[-] Object299@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, they had the technology to go through the "wakes", but the Jumpers could also jump repeatedly at will. They never really seem to get tired and there's no real limitation outside of not seeing the place. So, they could jump nonstop to multiple places around the world. Are they going to hop through 300 different jump spots? What if one of them leads them to 10,000 meters mid-air. We see Jumpers capable of jumping suspended mid-air, lol.

I'd just bait them into following my wakes and lead them to a final wake mid-air where they'd plummet to their deaths. Could've jumped into a military base, grabbed explosives and weapons, wreak havoc on paladins. It just didn't make a lot of sense, the Jumpers would be extremely powerful in reality and there'd be little to nothing we could do about them. Maybe covert ops with silent snipers to take them out when they're unaware. But that's only if you can actually find them in the first place, which is pretty difficult. I remember one of the characters living in Egypt in some ruins in the middle of nowhere. It took the US ten years of dedicated resources to finding Bin Laden, now imagine if he could just teleport anywhere on the planet at will.

You'd just never find a Jumper if he really didn't want to be found.

[-] Object299@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this is pretty close to my answer, which was omnipotence. Having complete control over anything and everything just by your own imagination would be my answer any day of the week! I'd make myself functionally immortal and indestructible as the first thing I'd do, then probably start building universes of my own.

[-] Object299@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I think a lot of folks who say they wish they could be invisible don't realize how horrible it'd actually be without secondary superpowers. The reason you don't currently fall over and you're able to grab what you're looking at is because you can see your own body and gain a sense of direction. But if you're invisible... how do you know where your feet are going to land exactly? How do you know how far your arm is from that book you're trying to pick up?

It'd be pretty hellish to constantly trip over yourself and not be able to balance yourself at all! This kind of caveat applies to a lot of superpowers, like super strength. Sure, you're strong enough to lift that car, but your bones and flesh aren't. They'll be crushed under the weight and you'll have a big problem, lol.

That said... superpower? I'll go with omnipotence. It's always my answer to any "if you could have X, what would it be?", omnipotence!! It's basically EVERYTHING that I could ever possibly want packed into one. Imagine the sort of life you could have. The sort of freedom. What could you do, create, see, experience, feel. I do daydream about it more than I should.

[-] Object299@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That is still one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. It's so good! It got so much flak but I really enjoyed it. The concept was very interesting and I really wanted to see where it could've gone. I felt like they could've done better in the movie but still, I'll take what I can get.

I always wondered why the jumpers were even struggling against the paladins, though. I mean... they could jump literally anywhere in the world instantly. How are the paladins even able to catch up at all even with the tech they had? It was ridiculous. They also didn't use guns? I didn't get it, lol.

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