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Time manipulation, which has a major QoL component, plus it insulates you from any potential consequence thereby facilitating larger risk taking -- as well as a massive profit component, since you could start by winning the lotto.

However, even beyond that, you could prolong your life indefinitely by continuously giving yourself one more day (although the quality of that day could be iffy)

Actually, how would the logistics even work? Any tele back creates a fixed future point you can only travel 24 hours before that time? Or there's a 24-hour cooldown after use? Otherwise you could chain it going forever.

captpackrat posted...

You should read The Man Who Folded Himself. Every time you go back in time to prevent something from happening, you're actually creating a new timeline with a new copy of yourself. You still get in the accident, but your past duplicate will manage to avoid it. And now there's two of you with time travel powers. You go back in time with the lottery numbers? You don't get the money, the past you gets it. And now there's yet another copy of you running around. And if you keep time jumping, before you know it there's a near infinite number of you mucking up the time line.

Spoiler: The protagonist eventually becomes his own father and mother.

That's one interpretation of the idea of time travel and 100% speculative.

SinisterSlay posted...

Time travel would be cool, but so dangerous.

It's one day, so it'd be easy to fix even if something goes wrong... unless a series of events has to repeat a certain way.

SinisterSlay posted...

I think I would pick teleportation. Although super strength and flying would definitely have uses, teleportation might be the most life fulfilling.
You could pop into every country to assemble your breakfast, pop into the kremlin and kill Hitler I mean Putin, save the world, be back home to watch it on the news.

Teleportation is potentially far more dangerous than time travel.

The kinda-only risk with this time travel is messing up and getting the time mixed up after you do something stupid, or doing something too stupid where you die before you can rewind.

Straughan posted...

At least with flying I could live on my own and subsist or sell my service to whatever application it would pay for.

I'd probably just live in the wilderness though. Build my own shit and take food from overhead somehow.

Honestly, I'd like to live somewhere I could mine for gold. Perhaps somewhere up north in the untouched wilderness man can't get to easily. Just smack rocks all day and hope to find gold veins. I'd like to learn how to process it and turn it into pure gold too.

That would be my dream. Not sure why I have this obsession with gold. I don't even own anything gold except for minor pieces of jewelry I never wear.

Not sure how any of that really correlates with flying, but okay >_>

CaptainObvius posted...

Telekinesis could conceivably give you flight and super strength as well. Depending on how much you could lift with it. Just thinking of all of the things they could do in the movie "Chronicle."

Yeah, that'd be my second pick if time manipulation wasn't an option.

Will need to come back the rest of this topic later.