Based off a post I made on Reddit a while back. Hope y’all enjoy.
The penny is OP. Flip a coin, get a heads, buy the most expensive lottery ticket at the gas station. Wait 2 weeks, repeat. Infinite money glitch
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
Submitted 11 months ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Sky_Lobster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was trying to avoid “cool item give big money” because that’s exactly what I did when I posted the idea on Reddit. It was a set of dice that would give the winning lottery numbers and then scatter like the Dragon Balls. And then guess what half of everyone chose. At least the penny can be used for things other than gambling. Idk maybe something like that should be a single use item to balance things out.
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s functionally a wish every 4 weeks, and you know if you’ll succeed or not before you attempt whatever it is.
Win the lottery, invent time travel, learn to fly, solve world hunger, conquer the universe, create the other artifacts…
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Your thinking too small. With the glasses you can just talk your way into being a ceo and be a billionaire I’m a few years. Have fun talking to the lottery commission when I am sipping brandy with people I hate.
Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The mask, the penny, and (depending on how hand-wavey you get) the glasses, are on a different power level than the other two.
7 hours of life per day, at full rest?
On demand money, or better, though unreliably, twice a month?
Auto-navigate to your desired outcome when other people are involved?
Yeah, life-breaking shit
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nope. The mask only works for one hour. It takes 30 seconds to fall asleep. So you can never get the hour it takes to be fully rested.
Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Nope. The writing is deterministic. "The wearer 1. falls asleep (time amount) after wearing, AND 2. awakens (time amount) later, feeling fully rested.
One doesn’t depend on the other. It’s just what the mask does, step by step.
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, the mask if you are actually rested and not just “feeling rested”. Being hit with the physical effects of sleep deprivation and having organs start failing after a couple weeks would be a real problem.
Otherwise, that damn penny. Knowing that I have 12 hours of “I win” without any real limitation, even if it ends up being 12 hrs/month, would be obscenely broken. None of the other artifacts even come close. I make sure I always flip on a Monday at about 8am, if it’s heads, I apply for jobs I want and trade some stocks until about 1 pm, then go for a walk and see what goodness I can fall into for my life. Head home around 6pm with 2 hours of perfect luck left which I spend working on the cure for Autoimmune diseases and Cancer. Once I have enough wealth built up and have found plenty of cures to Salk the hell our of to piss off the pharma companies, I start working on Nuclear Fusion. Continue this pattern until I get bored.
paholg@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I agree, with one huge exception. Why the hell are you wasting your lucky coin applying for jobs?
Also, sure, do some trades once to get some starter money. But that’s a waste of your precious 12 hours a month. As is going for walks. You can be on vacation the other 98% of the time; spend every second of your penny time doing as much good as you can.
Cure diseases, solve nuclear fusion, end wars and violence, build infrastructure. There seems to be no limit the way it’s worded. Hell, build the Enterprise from Star Trek (or a better space ship) and spend your non-penny time exploring the galaxy.
Do physical laws even apply? Can you build replicators for everyone? How about a mansion in a tardis for every person on the planet?
For how long do you have to try something to succeed at it? Maybe you can do each of these things in just a couple seconds. If that’s the case, maybe penny time will quickly become non-valuable if you run out of ideas.
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- I specifically stated that “I apply to jobs I want”. Your statement indicates that you consider all work to be a waste of time. I personally want a job developing AI tools that work for the betterment of humanity. I wouldn’t need it to pay well as the investments I make on penny time would be my income. Also, it is one of those things that take too long to do in 12 hours, and having a team to work with helps a ton too.
- The trades aren’t taking 12 hours. If you had the golden touch, and intended on making trades that had long-term viability with 100% success, then an hour or two a month would be all you needed. This also makes sure that the growth is slow enough that the SEC doesn’t get alerted.
- I didn’t say I was going to take a walk to take a walk. I said I was walking around for a few hours to see what good fortune I could find. Again, if I have 100% successful luck, then everything I do is charmed. Walking “aimlessly” around most towns while under such an effect greatly increases the opportunities to happen across something that is beneficial.
