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I had this idea for a dark sci-fi / body horror movie about a married couple whose constant arguing starts to physically change them.

At first, it’s just a strained relationship. They argue all the time, and eventually it turns physical. But in this world, humans can rapidly adapt to extreme stressors… so their bodies begin changing in response to the violence.

The key is that the adaptations are specific and visible:

• One partner develops thick, almost armor-like skin in areas where they’re usually hit
• The other develops sharper, blade-like fingernails or bone protrusions to get through that defense
• Their reflexes become unnaturally fast, like they’re anticipating each other’s movements
• Their posture shifts, their muscles redistribute, their faces subtly harden into something more predatory
• Over time, the changes become impossible to hide: extra eye-like structures for awareness, asymmetrical limbs optimized for striking or blocking, skin textures that don’t look human anymore

It’s not random mutation. It’s like their bodies are learning how to fight each other better.

They try to keep it private, but eventually the changes become so extreme that people notice. Somehow they end up being recruited into a kind of underground performance scene (circus, fight shows, viral spectacle, etc.) where their “thing” is these intense, almost inhuman fights.

And here’s the twist:

When they stop genuinely fighting and try to just perform choreographed versions, their bodies start reverting. The armor softens, the reflexes dull, the extra features shrink or disappear.

They realize their adaptations only persist if the conflict is real.

So now they’re stuck in a loop:

• If they keep actually hurting each other, they stay extraordinary and successful
• If they try to heal and become normal again, they lose everything that made them special

It becomes less about the spectacle and more about the relationship:
They’ve literally become biologically dependent on their own toxicity.

You could take it in a few directions:

• Tragic: they secretly keep escalating real fights to maintain their identity
• Bittersweet: they let it all go and have to rediscover who they are without conflict
• Dark satire: the audience/fans encourage the violence, turning their dysfunction into entertainment

Main theme would be something like:
“What if a relationship didn’t just emotionally shape you, but physically turned you into exactly what you needed to survive each other?”

What do you think of this movie idea?

Right now we only have like/dislike and view counts. But a video with 10M views could still be average and a hidden gem with 50K views might be amazing. There's no way to know until you watch it.

So my idea:

Let viewers rate every post (normal videos, Shorts, live streams) from 1 to 10, exactly like IMDB. Then:

1. Each video shows its average rating 2.Each channel has an "average rating per video" overall 3.You can sort a channel's uploads by highest rated first 4.Creators see real feedback, not just views

Why this helps:

-Viewers find quality content faster -Creators know what actually works _ Algorithm gets better data enjoyment vs just curiosity clicks _ Old high-quality videos get rediscovered

The hat has attachable prosthetic-style hands on both sides. When you put them on, they physically reach over and look like they are plugging your ears. The visual effect is that you appear to be intentionally blocking out sound or conversation.

The idea is that you could wear it in situations where you want to avoid being approached or spoken to by strangers, such as walking through an area with proselytizers. It acts as a nonverbal signal that you are not available for interaction.

It could also be detachable, so you only use the “hands covering ears” mode when needed, and otherwise it’s just a normal hat.

What do you think of this idea?

Not rebuilt. Not an alternate timeline. History has NOT changed.

9/11 still happened exactly as we remember it. The footage of the collapse still exists. Everyone remembers the towers being destroyed.

But overnight, the towers are physically standing there again.

At first people think it’s a hoax or projection, until helicopters confirm they are real structures occupying physical space in lower Manhattan.

The world completely breaks psychologically because reality now contains an impossible contradiction:
everyone remembers seeing the towers collapse, but they are visibly back anyway.

The story follows several key characters, each trying to explain the event through completely different worldviews:

• A physicist working with the federal investigation believes reality itself has somehow fractured. She searches for a scientific explanation involving overlapping timelines, quantum anomalies, or unknown physics.
• A religious leader becomes convinced the towers are a supernatural event, either a warning, a test, or a miracle. Massive crowds begin gathering around the exclusion zone, turning the site into a kind of pilgrimage.
• A retired FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 believes the towers should not exist and becomes obsessed with proving they are dangerous. To him, their return feels less like a miracle and more like reality refusing to let the dead rest.
• A conspiracy broadcaster sees the towers as proof of a massive government deception surrounding 9/11, gaining millions of followers online as society becomes increasingly unstable.
• A psychologist studying mass trauma believes humanity is collectively projecting meaning onto something fundamentally unknowable. As public panic grows, she starts questioning her own sanity.
• A young journalist born after 2001 initially treats the story as historic and exciting, but slowly realizes older generations react to the towers with fear rather than wonder.

