Depends on the range. If 10 feet, you'd survive most falls, but still bury yourself a portion of the time. 100 feet, probably dead. 200 thousand miles? Space sucks without an appropriate suit.
Please elaborate, because there's a at least a couple different things you could be referring to, and I'd rather not write something out on the wrong topic :)
When I first started playing Ragnarok Online, there was this one item, aí believe it was something like bat wings, that was really valuable and when you used you would teleport to a random place in the same map/sections. I thought it was a shit item, but soon enough I understood that its power was to run away from problems when you are low on health.
It gives one month of bad luck for each time used. If the power is activated to help others without benefit for yourself, then it’s sloppy good luck instead. You are fortunate in a tragic way.
The timer and type is reset each time power manifested
I mean, you can ask an animal to do some arbitrary action specified by the other person, and then the animal (hopefully) does it. This side effect isn't great, but it definitely still leaves some real usefulness.
Telling my dog as I go to the garage, "I'll be back in literally one minute." and being understood would rock.
But the thing is, if they do the thing you asked in a way where it's noticeable that they only did it because you asked, then they are signalling to you that they understood, which is a form of communication and the word used was "communicate" with animals.
First, the use of "communicate" in the original superpower description is presumably referring to communication that couldn't happen without the power - and the side effect uses the same term. As it stands, my dog can tell me she understands I intend to walk her by jumping off the back of the couch and being excited at the door.
So if the superpower only refers to novel communication, I'd interpret that to mean anything more than I could reasonably communicate to my dog, and more than she could communicate to me (confirmation of understanding).
If the side effect, despite using the same verb, actually renders animals LESS able to communicate with me than they already can, that seems an especially uncharitable interpretation.
Alternatively, I can ask the animal to wait until I was out of the room before performing the action for the third party. At that point, only that third party would end up communicating having seen the comprehension/performance.
I appreciate the sentiment, but probably not. The genie would just scoff af my argument and say nothing was guaranteed to be "fair" about the situation. My only saving grace in talking about it here is that fellow humans are more likely to share a similar base point for reasoning.
1 at a time wouldn't get you a noticeable amount of energy for a bomb (stuff is radioactively decaying around you already right now). A scientist might make some use of it, but with control of only 1 atom at a time they'll struggle to build really any molecule as I imagine most intermediate molecules would break apart as soon as you "let go" to grab the next atom.
Depends on what "time" is in case of one at a time. Is it plank time, or is it as fast as I can think the command.
Even if nothing can be achieved by controlling it, just being able to feel/see the atoms means I can figure things out as a scientist. Finding how atoms are arranged into molecules, proteins etc are super helpful
I had an idea I wonder if the energy thing can be salvaged. Like uranium to lead happens naturally and the energy is too little from a single atom. But we don't have to do things naturally. If I'm controlling the atom itself, maybe I can just split all protons and neutrons from the uranium at once, then I have a bunch of free particles that can go collide with other atoms and start a chain reaction.
I think most powers, even with limitations, probably is going to be useful once we know the clear limits. Maybe not the one that need so much energy and the results are random so you can fail and not be able to try again.
One day, your luck will reverse, and you know you have hit your halfway point. Before, you survived everything because of your good luck. Now, survival is a curse you cannot escape until your appointed time.
You have no inhibitive filter, and compulsively blurt out whatever you’re thinking, including whatever the person is thinking when you’re reading their mind.
Thankfully my people know how big a nerd I am, so I actually have been gifted an ocarina. I'm ready. Now, what's the song for my doctor's office, again?
This one doesn't really need a monkey's paw curse since, as written, I'd argue you could only change it once anyway, then you'd be stuck with that power.
Uncontrollable and overwhelming diarrhea whenever you use any of the chosen superpowers, which is immune to any kinds of “and I’m immune to the side effect” types of loophole powers.
But you cannot defy the laws of thermodynamics, so if you make anything colder, you need to absorb the energy to do so and vice versa. First time using this power and you accidentally made something too cold? Sounds like you just burned to death.
Actually seems like a cool power to regulate your body temperature. You could probably weather some pretty extreme conditions if you were careful about not killing yourself with your untested powers.
you mean as a side effect in the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.
