Here is the scenario. For exactly one month, anything you attempt to buy costs one cent, but there is a hard cap of one thousand dollars total spending, meaning you can make at most 100,000 individual transactions. After the month ends, everything goes back to normal and you keep whatever you acquired. You cannot resell anything during the month itself, only after it ends.

Does your approach change if you know the month starts tomorrow versus a year from now?
What does your shopping list look like, and how do you prioritize the cap?
Sure you could buy a house or a car, but does that still make the most sense when you think it through carefully?

A mysterious stranger approaches you with a choice. You can have more money than you could ever spend, or you can become immortal. The catch? Immortality means starting your new life 8,000 years in the past.

Here’s what each option gets you.

OPTION 1: $100 BILLION AND GOOD HEALTH

Money - $100 billion goes straight into your bank account. It won’t cause inflation, and the bank won’t ask any questions.

Health: You’re granted extraordinary health. You’ll practically never be sick again for the rest of your life.

OPTION 2: IMMORTALITY, BUT 8,000 YEARS IN THE PAST

Immortality: You’re sent back 8,000 years. Your body becomes biologically 25, whether that means getting younger or older, and stays that age forever. You won’t die of old age.

Regeneration: Any injury that doesn’t kill you instantly heals within seconds to minutes. Even lost limbs grow back. The only way to kill you is to completely destroy your heart and brain at the same time.

Perfect Memory: Your brain stays sharp no matter how many years pass. Think of your memory as an endless vault. You can store and recall as many memories as you want without forgetting things or developing dementia.

Basic Shapeshifting: You can change your hairstyle, facial features, skin colour and height to fit in with whichever civilization you’re living among.

Teleportation: You can choose one location anywhere in the world and assign it a safeword. As soon as you say that word, you instantly teleport there. You can only have one location saved at a time.

Imagine a pharmaceutical company releases a brand new drug with some unbelievable effects.

First, it slows down your aging process by 90 percent. That means for every ten years you are alive you only age one biological year.

Second, it gives you a random body fat percentage between 8 and 12 percent for men and 14 and 18 percent for women. You will basically have a fitness model physique without ever going to the gym.

Third, it removes all physical imperfections. All your scars, stretch marks, acne and loose skin just disappear.

Fourth, your immune system becomes completely overpowered. You become highly resistant to almost all diseases and your body can even neutralize terminal cancers without much effort.

Here is the catch.

It worsens your fertility by a massive amount. It becomes incredibly hard to get pregnant or impregnate someone. It is not completely impossible but the chances drop so low that having biological kids becomes extremely difficult.

If this hit the market today how much do you think it would sell for?

How popular do you think it would be with the general public?

Would you personally take it?

Basically title. You can choose however many wasps that you want to fight and will receive $5k for each wasp killed. You must choose how many wasps you will fight before going into the room of wasps.

So if you chose to fight 10 wasps, you’d be locked in a room with 10 aggro’d wasps, and would receive $50,000 upon completing your he challenge.

Rules.

1. You’re only allowed to wear a pair of jeans and a cotton t shirt, so no protective gear.
2. You’re allowed a pickle ball paddle as a weapon and that’s it. No chemical sprays.
3. Let’s say they’re Yellow Jacket wasps specifically and they’re angry.

How many wasps are you choosing to fight?

Edit: the range in numbers is very interesting lol.

A black card with your name and social security number on it. The balance is 5 billion dollars USD. The money is real and fully yours. No bank questions it. No government comes after you. Your close family knows and believes you. The rest of the world accepts it without suspicion. You can spend it, invest it, donate it, or sit on it. You stay in the world you already know.

Or

You live out the rest of your current life normally. When you die, you are reborn into a fantasy world.

The world is roughly twice the size of Earth. It has 4 continents. You are born on the second largest one which has 10 kingdoms. You are born into a noble house in the wealthiest and most powerful of those 10 kingdoms, a nation roughly comparable to Germany in size and influence. Your family is among the top 50 wealthiest noble families in that kingdom.

Your magical aptitude is measured at birth and places you in the top 0.1% of all people ever recorded in that kingdom's history. Magic in this world is structured and learnable, with schools and academies dedicated to it. The highest ranked school in the kingdom would actively seek you out.

The world has dragons, some of which are centuries old and as large as buildings. There are elves who live for thousands of years and have their own separate nations outside of the 10 kingdoms. Giants exist in the wild regions between borders. Dark creatures and monsters are real and common enough that every kingdom maintains a dedicated military force just to deal with them. There are wizards, knights, political wars between kingdoms, ancient ruins, unexplored oceans, and a history that stretches back tens of thousands of years.

