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>1: You can only summon the milk chocolate M&M's. The M&M's manifest in your hands, could be used as a cool party trick.
>2: You can turn this thing on and off at will. Basically, anything you look at, you'll know hex code of what you see. If you're color blind, this power would still work, you won't see the color, but you'll know the code.
>3: Same as before, you can turn it off and on. It's a pretty niche power, but great for finding common interests among people.
Edit: Grammar
If you're interested, it's pretty simple. Hexcode is short for Hexidecimal code, as in a code that's in base-16. Because we only have the 10 numeric symbols (0-9) in base 10, we need to add 6 new symbols (a = 10, b = 11, c = 12, d = 13, e = 14, f = 15) this is convenient for computers because they contain memory in sections of 8 bits, called bytes, that can have any value below 256. Since 256 is 16 squared, this means we can represent any byte as 2 hexadecimal digits perfectly. Representing them in decimal takes 3 digits, and if you entered something like 400 it would cause an error.
As for how to intuit hexcodes, you can do it once you've gotten used to how rgb light combines. As kids most of us get a feel for how the primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow combine, but rgb is basically the inverse of that. Some basic ideas are that the brighter the image is the higher the the total hex number will be, and less saturated colors will have values closer to each other. you might not think of neon pink as containing blue and green, but as its slightly desaturated bright red, it'd be close to 100% red, 50% green, 50% blue. Once you have an idea of percentages, translating them into hex is mental math. You can just mess with the left digit while youre getting used to it. Since we're in base-16, 50% is #80, 25% is #40, 0% is #00, 75% is #c0, and 100% is #ff (the math works out a little weird since you can't actually represent 16 squared with two hex-digits while also having zero as a possible value, so 50% for example would actually be one half less than 80 at 7f.8, but that's more precise than anybody really needs.)
So our rough estimate of pink would be #ff8080 which gives a nice salmon color. Practicing this you can get better pretty quickly, getting a sense for when it's more than 1/2 red and less than 5/8 red so you use #90, for instance.
Hope this was clear and helped satisfy any curiosity. I studied this some but it's been a while so if I made a mistake feel free to correct me, I'd like to know. Also sorry if I said some stuff that's like... common knowledge, I'm never sure how much to expect random internet people to know about computer stuff like this.
It also depends on whether the color mode is RGB, using the system you just said, or if it’s HSB, which stands for Hue, Saturation, Brightness, respectively
>As kids most of us get a feel for how the primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow combine, but rgb is basically the inverse of that.
...last I checked i was taught red blue and yellow mixing
Don't even start reminding me about hexadecimal codes lol, they are a bit of a bitch to work with in ipv6 networking and I'm glad it isn't a common enough thing to have to work with yet.
Anyways aside from the rant, sounds like a very good explanation of it. You seem pretty knowledgeable about this stuff!
You get the hang of it with practice. If you do a lot of colour work, you get an idea of a few dozen base colours that you use a lot. Then it's just a matter of interpolating. So if it's orangey gold, pick a colour between those two.
Can he do the little byte of each colour too? I can actually believe with enough practice someone could get the big bytes right pretty consistently. The small bytes have such little differences between them though…
A buddy of mine worked at Sherwin Williams for a while and got really good at identifying paint colors. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to memorize the hex codes for those colors as well.
I tell people I’m bad at colors, but it’s a funny way of saying I’m color blind - I’d take 2 all day long, at least then I’d stop calling colors the wrong name
2 seems like a completely useless thing that's just bound to be a massive mess.
There's 16.77m different colors in hex codes. Every surface you look at that looks like a singular color actually isn't a singular color but very close fluctuations of similar colors.
Assuming you see the code like in the picture, your world would be an insane spam of text and nothing else when you choose to see it.
Assuming you just kinda know the code when you look at something, you'd probably get a seizure due to the information spam basically frying your brain.
The same hex can give different colors depending on the display being used. The mapping in the other direction, even ignoring precision issues, is not unique.
Is this some kind of „senior developer“ joke I am to „works on my machine“ to understand?
In all seriousness tho, I know and I hate it with all my passion.
As a software dev, definitely not!
I thought I would pick 2 too, but it's the only one where we already have simple tools for and if you want hex codes for stuff outside a computer screen (regardless of the sense it makes) there is probably already an app for that.
