what would you choose as your super power?
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what would you choose as your super power?
dont have to be a super hero... could be a super villain.
what is your power?
i can talk to animals.
what is your power?
i can talk to animals.
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either:
A) time manipulation
B) telekenesis
C) ability to interface with digital circuits
although id probably choose A or B
EDIT: but II, if you had 'light speed' power, if you tried to use it to accomplish anything, the thing you were trying to accomplish would disappear into the past as soon as you approached anywhere near light speed......
A) time manipulation
B) telekenesis
C) ability to interface with digital circuits
although id probably choose A or B
EDIT: but II, if you had 'light speed' power, if you tried to use it to accomplish anything, the thing you were trying to accomplish would disappear into the past as soon as you approached anywhere near light speed......
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peace wrote:id have the super power to be able to read and write verryyy fast, and retain all that information, but if wanted, i could read slow
That's such a lame superpower.
My method for slowing down is to read upside down, but that is not as effective as it used to be. It only really slows me down if the text is printed in a very weird font.
Flight is the number one super power. Who wouldn't want to leave here tonight and go "ok catch you later" then zip off into the sky.
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Although spaghetti out of the finger tips would be awesome, I'm going to have to go with telekinesis. Or the ability to manipulate the force. Not quite the same thing but close.
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Although spaghetti out of the finger tips would be awesome, I'm going to have to go with telekinesis. Or the ability to manipulate the force. Not quite the same thing but close.
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Fly, definitely. So easy for the daily commute. But then if you have telekinesis you could apply it to yourself to fly, so telekinesis.
Or time manipulation. Then you get to simulate moving stuff with your mind by stopping time, walking over to the object, moving it, returning, and restarting time.
Or time manipulation. Then you get to simulate moving stuff with your mind by stopping time, walking over to the object, moving it, returning, and restarting time.
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Wouldn't it be more useful to turn something like water into refined petroleum? You can get a lot more of it than you can your own urineI'd be able to turn my urine into refined petroleum. Peak oil? Whatevs.

Invulnerability and immortality would be pretty awesome.
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The power to levitate and manipulate pants. Anyone's and everyone's.
My boyfriend and I got into a discussion the other day about ironic superpowers. For example, being able to fly, but having a debilitating fear of heights...Able to cook meats to perfection while being vegetarian...
Personally, I think it would be a very interesting comic book story.
My boyfriend and I got into a discussion the other day about ironic superpowers. For example, being able to fly, but having a debilitating fear of heights...Able to cook meats to perfection while being vegetarian...
Personally, I think it would be a very interesting comic book story.
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I'd want the power to make hair and grass grow really fast.
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WAIT, the power to un-cook stuff! Yeah! Un-cooking stuff would be one AWESOME power!
You don't think that would be much of a SUPER power? Well it would only be REVERSING THE ENTROPY IN THE FUCKING UNIVERSE!
Okay but seriously, a lot of powers are really tempting (see: flight, telepathy), but if I HAD to pick just ONE it would probably be the ability to repair. Anything. People, constructions, natural objects... anything. Being able to repair it to a previous state or even make it BETTER than a previous state. That would be my dream power.
No wait, the power to make car alarms go off when you step into a parking garage.
WAIT, the power to un-cook stuff! Yeah! Un-cooking stuff would be one AWESOME power!
You don't think that would be much of a SUPER power? Well it would only be REVERSING THE ENTROPY IN THE FUCKING UNIVERSE!
Okay but seriously, a lot of powers are really tempting (see: flight, telepathy), but if I HAD to pick just ONE it would probably be the ability to repair. Anything. People, constructions, natural objects... anything. Being able to repair it to a previous state or even make it BETTER than a previous state. That would be my dream power.
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Super villain:
Dr. Gravitas: Can manipulate local gravity. This includes the ability to fly, generate tiny black holes, and explode heads.
or, preferably,
[No name yet]: Has telekinesis, but he can only manipulate jell-o. Because that's not impressive enough, he can also turn anything into jell-o, then back into whatever it was before. Overpowered? Yes, please!