143 Comments
RollForInitiative@feddit.org · 37 pts · 310d
Fall asleep at any time and place by will
otacon239@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 310d
It is impossible to wake up until you are fully rested, including by alarm, fire, or intruder.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 310d
I either wake up rested or not my problem anymore.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 309d
Just make sure you pee first!
Morphite88@thelemmy.club · 15 pts · 310d
But when you wake up, you're in a random spot in the wilderness. Every time.
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 309d
You wake up with a severe headache everytime.
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 309d
This is apparently my superpower and side effect combo.
0485919158191@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 310d
Teleportation!
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 310d
But you have to go through TSA every time
victorz@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 309d
😂 I'm on the shitter at work damn you, can't be laughing out loud!
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
Honestly, still well worth it. And with pre-check it’s even faster.
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
Easy there Hitler 🤣🤣🤣
eatham@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 310d
You can only teleport to random places
benagain@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 309d
Random place WITHOUT obstacle detection or height limit makes this risssky.. 😆
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 309d
The odds of you NOT ending up dangerously high above the ground or embedded IN the ground are... low.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 309d
I think the odds of ending up within sight of the earth are basically 0. The universe is a big place.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 309d
Depends on the range. If 10 feet, you'd survive most falls, but still bury yourself a portion of the time. 100 feet, probably dead. 200 thousand miles? Space sucks without an appropriate suit.
Prime@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 308d
The problem is that Earth is unlikely to be there at all
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 308d
Please elaborate, because there's a at least a couple different things you could be referring to, and I'd rather not write something out on the wrong topic :)
coriza@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
When I first started playing Ragnarok Online, there was this one item, aí believe it was something like bat wings, that was really valuable and when you used you would teleport to a random place in the same map/sections. I thought it was a shit item, but soon enough I understood that its power was to run away from problems when you are low on health.
So I think it still is a good power.
Carighan@piefed.world · 24 pts · 310d
I'll stick with the strongest superpower of them all, I am Cables Never Tangle Man!
schmop@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 310d
But you cannot tie knots anymore. Even worse - every knot you touch magically slips open. Be careful not to trip over your shoelaces!
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 23 pts · 309d
Velcro has entered the chat...
victorz@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 309d
So many tiny little knots
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 309d
It’s going to look like a shag rug as soon as they touch it
eatham@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 310d
Every time you get an error it is unknown error
icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 4 pts · 310d
Your cables break every 3 days
limer@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 310d
Super strength
notabot@piefed.social · 33 pts · 310d
You can't use anything but maximum super strength, all the time.
Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 309d
I'm gonna jerk off. Oh no...
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 309d
Username checks out 😄
ghost9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 309d
Wait does every part of you get super strength?
benagain@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 309d
Ouch, yeah that's going to really ruin fondue night.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 310d
The power to reply to my own comment.
mech@feddit.org · 24 pts · 310d
but you have multiple personality disorder
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 310d
You become god.
(Not oc, this is a known joke)
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 309d
But you will only reply as your worst enemy would do.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 17 pts · 310d
Manifest any superpower at will
Carighan@piefed.world · 23 pts · 310d
... that then gets applied to everyone within 100 metres of you on top of yourself.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 17 pts · 310d
Lol, I'd still take it. All I can say is the people flying with me better keep close. Ditto the ones breathing under water
limer@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 309d
It gives one month of bad luck for each time used. If the power is activated to help others without benefit for yourself, then it’s sloppy good luck instead. You are fortunate in a tragic way.
The timer and type is reset each time power manifested
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 310d
Shapeshifting to any other human or humanoid body
benagain@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 309d
But you can only do so by singing, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," as loudly as you can.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu · 13 pts · 310d
But you also shift into that humans or humanoids personality
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 309d
Master poet level fluency in all languages
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 309d
You can now hardly remember anything else (as happened to me, my memory is full of Chinese vocab with no space for anything else).
bluemellophone@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 309d
You are now blind and deaf like Helen Keller. Good luck, she figured it out, you’ll be fine.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 309d
Terribly loud non-stop belching
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 309d
So no new drawbacks, then? Sweet!
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 310d
X ray vision
nerdschleife@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 310d
Everyone in your line of sight gets the full radioactive dosage
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 310d
It cannot be regulated
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 309d
Ha! So Congress can't stop me!
daannii@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 309d
Can communicate with any animal
MadBabs@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 309d
But they can't communicate with you
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 309d
Haha imagine trying to explain that to people.
