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I'd choose 4,5 & 9 (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] [email protected] 118 points 1 week ago

That is by far the shittiest version of the "which pill/superpower/xyz ?" that I've seen.

"No more fat", "Have many followers" and fucking "Increase 5cm height" nearly gave me an aneurysm. This meme is a good pick for the community.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Yeah what does even "no more fat" means? You can't eat fat any more? Or all the fat is removed from you (which would kill you)?

Also, get me a -5cm height for my 198cm, that would be perfect.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It means that all your hard drives would be converted to NTFS from FAT32

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I thought this was Linux land, surely it’d be ZFS no?

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

If you choose 6, your life will be like that of Sam the Slug.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1 & 2 are the same pill, unless 2 also stops you from putting on muscle mass which would be a real negative. In the same vein, "no more fat" taken too literally will just kill you, as humans need at least 4-5% body fat to live.

If you read them kindly "dont gain weight from eating" means you will burn fat just day to day, eventually hitting equilibrium. "No more fat" means you won't gain fat, so you can just eat excessively and youre at equilibrium. Neither affects you at a calorie deficit, and both do the same thing at a calorie surplus.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Super strong likely means mass and/or density, which means more calories needed to maintain. Unless it's some magic. Either way, that and money means you can eat until you're happy. The only two pills I'd want out of those given.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

I think 5 and 9.

i don't really want the rest.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Agreed, those are my only two choices as well.

  • I feel like the first two are basically the same thing and are also asking for a monkey's paw sort of scenario to happen.

  • I don't want to stop shopping because there are things I want that can't be obtained for free.

  • I'm not the tallest, but I don't feel any particular need to be any taller.

  • I don't want my emotions regulated to always be happy, because then you basically never truly are.

  • Followers are overrated and creepy.

  • And I'd never want to forget an ex because I'd end up losing a lot of good memories in the process.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. feels like a trap, once you burn through all your fat you'll be impossibly unhealthy

  2. is a trap too, if you stop gaining weight from eating then you might trap yourself in the same situation as above

  3. unless you hunt for food, bad idea

  4. decent option, but it doesn't mention if there's any pain during the growth period

  5. good option, as long as you have control over your strength

  6. very bad option, sounds nice but you will go insane

  7. doesn't say if online or IRL, having many followers IRL is not desirable

  8. dangerous, erasing any meaningful memories is dangerous

  9. the only good option with no consequences i can think of. i'll take 3 of those

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Bro sat here and broke down each option 😭 love it

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Mostly agree, easily can reduce it down to 4,5 modulo fine print. I don't agree with the last if a lot of money means billions and if you want to keep it all for yourself. Wanting to own billions is a mental disease imo.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

oh nah lol, i'd just keep a decent amount of money to live comfortably + bit extra for the occasional adhd "new hobby" shopping spree. if "a lot" means billions, the majority of it i'd most likely donate to charities or give away to friends and random people, i have no desire to hoard wealth

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

In somewhat of the spirit of the IRL followers. Getting millions of coins dumped on your head is also not preferable.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saj7b5C6TCM

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

That calls for a monkey's paw

  1. There's literally no more fat in your body. Your cells burst, you die immediately.
  2. You're not able to gain weight, but you still lose it. Every time you sweat, breathe out, go to the restroom - you lose weight. In a matter of month or two, you die from exhaustion.
  3. Now you can't buy groceries and really anything you want or need and are forever reliant on others to provide you with anything you didn't yourself produce.
  4. The height increase is achieved by all your organs instantly extending, causing internal injuries and disabilities and now many physical stresses can kill you.
  5. You're so strong you cannot adequately measure it, and have to be very careful not to break everything around you.
  6. You're always happy. You're never able to grieve, or reflect, or do anything. You've lost any reason to progress, or even really sustain yourself. You die in bliss on the streets.
  7. Followers are invading all of your personal life. They doxx you, follow you everywhere, try to document every moment of your existence. You cannot have peace and solitude ever again.
  8. You forgot your ex. You also forgot every good moment in your life you ever had together, and are left wondering what is that void in your brain. You will never know what happened. But someone, somewhere out there who is your ex will.
  9. Inflation came strong, and now everyone has millions upon millions of dollars. Too bad they're only worth a few rolls of toilet paper.
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is what I thought too when I read them, the last one (money) was the only one I didn't see any problems with. It made me think about the post about picking a superpower and the first comment was your side effect for using it but this was the other way around, pick your side effect haha

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There are people who cannot grow or simply don't have any fat cells. It's a surprisingly debilitating condition, but you don't immediately die from it.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Number six when something bad happens:

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1 is the monkey's paw answer and a trap. Fat is necessary for survival. Fats literally make up the outside of every cell in your body.

2 is still dangerous, because it might just be tapeworm eggs.

Is 3 just a servant who shops for you? Or is it just that you are no longer addicted to compulsive shopping?

