- It still allows you to determine whether containers are empty, which is situationally useful. I’ll sweep Deal or No Deal once it starts back up.
No brainer
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Tetragrade@leminal.space 8 months ago
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nah, thinking about it, it’s much more useful than that. You can presumably see inside of the container itself. Think about how many difficult and dangerous jobs involve inspecting the inside of septic tanks, aircraft fuel tanks, etc. Hell if we stretch the definition of container you could inspect the inside of an engine cylinder.
Or, monkey’s paw, containers with air in them aren’t empty. Then it’s very difficult to use.
Smaagi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine the faces of those street hustlers who make tourists play three cups and ball game.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 8 months ago
Bro thinks there’s a ball
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
7 could actually be insanely overpowered depending on interpretation.
“Instantly see inside any open container”
What does it mean to “see” inside a container? If that just means “know what the contents are” (i.e nothing) then its limited, but if it means literally see, with remote sight, that’s much more useful, depending on this next parts…
What does “inside” mean? Does it mean we can only observe the interior, or can we look out from the interior as if out point of view occupies it? And given a glass cup can be considered an “empoty container”
At its most favourable, this power gives you the ability to remote surveil almost any location where a common everyday empty glass can be found.
eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It also doesn’t seem to list a distance limit?
I’m now observing from the inside of an empty Tupperware container in a Top Secret facility.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Strictly limited to transparent Tupperware
Technotica@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Free gravel sounds great, but nowhere is the amount specified, if you get a handful of gravel every day for life that’s not helpful.
Teleport 7 inches sounds good, if the effect of the pill isn’t a one time thing. Do you only teleport 7 inches when digesting the pill? Do you keep teleporting? Can you stop teleporting? ;)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also, is the direction controllable or random?
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Lol perpetual 7 inch teleport
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Toaster control for sure. After selling my robot toasters as a cheap way to communicate with satellites, I’ll command an army of them all over the solar system.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I want to saw free gravel, but I need to know how its manifested. In a big pile where I want it? Or like never ending handfuls of pocket gravel?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nobody said it was manifested. They said it’s free. Here’s your free bonus pickaxe, lazy bones.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“With a heavy heart, this broadcast regrets to inform our audience that President Donald Trump has been crushed by a spontaneous pile of gravel. Investigators are still looking into the source.”
Spezi@feddit.org 8 months ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Control toasters, duh. I’m gonna survive the AI revolution
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am pretty sure you can sell gravel soooo
absentbird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But this gravel is free.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Free for you, not the people you sell it to.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 months ago
7 inch teleport sounds genuinely useful in a fight. Also, couldn't you just keep teleporting 7 inches? It might still be faster and easier than running.
On the other hand, infinite gravel...
Allero@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Also, 7 inches are generally enough to teleport through a wall
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is it tho? If your body moves 7", the new position of your back would still be behind where your front was, at least for my fat ass. So you couldn’t clear a wall. But if it’s a problem to teleport into a wall, then it would also be a problem to teleport into the air where you’re going. And if you left a sudden vacuum behind you, it would create a dangerous shock wave as it collapsed.
ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Could be useful, but it says nowhere that your clothes will teleport with you.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Then getting dressed and undressed will be a lot faster.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Getting your tackle out; a war tradition almost as old as bonking someone on the head with a metal object.
Less practiced by armed militias and moreso ‘crackhead locals’ these days; it remains an incredibly effective tactic.
irish_link@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There was nothing that said you can’t teleport up. Meaning you can go up and over. Almost no effort way of getting our of traffic or cleaning the gutters, fixing things up high. Or ya know essentially low flight. This is all assuming there is no cool down and its like walking.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Free gravel! Fuck yeah!
Living in the rural area and having pretty long private road i would be really happy for free gravel.
Bonus points if i can desite how coarce it is. During winter the yard gets really icy and small gravel would make it better.
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Free Gravel?
This one is clearly the best choice. That shit is expensive!
Start a gravel business, destroy the competition, and create a gravel empire.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.org 8 months ago
Cover the whole world in gravel!!! MWAHAHAHAHA
lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I feel like everyone is underestimating 5. It’s any toaster. Make a killer robot that happens to have the ability to make toast and you’ve got a remote control death bot.
I’d make a whole set of devices that happen to also be toasters. Why not add some heating elements and springs to an elevator, a car, a plane?
moakley@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s so obviously this or the gravel.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 8 months ago
Sorry bud, you can only control it to act in its capacity to make toast.
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Yeah, you could hook up a sensor to detect the toaster coming on and basically control electronics with your mind.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
- Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
- This has been brought up before. Gravel isn’t cheap. This is basically infinite money.
- If used continuously, you’re basically The Flash.
- Just a bad idea unless you can put it inside your existing nose for double the sniff-sensitivity.
- Okay, that’s just fun.
- Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
- Only useful under very specific circumstances. Also, define a “container”.
- Unless the Khitan civilization knew things we don’t, this isn’t useful at all.
- Fast as he is now or when he was alive?
nialv7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
8, resurrect a dead language will make some linguist overjoyed
phx@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’m thinking that #7 might be useful in certain policing or security positions, depending on the definition of empty (there’s always dust and air).
Got a bunch of containers that need to be inspected? You can cross the ones you can see through off the list.
Also useful for winning the cup-and-ball game
dev_null@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It allows you to remotely see anywhere in the world where a transparent container (like a glass) is.
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Sheer horror. You’ll never be able to eat these again.
I think they’re just going so cold, water please, drowning…kill me…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
How would that work? “Age” isn’t some inherent property of atoms.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The text just says look 10 hours younger. To me, that means un-doing all the apparent signs of aging: superficial stuff. Less wrinkles, fewer sunspots/freckles, hair is back where it used to be, no more cataracts, etc. Meanwhile, your internal organs, bones, and muscles keep going with the usual aging process.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
3 is overpowered, it’s basically FTL if the reload time is low
mechoman444@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah teleporting 7 in if there’s no time like between teleportations is godlike.
