The set-up is SOOO FUCKING GOOD. This has a potential to be an untapped treasure trove of PEAK.
Rather than outright violate, take advantage and use them like a meat puppets, he actually, in the strongest meaning of the word, saves them? Fuck, yes. And the worst he does is... a hug? Fucking brilliant.
The guys has a power of gods, you can literally program ppl to be w/e he wants. Take a POS turd that has nothing but vile, self-serving ideas in their mind, and program them to be a righteous, people helper, selfless, high on life individual... God, the idea alone makes me so excited how good a talented author could spin this!
Or if you go into more psychological aspect... MF says "it's nothing" while almost crying, you fucking tap on that app and you make them say what's wrong, there's no mental walls, there's no ego, no bullshit "this is so embarrassing I need to save face", you just get the full story, and then you use your damn head to fix it, brute force it, no more plot armor / deus machina ripped right out of the author's ass one in a million event or niche wording that only would work in this situation alone and nobody would say. Just insert the prompt like you're using chatgpt. "Oi, father-kun, start loving your daughter like an actual damned father would, start working hard, stop being depressed, look at the world around you in a more positive way, make up for all of your negative actions, start treating everyone the way you'd want to be treated yourself AND some".
OOOR, you hate school, too lazy, too horny, too fucking OCD to concentrate, don't like how whimpy you are, want to become a better man? Fucking self hypnotize you damn scrub! META GAME IT! Get a clicking script, record some msges of you commanding yourself to be braver, be more curious, become 30% manlier and love homework 20% more. Buy, steal or suck your way into getting like a mechanical hand or w/e to click the app, MAKE yourself do some cardio and workout in free time as long as it doesn't effect your health of take too much of your personal time... There's so much you could do.
But, of course, we don't live in an ideal world, and the author himself isn't that bad but he aint no genius. The repeated "I'll go full degenerate!" into finding bruises or cuts loop got old after the first time... You can't be fucking repeating that one.
And the hypnotized ppl feeling jealous... or crying... or just speaking their mind when not asked, behaving like it's not hypnosis but some kind of lobotomy or a personality swap, now that's fucking lazy. Unfortunately, there's more smaller issues too.
And of course,
to all of you 80IQ kids who cry Raaape, No tooouch! But my conceeent! You guys are showing that you can't think about anything for more than 1 minute, try thinking with your head rather than with your gut.
If you, theoretically, were given this power, you'd be the worst, most unhinged, diabolic pieces of shit ever, you damn puritanical hypocrites. Imagine being so emotionally immature to react to the premise at the shallowest possible level and ignore comparative morality in the story. Look yourself in the mirror, and be honest to yourself, would you abuse absolute power or would you be angels and never do anything? This is a rhetorical question... The answer was already answered since way before your dumb ass was born. Read the psychological literature, ctrl c then ctrl v this whole comment and use grock or GPT and tell me if it's not true. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, the sooner you learn this the sooner you start building rules and boundaries for yourself. You are a human, and you WILL become w/e you see as despicable given the right circumstances.
You are of of us, on who you look down, you're just too stupid to see it, bozo.
