For example:
- You can fly but you can never stop flying
- You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
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
I would use this power to make a communist organization of my choice completely immune to infiltration
Imagine an America without COINTELPRO
Power to make people have empathy.
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.
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.
Just play the lottery once.
Now you are rich, lucky, and screwed. Hopefully those last 2 cancel each other out.
Why screwed?
Because humans are terrible
Large jackpot winners face double digit multiples of probability versus the general population to be the victim of:
Homicide (something like 20x more likely). Drug overdose
Bankruptcy (how’s that for irony?)
KidnappingAnd triple digit multiples of probability versus the general population rate to be:
Convicted of drunk driving
The victim of Homicide (at the hands of a family member) 120x more likely in this case, ain’t love grand?
A defendant in a civil lawsuit
A defendant in felony criminal proceedingsBut since those events are based on probability, you would be one of the lucky few without those problems!
Like I said, hope the last 2 cancel each other out.
Being lucky all the time will feel like nothing matters or is exciting anymore because the outcome is always positive.
I would have the power to be naturally skilled at anything I do and having it always activated would be a bonus.
Jack of All Trades Activated You are now naturally skilled at all tasks but will never be considered a master in any discipline
Just a bater now can no longer make yourself cum
It’s ok I do house repair for handjobs
That’s fine, I wouldn’t be a master at anything anyway really, just pretty okay
I’d take it. Truly mastering any single skill is almost certainly beyond my ability anyway.
I’m only okay at some things so being okay at all things is a total win.
Healing of all kinds. Ageing, sickness, and wounds.
You suddenly die of cancer that you’ve healed faster than your immune system can kill
Eh, I would class that under sickness.
Can’t die. It’s gonna suck in 800 trillion years. Imagine if you can’t sleep either because you don’t need to recuperate.
I didn’t say Immortal. Death by violence is certainly possible.
Recuperate? I don’t sleep to recuperate, only to pass time.
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
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
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.
Reading this reminded me that my ears are ringing. I can ignore it but if anything draws attention it can get pretty bad.
Ringing sucks. I’m used to random ringing occuring, so I’m good there.
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.
Powers of a deity.
You are now Cyamites, the god of beans. Use your powers wisely.
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.
I love the idea of evil bean god! Thought it was a nice easter bunny chocolate? BAM, BEANS.
THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR CELEBRATING ANOTHER GOD, HERETIC.
There is petty revenge and then there is this.
Revenge is a dish best served with beans.
The USSR obviously
Super strength. I’m just always strong. Cool.
You would have to recalibrate your interactions, or you’d be breaking things and people constantly.
And don’t ever lash out on accident (even if it’s because you got ticklish or you jerked in your sleep)
Just stay fit
Easy: Max out luck. Literally no downsides
You luckily have an abbreviation in your DNA that means your tellemeres don’t shorten. You can’t age. You reach 87000 years old. Humans have gone extinct. You are trapped alone on a dead earth. You try to shoot yourself but the gun misfires. You jump off w cliff, but a sudden updraft catches you and you land safely. In this multiverse, luck is now objective.
I luckily found a way to end myself in that scenario or I luckily never experienced that in the first place and had a wonderful life. Luck very subjective to the person that’s why there’s no drawbacks to it
Good point, if you’re 100% subjectively lucky, not only you would have that ‘live-forever DNA’ but also everyone else that you’d wish for, i.e. all your loved ones. And if you were looking for a new friend or partner, you’d always find a perfect match immediately.
I guess such an ability might have severe negative consequences for the part of the universe you dislike or don’t care about. But from a purely egocentric point of view, I can’t see any drawbacks at the moment.
I think defining luck could be weird. Is it lucky to not die when I want to? Or lucky to do so in a more humane, less painful or instantaneous way?
meh. Id be optimistic that an alien ship would pick me up to experience even more amazing things.
Luck is not an infinite resource, meaning that when ever you get lucky, somebody else won’t. So you’ll actively will siphon luck from people around you. Good luck with the loneliness, no pun intended
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.
Yeah I have said I want a transmissible immunity to sexually transmitted disease, that would save a lot of suffering, and be a lot of fun to get the immunity going out into the world but all disease? Is that advisable? There may be some need for it to keep evolution going, or some effect we can’t predict. I like the way you are rolling it out here.
at will sounds contrary to the post. I mean flight at will would mean not all the time. I feel it would have to be like your touch cured any and all diseases always.
The power to see through clothing. Because it would remind me that no one is really important.
Umm… Sure that’s why you want that
I mean, why else? Unless you’re surrounded by swimsuit models, most of what you’d see isn’t that pleasant. Plus everybody’s body would be smushed from their clothing, so it’d look kind of wonky.
I am incredibly resilient.
The doctors will have to find a chemist to even do surgery
