For example:

  • You can fly but you can never stop flying
  • You can turn invisible, but never be seen again
    • @[email protected]
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      So, question: when the billionaire dies, does their wealth transfer according to local laws? So an entire lineage could instantly turn inside out, including bastard children on the fringes of inheritance, with only an estate tax to save them?

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        Logically since all billionaires die, their lineage would be gradually wiped out.

        Where it gets tricky is how they would manage the money. If the money is not directly controlled by them, are they billionaires? So does the CFO of a multi billion dollar company also get turned inside out?

        It would be a heck of a monkey paw without stipulations that would make the point worthless.

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          12 months ago

          Every 12 hours, the richest person in the world turns inside out. Just one, every 12 hours. The only way to stop it is if capitalism ends and people no longer hoard wealth.

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      If you don’t specify a currency or a grade of inflation, this might kill far more people than expected.

      1 billion Iranian Rial for instance is just about 23752 USD.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      A couple of multi-millionaires would pay you to stop and then you’d implode.

      Still a net win for everyone else though, I support this.

  • @[email protected]
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    How pedantic do we get to be? Like, I’d be fine with flying because I could just hover a millimeter from the ground instead of standing, I would think

    • @[email protected]
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      402 months ago

      My stepson asks all kinds of questions like this and highly scientific pedantry is my go-to move.

      “Technically if you were invisible, your retinas would stop working, so I’d go with flight.”

    • cumberboi (any/all)OP
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      Hmm I think anything is fine really hah. I feel like it’d get weird never being able to touch the ground again, like I’d feel so detatched from things

      • Nemo's public admirer
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        Technically, you can fly towards the ground while being upright(unless the feet are the sole thrusters), to get that feel, right?

        • @[email protected]
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          112 months ago

          Good point. If you fly feet forward towards the ground with an acceleration of 9,81 m/s2 it should feel pretty much like normal standing with gravity.

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      “I forgot one thing about the guy who had gained the ability to fly - it was actually only for a foot or two, and only an inch or so high”

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      Healing factor - always-on healing.

      Don’t we already have that?

      • @[email protected]
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        Not for everything and not good enough though.

        Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

        Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don’t consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It’d suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.

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        What if there’s an earthquake and you get stuck under a mountain of rubble? Could take months for you to get out of there. How about a skiing accident involving an avalanche? Could take even longer. When you are completely immortal, you suddenly start to view certain risks in a very different way.

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          42 months ago

          How crazy of a healing factor are we talking about. Broken bones healed in a day? Or healing from a gunshot to the brain?

          Having a healing power that would let me lose an arm or a lung and regrow it would be awesome. But regrowing a brain would be problematic.

          Does healing include not aging? Or the tearing and rebuilding of muscles? It would be wild to have a healing factor that allows you to essentially body build in a single day.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 months ago

      Shapeshifting for sure. Don’t even need to be human, id totally try being an amorphous sentient blob for a bit. Joints cant hurt if you don’t have joints!

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Wait would shape shifting mean you can just heal your body by shape shifting into healthy body parts? Is shape shifting would also be considered healing then?

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          I think it’d definitely work that way for your more silly putty shapeshifters like Morph. Someone like Mystique could probably close up cuts and holes, but I’m not sure she could like siphon some mass from other areas to regrow a hand, say.

  • m-p{3}
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    I’m always at a comfortable temperature no matter what.

    • @[email protected]
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      If humanity finds out about that property of you, you might end up as some kind of human battery. If you can’t be cooled down under any circumstances, one could use your body to heat up infinite amounts of water/air with heat pumps and use you to heat entire cities. Super useful for the rest of humanity but not exactly the life I’d like to live. :D

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        I don’t think it would be worth it, as the thermal conduction would be far too low to be useful

        However, it would be a useful ability in extreme environments, such as space or Antarctica or something like that. So your chances of becoming an astronaut would massively increase.

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          We could also run some heat pipes through the body to improve conductivity, stretch the skin to increase the surface etc.

          If the person doesn’t need to be alive to stay at a comfortable temperature we could even grind the body into a powder of tiny heat emitting particles. Then add a very fast flowing liquid with a good conductivity and our super hero heating system is good to go.

