Reuploaded with permission
It's fine. It's written well, but the concept itself is dogshit, and the part where Malthus steals it at the end feels tacked on. But how does this affect lore? This is OP as shit and if Malthus has it this could really fuck with lore. +2
~Baubi
Malthus didn't steal it, the individual who acted as RPC-071-2 just died. Lore-wise, the whole point is that difficult wishes are extremely slow or impossible in a decent time- he's still on more difficult wishes from over 100 years ago, and even those aren't nearly as difficult as erasing a high-threat anomaly from existence. It would probably take at least a thousand years before the genie could even try it, possibly more due to his laziness- and this still probably wouldn't succeed because the beings RPC would want to erase are on higher levels of reality than the genie himself. I'm sorry you didn't like the concept, and hope this cleared things up.
The "lazy genie" angle feels a bit meh at best.
…honestly, if anything, it feels like a -J. There's nothing strange or confusing here. There's nothing that defies understanding. It's a genie, and it's lazy. It will even answer questions about itself and can give in-depth information on itself and (apparently) other anomalous phenomena. In that regard, it feels like the antithesis of what an RPC would normally be. The fact that it's lazy and operates through coincidence is different from a traditional "jerkass genie", but in a way that feels more like a punchline than a re-imagining of the concept.
The joke is kinda meh, and the exploration of the idea is just about sound enough. The inclusion of the addendum is strange; it's foreshadowed from the very beginning but holds little actual significance. The note at the end is superfluous and patronizing.
I don't aggressively want it deleted; it's just ok. 3/5
I like it. But I feel like the image must be updated. Find the image of a lamp and post its image upon capture. Or maybe its image during containment.
Il Inquisidor