As investigators enter the buildings, they begin finding evidence that the towers show signs of remembering their own destruction:

• Behind intact walls are warped steel beams matching Ground Zero debris samples.
• Certain stairwells contain layers of ash embedded deep within the concrete.
• Some office windows show faint spiderweb fractures exactly where debris struck during the collapse.
• Thermal scans reveal unexplained heat signatures concentrated around the impact floors.

Eventually investigators realize the terrifying possibility: these are not reconstructed towers. They may somehow be the SAME towers that were destroyed.

The most disturbing part is that history itself remains intact. Videos of the collapse still exist. The deaths still happened. Which means the towers did not return because the past changed. Something impossible has entered the present.

The movie would be less about action and more about how humanity reacts when reality itself stops making sense. Tone somewhere between The Leftovers, Arrival, and Annihilation.

What do you think of this movie idea?

Is it possible to create and run a non-profit for move in/out of towns that circulate around colleges/dorms?

I see so much perfectly-fine or gently used furniture go to dumpsters when college kids are moving in or out of their dorms/apartments. I'm always tempted to take it for myself, or somehow bring it to a donation center - but really it should just go to another college move-in.

Does anyone know of a company like this? Ideally you have a few moving trucks, a warehouse, cleaning system, people contact you to take their furniture (for free), you can be contacted for free furniture (college kids, those in a tough financial situation, or really just people trying to waste less).

Early education is critical, as the brains of young children develop rapidly. Therefore, a gifted program for this age group would help maximize their potential.

A secretive religious group kidnaps random people off the street.

The rules are simple:

• You are not killed.
• You are not held forever.
• You are released once you successfully convert someone else.

“Conversion” isn’t just saying the right words. You’re expected to follow their moral code, learn their beliefs, and convincingly act like a true believer. But the real trap doesn’t end there.

After your release, you’re required to kidnap and convert a new person every year.

Miss a year, and you’re taken back.

So every victim faces a choice:

• Refuse, and remain trapped indefinitely.
• Comply, and kidnap an innocent stranger to take your place… over and over again.

The religion doesn’t actually care if you truly believe. It only cares that you follow the rules and continue the chain.

Over time, some captives start off pretending, but begin to internalize parts of the belief system. Others become disturbingly committed, enforcing the rules more strictly than their captors ever did. And some try to “game” the system by picking targets they think deserve it… if such a thing is even possible.

The story follows one person navigating this system, trying to find a way out without passing the harm on to someone else… while the pressure to comply keeps building as the yearly deadline approaches.

Is it possible to escape without becoming part of it? Or does survival guarantee you’ve already been converted in the only way that matters?

What do you think of this movie idea?

After Omegle shut down, I saw a gap and instead of waiting for someone else to fill it, I filled it myself. I studied everything Omegle got wrong, learned from their mistakes, and built my own video call platform with stronger moderation, better structure, and a safer experience for everyone on it.

I never imagined it would go anywhere. But now? We're running at 40,000 visits per day. I can see it right there in the stats real numbers, real people, real proof.

Nobody handed it to me. I just sat with an idea long enough to stop calling it a dream and start calling it a plan.

So if there's something sitting in the back of your mind right now think it, build it, and trust that the numbers will follow.

Just think and do it.

Do you think they will stop complaining then?

Who doesn't want to be like a CEO?

This is a psychological horror movie about unrealized ambition and academic pressure.

The protagonist is an unemployed former gifted student who never became the exceptional person his teachers once expected him to be. Though he completed university, he gradually withdrew from ambition and adult life, leaving behind the sense that he had wasted enormous potential.

Then the ghosts of several former teachers begin appearing in his dreams and waking life.

These teachers are not simply disappointed educators. Before becoming teachers, each believed they would someday change the world through science, mathematics, philosophy, or literature. Teaching became the compromise life they settled into after their larger ambitions failed.

Now they have become obsessed with the protagonist, whom they see as an unfinished continuation of their own abandoned futures.

They begin what they call an “intervention.”

Their goal is to force him to write a science fiction novel.

Each teacher tries to shape the novel according to the intellectual legacy they never achieved themselves. A science teacher pushes speculative physics, artificial intelligence, evolutionary theory, and complex systems. A math teacher demands hidden symmetries, recursive structures, algorithmic societies, and mathematical perfection. A humanities teacher pushes philosophical meaning, emotional devastation, symbolism, and cultural significance.

Each believes their discipline is the true path to greatness, making their visions fundamentally incompatible.

