You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
self-explanatory!!
You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
self-explanatory!!
The ability to stop pooping for three days.
Each day you don't poop, you lay an egg that hatches into a random monster. The egg is indestructible.
You have to post about it online and keep the community updated on your progress, becoming the first widespread Lemmy meme
You already can -- immodium
Or just some painkillers. I had surgery seven or eight years ago and I still remember how badly I wanted to shit by day three and it just wasn't happening.
But when you eventually poop your in the middle of human a human centipede
The ability to talk to animals
You can talk to animals now. I think what you mean is you want them to be able to talk too.
But only about collecting stamps.
Your already can talk to animals. We all understand you.
You can talk to animals, but it includes insects and birds... and you can't shut their conversion out for some peace and quiet
Imagine going outside during spring. All animals are just yelling "I'M SO FUCKING HORNY!".
you can talk to animals, but they don't want to (they are very prejudiced)
You can talk to them but they can't understand you.
This is just reality
Everytime you talk to an animal, every moving living being around you looks like the animal you talked to for the next 2 hours.
Clear anyone of debt just by thinking it.
Their debt transfers to you.
And then to you…
The debt alwaye gets randomly assigned to another person
OOF.
removal of debt happens by way of destruction of banking infrastructure. this may or may not be related to other harm
-- this is actually how quite a lot of people got debts cleared on 9/11 (this was before offsite backups)
no downsides whatsoever
The ability to touch a book to instantly know its content.
Turns out, the books you touch are actually quite satisfied and content.
It only works if you touch it with your penis.
There are no downsides. Perfect.
The title of the book appears somewhere on your skin, and if removed you will forget any knowledge from that book, whether you obtained it through reading or your power. The titles must be legible, and cannot overlap.
but you must feel a paper cut from every single page of knowledge
Better print smaller then!
Every book you encounter will always be written in a language you don't speak.
... but every page becomes blank just before you touch it.
The ability to read, write, and speak every language
You become deaf and blind
God damn it
It would be less efficient, but people who are deaf-blind can access the Internet and communicate using a refreshable Braille display. In-person they can communicate using an interpreter using a special sign language.
granted. you can understand everything, but when you respond, you choose wrong (related, but not mutually intelligible) language every time
Ability to secrete custard from my hands at will.
Your mouth becomes sealed shut for 8 hours whenever you secrete custard.
Hah! You clearly don't understand the power of refrigeration.
You constantly forget to wash your hands.
Only when orgasming
this just makes it even better
Can't make custard without 'ard!
The custard is rancid.
Impossible!
Even fantasy there is no reality where custard is not delicious 🤤
Will calls the police and you are arrested.
ability to instantly know exact composition of a substance just by looking at it
I can reverse any moderator actions.
You're an admin on reddit
Who modded a banned subreddit back in the days...
Impervious to side effects.
But your side effect is infinite power.
DRAT
The ability to study, understand and use fantasy level magic.
you are still bound by laws of physics
magic is just physics we dont understand yet.. think this could still work
This would be a fair limit. You would be limited by certain conservation laws, but as long as you would provide an adequate energy source (say, like Flash, you had to eat a lot more food) it could still be useful.
This is so far the Best and evil side effect :D
Not the laws of chemistry, or biology?
I'm an immortal Alchemist!
Obeying all of the laws of physics, magic wouldn't work at all. Assuming you were able to break a few but kept some such as conservation of energy, it would be very powerful, ex: teleportation does not break conservation of energy as long as you teleport to the same height you left from. If you were able to extract energy from your surroundings, you could probably do basically anything you want. You could lower the sun's heat by a degree and be able to move a mountain.
But it still only works if magic actually works and if it doesn't, then you just understand really well how you would have used magic, if it were actually real.
Stopping time
but for everyone, including yourself.
Fuck
But unfortunately you can't start it again.
gg
It restarts at random.
You stop time for yourself too.
RIP
Time stops for everything that isn't you, including air. You leave a vacuum everywhere you go and can never stay anywhere for long.
I can summon food by saying its name.
You consume the calories of every food by just naming it.
Top life hacks to never starve.
But the delivery guy still wants money for the food you ordered.
You take it from the hungriest person about to eat it, assuming there is someone at the time. You cannot turn this ability off, and it happens even when you aren't referring to the food. I hope those birthday cakes taste good, you monster.
Perfect timing.
