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teamsonic2011@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days 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 · 8 days ago
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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 guess I choose Denmark or maybe Portugal. Having USA and Russia being superpowers has been real shit.

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    Magically summon pizza whenever I want

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      but only anchovy and pineapple pizza

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    Fall asleep at any time and place by will

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      It is impossible to wake up until you are fully rested, including by alarm, fire, or intruder.

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        image

        I either wake up rested or not my problem anymore.

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          Just make sure you pee first!

    • morphite88@thelemmy.club
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      But when you wake up, you’re in a random spot in the wilderness. Every time.

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      You wake up with a severe headache everytime.

      • VonReposti@feddit.dk
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        This is apparently my superpower and side effect combo.

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    Teleportation!

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      But you have to go through TSA every time

      • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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        Easy there Hitler 🤣🤣🤣

      • Victor@lemmy.world
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        😂 I’m on the shitter at work damn you, can’t be laughing out loud!

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

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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… 😆

        • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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          The odds of you NOT ending up dangerously high above the ground or embedded IN the ground are… low.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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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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    I’ll stick with the strongest superpower of them all, I am Cables Never Tangle Man!

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      But you cannot tie knots anymore. Even worse - every knot you touch magically slips open. Be careful not to trip over your shoelaces!

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        Velcro has entered the chat…

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          So many tiny little knots

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            It’s going to look like a shag rug as soon as they touch it

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      Your cables break every 3 days

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      Every time you get an error it is unknown error

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    The power to reply to my own comment.

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      but you have multiple personality disorder

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      You become god.

      (Not oc, this is a known joke)

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

  • limer@lemmy.ml
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    Super strength

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      You can’t use anything but maximum super strength, all the time.

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        I’m gonna jerk off. Oh no…

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          Username checks out 😄

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          Wait does every part of you get super strength?

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        Ouch, yeah that’s going to really ruin fondue night.

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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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    Master poet level fluency in all languages

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      You can now hardly remember anything else (as happened to me, my memory is full of Chinese vocab with no space for anything else).

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      Terribly loud non-stop belching

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        So no new drawbacks, then? Sweet!

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      You are now blind and deaf like Helen Keller. Good luck, she figured it out, you’ll be fine.

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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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    Shapeshifting to any other human or humanoid body

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      But you can only do so by singing, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” as loudly as you can.

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      But you also shift into that humans or humanoids personality

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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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    X ray vision

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      Everyone in your line of sight gets the full radioactive dosage

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      It cannot be regulated

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        Ha! So Congress can’t stop me!

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    The power to talk to women without staring at their feet.

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      In long-dead languages they can’t understand

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        Deal. I’m Autistic so that’s barely any different.

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      Instead you cannot stop staring at their boobs. And yes, that includes your family, bosses and so on.

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        deleted by creator

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      you can only speak to them in languages they don’t understand.

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