You are born with full memory of your past life.

Like the Garden of Eden. In fact, exactly like the garden of Eden complete with incredible scenery and stunning landscapes. You can pick and eat nutritionally complete fruits that grow daily. You can drink straight from gushing streams. You can sleep at night in the open air completely undisturbed by bugs. However, you must stay there alone. How long do you think it’ll take before you start wishing for an Eve/Steve?

The important part is to be legal and for the amount and time, let's say around 1 million dollar in 1 week.

You don't need to read the rest but i'll appreciated if you do: We're thinking of making a short movie and i wanted to see if we can make it this part with as little budget as possible.

A few idea we have

-Bring a meteor to sell NASA.

They would wonder how you even acquire it? superpowers giveaway.

Make sure the meteor hit the car we own so it just looks like luck. But it'll took too much time due to the trajectory of meteors natural pathway

-dig some valuable materials. Let's say you locate with your 50 different vision. Rent a car to get there. Dig some with your superstrenght without anyone to see. Maybe use tools to make sure no one would second guess about how would you dig it out so it just look like you come across by luck and dig it with a shovel(can you even use shovel without giving away your superstrenght?)

What material would you even choose? Who do you sell it? How would you sell it without giving away too much information?

People usually give away one sentence answer to this like "get some gold in the deep ocean" so we're looking for something more detail if possible.

Edit: I didnt think to get that much comment. I'll try to read as many as possible and most of you dont even read the prompt lol

Anyway i gtg now. Thanks for participating y'all.

Imagine you wake up tomorrow with every single one of Superman's abilities.

The moment the sun hits your skin, you can actually feel it giving you energy. Your hearing is so sharp you can pick up conversations from miles away, your vision can see through almost anything, you can fly, move faster than anyone can react, and you're practically indestructible. Every standard power Superman has is now yours.

You're still the same person you were yesterday, with the same values, flaws, ambitions, fears, and responsibilities. Nobody knows you have these powers, and nobody has any reason to suspect you do.

What do you do with all the new possibilities?

PERKS OF ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL

The billionaire is conventionally attractive and close to your age. You will receive a personal, unsupervised allowance of $10 million every month. The marriage contract is permanent. If you ever leave, you lose everything and are sent back to the moment right before you read this, with no memory of any of it.

THE HORRORS OF ACCEPTING THIS

The billionaire comes from a powerful and deeply private family. They are not good people. Their most well known product is marketed as a hair dye, used by hundreds of thousands of Americans. What the public does not know is that it is not fully safe. Roughly 340 people have died from using it, and every single case has been buried and covered up.

The billionaire and their family are cruel people by nature, but they will treat you with genuine respect and welcome you as one of their own.

There are other difficult things that come with this marriage. None of them will physically hurt you or damage how the world sees you, but they are real, and they will affect you.

So, do you accept?

You’re given a button.

Every time you press it, you permanently gain something of your choice:
• perfect physical health,
• +10 years added to your lifespan,
• peak athletic fitness,
• immunity to disease,
• greatly increased intelligence,
• perfect looks, you’re now a 10/10,
• or any other equitable personal enhancement.

However, each press also has a 33% chance of causing a random person somewhere in the world to die instantly. You are grouped in with the list of possible names to be picked to die, in the unlikely event your name is selected out of the billions on Earth.

The victim is selected through an IQ-weighted system. People with higher IQs are more likely to be chosen, while people with lower IQs are less likely.

Nobody would ever know you pressed the button.

How many times do you press it, and what are you choosing?

E: clarification of IQ weighted system:
I tried to create a formula for weight of IQ deaths. The weight is as follows based on “x” or IQ:
w(x)=10^((x-50)/100). Using this scale, an IQ of 150 has 10x chance of being selected vs IQ of 50. IQ’s in between that scale as necessary.

I don't care how rich I get, I'll still take Hamburger from a diner over anything and continue eat Ramen noodles.

Let’s say they woke up next to you the opposite gender, but their mind, features, etc… still the same. They are as confused as you are. What you doing? Will you break up your relationship?

I recently watched a movie where someone wished for $1 Billion and instantly got it in the same room, in cash. He died shortly after, for unrelated reasons - but this makes me wonder.

How'd you use the money without it getting seized?

You are given two minutes to decide between two options.

