What about the Mug of Perfect Coffee?
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Gun of Wrath. Shoot the demon. Take everything.
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I see neither wisdom nor judgement on the list…
Worse, it doesn’t specify that you have any control over who is obsessed with you: it’s everyone who sees you.
Worst: if you’re gay it’s just a straight up curse.
See what I did there? I see it.
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That reminds me of a 80’s Reboot Twilight Zone with Sherman Hensley and Ron Glass. Hensley is a scientist working on a formula on a blackboard. He’s stumped and said he would sell his soul for a solution. In walks in Devil, Ron Glass. The most fun part is the Devil’s t-shirt keeps changing funny slogans with each cutaway:
“Hell is a summer festival”
“Over 2,000,000,000” served"
“Hell is better than Detroit”…
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Yes, the Watch of Sloth has several unanswered questions, which I guessed would be:
- It stops for you personally and you can navigate and take actions during that time.
- You don’t age during that hour.
- At the end of the hour, you revert to exactly where you were an hour ago, but the actions you take during that hour are permanent.
- You can use it in less-than-an-hour increments, and the recharge time is based on the usage time. In other words, a 1 minute use will require only 2 minutes recharge.
If all of these are true, then creatively using the watch can accomplish everything that the others can do (except for the flask and the ring). However, if any of these are not the case, the value of the watch diminishes considerably, to the point where the flask would be my first choice and either the ring or the gun would be my second.
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Why not take the gun and then hunt down the people with the other objects and kill them and take their objects. Think big!
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Yeah, it’s difficult to use this device ethically, and without personal risk, in modern times. If it were medieval times, you could just be the royal executioner (although then theyd pester you for having your futuristic weapon).
It’s got plenty of uses. For one, wouldn’t it presumably allow you to be a perfect prosecutor (or defense attorney)? As a prosecutor, you’d always know you were trying the guilty person (and, knowing the accused person’s mind, you’d be able to gather evidence for the trial). As a defense attorney, you’d know your client was innocent, and when putting witnesses up, you’d be able to determine who is lying/not lying/actually committed the crime.
That assumes a person’s deepest darkest secret has any relation to the crime they may or may not have committed.
Some dude is on trial and you see that he wants to bang his mother, but he’s on the stand for possibly passing a bad check…
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Shit, we have a guy on the stand right now and everyone knows he wants to bang his daughter, and the likelihood of him being convicted is, well.
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I think that most would have gone with “none”, that’s why the survey states you are forced to choose. Think of it instead as being offered a consolation prize for getting screwed over, but only one prize may be chosen.
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Until you go after the holder of the Watch. You approach their home only to realize you aren’t holding the Gun anymore. [They saw you coming via their home surveillance system.] The last thing you hear is someone in the second story window of their house saying “goodbye” before you get shot.
Actually, rereading the Gun, it does have an ethical use. While holding it, to anyone looking at you (including cameras) you look like someone else. It doesn’t say that effect only occurs while it’s being fired or even brandished. I can think of ways to take advantage of that anonymity.
One mundane approach would be as a critic or other inspector, to get an unbiased experience. Another would be in espionage: if people are looking for Daniel Craig’s James Bond they may not notice George Lazenby’s Bond walking by. A third, if it works for multiple people holding it simultaneously, would be as a bodyguard. If someone is looking to kidnap your charge, well, suddenly your charge looks like someone else by grabbing your hand (and the gun between the two of you.)
There’s also a question about what “someone” means. Does that refer only to a human? If not, work at a slaughterhouse or volunteer to humanely put down animals that are too injured, sick, or old to survive. Sure, killing a human you’d probably get a couple decades. But what’s the normal lifespan of a cow or a horse?
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Yup! It’s called “I of Newton”:
It’s lovely, and another episode worth watching.
(Though I have a quibble with the Detroit t-shirt. 
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Because the Ringbearer will figure out you are searching for them and outwit you.
Then wisely dispose of the gun in the deepest hole on earth.
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Yeah, I dont think that particular attribute can be counted, because I have to think it will be removed in the next revision of the object. The Gun just has too many attributes: unerring accuracy (at any distance? from the ISS?), limitless ammunition, flawless disguise, AND it captures the victim’s lifespan? As the kids say, it’s wop [way over-powered].
Written by Joe Haldeman of The Forever War fame!
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I dunno - cursed objects have a way of biting you in the ass after. At least that’s what my TV tells me:
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Ya this demon doesn’t understand credit at all lol.
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“Ring of Pride” and “Locket of Lust” seem pretty weak - shouldn’t they have been like “Mirror of Pride” and, oh, I don’t know, “D**do of Lust”?
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At first the wallet seemed pretty weak, only $1k a day? Unlimited credit, that you can only use on a card (ie no loans)? Made me think the ring was better, you can earn your own fortune.
But then I remembered no one really “earns” a fortune in our system, they buy it with inherited (free) money. $1k a day is $365k a year. It wouldn’t take many years to amass a fortune with rudimentary knowledge of various markets.
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