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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 21:15:41 GMT
A classic.
I want to have absolute immortality. By that, I mean nothing can kill me. The very definition of death would be removed from my person, of all timelines, of all dimensions, and from past, present and future. If you tried to go back in time and kill me before I was immortal, I'd just resurrect again, even though I didn't become immortal yet. On the downside, once the universe ends, I'll just be suffocating in a black unending vacuum until something happens, and I'd probably be the loneliest person to ever live, unless I found another immortal person. I probably wouldn't be able to enter the afterlife at all, if that exists.
please don't kill me if this isn't allowed here, or if this is the wrong forum to put this in i just wanted to talk about super powers
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 21:17:33 GMT
Okay, here's mine:
Power Granting. the ability to give myself new powers as I see fit.
Bam, I just solved your question.
It was a question that nobody knew needed solving, but dang, if it didn't just get solved.
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Post by Sharkalien on Aug 6, 2016 21:47:50 GMT
The obvious choice would be telekinesis. The potential would be practically limitless, if we're talking unconditional powers Flying, stopping projectiles in midair, creating projectiles, controlling people's movements, you know, all sorts of cool shit EDIT: I mean, just look at how versatile and OP telekinesis is |
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 21:56:29 GMT
Another one that people frequently do:
The ability to hop into another, empty dimension, where you don't age, can't catch disease, can't die (unless you suicide intentionally), has power and internet that connects to the outside world, and it has weird time dilation in that passing centuries in it only really counts as like... one second, in real time. You could study for years, could do anything you want for years, if you're feeling like disappearing you can just hop in there and reflect for as long as you want until you feel better.
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Post by imglasses on Aug 6, 2016 22:14:48 GMT
A classic. I want to have absolute immortality. By that, I mean nothing can kill me. The very definition of death would be removed from my person, of all timelines, of all dimensions, and from past, present and future. If you tried to go back in time and kill me before I was immortal, I'd just resurrect again, even though I didn't become immortal yet. On the downside, once the universe ends, I'll just be suffocating in a black unending vacuum until something happens, and I'd probably be the loneliest person to ever live, unless I found another immortal person. I probably wouldn't be able to enter the afterlife at all, if that exists. please don't kill me if this isn't allowed here, or if this is the wrong forum to put this in i just wanted to talk about super powersIMO absolute immortality is the worst thing you could ever wish for. Sure, you'll get to live happily (if you're lucky) for a couple hundred years. Then the government will notice that you're ridiculously old and start experimenting on you, you'll watch everyone you ever love die of old age, and eventually the apocalypse will happen. Then you'll be floating out in space and will eventually get sucked into a star by gravity. You're immortal, but you didn't wish that you couldn't feel pain. So you'll burn horribly for billions of years. But unlike Hell, there's nobody to at least share the experience with. That'll happen several more times until the Big Freeze takes over and there's essentially nothing left except blackness. You will never have a sensation ever again. No sight, no sound, no incoming information of any kind. You'll go completely insane. Not just for billions of years, forever. Actually, most common superpowers have terrible downsides. If you wish for super-speed, the friction and pressure will destroy your feet. If you wish for invisibility, light will pass right through your eyes and you will be blind. If you wish you could stop time, air molecules will stop and you will suffocate. If you wish to time travel, Earth will be in a different place at that time so you'll die out in space somewhere. If you wish you could teleport, you'll appear in a bunch of air molecules, which, if they don't blow you up via nuclear fusion, will just fill your bloodstream and organs give you a heart attack. If you wish you could shapeshift, and you turn into an object or an animal, your brain will be gone or will no longer be able to function, and you'll be dead. Etc. (I know I'm no fun, but I don't want to die okay?) I'd probably choose the ability to make anything that I want to happen, happen. Like a genie, except there's no rules or limits to my wishes, and I only give them to myself, and I don't have to live in a fucking lamp. I can't think of much of a downside to that, other than the fact I'd never have to face any challenges or adversities again, which would probably ruin my "character" or something. But oh well. |
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 22:17:57 GMT
See, the shit with those downsides is that, when you wish for those powers, you're also practically wishing for the side effects to not be there. Immune to friction and pressure, and the blind-eye shit could also not happen (somehow have the ability to see without the necessity of light, in whatever magical terms you have). Plus, I also like to imagine we are in a more... magical setting, in which that kind of magical energy throws science away in exchange for cool bullshit. The ability to teleport would simply be to exist in another place rather than in the place you were before, without displacing anything, or pushing away anything that isn't air.
