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wolfy42 posted...

Zeus posted...

WhiskeyDisk posted...

I went with extreme luck. A lot of the powers on this list tend to come with serious drawbacks like an absurdly large metabolic requirement such as shape shifting, phasing, and super speed. The marksmanship one is tempting, but also necessitates always carrying a projectile weapon. I am also not a fan of possession as it's akin to metaphysical rape.

Extreme luck has its own of drawbacks. It would suck the joy out of games to know that everything is just going to work out no matter how you play. The Twilight Zone played with this idea, among others.

(Abridged episode -- it's cut down to 5 minutes)

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Dude they should totally do that for more episodes!!! I have seen em all many times, but re-seeing em in 5 minutes is awesome.

My name is talking tina...and I will KILL YOU!!!

Elsa....ellllllsa.......elsa.

There's a Gremlin on the side of the Plane!!!

There actually are quite a few abridged episodes, but the format doesn't work for everything. In some cases the edit kinda ruins the story. However, just cutting the opening and closing narration can save almost 5 minutes in itself.

darkknight109 posted...

Possession is underrated and you could solve a surprising number of the world's problems, albeit probably not ethically. You could possess Kim Jong Un and order your country to denuclearize; or possess leaders of countries at war and get them to start a truce. Even if the person later backtracks and claims that's not what they meant to do, all it does is raise questions about their mental state.

Think someone's hiding something? Possess them and find out, then expose it if it's true. Hear about a crime in progress? Possess the criminal and force them to surrender.

This is without touching on all the less-than-scrupulous things you could do with this ability (manipulate rich people into giving you huge sums of money, manipulate politicians and world leaders to suit your political preferences, so on and so forth).

Not sure that you'd necessarily gain access to their memories via possession, which limits what you can do with them. A common gimmick in tv and film is the possessor being outed for not knowing something that the real person does.

While I thought of Kim Jong right away, I realized I probably wouldn't just gain the ability to speak the language which would kill any ability to effect reforms; that and violating a sovereign nation like that -- even one like NK -- would be repugnant on some level.

darkknight109 posted...

That's definitely the winner in my eyes. Yeah, extreme luck sounds good on paper, but how much stuff in your day-to-day life comes down to luck?

Depends on how it works. It could be if you just follow your luck, good things will fall into your lap -- you can wander into a place and be offered a job, you could find an attractive woman looking to get back at her boyfriend by sleeping with the first guy she talks to, etc.

However, at the very least, you'd have things like winning large sums of money. Not to mention that you'd be more or less immune to everything except aging. Guns would misfire, even if you got a disease you'd beat the odds, you'd miraculously avoid or survive car accidents, etc. If somebody tried to break into your home, there'd luckily be a cop driving by at that exact moment.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

but with that luck it means you would never get diseases/sick.

But you'd eventually die of old age. Plus transformations could fix the disease issue anyway and possession would let you just switch bodies.
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