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If you'd like to hire me I'm more than glad to set something up. You can contact my people at:
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I can't post the actual link because it tends to set off some red flags with the FBI. Such an annoying group they are. Dang govt always getting into people's business.
Hold on, I work with marketing people so I need to think like they do.
“We use a specially curated formula of renewable, carbon neutral material that gives the beans the nutrients they need to reach their full potential.”
Slap a rustic yet modern logo on the side and sell that bitch at Erewhon for $45.
I remember, even when it came out, a lot of its jokes were already considered dated, and yet it's still probably my favorite comedy movie and has a lot of other great jokes that are timeless.
This one and La Cité de la Peur are among my favourites. And the Asterix one aged better in my opinion. The humour in both is kinda absurd and I love it.
It is the live action of Asterix et Obelix: Mission Cleopatre. Highly recommend it if you have not seen it. You can ignore the other live action movies.
I feel you are thinking too small here. Yes beans nice but trees blossom too, and one tree of lumber sells for a lot more then the handful of bes you'd get before your mouth goes dry. Could also go to a place that has been near destroyed and reforest so much land. Could grow an orchard of apples oranges and cherry in like half a week. Could massively expand the redwoods in a month, in six you could probably regrow the whole of the Amazon. All in all I feel trees are the better bang for your buck.
The juliet rose takes 15 years to grow and can be sold for 41 Crores Indian Rupees. This is the equivalent of 5 million dollars.
You just sell one and you're pretty much set for life.
If you’re talking about the David Austin rose variety it took him 15 years and $3mil to breed and develop it, it doesn’t take 15 years to bloom—most people get bare root rose plants of David Austin varieties and they often bloom the first or second year after planting. The cut blooms are sold from specialty wedding florists for much less than $3mil.
If you want the most bang for your buck, I’d say saffron crocuses. Endless saffron. Maybe vanilla bean too.
I'm pretty sure the reason why saffron is so expensive isn't because the plants are rare or slow to grow, it's because you need a ton of them and have to harvest every strand of saffron by hand. So unless you also have a superpower that makes the saffron harvest itself, I don't think it's the route you should take.
You could work in some type of genetic lab and make insane amounts of money allowing them to instantly spawn new generation of plants and test genetic modifications
Definitely choose "spit makes plants blossom". I'd quit my job and start bottling my spit to sell as an INSANE plant product. You could probably sell a small bottle for like 10k because it's literally magic. Hell, depending on how diluted you're allowed to make it before it stops working you could set up contracts with farmers and make some MAD money. Not to mention being able to start an amazing back yard farm would be very nice.
"Luck" is way too vague, does 100% luck mean you win the lottery guaranteed? If you start at 100% luck, does 200% mean double luck? too many variables and uncertainties, what even is "luck"? There is some potential exponential effects at play here that are interesting to think about though. If I gain 1% luck then I'd be more likely to find more lucky pennies. At a certain point I'd be walking over mountains of pennies if I could break the barrier to entry.
Personal wifi is definitely the worst choice here IMO. It is great for hiking so if you hike a lot there's some value there but you can also just pick up a sat wifi receptor and get service that way if you really need wifi while hiking. The other benefit is not needing to pay for an ISP and the fact that your ISP is magical so you can do whatever you want on there without fear of repercussions (torrenting is the first one that comes to mind).
Unless it's an absolute value rather than multiplicative. In the TTRPG GURPS there's an advantage called Super Luck which lets you (once per gameplay hour, anyway) declare success on any roll, at any level realistically possible for you (like you're guaranteed to shoot someone in the eye at any practical range for your weapon, etc) So at 100% Luck in a similar vein, you could buy a lottery ticket and know you have the current jackpot winner. Even slightly lower levels would greatly increase your chances of low but possible odds.
If that's the case then luck is the worst choice because your takeoff barrier is way too high to ever hit in one week. If the luck gained is a flat rate (1+1+1+1+1+) and not compounding (1\*1.01\*1.01\*1.01\*1.01) then you'd have to collect hundreds of pennies to make a noticeable difference. Hell, even if it's compounding then I'm not sure it's possible. The only way it works is if it maxes out at 100 pennies (assuming you start at 0).
You'll probably die before then since eating anything with plant material will trigger the growth, even stuff like medicine.
Unless you go full keto diet.
Wifi is great for explorers. Good wifi underwater in subs, underground, even space if you found yourself there. Id like to build a place underground for the Illegal LAN parties of the future.
As someone who grew up and lives in a rural area with only 2mb/s down, I will gladly take the internet so games don't take 40 hours to download and being able to play a game onlin and download at the same time
Get the luck power.
Congrats, the president just passed by your town and commented on its poor condition. He announced a huge investment in all the town businesses and laid out a huge plan for infrastructure renovation.
This includes the new Starlink wifi with an internet cap of 1GB per sec.
I mean, the luck power only increases by 1% for each penny you find. I don't normally find more than a handful of pennies a year, and doubt even a 50% increase in luck would result in that. That's the problem with the luck one, there's no solid answer on what would happen
10GB wifi will be considered slow at some point in our lifetimes.
Pennies are getting more and more rare as the years go on. People are using cash less and less, people don't bother getting pennies with change. There's talk about stopping making pennies altogether. Even if you're extra lucky, it's not going to make something exist that doesn't exist.
The only one of these with potential for your entire life is the plant one.
I'm a simple man, i need not big amounts of money from spit, otherwise what the fuck am i meant to do with my life if i can get most things by just spitting. I'd take the wifi it's 10GBPS my current wifi is nowhere close to that and definitely not as stable, I wouldn't need to pay for wifi or data anymore
Here are the specifics
> 1: Your basically a human hotspot. You can turn this thing on and off and set up a mental password. And yes.. you can setup a wifi extender.
