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Zeus posted...

But how would you know without their memories?

I meant to write "people they know" there instead of things. If you possessed Donald Trump, for instance, you could talk to his lawyer and immediately find out what shady deals he's been involved in.

Zeus posted...

As for belongings, most criminals don't just save tangible, immediately identifiable evidence in a convenient location. Even trophy-taking serial killers hide their stuff or make it innocuous.

Depends if you knew what you were looking for. For instance, again using the Donald Trump example, you could possess him and order the release of his tax returns.

Zeus posted...

It's about doing what you want to do.

Again, you don't need a superpower to do that. If you want to design video games, you can do it right now.

Zeus posted...

And even if you aren't good, if you're lucky enough whatever you do with resonate with people

That sounds like it's extending beyond luck, though. For instance, if I tried to code a video game, it would be shit. I haven't coded in almost 15 years and even then my coding skills were on the level of writing macros in excel or super simple functions in C++ or Matlab - I simply do not have the technical knowhow to do anything related to video game design. In fact, you literally would not be able to play any game I made, because I don't even know how to make an executable file.

So that leaves one of two possibilities - either my jumbled mess of code somehow becomes wildly popular, in which case I'm flat-out altering the material properties of the universe because it's making people think that something objectively terrible is fun and entertaining, or I reach a level of omnipotence such that slapping my hand on the keyboard like a frightened chimp miraculously produces code that is not only functional, but completely fantastic.

And neither of those strike me as appealing, because once again you're not *really* doing anything. The universe is doing all your work for you. You're not being rewarded for your creativity or design, you've just artificially entered a cheat code that automatically grants you 100% approval for all your actions. It's like playing a Nintendo game with one of their automatic "Super Invincible Fly Mode" power-ups active. Yeah, you'll win, but how is it in any way fulfilling?
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