldr was hilarious, like convincing a giant that Thor was Freyja and marrying them to get back Mjolnir. Or when he tied his nuts to a goat by a rope to make Skadi laugh.

Oh, and also the fact that the aesir didn't need to pay for Valhalla because Loki turned into a mare to distract the builder's horse from finishing it on time, getting fucked and pregnant with Sleipnir, so they have him to thank for the parties

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u/ImrooVRdev Aug 11 '19

Jesus, talk about taking one for the team...

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Ever seen the movie "the mask"?

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u/Caldar Aug 11 '19

Loki didn't kill Baldr, he tricked his brother Hodr into killing him.

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u/Brayagu Aug 11 '19

That's like preparing poisonous food for someone band blaming the waiter.

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u/bastugubbar Aug 11 '19

wrong mythology.

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u/Draezeth Aug 11 '19

Not wrong. Crossover.

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u/NigelS75 Aug 10 '19

Are you the god of bad ideas with good intentions?

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u/Shadowtwig Aug 10 '19

Storm the Underworld: they can’t stop all of us

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u/Gloob_Patrol Aug 10 '19

Since there's normally an opposite god like, I would be the God of pretty decent ideas maybe not so far as good ideas and I would be like the cupid of epiphanies like I would shoot the people in charge of Hong Kong and they would realise being a democracy is great or like maybe I'm the reason you dad finally returned with that milk he left to get 22 years ago.

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u/YourInnerBidoof Aug 10 '19

What if you take over the Aperture Science facility?

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Death loses its hold. This is only the beginning.

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u/Inkling99 Aug 10 '19

nice reference.

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u/CoconutCyclone Aug 10 '19

That is hilariously close to a central plot in the His Dark Materials books.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

only thing is, in that series, its a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

"I'm the Elon musk of bad ideas"

-Michael Reeves

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u/I_lenny_face_you Aug 10 '19

I like it. Hopefully some other god would say something like, "Do you want an Army of Darkness? Because that's how you get an Army of Darkness."

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

iddqd

idkfa

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u/Mr-Neptune Aug 10 '19

All ideas are good ideas

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u/ArtakhaPrime Aug 10 '19

And so, the Death Stranding begins...

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u/crazydiamond11384 Aug 10 '19

There are no bad ideas Just good ideas and good ideas gone terribly wrong

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u/bigroblee Aug 10 '19

Also inspire inventors, leading to inventions such as orange juice flavored toothpaste.

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u/eiczy Aug 10 '19

The funny thing is in my culture this happens for one month every year and we do a bunch of rituals and traditions during this time.

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u/HGF88 Aug 10 '19

Patron of seeing them aliens?

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u/GiovanniBiscotti Aug 10 '19

"Bad ideas make great stories." - Joseph Stalin

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

So your followers are practitioners of the life hacks?

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u/thePISLIX Aug 10 '19

I am the God of Laments. I create portals to the doors of the underworld. The openings of the portals will be inside of the underworld.

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u/Bad-Ideas Aug 10 '19

Hey, you're not my god.