So if you could choose a superpower what would it be? and what kinds of things would it be also please nothing god-like, like overpowered and such.

  • colonial@lemmy.world
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    Shapeshifting. Lots of applications! Just off the top of my head:

    • Need to get somewhere? Just become something small and stow away on a jumbo jet. (Or become a bird and fly there yourself!)
    • Need some extra strength or flexibility? Just turn up your muscles or stretch out your limbs.
    • Find yourself in a dangerous situation/environment? You can adapt on-the-fly.
    • Disguise yourself as someone with power to fix things (or wreak havoc, depending.)

    Obviously there are Questions™ involving how this would interact with conservation laws, but we can just handwave those.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      That’s always been one that sounded super cool to me. Honestly I’d turn into weird stuff out of curiosity, like just to see what compound eyes are like, or what it’s like to be liquid.

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    Superspeed. If overpowered can’t be used then maybe not to the extent of Flash.

    I might choose something like teleportation then. Would no longer need a car!

  • GuyDudeman
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    I think my superpower would be to be able to communicate to anyone in a way in which they always fully understood my meaning.

  • makingStuffForFun
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    Ability to know every legal system to the most minute detail. I could then challenge unjust laws, particularly those that are a result of corruption, and have them overturned. It would be amazing. I’d probably be assassinated though. That would be a bummer.

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        They would be fodder. Like children trying to understand complex ideologies and processes. They could not compete against a super power of knowing every nuance of every law in the world.

  • Hundun@beehaw.org
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    I would like to be able to spread basic education and academic literacy by touch. Like boop - and suddenly your “research” into “liberal agendas” is a joke we can both enjoy.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    See, that’s a paradox. The more useful it would be the closer it is to overpowered. Somebody please add rules.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    The ability to talk to strangers without getting nervous/anxious.

    I can only imagine me just being confident enough to talk to someone without my words kinda stumbling out of my mouth in not just normal settings, but also if I was in danger, too.

  • alokir@lemmy.world
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    The ability to set save states and load them at will. Upon death there’s a prompt to die permanently or continue from a save.

    If that’s too overpowered, then the ability to create an invisible mental construct and see through its eyes, maybe even interact with the world thru it to some extent.

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    Body Jump back in time to a previous version of myself.

  • sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works
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    Gravity manipulation for sure. Can make the phone heavier so I don’t accidentally pull it off the table when it’s charging, make myself lighter than air so I can fly, turn the earth into a black hole. You know, that sort of thing.