As the protagonist writes, the novel begins bleeding into reality. Scientific diagrams appear on walls. Conversations repeat in mathematical patterns. Memories reshape themselves into symbolic narrative scenes. The process feels less like writing a book and more like being psychologically rewritten by multiple competing minds.

The horror comes from the realization that the teachers never truly saw him as a person, only as a possible continuation of the extraordinary lives they wished they had lived themselves.

What do you think of this movie idea?

For example, a chocolate box could include a short, visually appealing beginner booklet introducing something like quantum physics, philosophy, astronomy, psychology, or mathematics.

Not in a pretentious “you should study this” way, but more like:
“I thought this was fascinating and wanted to share it with you.”

The idea would be to turn the chocolate box itself into a hybrid product combining sensory enjoyment with curiosity and conversation.

Different versions could exist:

• chocolates + philosophy mini book
• chocolates + astronomy cards
• chocolates + psychology puzzles
• chocolates + mathematical paradoxes

A romantic gift that says “I like your mind too,” not just “I bought you candy.”

What do you think of this idea?

Sometimes parents have children who are vastly more intelligent than they are, raising the possibility that the children could manipulate or take advantage of their parents.

Parent Protective Services would step in with highly intelligent social workers to ensure those parents are not being exploited due to the intelligence gap.

What do you think of this idea?

Right now, if someone has no trusted family or friends, important medical decisions can end up being made by distant relatives, hospital administrators, court-appointed guardians, or whoever the legal system defaults to.

But imagine if a person spent years interacting with an AI that learned:

• their values,
• their tolerance for pain or disability,
• their religious or philosophical beliefs,
• how aggressive they would want treatment to be,
• whether they would prioritize survival, independence, cognition, etc.

In some cases, that AI might actually represent the person's wishes better than a stranger or estranged relative.

I'm not talking about AI independently controlling healthcare decisions with no oversight. More like:

• the person voluntarily opts in ahead of time,
• the AI acts as an advisor or surrogate recommendation system,
• doctors and ethics boards still review decisions,
• and the AI's reasoning is transparent and auditable.

It would basically function like an extremely detailed, continuously updated living will.

There are obviously huge concerns:

• bias,
• manipulation,
• corporate incentives,
• outdated understanding of the person,
• and whether an AI can ever have legitimate authority over life-and-death decisions.

But for people who truly have nobody they trust, could this eventually be better than the current system?

For example, instead of simply graduating with a Computer Science degree, your profile might look something like:

• AI: 89
• Graphics: 57
• Operating Systems: 74
• Security: 31

These would NOT be grades. They would represent how far you progressed through that university’s curriculum in each area.

So “AI 89” would mean you demonstrated mastery of 89% of the AI curriculum offered by that school.

This would shift education away from pass/fail courses and GPA compression toward continuous progression and mastery learning.

Instead of:

• passing a course with partial understanding
• cramming for exams
• repeating entire classes after failure

you would simply keep advancing through structured knowledge trees at your own pace.

One interesting consequence is that education would start resembling RPG progression systems:

• You gradually level up different skill trees
• Different people build very different profiles
• Progress is persistent instead of reset every semester
• Specialists and generalists naturally emerge
• Learning becomes more lifelong and modular

Someone might have:

• AI 92
• Graphics 18
• Theory 81

while another person might be:

• Graphics 95
• AI 24
• HCI 88

The system might also work better with AI tutors and individualized instruction, where students advance after demonstrating mastery rather than after sitting through a fixed semester schedule.

Degrees would become less like static labels and more like evolving skill profiles that continue changing throughout life.

There are obviously challenges:

• standardizing curricula between universities
• preventing cheating
• deciding what counts toward progression
• avoiding over-quantification of education

But it seems like a much richer signal than a single GPA plus a generic degree title.

What do you think of this idea?

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I'm building this web app for couples, based on a controlled escalation of touching and caressing between partners. A randomized foreplay.

• Core Mechanics: The Slot Machine (Chaos Control) Breaks predictability and eliminates the "waiting for your turn" vibe that usually kills the mood.
• Flow State: Continuous Once the spin starts, you’re "in the zone." The design is built to keep your focus on your partner, not the screen.
• Escalation: Organic The algorithm builds tension Layer by Layer, mimicking the natural progression of real-life intimacy.
• The Finale: Guided The ending is an integral part of the "marathon." It offers the option to conclude through controlled, roulette-driven touch, ensuring the flow isn't broken at the finish line.
• Time: Efficient Heat Adjustable based on the couple, but includes a 15-minute "Quick-fire" mode—perfect for busy parents.