What superpower do you want?

[Sirion]

(07-07-2012 10:50 PM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 11:21 AM)Sirion Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 10:05 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 09:47 AM)zspartancats Wrote:  I would love to have the power of immortality. I couldn't die or age, so I could do what ever I wanted.

I would ultimately end up having 10% of the population of earth, being related to me.

I often thought that the power of immortality would be pretty good. But imagine never being able to die and living forever. The amount of suffering you would go through like having a relationship in which they would die, you'd find someone else, they'd die etc. It'd be fun in the short term but not in the long run.

Teleportation. I could travel the world without the boundary of money being involved.

Stop time would be cool but I think you'd end up ruining all of existence.

But being immortal doesn't mean you would be able to remember all the course of your life. Because, even if your body doesn't change at all, your memory works the same way any memory does. An old man with 80 years or more usually forgets some moments of his life, as well as remembers stuff that was forgotten maybe decades before. And it all might get mixed up and turning into confusion. As an immortal man starts surpassing human life expectacy, I imagine a similar effect would happen. So many events and so many people would come and go that eventually many important things would just be lost. Only the most truly remarkable events and persons would remain. It's like a journal becoming a history book.

But that's the thing. You said an old man starts to forget part of his life (mainly due to how Humans work) but that's because he actually grew up. You wouldn't. You'd be a [insert your age] for the rest of your life therefore, not forgetting those people. You would never grow old and not have that issue.

Growing or not, time goes on and events occur. Do you really think your mind would be able to stack all memories without throwing "garbage" away to make room for more? In the course of some centuries, if you learned to play a guitar, for example, and stopped playing it in 50 years, you'd have to have lessons from start all over again. And while you re-learned to play guitar, you could start to forget how to speak spanish or how to cook a certain meal, if you stopped doing it on your everyday life. That's how memory works. It throws up supposedly useless information to get room for more. If it retained every single moment of your life, not only would you have extreme headaches, but be a sad, recentful and traumatized little man because of the bad things of the world, despite the good things that happen in your life, just because you wouldn't be able to forget an, thus, forgive or simply go on with life. Also, birth trauma.*

And man, we're talking about an IMMORTAL person living like that. Just so sad.

Summarizing, I think it's only nice to have a big life expectancy increase, like to a centuries-old level. But no farther than that. In the end immortality is not cool.

*Could you imagine how awkward would be everyone's relationship with their mothers if they remembered the day they were pulled out of their vaginas? OH GOD NO!

[zspartancats]

(07-07-2012 10:05 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 09:47 AM)zspartancats Wrote:  I would love to have the power of immortality. I couldn't die or age, so I could do what ever I wanted.

I would ultimately end up having 10% of the population of earth, being related to me.

[color=#9400D3][font=Arial]I often thought that the power of immortality would be pretty good. But imagine never being able to die and living forever. The amount of suffering you would go through like having a relationship in which they would die, you'd find someone else, they'd die etc. It'd be fun in the short term but not in the long run.

I was thinking about this some more, yea it would suck in the long run.

I would love to know what happens if some extraterrestrial event happens and the earth was destroyed. By destroyed, I mean like what the Death Star did to Alderaan. Would the immortal person, be stuck floating in space? That would seem like a terrible fate.

I would still chose the immortality as my power.

[Skarro]

(07-08-2012 10:56 AM)damerdar Wrote:  The ability to control and become light.

Mostly for the lazer beams, but also because it comes with a ton of utility powers. Super speed that is effectively as fast as teleportation, lazer beams, invisibility, visual illusions, lazer beams, flight.

Also, lazer beams!

Thats what this guy has. He is made of light (hit him with a bullet light shines out and he's fine), can shoot beams, move the speed etc..
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Borsalino

[Skip to the Devil Fruit section]

[DiscoNinja]

I'd love control over electricity. Shooting bolts of lighting from my fingers like PEW! PEW! PEW!

Would be awesome.

[666metalupyourass]

Some sort of full body acceleration. Being able to move, think or speak faster than everything around me without aging faster in the process. Thanks to mass x acceleration, I would also have super strenght (or at least super-punching powers), I would be able to run at extreme speeds without losing perception of my environment, I would be able to dodge and counter every possible danger. And I know I would use it to super-freak people out with my super-fast eating powers.

Immortality sounds awesome too, but I don't like the idea of remembering things after a long time like Bumblebee said. I guess losing everyone I know again and again and again would be kind of sad.

[BumblebeeCody]

(07-08-2012 12:04 PM)Sirion Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 10:50 PM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 11:21 AM)Sirion Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 10:05 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 09:47 AM)zspartancats Wrote:  I would love to have the power of immortality. I couldn't die or age, so I could do what ever I wanted.