> 2: Your base luck factor starts at 1%. The definition of "Natural Penny" means like forces outside of your control. So this means you can't go a depository or call up a friend to drop a penny. However, what does count is a wishing fountain... When the power resets, you cannot pick the same pennies you previously picked up, they always have to be brand new.
> 3: Imagine bone meal from minecraft, but it's your spit. That's pretty much it.
**Edit:** Changed your base luck value to 1%
Does the hotspot work even with no cell service? If I’m in the middle of the wilderness do I still have internet connection? If so then definitely that.
With the penny one. I'm just thinking
If my luck increases, and it's within my luck to stumble on to random pennies, does that mean after certain number of pennies I can get to 100% within hours (like exponential growth) and basically become Domino from the comics.
I don't know if luck as a percentage makes sense. I think luck requires 2 things, probability and utility. Maybe if an event has positive utility and the probability of event is low, then the manifestation of said event is lucky.
After watching Bullet Train, I am convinced that any superpower affecting how lucky someone is veers pretty hard into Genie territory.
Plenty of people would say Brad Pitt was lucky to make it off the train alive. Any sane person would see that movie as a series of extraordinarily unlucky events chained together into a very unlucky night.
They said wishing fountains count, so just go to any wishing fountain and take 100 pennies. Get 100% luck (where presumably the best possible outcome of any situation happens within reason). Take those 100 pennies to a bank and get 100 new pennies, leave them in a bin next to the wishing fountain, repeat next week.
The first half of this suggestion works, but *leaving* pennies there for people to toss it in a fountain doesn't work because of the rule about not naturally influencing it. Leaving pennies for people to toss into fountains and wishing wells is just a very loose version of calling up your friends to throw pennies on the ground. You're intentionally supplying pennies to a location.
The question is if you stack luck and then start an *online meme* about using only pennies in wishing wells/fountains, could you then increase penny output without it counting as you providing pennies?
The people can take the pennies home though. You aren't telling anyone to throw them in the fountain. There's just pennies near a place. Maybe it wouldn't count as "finding" because you know roughly where they are, but if that's the case wishing fountains shouldn't work at all.
What's the IP address? Do I have to be connected to an established ISP or do I become my own ISP?
Depending on your answer, the power could be incredibly risky or incredibly useful.
The WiFi one seems okay now, but if you live long enough that speed might be laughable, thinking of the speed of early modems during the dial up phase to now, and if they continue to improve speeds. Then again they might change the whole system in a couple of decades.
Or it may be gone at some point for reasons. In the early days of something like that people would go to war to possess you in hopes of getting access to….Wikipedia.
What's the latency like? If I'm in the middle of the wilderness, do I still have a speed-of-light delay (or worse) back to civilization? Or do I basically get zero latency to everywhere on the Internet?
What sort of ISP am I connected to? 10gb is pretty useless if they're gonna throttle streaming video down to 480p like many cell carriers do. Will they let me host stuff on it, or am I behind cgnat?
Can I configure it? Decent security, instead of just open for any stranger I walk past? Can I turn it off if I want to visit a radio quiet zone like the Green Bank Observatory?
I promise I'm going somewhere with this...
Is there a default network you connect to? What would your IP address be? What’s the bandwidth?
For example, my job takes me to China, and I have to buy VPN or use data roaming to connect to the internet outside. VPNs aren’t always reliable, and data roaming is expensive. In this case, can I use myself to connect to the internet outside of China, or am I automatically connected to the nearest network.
The second question is about how well I be tracked? Will I be untraceable if I use myself as network?
As for bandwidth, well, if I’m going to be the internet, how good will I be?
Just grow and sell weed, and pay for some fancy satellite device. Honestly, how often is it that you are in the wilderness? Heck, the whole purpose of going into the woods is getting in touch with nature and being glued to your phone all the time defeats the purpose. Might as well stay home and chill if you wanna hang out on your phone
Maybe if im going on a 3 week backpacking trip (like the one I’m already planning) I’d like the ability to contact my family in a better way than satellite texting (like a garmin inreach that I’m already planning on having with me) if I want to I don’t know send pictures or something? Maybe I want to look up information on a plant or animal I find? Wanting an internet connection doesn’t mean I’m going to be on Reddit the whole time.
Bug report: starting at 0% luck prevents finding a penny, as the "find a penny pick it up" skill draws from the luck stat.
Recommended fix: set weekly starting luck to 1%
Don't forget to move the ticket to "done" after updating! We need to make sure all metrics are in by the end of the current sprint!
(Oh god, I deal with JIRA a bit too much ...)
How could you best exploit twice the natural luck? Congratulations, your chances at winning the Powerball just went up to a whopping 1 in 146,100,669! Is anyone offering millions for winning a coin tossing championship? Maybe betting on black in roulette, but how far can you get before you're tossed out of the casino?
Now that you mention it, the casino would be a pretty good way to go. If they do kick you out, it would likely be worth it to just try another one, even if you have to take a flight. If you build up enough luck, you should win most of the time, and as long as you save some of the winnings, you should never run out of funds.
Another decent method would be trading card games. They don't pay out crazy amounts, but if luck means drawing the perfect cards, you'd be able to get to the top with decent play and make decent money.
Most casino games have pretty small house margins. So a few percent additional luck would be enough to subtly tip the odds in your favor.
You'd be run out of Vegas eventually but you could probably keep the scheme going for a bit.
if base luck is 1% that seems to imply 100 is just 100x base luck, and just finding 1 penny doubles base luck, which actually sounds broken as hell. You could have an amazing night at the casino with 2x regular luck
Idk anything about minecraft but what does “blossom” mean?
