• agegamon ( agegamon@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 months ago

    Folds into a (light) suitcase is WILDLY OP in the grand scheme of things. Granted most of these are OP. So is Bag of Holding in Trunk, that has insane use-cases too (how much can it hold?!).

    But imagine THE WHOLE CAR is compressible. Too bad you only have 5k magic-bucks, otherwise you’d have a compressible infinity machine with the trunk-bag-of-holding.

    Whatever, compressible car is nuts. Pick your other less-important upgrades (weather forcefield for me but only if it protects from humidity and hot weather, otherwise 2x bread loaf and then I can basically coast forever on free food and making people happy with bread)

    Now then. Imagine taking the HST or flying, but OH SHNAP, I have my car-sized suitcase in my lap or as a carryon the whole ride. When I get there I can decompress it and take stuff out / put stuff in / zoop around to wherever I want (assuming it’s legal) and then compress it again because fuck driving, I want to take public transit unless it’s not available.

    And wait, what defines a “car?” Here’s where admittedly shit could go off the rails.

    Can an e-bike be my “car” under this rule because if so this is GOATed. What about a transit van? A box van? A tractor-trailer combo? Could I carry a tanker truck load of water with me as a suitcase? Does that count as my “car?” Can I dump water in places it legit needs to be with my compressible suitcase tanker truck? What about a container trailer worth of food/material/??? as a suitcase? Could I help deal with world hunger / drought / forest fires / other??? Yeah, this is pretty broken.