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if you got a super power that wasn't invisibility or flight or teleportation or shapeshifting or telekinesis what would it be

YoshiandToad

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Teleportation would be pretty neat.

Skip a commute, get everywhere on time, cheaper holidays and travel, never miss any appointment...and that's excluding any potential actual heroics like rescuing hostages or saving people from burning buildings or incoming dangers.

Teleportation is a pretty cool power.
 

Yashichi

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Teleportation would be pretty neat.

Skip a commute, get everywhere on time, cheaper holidays and travel, never miss any appointment...and that's excluding any potential actual heroics like rescuing hostages or saving people from burning buildings or incoming dangers.

Teleportation is a pretty cool power.
ok but the thread title says no teleportation. so what else
 

CheeseAnton

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To be able to summon anything I want, anywhere I want, with no downsides whatsoever.

So I can finally get some dedication and actually start and finish something.
 

KneeOfJustice99

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My own personal suggestion would be telekinesis, simply because of the number of practical applications it has. Whilst abilities like controlling electricity or something look cool, telekinesis actually has a lot more use overall. For instance - despite flight being against the rules of the OP, telekinesis could easily be used on yourself to allow you to "move" yourself through the air. Not only that, but it's probably the most practical ability in terms of rescue and battle alike. After all, say that someone comes after you in a tank, you could simply crush it into a cube the size of a marble. Likewise, it's possible to move large objects such as steel beams, so say if a building comes down on you, you could hold it up with telekinesis whilst rescuing the folks inside.
 

Venus of the Desert Bloom

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mine would be echolactation so i could see at night and walk to the nearby donut shop (they make new ones at 2am)
Just use a flashlight…or are there no street lights where you live? That would be weird if so. And there’s also delivery services…

Technomancy

I could gain control of the world’s technology and be able to influence it like how a virus influences a nervous system. I would use it for nefarious purposes of course.
 

FirestormNeos

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Retractile back-mounted Tentacles with regenerative capabilities and strong enough to support the weight of me and at least one other person, the ends of which being able to shapeshift into a variety of configurations (the default being plain ol' nubs, but with the option to have them transform into things like claws like doc ock's tentacles, drills for when I want to open something that's very stubborn like a plastic bag of dinosaur chicken nuggets, or become very thin so it can reach under the oven/couch/etc.).

The benefits!:
  • Self-neck massage? (this one's not guaranteed, but you bet your sweet bippy that it's going to be the very first thing I try doing with them)
  • I can now carry ALL the groceries into the house in a single trip WITHOUT hurting my fingers.
  • Too lazy to get up to grab something that's just out of reach? Use the tentacles instead.
  • Putting things up onto or taking them off of the top shelf.
  • "Could you pass the salt?" Normally, I'd have to say no because they're all the way on the other side of the table, and reaching for the salt would require getting in literally everyone's way.
  • Can pull off what is Objectively-speaking the best Giratina Origin Forme cosplay ever made.
  • If I ever get a girlfriend, I... I can uh... "hold her in a bridal carry and still be able to open doors while doing so."
  • Most Importantly: If someone tries to murder/kidnap me from behind, I can just instinctively pop out the tentacles (faster than they can snap my neck/suffocate me with the rag they put over my mouth); assailant skewered, problamo solved.
Technomancy

I could gain control of the world’s technology and be able to influence it like how a virus influences a nervous system. I would use it for nefarious purposes of course.
\>prof pic is tall
\>sig is gary
\>wants to be an IRL mass effect engineer

yeah that sounds about right.

EDIT: smashboards format does not take kindly to greentext
 
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KneeOfJustice99

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If I ever get a girlfriend, I... I can uh... "hold her in a bridal carry and still be able to open doors while doing so."
Okay genuinely though this is an incredibly based usage of these powers. Like, it's a genuinely massively underrated advantage, you genius.

(also this is purely experimentation on my part)
> be me
using greentext
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mfw eddie murphy ate my thumbs again[/QUOTE]
(i see your point now)
 
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Venus of the Desert Bloom

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Retractile back-mounted Tentacles with regenerative capabilities and strong enough to support the weight of me and at least one other person, the ends of which being able to shapeshift into a variety of configurations (the default being plain ol' nubs, but with the option to have them transform into things like claws like doc ock's tentacles, drills for when I want to open something that's very stubborn like a plastic bag of dinosaur chicken nuggets, or become very thin so it can reach under the oven/couch/etc.).

The benefits!:
  • Self-neck massage? (this one's not guaranteed, but you bet your sweet bippy that it's going to be the very first thing I try doing with them)
  • I can now carry ALL the groceries into the house in a single trip WITHOUT hurting my fingers.
  • Too lazy to get up to grab something that's just out of reach? Use the tentacles instead.
  • Putting things up onto or taking them off of the top shelf.
  • "Could you pass the salt?" Normally, I'd have to say no because they're all the way on the other side of the table, and reaching for the salt would require getting in literally everyone's way.
  • Can pull off what is Objectively-speaking the best Giratina Origin Forme cosplay ever made.
  • If I ever get a girlfriend, I... I can uh... "hold her in a bridal carry and still be able to open doors while doing so."
  • Most Importantly: If someone tries to murder/kidnap me from behind, I can just instinctively pop out the tentacles (faster than they can snap my neck/suffocate me with the rag they put over my mouth); assailant skewered, problamo solved.


\>prof pic is tall
\>sig is gary
\>wants to be an IRL mass effect engineer

yeah that sounds about right.

EDIT: smashboards format does not take kindly to greentext
Beware of my calibrations.
 
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Janx_uwu

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Psychokinesis. For one, it's the power of my boy, and for two, it sounds cooler than Telekinesis but is mostly the same thing. Loophole, baby!
 

Oddball

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I want to be this guy.
multiple man.jpg


I want to be able to make exact duplicates of myself, as many as I want, so I can go out and do things, without every having to leave home, then be able to absorb them back into myself and get their memories.

I could hold down multiple jobs and still spend all day at home messing around on the internet.
 
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