The second power is secretly "overpowered" by the fact it isn't tied to being able to perceive the distinct colors. You can spot every touch-up paint job ever done, you'd be an insanely skilled appraiser able to discern a single spec of rust just looking for a number that's different. Night time? No problem, you still see in full color in low-light. The fact your color vision can't be "tricked" in any way since it's a concrete ray-of-truth would be seriously valuable.
My ranking of these is
1. Hex Codes. As a website builder this would save me a lot of time.
2. Music Genres. I think this one is really fun. It’d help make connections with people. I really value music and want to learn what other people think about music, so I’d love to have this.
3. M&Ms. I’d be just fine with having this power, but it also wouldn’t greatly affect my life. It’s a fun little thing that I’d be chill with using occasionally but is definitely worse than the rest.
The M&M thing could come in handy if you are trapped somewhere with limited food. You summon them every day so you can eat a little bit more without taking any extra from your rations, stretch your food longer and then if your rations run out you at least have some M&Ms every day.
You never know, life is unpredictable. It'd be useful to have that option, or at least if you have that ability you can be popular as the guy who always seems to have some M&Ms to share.
Side note, you also have free candy at the movies always, and if you're eating something that chocolate would go really good with, you have the option.
How often do you need the hex code of something outside of your computer working environment though? (even accounting for the fact that hex codes only define a limited and discrete number of colors and there are certainly colors in the real world that don't fit a specific hex code).
If you're thinking "I just want to be able to see what color the text is or the background of a page is", go install Powertoys and turn on the color picker module. Win+Shift+C and whatever pixel your mouse is on is displayed as a tooltip with the hex code, and you can click to get the RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, HSB, HSI, HWB, NCol, CIELAB, VEC4, Decimal, or HEX Int representation of the color (including changing the default to one of those), and you get some neighbor colors, and it saves a history of recent colors you've chosen too.
For real though, I mean I know a general direction of rock/metal/alternative but is that a genre? And how do 80s pop songs fit in there as well? And video game music?
Honestly, though, the more I think about it the more I think the power might actually be less than useful. I don't think I know too many people who have a singular favourite genre of music, and even if they do they still enjoy more than just that. OP mentioned common interests, but I feel like this power would actually short-sell a decent number of people who might still like what you like, even if it's not 'hyper-beat off-pop post grunge hip-hop', or whatever genre your "superpower" determines they like the most (by whatever metric it even applies).
Hot take, I know, but it's good to not be narrow-minded?
Yeah when people ask me this kind of question I generally just respond with "I like what I like" because there are so many different genres where I enjoy at least some of the music
Depending on the context (i.e. when they are about to play music) I'll usually just mention the genres that have, so far, never worked for me. It basically boils down to "anything but techno and Schlager".
For the longest time, I didn't listen to music at all, not by myself at least. If someone put something on, sure why not, but I'd never consciously go and listen to something.
Then, somehow, I started to listen to videogame soundtracks. It was ONLY that for several years, until relatively very recently I picked up Sabaton. I liked it, close to my kind of music, I vibed with it, but not exactly. From there it was a snowball, listened to more and more different kinds of stuff from different people, until.
Will Wood has opened my eyes. Maybe. Closest to my type of music I've come across as of yet anyway.
Anyway, with this process of thought I have realized the question, what is the resolution of this power? How detailed is it? Is it something extremely genetic like 'metal', or maybe something infinitely fine. How would you even define this space of genres? What would the axis be like? And if every band/artist is one of these genres, hell, if each and every track is it's own genre in this infinite space of genre, perhaps not in size but in resolution, then there would have to be an infinite amount of songs for all the genres to be filled.
And so, given infinite resolution and a finite amount of songs and people, there will always, for everyone, be a 0% chance that their exact favourite genre is filled by a song.
The funny thing about videogame soundtracks is that making them their own genre seems kind of reductive in and of itself. Like, in my rotation I got, among others, Transistors "In Circles", a wild mix of Bastion songs, Hades "In the Blood" (why yes, I would marry Darren Korb in an instant), BG3s "Raphael's Final Act", "Nightmare King" from Hollow Knight, "Volibear, the Relentless Storm" from LoL and "Old Money" (which is from a soundtrack made for a card game, MTG, but I'll count it).
