what would you do if your life-saving medicine was in a cooler under an anvil?

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The anvil too heavy, and you still have to work
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given how a cooler is usually much smaller than an anvil, you can just knock the anvil over

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ConfusedTorchic posted...
given how a cooler is usually much smaller than an anvil, you can just knock the anvil over

you can't leave work to go to the cooler, plus the cooler has a wide enough base that you can't tip it
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If the cooler is somewhere else and you can't leave, the entire anvil subplot feels superfluous regardless.

Though if the medicine is literally required for you to live, I'm fairly sure your boss would have no legal recourse to stop you from leaving to go get it, and would potentially open themselves up to civil lawsuits if they attempted to enact punitive action on you for leaving (and straight up criminal liability if they attempted to physically stop you from leaving).

There's also the presumption that if you need a specific medication to survive and lack access to it, it's not a magical miracle drug that only exists in your cooler and nowhere else on Earth, so it should theoretically be possible to go to a hospital, tell them what your condition is, and they would likely have the same sort of medication on hand to treat you to prevent you from redlining.

But yeah, if the anvil was literally the only thing keeping you from the drugs, it shouldn't be that hard to knock the anvil over. Or even potentially lift it if it's small enough, because smaller anvils can weigh as little as 60lbs, and even up to 120lbs shouldn't be that difficult to lift, turn, and drop (and if it was TOO much heavier it's probably already crushed your cooler and everything inside of it anyway).
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
If the cooler is somewhere else and you can't leave, the entire anvil subplot feels superfluous regardless.

Though if the medicine is literally required for you to live, I'm fairly sure your boss would have no legal recourse to stop you from leaving to go get it, and would potentially open themselves up to civil lawsuits if they attempted to enact punitive action on you for leaving (and straight up criminal liability if they attempted to physically stop you from leaving).

There's also the presumption that if you need a specific medication to survive and lack access to it, it's not a magical miracle drug that only exists in your cooler and nowhere else on Earth, so it should theoretically be possible to go to a hospital, tell them what your condition is, and they would likely have the same sort of medication on hand to treat you to prevent you from redlining.

But yeah, if the anvil was literally the only thing keeping you from the drugs, it shouldn't be that hard to knock the anvil over. Or even potentially lift it if it's small enough, because smaller anvils can weigh as little as 60lbs, and even up to 120lbs shouldn't be that difficult to lift, turn, and drop (and if it was TOO much heavier it's probably already crushed your cooler and everything inside of it anyway).

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why would i have to leave to go to the cooler if the anvil, presumably in front of me, is sitting on it
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ConfusedTorchic posted...
why would i have to leave to go to the cooler if the anvil, presumably in front of me, is sitting on it

it's in the break room, you're working the door
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Give the jerk who put your medication under the anvil a 20 to go get it for you. They can clearly lift the anvil.
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willythemailboy posted...
Give the jerk who put your medication under the anvil a 20 to go get it for you. They can clearly lift the anvil.

they are feeling unappreciated and are antagonistic towards you
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Lokarin posted...
they are feeling unappreciated and are antagonistic towards you
Then liberally apply a crowbar to their person until they comply or are physically incapable of complying. If I'm going to die because they're an asshole, I'm taking them with me.
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I doubt that a cooler could support the weight of a anvil. I can move a 75 lb anvil by myself and could easily tip over a 100-200 lb anvil. Anything bigger would crush the cooler and my medicine.
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I have trouble believing there is an anvil that exists that is light enough to not crush a cooler, but also so heavy that I cannot simply lift it. I have an anvil at home and it's fairly easy to move.
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Sneeze to move it.
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Push it over? It'd have to be incredibly top-heavy, so you probably wouldn't need much strength at all to topple it.
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Push it over or pick it up
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CarefreeDude posted...
I have trouble believing there is an anvil that exists that is light enough to not crush a cooler, but also so heavy that I cannot simply lift it. I have an anvil at home and it's fairly easy to move.
Full grown adults sit on coolers all the time. Anvils range from 75 to over 500 lbs.
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Lokarin posted...
it's in the break room, you're working the door

what
i am back baby
...

This is a reference to something and I don't think anyone got it
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Open the refrigerator door, remove the elephant, and put the anvil in the fridge.
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Lokarin posted...
...

