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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 271 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I’m going to take the free gravel and 7 inch teleportation. The gravel is a valuable commodity which can be sold. 7 inches is enough to get through any doorway.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (14 children)

7 inches is enough to get you mostly through a doorway.

Doors are about 1.5 inches thick. The average chest depth of an American male is 11.5 inches.

Teleporting yourself 7 inches forward would put a door 7 inches from your front and 3 inches from your back. You would have to only be 5.5 inches deep in order to make it entirely through the doorway without merging with the door.

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 147 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • Resell my free gravel for huge profits

  • Have a great street magic trick where I ask the spectator to empty a single container out of many with my back turned, but I can always pick out which one

I'll be Cris Angel, Gravel King

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Redmond and blutarch are gonna be SEETHING when I collapse the gravel industry

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[–] Kase@lemmy.world 106 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why is everyone choosing whatever pill(s) they want to and describing what they'd do with it?

The instructions explicitly say you can only pick 2. Everyone gets gravel. Smh.

[–] SandLight@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

That's all I want anyways though it would be cool to speak another language.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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....

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The teleport one if it has no cool down could be used to fly, just keep using it

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

If it stops velocity it would also be useful for dropping long distances without dying. A little like Mario doing a butt-stomp just before he hits the ground in Mario 64.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Doors may not be that thick, but you're thicker than 7 inches even if you're skinny. So you'd end up with part of your back inside the door.

[–] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But then you haven't travelled 7 inches. If you want to measure how far someone has travelled, you measure the distance from a body part in one position to the same body part in the second position. If you measure from the back of the foot in one position why would you measure to the front of the foot in the other position?

[–] CrzyRusski@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ammm, that proves that you'll likely end up in the door. If you stand facing the door and measure 7 inches from the back of the foot towards the door, you likely won't pass the door.

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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)

3 and 7 💯. I'm breaking into all the places.

[–] kpaniz@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Didn't even think of a building as a container

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[–] SCB@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Free gravel for life. Just become a gravel wholesaler. Corner the market instantly.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (12 children)

2 and 3 without question.

You'd make ludicrous money from the construction industry with an unlimited supply of gravel, while being able to teleport 7 inches would be useful for break-ins.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

#7 could be useful for gambling - when you can see into one container but not the other, you instantly know which one has the prize in it.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Due to a recent Supreme Court ruling certain areas classified as wet land by the US Corp of Engineers are no longer under build restriction. To make them buildable they need fill. A few million tons of gravel fill seems like something someone would pay a lot of money for.

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[–] shifted_drifter@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

2 and 7. Free gravel? Sign me up that shit's expensive. And I think another way to interpret 7 is that you can instantly tell whether any closed container is empty or not, since you can only see into empty containers.

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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

Does the gravel have to be delivered or does it appear out of thin air?

Definetly 2. You can make millions with that shit.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.one 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Free gravel it is 😒. Why would someone make a quiz with no choice ?!

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[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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[–] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2 and 7, obviously. Good luck anyone carrying an empty box within my vicinity.

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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Teleport and spam it. Go hundreds of miles an hour

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
  1. No stipulations on how frequently I can teleport 7". Like, can't I just teleport 7" constantly and very quickly? Also, sounds like I could probably use this ability to fly.
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[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bro free gravel4lyfe gang checkin' in

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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? What’s 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.

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[–] MTK@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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!

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[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] BaroqBard@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Imagine being able to generate gravel over every single road crack and never fixed hole.

Amazing.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

3 and 7. With 3 you can essentially walk through walls, and with 7 you will know exactly which boxes you don't need to check when looking for something.

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[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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

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