"I have a superpower, I can speak to animals they just can't speak back"
"But everyone has that superpower, I can do that too"
"Yeh but I'm actually really talking to them, like in their language that they can understand"
"How do you know?"
"..."
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 309d
I mean, you can ask an animal to do some arbitrary action specified by the other person, and then the animal (hopefully) does it. This side effect isn't great, but it definitely still leaves some real usefulness.
Telling my dog as I go to the garage, "I'll be back in literally one minute." and being understood would rock.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 309d
But the thing is, if they do the thing you asked in a way where it's noticeable that they only did it because you asked, then they are signalling to you that they understood, which is a form of communication and the word used was "communicate" with animals.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 309d
First, the use of "communicate" in the original superpower description is presumably referring to communication that couldn't happen without the power - and the side effect uses the same term. As it stands, my dog can tell me she understands I intend to walk her by jumping off the back of the couch and being excited at the door.
So if the superpower only refers to novel communication, I'd interpret that to mean anything more than I could reasonably communicate to my dog, and more than she could communicate to me (confirmation of understanding).
If the side effect, despite using the same verb, actually renders animals LESS able to communicate with me than they already can, that seems an especially uncharitable interpretation.
Alternatively, I can ask the animal to wait until I was out of the room before performing the action for the third party. At that point, only that third party would end up communicating having seen the comprehension/performance.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 308d
Well thought out lol. You should get a genie, I think you'll be prepared.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 308d
I appreciate the sentiment, but probably not. The genie would just scoff af my argument and say nothing was guaranteed to be "fair" about the situation. My only saving grace in talking about it here is that fellow humans are more likely to share a similar base point for reasoning.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
Oh damn. You got me bad on that one.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 309d
Switch sexes any time I prefer
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 309d
Every time you switch you have to peel off a layer of dead skin line a cocoon.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 309d
Damn that's harsh. I didn't expect that, it seems you have some great imagination.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 309d
I'm sorry, I don't make the rules
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
Seems like a small payment honestly
howrar@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 309d
Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 309d
... provided you are playing Uno and have a reverse card.
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 309d
The power to talk to women without staring at their feet.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 309d
In long-dead languages they can't understand
Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 309d
Deal. I'm Autistic so that's barely any different.
coriza@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
Instead you cannot stop staring at their boobs. And yes, that includes your family, bosses and so on.
Por_que_pine@startrek.website · 1 pts · 309d
waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 309d
you can only speak to them in languages they don’t understand.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 309d
Ability to control every atom in the surrounding area of approx 1 km.
festus@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 309d
You can control only 1 at a time.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 309d
Nuclear bombs, or a really good scientist.
festus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 309d
1 at a time wouldn't get you a noticeable amount of energy for a bomb (stuff is radioactively decaying around you already right now). A scientist might make some use of it, but with control of only 1 atom at a time they'll struggle to build really any molecule as I imagine most intermediate molecules would break apart as soon as you "let go" to grab the next atom.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 309d
Depends on what "time" is in case of one at a time. Is it plank time, or is it as fast as I can think the command.
Even if nothing can be achieved by controlling it, just being able to feel/see the atoms means I can figure things out as a scientist. Finding how atoms are arranged into molecules, proteins etc are super helpful
festus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 309d
I assumed as fast as you can think the command for each one.
I agree with feeling being useful for feeling around; I'm happy with the power having some value.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 308d
I had an idea I wonder if the energy thing can be salvaged. Like uranium to lead happens naturally and the energy is too little from a single atom. But we don't have to do things naturally. If I'm controlling the atom itself, maybe I can just split all protons and neutrons from the uranium at once, then I have a bunch of free particles that can go collide with other atoms and start a chain reaction.
I think most powers, even with limitations, probably is going to be useful once we know the clear limits. Maybe not the one that need so much energy and the results are random so you can fail and not be able to try again.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 8 pts · 309d
Super good luck ala Domino of the X-Men.
FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 309d
It's good luck for the first half of your life, then its bad luck the second half
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 309d
One day, your luck will reverse, and you know you have hit your halfway point. Before, you survived everything because of your good luck. Now, survival is a curse you cannot escape until your appointed time.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 309d
That's a good answer.
