You gain one of these abilities for 24hrs... What do you do?

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Obviously think bigger - rigging share/commodity prices (so Astner gets nothing for his rhodium)

And the thing about precious metals is that they're very compact. A ton of rhodium is 2.85 cubic feet, so the bars that you're making are not going to take up a lot of space.

The best part about the transmutation powers over technopathy is that you don't have to worry about the legal battles that follow from physical documention and testimonies.

Originally posted by Parmaniac
Rhodium is an element like carbon or oxygen. Probably the easiest thing to do with matter manipulation.

sure you could google a pic of the molecular composition of rhodium, but that doesnt mean anything if you don't know how to use your powers in that way.

Yes.

Even technopathy takes time to master.

*You don't have any prior knowledge of how to use the ability you've selected... You go into this 'dry' as it were, and have to learn as you go.

If we take this rule literally, then most powers in the OP are quite useless, tbh.

Even Hulk's strength would be problematic, as we wouldn't have Bruce's mental blocks allowing us to hold back and shit. For all we know, a gentle touch of our pinkie could pulverize Sin's anus.

Originally posted by Galan007
This is you as you are in the real world. You gain access to ONE of these abilities for 24hrs... Which do you choose and why? How would you use the selected ability?

1.) The speed of Quicksilver.
2.) The luck of Domino.
3.) The intelligence of Batman.
4.) The strength of Hulk.
5.) The TP of Xavier
6.) The Green Lantern ring of Hal Jordan.
7.) The technopathy of Hank Henshaw.
8.) The transmutational powers of Firestorm.

Stips:
*No time shenanigans or loopholes whatsoever. You have these abilities for 24 hours in real time and that's it.
*You don't have any prior knowledge of how to use the ability you've selected... You go into this 'dry' as it were, and have to learn as you go.

Using transmutation to gain finances could work but will come with a lot of problems (investigation in how you obtained materials). Note: it would be easy to make elements than compounds. Rh can be easily made just by knowing how many protons it has in each atom.

Using technopathy would be similar (investigation on how you obtained wealth). So that's risky too.

Using TP to gain wealth is extremely safe only if you gain a small amount (less than a million). Otherwise you should use that power only for having sex with anyone you see or meet.

I would go for luck or TP Tbh
Leaning TP because I get sex also lol

Originally posted by StyleTime
This will be beatboks 13 seconds after the telepathy activates.

It's kind of disturbing that so many of us would choose to be villains with these powers. Theft is one thing, but rape too?

Power corrupts and the current generation is cynical to extreme.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
It's kind of disturbing that so many of us would choose to be villains with these powers. Theft is one thing, but rape too?

Originally posted by abhilegend
Power corrupts and the current generation is cynical to extreme.

Nah, Its just selfishness which everyone has. But not immoral per se

Edit

Well, the rape one is immoral

Originally posted by abhilegend
Power corrupts and the current generation is cynical to extreme.

Depends on which current generation.

Originally posted by beatboks
The middle page panel is pretty much me now without TP. That's why I figured it would be the easiest one for me to adapt to (not much of a change from my normal state of a 1000 or so random unconnected thoughts every minute). I mean while I've been typing to the sentence before this one I've had thoughts about 5 ps games, two of my kids sports and, my sister, a few work friends, my home loan and the recently risen interest rate and 8 things I didn't get done at work a renovation were starting soon and 5 projects I have around the home(all intermixed)

It's not just the convenient, useful thoughts you'll receive. Everything is on the table here: an abused child's fear, anxiety disorders, orgasms, in addition to all the mundane thoughts. You'll have no way to filter any of it.

Sure, you're not in a war zone, but you'll have Xavier's sensitivity without any psychic defenses. It'll be a nightmare.

Originally posted by beatboks
No power choice is even usable for me within 2 weeks to a month.

Originally posted by StyleTime

The luck power is.

Luck is far from a good choice. All Marvel luck users have a downside. Domino for example is about as unlucky in love as you can get. So I could win games of chance and have money but no one to enjoy it with. What would be the point?

Originally posted by h1a8
If goal was to gain finances then luck would be safest option (play lotto).

Domino's luck only works on her straight line of sight. It's quite localised.
So unless she's in the room where the lotto is drawn I don't see that helping much.

Your winnings as such would only be in maximum of hundreds of thousands within free time frame. Even that is being VERY generous.

Originally posted by beatboks
Luck is far from a good choice. All Marvel luck users have a downside. Domino for example is about as unlucky in love as you can get. So I could win games of chance and have money but no one to enjoy it with. What would be the point?

You'll only have the powers for 24 hours......

Originally posted by beatboks
Luck is far from a good choice. All Marvel luck users have a downside. Domino for example is about as unlucky in love as you can get. So I could win games of chance and have money but no one to enjoy it with. What would be the point?

Only for 24 hours. So your winnings stays with you and you'll also have your charming good looks and swag back once the powers disappear. It's a win.

Originally posted by beatboks
Domino's luck only works on her straight line of sight. It's quite localised.
So unless she's in the room where the lotto is drawn I don't see that helping much.

Your winnings as such would only be in maximum of hundreds of thousands within free time frame. Even that is being VERY generous.

Play the lottery and you could earn millions. There's ways to earn crazy money in 24 hours.

Originally posted by Astner
It's because you're all immoral pieces of shit who'd rather redistribute assets at the determent of others to benefit yourselves rather than garnering wealth by benefiting society at large when given the opportunity.

The first thing I said I would do is stop Russia's war of aggression. I think I would deserve to pocket a few billion dollars if I pulled that off.

Originally posted by carver9
Play the lottery and you could earn millions. There's ways to earn crazy money in 24 hours.

If you have a rhodium bars occupying the space of a cube with the sides 6 feet, that's worth $4.41 trillion.

Then you could make some ruthenium, iridum, gold, platinum, and so on. They're all widely used for their physical properties: corrosion reisstance, conductivity and radiation absorbtion, and they're all in short supply.

Originally posted by Endless Mike
The first thing I said I would do is stop Russia's war of aggression. I think I would deserve to pocket a few billion dollars if I pulled that off.

If you suddently have a couple of billion dollars in your account what that means is the the bank owes you this money, right? And if there's no transaction data, I don't think they'd let you keep it. And given the circumstances I don't think you'd have much of a legal case again them.

How could I do that with luck powers? I would 100% choose transmutation in this scenario based off you alls argument.

TBH,the most I worry about these world-changing things is there are so many factors you need to consider.

International relations, social structure, resource allocation etc. You can't make the world better by just simply doing one or two things. It maybe produces an opposite result actually.

I think the more moral way to use these abities is choosing Domino's luck power and making money. Then use said money to help your family, close friends etc