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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 2 points 1 week ago

I am incredibly resilient.

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shapeshifting. It's what I wanted anyway and I can always just be continuously toggling the length of my little toenail to be 1mm longer or shorter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah, I get to choose my boob size, and I can have my hair changing colors like in Terraria!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Easy: Max out luck. Literally no downsides

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if breathing is your superpower

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just play the lottery once.

Now you are rich, lucky, and screwed. Hopefully those last 2 cancel each other out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I would want the superpower of linguistics: the ability to fluently read, speak, and understand any language ever spoken or will be spoken.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I guess in combination with the 'can't stop it' twist that would mean that you can't stop talking in these old and random languages. So people will think you're crazy and you'll end up in some kind of mental illness hospital.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The devastating climate effects of m-p{3} were well known through most of the 21st century until their death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

hmmmm, "plot armor" sounds nice to be always on.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That lady that makes people explode by thought from they boys . I would only need it for a few hours then just keep it as backup just incase any more Nazi's get anymore ideas. That includes the Russian ones as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how this works if it's never turned off? Are you always evolving someone's head? Like 1 person in your line of sights head explodes per second or does everyone need you just get a headache?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I mean the power is on all the time she just has to wish for them to blow up but yeah I would have go live with some monks after I did the first batch to make sure my mind is centered but I'm willing to make that sacrifice

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm always at a comfortable temperature no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If humanity finds out about that property of you, you might end up as some kind of human battery. If you can't be cooled down under any circumstances, one could use your body to heat up infinite amounts of water/air with heat pumps and use you to heat entire cities. Super useful for the rest of humanity but not exactly the life I'd like to live. :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think it would be worth it, as the thermal conduction would be far too low to be useful

However, it would be a useful ability in extreme environments, such as space or Antarctica or something like that. So your chances of becoming an astronaut would massively increase.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We could also run some heat pipes through the body to improve conductivity, stretch the skin to increase the surface etc.

If the person doesn't need to be alive to stay at a comfortable temperature we could even grind the body into a powder of tiny heat emitting particles. Then add a very fast flowing liquid with a good conductivity and our super hero heating system is good to go.

But enough psychopath talk now. I personally don't want to turn anyone into a heating system, but I'm sure capitalism will find a way to exploit this special property. :D

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That is a really good one. Because you can't stop it, but a comfortable temperature is always comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Magneto's power set could be very useful and easy to manage. Magnets can certainly be made stronger and weaker. He/I would need to build up to any dangerous level of magnetic power, so meditation before sleep would be clutch. Bullet-proof, flight, what amounts to telekinesis, and the ability to manifest any metallic object is fairly incredible, yet unobtrusive.

Also, Forge's power set would be pretty nice to have. Can engineer, build, fix, and invent literally anything. Solve any technological problem at will. The photocopier would never be broken. Wait, does anyone still use a photocopier? The only thing that'd be annoying is becoming everyone's IT department.

Jamie Madrox is also a great contender. Instant dupes of myself at will (and, yes, magically, they come with clothes).

These are my answers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And canonically if a dupe holds an item, and you hit them you get another of the same. So buy gold bars and keep on going to the pawn shop

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Make billionaires turn inside out when they're on the same planet as me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It happens continuously and so fast its not perceptible

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Omnipotence

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