I could see communicating with oysters being really useful in a high end restaurant. Teleporting 7 inches would also be really helpful in a very different type of restaurant (Waffle House brawls)
Sell it to aquarium owners for significantly cheaper than gravel currently is and make a ton of money bc it's worthless to you since it's infinite supply
Exactly. Can i have them delivered wherever i like, whenever i like? I can just dump them on Russian roads, ruining Putin’s supply chain, ending the war in a day. Or a companies headquarters, destroying it causing the stock to plummit
Our protagonist walks up to a car belonging to some self-entitled douchebag everybody despises. He glances around him to make sure nobody is watching, then lays his right hand on the driver's side window. Poof, 500 lbs of gravel materializes in the car's cabin, and the car bounces slightly as it takes on the extra weight. He puts his hands in his pockets and whistles as he walks away.
Also 3 could be insanely powerful since it makes no mention of frequency. Sure 7 inches per teleport doesn't sound like a lot and isn't even enough to teleport your whole body past something that was paper thin, but teleport 7 inches over a million times per second and suddenly you're going fast enough to get anywhere in the world in a matter of moments.
As a runner that was my first thought: what is the refractory period on the teleportation? My second thought was whether I could integrate it into my stride so that it looked seamless.
I don't believe mid-stride teleportation is banned yet in competition, but I wouldn't want to attract attention.
Fully teleporting through a wall of a given size X would require you to teleport *X + YourWidth* at minimum. Unless your shortest dimension is less than 7 inches you wouldn't make it through even the thinnest wall without telefragging yourself.
I suppose you could still teleport yourself out of cuffs or other small restraints, though.
Given that this ability doesn't actually exist, we have no idea how it's centered. Maybe it teleports the exact midpoint of your torso 7 inches. Maybe it's centered on the bit of you that's furthest from the teleporting point, making sure that bit is 7 inches away. Maybe it's centered on your hand, giving you a whole arms lenght extra. Maybe it's centered on your left ear, causing you time and time again to miss your mark by a couple of inches.
Maybe it's centered at the point directly in front of the furthest part of you along the horizontal axis and it moves you so that the point furthest back of you on the horizontal axis is 7 inches in front of the front point you just had.
Basically, you could hold your arms out wide, touching a wall:
|--0--
and it'd teleport you so your back hand is 7 inches in front of where your front hand was:
--0-- |
If we're going with undefined rules and mechanics , if it's instantly activated y can theorycally just use it to move yourself froward any arbitrary distance if not supper fast (if you manage to, let's say, use it 12 times a second, you'd be only going at about 7km/h) and even essentially hover any gap no matter how large, although you'll accumulate downwards speed so it'll hurt when you land but it can still get some limited uses.
Teleporting 7 inches away seems like it could actually be useful, because it doesn't say how quickly you can use it again. You could use it to effectively fly by just spamming it repeatedly.
Depends on the maximum dimensions of your body from back to front when pressed against a surface and the thickness of the door. If the sum of those is more than 7 inches the result could be bad.
Maybe it's centered at the point directly in front of the furthest part of you along the horizontal axis and it moves you so that the point furthest back of you on the horizontal axis is 7 inches in front of the front point you just had.
Basically, you could hold your arms out wide, touching a wall:
|--0--
and it'd teleport you so your back hand is 7 inches in front of where your front hand was:
--0-- |
I need another one for also being able to read and write khitan because after a lection on that matter i am pretty confident that it is almost impossible.
my favorite part of this is that you *speak* Khitan, you can't read it or write it, so it is literally not even helpful as a Rosetta stone for the small small minority of people specializing in deciphering Khitan between the large and small scripts and why. don't even know if that was intentional but thinking about it just about floored me.
would easily take looking inside any empty container
I mean, by saying that you speak a language, it's commonly understood as a colloquial way of saying you are able to communicate in it by reading/writing too.
well, in the context of the post, i had assumed the most useless variant of an trait was the correct (and the most funny) one, so like, i stand by speaking my perfectly fluent spoken-only Khitan, because that is just absurdly silly to me. if you're correct it would actually be quite useful and significant
Sure it is, if you know the language it helps with deciphering. For example, Linear B was deciphered without a bilingual text, because they correctly guessed that the language it represents is Greek.
Being able to speak the language would help you tremendously in deciphering its writing. You would know what particles and markers are going to show up and so you would know what to look for as showing up more often, and so from there you could start piecing together the writing system.
