Poll of the Day > Choose a superpower.

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Choose a superpower.
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Huge dong superpower

I love how the only power that does nothing is the one Sunny would choose.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Huge dong superpower

That's hydrokinesis.
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Blessed with perfect spelling he was chastised by his Canadian family for not being able to properly put a 'u' in the word color.

He is... The Understudy
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

Huge dong superpower

That's hydrokinesis.

Or Animal Morphing
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Lokarin posted...

Blessed with perfect spelling he was chastised by his Canadian family for not being able to properly put a 'u' in the word color.

He is... The Understudy

wat
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Hydrokinesis, easily. I could just suck the moisture out of my foes. Gg
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Unlimited raisin eating

They call me the Raisineer
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Extreme luck, the rest mean jack shit if you are unlucky
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Kinda depends. Does possession or transformation extend my life? If I have an incorporeal form where I can just keep possessing new bodies, that's incredibly useful. Plus since it doesn't specify that it needs to be humans, I'd get the same perks as transformation.

Then transformation-type abilities tend to greatly slow down (or halt) aging.

Of course, extreme luck has the best net benefit outside of lifespan and it lacks the intrinsically evil connotations of possession.
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Luck...May the odds be ever in my favor!
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Some of these are good, but I'm thinking the luck one would be the most fun.
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Possession for me though luck would be great as well.
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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.
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Luck is nice, but it may not necessarily mean that any scenario will go how you want it to when it comes to other people. If someone you care about is in a dangerous situation and you're not there, your luck isn't going mean jack shit.

If you're going fast enough, speed trumps almost everything. You could even potentially travel through time.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

The marksmanship one is tempting, but also necessitates always carrying a projectile weapon.

Well yeah, but if you had that one just about anything you throw could be a weapon.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Luck is nice, but it may not necessarily mean that any scenario will go how you want it to when it comes to other people. If someone you care about is in a dangerous situation and you're not there, your luck isn't going mean jack shit.

If you're going fast enough, speed trumps almost everything. You could even potentially travel through time.

Your loved ones dying is pretty unlucky if you ask me
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Nobody can understand the power....the pure power....of perfect spelling!!

Fear me!!!!
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Explosive farts
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Muscles posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

Luck is nice, but it may not necessarily mean that any scenario will go how you want it to when it comes to other people. If someone you care about is in a dangerous situation and you're not there, your luck isn't going mean jack shit.

If you're going fast enough, speed trumps almost everything. You could even potentially travel through time.

Your loved ones dying is pretty unlucky if you ask me

The concept/idea that a fast enough speed means you can travel through time is pretty stupid tbh. You can't according to any physical laws that we know. In fact, speed, by itself isn't that useful as the brain can still only react so fast, so you need both super speed AND super reaction time/reflexes and mental ability. If you have super speed and can't calculate things and react to them fast enough, you just go splat.

Meanwhile you need super toughness as well....because all the speed in the world won't help you without the ability to withstand the forces involved. The Flash for instance has super regeneration abilities etc, and also seems to be able to withstand extreme force/pressure (even though it only seems to work while he is moving at super speed for some reason).

Anyway speed by itself...wouldn't be too useful, other then being able to win races etc, and run faster them other humans (but not much faster with great risk of injury).
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Explosive farts

Everyone can gain this power. Just follow Jen to Taco bell.
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Muscles posted...

keyblader1985 posted...

Luck is nice, but it may not necessarily mean that any scenario will go how you want it to when it comes to other people. If someone you care about is in a dangerous situation and you're not there, your luck isn't going mean jack shit.

If you're going fast enough, speed trumps almost everything. You could even potentially travel through time.

Your loved ones dying is pretty unlucky if you ask me

It's pretty lucky only one loved one died instead of all of them.
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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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ueTRaYTwg" data-time="
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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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ueTRaYTwg" data-time="

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!!!
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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).

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?
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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).

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?

Extreme luck of course gives you unlimited money, which is a super power in and of itself. But you are right, possession would also easily give you unlimited money as well (along with the ability to manipulate the entire world if you wanted). If the spelling power wasn't so awesome, I would probably go with the possession power myself. It is almost as good as being able to shapeshift/change into any thing/one etc (and actually better in some ways).

