Greed Island Cards

[Amlux]

READ THIS EVEN IF YOU AREN'T AN ANIME PERSON OR HAVE NEVER SEEN HUNTER X HUNTER, IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION EITHER WAY I PROMISE

Hunter X Hunter is one of the best shounen anime ever made (I say as a general non-shounen viewer). One of the arcs is about an island called Greed Island which is converted into a kind of VR game (not really but details are too fine and potentially spoiler-y to get into here... if you've seen the anime you know what it's about). Well, the game is kind of an open-world FFA MMoRPG of sorts and the reward for winning the game is that you get to take three of 100 "Specified Slot Cards" into the real world with you. These are rare cards that offer interesting powers and abilities. Togashi (the mangaka) put a ton of time into designing these and coming up with interesting ideas for them.

Full list of 100 Specified Slot Cards and descriptions

Some examples:

Ruler's Blessing:
A castle given as a prize for winning the contest, a town with a population of 10,000 included. Its residents will live according to whatever laws and commands you issue.

Pregnancy Stones:
Carry a stone (weighing 7 lb. each) for one month, and you will get pregnant, even if you're male. You may choose the sex of the baby by the female or male stone.

Universal Survey:
Write various questions about yourself and give them to someone, and he will answer all questions honestly. Reusable.

3-D Camera:
Pictures taken with this will be developed as 3-D objects, with all textures reproduced. Make enlargements as needed.

Night Jade:
A jewel "blessed" by the Devil. When danger is about to befall its owner, it will deflect it to someone else.

And 95 more of these.

So my question: Let's assume you've just won Greed Island. What three cards are you taking with you? Read through the list and have a look. I would take these:

Fickle Genie:
This genie will grant you three wishes, but you need to suggest 1000 potential, significantly different wishes and he will choose three from among them. (No cheating by asking for different increments of money.)

It would take a while to think of 1000 different wishes I would be happy for, but I'm sure I could think of enough to have three awesome wishes granted.

Night Shift Dwarves:
They can do any work you can, and they will work as long as you are asleep. They cannot do anything beyond your abilities.

The dwarves can do a job for me while I sleep and I can NEET like a king and have all the time for what I want to do! An alternative, interesting choice, is "Sleeping Girl," where you can have a girl sleep in exchange for you and never have to sleep so you have all the time you want for your hobbies and interests. But I like sleeping and dreaming, so I wouldn't choose it.

Sage's Aquamarine:
Its owner will have many intelligent friends and keep those friendships for their entire lives.

Straightforward! Then again, this forum is hopefully fulfilling this goal in a lot of ways.

[ccloverclub]

i can't choose between "Poltergeist Pillow" and "Book of V.I.P Passes". my main goal is to be able to stalk and look into the lives of whoever i want. i've always hated when i travel somewhere, i can't have a true, unbiased look into to the life of that country. here are the pros and cons of these two wishes for my goal:

Poltergeist Pillow:
Sleep on this pillow, and your astral form will be able to wander at will, but you will turn into a real ghost if you do not return to your body within 24 hours.

Pros:
- can enter houses and private areas
- invisible to others
- unlimited uses
Cons:
- time limit
- can only visit present time

Book of V.I.P Passes:
You can go anywhere with these passes. Book of 1000.

Pros:
- Can go literally ANYWHERE (time travel)
- no time limit
Cons:
- limited uses
- i'm still visible to others in the area. they could just kick me out or even kill me for entering

overall i'm choosing Poltergeist Pillow. I'm OK with being unable to time-travel and only having 24 hours if i'm able to go inside private areas. also flying around and being a ghost sounds awesome

Favor Cushion:
Seat someone on this cushion, and he will do one thing for you, so long as it is within his capabilities.

all I have to do is convince them to sit down, not bad! my first thought when thinking about what to do with this wish was to force all my teachers to give me full marks on work i don't wanna do LOL

Panda Maid:
An endangered species. Very neat and loves to cook, each has a hobby such as sewing or gardening. They are excellent at taking care of human children.

i've looked at every wish on this list and i don't really want any of them. Ruler's Blessing seems cool, who wouldn't want 10,000 people who love and adore you and do your bidding? but that wouldn't be good for me. i'd become a cult leader and form a harem with every man in the kingdom. i'd be happy with panda maid! a cute animal friend who will take care of me and feed me good food, who could want more?

[Amlux]

i can't choose between "Poltergeist Pillow" and "Book of V.I.P Passes". my main goal is to be able to stalk and look into the lives of whoever i want. i've always hated when i travel somewhere, i can't have a true, unbiased look into to the life of that country.

Interesting idea, and I share your voyeuristic tendencies to some degree.
That said, the reason I probably wouldn't use these is that I somehow feel like it isn't quite possible to ever have an "unbiased" view of an area. That is, even if I look at someone else's life, I'm always getting a "skewed" perspective some way or another (What time of day am I looking it? How old is this person? What can I judge without asking the person some questions of my own?). So I fear that I would have the illusion of having an "unbiased" perspective that really isn't. I guess I just accept that a lot about it is fundamentally untranslatable, and that's okay!

But Favor Cushion does seem very OP as well. I could think of some pretty good, sociopathic uses for it (begging a boss to make my job into playing video games and somehow convincing him that it's a good use of company resources).

[ccloverclub]

But Favor Cushion does seem very OP as well. I could think of some pretty good, sociopathic uses for it (begging a boss to make my job into playing video games and somehow convincing him that it's a good use of company resources).

you don't need to convince your boss at all if he's being forced by a magic cushion LOL

if it's not a spoiler, what cards were the most useful to the characters in hunter x hunter? what cards did the winner of the game choose? maybe it'll make me change my decision.