4 Will cause you the most agonizing pain of your life as virtually every bone and muscle gets ripped apart and re-knit, and as someone who's 6'4, it has its upsides, but having literally everything made for people shorter than you REALLY sucks, from doorways and light fixtures, even to rollercoasters which nearly remove your legs because of awful design (or just won't close over your shoulders)

5 is nice. Go with 5. It'll be painful, but potentially worth it in a pinch, as long as it also grants you control of that strength.

6 is another trap, since small amounts of stress are actually really important, and in order to be constantly happy, your brain would lose the ability to feel it unless it continually increased the dopamine drip. Eventually, you would kill for the ability to stop.

7 I mean, sure, if that's what you want. Would be nice to know what kind of followers? Are they going to be religious and try to pull a Life of Brian on you?

8 is the worst, because you have no control over the extent of the memory wipe. This is existentially terrifying

9 is the safest, but then you go and read that post about why winning the lottery means you're fucked.

The surefire safest calls are probably 9, 7, and 3, since they wouldn't actually affect your body, unless you're the kind of person who likes playing roulette with the sort of pills you get for free on the street.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

2 would eventually kill you, just more slowly than 1. Unless you never forget to eat and are always able to.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Umm well i didn't need the 1 and 2 and 3 so i was about to take 7 9 5 but after seeing that i am scared to even choices anything

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I am underweight so 2 would probably kill me. 4 would make my gender dysphoria worse. 7 would be a nightmare since i have social anxiety

Why is there no estrogen pill?

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

5,6,9 easy.

Some are void if you are always happy.

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Revenge of the MonkeyPaw:

1 you are allergic to eating fat and can no longer eat any fat whatsoever.

2 your body has lost its ability to process nutrients, making you starve to death.

3 you’re banned from every store on earth.

4 only your neck gets 5cm longer.

5 but only in your dreams.

6 you can not feel anything but happiness - no pain, anger, sadness, nothing but joy.

7 and you’re awaiting your trial as you’re a KKK NeoNazi kult leader.

8 you get Alzheimer’s disease.

9 but you cannot access it because the government froze your account due to being investigated in a money laundering scheme.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Ah yes my favourite trend of monkey paw: removing the fking benefit instead of giving side effects, while making things worse

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh, right! The monkey paw does it to someone else most of the time, like "you get the money but someone else dies and the money is compensation or inheritance"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's more like conservation of karma. You get a thing you wanted at a price you weren't prepared to pay.

Trying to follow those guidelines, I would guess the list would be something more like:

1: Nothing changes, the only difference is that if you would otherwise put on more body fat than you currently have, the excess fat gets turned to horrible uncontrollable diarrhea that hits with no warning, so now you have to be on a diet for the rest of your life or else you'll shit yourself in public.

2: Has to spend the rest of your life eating more than you burn as any weight you lose would be permanently lost, which will eventually kill you unless something else kills you first. This is computed by your original weight, so even if you would be fine with 800 calories, you must consume your current maintenance calories every day for the rest of your life. (See: Steven King's Thinner)

3: You are unable to purchase anything. Every transaction fails. If people do not feed you out of the kindness of their hearts, or failing that, you are unable to barter for goods and services, you will die of hunger and exposure to the elements.

4: You get 5cm taller. People start telling you how much they liked you the way you were and that they feel lesser about you now that you're taller. The new people you meet often comment on how hot/sexy/great/beautiful you would be if only you were a little bit shorter.

5: You become super strong but your bones and tendons can't keep up. Using your super strength is pussyfooting with permanent disability.

6: No, yours is right. "you can not feel anything but happiness - no pain, anger, sadness, nothing but joy" Banger. Spot on. No Notes.

7: Have many followers would be worse if it was just a cult of people who follow you everywhere you go. The only time you can be alone is in your own home, until they realize they can just break in.

8: Forget your ex lover but they forget you too. You eternal sunshine of the spotless mind each other

9: A lot of money but the people you love die. <- This was one of the original monkey's paws, iirc.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Everyone's going to pick 9, right?

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No more shopping for groceries, you have to forage in the woods from here on out

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I think some of these need clarification 😅

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

5, 6, 9. I would take 5 as "emotional/mentally"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

My issue with 6 is that it feels like a monkey paw. There are times we shouldn't be happy, like tragedies happening to others, deaths ,etc. While being overall happy in life sounds great, always happy sounds like a cognitive issue.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'd pick 9, 9, 9

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Only 9, the rest are useless/bad for me. 1 and 2 are nearly the same, and not a thing i have a problem with. 3 idk what the benifit of it should be. 4 i am tall enough. 5 would be nice sometimes, but at other times it would only cause you to break things. 6 it would be bad to not be able to cry in bad situations, as these are also part of life. 7 i don't need publicity 8 i don't have an ex 9 you can do a lot with money in this world

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

2, 6, 9. Health, happiness, comfortable life.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Isn’t 8 that Jim Carrey movie?

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

2, 6 and 9.

9 would go towards building affordable housing in my area, which would make 6 happen.

2 just 'cause.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

if i chose six, i wouldnt need any of the others.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
  1. is just MDMA
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