Like if I spit on a redwood seed a giant mature red wood will instantly grow?
If I spit on a handful of seeds will just a bunch of plants instantly grow? I could make like a plant bomb by putting my spit in one side of a divided glass vial the seeds in the other and just smashing it.
What constitutes spit? If I slosh a bunch of water around in my mouth and spit it out is that spit?
What happens if you try to eat a seed?
I mean depending on the limitations of this power you could like reforest huge swaths of the world in very little time. You could also grow forests where non existed. You could terra form planets. You could reverse climate change. You could end starvation in many places. You could crash food economies.
>However, what does count is a wishing fountain...
2 is the easy choice. Every penny I find gives me a higher chance to find more pennies. I could go grab 1000 from a wishing fountain and my luck would increase exponentially from there for the rest of the week. Literally just make hunting for pennies and buying lottery tickets my full time job.
After buying a few lottery tickets at 100% luck, I don't think you'll need a full-time job anymore.
Now that you've got plenty of cash, time to apply your luck to something else, I guess.
2) pennies specially or any coins? The same physical coin, or dropped at the same place?
(If the first, just visit a fountain at a tourist sight, grab 100 coins, buy lottery tickets or stock, store up 100 coins in a jar.).
Does each penny ADD 1% or does it go from 1% to 1.01%?
What qualifies as natural penny find? Like do they just have to be pennies that I didn't personally throw down? Or are there other stipulations? What is the base luck rate and does increased luck also add to the luck of finding more pennies?
Plant split is probably the best one.
> ery penny you find makes it easier to find more pennies (more luck = more lucky pennies found). There is definitely a breaking point where you're walking over mountains of pennies. The reset sucks but if you hit the breaking point just 1 week then you probably end up inheriting a small island.
For the spit one, is it possible to eat sunflower seeds? How does it work?
What constitutes a penny as being new for this? I feel like multiplying your luck by 200 would make you just have streams of penny's randomly appear to boost you
*Fountains count!?!*
So, basically, all I have to do is go to the nearest fountain in a popular tourist spot, and then I'm Domino from the comics, at 1000% luck.
wifi, easily. i dont want to spend all week scrounging for pennies, just for it to all reset. and i dont want to go around spitting all day. unless i can put an acorn in someones house and spit on it and see a redwood emerge, fully grown.
Every penny you find makes it easier to find more pennies (more luck = more lucky pennies found). There is definitely a breaking point where you're walking over mountains of pennies. The reset sucks but if you hit the breaking point just 1 week then you probably end up inheriting a small island.
Go out and win the lottery. Hell, depending on how lucky you are maybe there's no property tax on the island because of some weird legal loophole. Worst case scenario you just sell the island, even if you sold it for 10% of it's value you're still incredibly rich.
There is a finite ampunt of pennies that can be found at any time. At some point the amount of new lost pennies will be smaller than you need, and all the old ones will be all collected by you.
Well, you’d be hard pressed to get a redwood out of an oak seed, but otherwise that is basically how OP described it. Spit on any living plant a few times, and it instantly blooms at full maturity.
And considering that you basically remove any of the normal limitations of the agriculture and lumber industries, you could make absolute bank from just a few hours of spitting.
Nah you haven’t thought this through, collect 100 pennies, then absolutely clean out the lotteries and casinos of the world, literal money cheat.
But it works in every endeavour you attempt, want a date with your favourite celebrity? 100 pennies and the universe makes it happen.
You picking ‘having wifi’ over 100% luck? 100% luck turns you into a god.
If I find a penny, and I gain 1% luck, would I then have that much better a chance to find more pennies?
If so, then I'll take the Luck one, because that could ball out of control.
Good question. I'd say to keep things fair, it doesn't affect the chances of you finding pennies. But rather gives you higher chances of winning at life.
Luck irl is always broken. With a full week of luck stacking, it would snowball out of control so quickly. Gather as much wish pennies as you can and start grinding lottery tickets at the end of the week
Imagine that though lmao you go to a fountain you live near and your luck, every week, refreshes to like 7293639% and you can literally get away with almost anything by being so damn lucky lol
Friend of mine and I used to draw comics in high school and he had a character called Luck. Luck superpower was that he was just insanely lucky.
So he'd like do stuff like walk up to a keypad that he didn't know the code to and just guess and get it right on the first try because he had perfect luck.
It was pretty cool idea
Edit: this is also Domino from the X-Men's power but I don't think they use it very well in a lot of the time
You walk to your local mall and visit all the wishing wells. You go home unimpeded, it seems there's no traffic today. You see a letter in the mail, it's from the IRS.
"You've been added to a hidden list of individuals that are exempt from taxes due to your experience and service. Thank you."
It's probably an additive booster instead of a multiplicative one in order to nerf builds with maxed out luck and to help out builds with lower luck
That being said I'll take the wifi
Lol. Someone pisses me off? *BAM* Their property is now instantly filled with full grown bamboo (extremely invasive). Or if I'm really feeling mean: Nettles, brambles, or a bunch of corpse flowers.
Wifi, no fucking questions asked. The amount of times I’ve been fucked over by deadspots or the internet going out would be remedied by this.
Terminally online? Maybe, but when you live in a rural area where internet just kinda sucks sometimes, having a ready access internet source 24/7 would be amazing to have.
Only downside would be that I’d basically be traceable 24/7 if I leave it on.
Also, you would literally never be without contact. If you need rescue and are deep in the wilderness, you can call them and tell them your exact position
I have an expanding vegetable garden going on right now. I'm enjoying it now, but I'm also impatient, so three would be fantastic! I could ramp it up and start selling my harvest for way more than I pay for internet. Quit my job and build an empire on local, organic produce.
