WeirdbeardgameIf you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?
CyanFenRemote restroom usage
Perfect for concerts
Cmot_DibblerYour wish is granted. Here is a box of extra absorbent adult diapers.
Didn’t realize the monkey paw was granting these powers lol.
is that remote restroom usage, or is it a portable restroom?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Undo button.
Oooooh yeaaaah!
Bappitywhat if you go back too much and accidentally undo your birth
Good.
same tbh
Nobody asked to be born
I’d never know.
Don’t see the problem
Noetic97The ability to know exactly where anything I think of is located.
Captain Jack Sparrow:
[Breathing Intensifies]
Hoffa?
I’m definitely thinking historic lost treasure hunter would be an amazing career!
You could make some serious money with this power. You could find anyone’s lost pet or keepsake.
SquirrelYou could also find missing people. This one has serious potential for good. Realistically, though, the CIA (or your country’s equivalent) would force you to do their bidding.
Not to mention the regular occurances of people asking you to locate something they’ve stuck inside themselves.
Oh shit. Didn’t think of that angle. But it’s okay, they’ll never recognize me because I’ll wear glasses while not using my power and take them off when I go all super and shit. That’ll work!
Can’t you just think of the winning lottery ticket?
I guess but I would still use it to find missing pets and stuff. Other people are talking about finding missing people but imo that’s more tricky. Finding 1 missing person is just luck but if you are some how finding 10 or 20 people you are going to be lopked into.
OverzeetopIs breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)
Provoked GamerI’d pick charging batteries while holding them as well except only if it doesn’t affect the battery health of the battery. I’d never have to charge my phone again.
Phone, flashlight, gaming system, headphones, laptop, jump start cars, watch (though the Apple Watch wouldn’t be compatible with my super power…same as in real life with all normal chargers).
The real question is if it would transfer energy magically, or would I experience a calorie deficit. That could go both ways in my book.
I’d be down for the calorie deficit, it’s like 2 powers in one
thrawnAs someone trying to diet, 100% the calorie deficit 😖
Your purpose in life is now to supply power to the grid. At first it’ll be great, you’re celebrated as a neat way to keep the baseline juice coming as fossil fuels phase out. Then you’re asked to stay back a few hours as there’s a shortfall predicted, you oblige out of duty. Then one day you wake up in a drugged daze, strapped to a giant battery, your nutritional needs piped directly to your bloodstream as scientists ever so carefully cut you open to try and figure out how this works, because despite their best efforts to keep your wrecked body alive, one day you will die, and the utter reliance of the grid on your free energy will die with it, and with that kick off the downfall of humanity.
Have you published anything?
Get me out after a couple of decades of the torture and this is the tragic backstory I need to turn evil and plot the end of humanity. Make my savior a nerdy but hot chick (Gal Gadot will work - just put some horn rimmed glasses on her) and have her die while escaping. I think we can get two sequels out of it.
Alien SurferInvisibility, with ability to hide IR and sound and can make recording video cameras invisible too. I’d expose all the corrupt politicians, judges, and CEOs!
That's a fairly major power. The question was about a small thing as a power.
Like the ability to know what judges and politicians are corrupt... From reading the newspaper and their court filings, because they already tell everyone that they're corrupt, like all the time. It's not hidden, it's just next to impossible to get people to care about it. Or to get the right people to care about it.
Like, look at Clarence Thomas, the fucker is corrupt as all hell, and since the Republicans don't care, nothing can really be done. Because it's technically not illegal, and Republicans are blocking any form of Ethics reform.
I’d like to be able to give people arch cramps by making eye contact and saying “bipity bopity boo” quietly.
We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.
I’m a simple man with simple desires. I’m also probably chaotic natural.
Damnit…I’m in. The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there. Someone starts to annoy you while you’re out somewhere, poof. They go a scuttling.
The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there.
So, business as usual for men over 60? (Or so I’m told)
Prostate issues do exist. Hopefully you, I, and the rest of the world will get lucky
the ability to know the right thing to say in every conversation
That's way too op
ok debuff maybe, it’s the right thing according to the current time period moral standards and not based on what I want to say
AtaraxiaSocial engineering. I use it to get people to listen to be so they don’t die.
I was thinking the inability to speak falsehoods would be useful for troubleshooting. “The problem is with the router.” Nope. Not the router. “The problem is with the modem.”…
Sterile_TechniqueTo actually fall asleep within a few minutes of laying in bed, and stay asleep until I actually need/want to be awake.
I have this power, and it is in fact… super
blightbowA friend of mine does too.
I'm ready to form a supervillain league with the sole motivation of unethical research experiments on your kind. This power must be brought to the masses!
I have it too. It took me a few years to figure it out but now I average 12 minutes to fall asleep and can sometimes do it in less than 3.
CrackhappyI have this one too.
I used to have insomnia that came from anxiety about my future (I’m guessing.) When I started doing carpentry and started truly exhausting my body I gained the ability to sleep ANYWHERE ANY TIME FOR HOWEVER LONG I WANTED.
It’s seriously amazing. I’m 33 now and don’t have to work quite as hard, plus am used to the long shifts that are hard on your body. I can still sleep pretty much whenever, wherever.
I flew to England once (it was like a 14 hour flight) and seriously slept the entire time. I didn’t even have a window seat.
I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion… Insomnia hit even in those times.
The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I’ll sleep like a baby come Saturday.
Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn’t high enough to cover prescriptions and I don’t have regular health insurance so… can’t afford them. :-/
Ugh brutal man. I hope one day you can sleep well :(
Here’s hoping. Cracking away at nursing prerequisites, so assuming that path goes as planned, I’m a couple years away from a job as a nurse, which will hopefully translate to a large enough pay check to afford health insurance.
Light at the end of the tunnel.
You can do it. I believe in you.
Thanks! It’s going well so far! Actually rocking a 4.0, but the class I’m in now (microbiology) will likely be putting an end to that. Confident in a passing grade at least, and that’s all I really need for admission into the nursing program. Things are moving along!
Fuck yeah! I’m a stupid tradesman so I don’t exactly know what 4.0 means, but it sounds high. I know from TV that it means good. But I don’t know why haha
Not actually sure if it’s a universal scale, so could be you just grew up with a different system, but it’s a grade point average: 4.0 means all A’s so far. There are some instances of students cranking out a 4.1 or some higher value, but I’m not sure how that happens… like you can score 100% on every assignment, and then take advantage of extra credit to get your class grade higher than 100%, but as far as GPA calculation goes, an A is an A… I think.
…also pretty much everyone I went to highschool with who went on to a trade are now financially WAY ahead of the rest of us dumbasses who bought into some other path. You may be less educated, but definitely not stupid - and on the same page, being educated doesn’t mean someone isn’t stupid… listen to a doctor start talking about something other than their immediate field of study, and you start to realize pretty quick that some of them are just absolute hopeless morons.
I digress :P
Oh wow, good for you man.
I thought it was all A’s, but that also seemed insane to me that someone can get all A’s, and as often as I’ve heard the phrase. But I was bad at school and grew up in a small town so that’s probably why haha
Thanks! I’m lucky to have gotten both good teachers and good classmates so far (both of which can make a huge impact on grade) so I think I owe my current score at least as much to good luck as to my own study habits. I’m also pretty early into the process - I’ve never been a straight-A student before, so I doubt I’ll be able to keep this rolling all the way through completion.