Poll of the Day > Decide Between These - 7 (Superpowered 'Would you rather')

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These will generally be whatever I can think of, with no particular rhyme or reason, but if I hypothetically were to see certain suggestions often enough, I'll consider using them. If you see any error, or loophole, that for one reason or another I have overlooked, I will try to address it in the comments whenever I can, in all bolded text.

Options 2, 3, and 5 are pretty straight forward imo. I'll explain the rest.

Option 1: Example: staying invisible for an entire day would be as if you lived 1 month of your life.

Option 4: It's Earth, Water, Thunder, Fire = Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Whichever season you're in, you're weak to the other 3 during that time as well, be it from something natural or not. Also, yes, it's based on the seasons of wherever on the planet (whichever planet as well lol) you are currently at.

Option 6: Day 1 you heal. Day 2 you can't. Day 3 you can again. Day 4 nope. And so on. A broken arm, for example, won't heal on day 2, until day 3 rolls along. Technically, you age during an off day but since you heal the following day, it's practically like you didn't. You'll always be whatever age you are right now. Dying on a day you can't heal is irreversible, however. (if you're like one minute away from midnight you might make it, depending on the situation you're in. I'm not gonna go into each and every unique situation either, ok? Logic it yourself lol!)

Option 7: It's the pain equivalent of as if you were set on fire + giving birth. You will not get 'used to it' either.
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I guess 6. Seems ok...
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Number 1 could probably get you rich, for only like 2-4 weeks of your life.

I went with option 6 though
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Smiffwilm posted...

Shapeshifting. You can only maintain shape whenever you aren't hungry, thirsty, in pain, or sexually aroused however.

So that's not going to do much good. >_<

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 1: Example: staying invisible for an entire day would be as if you lived 1 month of your life.

I guess that's still manageable for an emergency? Half an hour (assuming I don't flick it on and off when behind objects) would only age me 15 hours and, if it could save my life, that would certainly be worth it... however, would my clothes go invisible or is it naked invisible like on the X-Files, Mystery Men, etc?

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 4: It's Earth, Water, Thunder, Fire = Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Whichever season you're in, you're weak to the other 3 during that time as well, be it from something natural or not. Also, yes, it's based on the seasons of wherever on the planet (whichever planet as well lol) you are currently at.

What does "weak to it" actually mean, though? It's not like we live in an RPG where things just do double damage. Are we talking about the rain hurting or something rather than just annoying people? Is using water painful outside of the one season?

Assuming that the drawback isn't that bad, it seems an okay choice. Plus ice manipulation is just plain cool... although I'm confused by the months chosen. Fire is winter? I guess that'd keep me warm so... idk.

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 6: Day 1 you heal. Day 2 you can't. Day 3 you can again. Day 4 nope. And so on. A broken arm, for example, won't heal on day 2, until day 3 rolls along. Technically, you age during an off day but since you heal the following day, it's practically like you didn't. You'll always be whatever age you are right now. Dying on a day you can't heal is irreversible, however. (if you're like one minute away from midnight you might make it, depending on the situation you're in. I'm not gonna go into each and every unique situation either, ok? Logic it yourself lol!)

Okay, I think this is definitely the best choice considering it *could* conceivably stop most natural deaths and could possibly guarantee immortality.

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 7: It's the pain equivalent of as if you were set on fire + giving birth. You will not get 'used to it' either.

Well, I *was* going to say 7 but there's no way I could maintain flight with those levels of pain so the ability is functionally useless.

green dragon posted...

Number 1 could probably get you rich, for only like 2-4 weeks of your life.

Number 2 could get you rich, too. Athletes can make obscene amounts of money.
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Zeus posted...

Smiffwilm posted...

Shapeshifting. You can only maintain shape whenever you aren't hungry, thirsty, in pain, or sexually aroused however.

So that's not going to do much good. >_<

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 1: Example: staying invisible for an entire day would be as if you lived 1 month of your life.

I guess that's still manageable for an emergency? Half an hour (assuming I don't flick it on and off when behind objects) would only age me 15 hours and, if it could save my life, that would certainly be worth it... however, would my clothes go invisible or is it naked invisible like on the X-Files, Mystery Men, etc?

