• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    “Change your skin color instantly any time” and “teleport to the closest beach at any time”. I’ll use them to rob banks. Before robbing the bank I’ll change my skin color, and once I get the money I’ll escape by teleporting to the beach - while changing my skin color at the same time (not to my original skin color though - that one I’ll only use once I’m completely safe)

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    6 months ago

    control body temperature

    My own body, or any body I want? And how liberally can I use the word “body” here? Do bodies of water count? How about celestial bodies?

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      or you can get billions by asking for a shoebox with the hardware wallet of a high profile bitcoin whale and still have a second pill.

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          6 months ago

          Surely it would dip when the news got out but btc is very liquid.

          Also, the risk of a wallet leak has always been there, this wouldn’t uncover anything that wasn’t previously known about it.

      • Technus@lemmy.zip
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        You wouldn’t even need to take Bitcoin someone has access to.

        There’s tons of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are theoretically unrecoverable because the private keys to the wallets containing them have been lost, or the hard drives they were on were sent to a landfill (and thus began the world’s shittiest treasure hunt).

        However, by spending any of that Bitcoin you’d probably make international headlines and end up starting a market panic, because the most likely explanation for gaining access to that Bitcoin is that you found and exploited some vulnerability in the protocol itself.

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        6 months ago

        Or maybe ask for the shoe box to be full of a block of pure gold? Probably easier to sell and should have a value of about $18M.

    • BleakBluets@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Maybe I’m misunderstanding the “groundhogs day” power, but couldn’t you spend a year tracking winning lottery numbers, bets, and/or stocks and then “loop” that year and act on that knowledge in the repeat year? Then you would also essentially get +1 year of life and way more than $π million. I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.

      I guess the downside would be that any progress you’ve made on personal goals would have to be redone. Or maybe you don’t get to decide the starting point of when you would loop back to. Or just my luck, there would be some butterfly-effect shit and I would end up worse off in the repeat loop because my investments would have failed.

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        way more than $π million.

        I don’t need more than $π million. I just need enough to get some stuff started. I’m not interested in getting rich.

        I would also use the first loop to take medical tests of my health as much as possible since it wouldn’t matter if I went into debt in the first loop.

        Fair enough, but I really need the charm. I’m autistic and I’m not good at being social. I’d definitely be willing to give up a few years of life for more charm.

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          It would do both with just one “groundhog year” pill. Live a year with my current wealth and use the experience of that year to plan out how to earn money when it repeats. At the same time I would use that first year to measure my health so that I could take precautions or act on all that accumulated knowledge when the year repeats. There would still be a second pill to choose, and I think I’d choose the +3 charm because I could also really use it.

          But I don’t think this would work how I envisioned because I misunderstood the “groundhog” pill. I think it’s supposed to mean that you repeat the same day 365 times, which wouldn’t work for lottery/investing. So then I agree, taking the $π million and +3 charm is probably the best.

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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        I would take the +3 charm and groundhog Day for a year. It would be really awesome to have 3 charm instead of 0, and if I could repeat Tuesday for an entire year then I could learn skills and practice things and read a bunch of books and memorize and establish a plan to purchase a winning lottery ticket, not excessive but maybe like the mega millions I don’t know, and come out of the year into Wednesday with nine figures in my bank account and a clear plan of action.

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          Oh wait does “groundhogs day for a full year” mean that you complete a year then at the end you start that year over? Or is it that you repeat the same single day 365 times? Because repeating the same single day wouldn’t give someone enough info to invest or win a lottery (they close sales more than a day before drawing winners). I’m not sure I could out-earn $π million in a single day even with 365 attempts and +3 charisma… unless it was some kind of criminal heist, but then it couldn’t be known if I would be caught on a later date.

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            I don’t know if you’re from the states but if you are purchasing mega millions or Powerball tickets, they stop sales at about 6:45 p.m. Pacific time and then do the drawing sometime after 7:00 of the same day.

            I interpreted it as you would repeat the exact same day 365 times, not that you would repeat the exact same year over and over again.

  • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
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    Grab the “2 random pills” and the “duplicate anything you own once” pill. Duplicate the “2 random pills” pill with the duplicate pill and eat both “2 random pills” pill and have 4 absolutely random abilities.

    Hopefully it’s pure chaos

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      I think the 2 random pills is an auto-redeem so you’re rolling dice on collapsing civilization and strawberry flavor.

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      6 months ago

      “2 random pills” and shoebox pill. Take the shoebox pill, get a shoebox filled with the 2 random pills (since you got one they became “real”). Grab a big handful of pills and swallow.

      Others (in case you don’t want to collapse civilization or piss gasoline):

      • Shoebox + any question = practically unlimited questions. Plus the first one should be something like “how can I achieve maximum happiness (in an easy way where current me would be comfortable with the results)?” and you can ask variations to get a clearer answer since you have practically unlimited ones. Only drawback is if “single-use” really means the duplicates don’t do anything.

      • Shoebox + groundhog day = probably get to live >10000 years (unless “single-use” prevents that)

      • Shoebox + pi money = practically unlimited money, no “single use” issue

      • Shoebox + kill one person = Death Note

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      6 months ago

      It’s obviously a BAD Strawberry flavor, though… Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer controlling a miniscule amount of water?

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    Control a single milliliter of water. That one effectively gives me like 85% of the others… water molecule nanobots.

    Then I guess the money one so I’m not rushed.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Immune to venom and urinate gasoline. When I tell my doctor it burns when I pee, I want to mean it. Also, I figure something like that would send spiderman after me.

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      From a quick Google search, I saw a guy managed to fit 7,400 dollar bills into a shoebox. $10,000 bills are no longer printed but still valid, legal currency. Assuming that’s the max. That’s $74,000,000. You could dupe the box and net $148 mil.

      However, thinking bigger. Go with a shoebox full of perfect diamonds. The value could conceivably be in the billions.

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        I think you’d have an even harder time offloading the diamonds than gold. They might retail for that much, but wholesaling is another issue entirely.

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          Yeah, plus the diamond cartel probably doesn’t need competition, they have a hard enough time keeping the rock relevant.

          You’d be better off asking for shoeboxes of more common materials so you could skirt the inevitable questions on the matter and not get flagged as a counterfeiter or something. Though personally, the majority of things I’m interested in owning can fit in a shoebox anyways so why not cut out the middleman?

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        Just get a shoebox of shoebox pills and you can just get a box of 10’s and 20’s whenever you need.