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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

I would choose to have the power to turn off superpowers and then I'd try turning off my superpower and see what happens.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You are now Cyamites, the god of beans. Use your powers wisely.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Teleport. Its always on, so I'm just flickering on the spot constantly so fast that its only visible on some cameras.

At the same time this gives me the seeming ability to fly at will, be anywhere, and potentially float (destructively) through walls.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Omnipotence

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’d be able to slam dunk on anyone who guarded me. People would be like, “Won’t this guy stop dunking on people?” Can’t. I wished on a monkey paw.

NBA 2K26 would have to rewrite the game engine like when EA had to introduce “vision cones” to Madden so Michael Vick wasn’t better than Payton Manning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The USSR obviously

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sixth sense/ Intuition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Easy: Max out luck. Literally no downsides

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The ability to cure any disease at will. Also the ability would be transferable. So if i touch an object, and then have that object touched another individual touches it or consumes, it would heal a disease or ailment.

I would then claim to have discovered the cure for Alzheimer’s. I would just touch a large vat of some sort of liquid and then ship out A vile of liquid from that vat And then the person is cured of Alzheimer’s.

Within a year, I’d come up with a cure for another disease and then start shipping out the vials for that too.

Maybe a year after that I come out with cures for 3 diseases. I’d have to scale it up so that way people weren’t immediately suspicious of how I came up with cures for everything.

I would have to charge enough so I could keep expanding the company paying for employees and machinery needed to create the vials package it ship it, etc. I’d charge a dollar per vial sent out for my personal profit. With a minimum personal profit of $40,000 US per year.

And just so the world isn’t screwed when I’m dead, I would transfer the ability onto multiple object objects. So for example, I would put it on rocks. That way they could use the rock to then touch the vile of liquid to create more medicine.

Since I could never turn it off, I would just keep healing a small patch of skin on my big toe or something. Since skin is continuously aging and technically aging is a disease I would have no problem on the side effects. It would just continuously heal that patch until I want to heal something else.

One vile would cure one ailment or disease.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The ability to shapeshift doesn't really get affected by this caveat, so that remains about as appealing as it was before.

Taken to an extreme, one can get a controllable/turn-off-able biological immortality and at-will violation of conservation of matter/energy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Super strength. I'm just always strong. Cool.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hope you like a sleeping masks. cause eyelids could be a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I expect that the physics of true invisibility would actually make you blind, since your retinas wouldn't be able to absorb any photons. They would have to pass through unaltered to maintain invisibility. Otherwise people would be able to see 2 "shadows" where your retinas are.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am incredibly resilient.

The doctors will have to find a chemist to even do surgery

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