2 and 3 easy.
Free gravel for life. So I have an endless supply of product I can sell for profit? Yes please.
And I see no time-limit on the teleportation. 7 inches at a time. Sure. But what stops me from instantly teleporting another 7 inches? And who says I can only do it horizontally. Pretty much giving me the ability to fly here. I'll take it.
Options 2 and 3.
Free gravel, assuming that means it just sort of appears where I want it in as much volume as i want, means I can simply create a massive stockpile of it in a very convenient location for construction projects and sell it by the yard for literally free money. Or sell it directly and conjure it up right where the foreman wants it.
Teleporting 7 inches is enough to pass through most doors which are less than 2" thick. That is infinitely more useful than you think it is....
Depending on the fine print that comes with these powers, some of them could be significantly less useless than they appear.
For instance, "look 10 hours younger." Always, or can you do this on command? Can do you it on command more than once? Does the effect stack? Does it include your clothes? Etc. Because if it for example includes your clothes and/or makeup, you could use this to disguise yourself pretty elaborately, or equip yourself with a lot of stuff about your person in advance, then take it off and show up anywhere up to 10 hours later and conjure that stuff out of the air. Imagine the Matrix lobby scene, except you don't have to set off the metal detector on your way through.
Infinite gravel could be pretty OP if you can conjure it at a fast rate, and especially so if you can conjure it at a remote location. Like, above your enemy's head. Or inside his vehicle. Etc. Even if it's just some kind of deal where you present your magic coupon at the Gravel Depot, you could corner the world's supply. There are a lot of roads that need building in the world.
Or if your 7" teleportation range has no cooldown period, you could just chain-teleport pretty much anywhere that doesn't require passing through anything thicker than 7". That's tantamount to flight or super speed running, but you could do it without removing your asscheeks from your chair. Or depending on how the telefrag rules work, you could cause a lot of damage to anyone or anything you wanted by just teleporting through taking 7" bites out of your target each time.
Definetly 2. You can make millions with that shit.
2 and 3
Assuming I have the ability to Summon free gravel
I could use it for all sorts of things such as making money, using it as a throwing weapon, etcetera
With the teleportation I could just chain I and travel to any country while maintaining a safe speed limit for my body during transition in and out of teleporting
8 and 9.
I figure I can either make bank lending the anthropologists/archeologists a hand with an extinct language, or at least have a bunch of fun bringing it back to life as a personal hobby.
And really? No one's picking nine? Have any of you seen Albert Einstein's calves? He biked regularly. If it turns out I can outrun him now, that won't always be the case as my sedentary ass ages.
No matter how crap my skeleton becomes, I'm giving myself an automatic default level of movement that isn't all that shabby
Gravel is a very important construction aggregate.
Although it depends on the mechanics for how useful 2 would be. Does the gravel just like appear near you? Is there just a guy who gives you bags of gravel? Do you have to go to a specific location to get it? Is there a limit to the through put? Whatâs the volume of output of the gravel. what type of gravel is it? Could it be processed for other minerals?
Like, free gravel sounds pretty damn awesome based on the mechanics.
Everyone is saying 2 for the economic benefits of gravel, but you gotta approach this like a monkeys paw curse. Where is the gravel coming from? Best case it manifests, but physically that's unlikely. Maybe a box of gravel every week like a weird sweepstakes? Again, if you're lucky.
No, in this scenario you get free gravel... in your shoes... every moment of every day and every time you take your shoes off and remove the trace amounts of gravel, the moment you put them back on its there again. Always just enough to annoy you and never when you want it.
Oddly enough I think reviving the lost language is probably the least likely to curse you. I mean, maybe it means you lose something else in your brain (like all the other useless trivia I know and all the names I forget) but you'd probably be able to get recognition from academic linguists enough that you probably could get enough journal submissions out of it to have a modest career at a second rate university somewhere.
2 for money
3 for everything else. Think about it! Assuming you can teleport in any direction as fast as you can think then you can fly, move super fast, dodge any attack, pass through thin barriers (such as fences, thin walls, etc) swim super fast and depending on the rules of this power maybe you can poop really fast by teleporting away but leaving your poop behind!
Define container; reasonably, a room could be defined as a container. A container of what? And furthermore, define empty! Knowing when something's "empty" has all kinds of applications. That and teleporting, even a few inches could be incredible, especially dependent on how often/quickly you could do it. 3 & 7, hands down
I'd pick teleport but I'm afraid of the splicing consequences.
