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Your 3 superpowers?
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There's something to be said for mind control, and then again, there's something not. If you always had the option of getting people to do whatever you wanted, wouldn't you get bored after a while? Never any arguments, never any struggle. If someone annoyed you you could make them jump in a lake. Which is funny the first twelve times, I suppose. No mind control would breed laziness and ruthlessness. It's not for me.
Now telekinesis, with a high degree of power and control, could be fun. You've already obviously got the power of flight. Also, super-strength. Just grab the car with your hand and lift with your mind. You've also got invulnerability. Simply stop the air molecules around you from moving. Boom - instant invisible shield. Bullets hit it and bounce off. Or I suppose you could just stop the bullets themselves. The fun part is, this all requires mental effort and precision. You'd have to train your mind to be able to do all these things, instead of having them just be.
Mind reading might not be too bad. You'd still have to persuade people, but you'd definitely have an advantage, assuming you don't give yourself away. If you used that power too freely people would get pissed at you, and probably hostile. And I certainly wouldn't want to get on the freeway during rush hour.
Now telekinesis, with a high degree of power and control, could be fun. You've already obviously got the power of flight. Also, super-strength. Just grab the car with your hand and lift with your mind. You've also got invulnerability. Simply stop the air molecules around you from moving. Boom - instant invisible shield. Bullets hit it and bounce off. Or I suppose you could just stop the bullets themselves. The fun part is, this all requires mental effort and precision. You'd have to train your mind to be able to do all these things, instead of having them just be.
Mind reading might not be too bad. You'd still have to persuade people, but you'd definitely have an advantage, assuming you don't give yourself away. If you used that power too freely people would get pissed at you, and probably hostile. And I certainly wouldn't want to get on the freeway during rush hour.
The ability to read a book just by looking at it. Step into a library and do a 360° turn and be 600x smarter.... sounds good to me.
I'd rather have that than time control. Time control could very well ruin a life.
scem0
I'd rather have that than time control. Time control could very well ruin a life.
scem0
Hmmm...
1: Reality distortion. This one STARTS at the Matrix Neo level and goes up from there.
2: Telekewhatsis. See Phoenix from the X-Men.
3: Tele-Systemic. Mystic systems analysis for artifice and biology. Diagnose and fix ANYTHING.
1: Reality distortion. This one STARTS at the Matrix Neo level and goes up from there.
2: Telekewhatsis. See Phoenix from the X-Men.
3: Tele-Systemic. Mystic systems analysis for artifice and biology. Diagnose and fix ANYTHING.
lol
This is a cool thread.
strange powers mentioned. For instance ability to control nature; would in effect bind you to nature - poisons pollution would affect you as well no?? or may weaken your powers no??
Ability to travel faster than the speed of light would in essence start to make you younger as well as travel backwards in time. This could turn you into your daddy's little skirt, no?LOL.
Now the abiliity to become invisible, some of us since grade school have been able to do that on a regular basis. Some people aren't as popular or fashionable as others nor as great conversationalist, and thus just disappear in a crowd.
Now telekinesis is what I also wish for.
Time travel, and controlling time, not for me. Living for ever is just like dying for some of us that are "invisible" to most others.
This is a cool thread.
strange powers mentioned. For instance ability to control nature; would in effect bind you to nature - poisons pollution would affect you as well no?? or may weaken your powers no??
Ability to travel faster than the speed of light would in essence start to make you younger as well as travel backwards in time. This could turn you into your daddy's little skirt, no?LOL.
Now the abiliity to become invisible, some of us since grade school have been able to do that on a regular basis. Some people aren't as popular or fashionable as others nor as great conversationalist, and thus just disappear in a crowd.
Now telekinesis is what I also wish for.
Time travel, and controlling time, not for me. Living for ever is just like dying for some of us that are "invisible" to most others.
I am certainly not going to waste my superpower wishes frivolously, as some of you have!
1. The ability to open envelopes without getting an occasional papercut.
2. The ability to remember to show my discount card when I make a purchase at Best Buy.
3. The ability to say Save As instead of Save when I open an old document to make a new document that's a variation of it.
Now we're talkin' superpowers!
1. The ability to open envelopes without getting an occasional papercut.
2. The ability to remember to show my discount card when I make a purchase at Best Buy.
3. The ability to say Save As instead of Save when I open an old document to make a new document that's a variation of it.
Now we're talkin' superpowers!
man, you always make me feel guilty for wanting superficial powers...
so... wdlove can get those, and since those are already taken, i'll use...
1. flying
2. healing/regeneration thing or whatever- but i can help other people too when i touch them... like the xman girl and wolverine or something...
3. smartness
1) Creation of Objects out of Air. A la 'Power ring' Or 'Mind Powers'. (Example, Green Lantern)
2) Super Speed. *Not Like Flash* Flash is fast with his feet, I'm talking about feet, fists and brains.
3) The ability to spead Joy. Happyness, Love or otherwise. A feeling of good.
They can't hit me cause I'm fast... I make people feel good... and I can create stuff out of nothing...
2) Super Speed. *Not Like Flash* Flash is fast with his feet, I'm talking about feet, fists and brains.
3) The ability to spead Joy. Happyness, Love or otherwise. A feeling of good.
They can't hit me cause I'm fast... I make people feel good... and I can create stuff out of nothing...