I would ultimately end up having 10% of the population of earth, being related to me.

I often thought that the power of immortality would be pretty good. But imagine never being able to die and living forever. The amount of suffering you would go through like having a relationship in which they would die, you'd find someone else, they'd die etc. It'd be fun in the short term but not in the long run.

Teleportation. I could travel the world without the boundary of money being involved.

Stop time would be cool but I think you'd end up ruining all of existence.

But being immortal doesn't mean you would be able to remember all the course of your life. Because, even if your body doesn't change at all, your memory works the same way any memory does. An old man with 80 years or more usually forgets some moments of his life, as well as remembers stuff that was forgotten maybe decades before. And it all might get mixed up and turning into confusion. As an immortal man starts surpassing human life expectacy, I imagine a similar effect would happen. So many events and so many people would come and go that eventually many important things would just be lost. Only the most truly remarkable events and persons would remain. It's like a journal becoming a history book.

But that's the thing. You said an old man starts to forget part of his life (mainly due to how Humans work) but that's because he actually grew up. You wouldn't. You'd be a [insert your age] for the rest of your life therefore, not forgetting those people. You would never grow old and not have that issue.

Growing or not, time goes on and events occur. Do you really think your mind would be able to stack all memories without throwing "garbage" away to make room for more? In the course of some centuries, if you learned to play a guitar, for example, and stopped playing it in 50 years, you'd have to have lessons from start all over again. And while you re-learned to play guitar, you could start to forget how to speak spanish or how to cook a certain meal, if you stopped doing it on your everyday life. That's how memory works. It throws up supposedly useless information to get room for more. If it retained every single moment of your life, not only would you have extreme headaches, but be a sad, recentful and traumatized little man because of the bad things of the world, despite the good things that happen in your life, just because you wouldn't be able to forget an, thus, forgive or simply go on with life. Also, birth trauma.*

And man, we're talking about an IMMORTAL person living like that. Just so sad.

Summarizing, I think it's only nice to have a big life expectancy increase, like to a centuries-old level. But no farther than that. In the end immortality is not cool.

*Could you imagine how awkward would be everyone's relationship with their mothers if they remembered the day they were pulled out of their vaginas? OH GOD NO!

Ah OK. Good points (Y)

(07-09-2012 05:42 AM)DiscoNinja Wrote:  I'd love control over electricity. Shooting bolts of lighting from my fingers like PEW! PEW! PEW!

Would be awesome.

Enjoy turning on your Xbox just to have it explode on your face.

[DiscoNinja]

(07-09-2012 07:23 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-09-2012 05:42 AM)DiscoNinja Wrote:  I'd love control over electricity. Shooting bolts of lighting from my fingers like PEW! PEW! PEW!

Would be awesome.

Enjoy turning on your Xbox just to have it explode on your face.

If I had control there would be no exploding

Also, I don't own an Xbox

[Sirion]

I often imagine myself with sharingan eyes (one of the few good ideas in the anime) and being able to cast out lightning from my hands, sith-style. Also, telekinesis!

I think I'd like to be a sharingan-sith. Rockin' the galaxy all right!

[Arjahn]

Logically speaking, heat vision. Just think of all the problems it could solve!
Need to heat up some popcorn? BOOM, Popcorn
Need to clean gutters? BOOM, Clean gutters
Pollution harming the Earth's atmosphere? BOOM, less crap.
World Hunger? BOOM, less people.

[Melirune]

I would like the superpower of shooting Mountain Dew Code Red from my eyes >,>

[zspartancats]

(07-09-2012 02:59 PM)Melirune Wrote:  I would like the superpower of shooting Mountain Dew Code Red from my eyes >,>

Wouldn't that burn your eyes?

[Chomp]

I want to be able to do everything that they did in Chronicle. That was just awesome. And have immortality. That would be sick.

[BumblebeeCody]

(07-09-2012 07:25 AM)DiscoNinja Wrote:  

(07-09-2012 07:23 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote:  

(07-09-2012 05:42 AM)DiscoNinja Wrote:  I'd love control over electricity. Shooting bolts of lighting from my fingers like PEW! PEW! PEW!

Would be awesome.

Enjoy turning on your Xbox just to have it explode on your face.

If I had control there would be no exploding

Also, I don't own an Xbox

That's because it exploded.

[Melirune]

(07-11-2012 09:15 AM)zspartancats Wrote:  

(07-09-2012 02:59 PM)Melirune Wrote:  I would like the superpower of shooting Mountain Dew Code Red from my eyes >,>

Wouldn't that burn your eyes?

Does it matter? I can shoot Code Red from my eyes! You know how hard it is to find Code Red here in Canada?

[Skarro]

My mom smuggled me twelve on her trip back from the states.. 8)