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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

For example:

  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
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[-] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago

Make billionaires turn inside out when they're on the same planet as me

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

It happens continuously and so fast its not perceptible

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

So, question: when the billionaire dies, does their wealth transfer according to local laws? So an entire lineage could instantly turn inside out, including bastard children on the fringes of inheritance, with only an estate tax to save them?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago

How pedantic do we get to be? Like, I’d be fine with flying because I could just hover a millimeter from the ground instead of standing, I would think

[-] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago

My stepson asks all kinds of questions like this and highly scientific pedantry is my go-to move.

“Technically if you were invisible, your retinas would stop working, so I’d go with flight.”

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Sometimes pedantry is beautiful

[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

That's like Arthur Dent's girlfriend Fenchurch.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hmm I think anything is fine really hah. I feel like it'd get weird never being able to touch the ground again, like I'd feel so detatched from things

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Technically, you can fly towards the ground while being upright(unless the feet are the sole thrusters), to get that feel, right?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Good point. If you fly feet forward towards the ground with an acceleration of 9,81 m/s2 it should feel pretty much like normal standing with gravity.

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago

This is pretty simple though right?

Healing factor - always-on healing.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Healing factor - always-on healing.

Don't we already have that?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Sometimes the always on healing works so good cells start doing things like reactivating telomerase and ignoring the signals for programmed cell death and become cancer, sometimes turning effectively immortal.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

That's basically psoriasis.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

Shapeshifting, I will take no questions

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Shapeshifting for sure. Don't even need to be human, id totally try being an amorphous sentient blob for a bit. Joints cant hurt if you don't have joints!

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

I'm always at a comfortable temperature no matter what.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

If humanity finds out about that property of you, you might end up as some kind of human battery. If you can't be cooled down under any circumstances, one could use your body to heat up infinite amounts of water/air with heat pumps and use you to heat entire cities. Super useful for the rest of humanity but not exactly the life I'd like to live. :D

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Being lucky all the time would be cool. The only time I can think it might be a hindrance would be at a casino because they'd think I'm cheating but I don't gamble so it doesn't matter I guess.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Just play the lottery once.

Now you are rich, lucky, and screwed. Hopefully those last 2 cancel each other out.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I would have the power to be naturally skilled at anything I do and having it always activated would be a bonus.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

I would want the superpower of linguistics: the ability to fluently read, speak, and understand any language ever spoken or will be spoken.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

I guess in combination with the 'can't stop it' twist that would mean that you can't stop talking in these old and random languages. So people will think you're crazy and you'll end up in some kind of mental illness hospital.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

He is saying being fluent and able to understand it too. So never stops means he can't ever forget a language, as I'm interpreting it.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

super good luck. like the the chick from deadpool 2 I think or longshots if it always stayed on.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

I'll take Mr. Manhattan's power set for 500, Alex. Oh yeah, its naked time.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

hmmmm, "plot armor" sounds nice to be always on.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Shapeshifting. It's what I wanted anyway and I can always just be continuously toggling the length of my little toenail to be 1mm longer or shorter.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Healing of all kinds. Ageing, sickness, and wounds.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Never becoming deaf and always having good hearing. I'm not sure I'd be able to enjoy life anymore if I became deaf, so just having good hearing would make the rest of my life worth living, without any major side effects I could think of.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Power to make people have empathy.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Magneto's power set could be very useful and easy to manage. Magnets can certainly be made stronger and weaker. He/I would need to build up to any dangerous level of magnetic power, so meditation before sleep would be clutch. Bullet-proof, flight, what amounts to telekinesis, and the ability to manifest any metallic object is fairly incredible, yet unobtrusive.

Also, Forge's power set would be pretty nice to have. Can engineer, build, fix, and invent literally anything. Solve any technological problem at will. The photocopier would never be broken. Wait, does anyone still use a photocopier? The only thing that'd be annoying is becoming everyone's IT department.

Jamie Madrox is also a great contender. Instant dupes of myself at will (and, yes, magically, they come with clothes).

These are my answers.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Everyone within my earshot has to tell the truth.

Works with TV, radio. Any real time communication.

I think this should also work on myself

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

God of Toilet Paper.

You might laugh, but I would own the world.

If you were in my favor, you would get the softest, never-chafing, cleanest single-wipe-clean TP ever. No matter what you ate, no matter how spicy, no matter how ill, you could be assured of pain-free, cooling, soothing, wipes. It would be beautiful. Rainbows and peace, no matter how violent the shit

Piss me off? Anything you choose to clean your backside with is then designated TP. I will clog all the toilets, all the plumbing, all the sewers. I can make it all gympie-gympie leaves, sandpaper, wax paper, or just vanish mid-wipe. No matter how much you wiped your already raw ass, there would still be more. I would be a scourge on the Earth, and all would have to bow down before me. You would love me. You would hate me.

He who controls the comfort of the sphincter, controls the world.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That is easy: super intelligence

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Great way to feel lonely and isolated! It's already an issue "gifted" folk struggle with, and the more "gifted" you are, the more isolated you tend to be

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Not if you learn to understand the people around you, and their limitations, and to anticipate and work around them with compassion and understanding.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Having no to few peers is isolating no matter how compassionate you are.

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