Dr. Gravitas: Can manipulate local gravity. This includes the ability to fly, generate tiny black holes, and explode heads.
or, preferably,
[No name yet]: Has telekinesis, but he can only manipulate jell-o. Because that's not impressive enough, he can also turn anything into jell-o, then back into whatever it was before. Overpowered? Yes, please!
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Time manipulation, Hiro rocks my socks!
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The ability to selectively manipulate Planck's constant, effectively giving me the power to increase quantum randomness to a high level and have it cease when the configuration suits me. That would basically make me god.
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Hmm. I don't know if it would be considered a super power or not, but I'd totally go for ultimate understanding/omniscience. Every language, whether spoken or written or even thought about, from the past through the present, could be understood and repeated. I think that would be awesome. So much that I want to take language classes until the day I die. I'll be fluent in as much as I can.. hell, I'm starting a sign language class on 4/17.
Beyond that.. uhm.. time manipulation, I think. I have far too many daydreams about waking up and being younger, but with all the knowledge I know now, and how I'd handle each situation. So yeah. That.
Beyond that.. uhm.. time manipulation, I think. I have far too many daydreams about waking up and being younger, but with all the knowledge I know now, and how I'd handle each situation. So yeah. That.
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Hmm. I know I've already gone, but just wanted to throw a cool one out there. It's from an item called Shosuro's Mask from Legend of the Five Rings:
The ability to appear to be whoever the person viewing you most expects to see.
So if you're walking into a classified base? The guards see you as someone who's cleared to be there. If someone is meeting their lover in the garden, and you're there, they see you as him. And so forth.
It gets interesting when there's more than one person present, and they have different expectations.
That said, it's still incredibly useful.
The ability to appear to be whoever the person viewing you most expects to see.
So if you're walking into a classified base? The guards see you as someone who's cleared to be there. If someone is meeting their lover in the garden, and you're there, they see you as him. And so forth.
It gets interesting when there's more than one person present, and they have different expectations.
That said, it's still incredibly useful.
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One of the more interesting answers I've heard from this question is the ability to touch a book and instantly know all of its contents.
1. I want my life to have like a checkpoint and restore. That way I could try something really stupid/potentially harmful, then revert to how it was before I tried it. (Though I would need to carry information gathered during that time with me back.)
2. Telepathic abilities. If I were an X-Men, I would choose Charles Xavier, but only over some others by a tiny bit.
1. I want my life to have like a checkpoint and restore. That way I could try something really stupid/potentially harmful, then revert to how it was before I tried it. (Though I would need to carry information gathered during that time with me back.)
2. Telepathic abilities. If I were an X-Men, I would choose Charles Xavier, but only over some others by a tiny bit.
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1. I want my life to have like a checkpoint and restore. That way I could try something really stupid/potentially harmful, then revert to how it was before I tried it. (Though I would need to carry information gathered during that time with me back.)
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Superseded by time manipulation, or is it? Maybe if you went backwards to your checkpoint and said to yourself "that's a stupid idea. Forget it."
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Superseded by time manipulation, or is it? Maybe if you went backwards to your checkpoint and said to yourself "that's a stupid idea. Forget it."
No, because you still wouldn't have the memory of doing it, which is the entire point: You get to experience gratifying-but-self-destructive things, and not suffer the consequences.
Walk into work, punch your boss in the genitals, laugh for 20 minutes, and then reload from previous save so that you still have a job.
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cmacis wrote:Superseded by time manipulation, or is it? Maybe if you went backwards to your checkpoint and said to yourself "that's a stupid idea. Forget it."
Sure. Time maniuplation could easily encompass that; I was just being precise in terms of exactly what I would want for my time maniuplation abilities.

For instance, something else I think would be awesome is if I could stop time but continue to do stuff. That would also count as time manipulation, but is decidedly less powerful than what I said, though some of what you could do with this idea you could do equally well with the checkpointing one.
I also think that it's easier to say something like "if you die you automatically restore your last checkpoint" than it is to say "if you die you go back in time".
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Vaniver wrote:Wouldn't it be more useful to turn something like water into refined petroleum? You can get a lot more of it than you can your own urineI'd be able to turn my urine into refined petroleum. Peak oil? Whatevs.
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