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I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?

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[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Stop any confrontation by yelling "enough!"

[-] Greenknight777@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 20 points 1 year ago

Finally a plausible power.

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[-] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff

It only works when your eyes are closed.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.

Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect

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[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...

tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago
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[-] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 28 points 1 year ago

Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.

[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 50 points 1 year ago

Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.

[-] ManjuuLemmy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.

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[-] subignition@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

The ability to speak and translate between any languages

[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.

[-] subignition@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor

[-] ape_arms@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.

[-] Sunroc@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

You were born without fingertips and can't do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤

[-] Brokewood@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you'd better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium

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[-] DrPop@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago
[-] hstde@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.

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[-] Dradious@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Immunity to internet-reply-based side effects

[-] Bluerat@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

But Everyone loves you. Oh... wait....

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

How bout the power... to move you.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago

You keep accidentally making random people's heads explode.

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[-] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity

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[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It manifests as a storm cloud, raining the food down over a large area over a short period of time.

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[-] Qyuzu@lemdro.id 16 points 1 year ago

The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!

[-] Bluerat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

You can only do it with extreme violence

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[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.

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[-] StorageAware@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ability to controls technology with my mind.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago

you are extra susceptible to suggestion, don't turn off your adblocker ;)

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[-] Dellyjonut@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry

[-] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger

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[-] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago
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