I'm not addicted to rule. You are. why are you looking at me like that. Everything feels so unbalanced

jackiemeaiii@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 589 points –
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Reminds me of this Niven story where a human takes some pills that are supposed to teach aliens how to teleport, but since he can't teleport he just gets an amazing sense of direction and orientation: https://www.larryniven.net/?q=bibliographic-reference/fourth-profession-the

He wrote another one where an alien got drunk and wanted to have a conversation with a guy, but since the alien was out of "speaks alien language" pills instead he gave him a "messiah" pill, which happens to include the ability to speak all languages.

That might be the same story? I don't remember well enough; I should hunt it down and reread it :D

I just want to get level