What would you do with a video game style inventory?

Sounds like someone has been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl 😂

I'm not sure the full extent of it, but I know my food prep would be amazing. Keeping any type of food at its peak and I can eat a freshly cooked meal, still warm, at any time would be amazing.

I'd need a lot less storage space at home, which would be awesome. My library would be with me at all times. Ready to play any boardgame or RPG at the drop of a hat.

Objects will remain in their original state when stored in an inventory. From their perspective, no time has passed.

What about living objects?

Imagine that instead of using hundreds of rockets to build a base on the Moon/Mars you just need to simply send one person practically without luggage.

Vacation packing would be a lot easier! But if we make the assumption that everyone else has this ability too, terrorism would be a lot easier too. This could just as easily be used for evil as it would for personal convenience. I would love it personally, but it would be terrifying considering the potential ramifications.

So I can take heavy but liftable blocks of lead or uranium and store infinite amounts of them in a space that's apparently infinite in mass but logically dense?

I'm going to make a neutron star.

What's my Fetch Modus?

(I apologize in advance to everyone who understands this reference.)

Some assumptions for my use of powers here:

1. I only need to be capable of lifting something above my head to be able to store it, I don’t actually need to lift it above my head for the action.
2. the object does not need to be a willing participant.

Step 1, I start going to the gym and get hella swole

Step 2, I use my powers to make enough money to start travelling the world on a whim

Step 3, kidnapping billionaires by handshake

I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide what happens to the contents of my inventory when I eventually die of old age, but they’re probably not being released voluntarily by me

It depends on whether others have the same ability. If not, I could start the world's best moving company. But if so, there would be no more need for moving companies in general.

On second thought, maybe the better move is to use the inventory to preserve organs for transplant.

What would I do? Ntohing extra - I already do that. This is precisely why I hoarded so many things that I don't need and likely never will.

Not including food, that goes straight into my internal inventory when I happen to hold it in my hands.

Okay so first things first I'm going to need some money so I start by opening an international transport company. None of my clients know my abilities. After some traction I expand my services, travelling the globe in the process. I'm using this time to be meeting people across the world and start shifting to specific clientel, working my way up to wealthier and more elite clients. Also the gym, I'm packing on some serious muscle.

So here's the endgame - I pivot and reach out to my network of clients and pitch the true product - stasis for themselves or their family which is effectively one way time travel. Maybe they jump through periods of economic downturn, maybe they just want to go 5 years on 5 years off to experience technological breakthroughs at an accelerated rate, whatever the reason.

Also I'm hiring a rotating set of surgeons to stay in my inventory in case of something like a car crash and Im conscious but dying.

Edit: I'm imagining when I die everything violently erupts out of me like rings on sonic. But if not I can run a side business as the world's most effective hit man. I can also make my enemies jump a few days at a time without knowing why - really make 'em lose their shit.

First of all, assuming this is secure and can't get robbed, I'd pull my money from the bank and keep it in there. I'd leave only an amount needed for daily life in the bank.
Then, food, especially if it stays fresh, I can prep on Sunday and actually just manifest at work during lunch. No more time spent preparing the lunch box and all that.
I'd have all my Magic the Gathering decks & cards on me all the time.
I'd re-think how I use the space in my house. Maybe even move to a smaller place. No more clutter and constant Marie Kondo efforts. I'd still Marie Kondo my new inventory from time to time tho.
I would ditch e-books and only read paper books. Half the reason I don't always buy paper books is that I don't like accumulating things.
I'd have all sorts of tools on me all the time.
I'd have a bike and a skateboard stored in there. Some ice skates. Various sporting goods (balls, rackets, etc.)
All my clothes.

As I think of this, I am realizing just like physical storage can get cluttered and overwhelming, so can this kind of inventory. If I keep dumping every little thing in there, how will I remember what's in there? Will I end up spending 5 minutes every time browsing/searching for the item because it became so disorganized? Even if I can summon the object with one thought, if I lose track of what is in there, I'll be there thinking up objects and getting an error 50% of the time - that can become frustrating really fast.

I would stash every emergency supply, every first aid, and something for every contingency known to man. My inventory would be like Milo Murphy's backpack.

And since my bookcases are overstuffed with books, I might as well take my whole personal library too.

Edited to add: Also, if I didn't care at all about my morals, I suppose I could make a killing as the world's greatest smuggler. Or I could be a kleptomaniac hero.

Hah. My nail polish collection would explode.