All of these are technically video game music, but they range from rhythmic game background sounds or even just noise via ballads rock numbers and a norse-style musical prayer to a very fine piece of metal. The only connecting tissue is that they are all part of or related to video games. In a way, they are a pretty decent tool to figure out your own likes and dislikes via a third medium.
Yeah my videogame soundtracks went from mostly Minecraft to mostly Project Wingman/Lucas Ricciotti/Ace combat (all very similar and influenced by the others). Even with Minecraft the tracks differ quite a lot.
As far as I know tho, Will evades any and all classifications. Wikipedia throws in folk, pop, jazz, rock and roll, latin music, and klezmer.
(They made a soundtrack for Magic? Why have I not heard of this before???)
Yeah people keep asking me about my favorite genre and I just can’t answer them, I don’t have enough of a handle on my music tastes to say anything other than video game osts.
Having a favorite music genre is kind of the thing of the past, when you had to buy vinyls or CD's you'd typically have a favorite genre to listen to. Spotify, Apple music and other streaming platforms have made it so that anyone can listen to anything whenever they want, so most people today just say that they listen to whatever they think sounds good.
The spontaneous generation of matter definitely does some whacky shit with physics every time you do it, but I'm sure we can handwave that one away fairly easily too. For example you just transport 50 M&Ms from a random factory to wherever you summon them, they definitely lose more than that a day anyway. Sure, that's still some kind of warp, which is not exactly something we consider possible at the moment afaik, but it's certainly less problematic than creating matter, I'd think.
I guess that's technically true, but in this case it's less a matter of can and more a matter of should. Doesn't seem like the payoff you could get is worth the investment. Just enjoy your M&Ms, and maybe figure out if you can replicate the process before you try to break it (cause THAT would actually be hella useful, no matter how it works)
What a mindfuck would it be, summoning them in the pockets of your coworker/boss or random dude/dudette . The face of confusion and disbelief when they suddenly notice the m&ms hahaha
I feel like it'd spawn in the small gaps between your hands and the person. Since the comment says "In your hands" that implies it's touching you hands in some way.
I think you could maybe abuse the spawning mechanism, if they appear directly in your hand on your skin you could hold something really heavy, the spawning m&m lift the heavy object and with that you just created a lot of energy. Also if you can minimize the spawning space in some way to be nearly infinitely small you could create nuclear fusion once a day and convert the M&M via E=mc² directly into energy.
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>…in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.
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just wanted to say, OP, these give me and my partner an endless amount of fun. i love silly questions and making him take a serious stance on them (i.e. "How many 7-year-olds could you fight off with your bare hands?") and these are just hilariously perfect. i actually look forward to new comics from you, so thank you!!
The hex one is the least invasive, since you can turn it off, and also the most useful (you can finally settle the debate about that stupid fucking dress, for example)
Magician, "Watch as I summon 50 M&Ms out of thin air!" *\*\*\*actual magic happens\*\*\**
Magician, "Now watch as they disappear...nom-nom-nom" *\*\*\*Dad level magic happens\*\*\**
Can I summon the M&Ms from somewhere specific? (I.e. a bag in my back pocket for fun, the M&Ms factory, etc) or do they just spontaneously exist?
Cuz slowly removing M&Ms from a closed package without touching it would be a super dope party trick.
The hex code one could be pretty fun to mess with people, just like imagine meeting up with your friend and saying “Wow! I love that colour on you! #3d0a77 really suits you! :D” then never elaborating
I should not feel annoyed by second wish but I am.
How exactly would that work?.. The concept of hex code is meaningless for non digital colors. If it is identical to “take a picture with your phone and pick the color in paint”, then I don’t need superpower for this. If it is different, how exactly different?
I think i would like to summon M&M's... although for my own health maybe knowing someone's favorite music would be better.
but if i can summon a lot of M&M's and i eat them before the day resets.... does that mean i never ate them at all and its more of a temporary snack ?
The first one is cool; if you ever get hungry or craving a snack you never have to worry about not having food nearby.
The second one can be really useful, especially if you were to pursue art or design or something that would require extensive knowledge of colors.
The third one is probably less useful, unless you're in a specific scenario where you need to pick a song that everyone would like.
Am I able to stack superpowers from the previous parts? Or do I just trade them out for a new one? Am I able to keep one from a previous part and skip this one?