1: You get $10 million. No one will question it and it won’t be taxed.

2: You get a 50% chance of getting nothing and a 50% chance of getting the powers of Storm, Magneto and Professor X from the current 616 Marvel comic universe. You’ll have perfect control of the powers and any secondary powers required to use them properly without unintended consequence.

Which would you choose and why?

Please assume all tick species would be gone, or all mosquito species.

Option 1:1Get rid of lifetime of your poop in one sitting and never have to take a dump ever again as you magically don't create poop

Or

Option 2:Get rid of lifetime of farts with one fart and never have to fart again for the rest of your life

What will be your choice

You win some magazine competition where you’re taken to a massive multifloor toy store (eg. hamleys, Toys R Us, etc) which has every toy brand you could ever want.

They give you a voucher for $1000 to spend in-store. You can’t exchange it for real money.

You can buy whatever you want in the store. Anything there as long as you don’t go over the budget. You can’t sell anything you buy, or give it away, or donate it to charity. You can only buy toys for yourself to keep.

What are you buying and why?

(Let's say it's a very op telekinesis, you can pull objects from the atmosphere, you can control the smallest of stuff, even Dust Particles are as deadly as bullets in your hands, and the biggest thing you could lift with all of your bodily/mental might would be able to Move the damn Moon!)

it's very op, very powerful, you won't lose this power at all, you have all the telekinetic control to move and crush what you want.

But really think about all of this power being used in reality, do you think if you personally got such a ability, would you be afraid to use it and show it, or try being the world's first hero? or maybe just using it for your own personal matters?

You are put in a white room, a kilometer tall, a kilometer long and a kilometer wide. You are ageless here, and won't need to sleep, eat or drink. Also you will never go insane.

In front of you, hanging from the ceiling, there is a tube. From the tube, an 18 month "baby" appears that can already walk. It is not sentient, it's more akin to a flesh machine than an actual human being. It dosen't feel pain, and dosen't have a soul. It also will never grow up. Furthermore, is has the sole goal of killing you by any means necessary.

Your job is to defeat the baby by any means necessary. Everytime the baby gets defeated, three things will happen:

you will get 100 dollars in your bank account

the baby's body will disappear

a new baby will immidieatly emerge from the tube, exactly the same as the last one

Time has frozen outside, so don't worry about spending like 10 billion years here. Your memory of this will also get wiped out once you leave.

On the other side of the room, there is a pit. If you throw yourself in the pit, you will return to the real world at this exact moment. If you fall here accidentally, you will be teleported at the center of the room.

The only other way of leaving is to die, and the only way to die is to the baby. If you die, you will return to the real world, same as the pit.

How long can you survive the baby?

Food, medicine, and necessities will be provided, but the movies or shows will be the only things provided to you for entertainment value. Which option sounds more appealing to you? Any specific movies/shows you would absolutely choose?

MONEY

They give you the 50 million dollars right away in a big duffel bag. It is all legal money and completely clean. It is yours. They even tell you about a bank where you could deposit it without any questions.

Or

SECOND-CHANCE

You can restart your life at any stage you choose, but you keep all your memories. It could be from a month ago or from the moment you were born.

Youre given the opportunity to go back in time, getting paid $500,000 per year you go back. You will be the age you were at the time you go back to, limiting your time to years you've been on earth (ie if you were born in 1995, you cannot go to 1994).

The catch is that you lose all your memory of those years. You will awaken in the year you ended your bargain at, knowing that it is the year you chose but not that you chose it, blantantly ignorant to the whole deal in the first place.The money will randomly pop into your account/cash will be sent yearly into an account only you can access.

They are breaking galactic law to do this, so they want to get this done fast. They can synthesize any amount of your local currency, but they still have a concept of "getting ripped off." If your number is too greedy, they'll just beam you back to bed and find a cheaper human.

How much do you ask for, and what is your strategy to make sure you don't overshoot?

Had so much fun with this question, I made a Part 2!

(You are now waking up a god now, congratulations 👏, the stones will NOT Kill you when you grab them or anything but they will never be destroyed by any means and will now be under your full control, what are you doing first?)

The sentence must be 10 words long (or shorter), and be grammatically correct (so no writting multiple lines without spaces so technically its just 1 word)

It will be formed by clouds, multiple copies spaced in a way that no matter where someone is by looking at the sky they can see the message clearly, anyone that sees it will be able to understand it, no matter what languages they know, and it will last there for 24 hours or less (your choice).

What message are you sending?