You come across a mysterious shopping aisle that contains some supernatural products, you have enough money for only one of them, which one do you buy?

  • An infinitely-long charger cable that instantly maxes out the battery of whatever device you choose
  • An indestructible backpack that negates the weight of everything inside (i.e. you won’t feel a thing even if you’re hauling around concrete blocks)
  • A pair of shoes that allows you to walk on walls and roofs.
  • A pair of headphones that listens to the thoughts inside the mind of whichever person you choose.
  • A monocle that allows you to see 5 minutes into the future
  • A printer that instantly prints whatever image you have in your mind onto a piece of paper (artists beware)
  • A portable dictaphone that makes everyone believe whatever it says.
  • A pencil with infinite graphite and infinite eraser that can also function as a pen, marker, highlighter, sharpie, and colored pencil. It can also erase everything you write regardless of what tool you use.

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No, you cannot commit theft and steal multiple items. No, you cannot ring your friend/family on the phone and tell them to get over here with their credit card. One choice, one item.

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future sight is the only thing here that would be life-changingly useful while also not requiring me to do anything evil

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i cant pick between the charger, shoes, backpack, and monocle

I chose backpack because you can always have the necessities on you no matter where you are.

How large is the backpack?

with the dictaphone i can finally do “mic up” to other people and when it happens I can just play my dictaphone and basically make them believe that their twitter tier opinions are invalid and wrong

I’ll choose the pencil because:

  • Charger cable is a tripping hazard
  • There is too much variation in the size of the backpack
  • Shoes likely won’t negate fall damage if I screw up
  • Headphones would be intrusive, plus thought patterns are messy and there will be some minds you will regret accessing
  • Seeing the future can cause constant fear and dependence on the monocle if you spot something bad in it
  • Printer is lazy art skills
  • Mind control can get boring after a while
  • And the pencil solves my problem of somehow losing 3 pens in one semester, plus it’s convenient
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What kind of future sight? Sight as in, you know exactly what will happen, or the most possible path forward?

The backpack, so i can shove the fucking usa in it

Or the dictaphone so i can literally control anyone

man these monocles will make you extremely good at anything as u can perfectley predict everything, for example if someone is fighting you, you can predict every move

But the space is not specified

I would probably get the portable dictaphone because then I can go to the zoo and steal my friend back.

mk well

Cable

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ever tried those super long charging cables? they break in a week, arguably because they are too long and struggle bringing enough power (which doesnt apply here) but also because if any part of the cable is somewhat damaged, for example, by being crushed, it becomes unusable.

Backpack

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actually extremely useful, although the size might be a problem.

Shoes

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sure, it’s cool, but it’s basically never useful, plus there’s no way to not get spotted using this and you definitely won’t be able to keep the shoes if the word ever gets out that they can allow you to do that. it’s even worse if people think the special thing there is you, you’ll just be experimented on.
…also, your body isn’t really made to walk like that so it depends how the shoes work, but if its just sticking to walls then good luck climbing when you’ve got gravity against you.

Headphones

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you’ll probably suffer more from having this than not. ignorance is veeeery often better than knowing everything.

Monocle

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i doubt anyone here really lives in a situation where your life is often at risk, most of the time you’ll just see yourself tripping on stuff and use that knowledge to avoid it.
sure, there are some uses, but it’s often limited to helping yourself and only yourself as you can’t tell others that you can predict the future. if they don’t believe you, you’ll look crazy, and if they do, you are definitely getting interrogated if you predicted anything major.

Printer

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why would you… there’s so much better stuff to pick…
most of the time you’ll just print fucked up stuff, and that’s just hoping the printer doesn’t activate automatically without your consent.
it can save you time, but anything you can imagine means it could have been represented manually anyway. what are you gonna do with the paper sheets next, scan them back and sell them? there’s other stuff that could be a lot more beneficial to you.

Dictaphone

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if you think i can deal with that much power, then you got the wrong guy

Pen

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that’s just the printer but worse. all it does is help you save money, at best save time by not going to the store.
this is just paint.exe but you draw with a pen instead of a drawing tablet/mouse. at best it’s practical to always have on you, but when you have to choose between literal superpowers and a pen that doesnt need to be recharged, i think the choice is fairly obvious.

anyway, i guess i choose the bag since it’s not as risky and occasionally useful as the monocle, looks normal on the outside and doesn’t really have disadvantages unlike basically everything else except the lame stuff.

or I could use the dictaphone to rob the money from the cashier and go buy the rest of the items.

isnt that useful compare to other stuffs

might be useful for specific people, i probably wont need it that often tho

capable of knowing the future is useless if you cant change it, useful most of the time tho… probably

my 2nd choice, the only reason i dont choose it is because, well, my 1st choice is better

i dont intend to be a ninja… yet

useful for artist yes
knowing me i’d probably lose in like a week lmao

idk about you guys but i can somewhat imagine the “general” of the image but focus into the details ? nope
can still be useful tho ig

most useful for me, however it might have the limitations of:

  1. if whoever im using it on doesnt understand what im saying, it wont work
  2. probably wont work on animal so still no friend :pensive:
  3. idk how a dictaphone works but it seems like i need to record it first, so there’s that ig

still, it will probably be the most useful for me most of the time

as far as i know, old dictaphones used tape, meaning you couldnt go back and erase any mistake.
you’ve got one take, and if you can’t recharge it because it’s magical and all, you better hope you make use of it.

now it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an old one, since a dictaphone is literally just a device that can record and play back something and there’s obviously modern ones, but i assume it wasn’t something recent since y’know, old magical artifacts.

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People sleeping on the cable, it’s the best one up there

i dont know man

monocle is insane, never get into an car accident ever again