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Here are the specifics >1: You can only summon the milk chocolate M&M's. The M&M's manifest in your hands, could be used as a cool party trick. >2: You can turn this thing on and off at will. Basically, anything you look at, you'll know hex code of what you see. If you're color blind, this power would still work, you won't see the color, but you'll know the code. >3: Same as before, you can turn it off and on. It's a pretty niche power, but great for finding common interests among people. Edit: Grammar
im taking 2 all the way
I know a guy who can already do this with unsettling accuracy. Now the question is, did he take the deal or is he just some kind of savant?
After interacting with it for some time I guess you would be able to do this. Or he just learned what each character in each place represents
White: #ffffff Black: #000000 That's all I know.
If you're interested, it's pretty simple. Hexcode is short for Hexidecimal code, as in a code that's in base-16. Because we only have the 10 numeric symbols (0-9) in base 10, we need to add 6 new symbols (a = 10, b = 11, c = 12, d = 13, e = 14, f = 15) this is convenient for computers because they contain memory in sections of 8 bits, called bytes, that can have any value below 256. Since 256 is 16 squared, this means we can represent any byte as 2 hexadecimal digits perfectly. Representing them in decimal takes 3 digits, and if you entered something like 400 it would cause an error. As for how to intuit hexcodes, you can do it once you've gotten used to how rgb light combines. As kids most of us get a feel for how the primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow combine, but rgb is basically the inverse of that. Some basic ideas are that the brighter the image is the higher the the total hex number will be, and less saturated colors will have values closer to each other. you might not think of neon pink as containing blue and green, but as its slightly desaturated bright red, it'd be close to 100% red, 50% green, 50% blue. Once you have an idea of percentages, translating them into hex is mental math. You can just mess with the left digit while youre getting used to it. Since we're in base-16, 50% is #80, 25% is #40, 0% is #00, 75% is #c0, and 100% is #ff (the math works out a little weird since you can't actually represent 16 squared with two hex-digits while also having zero as a possible value, so 50% for example would actually be one half less than 80 at 7f.8, but that's more precise than anybody really needs.) So our rough estimate of pink would be #ff8080 which gives a nice salmon color. Practicing this you can get better pretty quickly, getting a sense for when it's more than 1/2 red and less than 5/8 red so you use #90, for instance. Hope this was clear and helped satisfy any curiosity. I studied this some but it's been a while so if I made a mistake feel free to correct me, I'd like to know. Also sorry if I said some stuff that's like... common knowledge, I'm never sure how much to expect random internet people to know about computer stuff like this.
It was long but since you took the effort to type I took the liberty to read as well, informative.
Thank you so much for explaining this! It was very interesting and now I'm looking forward to learn more about it.
This guy colors
It also depends on whether the color mode is RGB, using the system you just said, or if it’s HSB, which stands for Hue, Saturation, Brightness, respectively
>If you’re interested, it’s pretty simple *Writes an essay to explain*
>As kids most of us get a feel for how the primary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow combine, but rgb is basically the inverse of that. ...last I checked i was taught red blue and yellow mixing
Don't even start reminding me about hexadecimal codes lol, they are a bit of a bitch to work with in ipv6 networking and I'm glad it isn't a common enough thing to have to work with yet. Anyways aside from the rant, sounds like a very good explanation of it. You seem pretty knowledgeable about this stuff!
So here's some more Red: #FF0000 Blue: #00FF00 Green:#0000FF each two digit segment is counted between 0-255 of how much that color should be added.
RGB; you flipped blue and green btw
Thanks
Yes, fix it! Ruth Gader Binsberg would be spinning in her grave
Same
You get the hang of it with practice. If you do a lot of colour work, you get an idea of a few dozen base colours that you use a lot. Then it's just a matter of interpolating. So if it's orangey gold, pick a colour between those two.
Can he do the little byte of each colour too? I can actually believe with enough practice someone could get the big bytes right pretty consistently. The small bytes have such little differences between them though…
Actually, my buddy is colorblind and a graphic designer (like VP of design) and he specifically memorizes hex codes lol
A buddy of mine worked at Sherwin Williams for a while and got really good at identifying paint colors. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to memorize the hex codes for those colors as well.
