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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Bah, thanks to my years as a shut-in tech dweeb I already have lots of Gadgets, a Feral appearance, and I Super Smell.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I feel like immortality is always a monkey's paw.
Can we replace it with like... Negligible Senescence?

Assuming it's not a monkey's paw (since invulnerability is also there) then:
Immortality, teleportation (to escape capture), intellect.

Also wtf is Devine Power?

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[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Attractive male, insanely rich, teleport.

I will no longer be single, I can vote in the US (only the rich get to vote with SuperPACs), I have a low carbon footprint

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Magic can accomplish all of this, so I choose that

[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • Shapeshifting: kinky (having sex as a boy or a girl, becoming any celebrity your partner likes), recreationnal (flying like a crow, swimming as an octopus) and useful if you want to do crimes

  • Telepathy: perfect understanding of the others, or mess with their brain if they deserve it Also, this is the perfect combo with shapeshifting to impersonate people (if someone is suspicious, you have the perfect answers to their questions)

  • Healing, because I know the feeling of being powerless when a loved one suffers

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why doesn't "Divine Powers" include everything else? 🤷

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Divine Powers" means you can make anything Fabulous! with just a glance.

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[–] Matshiro@szmer.info 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't divine powers mean you can get anything on that list?

Its weird that not a lot of people decided to choose it.

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Intellect, immortal, shape shifter.

Shape shifter makes the attractive male/female redundant.
Intellect will get you gadgets/implants/power suit. After a bit of work which you have infinite time to do.

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[–] thirteene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am I misunderstanding siphon powers? Add invisibility and super speed... Aita?

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[–] Evrala@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Attractive female, immortal, divine powers.

But, not any major religion. Just start making flowers bloom in the name of some minor goddess that has good rules. Go around healing people and giving out free food.

See what that does to the world when basically every main religion is "wrong"

The Wiccans I know are generally good folk, what chaos when healing crystals actually start working?

Attempt to not go mad with power.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Insanely rich: cheat codes for a comfortable life.

Shapeshifter: renders attractiveness options irrelevant and has enormous utility.

Psionics or magic, depending on strength and utility. For pscionics it really depends on how broad a range we're talking about. If it's just one thing or two things, nah. Being able to fling things around with my mind and pyro/cryo/electrokinesis are all tangently attached to telekinesis is great. But so is being able to throw fireballs in reanimate the dead. So really it would depend on the rules and mechanics for the magic/psionic systems. I think pscionics if it's more like The Force or something strong from GURPS or RIFTS, magic if it's something strong from RIFTS or D&D. If both are awesome then I'd pick whatever has the most utility probably. Especially since magic can duplicate psionic abilities using certain magic systems. But if it's lame magic or requires something like Faustian pacts or answering to any kind of more powerful entity, screw that. But depending on the mechanics, psionics and magic are just different kinds of magic systems.

Tldr, being a stupidly rich shape-shifting reality bender sounds like the life.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Feral. Radioactive. Submariner.

Sealab 2021.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Insanely rich, Intellect, Invulnerable. You could totally change the world - you would be like Elon Musk with a brain. When the shitty oligarchs throw you out a window, you just bounce.

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[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Immortal, invulnerable, teleportation

Now I can do whatever I want without having to worry about consequences.

I picked teleportation because I'd hate for example if somehow someone launched me into a sun or black hole and there was nothing I could do forever.

Being immortal an invulnerable I assume I'd be able to get rich very easily.

I also assume the following:

  • immortal mean that you don't die of old age or sickness
  • invulnerable still ages (counter with immortal)
  • divine is not godlike but jesuslike. Can perform miracles or even come back to life but has limited power. Not immortal, not invulnerable
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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Attractive female, insanely rich, and teleport. I'll have a gf, have money to finance my 1000 hobbies and help others, and never have to stand an hour in a crowded bus trying to hold in a fart again.

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[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Attractive Male, Immortal, Divine Powers.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shape Shifter, Teleport, Insanely rich.

  • Be anyone/anything I want to be
  • Go wherever I want instantly
  • and if i need anything else, just buy it with money
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[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, immortality and invulnerability are a definite to deal with some existential dread.

Then I suppose insanely rich because you're going to need a lot of money to make investments on a forever time scale.

I feel like teleportation gets you an ability that makes money just fine. Hell, just invulnerability makes you valuable for cleaning up nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima.

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[–] fnrir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Give me arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation in the simulation we live in and I'll be satisfied.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Just give me being attractive and fuck the rest.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I already have autism, PTSD and depression. I don't know if I can handle more.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago

If I'm a plural system do we get to pick 3 for each of us? :)

If it's one set for everyone, I'm going with Shapeshifting, Healing, and the third kind of depends on how this stuff works.

Shapeshifting I'd take even if I was only allowed one power. I'd finally have a body that fits. Several of them, in fact. Some might even be human. We could swap between us physically, and turning into stuff for a while just sounds fun.

Healing because if I don't pick it I'm eventually going to regret it. Shapeshifting might already let me fix any damage that isn't incapacitating or instantly lethal, but that only applies to my own body. I'd want to be able to help others, too.

For the third power... Magic could mean a lot of things, including many on this list. Maybe it's a "jack of all trades, master of none" kind of deal, which I'd be fine with. A bunch of spells that cover a wide range of situations but aren't as strong as specializing in a single power.

Teleport is really appealing. Lots I can do with it if I can take people or things with me, or set up something long-range that doesn't require line of sight. If it also allows me to create permanent portals then we're really going to have fun.

Or I could take Invulnerability to remove that "incapacitating or instantly lethal" weakness and really lean into being some kind of unstoppable healer. Divine Powers? Depending on what that does, it could replace Healing while also giving a bunch of other benefits. Hell, if it lets me resurrect people too, and I also take Invulnerability, then I'm basically an emergency respawn point for the entire community.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Submariner necromancy size manipulation. Hoards of tiny zombie whales and giant zombie plankton.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Psionics (a la Legion/David Haller), Divine Powers (more Legion reality-warping fun), Immorality (until the Heat Death of the Universe). I've got a lot I want to do, starting with planetary reform and cultivation of the species.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What if I already have the power of being attractive 😎

Do I have to waste a choice to keep it?

And does immortality come with eternal youth?

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Attractive Female", "Divine Power" ~~because what power doesn't fall under that~~, and "Insanely Rich."

Invulnerability, Invisibility, Psychic

[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Shape shifter makes half of these redundant. I pick that, teleport, and electric control.

[–] dovahking@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Most of the powers are achievable with just intellect and magic. The third power to choose is immortality because most of the sci fi or magical immortality has a catch.

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