self-explanatory!!
You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
3 years ago by Luckyy to c/asklemmy
self-explanatory!!
You have to post about it online and keep the community updated on your progress, becoming the first widespread Lemmy meme
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.
You have tk participate in a mysterious and most likely kinky event.
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!
ooh, good thought! guess you could upload books and print them in nano-sized font
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.
Imagine going outside during spring. All animals are just yelling "I'M SO FUCKING HORNY!".
"Say hi to your mother for me, ok!"
Ability to transform into a dog that shoots bees when it barks
Bees come out of your eyes
Nope, hard pass
OOF.
Carefully used this could still be worth it.
Hey I think I actually have this superpower!
And then to an orphan somewhere. You monster.
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 😏
Nope, not really.
But it could be dramatic, like when you look at your crush, reading their thoughts, but the one who has a crush on you stares at you, knowing your thoughts and being heartbroken.
Oh no, you've doomed us all.
But unfortunately you can't start it again.
It restarts at random.
Can't start time again.
Time stops for everything that isn't you, including air. You leave a vacuum everywhere you go and can never stay anywhere for long.
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.
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?
The side-effect is randomized Dementia >:)
so like, real god
You consume the calories of every food by just naming it.
Top life hacks to never starve.
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.
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.
Jokes on you, I don’t wear clothes.
The first time you go to a church and actually understand what they're saying as a child, you go to hell
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.
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 better keep it very quiet and not teleport in front of anyone by accident, because as soon as governments are aware of your power, be ready to become a lab rat who will be the rest of your life sedated
Ability to secrete custard from my hands at will.
Only when orgasming
You constantly forget to wash your hands.
Hah! You clearly don't understand the power of refrigeration.
My new bedtime routine would be filling up the custard freezer.
The ability to study, understand and use fantasy level magic.
magic is just physics we dont understand yet.. think this could still work
This is like saying you would be tired after lifting a pallet with a forklift. Many magic systems are about using magic in the world around you, which only requires you to understand how to use it; the energy being consumed doesn't come from yourself.
No, if you were just worried about energy, you would be much less tired than by doing things manually. For example, moving a heavy object downhill would gain you energy, not lose it, and keeping a heavy object in the air would neither gain nor lose energy. it would only be lifting that is hard, and it would still be easier than lifting manually.
Edit: and according to Wikipedia, human muscles only have an efficiency of around 20%, so doing basically anything through magic would be 5x easier than doing it by hand.
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.
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.
VERY mortal if you don't
This is so far the Best and evil side effect :D
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.
Impervious to side effects.
DRAT
You're an admin on reddit
Who modded a banned subreddit back in the days...
Proctologists hate this one weird trick!
With everyone! all of the time!
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!
The highest voted side effect applies for all powers obtained in this way.
I’m happy
That's my normal, so what's the problem?
I already have this, so... I'll take it
An annoying happy-go-lucky theme song plays for all to hear around you.
Only the future after you are dead
You could still do some really cool cosmology that way.
Make Bezos, Musk, Zuck, Spez, and @Luckyy@lemmy.world nut whenever i clap
I’m adding you to my nut list
Terrible migraines whenever you use it
Gold member!
mmm, that's a shalty one!
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).
That's something that, depending on your POV (sadistic DM or a player), might be either interesting, or really terrible.
But then again, it takes time (to know that you're fucked) so I guess it's just horrifying. You'd never know if you've fucked yourself up using the power.
Daaamn. OK.
Thanks for making me think lmao. Can you eli5 your very last sentence. I think I understand but want to be sure.
I wasn't really thinking much about it, tbh, but it's more along the lines of "cell burns glucose to create energy", or "random photon hits skin cell, making it slightly warmer," or in the more unfortunate circumstances where the random part of the body is, say, a brain cell, it could have not much choice but to "spontaneously undergo nuclear fission."
It's me trying to cover my ass, tbh, and make things more interesting by just not going "E=MC² thus things go boom!"
I suppose you can go use the power safely most of the time, but there's a chance that something important might go off in the most unfortunate way.
OK I get. How about if it's not random, but the amount of force I need to use is dependent on where I take it from, according to importance to normal bodily function.
Like if I wanna make a leaf fall off a branch, it's my finger nail, and I can sort of, as a baked in part of the power, decide where I gets taken from as long as it meets the required energy?
Control time
That's my secret. I'm always shitting my pants.
Worth it
You move with time.
You can only control it one minute at a time and only forward
Lactose intollerant
Cheese becomes tasteless
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.
At the rate of one gram per hour.
Know anyone's most deviant kink.
Fly with farts.
Yeah, but then you get to have a cool catchphrase like, "Eat shit and fly".
You have uncurable IBS
The farts are toxic in a one meter radius.
The ability to fly.
But you develop a terrible and incurable fear of heights.
Your arms are now wings with no hands like a birds.
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.
You are temporarily blind and deaf whenever you begin to fly
Mystery Men!
but not for yourself
Via any of those methods, you can only communicate at one word per minute.
You become dyslexic
Ambidexterity
You have to rub sand in your eyes to use it.
Reactive adaptation.
“Reactive adaptation” To the wrong emergency.
exclusive used as a human shield by the military
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.
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.
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.
Ability to phase through non-Newtonian fluids as if they were regular Newtonian fluids.
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
You can still drink, it just takes some time. Forget straws.
Air is a fluid, though.
Makes the running on water a tiny bit harder
On the other hand, maybe you could fly somehow.
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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.
Self-detonation.
Although you survive, you get 2nd degree burns that take a regular amount of time to heal.
I can stretch like rubber
But anyone within 50 miles with the same zodiac sign turns into a chicken
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The ability to stop pooping for three days.
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