          But enough psychopath talk now. I personally don’t want to turn anyone into a heating system, but I’m sure capitalism will find a way to exploit this special property. :D

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      That is a really good one. Because you can’t stop it, but a comfortable temperature is always comfortable.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    Being lucky all the time would be cool. The only time I can think it might be a hindrance would be at a casino because they’d think I’m cheating but I don’t gamble so it doesn’t matter I guess.

    • slazer2au
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      102 months ago

      Just play the lottery once.

      Now you are rich, lucky, and screwed. Hopefully those last 2 cancel each other out.

        • slazer2au
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          122 months ago

          Because humans are terrible

          https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whats_the_happiest_5word_sentence_you_could_hear/chb4v05/

          Large jackpot winners face double digit multiples of probability versus the general population to be the victim of:

          Homicide (something like 20x more likely). Drug overdose
          Bankruptcy (how’s that for irony?)
          Kidnapping

          And triple digit multiples of probability versus the general population rate to be:

          Convicted of drunk driving
          The victim of Homicide (at the hands of a family member) 120x more likely in this case, ain’t love grand?
          A defendant in a civil lawsuit
          A defendant in felony criminal proceedings

          • @[email protected]
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            122 months ago

            But since those events are based on probability, you would be one of the lucky few without those problems!

            • slazer2au
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              62 months ago

              Like I said, hope the last 2 cancel each other out.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Being lucky all the time will feel like nothing matters or is exciting anymore because the outcome is always positive.

  • dohpaz42
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    222 months ago

    I would want the superpower of linguistics: the ability to fluently read, speak, and understand any language ever spoken or will be spoken.

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      I guess in combination with the ‘can’t stop it’ twist that would mean that you can’t stop talking in these old and random languages. So people will think you’re crazy and you’ll end up in some kind of mental illness hospital.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        He is saying being fluent and able to understand it too. So never stops means he can’t ever forget a language, as I’m interpreting it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          How is that different from ‘being able to fly’ or ‘being able to turn invisible’? My understanding of OP’s twist is that you don’t have full control over your ability but that the skill is permanently active.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        you mean I can’t stop talking and I’m super annoying or I can shut up and use a phone app.

      • dohpaz42
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        12 months ago

        I had never heard of Cypher before, but yes. Just like that.

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    I would have the power to be naturally skilled at anything I do and having it always activated would be a bonus.

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      Jack of All Trades Activated

      You are now naturally skilled at all tasks but will never be considered a master in any discipline

  • HubertManne
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    super good luck. like the the chick from deadpool 2 I think or longshots if it always stayed on.

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ
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      the bad thing about have always luck on is that bad things can happen to you anyways on prior of your “good luck”

        • oni ᓚᘏᗢ
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          12 months ago

          well, if your mom or dad got shot instead of you and that means good luck, then i guess i’m wrong

          • HubertManne
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            I guess. I mean in deadpool all the rest of the team mostly died.

  • JackGreenEarth
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    162 months ago

    Shapeshifting. It’s what I wanted anyway and I can always just be continuously toggling the length of my little toenail to be 1mm longer or shorter.

    • Sneezycat
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      Hell yeah, I get to choose my boob size, and I can have my hair changing colors like in Terraria!

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Can’t die. It’s gonna suck in 800 trillion years. Imagine if you can’t sleep either because you don’t need to recuperate.

      • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁
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        The dream of engineers: they can’t get sick so no depression, they don’t need to sleep so infinite focus and learning, and half a million years would be sufficient to build a large underground automated city and preparing space travel to find solutions for their curse

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          Ah yes, I also play factorio/satisfactory/dwarf fortress/rim world. I could easily do 1000 years with each of those, but a million might be streatching it

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    102 months ago

    Never becoming deaf and always having good hearing. I’m not sure I’d be able to enjoy life anymore if I became deaf, so just having good hearing would make the rest of my life worth living, without any major side effects I could think of.

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      32 months ago

      Reading this reminded me that my ears are ringing. I can ignore it but if anything draws attention it can get pretty bad.

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      I can live without hearing, thanks to subwoofers, but if I ever go blind I think I’m just going to kill myself.

      So permanent good vision; I pick that.