- The limitation is that you mentioned at the end, the 12 hours every 2 weeks. There is only so much that can be done in that span of time. Everything I mentioned was specifically designed to expand the knock-on effects of the good luck into the rest of the time that I don’t have it. A stock portfolio with guaranteed long-term growth, research breakthroughs which need to be built upon by experimentation and work, meeting the right people and forming the right relationships in my community, a long-term employment that provides me the challenges and long-term results in the world. The biggest challenge is to make sure that you have a good life that makes a difference while you have your normal luck, not concentrating on short term success.
olafurp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I actually wonder if the coin interacts with an int stat. What if it’s more nuanced than you’ll attempt to create a replicator by doing x and you will successfully find out that it’s impossible to do it in the way you intended.
I’m thinking like “I’m going to make a replicator in my garage” then getting stuck since you don’t know how to make the attempt. If you would know how then you’d be successful of course.
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I apply for jobs I want and trade some stocks
Bro, why are you applying for jobs? You are rich!
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Again, not all jobs are about money. I want something meaningful to occupy my non-lucky time. All being rich means for me is that I don’t have go suffer while I pursue it. It also affords me more time to focus on what I want to focus on and lead a much lower-stress life. I’m not looking to enrich someone with the job, but I would like to enrich the world.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
The coin, because I can flip every two weeks to attempt total world domination, and it has a pretty high chance of succeeding somehow. Or just more mundane things like flipping to win the jackpot.
The slick talker glasses are also pretty overpowered, you can achieve much the same as with the penny if you can just give a quick speech and everyone in the room either tries to fuck you or be you five minutes later.
But my heart is with the quick sleeper mask, I’m never really rested after waking up and also procrastinate going to bed all the time. Getting a full rest in one hour sounds like the dream
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 months ago
If you have the coin, you’ll pretty much get infinite money. With that you can buy and sleep treatment you need. Also, not having to work means you can sleep whenever you want.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I see we had the same thought process, I think I’d take the mask too even though the coin is technically far more powerful if random in its power.
V0lD@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Coin
Look, the glasses are nice and all, but they don’t give you a 50% change to win the lottery and randomly realise a way to prove/disprove the Riemann hypothesis every two weeks
I wonder how this works with elections. In my country, the votes are counted within 12 hours. When I’m voting on a party, I am attempting to make said party the largest one. Does the coin just give me a 50% chance to unilaterally decide my government every election cycle?
olafurp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It says “everything the user attempts” which technically you can guess what the next coin result will be correctly but your guess will stop being lucky after 12 hours and your attempt won’t be lucky.
Coin sounds the best tbh. It’s an infinite money with extra benefits.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m assuming there’s a downside, like you have to commit to whatever thing you were planning before the flip. So like I say I’m going to slap a cop, and then I flip the coin, hoping for the best.
Maybe the effect only lasts until you look which side of the coin came up - so you won’t know how it will go until you’ve tried it. :D
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does the coin just give me a 50% chance to unilaterally decide my government every election cycle?
No, this one is the most like a “monkey’s paw” on this list. Here’s why:
everything the user attempts will work out in their favor
For instance, the worst possible candidate in your district/country is absolutely going to lower your taxes. Doesn’t matter who you want to win.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The sleep mask looks like the obvious bet. Have you ever been awake for 20 hours straight? It’s not debilitating, but after about 18 I start getting woozy. I’m gonna go with it anyway, because even if I take the penny and win the lottery, the one thing money can’t buy is time
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Au conteaire, money well spent does, in fact, buy time. If you are broke and have to spend half your day riding buses to get your errands done and you buy a car and can get them done in an hour or two, that is half a day you just bought. If you can hire a maid and a chef, that is all of the time that would have been spent cleaning and cooking that you now get to figure out how to spend. Don’t let anyone lie to you that money cannot buy time, because being able to use money to speed up tasks or offload them entirely is literally buying time.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah the penny is crazy OP. Ultimately, if something can be done, you can do it. Ignoring what you said for a moment, which is entirely true.