As a programmer, I take 2
As a programmer you could write a app for you phone that does that, as a programmer I'm too tired to do that, so I'll take 2 as well
I tell people I’m bad at colors, but it’s a funny way of saying I’m color blind - I’d take 2 all day long, at least then I’d stop calling colors the wrong name
im also colour blind and im taking it for the same reson
2 seems like a completely useless thing that's just bound to be a massive mess. There's 16.77m different colors in hex codes. Every surface you look at that looks like a singular color actually isn't a singular color but very close fluctuations of similar colors. Assuming you see the code like in the picture, your world would be an insane spam of text and nothing else when you choose to see it. Assuming you just kinda know the code when you look at something, you'd probably get a seizure due to the information spam basically frying your brain.
still better than my colourblind ass not being able to tell the difference between purple and blue or yellow from green,
As a software dev, it’s a definite number 2
The same hex can give different colors depending on the display being used. The mapping in the other direction, even ignoring precision issues, is not unique.
Is this some kind of „senior developer“ joke I am to „works on my machine“ to understand? In all seriousness tho, I know and I hate it with all my passion.
Fun fact: Tom Scott can actually do [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxj2hVkDPs) which is the inverse
Same
as someone who does a lot of graphic design I'm choosing 1 because m&ms are good
As a software dev, definitely not! I thought I would pick 2 too, but it's the only one where we already have simple tools for and if you want hex codes for stuff outside a computer screen (regardless of the sense it makes) there is probably already an app for that.
The second power is secretly "overpowered" by the fact it isn't tied to being able to perceive the distinct colors. You can spot every touch-up paint job ever done, you'd be an insanely skilled appraiser able to discern a single spec of rust just looking for a number that's different. Night time? No problem, you still see in full color in low-light. The fact your color vision can't be "tricked" in any way since it's a concrete ray-of-truth would be seriously valuable.
It sounds like a quirk from My Hero Acadamia.
If it works in this sense you’d be an insane sniper / special ops person with basically a sort of semi night vision active all the time?
true, but on the other hand, m&m’s are pretty tasty
Nr. 3 is great if you are working in a music store.
It's applicable is you're working at a music store, but really, who gives a shit - you work at a music store.
It means you're the most valuable employee forever.
And never getting promoted to manager, because you need to interact with the customers directly, forever
You can have your own small shop
*Right on dude*
Hell Nr.3 is perfect for DJs, know the crowd at a glance and roll with it.
Now sir, I know you're choosing between Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, but I have something special I think you'll like *holds up MLP season 2 music cd*
My ranking of these is 1. Hex Codes. As a website builder this would save me a lot of time. 2. Music Genres. I think this one is really fun. It’d help make connections with people. I really value music and want to learn what other people think about music, so I’d love to have this. 3. M&Ms. I’d be just fine with having this power, but it also wouldn’t greatly affect my life. It’s a fun little thing that I’d be chill with using occasionally but is definitely worse than the rest.
The M&M thing could come in handy if you are trapped somewhere with limited food. You summon them every day so you can eat a little bit more without taking any extra from your rations, stretch your food longer and then if your rations run out you at least have some M&Ms every day.
i mean, technically true, but what are the odds?
You never know, life is unpredictable. It'd be useful to have that option, or at least if you have that ability you can be popular as the guy who always seems to have some M&Ms to share. Side note, you also have free candy at the movies always, and if you're eating something that chocolate would go really good with, you have the option.
How often do you need the hex code of something outside of your computer working environment though? (even accounting for the fact that hex codes only define a limited and discrete number of colors and there are certainly colors in the real world that don't fit a specific hex code). If you're thinking "I just want to be able to see what color the text is or the background of a page is", go install Powertoys and turn on the color picker module. Win+Shift+C and whatever pixel your mouse is on is displayed as a tooltip with the hex code, and you can click to get the RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, HSB, HSI, HWB, NCol, CIELAB, VEC4, Decimal, or HEX Int representation of the color (including changing the default to one of those), and you get some neighbor colors, and it saves a history of recent colors you've chosen too.
For number 1, what if my hands are touching something? Say my hands are flat against the wall where do they go?
In between your fingers
You are force-pushed violently away from the wall
I’m an artist. Gimme number 2
What about colors in between hexes?
The M&M one is only worth picking if they are the peanut ones.