Except you feel the need to always respond to everyone else's conversations. Your timing is impeccable yet everyone comes to resent your witty remarks.
I can obtain any super power just by thinking about it.
The ability to think is lost
Damn. So, does that mean I just die?
When you have obtained your superpower, you lose your ability to obtain any new superpowers.
So I get to chose one super power, but I lose the ability to think so it renders any powers I've obtained essentially useless? Man, this js the most realistic super power conversation ever. So realistic it's quite scary!
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Teleportation by thinking of a place
It will only teleport your body, not your clothes
Thats a obvious oversight by me. Worth a try still.
Plus, I can go anywhere instantly as long as I'm in private.
Jokes on you, I don’t wear clothes.
You are unable to control the ability and will teleport even when you are just be reminded of a place.
this includes extraterrestrial and fictional places
Does not teleport your cloths.
Hm, I'd still take it
Ehh. Just look up pictures of nude beaches or something.
Thinking includes dreams and nightmares. You wake up in interesting places.
You don't teleport to the place you're thinking of.
As you get older you keep thinking back to places that no longer exist.
That place is the time you walked in on your parents having sex.
You will arrive naked only - with an urgent need to vomit.
Ability to transform into a dog that shoots bees when it barks
Bees come out of your eyes
Your eyes are 10 feet wide.
But you have to guard an old billionaire's mansion.
The ability to read another person's thoughts by looking at them.
Granted, but your thoughts are transmitted to the person looking at you.
Is that a bad thing 😏
I’m happy
But you can poop only once every 3 days.
That's my normal, so what's the problem?
But only until you sober up.
Ok that was dark.
You die immediately after this
An annoying happy-go-lucky theme song plays for all to hear around you.
... despite having nightmarish diarrhea every hour, on the hour.
The power to gain any superpower by submitting it as a comment to this thread, repeatable as many times as desired, keeping any power previously obtained unless explicitly commenting to void that power.
Lemmy.ml bans you.
Just this account?
The highest voted side effect applies for all powers obtained in this way.
The ability to find anything lost.
Everything you touch turns into a potato
What if the world turned into a potato ? The potatocalypse
read this with the kurzgesagt voice
Power to turn things into gold by touch.
Including your own body parts
Gold member!
granted, this happens by actual nuclear transmutation. depending on what you touch you can get small to large explosions and the freshly formed gold is likely highly radioactive
Omnipotence
Every attempt at thought or action ends in an omnipotence paradox. E.g., can God make a rock so heavy even he can't lift it?
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Having unlimited power means you control everything. You have no time to enjoy your power because you're constantly making sure the laws of physics stay and balance so the universe doesn't dissolve.
Guthix basically.
You have analysis paralysis. You can do everything, but you can't figure out what you want to do at any given time, so you just do nothing.
You also gain impotence. Congratulations! You now know that you can only be a god by being a paradox
Control time
You retain no memories of anything that happened during a time stop. If you go back in time, everyone else remembers things normally, but you forgot that period of time completely.
Severe IBS
That's my secret. I'm always shitting my pants.
You move with time.
When you stop time you cannot move as all the air molecules around you are stopped.
You can only control it one minute at a time and only forward
Telekinesis!
But the strain and concentration required causes you to dump your drawers.
Proctologists hate this one weird trick!
He should team up with 'Fly with farts'
You can be in the shit a lot with powers like telekinesis huh
It only works when nobody's looking, and everyone just thinks you were using your hands.
Know anyone's most deviant kink.
... because you are the target of those kinks
You will get a very strong, visceral image of every person engaging in that kink.
Plus the desire to fulfill it.
The ability to nullify side effects :) I'll be rich as a doctor
You no longer have any side effects, only things intentionally done will happen. You must now consciously think about breathing and blinking as they are no longer side effects of being alive. As this is not a side effect, but rather the effect itself it cannot be nullified.
Oh shit, bro has to manually pump this blood. Well, he's fucked.
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you can see the future, but only at your current location relative to the center of the galaxy, so you always just see the vacuum of space.
You could still do some really cool cosmology that way.
I'll take a gravity power I guess. Manipulation of gravity in every sense.
Cool! Every time you manipulate gravity, your body loses mass in addition to and proportional to how much energy is needed to do the manipulation.
