Spyke
lemmy.ca

Side effect: your voice cracks in an absurd way every time you use this power. Both parties find it too funny to continue fighting. They instead laugh at you.

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lemmy.world

The power to stop/start time at will while still able to move & interact with stuff

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Dagnetreply
lemmy.world

Your side effect is super cool, specially if you imagine that even light would be frozen in time. People in this thread keep choosing side effects that would ruin the super power but this one would be a problem but still worth using the power. With some practice you might even overcome some of thrle drawbacks.

Now I want a super hero with this power and side effect

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Do you age while time is stopped? If so, might want to rethink those perfect naps. I'd 100% abuse it though.

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Would an engine still work if time was frozen though? And if so technically you could still drive with your eyes closed.

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What's funny is that the most obvious side effect to this is the most realistic: molecular manipulation in this way causes an incredible build-up of energy that either expresses as kinetic or thermal, depending, and almost always exponentially explosive from the moment you turn time back "on"... to say nothing of the disastrous effects at the fringes for such time-stop powers...

tl;dr: The Flash would've incinerated the entire planet long before he discovered how to keep from glassing it simply by practicing his powers.

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kbin.social

This is far more insidious than it seems.

That would basically mean whenever you stop time you are locked in position.

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Also photons cease to exist once you move into their space, there would be no light to enter your eyes attoseconds after stopping time, meaning you would be blind.

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Wherever I am, everything becomes peaceful. Nations at war start peace talks. Long standing conflicts are immediately solved.

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Wherever you leave from instantly goes to war.

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lemmy.world

They (the place ) can no longer stand you and you can never stay in a single place for more than a day.

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Hahaha. You got me!

I'll be like Lassie (the classical trope of the main character charging setting every episode).

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bionicjoeyreply
lemmy.ca

All of the violence and hatred that would have been present around you gets redirected somewhere else in the world. The more discord there was in a place before you arrived, the harder the redirection hits its new location. You occupy a bubble of peace but outside of it things get even worse. You always hear about this and see the consequences of it but you are never able to directly observe it because whenever you try, the discord gets redirected somewhere else.

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You cursed me!

I especially (dis)like the fact that I may occupy a bubble of peace, but at the same time knowing things are getting worse.

You reduced me to either an obnoxious self-entitled prick, or a pathetic loser.

Thanks a lot. The world now hates me...

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kbin.social

Now you can also speak and translate the languages of the trees and the rocks and the inanimate objects all around you and you have no way to get them to shut up.

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Sunrocreply
lemmy.world

You were born without fingertips and can't do biometric scanning. No one will give you a passport.

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feddit.de

Not to be that guy, but one can still get a passport without finger tips, or arms for that matter.

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No one will give you a passport.

Damn, you really hate him don't you?

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hstdereply
feddit.de

But you make all people in your vicinity happy, too.

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swntreply
feddit.de

Well that's a nice side effect actually

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hstdereply
feddit.de

It was never stated that the side effect must be bad.

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TDCNreply
feddit.dk

But only when you are naked. Otherwise you'll be miserable. Sorry this got kinky real quick

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Swallowing pills is extremely difficult, and can only be roughed down with a semi chicken dance shuffle that involves hopping and takes 4 minutes too long for anyone noticing.

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Viagra no longer works. You can no longer get high off any opiod, just the painkilling effects. Cortisone no longer treats skin conditions. Breast cancer meds, HIV retrovirals, rogaine, most antidepressants, and you'd better stay tf away from blood thinners and valium

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lemm.ee

You have 10x the tolerance and nobody believes your immunity claims.

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Which sounds really bad but then you can basically replace all of the fertilizer in the world and will solve the nitrogen runoff problem for all of the planet for your entire life.

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lemmy.world

It manifests as a storm cloud, raining the food down over a large area over a short period of time.

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Having this ability will cause you to lose self-control and become morbidly obese.

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lemy.lol

I'd rather be able to kill a yak from 200 yards away

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lemdro.id

The ability to resolve any kind of conflict!

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To use one of the all-time greatest movie quotes: "Put the cookie down!!"

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You now also know absolutely nothing about tech

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Or you get zaped back in time to the 18th hundreds

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Side effect: you have a vision of the first move they'd make after taking your mom/dad on a date

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First commentor missed the Cassandra side effect: you can do nothing to change it and no one believes you.

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You can see a person's next move at the expense of generating negative causality, wherein large objects are attracted to you at high speed. See the man unwrapping a sandwich? Boom, hit by a bus/piano/anvil/whale.

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aussie.zone

The power to travel through time, at the speed of regular time

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beanreply
lemmy.world

Side effect: you still age at your regular rate.

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Side effect: you have a premonition of exactly what their bowel movement will smell like as a result of whatever they eat due to their hunger

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Pippsreply
lemm.ee

You keep your original face.

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mtgzone.com

Always accompanied by a horrifying metallic scraping sound that can be heard a mile around

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lemmy.world

You feel it, and it hurts as much as you'd imagine rearranging bones should hurt.

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lemmy.world

You can shift the shape of your body, but nothing else. Your skin and all surface stuff stays the same.

