Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?
You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.
This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.
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"Ha ha ha, let's throw a bucket of water on this nerd!"
"Don't make me wet. You wouldn't like me when I'm wet."
Gets bigger but not any heavier or stronger
sounds like a she hulk porn lol
Fuck you, I'm doing both and glowing harder the bigger I get.
There we go, Halloween sorted.
I guess the grow bigger in the water thing because I can't imagine how hard it would be to fall asleep if I'm glowing.
How bright would I glow? Enough to read by?
Yeah, like a dim yellowish greenish light that you can just about read by
My eyesight's pretty weak, so I'm not sure that would do it... but on the other hand I could navigate the house at night without bumping my shins on furniture. I think that's enough to sell me on glowing.
You'd have moths flocking to you at night, though, which might be awkward.
That would be a definite minus.
It might be harder to navigate. Looking past your own glowing eye sockets could make your eyes adjust to the closer, brighter light and leave you night blind
I'd need time durations on the size changes... But obviously the size changes.
Other comments indicate you also get heavier, a bath each morning followed by exercise could be interesting with the extra weight.
Also you'd have documentaries made about you. It's a completely novel behavior... And what happens if you soak just a part of your body.... Your penis for instance?
The glowing? Technically you could already do that, genetic scientists have already created glow in the dark pigs, so glowing seems similar. No more hiding in the dark, you're a beacon now. If a mugger or the cops are chasing you... Oh there you are. Not really helpful like being three times taller and heavier because you had a bath would be.
You had me sold on the water growth thingy in paragraph 3.
The second sounds like it has far more room for stupid bullshit, so that one
Do you grow to a maximum size in water? Or do you just keep growing the longer you stay in contact with water? If the latter then I think glowing in the dark is the less inconvenient option.
Yes, to a maximum size about 3 times your regular size.
Then it would still be less inconvenient to glow in the dark since showering would become a real problem.
It does say slowly, we really need more information about the rates at which you grow and shrink. Still I think the growing in water thing at least seems to have some potential positives whereas glow in the dark is just annoying.
I imagine guys would do it just so they could have temporarily larger penises.
I know I would.
"Babe, I'mma wreck your holes tonight, let me hop in the bath."
Would you be able to stay hard when you grow? We haven’t asked enough questions.
People with penises get hard because of blood flow to the penis, so I imagine absorbing water might have a similar effect 💀
Life, uh, finds a way
what the fuck is it with lemmy and "holes" like thats somehow hot or something
like all of these lemmynsfw posts are like "look at my holes" and "what would you do to my holes" and its just girls spreading their ass cheeks open to show.. well, you get it
I just find it kind of a gross way to try to be sexy
Well, I was intentionally writing it to be crass. I would never tell a girl that I care about that "I'm gonna wreck her holes" unless the situation explicitly called for it.
I mean yeah I figured, I didnt think you were trying to be romantic @}-'---,-----
its not you, its the word/phrase, like I find it to be gross and like this nihilistic, post-apocalyptic way of talking about sex or something.. its difficult to articulate, its just in no way hot to me and instead quite gross. I dont think youre gross or wrong or bad for using it im just turned off by the word/phrase and was wondering why im seeing it everywhere, but thats just how turns of phrase go, I suppose
If only your volume increases while your mass stays the same, your density would decrease which might potentially save you from drowning.
Does the amount of water affect the rate of growth, or is it a timing thing?
Am I absorbing water like a sponge, where I'd grow much faster in a pool vs. the rain
Or is it a reaction to any prolonged contact with water
It's like a sponge. It takes several hours to get to your maximum size.
Any super strength? Like 3 times my strength or would I just be big. I could do advertising for a boat salesman or something. “bigger than huge sale this weekend!” And other such methods.
Wow, both those options suck. Nice dilemma, OP
I assume hyper-stretchy clothing isn't a reality yet? Getting caught in a rain storm would be inconvenient. I think I would still go with water growing. I need near complete darkness to sleep. And glowing skin would be hella annoying in a movie theater.
Wait, how do I drink water? Get slightly bigger then shrink back?
Would the insides of my eyelids glow? Cause fuck that if that’s the case.
No, only the outside of your body
"You look a little small. Are you drinking enough water?"
If I put part of me in say a glass of water then would it just be the part in the glass that slowly grew and how fast and how much.
You’re gonna put your dick in a glass of water, huh?
