Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.
I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.
Hmm, reminds of this part of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory
Objectively the correct answer.
At least you would be using it. (Ahem)
You would definitely enjoy Preacher. Graphic novels are great, show is better than ok.
Guy ends up gaining “the word of God” as an ability
We allready have one Stephen Fry
Excellent!
Bend probability to my will.
Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.
Is there a monkey’s paw clause in this? Does probability snap back like an elastic on the things you aren’t focusing on?
Well, a high probability doesn’t mean it will happen, and a low probability doesn’t mean it won’t.
(A tossed coin that shows head the first 5 times and after that it always shows up tails still has a probability of 0% head and 100% tails, assuming you don’t know which coin toss this is.)
Your rational and completely correct refutation to my monkey’s paw has foiled me this time, but I’ll be back. Muwahahaha!!
There’s definitely an inherent paw clause to this power…unintended consequences galore!
Probability has more than one side, bend it one way and its also being bent away from another.
like scarlet witch, and domino, they both manipulate probabilities.
I would choose this too. Probability that I’ll win lottery next week would be nice to adjust. Also probability of getting sick/staying alive. And as I’m (allegedly) slowly getting older: Probability that I’ll wake up tomorrow well rested in a good shape and nothing hurts.
The power to instantly, constantly, automatically, and effortlessly transmute the bone marrow of every single individual on Earth who is being harmful to humanity’s progress and wellbeing (fascists, billionaires, global warming denialists, mimes, and so on) into molten lead.
Damn, what do you have against mimes?
I would like to take a screenshot of your reply and the parent comment. May I?
No issue from me. Especially if I can get an answer about the mime hate.
Lead is kinda toxic for the rest of us, how about something more compostable?
eren , of AOT basically, but they all have to be related.
The older I get, the more I’m sure it’s healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn’t have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.
The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.
Criminally under rated movie.
That is still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It’s so good! It got so much flak but I really enjoyed it. The concept was very interesting and I really wanted to see where it could’ve gone. I felt like they could’ve done better in the movie but still, I’ll take what I can get.
I always wondered why the jumpers were even struggling against the paladins, though. I mean… they could jump literally anywhere in the world instantly. How are the paladins even able to catch up at all even with the tech they had? It was ridiculous. They also didn’t use guns? I didn’t get it, lol.
Well when they’d jump they’d leave a “wake” and the paladins could just follow that wake every time so it does kind of make sense. I haven’t seen it actually in over 5 years, I need to rewatch again actually.
Yeah, they had the technology to go through the “wakes”, but the Jumpers could also jump repeatedly at will. They never really seem to get tired and there’s no real limitation outside of not seeing the place. So, they could jump nonstop to multiple places around the world. Are they going to hop through 300 different jump spots? What if one of them leads them to 10,000 meters mid-air. We see Jumpers capable of jumping suspended mid-air, lol.
I’d just bait them into following my wakes and lead them to a final wake mid-air where they’d plummet to their deaths. Could’ve jumped into a military base, grabbed explosives and weapons, wreak havoc on paladins. It just didn’t make a lot of sense, the Jumpers would be extremely powerful in reality and there’d be little to nothing we could do about them. Maybe covert ops with silent snipers to take them out when they’re unaware. But that’s only if you can actually find them in the first place, which is pretty difficult. I remember one of the characters living in Egypt in some ruins in the middle of nowhere. It took the US ten years of dedicated resources to finding Bin Laden, now imagine if he could just teleport anywhere on the planet at will.
You’d just never find a Jumper if he really didn’t want to be found.
Yeah agree, they’re pretty OP!
Teleport. See the world, visit everywhere, without enduring planes,trains,cars , nipping home for a quick 15minute alone time and being able to sleep in my own bed every night.
Would be so cool to have personal sanctuary in the middle of the wilderness to relax at without the worry of how to I get back.
YES!
This is the one. I hate driving, so taking the middle man out of traveling would make my life so much better. Being able to visit my family and then come back home to sleep? That would be the dream
Also true!
I have two choices depending on my role in the narrative.
1: unrestricted ability to grant other people powers with the requirement that I keep them balanced both in power scale and moral direct as well as not being able to use the powers on myself either on my own or through proxy.
2: I’m the Thing from Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing but every cell is me and under my control. If need be, I can consume an injury’s worth of biological mass to heal. I would mostly use this to get out of conversions by bisecting my face and spagetti-ing before returning to normal, apologizing for that, and saying I should go take my meds.
For number one, you might enjoy the excellent, then subsequently boring, show Misfits.
that is a good description.
Actually yes, I watched ever episode as they aired until they killed Curtis. At that point I wasn’t invested enough in the new characters to keep watching.
I went a bit further than that and you didn’t miss much.
To never have to worry about the basic necessities of life 🥹
To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she’s barking at me for help getting up and walking.
So I can explain to my boy dog why we don’t go on walks as often or as far, why he can’t rough house with her anymore.:(
extreme cum
how extreme?
Like 3.6 roentgen.
Is third person empath a thing? Like being able to have what one person is experiencing be felt emotionally by another person? I would do that, then really fuck up the day of an ICE agent.
That would be awesome!
like deanna troi. empath seems to be a weaker form of telepathy, just no mind reading or if powerful enough mind control, (induce sleep, paralysis,etc)
Being able to stop time. Unlimited sleep.
Make sure to add that you don’t age or need food/water/oxygen while time is stopped, otherwise this is more of a curse
Right. That’d be a nice bonus.
Cashback was a good take on this.
Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to “hack” computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and “wishing” the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.
I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.
This, but with selective abstraction.
I could just manipulate raw electricity signals, but if i need to i can see the flow of assembler instructions running through the CPU, or even the same code in some high-level language modeled on my brain pattern.
As en electronics engineer I’m going to “Yes But…” this and say that the lower the voltage/current you’re trying to manipulate the more concentration it requires to do it without over-voltaging the components you’re trying to manipulate and frying the circuitry.
So whilst this would be possible you’d have to:
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Hold all the cores, ALU, etc. in the CPU at the current state that they’re in
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Then spend time flipping the bits (not one at a time but like a whole 32 bit number) required to represent your instructions.
With enough practice and meditation you get a “feel” for the instructions and can do this but it takes time. I think this is fair as once you’ve learnt a CPU architecture most of the machine instructions are the same and it’s just a matter of getting them to run in the right order.
This way you don’t start out overpowered and there’s a high skill ceiling.
(I may or may not be writing a book around this already and have thought about it a lot haha)
I was about to say, almost sounded like you were speaking from experience XD You’ll be the first suspect if a supervillain with your powers ever pops up
(quickly hides cape and twirly mustache)
I have no idea what you’re talking about officer
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Unlimited do overs. I can save, load and redo any point of my life at will. Caveat, death grants me access to the load game function.
Every poop is a no-wiper.
It’s called fiber supplements
My superpower choice is to convert all of BlueberryWalnut’s no-wipers into butt mud like wet red Georgia clay.
