Your Favorite Super Power

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Manipulating time would be horrible. Every single time you did or changed something, you’d have to worry about what else you messed up.

Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.[/quote]

Then you’ve screwed something else up. Before long, you’re doing nothing more than spending your entire day rewinding and resetting just to find the most favorable outcome. Rinse and repeat for the rest of eternity every time you wanted to use your power.

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[quote]Christine wrote:
Ouiser wrote:
I’d be a Jedi with a light saber.

Edit: I know some will say Jedi is more than one, but if you follow the Miticlorian model (gag), it is just one power.

I’m fairly certain that is the geekiest thing that I have ever read.[/quote]

Hey now…

wait… maybe this is a positive thing?

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
When I was 13 I was at the pool, hanging out where my friend was practicing for the swim team. His instructor was this hottie wearing bongo shorts and had the most amazing skin and ass. At this point I contemplated how great it would be to stop time so I could cop a feel. Ah, adolescence.

I think my voice cracked the week after that.

Hell, I still do that. However, when one really thinks about it, it’s much too close to rape for my taste. Sure, it’s a fun idea on the surface, but in the end you’re violating a helpless woman without her knowledge, even.

Actually, reading minds is a bit like that as well. It seems all superpowers can be sued for evil, eh?
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Oh, I thought it was implied that, with time at a standstill, your conscience is off the clock as well…

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[quote]Travacolypse wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Manipulating time would be horrible. Every single time you did or changed something, you’d have to worry about what else you messed up.

Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Then you’ve screwed something else up. Before long, you’re doing nothing more than spending your entire day rewinding and resetting just to find the most favorable outcome. Rinse and repeat for the rest of eternity every time you wanted to use your power.

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What makes you think that everything you do is gonna screw something up? Are you incapable of making good decisions that could result in good consequences?

Unless your life truly sucks, and you truly believe that every single decision you’ve ever made has been a bad one that resulted in bad things happening, AND you are incapable of even conceiving other possible courses of action that may have resulted in better results.

Or, you are an incredibly pessimistic person who truly believes that life is destined to be fucked up, twisted and evil; then, again, I disagree.

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[quote]Vicomte wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Manipulating time would be horrible. Every single time you did or changed something, you’d have to worry about what else you messed up.

Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Is that your answer to everything!? Just rewind time!? That’s it! I’m leaving you! I just can’t love what you’ve become! sobs[/quote]

LOL. Why do I get the feeling that I’ve heard that before? Was that a line from the movie “Click”?

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[quote]Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Then you’ve screwed something else up. Before long, you’re doing nothing more than spending your entire day rewinding and resetting just to find the most favorable outcome. Rinse and repeat for the rest of eternity every time you wanted to use your power.

What makes you think that everything you do is gonna screw something up? Are you incapable of making good decisions that could result in good consequences?

Unless your life truly sucks, and you truly believe that every single decision you’ve ever made has been a bad one that resulted in bad things happening, AND you are incapable of even conceiving other possible courses of action that may have resulted in better results.

Or, you are an incredibly pessimistic person who truly believes that life is destined to be fucked up, twisted and evil; then, again, I disagree.[/quote]

Please. It’s not as simple as good decision - good consequence, bad decision bad consequence. The point is that you will be spending your life trying to make everything “optimal”. “Why did this realtionship break down?”; head back and try it again.

“Could I have done better in that interview?”; head back and try it again. “Wrong chat-up line?”; head back and do it again. “Could I have eaten better for the last 6 months?”; head back and try it again.

Eventually your life would cease to have all meaning, you would descend into moral bankrupcy and loose all feeling for anyone and anything aside from yourself. You would be the only “real” one in an unreal world. Everyone else would simply become pawns for you to manipulate in and use to your advantage.

Melancholy would set in first, a sense of meaninglessness. Then desperation. Then insanity.

This is a great idea for a short story.

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
Vicomte wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Manipulating time would be horrible. Every single time you did or changed something, you’d have to worry about what else you messed up.

Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Is that your answer to everything!? Just rewind time!? That’s it! I’m leaving you! I just can’t love what you’ve become! sobs

LOL. Why do I get the feeling that I’ve heard that before? Was that a line from the movie “Click”?[/quote]

I have no idea. I just make stuff up. People always accuse me of quoting movies. They can’t imagine people just think stuff up. That’s how the movies are written.

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[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
I would like the ability to ‘move’ anything, anywhere.

So any ‘thing’ includes the sub-atomic to the galactic and any ‘where’ includes the entire universe.

So for example, I could ‘move’ myself into the heart of a star, but simultaneously ‘move’ the heat and damaging radiation away from my body, plus ‘move’ a steady stream of O2 into my blood, and CO2 out.

I could turn lead into gold, or move two atoms together closely enough to create fusion power.

I could inspect the universe or just move nutrients into my muscle cells. I could move bullets away from people (or instead move every firearm in say a 500m range out into space) and could move the flesh back to repair itself in injured people.

I could move earthquake survivors out from wreckage, or just prevent the tectonic plate from quaking in the first place. I could eliminate all nuclear weapons in a millisecond or move all the IEDs in the world into Osama Bin Ladens front room.

The list goes on.

Bushy[/quote]

Dr Manhattan?

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[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Makavali wrote:
X-ray vision + Christine?

Mak: Invisibility + Stick it in her pooper

See how easy that was, Mak?

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OMG

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[quote]Christine wrote:
Talk about surprise butt sex!

Geeze guys, give a girl some foreplay.[/quote]

You have to earn foreplay.

Shit, who am I kidding? I live for foreplay.

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[quote]Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Sentoguy wrote:
Travacolypse wrote:
Manipulating time would be horrible. Every single time you did or changed something, you’d have to worry about what else you messed up.

Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Then you’ve screwed something else up. Before long, you’re doing nothing more than spending your entire day rewinding and resetting just to find the most favorable outcome. Rinse and repeat for the rest of eternity every time you wanted to use your power.

What makes you think that everything you do is gonna screw something up? Are you incapable of making good decisions that could result in good consequences?

Unless your life truly sucks, and you truly believe that every single decision you’ve ever made has been a bad one that resulted in bad things happening, AND you are incapable of even conceiving other possible courses of action that may have resulted in better results.

Or, you are an incredibly pessimistic person who truly believes that life is destined to be fucked up, twisted and evil; then, again, I disagree.[/quote]

Or maybe I understand that all actions - even insignificant ones - can (and usually do!) have far-reaching and completely unintended consequences.

Without being gifted with the foresight to see all possible divergences based on any given change, the ability to reshape the past is like playing God while blindfolded.

Compounding that with the fact that the steps needed to effectuate necessary corrections (from one’s initial tampering) wouldn’t always be intuitive, the ability to manipulate time would be like attempting to navigate, comprehend, and solve an infinitely large rubik’s cube.

Not exactly my idea of a gift. YMMV.

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for the whole changing things in the past = consiquences argument, I believe it wouldn’t matter if you had good intentions at heart good things may happen immediatly but bad things could develop as a result of some minor thing you needed to change for your ‘good’ decision, basically The Butterfly Effect

Oh and I’d like the power to project images/enviroments into peoples heads like Strikers son in X men 2 or Matt Parkmans dad in heroes, you could have some fun with that too :slight_smile:

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[quote]duffyj2 wrote:
Not really, because if it did mess something up, you could always just rewind time and do something else. Problem solved.

Then you’ve screwed something else up. Before long, you’re doing nothing more than spending your entire day rewinding and resetting just to find the most favorable outcome. Rinse and repeat for the rest of eternity every time you wanted to use your power.

What makes you think that everything you do is gonna screw something up? Are you incapable of making good decisions that could result in good consequences?

Unless your life truly sucks, and you truly believe that every single decision you’ve ever made has been a bad one that resulted in bad things happening, AND you are incapable of even conceiving other possible courses of action that may have resulted in better results.

Or, you are an incredibly pessimistic person who truly believes that life is destined to be fucked up, twisted and evil; then, again, I disagree.

Please. It’s not as simple as good decision - good consequence, bad decision bad consequence. The point is that you will be spending your life trying to make everything “optimal”. “Why did this realtionship break down?”; head back and try it again.

“Could I have done better in that interview?”; head back and try it again. “Wrong chat-up line?”; head back and do it again. “Could I have eaten better for the last 6 months?”; head back and try it again.

Eventually your life would cease to have all meaning, you would descend into moral bankrupcy and loose all feeling for anyone and anything aside from yourself. You would be the only “real” one in an unreal world. Everyone else would simply become pawns for you to manipulate in and use to your advantage.

Melancholy would set in first, a sense of meaninglessness. Then desperation. Then insanity.

This is a great idea for a short story.[/quote]

Or, you could wind up living in a sort of utopia, it all depends on how you look at things. If you could indeed find the best possible path for every situation, you could potentially create the best possible world.

You could learn any skill, or talent that you ever wanted to learn, you could absorb all the knowledge that you ever wanted to know, you could do or say anything that you ever wanted to do or say.

I agree that a lot of time would be spent trying out lots of different approaches until you found the one you liked the best, but I don’t really think that you (or at least I) would wind up only seeing people as pawns.

And even if they would, you could say basically the same thing about a lot of super powers. Immortality, invulnerability, invisibility, telekenesis, psychic powers, most of the good ones.

At some point you would be like a god, and could potentially lose sight or your morality, thus causing you to view all other people simply as pawns.

The only thing that would possibly stop you from turning into a tyrant would be your morality. If you were not a moral person to begin with, you would likely wind up seeing people as pawns. If you were though, the super power would not corrupt you (at least not permanently IMO).

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[quote]Subliminal-Steve wrote:
for the whole changing things in the past = consiquences argument, I believe it wouldn’t matter if you had good intentions at heart good things may happen immediatly but bad things could develop as a result of some minor thing you needed to change for your ‘good’ decision, basically The Butterfly Effect
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That movie is the first thing that I thought of when someone brought up that argument. But that movie was also based on the premise that that kid’s life was basically predestined to be fucked up.

The writers had a specific twisted idea of how having the power to go back and make different decisions could result in bad things happening. But there is nothing saying that this would actually be the case.

So, like I said before, unless you subscribe to the idea that life is going to be fucked up no matter what choices you make, then it doesn’t really apply.

Besides, if you subscribe to that philosophy, then regardless of what power you had, you are going to make decisions that are going to wind up fucking things up down the line. If you had the power to manipulate time, then you could at least have a chance to try to make things better, without it you don’t even have that chance.

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[quote]Subliminal-Steve wrote:
for the whole changing things in the past = consiquences argument, I believe it wouldn’t matter if you had good intentions at heart good things may happen immediatly but bad things could develop as a result of some minor thing you needed to change for your ‘good’ decision, basically The Butterfly Effect

Oh and I’d like the power to project images/enviroments into peoples heads like Strikers son in X men 2 or Matt Parkmans dad in heroes, you could have some fun with that too :)[/quote]

You could will a chick to have like a trillion orgasms at once.

OMFG

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infinite ammo

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[quote]jonesk wrote:
infinite ammo[/quote]

wallhack

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I would want to be silver surfer - The Power Cosmic baby!

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agreed