Brutticus@midwest.social 8 months ago
I was going to say, 3 is my choice. Subtly powerful and useful. Just have to be creative, even if it isn’t actually that much faster
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The reload time is zero, but teleporting N meters away takes N seconds. Oh, and it looks like the transporter effect from Star Trek where you fade out and get all sparkly.
lengau@midwest.social 8 months ago
I’m playing a Pathfinder game where my character has something roughly resembling this ability, and so far it has allowed my party to essentially skip a few fights.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 8 months ago
So curious about any funny stories. Like tried to get on the other side of a wall but you’re skinniest character is 7.5 inches at the chest so their scapula gets stuck in some thatched wall so now they look like some kind of hay Angel.
vane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
- Open franchise that sells toast bread. Burn all toasters in the world that are not used in your chain. Raise prices to ridiculous amounts. Build a big toaster rocket. Fly away.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Isn’t easier tk jist sell gravel?
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Can run as fast as albert einstein, but don’t actually take the pill. Use it only when you or a loved one is immobilized by old age or injury. Nothing to lose, even if its a bogus ‘0mph, he’s dead’ pill.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I was thinking it would be an excellent choice for my wheelchair bound coworker
ulterno@programming.dev 8 months ago
If I were to lose my ability to walk, would I choose:
- ability to maybe walk, maybe like an old man, maybe not
- ability to teleport along with my stuff, 7" per thought
On the other hand, maybe I can only teleport once, for when I take the pill. That might end up being pretty useless for this case.
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Considering how my driveway gets completely washed away any time it rains, I’m going with #2 no questions asked.
Don’t even have to read the rest of them, gravel is expensive!
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are these one time use? Like you gain the ability to talk to oysters forever? Grow a new nose as many times as you want? Or talk to oysters for 5 minutes and one extra nose?
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Become a water quality assessor with instant and accurate data on pollutants, if there are invasive species, whether or not there are pearls present, and any other information oysters can offer about the environment.
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Instant paving/gravel business with a huge profit margin compared to competitors.
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Depends on the locus of movement. If 7” only, like a quarter step in any direction, kinda useless*. If moving your entire body 7” away from it’s previous location, good for theft I guess if the barrier is less than 7” thick.
*if you can “spam” the 7” movement rapidfire with no speed limit, you can travel as fast as you can wherever you want in a “stuttering” teleport.
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Useful to someone disfigured, lost one to skin cancer or other issue.
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Depends on what you limit a toaster to and what constitutes control. If you can control any facet of any device that heats the interior for purposes of heating the contents to a specific temperature, then this is really powerful. Engines “toast” fuel. Kilns “toast” everything from carbon fiber to ceramics to tempering glass. The ability to control the specific heating of any material in an enclosed environment would have wide application.
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Spam it.
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Catching smugglers? If a container that should be empty isn’t, you can’t see in it.
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Get your name in the history books as an expert on the peoples and culture surrounding the language.
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If you were a paraplegic this would be life-changing.
nieminen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The gravel one is gonna have some stupid loophole, like it’s one pebble a day, but infinite and free.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Free gravel appears instantaneously at will, but only in the very center of Ohio
Mac@mander.xyz 8 months ago
- I don’t think Mr. Einstein is able to run very fast, atm…
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pyre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
so i can say inside your skull? Ayooo
but seriously it’s the teleport assuming there’s no or negligible cast time. the only thing you can’t do is tp through a thick obstacle but you can repeatedly use it through continuous routes to travel long distances in very fast.
if not then toaster control ain’t that bad either.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
3 or 6 if there’s no cooldown. People talk about not being able to get through walls when over open ground you can hit potentially limitless speed without gaining inertia and going splat if something pulls out in front of you. Same with deaging, so long as the cooldown isn’t longer than 10 hours, you’re Benjamin-Buttoning it.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m 10 hours younger, 5 seconds later, I’m 19 hours 59 minutes and 55 seconds younger, rinse and repeat until you reach your desired age. Immortality?
phx@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
But you’re not actually losing age in this one, just looking 10 hours younger so it wouldn’t really stack.
deacon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gotta go with 7 here.
Nariom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
- breed oysters > profit
- sell gravel
- still prob useful if you chain teleport real fast?
- why
- must be a job somewhere for you
- can instantly tell if a container isnt empty, work in customs or something?
- doctorate in archeology
- albert einstein when? now? yikes, when he was young? depends on your relative age and physical form
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 8 months ago
5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.
moseschrute@piefed.social 8 months ago
Does toaster control imply I can also read the internal state of the toaster with my brain? Like can I detect if the bread is about to burn?
gray@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
7 is actually useful? I don’t understand the debate
visc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No one is thinking of building a toaster with wheels and cameras ?
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can I take all 9 and never have printer troubles again?
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Free gravel is so busted compared to these. Gravel’s one of those things that you don’t need often, but someone in any town on any given day will need some.
You could undercut every single other gravel business. Even if the competitions lowers their prices dramatically, they can’t go lower than their costs. Meanwhile, you have absolutely no costs on material. Gravel monopoly.
Samsy@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
- The second nose, but can I decide where?
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
You guys are sleeping on 1.
The secrets of the oysters could be yours.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d use that power to heal from fatal wounds and reverse terminal illnesses.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’ll just give you another 10 hours because the doctor will say you look fine.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s nothing about not being able to use the power over and over again either immediately after you use it or after a less than 10 hour delay. Just repeatably spam the power to reverse your age.