Get rich, create company that is focused on sleep research and ways to reduce/eliminate it while staying 100% healthy, unlimited funds, top minds, and every month you can help speed things up significantly.
And if it’s fundamentally impossible, you’ll still have plenty of other goals to choose from, and you’ll absolutely appreciate having the entire day free to do what you want while having to sleep, vs having to still go to work but sitting up all night.
The other catch is, while it states a cool down of 20 hours, functionally you’d generally have to be awake 23 hours, unless you had the luxury of being able to sleep at any time. Sleeping every 20 hours for 1 hour isn’t going to stay at a consistent time.
kogasa@programming.dev 11 months ago
You can still go to bed if you’re tired. Just put on the mask when the cooldown is up. Or don’t.
nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Get fatigue mask.
Work out until completely destroyed
Put on mask
Wake up refreshed
Rinse repeat until I can crush stones between fingers
Dig a lithium mine by hand
Dominate the battery market and develop affordable electric vehicles
Use money to build large tubes
Use personal strength to javalin throw that shit into space
Get obscenely rich
Buy facebook actually make it better
Change name legally to: Fuck you Elon Musk
Takios@feddit.de 11 months ago
Cooldown: 20 hours
nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world 11 months ago
You sound like a Musk apologist
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Never heard of a 20 hour workout?
But I mean if you are throwing stuff into space I mean you might actually need to work out that long.
esc27@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The penny, then I’ll try and take the rest. (Flips coin, it landed on heads!)
Kolrami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ll do you one better and rank these instead.
- Lucky Penny
- Caffeinated shoes
- Fatigue masking mask
- Frying pan of flavor
- The cool glasses
- Underwear of febreze
I really wanted to put the caffeinated shoes at number 1, but the lucky Penny sounds OP.
Also, the underwear is an unfortunate item because most people who need it wouldn’t choose it. It’s also the only item that could be simulated with one hour of effort a day (at most) for most people.
Mesophar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nah, glasses need to be ranked much higher. Do you realize how powerful those are just in every day use? Always impress at job interviews or reviews for promotions/raises? Use in sales jobs or anything customer/client facing to always come out of it ahead? Not only being able to be effortlessly popular in all forms of relationships, but also always know the right things to say to help those people or help them feel better?
“Social situations” is such a broad term that applies to so much of life, and being able to navigate them perfectly implies more than just schmoozing your way to the top. They’d help you do better and be better, basically everywhere.
Kolrami@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you’re right about the glasses. At the very least they’re probably better than that frying pan. The more I think about it they might be right under that penny.
sukhmel@programming.dev 11 months ago
With the glasses it’s all fun and games until you’re assassinated by someone you accidentally crossed without even knowing. Because assassination is not so much of a social situation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
skulblaka@kbin.social 11 months ago
Being generous, I'd say I could run maybe a half mile at full tilt before I collapse completely. +400% stamina would put me at two miles, and the shoes last "while stamina lasts." Pretty strong, but not Flash OP.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s what I was thinking but Lucky Penny is weirded way too close to a monkey paw
ZeroTHM@lemmy.world 11 months ago
23 hours a day instead of 16 to 19 seems real good. That’s like living considerably longer.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Idunno, now I’m conflicted. On the one hand, having 20ish more years to enjoy life would be great, but winning the lottery via the penny would make the 60ish waking years I have left much higher quality
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Better to be lucky than good.
Plus the others are essentially crutches. Febreeze underwear? Just take a shower. “Charm” glasses? A shower and a new haircut will get you halfway there. Maybe a watch and new shoes too.
Sleep mask is tempting but you need to hold onto it and use it for the benefit. With the penny you only need to use it once or twice to change your life. No one will ever know because you just “got lucky”. You can live a normal life too.
GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Coin is overpowered af. Just flip the coin and buy a lottery. At that precise moment, all other items are practically useless.
You can hire a cook, sleep, buy whatever you need, hire people to do your bidding. Who needs charisma when they have money?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is overpowered af but don’t use it to get money. Use it to get the charisma glasses and each of the others during your first 12 hours (coincidently, they will all be close and easy to grab). Then attempt to write out an exhaustive list of any other objects or abilities that might threaten you (or maybe start with this one, as the glasses are the only one that threatens you from the original list). I’d say hopefully no one else has some other object or ability that warns them of anything that might threaten them, but yours might nullify theirs during your 12 hours. Attempt to deal with the list before half the time has passed.
Then start attempting to gain new abilities. Or attempt to find 28 more coins. 28 instead of 27 so that you can flip the next coin before the current one runs out and never fail the next flip. The sleep mask ensures you never sleep through a transition. Not that you’ll even need the ability to be constantly active.
“Anything you attempt” is waaaaay too broad.
GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Absolutely. I was assuming one can only access to one item.
DudeBro@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah I was going to choose the sleep mask until I saw the coin. If everything goes my way then I effectively have the powers of the glasses and the frying pan, plus unlimited luxury from lotteries, discoveries, opportunities, etc. The cooldown needs to be nerfed, or maybe add a negative debuff to the tails side.
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Will the sleep mask make me well rested or the regular not rested I usually get from sleeping 8 hours?
tuxtey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sleep disorders, checking in!
Abnorc@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If I equip the shoes and the frying pan, I can RP as the scout from tf2.
FeetinMashedPotatoes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BONK
Abnorc@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m not even winded!
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 11 months ago
That underwear is cracked, gimme gimme.
also the coin holy shit, time to do some crimes
BambiDiego@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or just gamble legally. Start with straight-up casino gambling, work your way to 100k, do investment gambling using the coin every day, get yourself to 10mill, do property and hedge investing, eventually you don’t need the coin, save it for when you absolutely need it while your money makes money and you actually live a comfortable easy life
Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I had to put these on a personal tier list
S Tier:
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Glasses - As someone on the spectrum who is below-average in terms of physical attractiveness, the one thing I sorely lack is rizz. The ability to put on a pair of glasses and be able to automatically pass any job interview, make any new friends, sell any product, chat up any woman, etc would be massive. Also, no cooldown.
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Sleep Mask - Gaining an extra 7 waking hours of time in a day is massive. If you’re productive this is the artifact to go for.
? Tier:
- Shoes of Inhuman Speed - This item is either moderately to insanely useful depending on its limitations. If you can skim across entire oceans at superhuman speed then that’s massive. If you lack superhuman reflexes and will get splattered into a fine bloody mist from colliding with anything then it becomes a lot less useful.
B Tier:
- Cast Iron Skillet - Unless it’s a massive cast iron pan, don’t expect to be opening up restaurants with it. It’s best reserved for your own nutrition and impressing guests with your cooking.
C Tier:
- Coin of good luck - A 50% chance of having incredible luck for twelve hours once every fortnight seems great, but the cooldown is prohibitive. Also, unless RNGesus has bad luck protection, there is an incredibly slim chance that the 2000 or so times you get to use this item. Also, good luck can still wear off after those twelve hours.
D Tier:
- Underwear of Fe’Breeze - Personal hygiene doesn’t take up much time, and with the right environment and lifestyle you can easily build up a habit. This one is just the least useful.
Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree with all of this except for the penny. If it makes everything you try go right for 12 hours, you could do some pretty awesome and life-changing stuff, even if it has a long cool down! It could be A or S tier depending on how you use it
Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean… A vial of Felix Felicis with twelve hour effectiveness and a 50% chance to proc once every fortnight… Maybe I am underestimating it.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plus… Underwear is until un equipped. Imagine about to get sexy time and you need to take them off. Lots of vomit will suddenly appear.