This is a reference to something and I don't think anyone got it
Clearly not, and that's probably a good thing as the scenario is bat-shit insane.
There are four lights.
willythemailboy posted...
Clearly not, and that's probably a good thing as the scenario is bat-shit insane.

here's the steps; you have to go to the dark world to get an ego massager to use on the strongman to get him out of his self-loathing so he'll be happy enough to remove the anvil. Getting the ego massager requires using a creature you win in a carnival game on a panel... also the carnival game is rigged so you have to get an entirely different item to rig the game in your favour first which requires breaking into a prison to give food to a guard

...

there's more
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My employer would understand the situation and I would be free to leave work to save my own life, I'm certain.

I'm strong enough to knock your typical anvil over so I'd do that.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
and would potentially open themselves up to civil lawsuits if they attempted to enact punitive action on you for leaving
I suppose they could argue that you could have brought it with you and put it in a cooler at work. If this is America we're talking about, they'd probably win that lawsuit.
I'm not a fan of this, personally.
Lokarin posted...
there's more


we're having to follow extra steps for some goddamn medicine are we?
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Lokarin posted...
here's the steps; you have to go to the dark world to get an ego massager to use on the strongman to get him out of his self-loathing so he'll be happy enough to remove the anvil. Getting the ego massager requires using a creature you win in a carnival game on a panel... also the carnival game is rigged so you have to get an entirely different item to rig the game in your favour first which requires breaking into a prison to give food to a guard

Suddenly I'm reminded of...

https://www.cracked.com/article_19974_the-6-most-absurdly-difficult-video-game-puzzles.html

...specifically the The Longest Journey and Gabriel Knight examples.
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kingdrake2 posted...
we're having to follow extra steps for some goddamn medicine are we?
Even the American health insurance industry it looking at that and saying no, that's a bit too far.
There are four lights.
It's from Darkseed 2
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willythemailboy posted...
Even the American health insurance industry it looking at that and saying no, that's a bit too far.

it's not that far fetched

for me to get insulin, i have to take a plastic cartridge, suck the air out of it, replace the air with insulin, then slide it into a small device that i then attach a tube to, that I then fill up with insulin, and then on the other end is another device that I have to manipulate into a spring that i then press against my body and let it slam down the end of the tube while a needle in it also inserts a different tube into my skin

and then to read my blood sugar I have to take a device, manipulate it to reveal a button, that I then press against my arm and press the button which inserts a filament under my skin while also leaving behind this cradle that is adhered to my skin that i then slide a tiny little transmitter into
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SunWuKung420 posted...
Full grown adults sit on coolers all the time. Anvils range from 75 to over 500 lbs.

Even at the extreme end of 500lbs, I doubt I could lift it but I could certainly move it, especially off a cooler.
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You don't need to pick it up, just knock it over. A long ass crowbar should do the trick. Hitting it repeatedly on the side with a large, heavy sledgehammer might eventually knock it off the edge. Backing up a large truck and nudging it with the bumper would certainly work. A winch would pull it off as well. A block and tackle or a jack might lift it enough to slip the cooler out from under. There's plenty of solutions.
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You could also use a saw or cutoff tool to cut out the side of the cooler.
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captpackrat posted...
You could also use a saw or cutoff tool to cut out the side of the cooler.

in the context of Darkseed 2 this actually is an achievable option, they just didn't think of it
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this is a King Of The Hill reference.
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Sarcasthma posted...
I'm not quite sure why, but the word 'darkseed' makes me think of @Far-Queue

My mom's nickname for me is "dork's seed"
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Coolers typically have doors that open outward and not upwards.

From the problem statement, the cooler is under the anvil.

Open the door, get the medicine. Easy.
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ooger posted...
Coolers typically have doors that open outward and not upwards.

From the problem statement, the cooler is under the anvil.

Open the door, get the medicine. Easy.
Could this be a regional lingual artifact? I don't know of any coolers that open outward. Refrigerators on the other hand, I don't know of any that don't, though there are some freezers that open upwards.

Coolers as I know them are typically insulated plastic (sometimes metal) bins people take camping or to other recreational sites to keep food and drinks cool, though I've seen cheap ones that are entirely styrofoam. Not having any cooling properties of their own, it's necessary to add ice or other cooling agents. Coolers also typically have a drain plug to release water from the ice melting.
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It it is Styrofoam, the cooler is crushed, revealing the medicine.

EZ part 2.
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styrofoam is pretty strong in cube form
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Not "hold up an anvil", strong.
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checkmate
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I've got a forklift where I work so I'd probably use that or the front end loader if I somehow couldn't figure out a way to do it with the forks.
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