Which part of your body loses this (additional) mass is totally random. It could be your fat, it could be your brain tissue, it's all random. How the mass is lost depends on what is the most likely way it'd be dissipated.
if the part of your body losing the mass was actually completely random, the atoms would disappear roughly evenly across your body, so probably the main thing you have to be worried about is your DNA (and thus getting cancer).
Daaamn. OK.
Thanks for making me think lmao. Can you eli5 your very last sentence. I think I understand but want to be sure.
Fly with farts.
The only way you can generate fart power is by eating poo.
Yeah, but then you get to have a cool catchphrase like, "Eat shit and fly".
You have uncurable IBS
Your farts are now so powerful that they propel you upwards without bending any laws of physics
Can spontaneously manifest any variety of cheese
You're constantly followed by an army of mice that want to eat your cheese.
Can't control when you do it.
Oh I'd pick up some napkins and follow that person. I hope blue cheeses are on the list, and maybe some gruyère 🤤
I see no downsides.
Lactose intollerant
Cheese becomes tasteless
It appears from a random bodily orifice each time, and never the same one twice.
But you have no control over where and when.
At the rate of one gram per hour.
The ability to fly.
But you develop a terrible and incurable fear of heights.
You are a gnat.
Your arms are now wings with no hands like a birds.
Ambidexterity
Ability to successfully persuade any living being to do what I want them to do.
Your entire family was murdered in a dark city alley to lead to your powers.
Don't worry, he'll convince a genius to create a time machine. Problem solved.
Damn the last time that happened I only inherited immense wealth and used it to beat up street level criminals
it requires days of careful observation of that living being at least to prepare persuasion speech. the speech takes entire day even for simplest tasks and you can't do virtually anything else by sheer intensity required
So....ghost face?
You are never truly sure again if people are actually listening to you or even like you or they are just enchanted by your power. You are never again able to form meaningful relationships with that doubt in you mind, you can never find true love and become a recluse.
i am joining this myself. telekinesis
Terrible migraines whenever you use it
so if I already have a migraine I'm in the clear...
The ability to speak, read, and understand every known language.
Via any of those methods, you can only communicate at one word per minute.
You.....
Are...
EVIL.
You become dyslexic
The ability to move anything
You move the exact same distance into the opposite direction of the moved object, even if there already exists another object in that space.
You are not able to move while lifting anything
Save and load
undeleted by creator
But you will load randomly
I feel like there was a movie similar in premise to this. This person had the power to go back to any point in their life and live it out from there. Essentially being able to load older saves but not newer ones.
Empathy
but not for yourself
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what that would imply.
Good ol' invisibility
You need to wear a ring to use it, and undead monsters hunting for the ring will instantly know where you are. It may or may not have a mind of its own convincing you to never part ways with it.
This sounds like my kind of movie.
Only works when no one is looking at you... and when you're naked.
Mystery Men!
Hmm, if I'm invisible then no one can look at me though.
Ability to phase through non-Newtonian fluids as if they were regular Newtonian fluids.
All fluids you touch turn into mercury.
Everytime you do it feels like walking on Lego
Side effect: Newtonian fluids change their behaviour to that of non Newtonian fluids and you can't pass any of them in a hurry. You can run on water now though.
Running on goopy water sounds great, but hydration might become an issue if I have to eat water like it’s non-Newtonian pudding
Air is a fluid, though.
You are now no longer able to pass through newtonian fluids at all.
Teleportation
You conserve your angular momentum, so if you move at all in latitude the earth we'll be moving at a different speed. It would be like stepping out of a moving vehicle onto the freeway but a whole lot faster.
Well, no one's said shapeshifting yet
But anyone within 50 miles with the same zodiac sign turns into a chicken
This is acceptable. I love chicken and hate Ted Cruz
Reactive adaptation.
“Reactive adaptation” To the wrong emergency.
Self-detonation.
Although you survive, you get 2nd degree burns that take a regular amount of time to heal.
I can fly wherever I want super fast so I can travel the world.
You can fly super fast but are unable to decelerate except by crashing into things.
whoa whoa there buddy, you're not going anywhere without transponder, lights, altimeter, radio and safety systems required by any aviation authority. either you carry server rack worth of equipment with you at all times or use an actual plane
Make Bezos, Musk, Zuck, Spez, and @Luckyy@lemmy.world nut whenever i clap
they all have to be in the same room with you
except you get chronic diarrhea that lasts for 1 week each time you use it
I’m adding you to my nut list