• brap@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      Just says that the gravel is free, not that you can generate it or make it appear. You’ve got a lifetime supply of gravel from suppliers but you still gotta move it around

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        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.

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    ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.

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      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.

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      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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Okay, I’ll bite this time.

    1. Don’t see any use.
    2. Sell gravel. Become rich.
    3. If no cooldown you can spam and teleport anywhere as long as there’s a path between A and B
    4. Not sure.
    5. Turning on every toaster in the world at the same time would probably cripple the various power grids globally.
    6. If it stacks you could look quite young.
    7. Could probably make some money checking if safes are empty or not. Doesn’t say anything about distance. Could remotely check containers for people. Depends as well on the definition of empty.
    8. Would be hugely beneficial to some archeologists.
    9. For anyone who is unable to walk currently this would be good. What happens if you cut your legs off? Can you fly afterwards?
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      1. Don’t see any use.

      1. Not sure Might be useful, but who nose.

      FTFY

      1. …Depends as well on the definition of empty.

      “Yep, another container that does not contain a perfect vacuum. Should have taken the free gravel pill…”

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      If you pick 9 and then cut your legs off, you’ll have the ability to run as fast as Albert Einstein with his legs cut off could.

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        Imagine how fast that guy could go if he devoted his life to building performance accessibility aids instead of pursuing physics. He probably would have robotic cybernetic legs that outperformed any human runners.

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    Teleport 7 inches away easy lock in:

    Teleport up 7 inches on a generator perpetual motion machine.

    Walk through thin walls / safes.

    Repeatedly teleport forwards never have to walk again.

    Teleport out of bed every morning.

    Teleport out of clothes at night / sexy times

    Look cool AF.

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      Unless your body is less than 7 inches wide, all but the first and third one of those is going to involve nightmarish scenarios of walls, clothes, etc. getting stuck in your body.

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      Hell, not even that. You could become a world class boxer or UFC fighter. You can basically slip any punch or attack instantly and you can teleport your fists into the sweet spot to score a knockout. You would be an amazing baseball player as well, you can teleport to perfectly hit any ball at just the right angle. As a quarterback you would be insane too, you can readjust to any play instantly. In fencing you’d basically be unstoppable, you can dodge everything. For any sport or physical activity being able to teleport 7 inches is insanely overpowered. The person who came up with this doesn’t play any sports.

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      You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place! Now you just have to find it!

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    I want to say 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?

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      “With a heavy heart, this broadcast regrets to inform our audience that President Donald Trump has been crushed by a spontaneous pile of gravel. Investigators are still looking into the source.”

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    I would be the Gravel King. You need gravel, you come to me. I would be a benevolent king though. I would grant gravel to those that need it.

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      It doesn’t say the quantity, though. It might be a very small amount every so often. But, if that’s not the case, and if we also get to choose where the gravel appears, then I’m using it to construct a man made island out in international waters.

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        Yeah, the devil is in the details. Is there a cooldown? Are there quantity limitations? Location could be interesting because you could put ten tons of gravel a mile high and drop it. You could have Nasa pay you to quickly assemble a compacted gravel mini-moon at a lagrange point for a space dock.

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          Or maybe you get gravel in the same sense that someone could own Jupiter or a star. “You now own all the gravel in that quary!” But it doesn’t inform the workers of that fact, or the officials who still rely on whatever paperwork was filled out by the agents of the guy who paid them to ensure the quary belongs to his corporation’s corporation. The whole idea of ownership is pretty abstract in the first place.

          Could be that every pill just means that, under the jurisdiction of the entity who made the pills, you are legally allowed to do what the pills claim, though you need to figure out the rest from there, and people from other jurisdictions are able to disagree even if you do figure out the how.

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    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.