3 and 7 are pretty OP if used correctly
No brainer
Submitted 16 hours ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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tomi000@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 hour ago
- 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.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 hour 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.
Technotica@lemmy.world 2 hours 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? ;)
brap@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Easy, free gravel. Become a gravel salesman.
Would be interesting to see how it appears though. Can I get to just point to a spot and suddenly gravel? If so, charge people for the show too. Just rock up to their house, point at the driveway and boom, gravel. Easy money.
Added bonus: don’t like someone? Boom, house literally full of gravel.
Gravel.
Stamets@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Just says that the gravel is free, not that you can generate it or make it appear
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Still a free product. Normally gravel traders have to purchase the gravel, move it and sell it. Now you just have to move and sell it. Massive profits. Transport fees are for the customer too, so basically free as well.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Built a greenhouse with a gravel foundation this summer. Doesn’t matter if I have to move it. Free gravel is useful.
oplkill@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You will have free grave in north Korea
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t want to deal with people tho
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I am pretty sure you can sell gravel soooo
absentbird@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
But this gravel is free.
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Not when I’m through with it.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 7 hours 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 55 minutes ago
Also, 7 inches are generally enough to teleport through a wall
ShouldIHaveFun@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Could be useful, but it says nowhere that your clothes will teleport with you.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 33 minutes 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 4 hours 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.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 hours 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?
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours 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.
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
If there are no limits of scale or delivery, i think it’s OP.
cut me off? I’m gonna follow you at a disance and summon 50 tons of gravel around your car.
File an HOA complaint on me? You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
Can i summon it anywhere without going there? You know how hard it is to get rid of gravel?
Don_alForno@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Can i summon it anywhere without going there?
And do you create matter from nothing or do you relocate preexisting gravel? I see a way to virtually free unlimited energy here with the use of gravity batteries.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
I forgot that was a brand of front loaders for a second, and my brain went on a whole trip trying to figure why you’d need a bobcat.
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Bet I could retire in a year, two at the outside. Have customers pick up at deep discount until I could get a pair of heavy trucks and drivers, pure gravy from there on out.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I imagine this working in a monkey’s paw kind of way. First, the local gravel suppliers just keep mis-delivering things to places where you happen to be. Then they start talking and figure out how to get rid of you so you stop costing them so much business. You survive, skip town, only to start again. You get incredibly wealthy from re-selling all this free gravel. Eventually, mountaintops start dissapearing due to all the illegal quarrying going on…
jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
This is much easier to do the monkey paw routine by saying "you get one free piece of gravel per 100 years.:
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Not to mention the transport cost, and the usefulness of gravel as fill material on major building and infrastructure projects.
Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
3 is overpowered, it’s basically FTL if the reload time is low
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah teleporting 7 in if there’s no time like between teleportations is godlike.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours 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 9 hours 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 7 hours 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.
Brutticus@midwest.social 7 hours 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
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’d use that power to heal from fatal wounds and reverse terminal illnesses.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours 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.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 15 hours ago
If there’s no cooldown and no cost on teleport, maximum distance doesn’t really make a difference
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
It does if trying to go through an 8” thick wall.
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 hour ago
No you just immerse in the wall for a femtosecond.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Even with a cooldown or something like that, a real world ‘blink’ ability, even of just 7 inches, would be utterly devastating in hand to hand combat, as well as potentially in ranged/armed combat as well.
Just imagine scenes from John Wick but also, every 30 minutes, he can just ‘blink’ up to 7 inches to dodge or connect a punch, kick, grab, close range shot, move just a bit further into cover, etc.
Granted, you would also have to be very careful to not uh, Philadelphia Experiment / phase shift into a fucking wall or some other person or something.
ulterno@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Forget combat, how many times have you nearly missed slipping and falling while climbing stairs because of imperfect foot placement?
Well, for when you actually and up being in a bad enough position to slip, you get to save yourself, positioned perfectly for the next stride.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
If abusable the look 10 hours younger one could be sick to go along with this.
huquad@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
My thoughts exactly. Flying unlocked
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 13 hours ago
What if you can only teleport with a pill? What happens when you ingest a whole handful? Are you teleposing in different directions simultaneously?
Patches@ttrpg.network 12 hours ago
Yes but they all cancel each other out leaving you unmoving.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Seeing inside empty containers is way more useful than it seems.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
My thought exactly. You know immediately if it’s empty
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That whole Geraldo safe thing could have been avoided
8000gnat@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
are clothes considered containers? asking for a friend
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Yes. Any empty clothes are yours to see inside.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 9 hours 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?
phx@lemmy.ca 4 hours 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 20 minutes ago
It allows you to remotely see anywhere in the world where a transparent container (like a glass) is.
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 hours 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 hours 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 hours 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 hours ago
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Is the 7 inches absolute, or distance apart? As in, could I teleport past a 7 inch thick wall, or just 7 inches from my current position? If I could get through the wall, that miiight be more abusable. Otherwise totally the gravel. Even if it doesn’t magically appear, gravel is useful for all sorts of stuff. Especially if you get to pick what type/grading/etc each load is like with purchased gravel. That’d be really useful.
lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 8 hours 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?
Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 hour ago
Sorry bud, you can only control it to act in its capacity to make toast.
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
Yeah, you could hook up a sensor to detect the toaster coming on and basically control electronics with your mind.
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 10 hours 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 9 hours ago
I was thinking it would be an excellent choice for my wheelchair bound coworker
ulterno@programming.dev 9 hours 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.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
You guys are sleeping on 1.
The secrets of the oysters could be yours.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Control toasters, duh. I’m gonna survive the AI revolution
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Toss up between 3 and 7 for me, though the gravel one could have some niche uses.
TP can be abused pretty easy if there’s no physical impact on my body for doing it repeatedly.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
7 would be really useful for those games where you have to find the ball under the cup. You can instantly tell if you’re being swindled, and always win.
gray@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
7 is actually useful? I don’t understand the debate
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Teleport 7 inches only because doing so in quick succession could look really funny
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 hours ago
Running as fast as Albert Einstein would be a considerable improvement.
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 11 hours 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!
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
The teleport 7 inches thing might be nice for getting through locked doors
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 minutes ago
That is exactly what I though. There are benefits to this one for sure.