What wishes you made were granted in a "monkey's paw curls" way but in a positive direction?

In my case, in my self-loathing younger days, I answered the question "what do you want to be when you grow up?" with "I want to be a garbage collector."

Now, I'm collecting garbage, but because I want to apply the boy scout principle: leave the place cleaner than when you arrived.

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MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social · 18 pts · 91d (1 reply)

I wanted to make games as a job.

The wish would be "I want to make videogames."

I now make games as a hobby/casual side thing alongside a regular job

(looks at state of gamedev industry)

... and it seems I dodged an entire drone strike with that one.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 6 pts · 91d

Good move. Nothing kills a passion like working in the industry.

pr06lefs@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 92d (2 replies)

The whole world getting enthusiastic about moving away from oil and gas energy.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 6 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Monkey Paw Twist: We revert to Steam and wood energy

yogthos@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 91d

At the rate things are going, Europe just might.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 91d (5 replies)
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Nindelofocho@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Quality not quantity :)

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 91d
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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 91d

Knowing you have enough is absolutely satisfying. Musk doesn't have it. Bezos doesn't. You do.

runiq@feddit.org · 4 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Happy for you, from one stranger to another. :)

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 91d
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barkybeak@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 92d (1 reply)

I wished that I could have every single video game ever made

With emulation it is possible to do that.

But you fall out of the video game hobby and you don’t find enjoyment out of playing.

Vegan_Joe@anarchist.nexus · 12 pts · 92d

This reads more like a traditional "monkey's paw" scenario though