choose a superpower rule

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Majima@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y (11 replies)

I can slap people over TCP/IP

nettika@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 3y (7 replies)

Doing so causes your internet service to cut out for several hours.

riodoro1@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I’d still use it occasionally.

SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

I'd still use it all the time. Losing internet for a while sucks, but letting someone you'll never meet express their wrong opinions to equally unimportant strangers on a fake place for fake internet points without consequences??????????

Roundcat@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y

Slap people wirelessly, and get a break from the internet to cool off? sign me up.

Majima@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Still worth it

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

...and your provider slaps you with a hefty bill.

MBM@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

So you can go outside and calm down from therandom internet argument, good call

capt_wolf@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Is it just the service I was using at the time to perform the slap, or all internet access is closed to me? Also, is it computer based only, or could I potentially buy 20 burner phones to slap the shit out of someone? What about VPNs?

Murais@lemmy.one · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Being the first known human to fully interface with a machine also leads to the discovery of cross-platform illnesses.

You are the first human to experience the effects of a backdoor trojan firsthand.

Majima@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Trojan can't communicate with host, still a win

ssfckdt@mastodon.cloud · 1 pts · 3y

I dunno about slapping, but I definitely remember flashing.

Chev@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y (9 replies)

I can feel the same emotions as others and am able to communicate without any misunderstandings.

aftersomerain@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It only works on depressed people.

Psionicsickness@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 3y

I'm sooooo ok with this. Being able to understand where their depression was and able to communicate perfectly how to shift their perspective would give me a purpose that would kill my depression and realign my perspective.

Amir@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 3y

Become the best psychiatrist for depressed people ever

colin@lemmy.uninsane.org · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

whenever a bird chirps you hear the actual meaning of its song, as if it were shouted at you in your native tongue.

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

Honestly I don't think I need to corrupt this somehow. Enjoy.

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

So does that mean they also get horny af in spring?

Chev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I kind of like that one. Might be a bit overwhelming but at the beginning it sounds like fun 😃

barrage4u@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You also have Tourette's

Roundcat@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

"I can tell that you are dealing with a lot of PISSNUGGETS emotion trauma right now."

barrage4u@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y (11 replies)

I instantly know the answer to ANY question

Duchess@yiffit.net · 16 pts · 3y (6 replies)

you now have access to cursed, ancient knowledge and it drives you crazy

Shawdow194@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (5 replies)
Duchess@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 3y (4 replies)

blank reply?

Roundcat@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Gif. Maybe your instance isn't showing it.

Duchess@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

possibly not, i've been having issues on and off this morning

Shawdow194@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It's a gif! I swear it's not blank haha

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when the lady asks for all knowledge

Duchess@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 3y

yeah i've been speaking with the owner of this instance and they're doing some tweaks so things are a little funky

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y (1 reply)

... but you are a callcenter agent working in first level IT support.

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

Did you try turning it off and back on again?

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 5 pts · 3y

But you have to lie everytime you communicate

Majima@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Written/spoken in random language every time

lobster_irl@kbin.social · 16 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Photographic memory!

jackoneill@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y

But you are blind

thelsim@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

But your keys keep disappearing, even though you know you've put them there.

b3nsn0w@pricefield.org · 1 pts · 3y

fuji discontinued the film your memory uses

fkn@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y

The only thing you can remember is what the inside of your own lower intestine like like.

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 13 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Ads are blocked for me in real life. Billboards, posters, tv-commercials, all gone!

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 3y

You start bumping into invisible billboards all the time.

someacnt@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 3y

You realize you are living in North Korea.

muzzle@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

They are blocked by obnoxious flashing and loud beeping noises.

Roundcat@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

RESUME VIEWING AD! RESUME VIEWING AD!

Roundcat@kbin.social · 13 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Summon lobsters at will.

Majima@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

The size of pea

Roundcat@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y

Rise my tiny loblets!

neutronst4r@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y

The lobster are horse sized and crave human flesh.

thelsim@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

But they can summon you as well

irmoz@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3y

When's the downside coming?

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 11 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I can jump 10x my own height and can stick to walls

barrage4u@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y

Walking on the ground is always slippery

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 3y

You have no built in shock absorption and the substance you secrete that allows you to stick to walls also gives you eczema.

thelsim@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

But you're the size of an ant

Parsnip8904@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y

You get vertigo every time you jump

MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 10 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can make my dad come back from getting the milk

riodoro1@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y

Now he forgot his cigarettes.

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 3y

He brings his new family

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 9 pts · 3y (3 replies)

All my bodily functions smells nice, sort of perfume-like.

