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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

I would choose to have the power to turn off superpowers and then I'd try turning off my superpower and see what happens.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Sixth sense/ Intuition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Easy: Max out luck. Literally no downsides

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Omnipotence

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I’d be able to slam dunk on anyone who guarded me. People would be like, “Won’t this guy stop dunking on people?” Can’t. I wished on a monkey paw.

NBA 2K26 would have to rewrite the game engine like when EA had to introduce “vision cones” to Madden so Michael Vick wasn’t better than Payton Manning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'd effectively be capable of being in two places at once.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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 vat 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 scale it up so that way people weren’t immediately suspicious of how I came up with cures 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Super strength. I'm just always strong. Cool.

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[–] Stomata 3 points 3 months ago

Just stay fit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'd chose telekinesis. Heck man i'm sick of having only 2 hands and i'm lazy. I'm ready to use it everytime.

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