I'd rather just see inside empty objects. I'm sure I could use this in some circumstances. Being able to "know" if a box is empty or not could be perceived as super natural. There is probably a lot of money in that. Plus, a lot of gambling opportunities in things like that cup game. What defines a container? That could change things.
Controlling any toaster with my mind is ambiguous. I'll assume it only works on toasters with power. So I can only turn them on/off to make toast. I could use this power to destroy countries. Power draw of a toaster isn't too bad, but every toaster being turned on at the same time might damage an energy sector. It would take a while to debug as well.
I like the free gravel.
I think I'd pick free gravel and... Seeing inside empty objects. Seems like the most profitable with the least chance of a monkeys paw.
3, 7 in is enough to travel through a few mm thick steel wall
7, being able to see through the walls of an actual container can save some time while robbing them
Also,
5, controlling a toaster with your mind is like controlling a pretty impractical relay. Combine it with amateur arduino skills and you can actually control any electro mechanical device with your mind. In that case i would pick 5 and 2. Selling the gravel will pay for the expensive hobby
Re option 1: I'm assuming it's like when Arthur Dent learned to talk to birds.
[Arthur Dent] learned to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios, and a fair bit about berries.
You im gonna do some jojo shit with number 2 and 3. You can drown anyone with gravel or silently kill them by making it appear in their body(lungs, veins, etc). You can also use it as an armor. And with teleportation you can do a lot of small teleportations fast to badically travel with sny speed. And depending on how teleportation is defined you can do op stuff with it.
Say some phrase in Khitan, then teleport. Become a world-famous magician as no one would believe you're actually teleporting. The Khitan is for the show. Also drive all those people trying to debunk your trick insane.
Plus it'd be incredible for heists, there's no mention of a cooldown so just spam it and piston-translocation glitch your way through some complex.
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Easy. 1 and 5.
1 - "Hey friends. Who's had an itchy grain of sand stuck inside? If you open wide I can take it out and put you back.". Profit.
5 - Insurance fraud by burning down vacant homes through "faulty wiring" then suing the manufacturer.
speaking an extinct language would actually be realy cool and I could teach it to others.
I at least like the toaster if we assume instantaneous faster than light control. If I can sit and watch a feed of stocks and toggle a buy/sell toaster hooked up to the stock market 250 ms away, I can pretty easily beat the market and make money.
Similarly you could use the empty container rule to have someone communicate with you by toggling the empty state of a container. If you sense/not sense the container you have a reliable binary communication channel and Morse code is pretty viable too. But it's probably best for a predetermined action because you're racing the latency of light here and we're not multiplanetary yet so you've only got hundreds of milliseconds margin to work with. Unless you contract with NASA or anyone yeeting things into space. Build an instrument that can Morse code via empting/filling a container and suddenly voyager can send us instant communication. Combine it with a set of control toasters and that's pretty valuable too.
Teleportation: is there a cool down? Because most places can be teleported to in increments of 7 inches if I can chain them.
I would probably would go with 1 and 6. I read an article awhile ago they were used to detect quality of water. I would have the ability to further interpretate what is wrong with the water by talking to the oysters. Might make money along the way and save people/ environment at the same time. As for 6 well is for obvious reason.
3 and 7
Either 2 and 3 or 3 and 7.
Free gravel is fantastic, a ton of practical things to be done with it and is otherwise expensive.
Teleporting 7 inches away is enough to get you past many barriers and walls, that's not insignificant. This seems the coolest to me.
Being able to determine if a container is empty or not seems pretty cool as well although I can't think of a good example of how this would be useful.
The rest are hilarious.
1 and 7. Knowing if things are empty might be marginally useful. Communicating with oysters seems fascinating. Oysters are similar to coral in that they are an important part of forming habits for fish. Being able to ask them what's troubling them could be useful for conservation efforts.
#2 is a farmer's wet dream.
2 and 3 are the obvious choices, however id pick 3 and 5. Here are the only interesting pills available.
(2) You can sell it
(3) that's enough to go through a wall
(5) a smart toaster has a circuit board that you could mcgyver into sending commands outside of itself, allowing ur toaster to be an entry point to computer telepathy.
(6) Would be funny to feed this one to a person who had just died and watch their color come back, really fuck with the autopsy
(9) Instantly cures any physical ailments preventing you from running/walking (unless we mean current albert einstein, in which case corpses cant move.)
2 and 7 I will trade gravel for everything I can.