Clbull@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Depends on how it mitigates bad odor and poor hygiene. If it pauses rather than masks what harms your hygiene, then you’re all good. Otherwise… 🤢🤢🤮
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discostjohn@programming.dev 11 months ago
Couldn’t you use the penny and just attempt to find the cure for death? It makes everything else silly.
Flughoernchen@feddit.de 11 months ago
Ok great now you have the cute of death. You’re the only person who knows it’s true and you created it basically out of complete accident. Now explain it’s mechanics to a scientist the next day.
duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Just wait 2 weeks
sukhmel@programming.dev 11 months ago
If it works someone will reverse engineer it with time
discostjohn@programming.dev 11 months ago
Well obviously you just attempt to invent it afterwards and succeed by random chance.
Bizarroland@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't know, the shoes are pretty tempting. I can Sprint at about 10 miles an hour for about 30 seconds right now. Multiplying those by 5 would let me Sprint at 50 miles an hour for two and a half minutes.
I would be the closest thing the real world has to having the flash, or you know kind of like an overweight Sonic the hedgehog
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I would go crazy just to have the fatigue masking mask.
1 hour… fully rested??? Assuming one gets 8 hours of sleep a night (though, who is really getting 8 a night on lemmy?), you’ve just converted your ratio of sleep-to-awake from 1:2 to 1:23.
Extreme change imo.
Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyz 11 months ago
I’ve always been envious of people with great social skills. I could accomplish a lot more if I had them. The glasses for sure.
Shou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed. Wish I understood just how much more important spcial skills are over a professional skill.
Wizzard@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Take the underwear and go into the deep ocean or outer space.
Unlimited fresh breath is an invaluable bonus.
Uresname@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Until you get crushed by pressure or frozen from near zero temps
BambiDiego@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…
“Listen here, you little shit”
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
The lucky penny is broken af. For example, you can use it to replicate everything else on the list or learn abilities to match them or better.
Basically, it’s exactly how luck is purported to work in various fictional universes. It’s kinda similar to Constantine’s (hellblazer) ability.
FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Easily the penny. The mask is tempting to have more time in my day but I can just gamble and make a ton of money meaning I wouldn’t have to work. It would also help with a ton of other stuff.
qx128@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok … duh … the glasses are the best artifact.
You could be running the world in no time with that kind of charm applied to politics.
don@lemm.ee 11 months ago
12 hours of solid fucking global mayhem every two weeks on a 50/50?! I’m patient. I’ll take the lucky penny.
Aremel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fatigue Mask OP. I’ll take 2.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I already have the frying pan
Harvey656@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need scales, is +100 luck = maximum luck? Or is it a logarithmic scale? We need context here.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No one’s asking the important question:
Why is the penny silver?
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I wonder if the underwear also works if the user gets splashed with neurotoxin or hit by a wave of radiation. I know theres gotta be a clear cutoff but I’m not sure where it is.
Don’t get me wrong, running faster than Usain Bolt seems cool, too. The sleeping mask seems like a great idea at first until you realize it would increase your food expense dramatically.
TeaHands@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fatigue mask seems cool, until you’re just spending 7 extra hours a day procrastinating doing the thing you thought you’d use all this extra time to achieve.
The glasses are OP. With them, nobody can even be mad at you for all the procrastination.
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fatigue mask fixes my insomnia, I like to think that the world isn’t ready for that amount of unbridled power
… In reality, I probably just exist as I do today, just less knackered
FMT99@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The hours are great but falling asleep instantly and waking up fully rested… oh my… I don’t remember the last time I felt fully rested even after 8 hours.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.de 11 months ago
Are they? There’s a significant difference between “feeling” rested and “being” rested.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Yeah if you take it at face value that one is pretty cursed. You’re gonna get sleep deprivation affects and diseases pretty quickly if it only makes you feel rested. But it’s entirely possible they intended it to mean properly and healthily rested. If that’s the case I think it’s by far a top contender.