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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 57 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 27 points 3 days ago

Hmm, reminds of this part of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory

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[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Be able to do stuff, at will.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel personally attacked

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My answer to this question is always teleportation, including my clothes and anyone I’m touching (and their clothes). And the ability to not appear inside solid objects. No more traffic. No more passports or visas. No more long multi-hour drives or long haul flights.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have fun figuring out the point of reference of your new powers. It would be hillarious if it was not the nearest grvitational well. Earth moves, the sun moves, our galaxy moves. Watch it be not the most obvious thing, and you teleport into empty space.

[–] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This flaw in teleportation logic hinges on the assumption that there is an absolute reference frame- which as far as I'm aware there isn't. There is real science behind teleportation, and from what I've seen the frame of reference of the origin is what determines the endpoint. If you COULD manipulate the frame of reference as well, you could teleport a small rock an inch forward, but with the frame of reference of a near lightspeed object to create a crazy projectile.

Basically, you'd still need to follow the rules of conservation of momentum and energy, or it could be broken.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

…and that always comes up as a response. Ok fine, I’ll add another line to the fine print: The ability to teleport at the exact place I want to be. If you want to counter that still, then make it places I’ve been to before. It will limit my destinations, but it still saves me time and effort. I’ve never been to France, but I’ve been to Germany, so that still reduces my travel from almost a day of flying and layovers to a train ride.

[–] BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Place you want to be is a better caveat. Places you have been before is counterable with the original argument since when you account for space on a universal level every Place is a new place

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[–] forty2@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is there a monkey's paw clause in this? Does probability snap back like an elastic on the things you aren't focusing on?

[–] Ediacarium@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.)

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] N0MAD@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Damn, what do you have against mimes?

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’ve always liked the idea of time manipulation- stopping, starting, speeding up, slowing down, rewinding time. It has a lot of uses like giving me as much time as I need to get ready in the morning and doing good in the world in ways I won’t mention.

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

For number one, you might enjoy the excellent, then subsequently boring, show Misfits.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.

Criminally under rated movie.

[–] Object299@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Being able to stop time. Unlimited sleep.

[–] VivianRixia@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Shapeshifter: it’s broken as hell if you take it to the molecular level. Shapeshift into something that can fly, into a very thin transparent film on the ceiling of a room, into something which can withstand great temperatures or bullets, hell, you can even shapeshift into something that photosynthesizes.

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I want time travel like a video game or Git handles it. I want to be able to save and load timelines.

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wanna teleport things. I'll use this to make money, among other things.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I want a familiar named Git that obeys me.

Hey! That annoying guy that you hate speaking with is coming towards you

Git, push!

Would you look at that! What an amazing thing

Git, pull!

Oooh. What a great idea!

Git, commit!

There’s no way I said that, you must be remembering wrong

Git, diff!

So many possibilities

Edit: bonus points if you guess what I’d be stashing all the time

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[–] CobyCat@kbin.earth 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In order of preference:

  1. Immortality
  2. Shapeshifting
  3. The ability to look at something and immediately know what it is and what it's worth (would make flea market and thrift store visits a lot more efficient)
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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Normally I would say teleportation or the ability to fly but in 2025 I think I could solve some big problems with mind control.

[–] megane_kun@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The ability to reset my life from and resume from any "save point".

For the purposes of this power there are two kinds of "save points":

  • autosave points (yearly, on one's birthday)
  • regular save points (done at-will as part of the power)

Why? Who hasn't indulged in the what-ifs of life? What if I can revisit certain points in my life and relive those what-ifs myself?

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[–] BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] flemtone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Teleportation. Most superpowers would be either useless on a day-to-day basis or - as another commenter suggested - would make you too inhuman to continue to have meaningful interpersonal relations with other normal humans.

And it would allow you to have a croissant in Paris for breakfast, spend the morning strolling along a beach in the Caribbean, pop across to a great barbecue place in Texas for lunch, pass the afternoon exploring the ruins of Pompei before an evening meal of scallops in Hobart. Even just not worrying about the daily commute, always being able to 'port home to use your own toilet during the day, just mundane stuff like that would be grand.

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[–] ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Shapeshifting so I can impersonate people. I love Mystique in the X-men.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

"Shapeshifting."
"blahaj.zone"

Checks out.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Super Siri that can answer any questions.

"How do I build a time machine?"

"Is there any hidden treasure around here?"

"How do I make myself immortal?"

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Really close to mine: reach into my pocket and pull out whatever I want to. Time machine? Treasure? Functional immortality tied to my intent to live pill? Pants with a huge pocket so I can pull out this big thing that wouldn't fit in my normal pocket?

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