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teamsonic2011@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

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You can choose 1 superpower, but the first reply is the side effect. What superpower would you choose?

teamsonic2011@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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    Being a cat

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      You make noise every time you walk

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        Ok, it’s basically like my cat.

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    instantly renaming a large city

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      But you have to name it after the person you hate the most.

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    I can teleport instantly to any location I have previously visited.

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      You don’t get to choose the location, it’s just a random place you’ve been before.

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      But each location has a specific song you must play on an Ocarina…

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        Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?

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          “Oh, and a chocolate croissant, please, thanks! … and uh, I’m so incredibly sorry about last time,”

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        Thankfully my people know how big a nerd I am, so I actually have been gifted an ocarina. I’m ready. Now, what’s the song for my doctor’s office, again?

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    Invisibility.

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    Teleportation

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      But you lose one of your socks every time you teleport and they’re like really cool unique ones that only work as a pair. Heartbreaking.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      Butt stuff is marginally less fun.

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        Really depends on the butt

        • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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          No, see, it’s all buts. That is the curse.

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    I guess I choose Denmark or maybe Portugal. Having USA and Russia being superpowers has been real shit.

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    Manifest any superpower at will

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      … that then gets applied to everyone within 100 metres of you on top of yourself.

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        Lol, I’d still take it. All I can say is the people flying with me better keep close. Ditto the ones breathing under water

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      It gives one month of bad luck for each time used. If the power is activated to help others without benefit for yourself, then it’s sloppy good luck instead. You are fortunate in a tragic way.

      The timer and type is reset each time power manifested

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    X ray vision

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      It cannot be regulated

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        Ha! So Congress can’t stop me!

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      Everyone in your line of sight gets the full radioactive dosage

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    True Omnipotence

    (Also read/listen to Worm

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      But only over dial-up.

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        If I’m limited then it’s not true Omnipotence is it? Honestly though I’d take it if I had to though

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      You have no choice but to see everything, wether you want to or not.

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        If I don’t have a choice then it’s not true Omnipotence is it?

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      But of an unrelated universe…so schizophrenia with delusions of grandure lol

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        If I’m limited then it’s not true Omnipotence is it?

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    Immunity from all replies to this post.

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      But you are incredibly smart. BOOM GOTEM.

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    The power to reply to my own comment.

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      But you will only reply as your worst enemy would do.

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      You become god.

      (Not oc, this is a known joke)

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    Switch sexes any time I prefer

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      Every time you switch you have to peel off a layer of dead skin line a cocoon.

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        Damn that’s harsh. I didn’t expect that, it seems you have some great imagination.

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          I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules

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        Seems like a small payment honestly

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        Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.

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      … provided you are playing Uno and have a reverse card.

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    Teleportation!

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      But you have to go through TSA every time

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        Honestly, still well worth it. And with pre-check it’s even faster.

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        😂 I’m on the shitter at work damn you, can’t be laughing out loud!

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        Easy there Hitler

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      You can only teleport to random places

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        Random place WITHOUT obstacle detection or height limit makes this risssky… 😆

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          The odds of you NOT ending up dangerously high above the ground or embedded IN the ground are… low.

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            I think the odds of ending up within sight of the earth are basically 0. The universe is a big place.

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              Depends on the range. If 10 feet, you’d survive most falls, but still bury yourself a portion of the time. 100 feet, probably dead. 200 thousand miles? Space sucks without an appropriate suit.

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                The problem is that Earth is unlikely to be there at all

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                  Please elaborate, because there’s a at least a couple different things you could be referring to, and I’d rather not write something out on the wrong topic :)

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        When I first started playing Ragnarok Online, there was this one item, aí believe it was something like bat wings, that was really valuable and when you used you would teleport to a random place in the same map/sections. I thought it was a shit item, but soon enough I understood that its power was to run away from problems when you are low on health.

        So I think it still is a good power.

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    Can communicate with any animal

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      But they can’t communicate with you

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        Oh damn. You got me bad on that one.

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        Haha imagine trying to explain that to people.

        “I have a superpower, I can speak to animals they just can’t speak back”

        “But everyone has that superpower, I can do that too”

        “Yeh but I’m actually really talking to them, like in their language that they can understand”

        “How do you know?”

        “…”

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          I mean, you can ask an animal to do some arbitrary action specified by the other person, and then the animal (hopefully) does it. This side effect isn’t great, but it definitely still leaves some real usefulness.

          Telling my dog as I go to the garage, “I’ll be back in literally one minute.” and being understood would rock.

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            But the thing is, if they do the thing you asked in a way where it’s noticeable that they only did it because you asked, then they are signalling to you that they understood, which is a form of communication and the word used was “communicate” with animals.

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              First, the use of “communicate” in the original superpower description is presumably referring to communication that couldn’t happen without the power - and the side effect uses the same term. As it stands, my dog can tell me she understands I intend to walk her by jumping off the back of the couch and being excited at the door.

              So if the superpower only refers to novel communication, I’d interpret that to mean anything more than I could reasonably communicate to my dog, and more than she could communicate to me (confirmation of understanding).

              If the side effect, despite using the same verb, actually renders animals LESS able to communicate with me than they already can, that seems an especially uncharitable interpretation.

              Alternatively, I can ask the animal to wait until I was out of the room before performing the action for the third party. At that point, only that third party would end up communicating having seen the comprehension/performance.

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                Well thought out lol. You should get a genie, I think you’ll be prepared.

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                  I appreciate the sentiment, but probably not. The genie would just scoff af my argument and say nothing was guaranteed to be “fair” about the situation. My only saving grace in talking about it here is that fellow humans are more likely to share a similar base point for reasoning.

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    Super good luck ala Domino of the X-Men.

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      It’s good luck for the first half of your life, then its bad luck the second half

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        That’s a good answer.

        Reminded me of this movie.

        https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397078/?ref_=ls_t_8

        Never saw it myself, just remembered the concept and searched

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          Kinda like a luck-based Freaky Friday… Starring Lindsay Lohan 🤔

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            Funny how the mind works. I remembered the concept, but had no idea Lohan was involved.

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        One day, your luck will reverse, and you know you have hit your halfway point. Before, you survived everything because of your good luck. Now, survival is a curse you cannot escape until your appointed time.

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