The last thing they said. I’ll never have to say “What?” 4 times in a row again.
You win. The amount of times I’ve wished the real world had subtitles…
With the vague rules, I think you can have that bypass language barriers.
That’s closed captioning
Huh? Does this come with all people? How do you set it?
You need one of those smart glasses, if you can avoid getting punched for wearing them
Shit, is this really a feature, because that would actually be super convenient.
Hell, just put their name, that would be a big help for me.
Ok, I change my answer.
First name.
“Hey Janine, can you move your cart out of the way, thanks, gonna get by here and go get some ice cream sandwiches.”
“Excuse me, Ravi, trying to get off the train, one moment, thanks.”
“Oh hey, you’re a Tanis too, just like me, neat!”
This will absolutely weird everyone out.
Tanis is a nice name.
My mom gave it to me!
(And then I kept it when I transitioned, and now she says it’s too feminine and she wishes she didn’t. No backsies, mom! It’s mine and I’ll never be your son.)
How thoughtful of your mom to give the little boy version of you a feminine name. She did you a solid without even realizing it lol
Oh of course I’ll play your game Rumplest… random stranger.
Fucks left to give.
Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they’re capable of bearing today.
This would serve two purposes. One. It’d allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it’d give me real time feedback on shit I might’ve doing that’s causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.
Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I’m in the middle of some self-care after I’ve spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I’m absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.
Counter: now everyone else knows exactly how many fucks/spoons you have left, and many will feel entitled to them because it’s more than zero.
I did think the question implied this as a superpower you only have and it’s for one metric only. However, I am curious as to what governs the metric of how many “spoons” someone has left. It’s not like when I’m getting down to the wire I’m thinking “well I’ve got about 2 fucks left in me to give”.
I realized later I misunderstood the scope of the prompt, yeah.
As far as spoon count, like so many of the other responses in this thread it would require quantization of something not so easily expressed as a simple value, and things to have to give spoons about arent really equal in value/cost. That said, I think I could generally characterize my “spoon costs” as small, medium, and large, and when I’m down to maybe 2 medium spoons I can feel that amount.
Asshole ratio: 0 % = best person in the world.
100 % = worst person in the world.Computed as an average of bad “actions” with respect to all actions.
Good and bad evaluated with respect to proven positive impact on people’s lifes and the planet.
A new science emerges to quantify the effects various actions have on a person’s score. Cottage industries take root to help people lower their scores with lowest possible effort. You will meet people who truly are assholes, but offset their asshole footprint enough that you don’t know to be wary around them.
Basically greenwashing.
Offsetting the asshole footprint to deceive people is considered a bad action.
OK, well, what if they don’t think of their good deeds as meant to deceive? So, they murder ten people, and they also happen to do 12 murders-worth of offset. You still have no idea you’re dealing with someone capable of great villainy.
None. Someday, some company will build and sell a tool that actually does that, and it will be hella privacy invasive. Actually, it’ll probably just be another invasive feature added to the Ray Ban perv glasses.
They have this already. We’re just not privy to what they gather from the masses.
another thing: I think most people answering here aren’t thinking about how it would feel to have the statistic they’re choosing over their own heads.
Realtime running count of lies told
Similar to the other reply, it’s a good idea and seemingly pragmatic, but we could spend a decade arguing over the pedantry of what qualifies as a lie and still not be done.
Truth is tricky
Number of times they molested kids.
Monkey paw’s finger curls: You can see them. They’re EVERYWHERE. People you thought you knew and loved have numbers greater than zero over their head. Despite your horror, you try to make use of the power to try to bring them to justice. No one believes you. You have the Cassandra’s curse of the status quo. ‘Steve? What are you talking about? He’d never do anything like that. Butter wouldn’t melt. You should probably shut your mouth before we get offended about what you said about our friend and kick the shit out of you. Know what I mean?’ You watch the news and see everyone who has a position of power over you and your loved ones has a non-zero number. You try to escape into fictional media but your favorite actors are non-zeroes, the author pictures in your favorite books show non-zeroes, the album sleeves of your favorite bands show non-zeroes.
Knowledge can be a burden.
Justice can be brought without anyone believing a thing you say.
Ehh. Serial killers tend to only get so far.
Meh, take as many as you can out before you go down. I don’t see the issue here.
I heard in america, that FBI says there are few serial killers around that never get caught. They probably have a system or lack thereof.
Some media sources have cited estimates suggesting there may be 25 to 50 active serial killers in the United States at a given time, though the FBI has stated that the true number cannot be quantified.
Given that most solved murders are cases where the victim knew the killer, go out and kill random people with non zero values. Spread it around.
You may eventually get caught. How many is enough to say it was worth it?
Then as you live in horror and disgust, you see people’s numbers rise day after day, unable to prove to others their horrendous crimes.
And then you befriend a stranger on the internet. You are nervous at first but you can’t see them, so you can imagine their number is zero. You hit it off. They’re amazing. Funny. Sweet. Kind. Hardworking. The relationship turns into a distant romance. Then you finally meet. You had no idea the number could go that high.
Or x2
You meet up for the first time in real life, and they do not have a number. How could this be? EVERYONE has a number, thank the gods they’re almost always zero! You’re immediately suspicious of their intentions and past actions. They’re not acting anything like they did online… they’re actually acting really fuckin weird, which greatly discomforts you.
You grapple with this internal conundrum, but you had failed to notice something crucial: The instant you saw each other, their eyes so briefly darted up, looking above your head.
Number of days since they finished reading a book.
Or! Last 5 books they read.
Very telling when you see an adult and the last books they read were all from high school.
What if they have kids they read to and its all books like the hungry caterpillar
Number of cumulative years they would be imprisoned for, had they been caught and convicted of every single crime they ever committed.
I’m betting most adults are not at zero.
This wouldn’t impart any useful information in a world where rapist pedophiles get time served and protesters get a life sentence for being adjacent to another crime handing out zines.
Number or hours spent playing dwarf fortress or rimworld
Easier to find my people: weird nerds
Dwarf Fortress: 0
Rimworld: … too much. 2k+. I need better hobbies. :D
I currently have a colony with 6 infertile cat people (3 couples with psychic bonds) who hate other people so much they refuse to recruit anyone, so they all became mechanitors. Randy is an asshole this time, though.
moralistic integrity in comparison to social norms.
it’s basically a good vs evil bar.
Who’s morality are we using as the yardstick?
society in general, this way it’s dynamic.
Which society? Danish? USA? It could be very different depending on context.
all the others seem a lot more invasive, so I’ll go with their pronouns/gender so I never have to ask and be awkward
