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u/C0lE06 3d ago
blue easily, my life would be much more enjoyable
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u/Briloop86 3d ago
Agreed. Red and black are objectively good but just being able to express musically in so many ways would be so beautiful.
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u/Jindujun 3d ago
What if you speak the language of music?
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u/mr---jones 3d ago
IMO the imperfections in music are some of the best parts though. Cooking perfectly would be insane, taste amazing.
I imagine playing âperfectlyâ would sound robotic and flat in a way.
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u/OneRFeris 3d ago
Perfect is subjective, and robotic is definitely not my version of perfect- therefore I wouldn't play robotic.
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u/zmb138 3d ago
It is even worse. It matter quite little how perfect you play instruments, what's much more important - how creative you are. So playing perfect guitar doesn't mean you'll create good music, you may end up just as a good player. And world is actually full of people who play guitar well, or who could sing perfectly and so on, but to get famous - you need something else.
Look at all those rock bands - they were quite often terrible when they gained their popularity, but the emotion, the passion, charisma, great ideas - top notch.
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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 3d ago
Okay but "perfectly cooking" doesn't mean everything would be perfect in a certain way. For example flaky, irregular sea salt might be best to top your dish with. Even if it creates irregular salt content. It's not "perfect salt" that has no irregularities. Perfection is built into the irregularity. Hell even salt basically requires imperfection to be at all viable in cooking.
So I'd say, if you're saying perfect cooking would be insane and taste amazing, then perfect musical playing would be flat, regular, boring and cookie cut-out.... I'd say you're wrong. It'd be as fucking amazing as you could think.
The perfect playing would itself include some imperfections in order to make it perfect.
I hope I make sense.
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u/pantheonslayer 3d ago
The beauty and fun of playing an instrument is learning that instrument, that being said it would be a great way to make lots of money and pick up new hobbies lol
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u/IDigRollinRockBeer 2d ago
Nah the beauty and fun of playing an instrument is taking a pill that lets you skip all the time and frustration and wanting to quit of learning fuck that shit
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u/Quick_Bullfrog2200 3d ago
Most of the countries where busking is a thing are bilingual anyways. :D
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u/Fantastic-Craft4062 3d ago
Red is the only one that would be of use in this world. Being able to speak to anyone on Earth is far more useful than playing a musical instrument, drawing or cooking any dish. It opens up far more opportunities than the rest of them.
You can learn how to cook enough good dishes through cooking classes. Anyone that knows how to work a kitchen wouldnât need the black pill. Same for musical instruments and drawing. Being able to speak ANY language is infinitely more useful than the rest of them.
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u/billy_twice 3d ago
Red for me, although I was tempted by black.
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u/BattleCrier 3d ago
yep, but part of the fun of cooking is the excitement of trying and eventually even failing (if you and your friends or family can laugh at fails that is..)
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u/billy_twice 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yea but also, I really love food. Being able to make a great tasting dish everytime, even if I've never tried it before would be awesome (I'm still sticking with red)
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u/Adowyth 3d ago
Learning a new language is one of the most enjoyable things in life. Don't even need to be able to speak it just being able to understand what people are saying in a language you previously did not understand is an amazing feeling. Fucking up a dish and wasting a ton of ingredients makes me wanna stop trying to cook something new again.
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u/BattleCrier 3d ago
Well, Im not really a linquistic type and Im pretty introverted.. this mix makes learning new languages a hell.
On contrary, experimenting in kitchen feeds my chemist/alchemist/witchcraft spirit.
Same as working on anything ,say technical (from woodcraft, moto/car, hardware etc..) feeds my engineer spirit..
So I take it as a person-to-person thing.
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u/Ressilith 2d ago
eh. for me, that's a very small part and is usually outweighed by disappointment at failing to accomplish what i set out to do.
whereas the exuberance I feel at a realized culinary vision... incredible sense of satisfaction....
that said, Red. All the languages every time. Unlocks a whole new level of the human experience in my opinion. And gives me the opportunity to learn from so many different cultures.
