If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Started by jimmy olsen, March 05, 2014, 05:44:03 PM

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If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Super Strength
1 (2.1%)
Super Speed
1 (2.1%)
Invulnerability
0 (0%)
Regenerative Healing
5 (10.4%)
Telepathy
1 (2.1%)
Teleportation
3 (6.3%)
Telekinesis
0 (0%)
Time Control
12 (25%)
Mind Control
8 (16.7%)
X-ray vision
0 (0%)
Pyrokinesis
0 (0%)
Flight
2 (4.2%)
Electromagnetic Control
1 (2.1%)
Shape Shifting
2 (4.2%)
Invisibility
3 (6.3%)
Other
9 (18.8%)

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garbon

#60
March 05, 2014, 10:08:39 PM
Mind control does seem to beat out most of those listed. Why be invisible if you can just get them to not care / not remember?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ed Anger

#61
March 05, 2014, 10:12:18 PM
Quote from: Siege on March 05, 2014, 09:52:11 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 05, 2014, 09:32:50 PM
Cal is a creeper.

At least he didn't contemplate the possible uses for mind control.

mind blasting, not mind control. I want heads to explode.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Valmy

#62
March 05, 2014, 10:19:54 PM
Time Control.  I can go back in time and kill Robert E Lee.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ed Anger

#63
March 05, 2014, 10:21:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on March 05, 2014, 10:19:54 PM
Time Control.  I can go back in time and kill Robert E Lee.

HEY NOW
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MadImmortalMan

#64
March 05, 2014, 10:22:35 PM
I think the ability to give people emotions would be better than mind control. Most of the herd makes their decisions that way and they'll tend to be more affected long after you left.

Maybe telepathic nanomanufacturing. Or simple omniscience.


If you were immortal, you'd have to "come out" and tell everyone so you don't have the problem of inheriting your own stuff. Fame would be the last thing I'd want. Time Enough for Love touched on the problems of really long life.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Siege

#65
March 05, 2014, 10:22:53 PM


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

garbon

#66
March 05, 2014, 10:24:43 PM
Rough
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Siege

#68
March 05, 2014, 10:26:25 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 05, 2014, 10:22:35 PM
I think the ability to give people emotions would be better than mind control. Most of the herd makes their decisions that way and they'll tend to be more affected long after you left.

Maybe telepathic nanomanufacturing. Or simple omniscience.


If you were immortal, you'd have to "come out" and tell everyone so you don't have the problem of inheriting your own stuff. Fame would be the last thing I'd want. Time Enough for Love touched on the problems of really long life.

What's this time enough for love?


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"

DontSayBanana

#69
March 05, 2014, 10:29:02 PM
Speedster.
Experience bij!

jimmy olsen

#70
March 05, 2014, 11:58:12 PM
For female Korean high school students the run away winner is Teleportation, followed by Time Control and then Mind Control and Invisibility.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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The Larch

#71
March 06, 2014, 05:39:28 AM
In my book time control is not time travel.

Solmyr

#72
March 06, 2014, 05:51:11 AM
The one I want is not listed: the ability to know the answer to any question and to have any knowledge or information you want. That's the real super power.

Eddie Teach

#73
March 06, 2014, 05:52:48 AM
Quote from: Siege on March 05, 2014, 10:26:25 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on March 05, 2014, 10:22:35 PM
I think the ability to give people emotions would be better than mind control. Most of the herd makes their decisions that way and they'll tend to be more affected long after you left.

Maybe telepathic nanomanufacturing. Or simple omniscience.


If you were immortal, you'd have to "come out" and tell everyone so you don't have the problem of inheriting your own stuff. Fame would be the last thing I'd want. Time Enough for Love touched on the problems of really long life.

What's this time enough for love?

An extremely tedious Heinlein novel.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Caliga

#74
March 06, 2014, 06:01:01 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 06, 2014, 05:52:48 AM
An extremely tedious Heinlein novel.
You could be describing most of his work with that. :P
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