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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago

Feral. Radioactive. Submariner.

Sealab 2021.

[–] Hiatus@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Vampirism, Divine Powers and Magic. These three pretty much give you every other power on this list. You are essentially God and need only keep the human race alive so you can feed off their blood.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Super hearing, super sight, sub-mariner.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Attractive male, insanely rich, intellect.

Y’all have fun being superheroes. I’m gonna enjoy the fuck out of life.

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would you pick intellect if you wanted a good time? Isn't ignorance bliss?

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Yes but that haven't received the intelligence power yet so they don't know that

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's no rules that says having powers mean you have to be a superhero

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could also be a supervillain... >:)

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

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Immortality is fine, until you end up stuck somewhere forever.

It's inevitable, it might be 10 years from now you'll get stuck under a mudslide and buried forever, but conscious.

In a billion years, you'll get stuck inside the expanding sun forever.

In a few trillion years you'll get stuck floating in the void of space forever as the universe expanded into nothingness.

Immortality needs some sort of way out, or else you'll eventually end up suffering forever (what's a trillion years to someone who will live for eternity?)

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago

Immortality+invulnarability has to break physics somehow. Use that loophole to extract energy and build an entire civilization around yourself.

Be the immortal sun god of the endtimes.

Will probably be fun for a few trillion years.

[–] crazybrain@lemmy.spacestation14.com 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Teleportation is also one of the options, so that solves the getting stuck somewhere problem. My concern is what immortality is like without also getting invulnerability...

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but that just pushes back the timeline some. Even with immortality, invulnerability, and teleportation, you're still going to live forever floating in the void of space. There just isn't going to be anywhere to teleport TO after a few trillion years.

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

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

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

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

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[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll take Divine Powers. I think the rest will then sort out by itself.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm trying to work out what that is. The ability to, uh, do everything on that list? If so, I will also take 3 scoops please.

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[–] dovahking@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours 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.

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 1 points 18 hours ago

Supersight Weapons master Super strength or super speed

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

All choices depend on the degree of the power. How much can you lift with telekinesis and how dexterous is? Is magic cantrips, level 9 spells, or something even more arcane? To what level are the speed and strength "super"? Are you a "Captain America" super human or Superman?

Thankfully, my constant favorites are pretty definite: invulnerability and immortality.

What even is "psychic" and how is meaningfully different from "telekinesis" and "telepathy"? Is it bundling all the other -kineses? Yeah, I'm giving it too much thought but personally I don't like discussions based entirely on everyone not having enough information.

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[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 4 points 1 day 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.

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Easy: Attractive Female, Attractive Male and implants.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago

“What kind of implants?”

“Yes.”

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Magic. Two others at random.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Magic, 3 times

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day 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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