Mine would be...
1) Shape Shifting (Like Odo in DS9, but with more ability)
2) The ability to speak with and understand every creature in the universe, even Democrats, and communcate with computers as though they were people (Much better than talking with humans, humans are boring sometimes)
3) All the knowledge that ever existed in the universe and beyond.
TEG
1) Shape Shifting (Like Odo in DS9, but with more ability)
2) The ability to speak with and understand every creature in the universe, even Democrats, and communcate with computers as though they were people (Much better than talking with humans, humans are boring sometimes)
3) All the knowledge that ever existed in the universe and beyond.
TEG
1) Jedi Force Powers (Especially Jedi Mind Tricks)
2) Have no need for sleep, food, water, or air
3) Immortality
Heheh... With these powers, I can just launch myself at the nearest star system and arrive in about 300,000 years--just in time to use my Jedi Force Powers.
2) Have no need for sleep, food, water, or air
3) Immortality
Heheh... With these powers, I can just launch myself at the nearest star system and arrive in about 300,000 years--just in time to use my Jedi Force Powers.
1 - The ability to fly. I always thought it would be cool to be able to just walk out into the yard and just take off into the air.
2 - The ability to move things with my mind. Man, how I would love to just be able to concentrate and then have all of the pecan's sitting out in the orchard rise up and come fall in my bucket!
3 - The ability to freeze. Like Iceman from X2. I've always been fasinated(SP) with ice and being able to freeze what I want or create walls of ice would kick @$$!
2 - The ability to move things with my mind. Man, how I would love to just be able to concentrate and then have all of the pecan's sitting out in the orchard rise up and come fall in my bucket!
3 - The ability to freeze. Like Iceman from X2. I've always been fasinated(SP) with ice and being able to freeze what I want or create walls of ice would kick @$$!
actually that's a good idea, not needing food, sleep, water or air. But I like eating, so I dunno if I would totally give up eating... and sleep just feels soo good. So I dunno if I'd wanna completely give that up as well. But as for water and air, they're just overrated.
oh yea, and mind control would be sweet too cause if you think about it, sex for women is very mental, (it's physical too), but they (most of them) have to be in the mood, and have to be there mentally to finish **if you know what i mean**... anyway... mind control could make them do that all the time... (kinda like the french guy who makes the hot girl eat that chocolate cake in the Matrix)
(kinda like the french guy who makes the hot girl eat that chocolate cake in the Matrix)
small problem....
I think for most things mental suggestion is as far as you'd want to go. Otherwise you'd be too focussed on controlling the other person and lose track of your own activities. This is not the ideal situation in intercourse.
Better to broadcast your own "fun" and get a kind of feedback loop going. "Mind Control" is overrated. It takes too much concentration.
Originally posted by mgargan1
oh yea, and mind control would be sweet too cause if you think about it, sex for women is very mental, (it's physical too), but they (most of them) have to be in the mood, and have to be there mentally to finish **if you know what i mean**... anyway... mind control could make them do that all the time...
I think for most things mental suggestion is as far as you'd want to go. Otherwise you'd be too focussed on controlling the other person and lose track of your own activities. This is not the ideal situation in intercourse.
Better to broadcast your own "fun" and get a kind of feedback loop going. "Mind Control" is overrated. It takes too much concentration.
Re: small problem....
Thats why i recommend power of suggestion and persuasion ... be a master manipulator is it were
Originally posted by mischief
I think for most things mental suggestion is as far as you'd want to go. Otherwise you'd be too focussed on controlling the other person and lose track of your own activities. This is not the ideal situation in intercourse.
Better to broadcast your own "fun" and get a kind of feedback loop going. "Mind Control" is overrated. It takes too much concentration.
Thats why i recommend power of suggestion and persuasion ... be a master manipulator is it were
But with mind control. you could just give the command ahead of time, and have it stay active for howeverlong you need it.
I would probably choose:
Mind Control
Telekenesis
Controlling Time
I would probably choose:
Mind Control
Telekenesis
Controlling Time
Erm.... wrong term...
the process of implanting a behaviour is called mental conditioning. the process of implanting a triggerable event is called Programming or, in the vernacular: brainwashing.
the process of implanting a behaviour is called mental conditioning. the process of implanting a triggerable event is called Programming or, in the vernacular: brainwashing.
And the process of making someone do something against their will is called puppeteering. Suddenly I feel like watching Being John Malkovich.
Most of your super powers take the fun out of life...
Mind Control...
Controling Time...
Come on Guys... What gives, do you need to have perfect lives?
Immortality
I have a problem with Immortality... You always live... But what if you want to die huh?
What gives?
Someone just tortures you for ever... and ever... Do you want to live?
NO!
But because of your Immortality... you always live... Blah.
See all of your loved ones die... and family and friends... Bah.
Anyone who wished for Immortality
Think about it.
Mind Control...
Controling Time...
Come on Guys... What gives, do you need to have perfect lives?
Immortality
I have a problem with Immortality... You always live... But what if you want to die huh?
What gives?
Someone just tortures you for ever... and ever... Do you want to live?
NO!
But because of your Immortality... you always live... Blah.
See all of your loved ones die... and family and friends... Bah.
Anyone who wished for Immortality
Think about it.