I'd use it fairly normally, except for one thing: couches. I would store so many couches to drop on my enemies as needed.

For context, years ago some online friends and I brainstormed a My Hero Academia fan fic series about a power manifesting as a living video game mascot with game-based powers that could pass between characters. The inventory came up as one of those abilities, and we came up with the idea of the mascot being able to also access it, and just dropping couches on one bad guy to save the day. Paralysis doesn't matter when you can spawn a random couch from the air to smush the serial killer! We never got that far in writing, but the idea has stuck.

So to conclude: I'll add emergency couches to my inventory. Never know when it'll come in handy!

Edit: just noticed the lifting restriction. Can't lift a couch, but can lift emergency chairs!

If I do a hand-stand can I put the Earth in my inventory?

Or, maybe more practically, can I do a hand-stand on a car and put the car in my inventory?

Will the object appear above my head when I remove it from my inventory, or can I choose where to place it before it materializes? This greatly affects my decision to put a house in my inventory.

Step 1: Spend a couple of weeks/months/years collecting hydrogen
Step 2: Release all at once
Step 3: Star

Edit- a slight review of my concept does reveal i probably need "lifetimes"on the time frame there.

Edit 2 - okay okay okay. Lets think this through. The idea here should not be "enough raw hydrogen in one spot to make a star" so much as "more raw hydrogen in a contained spot than should be possible".

Lets say i spend a realistic year going to some industrial hydrogen plant taking all the output (in pickle jars or whatever, we're not worried about leakage).

So now we've got some small fraction of a years worth of industrial output. Next we need some sort of very very strong room that can hold a couple of thousand tons of hydrogen appearing inside of it when there was none.

I suspect our "room" is "near the core of the earth" because anything less is more likely to just be the shrapnel shell of the worlds most violent grenade, but this is almost interesting enough I should bug someone I know who's good at math/science to briefly annoy them when they answer "you die horribly" and I say "of course but.." and I wind up basically here

Edit 3, Other "ideas":

This of course violates the ever loving hell out of physics. I assume 2nd law is gone because you can lift 100lbs of stuff, spend energy moving only your body weight upwards, and then drop 100lbs of stuff generating force, so all sorts of nonsense with infinite energy becomes possible, but that's less fun.

I suspect there has to be some "speedrunner strat" style flying exploit from this but I can't think of one that doesn't also require unreasonable human strength.

Assuming no cooldown on summon/unsummon I believe you could in theory summon a decently large object fast enough to ignite things just from the friction of the constantly displacing air.

Oh the vacuum of something vanishing is probably not insubstantial although i'm assuming stuff needs to be in reachable range so between human limits and range you're probably not pulling out enough mass quickly enough to really screw things up.

Clearly I'm just lacking in enough knowledge to really break this. I could fall back on just being Dr. Bee's then and carrying around a not insubstantial amount of bees.

Is there any kind of inventory management capability, like browsing, searching, and sorting? If we need to rely on memory or other external tracking of the contents, I'd want to be a lot more careful and deliberate with what gets stored to avoid forgetting and losing things forever.

I would run tests about quantum entanglement. (Or as I don’t understand quantum entanglement at all, I would have others run the tests.) I would be curious what happens if we put one half of an entangled particle pair into the inventory, where time stops for it, and then measure the other particle. Do both wave functions still collapse, does only the one outside of the inventory do so, or does the “stuck” pair in the inventory prevent the wave function of the non-inventory particle from collapsing.

Like I said, I understand none of this on any level of detail, but I have the feeling that my inventory might answer many questions about physics, and could lead to huge breakthroughs that would benefit us all. Or it might break the laws of physics on a level that crashes the entire universe.

I am assuming the objects in the inventory have no mass i.e. they don't hinder my movement what so ever. If so I'd become a perpetual motion machine in some form. E.g. put a lot of heavy things in my inventory, raise myself high up in an elevator connected to a generator, take out heavy things and, generate power on the decent. Rinse repeat. Infinite power. A bit boring, and there's probably a bunch more efficient ways, but you get the idea. Energy crisis averted!

There’s some really good ones here, so I’ll try to add some.

• International thief? The object doesn’t exist, so it will be hard to prove I’d have it. Changing disguises also becomes easy.

• You can transport things across boarders without fear.

• Become a world famous magician. Sky’s the limit.

• If we’re close to an apocalypse, have a millionaire purchase food for you to store.

• Bring medical supplies to places that are hard to reach to