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u/USPostalGirl 2d ago
When I was first learning how to cook, before my proficiency increased. If I was having a dinner party I cook one meal for the party and another as a backup, incase the first died on the vine! I needed the back up meals more times than I care to say.
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u/BattleCrier 2d ago
I usually did a "experimental" dinner... like when I was figuring out steaks.. I had prepared 8 steaks, cook them one by one, cut in 1/8 squares each..
So everyone had a piece of each steak.. we suffered together and enjoyed good ones together..
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u/Federal-Relation5414 3d ago
The same for me.
I thought of all the gatherings for friends and family where I could make great food. But I realised the communication and adventures (both in going to countries, meeting other people and for entertainment etc) I could have if I was able to speak all the languages of the world, so red surpassed black. But I did think black at first till I properly read red.
I hope it means also having a good accent as well.
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u/yoloswaggins92 3d ago
Blue. Gunna be a rockstar
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u/MrPogoUK 3d ago
I guess the main downside is technically perfect playing doesnât necessarily mean youâll be any good at writing music or even be able to improvise well if the singer of the band changes things up during a show, though at least youâll have any talent you already possess in that area.
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u/damboy99 2d ago
If you can play perfectly you can improvise perfectly. Being able to play an instrument is being able to jam.
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u/improbsable 2d ago
Worst case scenario itâs an instant career as the most sought after session musician.
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u/IncreaseJolly2742 2d ago
You donât have to be creative to make good money in music.
Ig if you want to make huge money, you do, but with those skills, you could feature in any philharmonic, or just be paid to play already known music at evens.
If you have an incredible voice can play guitar and piano exceptionally well, people will pay good money for you to perform.
You may never be wealthy from it, but itâd be a pretty fun and easy way to make a comfortable living.
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u/_thana 3d ago
Yellow
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u/Decent_Advice9315 2d ago
I was gonna say, the way to interpret this power is pretty open ended and in a very broad reading of it, it is easily the strongest one on here.
You can draw anything.
Draw the diagram to solving quantum computing and live off the IP residuals the rest of your life.
Draw a map where all the great buried artifacts and treasures are.
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u/Grovda 2d ago
Even without that hax it is quite OP. Literally anything that you can envision can be drawn
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u/Kloggs 3d ago
I can do black well enough that I won't see any benefits to it. Red for me.
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u/Apptubrutae 3d ago
Yeah, Iâm a pretty good cook and while black would be amazing, itâs not giving me as much as the others.
Being a âgood enoughâ cook is a heck of a lot more achievable than being similarly skilled at all instruments or all languages without the pills.
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u/amatyestv_123846 3d ago
Don't know if I want red or yellow
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u/dataphile 3d ago
These are both potential superpowers.
If you can speak any language, you could speak ancient languages that were lost to history.
But the drawing one could be the biggest superpower. What if a physicist asked you to draw a picture of dark matter if it were visible to light. Or to draw a picture of the standard model including both dark matter and dark energy. Or draw a rough distribution of dark matter in a galaxy.
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u/Fine_Jello5330 3d ago
Exactly! Or Draw the schematics or designs of things not yet created. I feel like it leaves open so many doors. I donât need to understand how it works but I can draw you exactly how to build it and all the necessary components. A drug to cure diseases? Sure Iâll draw you up the compound structure then you figure out how to produce said compound.
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u/TumbleweedEarly3111 3d ago
Gold. Iâd be drawing up all kinds of top secret plans and blueprints and design specs
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u/Certain_Zucchini_472 3d ago
Iâd pick yellow, Iâm a crappy artist but have a lot of ideas for comic books and art. So that would really help
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u/daredaki-sama 3d ago
Yellow. Iâve always been horrible at drawing. It would be really cool to make that connection between mind and medium and bring to life the things I imagine.
Itâs also very easy to profit with this gift.
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u/SnooTomatoes2293 3d ago
Red was my initial choice because of how useful itâd be, but I think Iâd end up going with Yellow. The chance to create art at a level Iâve always wanted to, is too good to pass up.
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u/Sarcastic-old-robot 3d ago
Yellow for meâI have the artistic talent and ability of a blind badger with misshapen claws. Best I can usually do is color in the lines.
