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I always thought this was a fun topic. What power would you choose?

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[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop any confrontation by yelling "enough!"

[–] Greenknight777@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laught at you.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 year ago

Finally a plausible power.

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[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff

[–] midorale@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It only works when your eyes are closed.

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[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...

tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is far more insidious than it seems.

That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.

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[–] subignition@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ability to speak and translate between any languages

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.

[–] subignition@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

First human being to get ghosted by the earth; I can live with that honor

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 28 points 1 year ago

Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.

[–] ManjuuLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.

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[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 23 points 1 year ago

Only while asleep

[–] hstde@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.

[–] swnt@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well that's a nice side effect actually

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[–] ape_arms@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power of anti-cheeto dust fingers.

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[–] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The power to manifest any desired food in any quantity

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.

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[–] Dradious@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Immunity to internet reply based side effects

[–] StorageAware@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ability to controls technology with my mind.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you are extra susceptible to suggestion, don't turn off your adblocker ;)

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[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ll go first. The power to always know a person’s next move.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

You can see a person's next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.

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[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How bout the power... to move you.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You keep accidentally making random people's heads explode.

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[–] jhoward@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ability to eliminate others side effects.

[–] Wakdem@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

They transfer to you

[–] Dellyjonut@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have the power to make people instantly be extremely hungry

[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Immunity to side effects. I can take any drug, and it only does the thing it is meant to do. 😤

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[–] DrChickenbeer@artemis.camp 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The power to change stoplights from red to green (and back again)

[–] teraflopsweat@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

But you can only change the light after you’ve gone through it

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[–] lusciousgreen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The power to control gravity at the atomic and cosmic scale

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] mewpichu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The power to send messages to your past self

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every time your past self reads one of your messages they loose the ability to read one word forever.

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[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The power to have ghost doctors from the 1750s perform really bad srs on anyone who tries to think of a bad consequence of me having this power.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ghost doctors read "srs" as "serious" and just give me a mild glare

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