Also lets you try out being the opposite sex if you want for a bit etc *wink* *wink*
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Extreme luck basically means everything you want to happen would happen.

The most overpowered after that is super speed.
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being intangible because you can in essence be immune to harm. like some nonbro takes a swing at you and he goes right thru then you stab him in the fucking heart and be like "hey, sucker!" they put you in jail for it?? leave! rob banks and shit. nobody can stop you. after a while theyd just give up and be like "i guess we gotta wait for him to die
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I choose "Complete Arsenal"; the power to have all powers.


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wolfy42 posted...

The concept/idea that a fast enough speed means you can travel through time is pretty stupid tbh. You can't according to any physical laws that we know. In fact, speed, by itself isn't that useful as the brain can still only react so fast, so you need both super speed AND super reaction time/reflexes and mental ability. If you have super speed and can't calculate things and react to them fast enough, you just go splat.

Meanwhile you need super toughness as well....because all the speed in the world won't help you without the ability to withstand the forces involved. The Flash for instance has super regeneration abilities etc, and also seems to be able to withstand extreme force/pressure (even though it only seems to work while he is moving at super speed for some reason).

Anyway speed by itself...wouldn't be too useful, other then being able to win races etc, and run faster them other humans (but not much faster with great risk of injury).

All of that is generally implied when talking about super speed. Otherwise there'd be no point because you'd just run into a brick wall and die.
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keyblader1985 posted...

wolfy42 posted...

The concept/idea that a fast enough speed means you can travel through time is pretty stupid tbh. You can't according to any physical laws that we know. In fact, speed, by itself isn't that useful as the brain can still only react so fast, so you need both super speed AND super reaction time/reflexes and mental ability. If you have super speed and can't calculate things and react to them fast enough, you just go splat.

Meanwhile you need super toughness as well....because all the speed in the world won't help you without the ability to withstand the forces involved. The Flash for instance has super regeneration abilities etc, and also seems to be able to withstand extreme force/pressure (even though it only seems to work while he is moving at super speed for some reason).

Anyway speed by itself...wouldn't be too useful, other then being able to win races etc, and run faster them other humans (but not much faster with great risk of injury).

All of that is generally implied when talking about super speed. Otherwise there'd be no point because you'd just run into a brick wall and die.

not to mention,

BigOlePappy posted...

Superhuman Speed - The ability to move, run, fly, react, think, and sense at speeds much faster than a normal human.

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Luck is rather vague, and it looks like you have no control over the ability, so it's an auto no.

Speed and intangibility are not bad at all, there's a lot of stuff I could do with this... but possession beats everything. The only problems that couldn't be solved by it are natural disasters and accidents (which ironically can be dealt with using the other 2 powers), but aside from that... you can literally do everything.

Yeah, if you get all those other abilities with super speed (super toughness has to be implied as wind force etc would destroy you without it), then it's obviously the best choice. You can still become super rich with it, and in theory, you wouldn't age (super regeneration again) although for some reason the flash's in DC actually age (even though they literally regenerate from everything else).

Even without immortality through non-aging, it would probably give you the most personal power, even over possession. While possession might be more fun, super speed would be more powerful.

I'd still go possession cause it's 9/10ths and everything.
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Zeus posted...

Kinda depends. Does possession or transformation extend my life? If I have an incorporeal form where I can just keep possessing new bodies, that's incredibly useful. Plus since it doesn't specify that it needs to be humans, I'd get the same perks as transformation.

Then transformation-type abilities tend to greatly slow down (or halt) aging.

Of course, extreme luck has the best net benefit outside of lifespan and it lacks the intrinsically evil connotations of possession.

but with that luck it means you would never get diseases/sick.
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wolfy42 posted...

Nobody can understand the power....the pure power....of perfect spelling!!

Fear me!!!!

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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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ueTRaYTwg" data-time="

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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Zeus posted...

However, just cutting the opening and closing narration

That's the best part!
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Dude breaks his glasses!! (You just need the last scene really).

It's a cookbook!!!

I mean, so many could pretty much be broken down into like 1 minute really lol.
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Zeus posted...

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.