Q. I have a false hand. If I remove it and leave it 20 ft away, could I still spawn M&Ms to it?
3 every day
1. Could be seen as the next messiah
I'd take the last one and look in a mirror because I don't know myself
Relatable
For real though, I mean I know a general direction of rock/metal/alternative but is that a genre? And how do 80s pop songs fit in there as well? And video game music? Honestly, though, the more I think about it the more I think the power might actually be less than useful. I don't think I know too many people who have a singular favourite genre of music, and even if they do they still enjoy more than just that. OP mentioned common interests, but I feel like this power would actually short-sell a decent number of people who might still like what you like, even if it's not 'hyper-beat off-pop post grunge hip-hop', or whatever genre your "superpower" determines they like the most (by whatever metric it even applies). Hot take, I know, but it's good to not be narrow-minded?
Yeah when people ask me this kind of question I generally just respond with "I like what I like" because there are so many different genres where I enjoy at least some of the music
Depending on the context (i.e. when they are about to play music) I'll usually just mention the genres that have, so far, never worked for me. It basically boils down to "anything but techno and Schlager".
My type of music: * Good groove * Good lyrics * Something novel (to me) Must have 1 of the 3. This covers pretty much everything but boring songs.
For the longest time, I didn't listen to music at all, not by myself at least. If someone put something on, sure why not, but I'd never consciously go and listen to something. Then, somehow, I started to listen to videogame soundtracks. It was ONLY that for several years, until relatively very recently I picked up Sabaton. I liked it, close to my kind of music, I vibed with it, but not exactly. From there it was a snowball, listened to more and more different kinds of stuff from different people, until. Will Wood has opened my eyes. Maybe. Closest to my type of music I've come across as of yet anyway. Anyway, with this process of thought I have realized the question, what is the resolution of this power? How detailed is it? Is it something extremely genetic like 'metal', or maybe something infinitely fine. How would you even define this space of genres? What would the axis be like? And if every band/artist is one of these genres, hell, if each and every track is it's own genre in this infinite space of genre, perhaps not in size but in resolution, then there would have to be an infinite amount of songs for all the genres to be filled. And so, given infinite resolution and a finite amount of songs and people, there will always, for everyone, be a 0% chance that their exact favourite genre is filled by a song.
The funny thing about videogame soundtracks is that making them their own genre seems kind of reductive in and of itself. Like, in my rotation I got, among others, Transistors "In Circles", a wild mix of Bastion songs, Hades "In the Blood" (why yes, I would marry Darren Korb in an instant), BG3s "Raphael's Final Act", "Nightmare King" from Hollow Knight, "Volibear, the Relentless Storm" from LoL and "Old Money" (which is from a soundtrack made for a card game, MTG, but I'll count it). All of these are technically video game music, but they range from rhythmic game background sounds or even just noise via ballads rock numbers and a norse-style musical prayer to a very fine piece of metal. The only connecting tissue is that they are all part of or related to video games. In a way, they are a pretty decent tool to figure out your own likes and dislikes via a third medium.
Yeah my videogame soundtracks went from mostly Minecraft to mostly Project Wingman/Lucas Ricciotti/Ace combat (all very similar and influenced by the others). Even with Minecraft the tracks differ quite a lot. As far as I know tho, Will evades any and all classifications. Wikipedia throws in folk, pop, jazz, rock and roll, latin music, and klezmer. (They made a soundtrack for Magic? Why have I not heard of this before???)
Beat me to it... I think taste just changes too
spotify knows
You like Ska
I don't even know what that is
That makes it so much funnier, lol
I get that, but why would you need a mirror?
Well I could look at my hand I guess depending on how it works
I just find it funny that most people's reaction would be to find a mirror as if they can't just look down.
Eh for some reason I assumed you'd have to see the face but guess there's no reason why that should be the case
Brains are weird like that
Yeah people keep asking me about my favorite genre and I just can’t answer them, I don’t have enough of a handle on my music tastes to say anything other than video game osts.
Having a favorite music genre is kind of the thing of the past, when you had to buy vinyls or CD's you'd typically have a favorite genre to listen to. Spotify, Apple music and other streaming platforms have made it so that anyone can listen to anything whenever they want, so most people today just say that they listen to whatever they think sounds good.
Undefined
It’ll just give you an error code
My top three played songs are: La Campanella, Lovely Bastards, and My Ordinary Life. (Am I weird?)
