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What's your superpower? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

To disappear without anyone knowing.

[-] Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago

I can tell if an electric device is properly grounded or not just by touch. I don't mean getting shocked, when I run my fingers on a surface it feels differently from when it is properly grounded.

[-] selzam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I share this power. I hate using laptop powersupplies that aren’t grounded (on macbooks for example).

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[-] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

I can do the Skype notification sound with my mouth, but it's not a natural ability, a beatboxer classmate taught me during highschool. He could also mimic a cricket and that derailed more than one lesson, but he never taught me that one.

[-] rpl6475@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Hyposmia (poor sense of smell)

Being deficient in a sense might seem like a downside but I find that people's comments about smells in the world are far more negative than they are positive.

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[-] sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I have two superpowers:

Mosquitoes don't find me delicious. When everyone else is getting hammered, they generally leave me alone. When I do get bit, the bites barely swell and they don't usually itch.

Rock star parking- Anywhere I go, I always check out immediately in front of the place I need to be. There's almost always an empty spot, and if there isn't there's someone just leaving that I pull into. I dunno how that helps me fight crime, but it sure would be useful if I were a bank heist getaway driver.

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[-] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If I read something my brain stores keywords/phrases to it anywhere from 30min to years. Sounds super normal (I think, least for 30min), but this has served me really well in two areas.

  1. Tests. As long as it's a knowledge test and not a skill test I can skim read right before (even if it's like 100 pages and I didn't learn any of it before) and pass (for multiple choice grade is usually in the 90s, write-in is more 80s). Only professional place I use this outside of school is the bullshit PowerPoint "training" at work that makes you take a test at the end... (I don't work an office job, idk might be more useful there)
  2. Online message chats. Great for looking stuff up like birthdays or preferences or someone told me something specific a year ago and now wants to talk about it in-depth and I have to go refresh on the exact health conditions of their dog while they're grieving to me (I mean I could ask for a refresher, but when a friend is needing a comforting ear I'd rather just search it up quick while they type instead of making them back track their narrative which when you feel upset feels really alone someone can't be right there in the moment with you off the bat, just a small way to care for my friends). Mainly though I do text DND and it's amazing there lol. Had an unintentional tpk and offered a restart with memories (deus exmachina literally time rewind) which my group was into. I'm like shit we've been running this campaign for years, how am I going to remember the exact fight setups, initial NPC reactions, etc. I had a very specific search phrase for every event memory logged and made the whole thing a breeze to re-do literal years of content. And tbh I think I enjoyed it even more than my players cause I'd go back and reread their early murderhobo days and then get to freshly compare it to their evolved anarchist present (...I mean they were still murderhobos, but brought a tear to my eye to compare they'd learned some principles and loyalty lol).
[-] notarobot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I can tell when someone is about to run a red light.

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Depression ♥

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I can speak Finnish.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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[-] kraftpudding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I am cold resistant in general and I never had a brain freeze headache. Can load up my whole mouth with crushed ice or popsicles and let it all melt, never had one.

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I can make warts go away by touching them while counting. It's been in my family for generations.

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