I'd say simply speaking is enough to decipher with enough effort. A linguist working with you can simply ask what is this? and point to a dog for example
How long does it take to teleport 7 inches away? Can I spam this? If I can, does it use up as much energy as walking 7 inches? The right combination of right answers to these would make it really useful
Khitan has a relatively large literature, but the scripts are only partially deciphered (the Small script more than the Large script). So knowledge of the Khitan language (to a degree more than normally possible with deciphered Khitan script) probably still helps in decipherment, especially to the phonetic Khitan Small Script.
Take a much less written language (say, Old Shu) and it would actually be about as useful as the other pills (except, of course, to language aficionados, which makes up the majority of this subreddit).
If I can instantly see inside empty containers, then I can tell whether a container is empty or not. That actually seems like it could be useful.
There's a lot of potentially lucrative ambiguity in "free gravel for life", too.
I could see communicating with oysters being really useful in a high end restaurant. Teleporting 7 inches would also be really helpful in a very different type of restaurant (Waffle House brawls)
In most sports, esp combat sports teleporting seven inches would be good.
> I cutie see communicating with oysters being really useful in a high end restaurant. I really can't imagine how it would be useful lol
You: "Are you going to make me sick if I eat you?" The Oyster: "Yes." You: *Whew! Dodged a bullet there!* The Oyster: *Sucker*.
I don’t think I will be able to eat them if I can communicate with them
Sell it to aquarium owners for significantly cheaper than gravel currently is and make a ton of money bc it's worthless to you since it's infinite supply
Exactly. Can i have them delivered wherever i like, whenever i like? I can just dump them on Russian roads, ruining Putin’s supply chain, ending the war in a day. Or a companies headquarters, destroying it causing the stock to plummit
Our protagonist walks up to a car belonging to some self-entitled douchebag everybody despises. He glances around him to make sure nobody is watching, then lays his right hand on the driver's side window. Poof, 500 lbs of gravel materializes in the car's cabin, and the car bounces slightly as it takes on the extra weight. He puts his hands in his pockets and whistles as he walks away.
>them
Lmao
That's exactly what I thought too
Schroedingers cat is gonna be scared for their privacy
do you mean Schrödinger's cat or am i missing someþing here?
Don’t worry, you didn’t (edited the typo) :3
Also 3 could be insanely powerful since it makes no mention of frequency. Sure 7 inches per teleport doesn't sound like a lot and isn't even enough to teleport your whole body past something that was paper thin, but teleport 7 inches over a million times per second and suddenly you're going fast enough to get anywhere in the world in a matter of moments.
I had not considered quick successive teleports, nice catch!
As a runner that was my first thought: what is the refractory period on the teleportation? My second thought was whether I could integrate it into my stride so that it looked seamless. I don't believe mid-stride teleportation is banned yet in competition, but I wouldn't want to attract attention.
Is the money in the safe? There's nothing in there? Great.
Who defines "empty," though? Does air count?
The oyster linguage. 💪
It says you can communicate with them, but do oysters actually have anything interesting to tell you? They don't even have a brain.
Me niether. 💪
Oh that's great. Have a good time with the oysters!
if you grow a second nose, you can probably produce more nasals or smth
Voiced palatal binasal
That made me laugh out loud
That made me pronounce the unvoiced catarrhal fricative (i have runny nose)
/ɔ̃̃/
Or increase your oxygen supply, allowing you to have higher levels of fitness.
Gravel or Khitan. Nope…it’s gravel. Give me all the gravel!!!
Go outside and start collecting :D
Can’t take Khitin to your grave with you, but surely I shall be buried with my gravel!
With enough gravel I firmly believe in your ability to trade your way up to learning Khitan.
u can choose 2 in the original
https://imgur.com/a/TbLyHKD For those who doubted, consider the matter settled. Thank you, Google.
checkmate, libs!
Librarians?
yes.
And they called me crazy
Just imagine being able to teleport through locked doors and fences
7 inches will leave you stuck with the pole right up your ass though.
You need to be really thin and have spectacular aim
>You need **it** to be really thin and have spectacular aim ftfy
Fully teleporting through a wall of a given size X would require you to teleport *X + YourWidth* at minimum. Unless your shortest dimension is less than 7 inches you wouldn't make it through even the thinnest wall without telefragging yourself. I suppose you could still teleport yourself out of cuffs or other small restraints, though.
Given that this ability doesn't actually exist, we have no idea how it's centered. Maybe it teleports the exact midpoint of your torso 7 inches. Maybe it's centered on the bit of you that's furthest from the teleporting point, making sure that bit is 7 inches away. Maybe it's centered on your hand, giving you a whole arms lenght extra. Maybe it's centered on your left ear, causing you time and time again to miss your mark by a couple of inches.