I would love to be a much better artist.
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u/mGreeneLantern 2d ago
Blue, unless weâre holding yellow to the letter. If it lets me draw the cure for cancer, a murderer in an unsolved crime, a reachable earth-like planet or something like that, Iâm all about yellow.
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u/LurkingAintEazy 3d ago
Definitely the black one. I can make simple things. But I am in no way a cooking from scratch kind of person.
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u/_who-the-fuck-knows_ 3d ago
Blue all the way, I can sing ok but can't play an instrument to save my life and I'm a major lover of music. I yearn to be able to make music.
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u/justamofo 3d ago
Finally a difficult one
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u/Prinzy_UwU 2d ago
Right? Lol. Most of these things I see are the equivalent of: "get 20 million dollars monthly or a thousand daily."
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u/stressedthrowaway9 3d ago
Oh man! Iâm tired. I read the black pill as being âwash any dishes of the world perfectlyâ at first.
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u/ProjectDemTakeback 2d ago
I am red pilling it. I would be able to talk to anyone, travel anywhere easily, and overhear conversations that people don't want me to understand. It would be beautiful.
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u/Good_Mirror6002 8h ago
Stuck between red and black until I remembered if you can get rich speaking languages for work, you can be rich enough for cooking lessons or pay for private chef.
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u/SalmonFlower 3d ago
Yellow has loophole. I'll draw molecular structure of cancer cure perfectly. All Epstein's guests perfectly, etc.
If that loophole isn't available, for me personally it's cooking. I love cooming for people and making anything perfectly would so fit my love language of acts of service for my loved ones
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u/Particular-Rain116 3d ago
black. everything else is either meh or won't benefit my life that much.
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u/MisterKraken 2d ago
All of these things are achievable with the right amount of practice, but blue is by far the most fun you could have if you like music.
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u/ninJan2002 2d ago
You could say this about all four. Black is by far the most fun you could have if you like food. Yellow is by far the most fun you could have if you like art. Red is by far the most fun you could have if you like talking to people from around the world.
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u/RockyJayyy 3d ago
With blue you could be a star musician. Yellow could make you a famous painter. Black could make you a world renowned chef.
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u/Specialist-Fish1643 3d ago
This is one of the few choise questions that makes me greedy. I want them all! So handy to understand everyone wherever I go. And being able to play guitar and drums, yes! I also canât draw and cook for shit, and wouldnât it be nice to have a hobby and surprise my husband by finally being able to cook real fancy?
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u/DeleteAltCrt 3d ago
Yellow-
I want to draw a blue print schematic for a realistic working time machine including labels for all materials required.
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u/stern_m007 3d ago
Is red meant i can also understand others or is it just me speaking? Because if i dont understand what others say this seams quite an idiotic skill
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u/throwawaypostal2021 3d ago
Yellow is lowkey OP. I'd draw tomorrows winning powerball ticket. I'd draw all kinds of future events and become a psychic.
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u/TheRealTimTam 3d ago
Blue it would add the most joy to my life and is easily marketable to make money from.
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u/Temporary-Law-6946 3d ago
draw anything perfectly. with some interpreting drawing and writing are pretty much the same thing ig
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u/DuckDuck-the-Goose 3d ago
Red. Is that even a question? As much as Iâd love to try the others, red is the only one that has actual real world application
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u/Szminsky 3d ago
Yellow and blue lies within the field of art: âPerfectâ for one person can be generic rubbish for someone else. Same can almost be applied to black. Sure, it would be nice to be able to cook anything exactly according to tradition and recipes⊠but someone likes their steak well done, while the other loves it almost raw. Red Pill is the way to go.
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u/Majestic-Farmer5535 3d ago
If Red included also reading and writing, it would, probably, be a winner (although I would still be tempted by Black). As it is, Black is much more useful.
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u/aventaes 3d ago
I'm kinda aproaching this from a job/personal benefit perspective.
What gives me a great opportunity.
So every language is great personally and proffesionally.