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You're the only one who is able to see the changes.

Edit: I decided that a superpower which only alters your perception is not really a superpower, so let me improve it: All drivers who have the same eye color as you will be able to see the changed colors. Other drivers will see the original colors. Enjoy!

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Exactly. Whatever side-effect is cast upon you, you THINK it was chosen by you. You're 100% sure it was your decision. You're blissfully but unfortunately erroneously way too self-confident.

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lemm.ee

The power to send messages to your past self

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OceanSoapreply
lemmy.ml

Every time your past self reads one of your messages they loose lose the ability to read one word forever.

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lemmy.world

I can inflict my current emotional state at will on other people of my choosing.

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kbin.social

Anytime you use this power, immediately afterwards you feel everyone in a half mile radius's feelings at 200% intensity at the same time.

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kbin.social

The power to have ghost doctors from the 1750s perform really bad srs on anyone who tries to think of a bad consequence of me having this power.

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hstdereply
feddit.de

The ghost doctors have bad eyesight and mistake you for everyone else.

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TDCNreply
feddit.dk

But it hurts like hell and you are in pain the entire time you shapeshift

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UltraBlackreply
lemmy.world

Every time you morph into a male body you have to repeat this process

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lemmy.world

Be able to have multiple save slots, change the outcomes of a timeline then save it within a savefile, and being able to bring items from different savefiles to the others. Would be cool to collect different iterations of games and movies.

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lemmy.world

Side effect: there’s a 50/50 chance a save slot becomes corrupted.

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Holyginzreply
lemmy.world

Question. Is that chance everytime you access that save slot?

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But it'll always appear on the opposite side of earth

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feddit.dk

I will always have full knowledge of everything and know how to do anything

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lemmy.world

You never get to use the power for your own enjoyment because people will never leave you alone…you will constantly assaulted with questions because everyone knows you have the answers. You have no peace.

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lemmy.world

You become completely physically disabled, almost a complete vegetative state, and can't physically do any of it.

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I'll know how to construct a full exoskeleton with a brain interface and communicate the instructions to someone who can build it for me. Just look at how well Stephen Hawkins fared

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Cam
lemmy.world

to turn invisible for as long as one likes

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lemmings.world

You're blind while you're invisible (which is by the way what would actually happen if you had a magical way to turn invisible).

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Synapsereply
lemmy.world

It's a cartoon on Hulu, sharing similarities with Rick & Morty, art style, dark humor, athough they remain quite different (you may hate R&M and still enjoy Solar Opposites). I like it a lot. In the latest season, 2 of the main characters become invisible, and as a side effect they are also blind, because the light passes straight through their eyeballs without interaction.

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But you stink like a skunk every time you turn invisible.

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You age proportionally to the plant until the effect is done.

i.e. make a plant that takes 10 days to grow to maturity grow in the span of 2 days, you age 10 days in those 2 days

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Excess consumption of nutrients rapidly depletes the soil causing biome collapse

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TDCNreply
feddit.dk

But you'll wake up the next day in a someoneelse's body somewhere else on earth knowing nothing of your new bodys past experience language or anything. You can only remember your past life experience. This might not be as bad as I sounds actually. Could be interesting.

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DoctorWhatreply
kbin.social

The object nearest you is also teleported to the same location as you but 1 meter above your head. It could still work in your favor if the object nearest you is a hat!

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kbin.social

If we count clothes as objects then each time they teleport they'd be butt naked with their underwear on their head.

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Everything in the whole universe also moves 1m forwards at the same time

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Encromionreply
sh.itjust.works

Only one at a time. Every time you travel the universe shoots away from you at millions of miles an hour.

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Only if you know which way the planet is moving in the universe and how fast. Travelling in space doesn't mean gravity is going to magically do your exact positioning for you.

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I think I'll add my own:

You teleport in 1cm units relative to the center of our galaxy, meaning you have to think of xyz of each teleportation and you if you miss caclulate enjoy being dead and in space.

Time is in epoch ms and leaves you in the same spot relative to the center of the galaxy.

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Vupperwarereply
lemmy.world

In order to manipulate objects with telekinesis, you sever the link between the object and the earths gravitational pull.

Every object you use your power on now has the ability to drift and float away if not strapped down.

This includes, but is not limited to: people, animals, and buildings.

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Side effect: you have a 25% chance of your pants and underwear being affected instead of your desired target.

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kbin.social

Interesting. So I could turn into plutonium or something and blow myself up? :P

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lemmy.world

Plutonium doesn't blow itself up. 🤪

Furthermore, there's no mention of retaining sentience once you're a mineral.

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kbin.social

Once plutonium reaches critical mass it automatically explodes.

Your average full grown adult is well more than critical mass.

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It explodes yeah but it's more like a radioactive flashbang than a nuclear bomb, there's a great video online explaining how they had to coordinate chemical explosives and concave lenses to properly aggravate the uranium.

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Fair, though that particular shapechanging option has a deadline of ~24,000 years, so they'd better hop to it.

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Nope. If you want to becomea dog, you have to tell CAT! yelling anti-xxx would just turn you inside out. I don’t make the rules.

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