Reasonably enough, just ignore the shit out of science.
As for the immortality bit; I know this. The character I based it off also feels pain.
However, I'm fairly sure at one point you'd just... get used to it, I suppose. And being insane isn't half bad. Have you ever been insane? I don't think it'd be too terrible.
You can also:
change your name
change your identity
keep travelling around the world
The apocalypse bit is also assuming there'll be a apocalypse. And if WW3 happens, you'll live. The earth won't get destroyed, unless someone gets their hands in a orbital cannon. Sure, the Earth might not be doing very well, but it'll recover. A giant meteor landed in it and covered the sun and made mostly everything die, but it's still fine now. And, if humanity survives to that point, you might be able to escape with them to whatever other places there is before the earth gets swallowed by the sun. It's also assuming the Big Freeze will be a thing. There's hundreds of theories about the end of the universe. Anything could happen. That doesn't change the outcome, but I still mentioned the Big Bounce there. If that's true, then you'll just hop to new universe to new universe, probably end up in planets that end up forming.
And even then, that'd take quadrillions of years.
You'll have enough company.
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 22:21:18 GMT
Yah, what Neptz said: required secondary powers are a thing.
Also, I will tell you now, being insane is NOT fun, as a man who copes with no less than 4 different mental disorders, it sucks.
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 22:22:15 GMT
I meant having your mind broken, you huge nerd. At that point you just wouldn't care, because you're insane.
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 22:24:57 GMT
I'd also rather avoid that particular outcome.
If you're too crazy to take advantage of your sweet powers, what's the point?
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Post by imglasses on Aug 6, 2016 22:27:02 GMT
See, the shit with those downsides is that, when you wish for those powers, you're also practically wishing for the side effects to not be there. Immune to friction and pressure, and the blind-eye shit could also not happen (somehow have the ability to see without the necessity of light, in whatever magical terms you have). Plus, I also like to imagine we are in a more... magical setting, in which that kind of magical energy throws science away in exchange for cool bullshit. The ability to teleport would simply be to exist in another place rather than in the place you were before, without displacing anything, or pushing away anything that isn't air. Reasonably enough, just ignore the shit out of science. As for the immortality bit; I know this. The character I based it off also feels pain. However, I'm fairly sure at one point you'd just... get used to it, I suppose. And being insane isn't half bad. Have you ever been insane? I don't think it'd be too terrible. I think it'd be pretty terrible. Not just the "I'm so quirky and my life sucks and nobody gets me" kind of "insane", the kind of insane where your personality is completely gone, you have no concept of reality or really anything at all, nothing brings you happiness or even any kind of mental stimulation because there is nothing at all, where you're just a mess of disorganized neuronal signals that can hardly even be considered to constitute a consciousness. As if billions of years of burning and an eternity of freezing (probably; I think the Big Freeze theory is more popular now that we've found that the universe's expansion rate is increasing rather than decreasing) weren't bad enough. I just don't see how an extra century or two of possible happiness is worth eternal torment. And the apocalypse will happen. Not necessarily WW3, but the expansion of the Sun until it engulfs Earth, or the Big Freeze, or something else. Given an infinite amount of time, it statistically must happen eventually. And you will presumably be the only immortal one, so you will not have company. As for ignoring science...my wish would probably be the same. It's just so broad that I can basically do whatever I want with it, including giving myself other superpowers. Wishing for that almost feels like cheating, but it's not like there's any rules. |
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 22:30:01 GMT
That's why I just chose giving myself superpowers. I've at least gotta try and be somewhat clever.
Provided I don't just go "screw it" and give myself the superpower you chose.