Let me ask you if you've ever heard about the Yardhouse's older Full Yard sized glasses. I'm thinking water would go real well in one of those.
Like, a cylinder?
Like a thimble of water?
Do you get bigger by absorbing air (thereby increasing your buoyancy) or by absorbing water (with the opposite effect)?
By absorbing water
Do I feel bloated when I take on all this water weight?
you would sink though.
is this 'glow in the dark' like i'm radioactive and constantly glow a little bit, or is this 'glow in the dark' like i absorb a little bit of light and slowly re-emit it, so if i wait long enough in darkness i'll stop glowing?
You constantly glow with a dim yellow-green light, just bright enough to read in
Is it only my skin or, like, the inside of my eyelids too?
Just the outside of your body
I can imagine glowing in the dark would be both a blessing and a curse depending on the circumstances. If you're lost in a cave that could be lifesaving. Trying to sleep in the dark though? That's gonna be tough haha. I think I'd still choose to glow in the dark though so I could fuel sweet rave parties
My wife says the same thing about sleeping with a light on, I just close my eyes and don't see anything i must have thick eyelids
Yea but you're eyes would glow...the way I see it, this question is, "would you become an insomniac or explode when drinking water"
It's night half the time, and I'll be really visible if I'm glowing whether I want to be or not. So, definitely the second one. Prolonged water contact in a visible place is easier to avoid, if needed.
I plan to re-enact Gulliver pulling along the Lilliputian armada.
Take a shower and destroy your house. I'm going for glowing.
If it's toy dino-speed, you'll be significantly taller after a longer shower, but not giant, and nothing will break. If I actually do the thing from the Spongebob opening on contact with water, I'd reconsider.
But imagine that you get stuck in a water pipe or wedged somewhere in a rain storm. Glowing is annoying but not nearly as bad as potentially drowning because your car crashed into a lake and you can no longer escape through the window.
I feel like those situations are already life-threatening to some degree, so I'll take my chances.
I'd assume growth over the course of just exiting a car wouldn't be too significant.
Wear opaque clothes
Ah shit, why didn't I think of that?
You would have to cover everything including your face, though, and that can get you funny looks in a different way.
Ski mask and sun glasses ;) since you need it sitting dark night, it didn't matter much, how it looks. Reminds me in the movie "Hollow Man"
Why can I not come to a conclusion on this decision...
Sex would be weird, but probably a good kind. Until it's painful.
You'd basically be a dog.
"But I'm straight"
"So is spaghetti... Until it gets wet."
"Okay but that's a bad analogy because I just turn ten stories tall when I get wet."
Would these powers be supernatural, or bound by the laws of physics? Like, does glowing require extra calories? And does my electrolyte balance go out of whack when I’m in water?
Magical. You are perfectly healthy in each case
Can I swim faster when I’m huge?
I guess so
Then yeah, I’ll take that one. Olympic medals here I come! Imagine the stroke a 20 foot man could take. Michael Phelps would be jealous.
I love to swim and the water one sounds really inconvenient. I choose glow! You would never really be afraid of the dark- like your own personal night light. Maybe i could get a job doing those nighttime ghost tours.
Fun fact, we already glow in the dark, just not in a way we can see.
Bigger when wet would be kinda neat, but if it's based off of toy dinosaurs then the glow doesn't last all night. So I can take the glow and use it for sick pranks and cosplays or whatever. Be like alien Mr Burns.
Glow in the dark for sure.
I will bathe in the ocean and at long last fulfill my ambition of punching mother gia in the face.
you guys are smoking some strong stuff lol
Damn, if I choose option 1, I'm gonna have to apply for the CIA.
::: spoiler spoiler cuz "glowie" :::
I like glow in the dark stuff, but I also like to be sneaky, so...idk. Conflicted.
What
Glow in the dark, since i do lap swimming for exercise and the other option would rule that out.
Inuk chuk!
I’m in Virginia. I’ll go for the water one. Get all that Atlantic up in me. Between the microplastics and bioluminescent life- I think that’s the right choice for me.
Grew up in Hampton Roads (Portsmouth, Newport News, VAB mainly, but lived all over). It'd be so cool to just walk down to the strip, step into the ocean, and slowly grow to the size that I could walk to Europe like I was walking across a small, shallow pond, then shrink back down to size, get my passport stamped, and have some German beer and sausages before coming home. Lol