• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I can already summon rain, so I’m set. And despite part of my job literally being a graphic designer, I kind of suck at art with traditional media. So I’ll take the art.

    All I have to do to make rain is show up somewhere with camping equipment. I have about an 80% success rate, and as a consequence a very comprehensive clothing and equipment loadout for dealing with wet.

    No joke, I once cured a drought in Wyoming back in, like, 2012. I rocked up with my homies in Dubois, WY outside of Shoshone and we stopped at a little diner there. The waitress was bellyaching about the dry spell they’d been having and we told her not to worry, we’d go up the mountain and pitch our tents and it’ll rain, guaranteed. She laughed. She didn’t believe us. So we did, and it immediately rained for 3 days solid. It started to tail off just as we were leaving.

    We stopped by that diner again on our way out, and I stuck my head in the door just to say, “You’re welcome.”

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    3 months ago

    I already cannot art.

    So if I have to choose between a talent billions of others already have (and cannot make a living on), or a talent literally nobody has, which could save countless lives and entire ecosystems…

    Yeah, not even a question. Rain.

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      3 months ago

      Bit of a silly question, isn’t it? With the ability to create rain you could end global hunger and stop climate change.

      Behold, the Sahara Jungle!

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          No. Jeez, think about it for 2 seconds.

          If you summoned rain you’d be ruined forever. Exit consensual reality. Goodbye certainty about all that. You are now one of the crazies. Alone.

          Even if it’s real, it’s scary.

          You are losing your position as one of the sane adults. All of the knowledge you were fed all through your life is a little bit like poison now.

          You just broke your world.

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    I can already make rain, in small amounts. First I drink water, then I get very upset and douse myself and anything just beneath me in a somber rain.

    I can also make art too! O–[—< see? Look at the Lil guy!

    FR though, I do love downpours and heavy rain, such beautiful and peaceful weather so I’d love to be able to have that whenever

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    3 months ago

    Is making art with the rain an option?

    Sand darkens when wet so that could make a cool canvas, theoretically.

    You could also play with that “wall of rain” effect you sometimes see when you are just outside of a heavy rain area.

    Alternatively, just make “social commentary” like a torrential downpour on the financial district. Sometimes art is just revenge.

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    I don’t really understand art. So creating it, if I didn’t also receive the ability to appreciate it, would be dumb. I guess I’d go for rain, and then just go to drought areas around the world.

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    3 months ago

    Only if the rain magically creates the water otherwise I’d probably screw up some weather patterns and would be responsible for horrible famines or devastating floodings or whatnot.