• Buglefingers@lemmy.world
    94·
    6 months ago

    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

    • your_mom@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      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

    • heartpatcher@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      I threw a dice and got:

      • your left pocket is constantly full of coarse sand
      • chocolate has all the vitamins and minerals you need to live
      • grass points to you
      • teleport to the closest beach at any time
      • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I accept all these magical abilities. Time to be a beach bum that thrives on chocolate and chocolate alone!

        Actually, could my pocket make a new beach!?!?

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
      5·
      6 months ago

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

      • Buglefingers@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        That sounds like a delicious risk to me! Strawberry flavored destruction. Actually, why don’t villains flavor their creations?

  • far_university1990@feddit.de
    36·
    6 months ago

    Take showbox pill, order box full of all pill on picture. Take duplicate pill.

    Duplicate shoebox. Take duplicate pill from shoebox. Repeat until satisfied.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      It only duplicates a single item. No things inside of other things. (At least, that’s how I would do it).

      • kiagam@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        what happens if I glue pills to the box, are they one item now? and if they are sewn together? if if the box is shredded and reglued, do I gets shreds, shreds + glue or intact box? what If I recycle a new box from the fibers of the original and add the pills in it, can I duplicate the pills now?

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          That’s a good question and I guess you’d have to try it and find out. I’d personally allow it if the person claimed that the glued-on pill was a decoration or something and therefore part of the box now. Trying to get around the rules for its own sake is a no-go, but if you make a plausible effort to sell it I’d say it’s acceptable.

      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        I think they’re only duplicating the new shoebox pill.

        The initial shoebox is filled with all the pills from list, including a new shoebox pill and a new duplicate pill. In fact the duplication pill is reduant so long as you always use the new shoebox pill to get another box of pills.

        The duplication pill is still good to make backup shoebox pills. You don’t want to rely on the one and accidently use it on something else, breaking the infinite loop.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Oh yeah, I forgot that the shoebox pill can essentially summon anything that actually exists in it. HOWEVER, I would take the “take 2” instruction as a kind of wish limiter, meaning that any other duplicated pills you took after the first 2 wouldn’t work. Ixnay on the wishing for more wishes! But take shoebox pill, wish for shoebox full of something valuable, take dupicate pill, duplicate shoebox would be smart.

            • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              That’s also a valid interpretation. The spirit of it is that you have to choose 2 out of a bunch of effects, though, so I’d stick with that. But if these pills are a limited resource, I would accept the shoebox dupe trick being a method to give 2 of these pills to an large number of people as long as a lot of them kept taking a shoebox one and wishing for more pills.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    31·
    6 months ago

    I am gonna be real with you guys

    • get 10% more sleep per sleep

    And

    • both nostrils always work

    Is this what getting older does to me?

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 months ago

    I’ll take the shoebox(full of perfect diamonds, thanks xkcd!) and just for fun, the almost 10k calories of cheese for added wealth, opulence, and because I really love cheese. Some cheeses are worth hundreds of dollars a pound.

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
      6·
      6 months ago

      High-quality diamonds are expensive, but it’s hard to get a handle on their exact price because the entire industry was built on a scam the gemstone market is complicated.

      Nice one!

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 months ago

        I wonder the value of a shoebox full of horseshoe crab blood.

        Quick edit: not as much as I had thought.

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
    19·
    6 months ago

    So I did the napkin math, if you pick two random pills and two random pills, there’s a 19.05% chance to get something objectively bad, a 28.57% chance of getting something useless, and a 52.38% chance of getting something objectively good for a total 80.95% chance to get something not bad. Assuming infinite loops are banned and you don’t have a genuine interest in a given pill, 4 random pills is the best call.

    There’s also a 2.27% chance of getting 2 random pills on each of those 4 tries.

    • TheWonderfool@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      Thank you for doing what I was too lazy to do.

      I agree that 4 random pills is the best choice, also it is not specified that you must consume them (so if you get something bad you just dump or sell it).

    • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      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.orgEnglish
        5·
        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.

        • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          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
        3·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          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.

          • Bizarroland@kbin.social
            3·
            6 months ago

            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.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Your average shoebox is 35X23.5X13.5 cm, or 11103.75 cubic centimeters. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm^3. You can fit 11103.75X19.3 = 214302 grams of gold in a shoebox. One gram of gold right now is $77.78 US. That’s 214302X77.78 = over 16.5 million US. There are things significantly more valuable (but not more fungible) than gold, too. The Pi million pill is completely moot. Or just take both, I guess.

      • Demuniac@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Or just ask what stock is going to raise the hardest and ask when is the best moment to sell if you have 2 questions

        • nyctre@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          You’d need to invest 1mil in a 3000% return stock in order to make 30 mil like the gold option. If you bought fb when it was lowest and sold when it was highest, you’d get 2158% return. There’s stuff like Amazon, coca cola, etc. That had much higher % gain but you’ll need for that company to exist and then wait for it to explode.

          If you already have a lot of money to invest, sure, your strategy might be worth. Otherwise, double gold sounds better.

    • robocall@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      Is it easy to sell gold? I read recently that people are buying gold bars from Costco and struggle to sell them later.

      • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Smaller quantities shouldn’t be too hard to sell. 16.5 million worth would definitely be a bit of a logistical problem. I’m sure a bank would help you out with an amount that large.

  • Klear@lemmy.world
    14·
    6 months ago

    I don’t feel like reading all that. I’ll take the black one twice. Let’s see…

    1. Change amount of fingers at any time
    2. Hear plants talk by looking at them
    3. Chocolate has all vitamins and minerals I need
    4. Urinate gasoline

    I think I can live with that. If the plants get too noisy, I can always piss on them and light them on fire.

    • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • Signtist@lemm.ee
        7·
        6 months ago

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

      • Technus@lemmy.zip
        5·
        6 months ago

        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.

        • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 months ago

          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?

  • radfrog@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    • Teleporting Dr. Pepper can, so I can off tyrants, right wing nuts and dictators every 14.5h by summoning them inside their heads.

    • Not getting cancer sounds cool too

      • radfrog@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        That’s close quarters. I can do more damage from far away with Dr. Peppers.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          6 months ago

          Why close quarters? It gives no range, you could be watching live TV while assassinating people accross the world sitting on your couch drinking a dr pepper.

          I guess my point is I can think of other useful things to do by controlling a milliliter of water than dr. Pepper teleportation. Plus you have to wait a half day to kill again, I can theoretically kill one after another.