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  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
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    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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      I would use this power to make a communist organization of my choice completely immune to infiltration

      Imagine an America without COINTELPRO

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    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.

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    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.

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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    I’d chose telekinesis. Heck man i’m sick of having only 2 hands and i’m lazy. I’m ready to use it everytime.

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        The dream of engineers: they can’t get sick so no depression, they don’t need to sleep so infinite focus and learning, and half a million years would be sufficient to build a large underground automated city and preparing space travel to find solutions for their curse

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          Ah yes, I also play factorio/satisfactory/dwarf fortress/rim world. I could easily do 1000 years with each of those, but a million might be streatching it

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        Could be worse. Highly nutritious foodstuff providing plenty of vitamins, protein, and fiber. I could do a lot to alleviate some world hunger immediately. Making people fart all over the world would be fun, too.

        I could also put beans in the no-bean-chili gatekeepers chili. Evil bean god could be fun, too.

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    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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      Reading this reminded me that my ears are ringing. I can ignore it but if anything draws attention it can get pretty bad.

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      I can live without hearing, thanks to subwoofers, but if I ever go blind I think I’m just going to kill myself.

      So permanent good vision; I pick that.

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    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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    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

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      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.”

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      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

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

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          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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      “I forgot one thing about the guy who had gained the ability to fly - it was actually only for a foot or two, and only an inch or so high”

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