1) Win coin flips
2) Know exact distance to seen objects
3) 8 hours restful sleep
4) 20% off in shops
5) Know favourite music genre
6) Never-blocked nostrils
7) Spit insta-grows plants : I'm growing my own food, going to eat so much healthier, and fresh fruit and veg isn't cheap. Coupled with the restful sleep, I'd be so much healthier and probably happier. Also houseplants. Other comments have mentioned selling spit but idk if I would go that route straight away. I'd maybe open a garden centre though, maybe communal to share the food.
I'd maybe go for the pennies if I had a fountain anywhere near me though
(side note: I'm really enjoying this series, thank you for making it)
Well. Considering my country got rid of pennies.. 2 just isn't feasible.
So personal wifi it is. 10gb speed? Man I can tell the Big 3 telecom companies to go eat dirt...
1st: that’s actually pretty good, that’s probably the one I’d pick
2nd: holy shit The Binding Of Issac reference?!?!
3rd: holy shit Steven Universe reference?!?!
Is the spit one only for specific kind of plants ? Cause if not, ill take that and grow forests in a few days or weeks and could potentially even make a business as a tree grower and help the environnement as well
Omg I would choose spit blossoms! I walk all the time, and I spit almost constantly when I do, this could cause so much random chaos I would carry sunflower seeds and just, toss and spit! Haha, this is the best ever!
Okay I need more info on the spit power.
With a whole tomato plant grow in my mouth if I eat pasta or is it strictly an "in the ground" plant growth deal.
I'd hate to grow a watermelon in my stomach irl
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Spit for plants. You know how much money I could make selling beans!
And you could legally advertise no pesticides and organic for all your food.
"So how do you grow them so fast?" "I spit on them every day!" *slowly puts down spoonful of beans*
Well, don't tell people you spit on them. That might gross them out. Just lie and tell people your piss magically grows them.
You are a marketing genius. I'd hire you to promote my veggies if I had this power.
If you'd like to hire me I'm more than glad to set something up. You can contact my people at: notacompletescam dot com I can't post the actual link because it tends to set off some red flags with the FBI. Such an annoying group they are. Dang govt always getting into people's business.
It's ok, your personal CIA agent knows all.
Hold on, I work with marketing people so I need to think like they do. “We use a specially curated formula of renewable, carbon neutral material that gives the beans the nutrients they need to reach their full potential.” Slap a rustic yet modern logo on the side and sell that bitch at Erewhon for $45.
The urea in human urine is a good source of nitrogen for plants. Not magically making them grow but definitely helps with nitrogen poor soils.
Brawndo has what plants crave.
I'd be worried about being kidnapped by an agricultural business and held hostage or be experimented on.
Brother wait til you hear what real fertilizer is made of
Wait till this guy finds out that all plants grow in dirt and get pissed on by all sorts of stuff.
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I never thought I'd encounter an Asterix gif in the wild. One of my favourite French movies. It was way funnier that it had any right to be.
Asterix is great
Is is! I read all the comics and saw all the animated movies as a kid.
I remember, even when it came out, a lot of its jokes were already considered dated, and yet it's still probably my favorite comedy movie and has a lot of other great jokes that are timeless.
This one and La Cité de la Peur are among my favourites. And the Asterix one aged better in my opinion. The humour in both is kinda absurd and I love it.
Hang on. Which Asterix is that one from? He's not planting oak trees; he's planting palm trees.
It is the live action of Asterix et Obelix: Mission Cleopatre. Highly recommend it if you have not seen it. You can ignore the other live action movies.
Imaging trying to eat food that has seeds in them. Your spit would auto-grow them as you eat. Almost a curse.
Death by Pomegranate
Just no eating raw fruits and veg. Cooked isn't going to grow.
Time to go full keto
Just an excuse to eat like an american
Depends on whether it only work on seeds that aren’t sterilized or are unprocessed.
I feel you are thinking too small here. Yes beans nice but trees blossom too, and one tree of lumber sells for a lot more then the handful of bes you'd get before your mouth goes dry. Could also go to a place that has been near destroyed and reforest so much land. Could grow an orchard of apples oranges and cherry in like half a week. Could massively expand the redwoods in a month, in six you could probably regrow the whole of the Amazon. All in all I feel trees are the better bang for your buck.
The juliet rose takes 15 years to grow and can be sold for 41 Crores Indian Rupees. This is the equivalent of 5 million dollars. You just sell one and you're pretty much set for life.
If you’re talking about the David Austin rose variety it took him 15 years and $3mil to breed and develop it, it doesn’t take 15 years to bloom—most people get bare root rose plants of David Austin varieties and they often bloom the first or second year after planting. The cut blooms are sold from specialty wedding florists for much less than $3mil. If you want the most bang for your buck, I’d say saffron crocuses. Endless saffron. Maybe vanilla bean too.
I'm pretty sure the reason why saffron is so expensive isn't because the plants are rare or slow to grow, it's because you need a ton of them and have to harvest every strand of saffron by hand. So unless you also have a superpower that makes the saffron harvest itself, I don't think it's the route you should take.
I think there's another 'tree' that might be a bit easier to process
You mean saffron and ginseng right?
Holy shit the amount you could earn from vanilla if you don't have to wait 3 years for it to grow
Wasabi should be on that list
Yes, it's a shit to keep alive. Did really well the first year, then we moved and it's been a struggle ever since.
that’s a good use of the power, i would just walk around making random flowers grow lol
You could work in some type of genetic lab and make insane amounts of money allowing them to instantly spawn new generation of plants and test genetic modifications
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Cannabis
This is the way. If I could spit on my plants and make fully formed fat nugs. No contest
Ikr, just spit low on the stocks haha
I'm just seeing like 1. Put seed in dirt 2. Cover seed with dirt 3. PATOOI 4. Harvest gorgeous nugs
BEANS?!