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 4: It's Earth, Water, Thunder, Fire = Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Whichever season you're in, you're weak to the other 3 during that time as well, be it from something natural or not. Also, yes, it's based on the seasons of wherever on the planet (whichever planet as well lol) you are currently at.

What does "weak to it" actually mean, though? It's not like we live in an RPG where things just do double damage. Are we talking being more bothered by heat during winter?

Assuming that the drawback isn't that bad, it seems an okay choice. Plus ice manipulation is just plain cool... although I'm confused by the months chosen. Fire is winter? I guess that'd keep me warm so... idk.

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 6: Day 1 you heal. Day 2 you can't. Day 3 you can again. Day 4 nope. And so on. A broken arm, for example, won't heal on day 2, until day 3 rolls along. Technically, you age during an off day but since you heal the following day, it's practically like you didn't. You'll always be whatever age you are right now. Dying on a day you can't heal is irreversible, however. (if you're like one minute away from midnight you might make it, depending on the situation you're in. I'm not gonna go into each and every unique situation either, ok? Logic it yourself lol!)

Okay, I think this is definitely the best choice considering it *could* conceivably stop most natural deaths and could possibly guarantee immortality.

Smiffwilm posted...

Option 7: It's the pain equivalent of as if you were set on fire + giving birth. You will not get 'used to it' either.

Well, I *was* going to say 7 but there's no way I could maintain flight with those levels of pain so the ability is functionally useless.

Yes, the invisibility is like a personal field so clothes you wear will go invisible as well. Can't extend it to make others or medium-large objects invisible though.

The 4 elements one, I made it to where you could survive in weather extremes basically. That was the logic anyway. As for the weakness, yeah, you're more susceptible to it. Physically you are more sensitive and might get stunned or whatnot. I guess I didn't phrase it right?

I might do another poll without that healing one just to see the difference lol. Might reduce the pain for flight too as well.
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Zeus posted...

Mystery Men

I love that movie

Zeus posted...

Number 2 could get you rich, too. Athletes can make obscene amounts of money.

That is very true, but if you're running backwards and are beating people that are running regularly, that might raise a few too many eye brows, and put you on someone's radar.
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Super healing is obviously the best choice. The shape shifting could be good, if you knew what the pain threshold was.
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dragon504 posted...

Super healing is obviously the best choice. The shape shifting could be good, if you knew what the pain threshold was.

Idk the official terms, so any pain that would personally phase you.
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Yeah that healing one was definitely a mistake to put in lol!
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I waffled between 1 and 6, but after some consideration 6 is plainly the better answer.

Invisibility would be pretty cool and even at 30x aging rate, not a dealbreaker (a day would take a month off your life, but how often are you going to need to be invisible for an entire day?) - plus, if you don't mind taking some liberties with the law, there are lots of ways to get rich doing that. On the flip side, the topic didn't specify how realistic we're being with the superpowers - for instance, if you were invisible, does that affect your clothes as well or are you going naked? Can you still see (vision requires light to hit the back of your eyes, not pass straight through it)? And, really, how many situations arise that could be improved by you being invisible?

Super healing, on the other hand, is guaranteed to be a winner. It nullifies aging, you will never be sick for more than 24 hours, whether that's a cold or cancer, injuries and surgeries can be recovered from almost immediately (though, come to think of it, the odds you'll ever need surgery with this power are slim-to-none), and you have a 50% chance of nullifying any catastrophic injury that could kill you.

So yeah, that one. The "every other day" penalty isn't really a penalty at all - just a limitation on the power and one that's eminently workable.
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Invisibility easily for me. Not having the longest life ever is a small price to pay for that. Though its not like id need to use it for huge periods of time anyways.
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darkknight109 posted...

On the flip side, the topic didn't specify how realistic we're being with the superpowers - for instance, if you were invisible, does that affect your clothes as well or are you going naked? Can you still see (vision requires light to hit the back of your eyes, not pass straight through it)? And, really, how many situations arise that could be improved by you being invisible?

