I understand some of these powers as being, well..."powerful" but being a top level tp would make life boring, radiation & tactile TK? I'd be scared for people around me.
Well, I personally tried for a compromise. I chose a power I'd like to have in real life and would give me a good shot at winning. After all, if you lose you can't keep the power. Telepathy wouldn't necessarily be my first choice in a different scenario, although it is always pretty high on my list.
Many picks lean one way or the other though. I don't want to end all of humanity, so purely destructive powers are less useful to me back in the real world. I'd use my telepathy to "cheat" at life, and I'd stop a lot of human rights violations out there. I could completely end war as we know it. The sex trade? Yeah, that ends when I reprogram certain people. Slavery? Gone. Rape? Gone. Murder? Gone. Bad comic stories? Gone. Education? I can share the knowledge of our greatest minds with anyone. Language? I can make everyone understand each other.
Most importantly, I will never pay for anything ever again.
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For years, when people ask the 'if you could have ANY superpower...' question, I've been answering 'Animal Man's Power', and then having to explain it to noobs.
I usually explained that I thought replicating animals would offer the perfect amount of exhilaration without crossing over to the 'so powerful you're distant from humanity' point.
Obviously for this tourney I went directly against that line of thought...
Gender: Male Location: Planning to take over the WORLD!
and we would expect no less.
i think size changing would be very cool but irl i'd still be tempted to go with something like reed's brain or forge's inventive skills. that'd be sooooo awesome.... i nearly chose forge for this, but wasn't sure where the limits of his tech would end. i was also concerned with getting mindf***** before i could build anything.
tp irl would be f'n awesome. immortality seems like it would be great but there are some obvious concerns watching everyone die, having to constantly move and reinvent yourself somehow.... with reed's brain i could easily invent something to extend my life well beyond normal and come up with things that would really make a difference in the world. you'd also never be bored.
Having Zachary Zatara powers is really good if you take his current version and have a level of medical\pharmacological knowledge - even magic limited to manipulation with non-sentient stuff is crazily potent thing. In RL. It would suck horribly against combat-tuned powers, and that's why I did not enter the tournament here. That and learning too late about it.
Suck horribly if you take that your conjuring is limited to stuff that exists IRL, and gravity manipulator\telepath\maybe radiation manipulator can kill you with ease.
Gender: Male Location: Planning to take over the WORLD!
thing is, if you had a power, people (normals) would WANT to kill you. for sure you would have many plots against your life. you'd need a power that was really inconspicuous, or one that would make killing you almost impossible. superspeed would be frickin awesome, but who wouldn't want to be someone like hercules. lol
If I take a "power that makes my daily work ridiculously easier" - it would be Doug Ramsey power, cause then I'll just have to pretend I'm THAT really freakin' good in a thing I do for money anyways.
Also, that's why it's Doug Ramsey or Zachary Zatara for me - I can still keep my powers low-key, working as freelance translator - but now doing everything I do with ridiculously more ease than OTL, while still keeping my life low-key. As is "who cares how this girl managed to do 100 pages of translation over the weekend".
While giving me time to do the research and money to work on stuff that allows me to move into something...more ambitious. Yes, guys, I'm THAT lacking of ambitions.
In fact, my sister did just put the "Path to Profit" to me (and also told me that Contessa from Worm is not that bad as a power pick).
1. Pick Zachary Zatara powers
2. Switch to work at home regimen, so nobody sees how exactly you do the translations.
3. Put effort into learning sign language - it did fit for language for logomancy purpose.
4. ...
5. PROFIT!
Though Contessa's powers are second only to TP IRL setting, without drawback of background noise (for all I know and love TP, RL me doesn't have a willpower to not end in a mental clinic after roughly two days of absorbing negative thoughts\emotions of those surrounding me).
I, for one, actually chose a power I'd want in our real world, as well as a power that would allow me to kill everyone in a competition. Being able to turn my microwave into a fully functioning flat screen tv or my car into a personal jet or a robot or an Aston Martin with the wave of my hand or a glare would be f*ckin sweet. There's also all the things I could do remotely (alter my credit score, produce money out of thin air and create a paper trail/transaction ledger of investments that makes it seem legitimate, etc). I'm also smart enough to know not to do these things in front of people and get caught. The only catch I would eventually run into is the life extension applications being able to merge with machinery.
With these "if you could have one power" threads, I always go for telekinesis, and with these stips to keep it interesting...
- Works only on macroscopic material objects (eg, no energy control, no manipulating atoms), including my own body.
- Maximum offensive power: could lift/crush a city block.
- Maximum defensive power: could handle heavy artillery with conscious effort; subconscious shields ---> bulletproof.
- Range: about 20 miles.
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