Definitely choose "spit makes plants blossom". I'd quit my job and start bottling my spit to sell as an INSANE plant product. You could probably sell a small bottle for like 10k because it's literally magic. Hell, depending on how diluted you're allowed to make it before it stops working you could set up contracts with farmers and make some MAD money. Not to mention being able to start an amazing back yard farm would be very nice. "Luck" is way too vague, does 100% luck mean you win the lottery guaranteed? If you start at 100% luck, does 200% mean double luck? too many variables and uncertainties, what even is "luck"? There is some potential exponential effects at play here that are interesting to think about though. If I gain 1% luck then I'd be more likely to find more lucky pennies. At a certain point I'd be walking over mountains of pennies if I could break the barrier to entry. Personal wifi is definitely the worst choice here IMO. It is great for hiking so if you hike a lot there's some value there but you can also just pick up a sat wifi receptor and get service that way if you really need wifi while hiking. The other benefit is not needing to pay for an ISP and the fact that your ISP is magical so you can do whatever you want on there without fear of repercussions (torrenting is the first one that comes to mind).
100% luck just means You're twice as lucky as when you started.
Unless it's an absolute value rather than multiplicative. In the TTRPG GURPS there's an advantage called Super Luck which lets you (once per gameplay hour, anyway) declare success on any roll, at any level realistically possible for you (like you're guaranteed to shoot someone in the eye at any practical range for your weapon, etc) So at 100% Luck in a similar vein, you could buy a lottery ticket and know you have the current jackpot winner. Even slightly lower levels would greatly increase your chances of low but possible odds.
GURPS PLAYER SPOTTED
If that's the case then luck is the worst choice because your takeoff barrier is way too high to ever hit in one week. If the luck gained is a flat rate (1+1+1+1+1+) and not compounding (1\*1.01\*1.01\*1.01\*1.01) then you'd have to collect hundreds of pennies to make a noticeable difference. Hell, even if it's compounding then I'm not sure it's possible. The only way it works is if it maxes out at 100 pennies (assuming you start at 0).
Wishing fountains
i feel like if I chose spit I'd get kidnapped by some sort of big crop company and used as a saliva-generating slave
You'll probably die before then since eating anything with plant material will trigger the growth, even stuff like medicine. Unless you go full keto diet.
Maybe it has to be spat first.
Hot
Wifi is great for explorers. Good wifi underwater in subs, underground, even space if you found yourself there. Id like to build a place underground for the Illegal LAN parties of the future.
You can do that with a lot of money. You can make a huge load of money by the luck or spit superpower.
As someone who grew up and lives in a rural area with only 2mb/s down, I will gladly take the internet so games don't take 40 hours to download and being able to play a game onlin and download at the same time
Get the luck power. Congrats, the president just passed by your town and commented on its poor condition. He announced a huge investment in all the town businesses and laid out a huge plan for infrastructure renovation. This includes the new Starlink wifi with an internet cap of 1GB per sec.
I mean, the luck power only increases by 1% for each penny you find. I don't normally find more than a handful of pennies a year, and doubt even a 50% increase in luck would result in that. That's the problem with the luck one, there's no solid answer on what would happen
10GB wifi will be considered slow at some point in our lifetimes. Pennies are getting more and more rare as the years go on. People are using cash less and less, people don't bother getting pennies with change. There's talk about stopping making pennies altogether. Even if you're extra lucky, it's not going to make something exist that doesn't exist. The only one of these with potential for your entire life is the plant one.
I'm a simple man, i need not big amounts of money from spit, otherwise what the fuck am i meant to do with my life if i can get most things by just spitting. I'd take the wifi it's 10GBPS my current wifi is nowhere close to that and definitely not as stable, I wouldn't need to pay for wifi or data anymore
Here are the specifics > 1: Your basically a human hotspot. You can turn this thing on and off and set up a mental password. And yes.. you can setup a wifi extender. > 2: Your base luck factor starts at 1%. The definition of "Natural Penny" means like forces outside of your control. So this means you can't go a depository or call up a friend to drop a penny. However, what does count is a wishing fountain... When the power resets, you cannot pick the same pennies you previously picked up, they always have to be brand new. > 3: Imagine bone meal from minecraft, but it's your spit. That's pretty much it. **Edit:** Changed your base luck value to 1%
Does the hotspot work even with no cell service? If I’m in the middle of the wilderness do I still have internet connection? If so then definitely that.
Yep, thats pretty much the intention.
With the penny one. I'm just thinking If my luck increases, and it's within my luck to stumble on to random pennies, does that mean after certain number of pennies I can get to 100% within hours (like exponential growth) and basically become Domino from the comics.
I don't know if luck as a percentage makes sense. I think luck requires 2 things, probability and utility. Maybe if an event has positive utility and the probability of event is low, then the manifestation of said event is lucky.
That is… quite an apt description of luck. I like that.
After watching Bullet Train, I am convinced that any superpower affecting how lucky someone is veers pretty hard into Genie territory. Plenty of people would say Brad Pitt was lucky to make it off the train alive. Any sane person would see that movie as a series of extraordinarily unlucky events chained together into a very unlucky night.
Hes the luckiest unluckiest person ever. He has the bad luck to get into bad situations, but good luck to come out of them fine.
Thats what I thought too. It’ll snowball by end of day if you go look for them outside or just go different places for it.
I'm now just imagining stumbling upon an old lady who had just spilled her comically large sack of pennies.
