For example:

  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I think defining luck could be weird. Is it lucky to not die when I want to? Or lucky to do so in a more humane, less painful or instantaneous way?

      • Extras@lemmy.today
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        3 months ago

        I luckily found a way to end myself in that scenario or I luckily never experienced that in the first place and had a wonderful life. Luck very subjective to the person that’s why there’s no drawbacks to it

        • rbn@sopuli.xyz
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          3 months ago

          Good point, if you’re 100% subjectively lucky, not only you would have that ‘live-forever DNA’ but also everyone else that you’d wish for, i.e. all your loved ones. And if you were looking for a new friend or partner, you’d always find a perfect match immediately.

          I guess such an ability might have severe negative consequences for the part of the universe you dislike or don’t care about. But from a purely egocentric point of view, I can’t see any drawbacks at the moment.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Never becoming deaf and always having good hearing. I’m not sure I’d be able to enjoy life anymore if I became deaf, so just having good hearing would make the rest of my life worth living, without any major side effects I could think of.

    • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Reading this reminded me that my ears are ringing. I can ignore it but if anything draws attention it can get pretty bad.

  • folaht@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I would choose to have the power to turn off superpowers and then I’d turn off my superpower.

      • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 months ago

        I mean, why else? Unless you’re surrounded by swimsuit models, most of what you’d see isn’t that pleasant. Plus everybody’s body would be smushed from their clothing, so it’d look kind of wonky.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • Doombot1@lemmy.one
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    3 months ago

    How pedantic do we get to be? Like, I’d be fine with flying because I could just hover a millimeter from the ground instead of standing, I would think

    • rbn@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      If you don’t specify a currency or a grade of inflation, this might kill far more people than expected.

      1 billion Iranian Real for instance is just about 23752 USD.

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you’d implode.

      Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      So, question: when the billionaire dies, does their wealth transfer according to local laws? So an entire lineage could instantly turn inside out, including bastard children on the fringes of inheritance, with only an estate tax to save them?

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Counterpoint:

        Who cares?

        The traumatic shock of any one person personally possessing a billion dollars or more in wealth being Dr. Manhattan’d would eventually lead people to realize that they need to redistribute wealth.

        The potential number of potentially innocent people killed by this process is infinitesimal compared to the deaths and uneccessary harm caused by the general hoarding of wealth.

        The new, hard mandated moral norm of the planet would be that possessing over a billion dollars gets you functionally smote by god, obviously the universe has imposed a hard cap on wealth accumulation and thus it is actually bad.

        You can quibble about inflation, and I can quibble about making some more precise measure based on a formulation revolving around proportion to the median wealth of 100 miles of where the ‘billionaire’ is currently standing.

        We are talking about magical superpowers here, presumably there would be a magical way to force actual transparency of hidden assets and what not, account for non liquid investements, all that.

        A sane world that exists after this paradigm would put in place basically the reverse of overdraft protection, it would automatically stop any desposit that would make your net wealth exceed the magic number, it would automatically disperse shares of stocks or CDs or bonds or whatever to some kind of public pool or random people such that no individual ever singly has over a billion bucks or whatever the magic number is.

        If you did not create a world like that, then ‘random’ people would keep liquifying whenever their net wealth exceedes magic number.

        Every incentive would thus exist for all but the literally suicidal to carefully manage their investments and basically create something like the above mentioned system.

        … You could probably make a decent anime or show out of this idea.

        Its like a Death Note on autopilot, and if it is actually emmenating from a single person, doubtless a number of oligarchs would attempt to hide their wealth, as well as probe the system to figure out its rules, figure out who the actual person with this ‘superpower’ is, and kill them.

        This person may not even know it is them, and then they may figure it out on their own, or may be prevented from being assasinated by some other group that did figure out it is them, and wants to protect them because billionaires bad.

        Tons of dramatic person to person character dynamics, as well as larger scale social conflict plot setups here.

      • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Logically since all billionaires die, their lineage would be gradually wiped out.

        Where it gets tricky is how they would manage the money. If the money is not directly controlled by them, are they billionaires? So does the CFO of a multi billion dollar company also get turned inside out?

        It would be a heck of a monkey paw without stipulations that would make the point worthless.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Sometimes the always on healing works so good cells start doing things like reactivating telomerase and ignoring the signals for programmed cell death and become cancer, sometimes turning effectively immortal.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        3 months ago

        Not for everything and not good enough though.

        Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

        Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don’t consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It’d suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.

      • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What if there’s an earthquake and you get stuck under a mountain of rubble? Could take months for you to get out of there. How about a skiing accident involving an avalanche? Could take even longer When you are completely immortal, you suddenly start to view certain risks in a very different way.

        • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          How crazy of a healing factor are we talking about. Broken bones healed in a day? Or healing from a gunshot to the brain?

          Having a healing power that would let me lose an arm or a lung and regrow it would be awesome. But regrowing a brain would be problematic.

          Does healing include not aging? Or the tearing and rebuilding of muscles? It would be wild to have a healing factor that allows you to essentially body build in a single day.