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      2 months ago

      You forget what you like if you are changed for too long and don’t have a detailed enough reference

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      you shapeshift, but your state and society will periodically and randomly remind you, that they know, what shape you had earlier … wait, that does already exist. still superpower tho!

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          Every time you shapeshift, you lose the ability to shape shift one more atom than the last time you shapeshifted?

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      You can only shift into a species that you’ve seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)

      And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.

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          You shapeshift, including your mind. When you change into a person, you take on all of their memories as well. You become a complete copy, and the old you simply ceases to exist. If you turn yourself into Donal Trump, there’s just a random copy of the president sitting in your apartment, utterly confused about where he is or how he got there. And the ability to shapeshift was a power of your old body. The new one can’t shapeshift.

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      You can’t actually become anything unique, the body approximately closest to your imagination becomes yours. They also, become you in turn. You immediately become a world wide sensation if used frequently.

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      Your brain shape shifts as well into an exact copy of the animal you mimic. You have the intelligence of the creature you turn into. Which means a one way trip as any coherent logical human thoughts is driven out by animal instincts.

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        If I shapeshift into another human, I’d just have their memories. Id have to shapeshift somewhere calm, and leave myself notes

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          This would have infer that your shape shifting skill had the ability to mimic not just their DNA but their nueral patterns as well. Without that you are again just left with instinct and a blank slate brain with no memory or knowledge.

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          Oh my god, Memento meets Animorphs.

          Holy shit this is actually a good idea, I would actually read this book or watch this movie…

          It could also work in a video game, but it would be very difficult to pull this off as the player character… could make for some extremely interesting NPCs in various settings.

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        Not until you finally get it right, and at that point you look like a total freak to everyone else. But at least you’re satisfied.

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      Your weight also change, but the difference is converted to energy using mass–energy equivalence formula.

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          Wouldn’t it be more like: Grow slowly -> burn proportional amount of calories Since you would need to get that energy from somewhere

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              Honestly, I could probably get behind that lol. After long enough I bet you could get really good at getting your mass exactly how you wanted it depending on what you want to do.

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      But special relativity still applies. So you can only do this by traveling at nearly the speed of light away from or towards your target. Travelling this fast is a separate power with separate side effects, and you don’t have it.

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        Read 'The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Wormhole / time dilation causes the troops to experience time differnetly from the folks back on Earth. every time they return from a mission, decades or even centuries have passed.

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          Sounds like hard sci fi… My absolute favourite! I will actually take this recommendation as soon as I’ve finished Every Version of You by Grace Chan (which I also recommend btw)

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      Side effect: but, every time you do, it causes you to have an eight-hour-long, extremely intense psychedelic experience.

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      You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time. Your muscles don’t move any faster. If someone is throwing a punch at you and you slow down time, you can appreciate the fist moving at your face for an hour of your slowed-down time, but you still can’t dodge the punch. If you speed up time, you still need to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions. So, instead of getting hungry every few hours, you get hungry in what feels like seconds. And, since you don’t have super-speed, you need to slow time back down again so you can eat.

      It might still be a power worth having, but it’s not as awesome as it might seem at first.

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        It would be great for raw reaction time, granted you’d still have to wait for your body to catch up.

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    Neural typical ignoramus is what I choose. I’d like to be able to ignore what’s happening in my country and be happy like a bunch of these dumbassss