He did say it affects your clothes. And smaller items you have. But I don't think he mentioned anything about the vision...
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LinkPizza posted...

darkknight109 posted...

On the flip side, the topic didn't specify how realistic we're being with the superpowers - for instance, if you were invisible, does that affect your clothes as well or are you going naked? Can you still see (vision requires light to hit the back of your eyes, not pass straight through it)? And, really, how many situations arise that could be improved by you being invisible?

He did say it affects your clothes. And smaller items you have. But I don't think he mentioned anything about the vision...

Hmmm. Vision. Well, I did say it's like a personal field in an earlier post, so that suggests it's over you, so your sight should be fine.

Not really related so I'm not bolding this part, but I believe I didn't think this poll through long enough. I consider it a spectacular failure on my part lol. Down the line, I may even redo it without certain options.
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crap, i misread super healing as super hearing.... voted super speed because of that
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Super Healing. I can't see any downside.
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Yeah, super healing, even if it only halved aging would still be the best by far (your body would still in theory age on days you don't heal, and then not age at all on days you do....but unless it reversed all aging, it wouldn't reverse the aging you did on an off day.)

Even so, that would not only mean you would live twice as long as you would of from the day you got the power, but you would be young and healthy for most of it. If you got the power at age 30, you could live another 120 years, and still be young and in shape for at least 50-60 of them (as you would be as healthy as possible for a 60 year old after 60 more years).

If you ditch the healing one all together, invisibility doesn't have a strong enough downside. Money is, in most cases, the most powerful superpower as it just basically makes your life super easy and you can do whatever you want. While personally I find that sad, it's the truth.

While you might be able to get rich with the shape shifting power, and in theory you could fly that way, swim under water, and tons of other cool things. There restrictions prevent you from many of the most fun uses!! It would certainly be more work to get rich with shapeshifting powers.

With invisibility you could get quite rich even without doing anything illegal (although cheating is ethically wrong). You would not have to be invisible long to become mega-wealthy, and then never use the ability again.

That aside, of the options, I'm gonna go with shape shifting (if Healing is taken off the table). Why? Because it offers the most cool uses, without any negative penalties. There is some danger involved (if your flying and suddenly feel pain for instance) you could fall and die (if the pain didn't go away in time). If you turn into something that can survive underwater and extreme pressure, and then get hurt...boom dead etc.

Even so, you could still experience flight over water etc, so if you did fall, you wouldn't die. Also, in theory, shapeshifting would allow you to heal in a way, since you would revert into your normal form. So shapeshift just slightly all of the time, and any damage you take, will go away when you get hurt (are in pain) and boom, you are healed.

Shapeshifting might even prevent you from aging as well, as long as you are in a shifted form most of the time, and no time limit was mentioned, other then not being hungry/thirsty, in pain or aroused. You could easily prevent all of that (especially in a shapes shifted form that is hard to damage, and doesn't have sexual organs). With the ability to shift into any form, you can control how often you get hungry/thirsty, aroused, and heck in theory you could even remove most nerve endings so it's very hard for you to be in pain even......removing almost all of the negatives.
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Super healing, easily.
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Super healing aside, super strength. Just gotta remember to put my steel-reinforced concrete belt on every morning to stave off the old-man jitters!
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Shapeshifting. I want to fly but I'd rather be hungry or thirsty than in pain, unless really mild, barely noticable pain counts.... yea no I want shapeshifting I'm always hungry anyway

Edit: whoopsies, miss read it :/ well I guess I have to be carefull not to hurt myself and eat a loooot of food If I wanna shapshift :P still keeping it as my answer.
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1, easy
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Definitely not healing. Longevity is a curse. I'd take most of the others that doesn't have a downside while nonactive.
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Come to think of it, shapeshifting *could* give you flight and the drawback seems manageable.
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If you suddenly feel pain and lose your ability to fly, however...!
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

If you suddenly feel pain and lose your ability to fly, however...!

"Man, I shouldn't have had those tacos for lunch. I feel a cramp coming ooooAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"
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