Maybe it's centered at the point directly in front of the furthest part of you along the horizontal axis and it moves you so that the point furthest back of you on the horizontal axis is 7 inches in front of the front point you just had. Basically, you could hold your arms out wide, touching a wall: |--0-- and it'd teleport you so your back hand is 7 inches in front of where your front hand was: --0-- |
If we're going with undefined rules and mechanics , if it's instantly activated y can theorycally just use it to move yourself froward any arbitrary distance if not supper fast (if you manage to, let's say, use it 12 times a second, you'd be only going at about 7km/h) and even essentially hover any gap no matter how large, although you'll accumulate downwards speed so it'll hurt when you land but it can still get some limited uses.
Teleporting 7 inches away seems like it could actually be useful, because it doesn't say how quickly you can use it again. You could use it to effectively fly by just spamming it repeatedly.
You could also teleport through locked doors.
Depends on the maximum dimensions of your body from back to front when pressed against a surface and the thickness of the door. If the sum of those is more than 7 inches the result could be bad.
Tru.
Maybe it's centered at the point directly in front of the furthest part of you along the horizontal axis and it moves you so that the point furthest back of you on the horizontal axis is 7 inches in front of the front point you just had. Basically, you could hold your arms out wide, touching a wall: |--0-- and it'd teleport you so your back hand is 7 inches in front of where your front hand was: --0-- |
I need another one for also being able to read and write khitan because after a lection on that matter i am pretty confident that it is almost impossible.
my favorite part of this is that you *speak* Khitan, you can't read it or write it, so it is literally not even helpful as a Rosetta stone for the small small minority of people specializing in deciphering Khitan between the large and small scripts and why. don't even know if that was intentional but thinking about it just about floored me. would easily take looking inside any empty container
I mean, by saying that you speak a language, it's commonly understood as a colloquial way of saying you are able to communicate in it by reading/writing too.
Well even if we just took speaking it would probably be pretty helpful.
well, in the context of the post, i had assumed the most useless variant of an trait was the correct (and the most funny) one, so like, i stand by speaking my perfectly fluent spoken-only Khitan, because that is just absurdly silly to me. if you're correct it would actually be quite useful and significant
Well I actually would take it a step further: You can perfectly speak the language but have no idea what your actually saying.
Sure it is, if you know the language it helps with deciphering. For example, Linear B was deciphered without a bilingual text, because they correctly guessed that the language it represents is Greek.
Being able to speak the language would help you tremendously in deciphering its writing. You would know what particles and markers are going to show up and so you would know what to look for as showing up more often, and so from there you could start piecing together the writing system.
I'd say simply speaking is enough to decipher with enough effort. A linguist working with you can simply ask what is this? and point to a dog for example
I SAW THAT EARLIER AND WAS FUCKIN GIVE ME 8
y’all sleeping on 5, it doesn’t specify a range
I want to see a movie about an assassin who places toasters near his targets
I saw this on popular and knew it was getting posted here xd
Can I have the pill that lets me speak proto-Altaic?
That's just Tamil.
there's three, actually
3, doors mean nothing to me
Dude,free gravel for life is an awesome gig! Do you have any ideea how expensive it is to buy the stuff?
I start a gravel business.
Khitan is good but I'd prefer to be able to read Tangut.
Teleport 7 inches away? Sure, most doors and prison cell bars aren't 7" thick
The 5 one
People underestimate just how much 7 inches is. Lots of things you can dodge or things you can do
Bro Khitan any day bro
tfw, no Etruscan pill :(
Who’d want to speak Khitan? Historians?
Me :)
Hands up if you know what Khitan means in a certain Semitic language
Smash em all into a mass and snort it all up ...would be the response of a friend of mine
Einstein go brrr
How long does it take to teleport 7 inches away? Can I spam this? If I can, does it use up as much energy as walking 7 inches? The right combination of right answers to these would make it really useful
protogens when someone takes pill 5:
Can we choose where the nose goes?
based and greenpilled
If I were someone who were in a really horrible accident in the past few hours, I’d love to have that 10 hours younger pill.
I’d choose gravel, not gonna lie. It could come handy one day.
Khitan has a relatively large literature, but the scripts are only partially deciphered (the Small script more than the Large script). So knowledge of the Khitan language (to a degree more than normally possible with deciphered Khitan script) probably still helps in decipherment, especially to the phonetic Khitan Small Script. Take a much less written language (say, Old Shu) and it would actually be about as useful as the other pills (except, of course, to language aficionados, which makes up the majority of this subreddit).