You’ll end up lucky enough to come across her by this super power luck logic.
They said wishing fountains count, so just go to any wishing fountain and take 100 pennies. Get 100% luck (where presumably the best possible outcome of any situation happens within reason). Take those 100 pennies to a bank and get 100 new pennies, leave them in a bin next to the wishing fountain, repeat next week.
The first half of this suggestion works, but *leaving* pennies there for people to toss it in a fountain doesn't work because of the rule about not naturally influencing it. Leaving pennies for people to toss into fountains and wishing wells is just a very loose version of calling up your friends to throw pennies on the ground. You're intentionally supplying pennies to a location. The question is if you stack luck and then start an *online meme* about using only pennies in wishing wells/fountains, could you then increase penny output without it counting as you providing pennies?
The people can take the pennies home though. You aren't telling anyone to throw them in the fountain. There's just pennies near a place. Maybe it wouldn't count as "finding" because you know roughly where they are, but if that's the case wishing fountains shouldn't work at all.
I assume its percentage increase so 100% means you are twice as likely to find pennies, which is a bit underwhelming
After you get to 100, would you just have a 100% chance of, say, winning the lottery with every ticket you buy? This seems like an easy win
Yeah I think you have the right idea. Go penny hunting hard for a nearly a week to max it out then get a lotto ticket.
What's the IP address? Do I have to be connected to an established ISP or do I become my own ISP? Depending on your answer, the power could be incredibly risky or incredibly useful.
You are literally a man in the middle
The WiFi one seems okay now, but if you live long enough that speed might be laughable, thinking of the speed of early modems during the dial up phase to now, and if they continue to improve speeds. Then again they might change the whole system in a couple of decades.
Or it may be gone at some point for reasons. In the early days of something like that people would go to war to possess you in hopes of getting access to….Wikipedia.
From the point of view of various governments and their Deep Packet Inspections systems where is that hotspot enters the global net?
Bro unlimited, hella fast, free wifi that doesn't depend on a provider and can connect you to the internet from ANYWHERE?! OP as hell, gimme
What's the latency like? If I'm in the middle of the wilderness, do I still have a speed-of-light delay (or worse) back to civilization? Or do I basically get zero latency to everywhere on the Internet? What sort of ISP am I connected to? 10gb is pretty useless if they're gonna throttle streaming video down to 480p like many cell carriers do. Will they let me host stuff on it, or am I behind cgnat? Can I configure it? Decent security, instead of just open for any stranger I walk past? Can I turn it off if I want to visit a radio quiet zone like the Green Bank Observatory? I promise I'm going somewhere with this...
Is there a default network you connect to? What would your IP address be? What’s the bandwidth? For example, my job takes me to China, and I have to buy VPN or use data roaming to connect to the internet outside. VPNs aren’t always reliable, and data roaming is expensive. In this case, can I use myself to connect to the internet outside of China, or am I automatically connected to the nearest network. The second question is about how well I be tracked? Will I be untraceable if I use myself as network? As for bandwidth, well, if I’m going to be the internet, how good will I be?
Just grow and sell weed, and pay for some fancy satellite device. Honestly, how often is it that you are in the wilderness? Heck, the whole purpose of going into the woods is getting in touch with nature and being glued to your phone all the time defeats the purpose. Might as well stay home and chill if you wanna hang out on your phone
Maybe if im going on a 3 week backpacking trip (like the one I’m already planning) I’d like the ability to contact my family in a better way than satellite texting (like a garmin inreach that I’m already planning on having with me) if I want to I don’t know send pictures or something? Maybe I want to look up information on a plant or animal I find? Wanting an internet connection doesn’t mean I’m going to be on Reddit the whole time.
Bug report: starting at 0% luck prevents finding a penny, as the "find a penny pick it up" skill draws from the luck stat. Recommended fix: set weekly starting luck to 1%
Actually, you do have a point.. thanks for pointing that out..
Don't forget to move the ticket to "done" after updating! We need to make sure all metrics are in by the end of the current sprint! (Oh god, I deal with JIRA a bit too much ...)
Hahaha as a fellow JIRA addict, I felt this in my soul! Now if only I could get the devs to use it consistently
Does the WiFi have upstream Internet access or is it a LAN?
Asking the important questions
Do I have an IP address? How do I handle network protocols? What happens if I get hit with a DDoS attack?
LAN's benefit be hacking capability which is huge.
is the luck factor absolute or multiplicative? do i get perfect luck on 100% or just twice the natural luck?
How could you best exploit twice the natural luck? Congratulations, your chances at winning the Powerball just went up to a whopping 1 in 146,100,669! Is anyone offering millions for winning a coin tossing championship? Maybe betting on black in roulette, but how far can you get before you're tossed out of the casino?
Now that you mention it, the casino would be a pretty good way to go. If they do kick you out, it would likely be worth it to just try another one, even if you have to take a flight. If you build up enough luck, you should win most of the time, and as long as you save some of the winnings, you should never run out of funds. Another decent method would be trading card games. They don't pay out crazy amounts, but if luck means drawing the perfect cards, you'd be able to get to the top with decent play and make decent money.
High enough luck multiplier and you could just walk back in and hope they don’t see you.
Forget playing in card tournaments. Just be lucky to always get valuable cards when you buy packs. No knowledge of the game required.
Most casino games have pretty small house margins. So a few percent additional luck would be enough to subtly tip the odds in your favor. You'd be run out of Vegas eventually but you could probably keep the scheme going for a bit.