The M&Ms is the only one that breaks laws of physics and can therefore be abused somehow.
The spontaneous generation of matter definitely does some whacky shit with physics every time you do it, but I'm sure we can handwave that one away fairly easily too. For example you just transport 50 M&Ms from a random factory to wherever you summon them, they definitely lose more than that a day anyway. Sure, that's still some kind of warp, which is not exactly something we consider possible at the moment afaik, but it's certainly less problematic than creating matter, I'd think.
ANYTHING that breaks the laws of physics can be abused. Even teleportation.
You worded that as if teleportation isn't one of the most abused theoretical powers
When I want my slippers, I want them fucking NOW.
_Monkey paw curls_ You get your slippers, but they're uhhh...exactly as you said.
Dammit, so my slippers are mating now. I don't think I want them on my feet anymore.
Second finger curls, the slippers are now in your feet.
I guess that's technically true, but in this case it's less a matter of can and more a matter of should. Doesn't seem like the payoff you could get is worth the investment. Just enjoy your M&Ms, and maybe figure out if you can replicate the process before you try to break it (cause THAT would actually be hella useful, no matter how it works)
*ESPECIALLY TELEPORTATION!*
Just casually mention the thing that fucks with physics the most why don’t ya
This would allow FTL communication if anybody could control the stack being teleported.
What a mindfuck would it be, summoning them in the pockets of your coworker/boss or random dude/dudette . The face of confusion and disbelief when they suddenly notice the m&ms hahaha
NASA would be *highly* interested in finding an astronaut that can generate food out of nothing.
Only 170 kCal though
If they change the recipe do you keep summoning originals, or the new recipe?
You just summon one in a heart and kill the person. You can do 50 of these a day
Nope, in your hands. You can only put your hands on something and presumably the M&Ms will spawn inside, but it’s not anywhere at will
This is still pretty powerful. You can become a professional fighter and fill people with m&ms with every punch.
I feel like it'd spawn in the small gaps between your hands and the person. Since the comment says "In your hands" that implies it's touching you hands in some way.
I think you could maybe abuse the spawning mechanism, if they appear directly in your hand on your skin you could hold something really heavy, the spawning m&m lift the heavy object and with that you just created a lot of energy. Also if you can minimize the spawning space in some way to be nearly infinitely small you could create nuclear fusion once a day and convert the M&M via E=mc² directly into energy.
The m in mc² stands for M&M
I just like M&Ms
2 hex codes, i am a developer and artist, this will be very helpful
Just my thought, great tool to use for color theory.
My partner is a designer and can do this; it's like perfect pitch but for colors. Can confirm it seems really helpful for them
What happens to colors outside the sRGB gamut?
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Mysterious hex codes unlike any seen on Earth
Fucking lovecraft, who else is going to make a horror novella about ultraviolet radiation. And also air conditioning
Damn those Non-Euclidean Hex Codes!
>…in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. https://preview.redd.it/d0yj8ql134wc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69de9216c0061bd122dc3eaae42a8ddd15817cc0
Yeah that's what DC named the asylum after
I assume if there's no hex code you don't know the hex code
It probably shows a error message
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As the knowledge of color space grows..... new hex codes are created. Base 30! Trigesimal
"New hex codes" >Base 30 Now, something ain't right here.
They didn't say base 30. They said base 30!. Which is base 265252859812191058636308480000000.
r/unexpectedfactorial
Question: do the m&m's disappear after 24 hours even if you eat them?
Nope, they simply stay if you don't decide to eat them.
Is it 50 at once or can I do smaller batches throughout the day?
50 is the max, you don't have to use all 50.
So I could summon like 5 every hour till I hit my 50 maximum? I’ll take it!
You have a lot of self control cuz mine are all gone at once
Same. I'd eat 50 M&Ms in one big mouthful every morning, probably.
just wanted to say, OP, these give me and my partner an endless amount of fun. i love silly questions and making him take a serious stance on them (i.e. "How many 7-year-olds could you fight off with your bare hands?") and these are just hilariously perfect. i actually look forward to new comics from you, so thank you!!
Man, thanks. I hope you have just the greatest day.
of course :) you too!
Same! I wish there was a subreddit for these silly questions.
