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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But you have to go through TSA every time

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

😂 I'm on the shitter at work damn you, can't be laughing out loud!

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[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Honestly, still well worth it. And with pre-check it’s even faster.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Easy there Hitler 🤣🤣🤣

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[–] eatham@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago (10 children)

You can only teleport to random places

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[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Random place WITHOUT obstacle detection or height limit makes this risssky.. 😆

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The odds of you NOT ending up dangerously high above the ground or embedded IN the ground are... low.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think the odds of ending up within sight of the earth are basically 0. The universe is a big place.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The problem is that Earth is unlikely to be there at all

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

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 :)

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

The tread is just:

Teleportation
Only to random locations (no distances measured)

I’m taking that to mean a random location anywhere in the universe except the starting location. The earth is an infinitesimally small part of the universe, so most teleportations would end up in intergalactic space.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

I mean, the spirit of the "superpower side effects" game isn't to render the superpower fully unusable, but to make it thoroughly annoying or to have a big downside/cost. Teleporting to a random point in all of the space of the universe is just a death sentence. My only reasonable read of this is "random location on Earth (not mid-air, underwater, or embedded within solid matter)".

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[–] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 11 months ago

Yea, I think we pretty much all agree on this matter, it's just a definition thing.

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[–] coriza@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] Carighan@piefed.world 22 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I'll stick with the strongest superpower of them all, I am Cables Never Tangle Man!

[–] schmop@lemmy.zip 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But you cannot tie knots anymore. Even worse - every knot you touch magically slips open. Be careful not to trip over your shoelaces!

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Velcro has entered the chat...

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 child)

So many tiny little knots

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It’s going to look like a shag rug as soon as they touch it

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[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

Your cables break every 3 days

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[–] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Every time you get an error it is unknown error

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Super strength

[–] notabot@piefed.social 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You can't use anything but maximum super strength, all the time.

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[–] Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna jerk off. Oh no...

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Username checks out 😄

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[–] ghost9@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

Wait does every part of you get super strength?

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[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Ouch, yeah that's going to really ruin fondue night.

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[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Manifest any superpower at will

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

... that then gets applied to everyone within 100 metres of you on top of yourself.

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[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 15 points 11 months ago

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

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago*

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

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Master poet level fluency in all languages

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Terribly loud non-stop belching

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

So no new drawbacks, then? Sweet!

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[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

You are now blind and deaf like Helen Keller. Good luck, she figured it out, you’ll be fine.

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Shapeshifting to any other human or humanoid body

[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago

But you can only do so by singing, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," as loudly as you can.

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[–] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 12 points 11 months ago

But you also shift into that humans or humanoids personality

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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

X ray vision

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

It cannot be regulated

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 point 11 months ago

Ha! So Congress can't stop me!

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Can communicate with any animal

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[–] MadBabs@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (7 children)

But they can't communicate with you

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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?"

"..."

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Well thought out lol. You should get a genie, I think you'll be prepared.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

Oh damn. You got me bad on that one.

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[+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 points 11 months ago

In long-dead languages they can't understand

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[–] coriza@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Instead you cannot stop staring at their boobs. And yes, that includes your family, bosses and so on.

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[–] waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

you can only speak to them in languages they don’t understand.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The power to reply to my own comment.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago*

You become god.

(Not oc, this is a known joke)

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

But you will only reply as your worst enemy would do.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Super good luck ala Domino of the X-Men.

[–] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's good luck for the first half of your life, then its bad luck the second half

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

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.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397078/?ref_=ls_t_8

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a good answer.

Reminded me of this movie.

Never saw it myself, just remembered the concept and searched

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[–] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Kinda like a luck-based Freaky Friday... Starring Lindsay Lohan 🤔

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 point 11 months ago

Funny how the mind works. I remembered the concept, but had no idea Lohan was involved.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

True Omnipotence

(Also read/listen to Worm

[–] Pistachio@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

But of an unrelated universe...so schizophrenia with delusions of grandure lol

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

If I'm limited then it's not true Omnipotence is it?

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

You have no choice but to see everything, wether you want to or not.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

If I don't have a choice then it's not true Omnipotence is it?

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[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

But only over dial-up.

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

If I'm limited then it's not true Omnipotence is it? Honestly though I'd take it if I had to though

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Ability to control every atom in the surrounding area of approx 1 km.

[–] festus@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You can control only 1 at a time.

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nuclear bombs, or a really good scientist.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] Chyioko@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reading minds

[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

But you have to start at the beginning.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Teleportation

[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

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.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Butt stuff is marginally less fun.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Really depends on the butt

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago

No, see, it's all buts. That is the curse.

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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Switch sexes any time I prefer

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Every time you switch you have to peel off a layer of dead skin line a cocoon.

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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Damn that's harsh. I didn't expect that, it seems you have some great imagination.

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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

I'm sorry, I don't make the rules

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Seems like a small payment honestly

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.

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[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago*

... provided you are playing Uno and have a reverse card.

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I can teleport instantly to any location I have previously visited.

[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But each location has a specific song you must play on an Ocarina....

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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?

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[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

"Oh, and a chocolate croissant, please, thanks! ..... and uh, I'm so incredibly sorry about last time,"

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

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?