3 and 5.
5 because it would even work on toasters that can do more than just toast, i.e. a toaster plus computer.
3 because the other pills don't sound useful. And it doesn't say how often I can use this teleportation. So I assume through repeated teleportation I'd be super fast. If it doesn't also teleport my cloths, I'd probably not use it too often though, apart from changing cloths (the 17.78 cm should be barely enough). It would also be interesting to fly using repeated teleportation. Though if my speed is not also reset through teleportation, I'd still fall, and landing would be dangerous. And if cloths and similar are not teleported with me, I also couldn't take a parachute or wings with me.
1 & 2 - as CEO of The Happy Oyster company and Gravel Unlimited lIâm absolutely smashing it financially, even with the terminal lamentations of a million misled oysters in my ears.
3 and 7. 3- you could get all those things that were just almost at your reach. Also, is it 7in of displacement or 7inches in front of where you are, like thereâs a 7in wall you can go through it? 7- if you canât see through it it means itâs full. Thatâs so freaking helpful!!!!imagine all those safe opening posts we could have avoided with this power.
3 and 7 no contest
What type of molecules can be present inside the container for it to be considered "empty"?
3 and 7, without question.
If #8 also included being able to write the language as well, I'd definitely pick that. I could become famous and influential in linguistic circles and probably make good money off of it for a short while. Then I could use that money to fund a few projects I've wanted to do for a while, like making a modern Vib-Ribbon for PC.
As for the other pill, probably just #3 since none of the others really appeal to me in any way.
3 and 8. Teleporting is a neat party trick and speaking an extinct language would make me sound smart.
I would take the toaster one just so I could mess with my friends
Definitely #5 so I can shut up that Demented Toaster!
What's the cooldown and specifics of #6?
Is it a one-time pill effect or a power you gain? Do you stay looking however you did 10 hours ago forever?
If it's a power, let's say you use it immediately twice in a row. First time: boom. 10 hours younger. Second time: does nothing happen or do you then look 10 hours younger than then how you currently appear? So you look 20 hours younger. Could you keep spamming it indefinitely until you very slowly reach any age you want?
I suppose that depends on whether it makes you look 10 hours younger than you ARE or 10 hours younger than you CURRENTLY APPEAR.
I...I'm spending too much time thinking about this.
- 7 inch teleport is cheater for boxing. Idc about the other ones.
I will make 10's to 100's of thousands paving roads with gravel and be more than willing to pave roads for people who can't maybe afford it without consequence.
Empty containers may be profitable as well since I could verify which shipping containers could be skipped for further processing, saving hundreds to thousands of hours of time, over time.
1 and 2. The gravel to sell and the oysters to get a sense of how communications with other animals work. If I can communicate with an oyster, my understanding of communication could potentially extrapolate to higher animals.
1 and 2, but really only 1. If I can talk to oysters then I can figure out how to grow black pearls better and make some serious cash. If the oysters decide they donât want to help then I can sell gravel.
I'm going with 7 and 8. I'd publish a series of books on the Khitan language, get that bumped to the top of google when my name is searched, generally come off as interesting, then attempt to go viral playing shell game with randos on a boardwalk in an attempt to get noticed and land on Deal or No Deal or something like that. Then I'd snag the Guinness Book of World Records title for a couple things along the lines of shell game. Once I have a very modest amount of name recognition, I make a company selling rice cakes in such flavors as Buffalo Wing and Beef Jerky because that's a totally untapped market, in hopes of selling out to Frito Lay or whoever
5 If you want to see the world burn
Become the most profitable gravel supplier in history due to having no land acquisition or extraction costs, not to mention no need to plan for when one site runs out of usable gravel.
Time to disrupt the gravel market
1 and 8. I seek knowledge. A scholar, if you will.
Marvel 's writers picking up next super power
Depending on how fast the teleport is, whether there's a delay between uses and whether it causes significant fatigue or other side effects, I might take that. Other than that, it's a toss-up for me between the extinct language and communicating with oysters.
Play the teleport 7 inches right, and you have a get out of jail free card.
Teleport 7 inches, and free gravel for life.
The first might come in handy during some insane near miss scenario, and I could make a killing running a B2B selling gravel.
Holy smokes, 2?? Obviously see inside empty containers and teleport up to 7 inches!
I'd give anything to be able to tell at a glance what boxes I don't need to open when looking for something and get out of nearly any tight spot or tangle.