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Post by Sharkalien on Aug 6, 2016 22:32:43 GMT
You know what, I think I'd also rather be magical instead. I could make weird shit shoot out of my fingertips, make objects float (which would be very space-efficient), talk to animals, literally rip my soul apart to pieces and place them in different objects, rendering me virtually immortal, and I could make the dishes clean themselves
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 22:34:00 GMT
I still say at that point you wouldn't care, because like you said, you'd just be a mess of disorganized neuronal signals. But who knows, maybe I could be able to toggle my immortality at will. I'd also like to state that the absolute immortality I mentioned, for the character that I got that idea of, they simply revive everytime they die, instead of not being able to die or be affected by death. In short, they die, and then after a while (probably a few seconds), they revive again. You can see this in action in their battle. The only rule is that you can't wish for multiple powers, and even THAT is a unofficial one. Mostly because then people would just give themselves every superpower. If I had to have a superpower that went through with science, my wish is simply to have a immune system that can combat any disease, no matter how much virus/bacteria strains evolve, as well as be able to identify cancer, and kill those viruses/diseases instantly. There, I can never get sick again. Awesome! |
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Post by imglasses on Aug 6, 2016 22:44:05 GMT
I still say at that point you wouldn't care, because like you said, you'd just be a mess of disorganized neuronal signals. Okay, but...why would you wish for that? In short, they die, and then after a while (probably a few seconds), they revive again. You can see this in action in their battle.I was literally listening to a remix of this song when I read this The only rule is that you can't wish for multiple powers, and even THAT is a unofficial one. I did technically only give myself one power. It's just a power that I could use to do anything I want, including giving myself new powers. But I guess it depends on the theoretical mechanism I'm using in order to gain these powers, and how easy it is to work around its rules. Like, technically, genies have a rule that you can't wish for more wishes. But you could use your first wish to allow yourself to bypass that rule, and then use your second wish to wish for unlimited wishes. Unless the genie just says "haha, nice try," even though there is no actual rule that you can't do that. ...I wonder if I should be a lawyer. |
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 22:53:56 GMT
I still say at that point you wouldn't care, because like you said, you'd just be a mess of disorganized neuronal signals. Okay, but...why would you wish for that? In short, they die, and then after a while (probably a few seconds), they revive again. You can see this in action in their battle.I was literally listening to a remix of this song when I read this The only rule is that you can't wish for multiple powers, and even THAT is a unofficial one. I did technically only give myself one power. It's just a power that I could use to do anything I want, including giving myself new powers. But I guess it depends on the theoretical mechanism I'm using in order to gain these powers, and how easy it is to work around its rules. Like, technically, genies have a rule that you can't wish for more wishes. But you could use your first wish to allow yourself to bypass that rule, and then use your second wish to wish for unlimited wishes. Unless the genie just says "haha, nice try," even though there is no actual rule that you can't do that. ...I wonder if I should be a lawyer. 1 - Simple: it'd be far too long until that all happened. Sure, I could be experimented on, but it's not like the government would treat me as completely subhuman and a demon. Humans are humans, there's humans involved in that. They're not robots. 2 -  3 - Yes, be a lawyer. You'd make everyone cry. |
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 23:00:39 GMT
"No I am not allowed to consult my lawyer before making my third wish."
"No I cannot wish that everything on this piece of paper were true."
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 23:03:28 GMT
Become the Lawyer-Genie. You can grant any wish, so long as it's related to lawyer stuff (even if it's vaguely related to lawyer stuff. Insane troll logic comes into play here)
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 23:08:21 GMT
And since you're a lawyer, you can get ANYTHING to be lawyer related.
It's genieus.
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 23:10:45 GMT
You can also become the devil's advocate and make everyone cry even even[/b] more.
Or, you can be the Genie-Politician, who can only grant wishes based on what your people want.
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Post by imglasses on Aug 6, 2016 23:27:32 GMT
Or, you can be the Genie-Politician, who can only grant wishes based on what your people want. We can finally build that Death Star. |
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 23:29:26 GMT
Or, you can be the Genie-Politician, who can only grant wishes based on what your people want. We can finally build that Death Star. Or you could finally exile Trump to a isolated dimension of nothingness, leading him to sit there and reflect on his thoughts for all of eternity, until he goes insane and is consumed by eldritch horrors. |
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Post by Piono on Aug 6, 2016 23:33:34 GMT
Except the people don't want him to...
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Post by Neptz on Aug 6, 2016 23:41:32 GMT
I didn't say it had to be all the people, right? Just a large majority~
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Post by imglasses on Aug 6, 2016 23:42:49 GMT
Except the people don't want him to... If we did it to both Trump and Hillary and got entirely new candidates, I bet the majority would agree. Most people seem to just say "well, I hate them both, but I'll vote for one because I hate the other more." But maybe I don't talk to the right people. This is entirely on-topic |
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Post by mementovivere on Aug 7, 2016 0:12:27 GMT
SO SPEAKING OF SUPER POWERS and not politics...
The main one I'd want would be teleportation, including the ability to teleport other people/things. Green Sun powers, basically. I'd constantly be traveling all over the world, be able to live or work or eat wherever I want, visit anyone I want, sneak into any venue I want... and that's only scratching the surface of the creative applications for it.
That or the ability to pause time for as long as I want without aging, although I also like that pocket dimension idea for similar reasons. It'd certainly help with the issues of there not being enough hours in the day to do everything I want.
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