Depends on the monkey’s paw.
Total calorie immunity could be read as not being able to process any calories, including the ones you need to live.
(I’m assuming the body would eat through reserve fat and then begin to break down its own muscles, even as the person gorges on food vs, like, almost insta-death if the body couldn’t even rely on its own stores.)
Hm, good health, probably. Maybe not perfect health, though. In the long run, old age and disease aren't a matter of luck, but of certainty. If that health doesn't have an expiration date, though, it's basically soft immortality ... or maybe even hard immortality if you strain the concept hard enough.
And portals? I don't know quite how 'ultimate' this luck is, but you'd have to be extremely lucky for portals to just randomly appear when you want them. Maybe if random portals were a normal part of our everyday lives, then luck could cause you to always find just the portal you wanted. But I don't know if there's any amount of luck in the world that could cause magical portals to just appear out of nowhere. To me, being lucky means you'll always get the best possible outcome when things are left to chance ... but that doesn't cover outcomes that are impossible.
Almost any of these could be replicated with 'ultimate luck' if you stretch the idea enough.
Flawless memory? Just guess -- you're lucky enough to be right every time, so you don't need to remember things.
Animal communication? -- Guess what the animal is saying, and you'll be lucky enough to guess right. Ask them to do something, and you'll be lucky enough that they randomly do it.
Weather control? -- Why control it when you can just always have perfect luck with the weather and don't even need to think about it?
Wardrobe? -- Sure would be lucky if you just randomly found the perfect clothes whenever you needed them.
Fine dining? -- Just wander around when you're hungry, and I'm sure you'll be lucky enough to just randomly come across opportunities for wonderful free meals.
Calorie immunity? -- Maybe you're lucky enough to have great genetics and a high metabolism, so you never need to worry about it.
Honestly portals are the least likely on this whole list to be covered by the luck aura.-
I think ultimate luck could manifest in a lot of interesting ways.
Think about the various scenarios in which you would want a portal. With ultimate luck the universe basically default to presenting itself to you on a platter.
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DmMacniel@feddit.org · 18 pts · 1d
The power to erase ai slop from existence.
glibg10b@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 1d
Slop
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
If you get perfect health you don’t need calorie immunity
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
If the luck aura is truly ultimate, your health will be perfect thanks to quantum tunneling always assuring you're in your best physical state
Monument@piefed.world · 3 pts · 1d
Depends on the monkey’s paw.
Total calorie immunity could be read as not being able to process any calories, including the ones you need to live.
(I’m assuming the body would eat through reserve fat and then begin to break down its own muscles, even as the person gorges on food vs, like, almost insta-death if the body couldn’t even rely on its own stores.)
halfapage@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
AdaleiM@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
perfect health, portals, animal talking. I can deal with the rest.
onipa@feddit.org · 6 pts · 2d
First row for show ⚛️🚪🍀
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
I want a filter that blocks any slop content from reaching my eyes
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2d
Aren't the first and last one mutually exclusive? And with the ultimate luck aura, the weather should already always be my favourite?
Here are really good picks and totally worthless ones. So I'd go with luck, health and animal talk.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 2d
Three? You're too kind.
All I really need is ultimate luck, but I'll take perfect health and portals too, if you're offering.
Town@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
Wouldn't ultimate luck give you the other two on its own?
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1d
Hm, good health, probably. Maybe not perfect health, though. In the long run, old age and disease aren't a matter of luck, but of certainty. If that health doesn't have an expiration date, though, it's basically soft immortality ... or maybe even hard immortality if you strain the concept hard enough.
And portals? I don't know quite how 'ultimate' this luck is, but you'd have to be extremely lucky for portals to just randomly appear when you want them. Maybe if random portals were a normal part of our everyday lives, then luck could cause you to always find just the portal you wanted. But I don't know if there's any amount of luck in the world that could cause magical portals to just appear out of nowhere. To me, being lucky means you'll always get the best possible outcome when things are left to chance ... but that doesn't cover outcomes that are impossible.
Almost any of these could be replicated with 'ultimate luck' if you stretch the idea enough.
Flawless memory? Just guess -- you're lucky enough to be right every time, so you don't need to remember things.
Animal communication? -- Guess what the animal is saying, and you'll be lucky enough to guess right. Ask them to do something, and you'll be lucky enough that they randomly do it.
Weather control? -- Why control it when you can just always have perfect luck with the weather and don't even need to think about it?
Wardrobe? -- Sure would be lucky if you just randomly found the perfect clothes whenever you needed them.
Fine dining? -- Just wander around when you're hungry, and I'm sure you'll be lucky enough to just randomly come across opportunities for wonderful free meals.
Calorie immunity? -- Maybe you're lucky enough to have great genetics and a high metabolism, so you never need to worry about it.
Honestly portals are the least likely on this whole list to be covered by the luck aura.-
Town@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
I think ultimate luck could manifest in a lot of interesting ways.
Think about the various scenarios in which you would want a portal. With ultimate luck the universe basically default to presenting itself to you on a platter.
reader@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d
I don't have any of these
_ffiresticks_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Style, health/energy, portals
Nomad@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 1d
Perfect health and energy sounds about perfect right now. Perfect memory and portals would be my choice. I can make my own luck.
JackTea@piefed.world · 1 pts · 2d
Wardrobe, weather, and what was the other one?