AussieTom@kbin.social · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Your perfume-like scent acts as a pheromone to all insects in your proximity, leading to an endless swarm everywhere you go

Roundcat@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

So basically anytime I sweat already, but I'll at least smell better. I honestly see no downsides.

chetradley@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y

All smells you used to enjoy smell like bodily functions.

esadatari@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

i get the superpower of getting to move through solid objects

GiveOver@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 3y

But you're still affected by gravity so you immediately start freefall into the centre of the earth

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Mosquitos that drink my blood instantly die

Thanaen@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 3y
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hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

When they die, they have already stung you and the bites are 2x more itchy.

jackoneill@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Invisibility!

arcorious@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

but only for things you are wearing

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Your clothes don't get invisibility, so you have to get naked and eventually die of hypothermia.

b3nsn0w@pricefield.org · 2 pts · 3y

would still work in florida

thelsim@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

But you start to stink really bad

DarkenLM@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can materialize any technology I want, whether it is possible or not.

Thanaen@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 3y
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exododo@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 7 pts · 3y

But everytime you do it you get sued for patent infringement

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 7 pts · 3y (8 replies)

Seeds i plant always grow to the full size plant in a day.

Roundcat@kbin.social · 11 pts · 3y

And require flesh for sustenance

SteveXVII@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y

And they continue to grow at the same pace.

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y

They grow immediately, which leads to you getting either stuck inside a tree with wood in your lungs or getting impaled by a plant.

Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

what about fruit? perfectly ripe for lunch the next day?

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Lets say, they grow to full ripe size every day

Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeah...uh.... I'd get fat in a hurry.

HappySerf@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Same. Maybe the fast growth makes them taste like bamboo?

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

In doing so you also grant the plant sentience with a mind that develops at the same pace as its physical maturity.

These plants are fully aware that

A. They have been robbed of a full life, B. They exist solely for the harvest C. They are the only ones of their kind and are alone in the vast uncaring universe beyond the prison you call a “window sill”.

They also see you planting other seeds and understand that makes you their parent. It’s a lot to process.

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can see dead people

Chariotwheel@kbin.social · 6 pts · 3y

... and they see you. You remind them of the taste of food. It's been so long.

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

...but everyone already knows that before they see the movie about your life.

Space_Jamke@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Does obtaining the financial security of the average adult American in the 1980s count as a superpower? Home ownership on near-minimum wage does seem pretty fantastical.

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 17 pts · 3y (1 reply)

But you become extremely jaded and disappointed in anyone younger than yourself, overcome with än irredeemable urge to tell people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

Parsnip8904@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y

Oh no

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 6 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I can talk to animals

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 3y

They don't understand you

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

They don’t like you.

FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

You have prostate cancer

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 5 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I have a set of mental buttons i can press which lets me instantly fix some common flaws of being a human:

  • fall asleep
  • stop humming a song stuck in my head
  • stop feeling light headaches
  • postpone hunger for 3 hours
  • shut of tinnitus
  • make the itching stop
Space_Jamke@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y

Pressing one inconvenience-fixing button also causes a random inconvenience in the list to reoccur. Hope you like invisible splinters in your socks and random hiccups every time you want to cure your allergies.

Cucumber_coconut@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

When you push one of those buttons, it's effect is random.

Roundcat@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

"I really need to get this song out of my head so I can concentrate on cla....ZZZZZZZZZZ"

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y

You fall asleep easily, but you have wicked sleep apnea.

You can stop humming songs but it dials the intrusive thoughts up to 11

Good news, your light headaches have been replaced with moderate migraines.

You can postpone your hunger for 3 hours, but anything you consume within that window you permanently develop a sickness taste aversion to.

The ringing in your ear has been replaced with the Wilhelm scream.

The itching has stopped. The only price was IBS.

nettika@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I can undo and retry fumbled social interactions.

Brunost@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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BackStabbath@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y

But you shit yourself while you're going home every time.

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

Retrying these fumbled social interactions can occasionally lead to absurdly consequential butterfly effects that rock the foundations of the world around you. Every disaster stemming from a social retake is preceded by a benign itch in the back of your ear. Sometimes you just get that itch for literally no reason anyway, though.

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y (4 replies)

I can find any lost object.

Arcturus@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

None of those objects are yours.

Roundcat@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

Well, apparently I already have this super power.

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 3y

You have to sort through every object anyone has ever lost to do so

Dumblerawr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y

Any object you locate begins looking for you

blackouttripleseven@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

i'm able to socialize effectively

nettika@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y

You are a cat 🐱

bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3y

U have prostate cancer

xeekei@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Telekinesis with no mass limit.

DaaftRaaft@vlemmy.net · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

But it also has no speed limit, causing items you pull around to reach light speed almost instantly, effectively growing to infinite size for the duration of the pull

xeekei@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y

Honestly, in controlled conditions, I think I can benefit humanity with this.

Cucumber_coconut@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can stop, start, slow down, and speed up time.

MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

When you do, you are locked in place and cannot move.

muzzle@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y

But every time you do it, you fall asleep until someone else wakes you up with the magic formula "wake up, you dummy! Wake up!" When you wake up the effect is over.

lillytheaspie@beehaw.org · 0 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I can learn information & skills extremely quickly, and I get to choose what I hyperlearn and what I regular learn (for example, I can basically flip through the DSM 5 and memorize everything, or watch a tutorial on 2x skill and nail it first try)

Parsnip8904@beehaw.org · 0 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You forget the critical 20% of what you learnt when you need it the most.

BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y

Adhd is that you?