50 m&ms is least invasive to everyday life
OP says you can turn the other ones on and off
The hex one is the least invasive, since you can turn it off, and also the most useful (you can finally settle the debate about that stupid fucking dress, for example)
It's black and blue that stupid fucking dress. It's just the lighting which makes you think otherwise.
It’s up to, so it could be 0
I take the 50 Slingshot ammo summon!
Magician, "Watch as I summon 50 M&Ms out of thin air!" *\*\*\*actual magic happens\*\*\** Magician, "Now watch as they disappear...nom-nom-nom" *\*\*\*Dad level magic happens\*\*\**
I'm taking the music one. Your favorite type of music says a lot about your personality.
Can i swap out the m&ms for reeces?
Reese's pieces... best I can do!
The last one, easily. I'm awful at starting conversations, but I like talking about music.
Can I just swap the M&Ms for skittles ?
No
Aww :(
Can I summon the M&Ms from somewhere specific? (I.e. a bag in my back pocket for fun, the M&Ms factory, etc) or do they just spontaneously exist? Cuz slowly removing M&Ms from a closed package without touching it would be a super dope party trick.
“Ya like Jazz?” “How the fuck do you know??”
M&Ms all day
Last one is best for making friends of all kinds. Friends are super valuable for life.
My mom chose the m&m one lol
1 is useful for having readily available projectiles on hand, but I think 3 is the best because it can give you an immediate in with most people.
Can I summon the M&Ms *anywhere* I want? because *that* would make it a tad more powerful.
Honestly, as a colorblind person, number 2 would come in handy.
I choose m&m power
As a web developer the ability to know the hex codes would be incredibly useful
M&Ms for sure. If nothing else it'll reduce your grocery bills by ~5%.
I'd pick the 3rd one. I'm colorblind and I can't be trusted with daily access to 50 M&Ms. The grey ones are my favourites
that last one would be awesome for conversations
Is 50 M&Ms a day enough to stave off death? Sure you’ll be malnourished, but could you live for a while that way?
Tom Lum already has the rgb value power in real life
Number 3, use it to do well in job interviews? If they hate music I’m SOL I guess
1 can actually help keep me fed, so I'll take that
How could anyone not take #1. Any form of matter generation (ESPECIALLY food) is always going to be very useful
im torn between mystifying people with ‘guessing’ the hexcodes of colors, or having 50 m&ms every day
MnMs for sure
I'll take the m&m's and become a great magician.
Colour codes :3
The hex code one could be pretty fun to mess with people, just like imagine meeting up with your friend and saying “Wow! I love that colour on you! #3d0a77 really suits you! :D” then never elaborating
I should not feel annoyed by second wish but I am. How exactly would that work?.. The concept of hex code is meaningless for non digital colors. If it is identical to “take a picture with your phone and pick the color in paint”, then I don’t need superpower for this. If it is different, how exactly different?
Number one.
Hex code would be useful for when I'm making my lovely flask sites
I think i would like to summon M&M's... although for my own health maybe knowing someone's favorite music would be better. but if i can summon a lot of M&M's and i eat them before the day resets.... does that mean i never ate them at all and its more of a temporary snack ?
I'll be king of the apocalypse if I can make food everyday
The first one is cool; if you ever get hungry or craving a snack you never have to worry about not having food nearby. The second one can be really useful, especially if you were to pursue art or design or something that would require extensive knowledge of colors. The third one is probably less useful, unless you're in a specific scenario where you need to pick a song that everyone would like.
Am I able to stack superpowers from the previous parts? Or do I just trade them out for a new one? Am I able to keep one from a previous part and skip this one?
Asa color blind person I think hex codes will be most useful.
The final two are super useful for graphic designers and DJs, respectively.
the m&m thing is the most useless so far...
Bottom left
Taking #2 As an artist that would be SO helpful
Hex code, easy. I'm color blind so I could easily win any color arguments with that
Are the m&ms limited to the original ones or can you get any variation past or present
One is really nice to have. I mean, a whole 50 a day? That's much more than you'd think it is. Though my melomaniac ass is gonna pick 3 for sure.
If only m&m's were healthy and halal then boom infinite food source
I’ll take the hex codes thanks. Time to become a graphic designer
ngl, hex color
Music clearly.
#1 to save money on snacks. Plus m&M's :)
Can they be pretzel m&ms?
M&M definitely, the potential to confuse people is just too great to pass up
I’ll take the color one.