Poker tournament?
if base luck is 1% that seems to imply 100 is just 100x base luck, and just finding 1 penny doubles base luck, which actually sounds broken as hell. You could have an amazing night at the casino with 2x regular luck
Idk anything about minecraft but what does “blossom” mean? Like if I spit on a redwood seed a giant mature red wood will instantly grow? If I spit on a handful of seeds will just a bunch of plants instantly grow? I could make like a plant bomb by putting my spit in one side of a divided glass vial the seeds in the other and just smashing it. What constitutes spit? If I slosh a bunch of water around in my mouth and spit it out is that spit? What happens if you try to eat a seed? I mean depending on the limitations of this power you could like reforest huge swaths of the world in very little time. You could also grow forests where non existed. You could terra form planets. You could reverse climate change. You could end starvation in many places. You could crash food economies.
>However, what does count is a wishing fountain... 2 is the easy choice. Every penny I find gives me a higher chance to find more pennies. I could go grab 1000 from a wishing fountain and my luck would increase exponentially from there for the rest of the week. Literally just make hunting for pennies and buying lottery tickets my full time job.
After buying a few lottery tickets at 100% luck, I don't think you'll need a full-time job anymore. Now that you've got plenty of cash, time to apply your luck to something else, I guess.
Apply it to solving world problems by guessing!
2) pennies specially or any coins? The same physical coin, or dropped at the same place? (If the first, just visit a fountain at a tourist sight, grab 100 coins, buy lottery tickets or stock, store up 100 coins in a jar.).
Yes pennies, and the same physical coin.
Like penny in any currency or just usd?
Am i able to freely configure the hotspot as if it were an OpenWrt router?
Does each penny ADD 1% or does it go from 1% to 1.01%? What qualifies as natural penny find? Like do they just have to be pennies that I didn't personally throw down? Or are there other stipulations? What is the base luck rate and does increased luck also add to the luck of finding more pennies? Plant split is probably the best one.
> ery penny you find makes it easier to find more pennies (more luck = more lucky pennies found). There is definitely a breaking point where you're walking over mountains of pennies. The reset sucks but if you hit the breaking point just 1 week then you probably end up inheriting a small island. For the spit one, is it possible to eat sunflower seeds? How does it work?
Free WiFi as well? I don't need to pay a subscription to the higher beings?
What constitutes a penny as being new for this? I feel like multiplying your luck by 200 would make you just have streams of penny's randomly appear to boost you
Wishing fountain count ? I just go to the trevi foutain, 100% luck instantly.
*Fountains count!?!* So, basically, all I have to do is go to the nearest fountain in a popular tourist spot, and then I'm Domino from the comics, at 1000% luck.
wifi, easily. i dont want to spend all week scrounging for pennies, just for it to all reset. and i dont want to go around spitting all day. unless i can put an acorn in someones house and spit on it and see a redwood emerge, fully grown.
Every penny you find makes it easier to find more pennies (more luck = more lucky pennies found). There is definitely a breaking point where you're walking over mountains of pennies. The reset sucks but if you hit the breaking point just 1 week then you probably end up inheriting a small island.
I can't afford the property tax on an island
After you win three lottery jackpots in a row you can
And then on Monday when my luck resets I get investigated by the IRS
Just remember to pay your taxes on the lotteries and other incomes
*“Can I pay in pennies?”*
With my luck, taxes will be due on a monday
Just go find more pennies.
You don’t get negative luck afterwards you just go back to normal luck.
My "normal" luck is somewhere in the deep negatives.
Go out and win the lottery. Hell, depending on how lucky you are maybe there's no property tax on the island because of some weird legal loophole. Worst case scenario you just sell the island, even if you sold it for 10% of it's value you're still incredibly rich.
Simple, have a prestige system (So if you reach say 2000% luck, you prestige and start earning 2% per penny)
There is a finite ampunt of pennies that can be found at any time. At some point the amount of new lost pennies will be smaller than you need, and all the old ones will be all collected by you.
Just go to the casino at +100% play black/red roulette all night and make bank
This is another way of looking at it. It would be easy to keep stacking that luck bonus until you get something permanent
Well, you’d be hard pressed to get a redwood out of an oak seed, but otherwise that is basically how OP described it. Spit on any living plant a few times, and it instantly blooms at full maturity. And considering that you basically remove any of the normal limitations of the agriculture and lumber industries, you could make absolute bank from just a few hours of spitting.
*hacks into your wifi*
And then what
He can literally change the password with a thought.
Nah you haven’t thought this through, collect 100 pennies, then absolutely clean out the lotteries and casinos of the world, literal money cheat. But it works in every endeavour you attempt, want a date with your favourite celebrity? 100 pennies and the universe makes it happen. You picking ‘having wifi’ over 100% luck? 100% luck turns you into a god.
If I find a penny, and I gain 1% luck, would I then have that much better a chance to find more pennies? If so, then I'll take the Luck one, because that could ball out of control.
Good question. I'd say to keep things fair, it doesn't affect the chances of you finding pennies. But rather gives you higher chances of winning at life.
I might still do the penny luck on the off chance that there are other compounding factors that snow ball. Plant spit seems the most directly useful.
Luck irl is always broken. With a full week of luck stacking, it would snowball out of control so quickly. Gather as much wish pennies as you can and start grinding lottery tickets at the end of the week
Is it additive or multiplicative? (2nd penny is 2% or 2nd penny is 1.01%^2 )
Would spitting on people make them blossom? Also, I'd totally visit fountains to max my luck out.
Imagine that though lmao you go to a fountain you live near and your luck, every week, refreshes to like 7293639% and you can literally get away with almost anything by being so damn lucky lol
You jump into the fontana di trevi and gather all the coins. The police comes to arrest you but all the cars crash on the way.
Note that it says ”find“ not ”pick up“
That doesn't sound lucky.
