A boolean indicating if they want a conversation or not
or maybe between 0 and 1. that way it would be easier to see if the topic that I’ve decided is super interesting and won’t shut up about is interesting to the to the other person as well. If I start seeing the number dropping quickly, time to change topics or just walk away.
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.
Nobody’s at zero. It’s been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn’t read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.
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.
You could cheese this by picking a statistic for something like “likelihood to agree if asked for a favor”. I’m not going to stress over the wording on how to make it most useful, but something like that could be interesting.
Or something like “amount of undiagnosed cancers” if you want to save people.
Times they told the truth.
If it’s objective truth, sweet! Motherload I can asking anyone the a question to the secrets of the universe and know whether they’re wild guess was true!
If it’s subjective truth, also useful, but you know just lies or ignorance detector
Isn’t that just a “how much do they yap” meter? A quiet person who lies can compulsively will have a lower number than a socially active person who tells occasional white lies.
The number itself won’t matter, but you’ll see it increment in real time if they lie
An icon to indicate if they washed their hands after the last time they used the bathroom.
Or a percentage of how clean their hands are.
Some dude with no hands just has a DIV/0 error floating over his head.
KDR
Imagine if you saw you unknowingly had a couple of assists. Or seeing someone with a concerning number of deaths.
concerning
How do you quantify that word, personally? For me it’d be anything over 0, though I suppose medical death isn’t that unusual…
The concept of assists makes it even more interesting. I can think of a bunch of people who would have a huge number.
Monkeys Paw twist: It includes all the animals you’ve eaten, making the number basically pointless for 99% of people.
I’m here to toot for the “lifetime farts” number
I was gonna say a percentage of how close they are to their next fart, lol.
It would be fun to publically count down lol.
Elevators just got a lot more stressful
For them maybe. You gata stare them down as they get to 100% so they know you know. Assert dominance and then fart before they do.
«WARNING: FART INCOMING»
Number of times they molested kids.
We truly live in the worst timeline that this would even be considered.
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.
Is “how much I would like them on a scale from 0 to 10 (with a resolution of like 0.01) if I got to know them at a deep level” allowed? Or is that cheating?
that might be nice, or you might find out you dont know your friends and loved ones as deeply as you thought, and if you did you wouldnt really like them at all.
It’s a hypothetical question, so yeah. It can be whatever you want it to be. =)
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…
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.
Would it be their preferred name or legal name? What about people who go by different names in different contexts? For example, William at work, but Bill with friends & family? Or stage names? Or professional titles?
Since it’s updated in real time, people would get to update that as they see fit. A trans lady who’s not out at work might be Sophie at the bar, but Leon in the office, for example.
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.)
It’s an awesome name and your mom sounds like a butthead!
Oh of course I’ll play your game Rumplest… random stranger.
lifetime number of orgasms
“Wait, wasn’t your number just 753,494? Why is it a 5 now? You’ve been sitting right here the whole… Oh no. Now it’s a 6? Why”
“Say ‘whole’ again…”
A sort of hunger bar. It would be useful in so many situations.
Yes! Differentiating hangry from true disagreeableness could really help prevent misunderstandings.
not my favorite but it likely would get me to carry granola bars on me at all times.
Total net worth. No hidden assets or secret bank accounts. Every last cent that a person is worth. Also, it gets brighter/more noticeable whenever you’re advocating for something that increases your net worth.
I feel like this would be the only way to get a lot of people to connect the dots.
It would need to include intangible wealth too, though. One of the big 20th century studies on poverty concluded there’s a great deal of social mobility, because rich nepobabies on a gap year or at university were counted as having no income. (And if they’d been looking at wealth, maybe not much in their own name there, either)
% of how genuine they are with me, easy to figure out who’s worth the time and who isn’t.
Could be a problem in a relationship tho. I take it back, just the cumulative numbers of fart in a lifetime.
The “genuineness” statistic sounds like the sort of thing that would gradually drive me insane.
I’d probably end up staring into the mirror and seeing an abysmally low number for myself.
And you find the one person who’s 100%, but actually they’re a dick. It seems like they’d be a dick.
Like, I’d be unusually high (and it’s gone poorly), but I still purposely don’t say certain things.