Ask Lemmy

Teleport. See the world, visit everywhere, without enduring planes,trains,cars , nipping home for a quick 15minute alone time and being able to sleep in my own bed every night.

Technopathy. Being able to sense and manipulate electronics/electricity flows to "hack" computers and less smart hardware by waving my hands and "wishing" the outcome I wanted would make my life so much easier.

I could charge a good rate for my ability and my learnt knowledge as well take down huge tech companies.

Oh mine is very simple and not much to ask at all: I just want pure, unlimited, godlike omnipotence.

I promise to use it in every irresponsible way imaginable.

extreme cum

To be able to talk to animals. Really just so I can talk to my dog who is losing the ability to walk, so me and her vet can help her; where it hurts, are the drugs helping. So I know exactly what she needs and where she wants to go when she's barking at me for help getting up and walking.
So I can explain to my boy dog why we don't go on walks as often or as far, why he can't rough house with her anymore.

Not one that I think I would actually want, but one I've thought a lot about is absolute bodily autonomy in the same way that you can control any aspect of your body consciously but without deliberate thought then it'll default back to unconscious control. Want to grow taller? Start kicking that system back into drive. Want to lose weight? Start absorbing energy less efficiently or burning more calories fruitlessly. Have a random pain? Start to monitor that area and sensing for any particular anomalies.

If the control can go all the way down to the microscopic level then you'd be a walking advancement factory for every medical field. The primary issue would be trying to make practical recreations of the medicines and procedures you'd help create, and even then you could try bioengineering cells to recreate your medicines and procedures. You'd also likely be able to effectively never age by correcting the errors in your cell reproduction. With enough time and effort you could probably spawn a clone of yourself to go out and continue to help others.

If you allow the caveat that this also works on anyone/anything that you can touch, then the limit for what you can cure or at least aid with is bound only by what you can touch, analyze, and solve in time.

Is third person empath a thing? Like being able to have what one person is experiencing be felt emotionally by another person? I would do that, then really fuck up the day of an ICE agent.

I’ve always liked the idea of time manipulation- stopping, starting, speeding up, slowing down, rewinding time. It has a lot of uses like giving me as much time as I need to get ready in the morning and doing good in the world in ways I won’t mention.

Be able to do stuff, at will.

My answer to this question is always teleportation, including my clothes and anyone I’m touching (and their clothes). And the ability to not appear inside solid objects. No more traffic. No more passports or visas. No more long multi-hour drives or long haul flights.

Teleportation, no distance limit, and I can take others with me. For accuracy, I can "see" where I'm about to teleport to. First, I'm going to explore other planets with life, venturing into the universe for a few weeks. Then I'm going to move a few people off planet. Don't worry, I'll let them bring their money.

The ability to manipulate probability.

Get the green light, getting you some where on time. Somehow manage to tickets to a sold out concert. Boss just extended a deadline to allow you to get the work done. Score the prefect seats on an airplane. No delays when taking a train.

The power to instantly, constantly, automatically, and effortlessly transmute the bone marrow of every single individual on Earth who is being harmful to humanity's progress and wellbeing (fascists, billionaires, global warming denialists, mimes, and so on) into molten lead.

Bend probability to my will.

Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.

Every poop is a no-wiper.

Teleportation. Most superpowers would be either useless on a day-to-day basis or - as another commenter suggested - would make you too inhuman to continue to have meaningful interpersonal relations with other normal humans.

And it would allow you to have a croissant in Paris for breakfast, spend the morning strolling along a beach in the Caribbean, pop across to a great barbecue place in Texas for lunch, pass the afternoon exploring the ruins of Pompei before an evening meal of scallops in Hobart. Even just not worrying about the daily commute, always being able to 'port home to use your own toilet during the day, just mundane stuff like that would be grand.

The older I get, the more I'm sure it's healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn't have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.

How to exit neovim.

The power in Jumper would be damn legit. Teleportation.

Criminally under rated movie.

Shapeshifting so I can impersonate people. I love Mystique in the X-men.

My family is full of mental health issues.

I'd like to fix that for them and myself, and for all the other sufferers out there.

Superhero ability? Healing. By far.

I would like the ability to remove other people's superpowers, please, and thank you

Basic telekenisis. I want to be able to move object(s) with my mind. This can include me, also giving me a base level of flight.

It would just be so convenient. Nothing is ever out of reach again.

Gaining energy going social activities not losing it

Unlimited do overs. I can save, load and redo any point of my life at will. Caveat, death grants me access to the load game function.

Photosynthesis

I have two choices depending on my role in the narrative.

1: unrestricted ability to grant other people powers with the requirement that I keep them balanced both in power scale and moral direct as well as not being able to use the powers on myself either on my own or through proxy.

2: I'm the Thing from Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing but every cell is me and under my control. If need be, I can consume an injury's worth of biological mass to heal. I would mostly use this to get out of conversions by bisecting my face and spagetti-ing before returning to normal, apologizing for that, and saying I should go take my meds.

I feel like what some of you guys miss. Here is understanding what makes life fun. Certain superpowers would make life criminally boring and the goal would be to get power so that you can do what you want with your life, try different things out, be safe and secure, but still have a life that has meaning.

If you are too overpowered or have things that allow you to see way past what being human is, then you'd be stuck all alone looking at humans that look like ants to you and you'd be bored out of your skull. I kind of feel like that's what Dr. Manhattan was except I think the reality would be worse.

You have to look at what phase two of this super power would be. I kind of like the save point one or something that gives you control to do what you want, but you still have to deal with the consequences. That way you gain a lot of control over your life, but you still have to live it with consequences. It would kind of be like winning the lottery. It would be turning the video game on easy mode, but not making it so easy you don't want to play.

The ability to reset my life from and resume from any "save point".

For the purposes of this power there are two kinds of "save points":

• autosave points (yearly, on one's birthday)
• regular save points (done at-will as part of the power)

Why? Who hasn't indulged in the what-ifs of life? What if I can revisit certain points in my life and relive those what-ifs myself?