Nothing I stated requires access to the person's memories. And if you don't know their mannerisms or something they should know, that's still not likely to "out" you. If, one day, someone I was close to seemed to not know me or couldn't remember where they lived, my first thought would not be, "Hmm, they're probably being possessed by someone with supernatural powers and forced into doing something against their will," it would be "I think this person might be having a mental health crisis." Which, if you're possessing a dictator or someone else who needs to be seen as competent to hold onto their power, would be almost as good.

Zeus posted...

that and violating a sovereign nation like that -- even one like NK -- would be repugnant on some level.

Of course - which is why I opened my post by pointing out that a lot of the good you could do wouldn't necessarily be ethical.

Zeus posted...

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.

Why would you need a job if you're already earning ridiculous sums of money? And I don't know if being someone's revenge-rebound is my idea of being lucky...

Zeus posted...

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.

The problem is you just named four things that luck would save you from that are all extremely unlikely to begin with. I don't have superpower-level luck and I've never been shot at, never been in (or anywhere near) a serious car accident, never had someone break into my home, and never caught a disease that seriously threatened my health (admittedly that last one tends to be a more pertinent issue the longer you live, so I'll give credit to luck on that one). This is exactly why I pointed out what I did in my OP - how much stuff in your day-to-day life *really* comes down to luck? Not much of consequence.

Not to mention, depending on how possession works, you could potentially gain immunity from aging (which luck will not save you from) if body-hopping does not require your original body to still be alive. Any time you near death, you could simply possess someone and continue living in their body (and you could even retain all your material goods/wealth by willing it to them) - this, of course, would be an extremely unethical method of immortality, since you would effectively be killing someone in order to gain their remaining years, but it does give you the option to extend your life almost indefinitely.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Zeus posted...

However, just cutting the opening and closing narration

That's the best part!

Sometimes, sure. Other times it doesn't add a lot to the episode itself (like when Rod says, "No explanation needed," at the end of the one episode), but it's just cool to see Rod Serling.

wolfy42 posted...

Dude breaks his glasses!! (You just need the last scene really).

It's a cookbook!!!

I mean, so many could pretty much be broken down into like 1 minute really lol.

Need more than the last minute for it to have significance. And I think "To Serve Man" was edited to a 3-minute one and still worked really well.

darkknight109 posted...

Nothing I stated requires access to the person's memories. And if you don't know their mannerisms or something they should know, that's still not likely to "out" you. If, one day, someone I was close to seemed to not know me or couldn't remember where they lived, my first thought would not be, "Hmm, they're probably being possessed by someone with supernatural powers and forced into doing something against their will," it would be "I think this person might be having a mental health crisis." Which, if you're possessing a dictator or someone else who needs to be seen as competent to hold onto their power, would be almost as good.

Okay, then how are you going to know whether something did or didn't actually do something? Or are you just going to have people give false confessions while not actually knowing that they did something?

darkknight109 posted...

Why would you need a job if you're already earning ridiculous sums of money? And I don't know if being someone's revenge-rebound is my idea of being lucky...

Some have perks beyond money. After all, a lot of people would love to star in a movie or be a temporary replacement in a bad. Hell, I would imagine most of the people here would love to design video games. Plus other people would rather *work* for their money rather than just having it handed to them.

And having hot women throw themselves at you is being extraordinarily lucky.

darkknight109 posted...

The problem is you just named four things that luck would save you from that are all extremely unlikely to begin with. I don't have superpower-level luck and I've never been shot at, never been in (or anywhere near) a serious car accident, never had someone break into my home, and never caught a disease that seriously threatened my health (admittedly that last one tends to be a more pertinent issue the longer you live, so I'll give credit to luck on that one). This is exactly why I pointed out what I did in my OP - how much stuff in your day-to-day life *really* comes down to luck? Not much of consequence.

Then you already live a luckier life than me and many other people. You might even have that super power right now!

darkknight109 posted...

Not to mention, depending on how possession works, you could potentially gain immunity from aging (which luck will not save you from) if body-hopping does not require your original body to still be alive. Any time you near death, you could simply possess someone and continue living in their body (and you could even retain all your material goods/wealth by willing it to them) - this, of course, would be an extremely unethical method of immortality, since you would effectively be killing someone in order to gain their remaining years, but it does give you the option to extend your life almost indefinitely.