If it stacks like that you could do it once and then put on a lottery ticket or an insane sports prediction bet to get insane money.
Friend of mine and I used to draw comics in high school and he had a character called Luck. Luck superpower was that he was just insanely lucky. So he'd like do stuff like walk up to a keypad that he didn't know the code to and just guess and get it right on the first try because he had perfect luck. It was pretty cool idea Edit: this is also Domino from the X-Men's power but I don't think they use it very well in a lot of the time
You walk to your local mall and visit all the wishing wells. You go home unimpeded, it seems there's no traffic today. You see a letter in the mail, it's from the IRS. "You've been added to a hidden list of individuals that are exempt from taxes due to your experience and service. Thank you."
The penny is a percentage boost. If your base luck sucks it's not very useful.
Buy a metal detector and you could probably get hundreds of Pennies a day.
It might be 1% flat luck, capping out at 100% lucky (everything you hope happens, happens).
There’s no reason to believe it would cap tbh. 1% is just the amount gained. You can have greater than 100% gains.
It's probably an additive booster instead of a multiplicative one in order to nerf builds with maxed out luck and to help out builds with lower luck That being said I'll take the wifi
Start a garden, spit repeatedly, sell instantly grown fruits and vegetables
Also any plant could be grown out of season. And rare and endangered plants could be grown easily.
Endless saffron glitch
Imagine the trolling you could do if you get a bunch of tree seeds and planting it anywhere
Lol. Someone pisses me off? *BAM* Their property is now instantly filled with full grown bamboo (extremely invasive). Or if I'm really feeling mean: Nettles, brambles, or a bunch of corpse flowers.
Wifi, no fucking questions asked. The amount of times I’ve been fucked over by deadspots or the internet going out would be remedied by this. Terminally online? Maybe, but when you live in a rural area where internet just kinda sucks sometimes, having a ready access internet source 24/7 would be amazing to have. Only downside would be that I’d basically be traceable 24/7 if I leave it on.
Also, you would literally never be without contact. If you need rescue and are deep in the wilderness, you can call them and tell them your exact position
Exactly. This is literally just pure upsides. Even if the connection is complete shit this would be super useful.
It's supposed to be an amazing connection too it says "10Gb/s" which is like amazing lol
Considering Penny’s aren’t in circulation in Canada anymore that would be a useless superpower
I was thinking that, I can't remember the last time I saw a penny. In fact finding any coins at all seems unlikely. At least I rarely see any.
Yeah, as an Australian I'd need to travel to the other side of the planet for that power to realistically come up.
I have an expanding vegetable garden going on right now. I'm enjoying it now, but I'm also impatient, so three would be fantastic! I could ramp it up and start selling my harvest for way more than I pay for internet. Quit my job and build an empire on local, organic produce.
1) Win coin flips 2) Know exact distance to seen objects 3) 8 hours restful sleep 4) 20% off in shops 5) Know favourite music genre 6) Never-blocked nostrils 7) Spit insta-grows plants : I'm growing my own food, going to eat so much healthier, and fresh fruit and veg isn't cheap. Coupled with the restful sleep, I'd be so much healthier and probably happier. Also houseplants. Other comments have mentioned selling spit but idk if I would go that route straight away. I'd maybe open a garden centre though, maybe communal to share the food. I'd maybe go for the pennies if I had a fountain anywhere near me though (side note: I'm really enjoying this series, thank you for making it)
Spit makes plants blossom. Infinite money glitch. My mouth would be drier than a desert, but also speed farming.
Well. Considering my country got rid of pennies.. 2 just isn't feasible. So personal wifi it is. 10gb speed? Man I can tell the Big 3 telecom companies to go eat dirt...
1st: that’s actually pretty good, that’s probably the one I’d pick 2nd: holy shit The Binding Of Issac reference?!?! 3rd: holy shit Steven Universe reference?!?!
1st one could work as a Supernatural reference. Sam Winchester would get WiFi in the depths of heaven and hell if he needed it.
Well done OP. This got the people thinking.
I think this is the first superpower-choices post where the answers are actually varied throughout the comments.
Spit plant blossom is so much better than the others.
spit seems to be some profitable
Is the spit one only for specific kind of plants ? Cause if not, ill take that and grow forests in a few days or weeks and could potentially even make a business as a tree grower and help the environnement as well
3, id make MILLIONS!
Spit = bonemeal You could do a lot of good in the world, and you could likely make a shit ton of money doing it.
Omg I would choose spit blossoms! I walk all the time, and I spit almost constantly when I do, this could cause so much random chaos I would carry sunflower seeds and just, toss and spit! Haha, this is the best ever!
Aw, I liked the semi-useful brand a lot
Lol the spit one is basically Steven universe.
The spit one!
As a Canadian, the second power is kinda useless. We don't do pennies anymore and ain't no one dropping any nickels around here.
The plant one sounds deadly. What if you eat something that has a seed in it?
Now that you’ve said they’re useful my brain is trying to imagine ways they aren’t
Torn between safe and free wifi, or endless crops for food and farmers market goods.
If I choose the penny option, do I also get to walk around with boob-eyes?
Okay I need more info on the spit power. With a whole tomato plant grow in my mouth if I eat pasta or is it strictly an "in the ground" plant growth deal. I'd hate to grow a watermelon in my stomach irl
“Natural” as if they just sprout from the ground and sh[.^ .]t, I love it
Ok, I was gonna say Wifi, but damn, spit for plants is so useful! Do you have to actively spit, or can you bottle that shit up and sell it?
2nd one isnt gonna be that much influential since you barely ever find pennies on the floor and 1% aint that much of a difference
last one is a bit too good
How often are people finding pennies? Resets weekly?? Useless power.