Modern Day Magic

[Hyper Kinetic]

Not so much a game as an amusing list...

So what do you think the world would be like if there was some/much more obvious magical element to it?
I am talking about both Psychic abilities (as in 40K) and the more traditional Fantasy style "conjure fireballs" styles of magic. Of course, it is not limited to GWs systems... anything Magical/Psychic could be used here!

I will also add a few rules to this thread to encourage diversity of posters and opinions:
- You can only post a maximum of 3 observations/opinions per post
- You must wait until at least two other people have posted after you before making a new post.
If anyone violates these, the next person to post can feel free to add some form of amusing rant that ends up with the offender being destroyed, mocked or otherwise humiliatingly and hilariously violated.

Here's a couple to start us off:
- A sufficient congregation of highly magical people would mean that there would never be a shortage of electricity... until they all revolted against the Electricity companies.
- People could say "He's infected with Nurgle! HERETIC!" when people fart particularly badly, and more people would laugh... and then the Inquisition will swiftly smite the flatulent offender.
- Technology would be thrown back a few hundred years as people rely more on magic rather than technology.

Your turn

[grakul]

-McDonald's, Coca Cola, Nike and other rich companies would have astropaths to transfer commercials directly into your brain.
-But fortunately you would be able to buy spam filters from other psykers.

[Captain Malachi]

-I'd be awesome.
-We'd all die from a daemon incursion.
-See above.

[CylonDorado]

Teleportation would be awsome. No more traffic or car polution ;D. You could buy stuff with your card at home, and then have your products teleported to you. That would rock.

I could also do with some alchemy. The first thing I would do is turn dirt into some forgeworld titans ;D.

[Hyper Kinetic]

Lotto would be much more interesting... hundreds of people getting the correct numbers meaning that $4 million dollar 1st Division prize pool is now not so appealing.

Displays of anger, even in home settings, would have a whole new world of danger. The news would be littered every night with someone getting too annoyed at their siblings and then demolishing half the house.

Similarly, Insurance premiums would be through the roof for anyone with a psyker/magician in the household.

[CylonDorado]

Nah, there would be a magic police force that would bring swift retribution to unlawfully violent magicians.

[yngir]

I'd become necromancer of awesomeness and become evil overlord of death akin to Nagesh.

Also all chickens would be psychic and use their powers to finally tell us what came first the chicken or the egg.

[CylonDorado]

Yeah, but before they tell us they would force us to pass anti-chicken consumption legislation. I don't think it's worth it.

[yngir]

of course we all know the chicken came first. As the bible says they were made out of thin air

politicians would be rubbish as everyone could tell when they are lying.

[Hyper Kinetic]

Yngir and CylonDorado become entrapped within giant crystals of energy... through which large voltages and currents are poured through. I can only imagine the pain that causes...

Anyhew....
- Launching in to space would be made so much easier and cheaper, and without requiring anywhere near as much fuel. Telekinetics!
- Magic Markers would take on a whole new meaning...
- Pyromancers wouldn't need to pay too much in the way of heating bills.

[yngir]

Hyper kinetic gets his balls burnt off by a pyromancer for having a big mouth. I can only imagine the pain that causes..

Anyway....
funerals would be interesting if one of the relatives was a necromancer!

[CylonDorado]

I would go around doing "pertinence stares" like in Ghost Rider. Where I look into you eyes and make you relive all your wrong doings. Just random people. Senators, gang members, Wal-mart employees, what have you.

[Hyper Kinetic]

yngir:
If you had have adhered to the rules in the first post, you probably wouldn't be dangling over this chasm of spikes.

People who are skilled enough to control the weather, or at least some similar effects of the weather, would be in high demand for farming communities. Unless the magic is true out-of-thin-air style magic, this would horribly unbalance global climate and weather patterns.

[yngir]

yet you do not stick to your own rules lol

[zzapper]

Yes, he does...(chatspeak is badspeak)

-Chatspeak and l33tspeak would cease to exsist
-I'd rule the world
-I could turn water into FUNK!