3 and 5 are a potentially broken combo. In particular if "control a toaster" means control and not just "operate", since then it's basically toasterkinesis, or being able to instantly turn any toaster into a bomb. "teleport up to 10 inches away sounds like it wouldn't be too useful but it does, in principle, allow you to phase out incoming bullets and a fair amount of lateral blade hits if you time it right.
6 and 7 could have some interesting, niche uses in some fields. 6 for example could be used for intimidation if "10 hours younger" is interpreted chronologically: even after taking a serious wound, you'd look pristine for around 10 hours so it might be used to scare or distract some enemies.
I'm... not even sure what 4 or 9 could ever be used for.
The ability to see inside any empty container could be useful depending on how granular youâre being with âemptyâ. Could get a good job screening for contraband or any other job where you expect containers to be empty, as quality control.
2 and 6,
Set up a business with 2 and eat the number 6 in case you lose a limb or something in an accident
7 can be useful. With 6 I can keep repeating it to be a lot younger, 10 hours at a time.
Free gravel for money making and Toaster mind control for the sheer laziness or the lolz
2 and 3. I'm starting a gravel company. 3 just because it's the 2nd most useful one.
3 and 5
Teleport obviously
3 and 7, teleporting a short distance like that can be extremely useful to get past roors and fences. Identifying whether a container was empty or not reliably is good enough proof to clean out this list without being powerful enough that the majority of people would actually believe I have magic, plus I don't have to reveal my teleporting ability.
Is it just 1 pill for one-time use? I need this information to know if I can reuse some of these pill options.
1 and 2.
I bet oysters are pretty cool and have a lot to talk about.
Free gravel. No more pot holes.
I want this to be an actual proper format for those shitty superpower communities.
Probably 3 or 5. Those would be funny af
For me 2 and 7.
Free gravel and can speak khitan. You can sell the gravel for money and you can say just about anything and no one will get mad at you cause no one will understand you.
3 and 7
4 and 5.
toasters are cool. having them do your bidding? priceless.
4 because I am a kind and generous person. free noses for everybody~*!
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5 and 8. Imagine being able to spook people out all around the world by making their toaster go off in the middle of the night. Also, speaking in dead languages will make me very interesting at parties.
2 + 3
2 because I'm sure free gravel will come in handy at some point, and 3 because I can now teleport to the other side of locked doors
3 and 6. There was no limit to how often you can use the power, so just spam them. Look 20 and fly.
As someone with a gravel driveway, I will take free gravel for life. Lump sum is okay but installments are prefured.
You could escape from anything with number 3
5 and 8.
Languages are rad and so are toasters.
Depends on the teleport cool down, but that's the obvious first choice. From there it's tough between 1, 2, and 5...
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Doesn't say there's a limit on how many pills of your choice you can take so I assume you'll get an ongoing prescription of them. In which case, I'm taking 6 and reliving my 20s forever.
1 and 2.
Endless Pearls.
I think you guys are underrating a few of these
- 8 could be useful if you're a spy and want to have your own private documents that noone can read
- 1 you could leave oysters in places suited for eavesdropping, and maybe even coordinate billions of them to tackle down ships etc (?)
- 5 It would be possible to all of the sudden communicate with all humanity in morse code by turning them on and off, you would hit headlines and maybe demand a crazy amount of money in cardano/bitcoin or else you'll just blow up the toast industry. Plus, this morse code thing could lead to a cult where you might have fanatics at your advantage
2 and 5
2 because gravel can be sold
5 because imagine youâre in a hotel and just mess with people
Gravel and see inside containers. You can undercut the entire gravel industry. Obviously save time getting your wife holiday decorations.
If you pick 7, 1 becomes redundant.
Communicate with oysters and see inside any empty container. Communicating with oysters is at least unique, and it could be useful to be able to verify a container is empty without having to look inside it.
3, because itâs actually kind of useful.
I imagine all of these powers come as the worst possible implementation like a cursed rabbit's foot.
Like free gravel for life: you don't conjure it out of thin air at will, no, it's magically mailed to you once a day in small quality and you have to remove it from your mailbox or it'll fill it up.
Teleport 7 inches: a magic nimbus appears and lifts you on it. If there's a wall in the way, it just keeps shoving you against the wall.
3 and 7. Teleportation? Hell yeah! And you can see inside containers to teleport inside of. 7 probably has some really fun uses if you get creative with it
5 and 7
I get toast when i want and no one said the empty container has to be near me
