ophthalmotropy:

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#hmm #skip dialogue: I feel like this is not a substantial problem in my life #coffee: there’s probably some perpetual-motion hack here given the thermodynamics violation‚ but it’s once a day‚ so it doesn’t scale well #dust-repelling: define ”my” belongings; most of the dusty things bothering me belong de jure to my parents #volume control: very good‚ but not *as* good as ones later on the list‚ so no #weather manipulation: probably some physics-violating stunts you can pull with this one‚ but God knows what they are #schedule-memory: probably some hacks here to let you use it for other stuff‚ but the central use is not a substantial problem in my life #inventory: oh wow that’s tempting #what counts as an item? is there a weight limit? #would I‚ say‚ get rotting vegetable juice on *other* items if I left a vegetable in there too long‚ or no? #concentration: I thought this was great at first‚ but then I realised it’s almost strictly inferior to the selective-drug-immunity option #because you can just do a lot of stimulants and nope the tolerance and anxiety and whatnot #the stims *are* free with this option‚ but then you can’t use it on other drugs #information search: can I look up where to find information on how best to exploit this? I feel like there’s a *lot* going on here #do-overs: would be very hard to decide which days to use it on‚ also I have serious ethical doubts about collapsing timelines #(though you could instead violate the spirit of this answer and simply isolate yourself during one day each week) #(spending two subjective days reading and studying and other such things-that-aren’t-about-having-an-impact-on-the-external-world) #(meanwhile the rest of the world experiences the two timelines as identical and isn’t losing anything by having the first one destroyed) #scent: do I magically know when something is bad even when it wouldn’t otherwise have smelled bad? #if so: viscerally tempting but probably not the single best option here #if not: meh‚ I can just break out the scent-blocking respirator filters‚ I don’t need magic for this #selective drug immunity: …there’s stiff competition‚ but I’m going with this one #you get so much option-space to experiment with drugs that have any chance whatsoever of fixing any of your problems #knowing there’s no downside apart from the cost of obtaining them #drugs that previously weren’t worth using because the side effects were too severe–I’m looking at you‚ zinc acetate–become useful #and as I age and acquire chronic ailments‚ I may well someday have a med constellation as complicated and delicate as my mom’s #at which point I would *very deeply* appreciate not having frequent nausea and dizziness #(I wonder if you can do‚ like‚ hyper-chemotherapy-type things with this) #(take poisons that would normally kill both you and whatever ~parasites you’re suffering from‚ and then survive while they still die) #(it might not be fine-grained enough for that‚ but even so)