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Which superpower would you choose?

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Jack V Savage said:
No, like if your power was to believe whatever you want. You could just tell yourself you're the toughest guy in the room in every room, and the odds are that it would never actually be tested so there would be no practical difference.

Plus, if you're minimally intelligent, that power could make you millions as a right-wing commentator.
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Oh, Jack.... {<redford}

Falsedawn said:
My thing with super strength is that it doesn't say whether or not you get superhuman fine motor control. Will I spend a couple of years pulling the door off my car? Imagine a shit hitting the toilet water at Mach 2. I need clarification before I can commit to that.
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Or chopping your bedside table in half every time you go to hit the snooze button? Good observation. I wouldn't want it turned on all the time, for sure. I picture it as a well of unlimited energy that you can draw from whenever you want to. You can go about your life not worrying about breaking every bone in your chick's hand when you hold hands. Or shooting a basket ball straight through the backboard.
I'll use a crude power scale of 1-10 for example. I don't need to amplify my strength to open a car door or turn the faucet on. But in a fight? Yeah, I'll turn it up to 2 or 3. Working construction and the boss wants a couple sheets of 3/4 plywood? No prob. Turn it up to a 5 and carry them all together. House is on fire and you're are trapped inside? Turning it up to 10 and going right through the wall is an option.

Hope this helps.
 
Jack V Savage said:
Might be that it's nothing, including your clothes. Would it still be good if you ended up naked everywhere you went? It would still be good, I guess. Say you just have to set up a dressing room wherever you plan to go. And if you've gotten yourself into such a jam that you don't have the time to plan, hey better awkwardly naked than dead.
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Then I would choose a different power but since it's not so defined in the poll, I choose to assume the most favorable conditions. Like what allows super speed to not burn you to a crisp due to friction or get limited by air resistance? How come every time a super strong person picks up something super heavy he doesn't sink into the ground due to all that mass suddenly acting on such a small surface area? Certainly, the perils of being able to read everyone's mind and not being able to turn them off have been explored in many stories. How about the constant sonic booms following teleportation as the surrounding air rushes in to fill the space they used to occupy? And so on ad nauseum.

Fortunately, I already have a super power. Just read the paragraph above and you'll see why I'm called
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Captain Pedantic.


Though leaving that aside, applause for the mental image as Awkwardly Naked sounds like a band some here could really identify with.
 
Andy Capp said:
Then I would choose a different power but since it's not so defined in the poll, I choose to assume the most favorable conditions. Like what allows super speed to not burn you to a crisp due to friction or get limited by air resistance? How come every time a super strong person picks up something super heavy he doesn't sink into the ground due to all that mass suddenly acting on such a small surface area? Certainly, the perils of being able to read everyone's mind and not being able to turn them off have been explored in many stories. How about the constant sonic booms following teleportation as the surrounding air rushes in to fill the space they used to occupy? And so on ad nauseum.
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The difference IMO is that some safeguards are fundamental to having the power. If super speed kills you the first time you use it, you barely even have it. Not sure that that counts for keeping your clothes when you teleport. Being naked in inappropriate times/places is more of an inconvenience than something that cancels out the power.
 
Jack V Savage said:
The difference IMO is that some safeguards are fundamental to having the power. If super speed kills you the first time you use it, you barely even have it. Not sure that that counts for keeping your clothes when you teleport. Being naked in inappropriate times/places is more of an inconvenience than something that cancels out the power.
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Even as I lack the energy to rebut this further, because again it's ultimately arbitrary in the fullest sense,I think that condition would limit its usefulness to the point where several other options in the poll would be better.
 
Actually, if I could have a superpower, I'd love to own whatever power Michael Duncan Clarke had in Green Mile. Ideally, it wouldn't be so painful, or need me to suck face with someone to do it, but imagine if you had the power to completely remove a terminal illness from somebody. I would be busy, that's for sure.
 
Anyone who’s seen True Blood knows mind reading sucks.

Who hasn’t dreamed of being able to fly? Easy choice.

Jack V Savage said:
You a pilot?
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Rebelfett said:
No
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Plum harvester, imo.

Falsedawn said:
My thing with super strength is that it doesn't say whether or not you get superhuman fine motor control. Will I spend a couple of years pulling the door off my car? Imagine a shit hitting the toilet water at Mach 2. I need clarification before I can commit to that.
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You’re over thinking this.
 
Headkicktoleg said:
How do I get my wife to accept that I'm a person who identifies as 68 degrees is comfortable.
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Falsedawn said:
You nut the fuck up and put it at 72 like a well functioning individual.
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Lowmanproblems said:
Im a 68 in winter, 74 in summer guy. I try to be energy conscious.
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This is seriously the most marriage strife we’ve had

all winter long, I come home from work and she had the heat set to 72

We had two days in the mid 70s so far here, she set the AC to 68

you don’t get to have it colder in the summer and warmer in the winter in the house. We can’t afford that
 
essie said:
If you don’t sleep in a pitch black, freezing room with a fan blowing directly on the bed we aren’t fucking.
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If I wasn’t worried about pipes freezing in the winter I’d be cracking my windows open in the winter.
 
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