• devonian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    favorite mug is the best for breaking the laws of physics and generating infinite energy - though the blanket and the candle also have infinite heat, the mug would be the most versatile, as you could fill it with a super-hot liquid, then treat it like an RTG, generating electricity from the temperature difference between the mug and its environment. use the mug as your spaceship’s power supply, and you’ll never even need big honkin photovoltaic panels !

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        How does one recuperate the energy from a candle to transform it to something useful? Also, would it’s output be enough to power anything meaningful in a reasonable time anyway?

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      With the blanket you can walk on the sun though. (Assuming that you won’t get crushed by gravity)

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      I love how this post was meant to be cozy, and the first thing you think of is breaking reality.

      I would pick the candle!

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        Yeah infinite energy source was my first thought as well (mug/candle). Might be able to come up with some amazing uses for the blanket as well.

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    So the mug is the best choice by far, due to its universe-breaking abilities surrounding temperature. Setup a Stirling engine on that for infinite power.

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      I do have to admit it’s a bit disheartening to post that pic, and then people react to it by looking how to use the objects to ‘hack’ the nature of reality.

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        OP: “Hey, guys! Here are some objects that hack the nature of reality.”

        Posters: *Uses them to further hack the nature of reality, just in other ways*

        OP:

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          Kind of, lol. But you can see the difference in the type of hacking. The objects are only meant to hack your own, private reality. That’s what the picture is meant to address, that aspect of our lives that can’t be translated into external and/or mechanical utility.

          Besides, the issue of energy scarcity that the replies are working off could be fixed or at least minimised through realistic technological and political/economic solutions, with no need for magical objects that defy the laws of physics. But no law or real invention can be guaranteed e.g. to give you good dreams.

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        I mean, that magic candle single handedly gives hope for reversing universal entropy. Everything else might be personally fulfilling but that thing could be the key to preventing the heat death of the universe.

        Which would be pretty personally fulfilling too imo.

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        mein freund, some of us prefer to focus on extracting the most material value out of these hypothetical objects, simply because we want to. it’s fun to imagine the possibilities with the infinite energy from the candle and the mug.

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          material value

          I think that’s the point that they’re making: it’s supposed to be about which object of immense EMOTIONAL value would make people the happiest, and then a lot of people make it about their material value in stead.

          As much as I understand their disappointment, though, Lemmy of all places is so full of nerds and geeks (said with love as a geek myself) who know a lot about technical stuff that it was pretty much bound to happen…

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            Yes, thank you :D (I mean, of course I’m exaggerating a bit by claiming I’m disappointed, it’s more of a… “conceptual” disappointment)

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            I think infinite energy would create muuuch more happiness for so many more people. But i direct happiness cheats are easier to understand i guess.

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        That was my realization when I invited people to my minecraft server and saw people dig a whole and breed cows just to kill them for xp, while I was over there giving them grass and water and a nice fence

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    If I was a fae creature, I’d get the endless candle so I could lure people to my hut in the forest and they would not get a sense of danger at all (assuming everyone around the candle can also feel the effects by smelling it)

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    The fact that the pillow won’t help my awful insomnia (or help you fall asleep in general) makes it so close to being the best choice to me, but it falls short in the most frustrating way.

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      Technically it says every night not every sleep it gives you good dreams, so either you’ll be forced asleep so you can dream or you’ll have pleasant day dreams while you lie awake at least.

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    The pillow… Sleep is my nemesis.

    Unless the blanket does away with menopausal hot flashes. I’m not near that age, but I dread them still.

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    treasure stone, because I struggle so much with self-esteem.

    I almost chose the cuddly thing because sometimes social anxiety eats my insides and then I feel empty and need a friend to hug. But I also think that the treasure stone would help with that too because then I would be brave and more comfortable with being by myself for that moment.

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    I spend 1/3rd of my life asleep, and the pillow would guarantee that third is good and memorable. Absolutely the pillow.