Which is what I was talking about earlier.
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Possession could be fun - you bored on a bus, possess someone, slap some chick's butt, go back to your body and enjoy the show.
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Yeah, I used to watch the marathons, so if you could kinda get em all to be 5 minutes long then do a marathon of that....in like 6 hours....it would be super awesome!
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Animal morphing would be the best, especially if it let you turn into anything you want, including legendary/mythical creatures.

Not only would it be loads of fun, you could technically get multiple super powers with it if you utilize it right. For instance, turning into a flying creature could let you...well, fly. :P
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I was thinking about this recently how I would LOVE hydrokenesis. you'd be basically the world's greatest plumber for starters and could unclog any drain or stop any leak.

thinking about it, it would be pretty devastatingly offensive as well, (all this depends exactly how it works of course). you'd be like Magneto, but manipulating something that everyone is made of.

not to mention other things like using water pressure to your advantage or creating breathable areas underwater. really it could be one of the best super powers ever, and I'm a little surprised I've never seen it before.
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Sahuagin posted...

I'm a little surprised I've never seen it before.

Waterbending/bloodbending.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Waterbending/bloodbending.

yeah k, I've never read/watched whatever that's from ("Avatar") but that's kind of what I'm talking about.

but this could be an insanely powerful ability without even stretching it very far. a hydrokinetic would almost automatically be more powerful than magneto right off the bat. it does depend what you can do with it though. maybe letting you make shields, platforms, and letting you "hold" things with water would be taking it too far.

I wonder if this is why iceman is considered an omega-level mutant (reading about it, doesn't seem to be)
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Zeus posted...

Okay, then how are you going to know whether something did or didn't actually do something? Or are you just going to have people give false confessions while not actually knowing that they did something?

You would have access to their physical belongings and/or things that they know.

I mean, to pick a random example from the last few years, you could possess Putin and uncover all of his dealings vis-a-vis the assassinations in Britain, the tampering with various foreign elections, etc.

Zeus posted...

Some have perks beyond money. After all, a lot of people would love to star in a movie or be a temporary replacement in a bad. Hell, I would imagine most of the people here would love to design video games. Plus other people would rather *work* for their money rather than just having it handed to them.

The problem with these is that being lucky does not make you good (nor, in the case of video game design, does it make the job less shit in terms of the hours worked and the wages you receive). Yeah, you might "get lucky" and land a role in a blockbuster movie, but unless you're a trained actor you're not going to turn in a good performance. By the same token, you can get lucky and land a job as a video game designer, but unless you're trained in that field and actually know what you're doing with programming, storyboarding, management, etc., you're going to be absolute shit at it.

Luck - even extremely good luck - is no substitute for skill.

And if you prefer working for your money rather than "lucking into it", you don't need a superpower to do that - in fact, the superpower would be antithetical to that mindset, because you'd always be left wondering if you'd amassed your fortunes on merit or just by your superpower ensuring the best possible outcome to everything you did.

Zeus posted...

And having hot women throw themselves at you is being extraordinarily lucky.

If you're not already in a relationship, I suppose.

Zeus posted...

Then you already live a luckier life than me and many other people. You might even have that super power right now!

All the more reason for me to pick a different one then, no?

But seriously, with the exception of a serious disease (particularly later in life), nothing you listed is particularly common. Your odds of dying to guns in the US is 1 in 300, and that plummets to less than 1 in 7500 if you live in literally any other first world country. The odds of dying in a motor vehicle crash are a comparatively higher 1 in 88, but we're still not into double-digit percentage count for lifetime odds. Home burglary rates are actually higher than I had thought - apparently you have about a 74% chance of being the victim of a home burglary at least once in your life, if you live in the US - but that comes with a big asterisk in that it's highly dependent on where exactly you live. For instance, I live on an island, with the only access being a foot-passenger ferry or a private dock. There has been exactly one attempted home burglary in the last ten years and that wasn't even successful.
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darkknight109 posted...

Luck - even extremely good luck - is no substitute for skill.

super-power levels of luck would be. like a lot of these, it depends how far you take it, but you could learn almost anything extremely easily because every time you do something risky or chance-based, the outcome is positive. taken far enough it would almost be like omniscience because every guess would be right.
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Possession. Oh, the things I'd either experience or change so readily.
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