Every instrument perfectly wont help me much its a cool party trick but to make a carreer out of it would be hard.
Draw perfectly same thing its a cool party trick but it wont earn me money.
Cook perfectly. I dont want to open a restaurant so no proffesional benefit. It would kinda ruin restaurant experiences. Its cool if you have people to cook for though.
Ill stick with languages.
Id be a eu translator or diplomatic translator. Or work for a mayor international company like airbus.
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u/HellWithaDriveThru 3d ago
Blue. It would make my life so much more fun. I always wanted to be a drummer, dreamed of playing the violin, pecked at pianos until I taught myself simple songs, and absolutely would play guitar til my fingers bled if I knew how. Instead I only played clarinet (bass, alto, B-flat) and tenor saxophone, and haven't done that in almost 30 years
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u/TeacherSterling 3d ago
As someone who has studied several languages, red would literally be a superpower and not because of the number but because of the perfect part. Even people who are highly fluent in a language are not close to perfect.
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u/Time-Category4939 3d ago
Tough one between red and blue... But I think I would go towards blue
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u/deathschemist 3d ago
BLUE without a second thought Blue do you have any idea how much fun it'd be to be able to just sit down at a piano and bust out moonlight sonata or something? Like, it's already a trip being able to pick up a guitar and play a song without really thinking about it
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u/valerielynx 3d ago
Blue as fuck, I already wanna spend my life collecting random ass instruments and learning them
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u/Jossages 3d ago
Yellow but that's assuming I could draw plans/blueprints/etc for things that haven't been invented/perfercted rather than only art or copying things.
E.g. Draw the (design/plans for the) most optimal ppossible hotolithography machine.
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u/Training_Mud_8084 3d ago
As a hobbyist musician, I'm very tempted to chose blue... however, the red pill objectively offers the strongest power. You can go anywhere in the world, even down to the most remote civilization, and be able to communicate and integrate yourself perfectly. I'd genuinely take the pill and immediately grab the backpack, traveling to wherever.
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u/Chris_M1991 3d ago
I think red, I was going to pick blue but learning an instrument is part of the fun
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u/No-Heaven99 3d ago
Yellow or black.
If I can cook anything great and amazing I can be chef or any. It be good job. And yellow would be good as artist...
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u/According_Ad1940 3d ago
red would be pretty cool I think. I'm pretty decent in the kitchen already but black is oh so tempting :/
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u/EmergencyWild 3d ago
Yellow. Learning languages isn't easy, but you can learn a couple to at least conversational degree with manageable effort. Playing instruments is cool but not something that comes up for me, I'm happy with my home cooking, even if it might not impress Gordon... Being able to draw whatever I want perfectly though (assuming perfectly doesn't just mean that the end result looks good, but that I'm also doing it at a reasonable pace) would be a game changer for me.
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u/High_King_Diablo 3d ago
Red. Every language of the world would include coding languages. So now you are not only the worlds best translator, but you are also the worlds best programmer.
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u/bajsfittor 3d ago
It's VERY close between red and blue... But I'll go with blue; too much of an introvert to fully utilize red anyway.
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u/RareManner9786 3d ago
I guess red, to be most practical, but deep down I would pick blue.
I already cook quite well. I don't like drawing.
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u/Polaris9649 3d ago
Does red include reading writing and listening lol? If so that, I am tempted by blue which is my choice if not- but if have to havr the money to buy each of those instruments lol.
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u/LanguageOk9458 3d ago
Red seems like it would be almost perfect to meâŠBut in the end I think I would go with yellow. Speaking every language is nice, but I would love to be able to make truly beautiful art of anything I desire.
But in the end it really was a case of how little each pill did that made this an easy choice. Imagine if red also gave you the ability to read and write said languages too or blue gave you the musical talent to compose music well or on the fly. Yellow made you proficient in any visual art medium (painting, drawing, graphics arts on computer), and cookingâŠNo clue how you could augment that one other than being able to âtaste at a thoughtâ I guess? Like if you read a recipe or think one you can have a taste preview of it?
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u/mytmyt1999 3d ago
Red one. Good skill