Reminded me of this movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397078/
Never saw it myself, just remembered the concept and searched
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 309d
Kinda like a luck-based Freaky Friday... Starring Lindsay Lohan 🤔
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 309d
Funny how the mind works. I remembered the concept, but had no idea Lohan was involved.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 309d
Teleportation
benagain@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 309d
But you lose one of your socks every time you teleport and they're like really cool unique ones that only work as a pair. Heartbreaking.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
Butt stuff is marginally less fun.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 309d
Really depends on the butt
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
No, see, it's all buts. That is the curse.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
True Omnipotence
(Also read/listen to Worm
Pistachio@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 309d
But of an unrelated universe...so schizophrenia with delusions of grandure lol
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 308d
If I'm limited then it's not true Omnipotence is it?
Delphia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 308d
You have no choice but to see everything, wether you want to or not.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
If I don't have a choice then it's not true Omnipotence is it?
benagain@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 309d
But only over dial-up.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
If I'm limited then it's not true Omnipotence is it? Honestly though I'd take it if I had to though
socsa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 309d
Immunity from all replies to this post.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 309d
But you are incredibly smart. BOOM GOTEM.
needanke@feddit.org · 6 pts · 309d
You end up with no superpowers at all
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 309d
Hmm, but are they immune to this restriction?
Chyioko@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
Reading minds
benagain@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 309d
But you have to start at the beginning.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 309d
You have no inhibitive filter, and compulsively blurt out whatever you’re thinking, including whatever the person is thinking when you’re reading their mind.
laranis@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 309d
I can teleport instantly to any location I have previously visited.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 309d
But each location has a specific song you must play on an Ocarina....
laranis@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 308d
Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?
benagain@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 308d
"Oh, and a chocolate croissant, please, thanks! ..... and uh, I'm so incredibly sorry about last time,"
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 309d
Thankfully my people know how big a nerd I am, so I actually have been gifted an ocarina. I'm ready. Now, what's the song for my doctor's office, again?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 309d
You don't get to choose the location, it's just a random place you've been before.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
The ability to change my own superpower.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 309d
This one doesn't really need a monkey's paw curse since, as written, I'd argue you could only change it once anyway, then you'd be stuck with that power.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 309d
Uncontrollable and overwhelming diarrhea whenever you use any of the chosen superpowers, which is immune to any kinds of “and I’m immune to the side effect” types of loophole powers.
Giraffe@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 309d
glorkon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 309d
But only bad music.
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 309d
Being a cat
calmblue75@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 309d
You make noise every time you walk
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 309d
Ok, it's basically like my cat.
pyria@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 309d
vodka@feddit.org · 9 pts · 309d
You emit an unmaskable and extremely noticeable odour whenever invisible.
pyria@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 309d
Jentu@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 309d
I don’t know who you’re responding to, but it sure is smelly over here.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 309d
Cryokinesis
howrar@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 309d
But you cannot defy the laws of thermodynamics, so if you make anything colder, you need to absorb the energy to do so and vice versa. First time using this power and you accidentally made something too cold? Sounds like you just burned to death.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 309d
Actually seems like a cool power to regulate your body temperature. You could probably weather some pretty extreme conditions if you were careful about not killing yourself with your untested powers.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 309d
But you can only use it at 0°N 0°E
thevoidzero@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
This looks like it can counter most powers except ones having effects in far away places
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 309d
But you heat the random object in 100 metres from you
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 309d
crab claw
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 309d
Only when jorkin it
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
I guess I choose Denmark or maybe Portugal. Having USA and Russia being superpowers has been real shit.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 309d
The United States of America after the Cold War.
Pistachio@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 309d
But you live in Afghanistan
DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 308d
Magically summon pizza whenever I want
a_goofy_dragon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 308d
but only anchovy and pineapple pizza
lemuria@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 305d
instantly renaming a large city
SlicedPotato@feddit.dk · 1 pts · 305d
But you have to name it after the person you hate the most.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 0 pts · 309d
The ability to redo any side effect into any effect I want at will.
howrar@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 309d
In the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 309d
you mean as a side effect in the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.
benagain@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 309d
But what you want is to undo the redo of the side effect, thus creating Hubert's Paradox.