Invisibility.
You emit an unmaskable and extremely noticeable odour whenever invisible.
That’s fine. That’ll just mean I’m a airborne disease since my invisibility would be infinite.
I don’t know who you’re responding to, but it sure is smelly over here.
instantly renaming a large city
Manifest any superpower at will
… that then gets applied to everyone within 100 metres of you on top of yourself.
Lol, I’d still take it. All I can say is the people flying with me better keep close. Ditto the ones breathing under water
It gives one month of bad luck for each time used. If the power is activated to help others without benefit for yourself, then it’s sloppy good luck instead. You are fortunate in a tragic way.
The timer and type is reset each time power manifested
I can teleport instantly to any location I have previously visited.
But each location has a specific song you must play on an Ocarina…
Thankfully my people know how big a nerd I am, so I actually have been gifted an ocarina. I’m ready. Now, what’s the song for my doctor’s office, again?
Do I know the song automatically? Or like, do I have to defeat someone in single combat to get to learn the song?
“Oh, and a chocolate croissant, please, thanks! … and uh, I’m so incredibly sorry about last time,”
You don’t get to choose the location, it’s just a random place you’ve been before.
The United States of America after the Cold War.
But you live in Afghanistan
Can communicate with any animal
But they can’t communicate with you
Haha imagine trying to explain that to people.
“I have a superpower, I can speak to animals they just can’t speak back” “But everyone has that superpower, I can do that too” “Yeh but I’m actually really talking to them, like in their language that they can understand” “How do you know?” “…”
I mean, you can ask an animal to do some arbitrary action specified by the other person, and then the animal (hopefully) does it. This side effect isn’t great, but it definitely still leaves some real usefulness.
Telling my dog as I go to the garage, “I’ll be back in literally one minute.” and being understood would rock.
But the thing is, if they do the thing you asked in a way where it’s noticeable that they only did it because you asked, then they are signalling to you that they understood, which is a form of communication and the word used was “communicate” with animals.
First, the use of “communicate” in the original superpower description is presumably referring to communication that couldn’t happen without the power - and the side effect uses the same term. As it stands, my dog can tell me she understands I intend to walk her by jumping off the back of the couch and being excited at the door.
So if the superpower only refers to novel communication, I’d interpret that to mean anything more than I could reasonably communicate to my dog, and more than she could communicate to me (confirmation of understanding).
If the side effect, despite using the same verb, actually renders animals LESS able to communicate with me than they already can, that seems an especially uncharitable interpretation.
Alternatively, I can ask the animal to wait until I was out of the room before performing the action for the third party. At that point, only that third party would end up communicating having seen the comprehension/performance.
Well thought out lol. You should get a genie, I think you’ll be prepared.
I appreciate the sentiment, but probably not. The genie would just scoff af my argument and say nothing was guaranteed to be “fair” about the situation. My only saving grace in talking about it here is that fellow humans are more likely to share a similar base point for reasoning.
True Omnipotence
(Also read/listen to Worm
But only over dial-up.
You have no choice but to see everything, wether you want to or not.
But of an unrelated universe…so schizophrenia with delusions of grandure lol
Ability to control every atom in the surrounding area of approx 1 km.
You can control only 1 at a time.
Nuclear bombs, or a really good scientist.
1 at a time wouldn’t get you a noticeable amount of energy for a bomb (stuff is radioactively decaying around you already right now). A scientist might make some use of it, but with control of only 1 atom at a time they’ll struggle to build really any molecule as I imagine most intermediate molecules would break apart as soon as you “let go” to grab the next atom.
Depends on what “time” is in case of one at a time. Is it plank time, or is it as fast as I can think the command.
Even if nothing can be achieved by controlling it, just being able to feel/see the atoms means I can figure things out as a scientist. Finding how atoms are arranged into molecules, proteins etc are super helpful
I assumed as fast as you can think the command for each one.
I agree with feeling being useful for feeling around; I’m happy with the power having some value.
I had an idea I wonder if the energy thing can be salvaged. Like uranium to lead happens naturally and the energy is too little from a single atom. But we don’t have to do things naturally. If I’m controlling the atom itself, maybe I can just split all protons and neutrons from the uranium at once, then I have a bunch of free particles that can go collide with other atoms and start a chain reaction.
I think most powers, even with limitations, probably is going to be useful once we know the clear limits. Maybe not the one that need so much energy and the results are random so you can fail and not be able to try again.
Immunity from all replies to this post.
You end up with no superpowers at all
Hmm, but are they immune to this restriction?
But you are incredibly smart. BOOM GOTEM.
Teleportation
Butt stuff is marginally less fun.
Really depends on the butt
But you lose one of your socks every time you teleport and they’re like really cool unique ones that only work as a pair. Heartbreaking.
The power to talk to women without staring at their feet.
In long-dead languages they can’t understand
Deal. I’m Autistic so that’s barely any different.
Instead you cannot stop staring at their boobs. And yes, that includes your family, bosses and so on.
you can only speak to them in languages they don’t understand.
The ability to redo any side effect into any effect I want at will.
But what you want is to undo the redo of the side effect, thus creating Hubert’s Paradox.
In the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.
you mean as a side effect in the eyes of the universe, everything is simply an effect. There are no side-effects, so nothing you can redo despite having that ability.
crab claw
Only when jorkin it
Switch sexes any time I prefer
… provided you are playing Uno and have a reverse card.
Every time you switch you have to peel off a layer of dead skin line a cocoon.
Seems like a small payment honestly
Depending on the person, this might be a bonus.
Damn that’s harsh. I didn’t expect that, it seems you have some great imagination.
I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules
The ability to change my own superpower.
This one doesn’t really need a monkey’s paw curse since, as written, I’d argue you could only change it once anyway, then you’d be stuck with that power.
Uncontrollable and overwhelming diarrhea whenever you use any of the chosen superpowers, which is immune to any kinds of “and I’m immune to the side effect” types of loophole powers.
