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      I cannot tell you how many ways free gravel for life would help me, but it’s definitely a lot

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      But if it’s free, you can’t sell it. Otherwise it would no longer be free.

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          In a world where some people can control toasters with their mind, free gravel disappears as soon as you put a price tag on it. I’m sorry if you don’t like that, but I don’t make the rules.

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            I don’t make the rules.

            Really? Because that rule wasn’t in the original question and you just made it up.

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              The original question also doesn’t state that gravity attracts everything but oysters or that Albert Einstein has two runny noses. But that’s how it is. These are just the basic rules of the fantasy pill world. Everybody knows that (at least I thought so).

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          In order to do that I’d have to take 💊 № 1 though, so I’d be able to communicate with people who are sℏellfish.

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    Would need the details on some of these.

    • The empty container depends on the definition of “container” and “empty”. If a house is a container for people it’s easy to rob when empty. If you have to be looking at an airless vacuum it’s dogshit. Otherwise I’m sure you could make money with a creative gambling scheme.
    • Gravel for life, like an infinite bucket full? Or the typical “for life” shit where you just get one trailer full dumped in your driveway every year for 60 years. Probably an overrated pick.
    • Teleporting is almost certainly the best pick. Is there a cool down? Do you keep momentum? Can it be in any direction? Does it take the same effort as walking? If you can spam it at the speed thought, you’re now flying. Even with a CD you could be a world class athlete in a lot of sports. Or just do simple stuff like reach a high shelf or teleport out of handcuffs.
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      Or just do simple stuff like reach a high shelf or teleport out of handcuffs.

      Teleporting out of you handcuffs also implies you’d lose your clothes every time you teleport.

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          Usually bodies are more than 7 inches wide, so you wouldn’t end up naked, but with a t-shirt somewhere inside your body. So if it works like that, I’d advise you not to choose that pill. That is, unless you’re an oyster.

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    Gravel is expensive if you’re doing a lot of landscaping. I’ll supply all of the entrepeneurs in the area and make a fortune.

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      141 month ago

      For real, free gravel for life is the choice. You can start a gravel business and sell that shit. According to Google a 100ft driveway can cost upwards of $3k to gravel.

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        The real question is, does free gravel mean you can spawn gravel? Or buy it for free? Both require a good amount of logistical planning to take advantage of to build a gravel empire

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          The logistics isn’t that much of a problem. Start small and make yourself a name by being trustworthy and way cheaper than the competition. If you succeed at this stage you can hire people and expand in no time.

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    Number three will get you through most all fences, walls, and locked doors. Become ungovernable.

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      Hopefully it’s a7 inch gap, if it’s 7 inches from center mass you’re not really fully shifting position.

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        And the minute you do it wrong you’ve fused with a fence or a steel door or something and are probably dead so it would require a ton of practice to know your limits

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          11 month ago

          What you gotta do is carry a small object and hold it in front of you, and then teleport forward and back so that the object goes into and out of the lock, breaking it.

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          Being able to teleport into a region already containing air without creating a nuclear blast requires that you can already either instantly displace the air in the target region (which would make a Very Loud Noise) or switch places with it, so there are possible interpretations of the power where teleporting into a fence would leave behind a detached section of fence or bend it out of your way

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            I think I’m normal teleporting scenarios it doesn’t allow you to teleport into ‘objects’, though obviously there has to be some exception for air or it’s basically worthless. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any scenario where you displace anything other than gas?

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              You would still need to be able to displace suspended particles, bacteria, and small insects, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to teleport outside of a clean room

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                True, but have you ever seen it depicted where someone transported into a solid object wasnt basically killed? Outside of whatever mechanism somehow explains the background air/insects/etc?

                My guess is that easily movable things are explained by some vague bubble or displacement mechanism where the transported person/object starts as a point and as long as the medium is compressible or movable, things just shift out of the way to make room. As long as it’s not instantaneous, and the object isn’t gigantic, there’s no risk of moving into to area to fast and at most there is some air movement associated with the shift.

                The alternative is that the displaced environment trades places with the transported object, so the air/bugs/parts of the wall show up where the person/object transported from. Guessing this mechanism isn’t since it opens up a lot of options like using it for mining or kidnapping/theft/etc.

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    Being able to see inside empty containers has its uses because you can always check if you can see into it and know something’s in it. Knowing IF something has contents can be plenty useful.

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    Can I use .3 as some sort of short-range contiguous Alcubierre drive, by using it repeatedly very fast?

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    I shall abuse these toaster powers thoroughly and for my own amusement. Every toaster on the planet will go off at the same time!

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    I’m torn. Kinda curious about what oysters are thinking, but pretty sure Einstein could run faster than me.

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      It doesn’t specify Einstein’s age. Plus this ability would be priceless for people in wheelchairs.

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        Didn’t think about the wheelchair thing, good point. Anyway, I got a shitty cardio, during most of his time on earth, old Albert who have beaten me in a 100m sprint.

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    Teleporting 7 inches still sounds kinda badass, would be very useful in a fight or you could just stand and repeatedly teleport to recreate that OK GO video.

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    Number 7 might let you cheat at some carnival/gambling games. Which of these 1000 boxes has the million dollars in it? The one I can’t see through, of course!

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      21 month ago

      Play carnival game

      Guess the box!

      Only one box isn’t empty

      Open it

      Tissue paper

      “Better luck next time!”

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      But… no container is truly empty.
      Usually they contain air, but even in space there’d be one or two molecules banging around inside.
      You’d never see anything.

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    If I grow a second nose, will it also be stuffed up? If so, I choose teleportation. I know it’s only 7 inches but that’s enough to get around most doors so it’s still useful.

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      That depends on how thick both you and the door are. Still, its probably the best one there.

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      Only if you are thinner than 7" minus the thickness of the door. Otherwise, you would teleport right into the door, which (I assume) might be quite painful.

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          You can just teleport 7 inches backwards after lunch. As the contents of your stomach isn’t you, it will stay inert and fall to the floor. You can eat all you want if you don’t have to digest it.

          Just remember to stand up beforehand or you’ll end up intermingled with your chair having chewed up cheeseburger all over your lap.

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    cureently doing a massive landscape job, then moving to a friend’s place for same and putting in a bunch of paving. free gravel pls