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  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
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    3 months ago

    The devastating climate effects of m-p{3} were well known through most of the 21st century until their death.

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    Shapeshifting. It’s what I wanted anyway and I can always just be continuously toggling the length of my little toenail to be 1mm longer or shorter.

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      Hell yeah, I get to choose my boob size, and I can have my hair changing colors like in Terraria!

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      Can’t die. It’s gonna suck in 800 trillion years. Imagine if you can’t sleep either because you don’t need to recuperate.

      • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
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        The dream of engineers: they can’t get sick so no depression, they don’t need to sleep so infinite focus and learning, and half a million years would be sufficient to build a large underground automated city and preparing space travel to find solutions for their curse

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        I expect that the physics of true invisibility would actually make you blind, since your retinas wouldn’t be able to absorb any photons. They would have to pass through unaltered to maintain invisibility. Otherwise people would be able to see 2 “shadows” where your retinas are.

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            Not really an endorsement but the ones I use look more like ski goggles in their shape. I have a high nose bridge so that is the only kind I can use that doesn’t leak a lot. The one on the right in this picture is what I prefer.

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

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      You would have to recalibrate your interactions, or you’d be breaking things and people constantly.

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        And don’t ever lash out on accident (even if it’s because you got ticklish or you jerked in your sleep)

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    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.

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      2 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.

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    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.

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      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.

      • Extras@lemmy.today
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        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

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          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.

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        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?

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    The ability to cure any disease at will. Also the ability would be transferable. So if i touch an object, and then have that object touched another individual touches it or consumes, it would heal a disease or ailment.

    I would then claim to have discovered the cure for Alzheimer’s. I would just touch a large fat of some sort of liquid and then ship out A vile of liquid from that vat And then the person is cured of Alzheimer’s.

    Within a year, I’d come up with a cure for another disease and then start shipping out the vials for that too.

    Maybe a year after that I come out with cures for 3 diseases. I’d have to skill it up so that way people weren’t immediately suspicious of how I came up with curious for everything.

    I would have to charge enough so I could keep expanding the company paying for employees and machinery needed to create the vials package it ship it, etc. I’d charge a dollar per vial sent out for my personal profit. With a minimum personal profit of $40,000 US per year.

    And just so the world isn’t screwed when I’m dead, I would transfer the ability onto multiple object objects. So for example, I would put it on rocks. That way they could use the rock to then touch the vile of liquid to create more medicine.

    Since I could never turn it off, I would just keep healing a small patch of skin on my big toe or something. Since skin is continuously aging and technically aging is a disease I would have no problem on the side effects. It would just continuously heal that patch until I want to heal something else.

    One vile would cure one ailment or disease.

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      Yeah I have said I want a transmissible immunity to sexually transmitted disease, that would save a lot of suffering, and be a lot of fun to get the immunity going out into the world but all disease? Is that advisable? There may be some need for it to keep evolution going, or some effect we can’t predict. I like the way you are rolling it out here.

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    2 months ago

    I would have the power to be naturally skilled at anything I do and having it always activated would be a bonus.

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      Jack of All Trades Activated

      You are now naturally skilled at all tasks but will never be considered a master in any discipline

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        2 months ago

        I’d take it. Truly mastering any single skill is almost certainly beyond my ability anyway.

        I’m only okay at some things so being okay at all things is a total win.

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        That’s fine, I wouldn’t be a master at anything anyway really, just pretty okay