Current Events > You can pick only one: freeze time or be the ultimate stud.

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If you pick freeze time, from here on out you will never have romance again, a small price for that power. Freezing time let's you stop the world in place for hours at a time, with a little uncertainty on when it will turn off exactly, and some cool-down time you have to spend between freezes. Also, freezing time makes you older than the people you freeze. Still you get every other advantage of that power.

If you pick stud, well, you get all the romance you want. You simply won't get the Freeze time power. The stud power is pretty self explanatory.

Pick a power.
I pick freeze time.

Zurkon posted...

I was going to pick freeze time until I saw the never have romance again part. I guess stud by default, which is obviously still good, just not a cool power.

Depends on the value you place on it. Freeze time is an an invaluable power. Stud just means you get laid whenever, however. And even given the opportunity to freeze time and forsake romance, people are still picking the stud option over freeze time. Weird. Different priorities.

I could never take freezing time or flying. I would just always be in fear that it would stop working at the wrong time.
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Anteaterking posted...

I could never take freezing time or flying. I would just always be in fear that it would stop working at the wrong time.

Yeah, but still, you could get a lot done, A LOT.

Little uncertainty of when you'll freeze time? What's the point then? It's not going to freeze when you want to, which is the point of freezing time, at the exact spot you need to freeze, and it may in fact freeze when you don't want it to
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SECOND ONE TO GET MY DREAM GUY maybe
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GiftedACIII posted...

Little uncertainty of when you'll freeze time? What's the point then? It's not going to freeze when you want to, which is the point of freezing time, at the exact spot you need to freeze, and it may in fact freeze when you don't want it to

No you can freeze when you want to. You can't always predict when it will precisely let up, though you have at least a few to several hours.

Zurkon posted...

I was going to pick freeze time until I saw the never have romance again part. I guess stud by default, which is obviously still good, just not a cool power.

Meh, it's the fact that I continue to age that really kills the freeze time power. I'd abuse it so much that by the time everyone I know is 20 years older I'd be on my death bed. I mean, no more romance sucks, but dying early sucks even more.
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Aristoph posted...

Zurkon posted...

I was going to pick freeze time until I saw the never have romance again part. I guess stud by default, which is obviously still good, just not a cool power.

Meh, it's the fact that I continue to age that really kills the freeze time power. I'd abuse it so much that by the time everyone I know is 20 years older I'd be on my death bed. I mean, no more romance sucks, but dying early sucks even more.

It's gradual, I should note. It's not a heavy loss of years or even days per se in lump sumps each time you use the power.

Don't forget about all the ways you can change the course of history by freezing time.

Freeze time won't be dying early, you'd still live just as long as you normally would from your perspective, just other people would see you for less time. You also can just use it enough to get tons of money and have no problem getting laid all you want anyway. It just won't be all lovey dovey, which can be an advantage tbh.

Raikuro posted...

Freeze time won't be dying early, you'd still live just as long as you normally would from your perspective, just other people would see you for less time. You also can just use it enough to get tons of money and have no problem getting laid all you want anyway. It just won't be all lovey dovey, which can be an advantage tbh.

Romance is a soft term for anything sexual. You cannot buy hos. You can steal money though. But you can't buy hos.

Cocytus posted...

It's gradual, I should note. It's not a heavy loss of years or even days per se in lump sumps each time you use the power.

Yeah, I know. I age normally within my frame of reference, and they don't age when their time is stopped. So essentially I'm dying early, because I only experience another 20 years according to the world's advancements and such. I might "live" 50 years worth of time personally in that span, but most of it would be me doing stuff alone and nobody else is aware of it. And that sucks.

If it worked so that if I froze time I would stop aging just like everybody else, then it's by far the better power. As it is, it kinda sucks. Plus people are eventually going to start questioning why I look like I'm 80 when I should only be 50.
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Cocytus posted...

Romance is a soft term for anything sexual. You cannot buy hos. You can steal money though. But you can't buy hos.

So basically your dick stops working? Hmm idk what kind of motivation I'd have if there's no possibility of sexual pleasure for the rest of my life...

Aristoph posted...

Cocytus posted...

It's gradual, I should note. It's not a heavy loss of years or even days per se in lump sumps each time you use the power.

Yeah, I know. I age normally within my frame of reference, and they don't age when their time is stopped. So essentially I'm dying early, because I only experience another 20 years according to the world's advancements and such. I might "live" 50 years worth of time personally in that span, but most of it would be me doing stuff alone and nobody else is aware of it. And that sucks.

If it worked so that if I froze time I would stop aging just like everybody else, then it's by far the better power. As it is, it kinda sucks. Plus people are eventually going to start questioning why I look like I'm 80 when I should only be 50.

That sounds about right. It depends on how much you use the power. Like if you used it just once or twice to get rich or change the course of history, and you were originally set to die in your eighties, you might go down anywhere from 3 to 20 years, so sixties. A lot of us dudes will die in our sixties anyways.

Raikuro posted...

Cocytus posted...

Romance is a soft term for anything sexual. You cannot buy hos. You can steal money though. But you can't buy hos.

So basically your dick stops working? Hmm idk what kind of motivation I'd have if there's no possibility of sexual pleasure for the rest of my life...

You can deed. That's your only respite. Just no sexual human contact. You can look at pr0n.

Bump

So, freeze time power with a bunch of negatives attached to it to make it as unappealing as possible, or something else without negatives... Gee, seems almost like a fair choice to make.
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Cocytus posted...

with a little uncertainty on when it will turn off exactly, and some cool-down time you have to spend between freezes

Complete, utter turn-off. You destroyed one of the most basic required components that superpower should have. The latter one is not cool, too.

Give me the other one.
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Eh, the freeze time comes with too many drawbacks (i could deal any of those, but all of them?) Losing 3 to 20 years sucks. Given that I would probably use it to sleep without passing as much time, I would probably wind up losing a lot of time.

Gimme the power to get laid at will.
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