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[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 58 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sticking my finger in the barrel of a cops gun so it blows up in their face.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Then a large boxing glove pops out of the flower on my chest, and knocks the fucker to the next county.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gonna see if i can cross over to the apartment opposite me by not looking down. This could be a miracle for transportation!

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If that doesn't work let's try next floating while following the smell of a pie.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I thought about it, but I think that's powered by not knowing you're in the air. The fall is triggered by the realization that you aren't on the ground, not the action of l looking down. I'm just a layman though. A comic physicist can correct me if they want.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

A comic physician could draw a bridge under ya

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pulling a giant hammer out of my pocket

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Letting her know I like her by launching my eyeballs out of their sockets and dropping my tongue completely to the floor.

edit: Forgot the old-timey car horn sound.

arOOOOgah!

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Don't forget Turing your face into a wolf and howling about it.

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The prompt was about things we don't already do in this reality though?

[–] mech@feddit.org 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hire a bird to paint a realistic-looking tunnel with my workplace behind it on my garage door, and drastically reduce commute times.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Damn! You beat me to it!

[–] WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to blow into my thumb and make my dick huge.

[–] WR5@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

In a similar thought, I was thinking of asking people for help making my thumb huge...

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Launching out of a cannon and floating to safety at the end by opening a very small umbrella.

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 14 points 3 months ago

Carry around a ACME black hole, just in case.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago

Having a little hat with a propeller that allows me to fly

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Imma buy a LOT of anvils

Honestly I think having someone pull a giant mallet out and squish me like a pancake would fix me.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I don't think anyone has mentioned buying some invisible paint!

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Have a conversation with my now-talking dog.

[–] Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Amazed nobody has said float through the air on the waft of a delicious pie yet

[–] callyral@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Draw a tunnel or a door on a wall and see where it leads. Perhaps into the room on the other side, maybe into a pocket dimension.

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[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I work as a slot technician. One of our jobs is moving slot machines with hand trucks. When setting them down, one typically counterbalances the weight of the machine with their body. I wanna get catapulted across the casino floor, fly through the air while screaming like Goofy, and hit the wall leaving a silhouette-shaped hole.

[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Which, in this economy, seems less like an injury and more a reward.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago

Jump from the highest building in town and use my pants as a parachute.

[–] Una@europe.pub 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Standing in air and looking down for a sec

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably don't want to look down.

[–] Una@europe.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Nah, no worries. I can't die, I'll just make huge human shaped hole and crawl out of it hurt.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

This depends on whether it's permanent or transitory. I don't want to be half-way through a stunt...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm flattening myself into pancake to fit through the crack of a door, and then walking off a cliff without looking down to fly. I may also want a drink, so I'll just reach off camera and grab one.

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Painting a door on a wall that actually works

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago

Farting so hard I fly

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm going to Costco and buying a palette of bananas.

I can probably cut my commute time by 80% and sow mass chaos in the process.

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[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Phone call someone and during the split screen physically jump into their side of the call.

[–] lenz@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Dress as a scientist with a labcoat, and build something really quickly by pulling tools out of nowhere as a giant cloud of steam covers up what I’m doing, revealing a giant scientific looking device that is labeled “restore normal laws of physics for everyone except me”. Push the button. Now I am the only one running on cartoon logic. I have hopefully prevented others from destroying the Earth by exploding giant bombs or whatever. Or racists from coming up with a “kill all non-white people” virus. Or a variety of other horrors.

Then do things like build an anti-corruption ray and fire it at major government buildings. Panacea-ray to be given to hospitals. Climate-change regulation machine. Etc. Lots of different rays lmao.

Come up with plan to reduce suffering in the universe and harness cartoon physics into technology without someone being able to exploit this awesome power for evil. Do not do this alone. Gather others. Watch cartoons for ideas. Think this bs through a lot more.

I think I’d build a time-stopping device with immunity necklaces to place around the necks of the smartest and most compassionate people on Earth (which I’d use another tracking device to find) to give everybody time to think through ideas on what to do. That way everyone in the hospitals could stop dying while we think through ideas, giving us time to save them. Probably end up giving others the cartoon physics power after building a device to find the best candidates for the responsibility, and shooting them with the anti-corruption ray.

Probably shoot MYSELF with the anti-corruption ray to keep myself from going insane with power.

Fix the world, then later, fix the universe. End involuntary suffering. End involuntary death for those who do not wish to die. Fix entropy. Have fun forever.

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Not reading the book on gravity, for starters. 🤌🏼

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

And have it drift where hurricanes hit hardest.

Alternatively, with some help:

So it can float away from Canada and Mexico.

Step #1: Integrate "AI" into all ACME products; including anvils and dynamite.

Step #2: Draft press release that we expect to have solved the "roadrunner conundrum" by the end of the third quarter.

Step #3: Repeat Step #2 for a couple of years.

Step #4: Fail to deliver on the promise of Step #2.

Step #5: Exit the business with my now substantial fortune, leaving the Wyle E. Coyote holding the bag.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Boing! Boing! Jumping off a roof so I can bounce bounce bounce, I can't jump for shit IRL and I want to.

Also maybe some NSFW stuff I am not about to detail.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If it counts, I'd love to have a portable black circle disk thing like in Toontown so I could return home in an instance.

If that doesn't count, I wouldn't mind having falls only cause me to accordion and not take much, if any, damage if I land on my feet paws.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Cut down a tree by standing on a branch and cutting the branch from the tree.

[–] Human@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

tunnel through things using paint

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

Run down the beach to see how far I can get across the lake before I start sinking.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

I'm lasooing the moon closer, so I can climb on and get away from this place.

[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Run off a cliff and never look down = flight.

Also have an enemy draw a really cool place on a wall and run through it.

[–] AccoSpoot@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Get into a chase with ICE.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'll stand by ready to paint a tunnel onto the side of the brick wall

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Picture this. The flintstones car, to help the environment.

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