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Yeah, title.


SOME RESTRICTIONS THOUGH!!!!!

No ridiculous powers, that just isn't very fun. No omniscience, omnipotence, or omnipresence.


I will have some broad areas of super powers in my poll, and you may specify a specific power in your post.



I, myself, would want control of time. I wouldn't have the power to travel back and forth in time, but instead the power to slow time to enough of a crawl that no one would notice what I did while time was slowed down. Also, I would have the ability to decide what things are still running in real time and what things are running in my altered slowed down time. Plus, I'd have the ability to have time still slowed down while I slept or did something mentally tasking.

Basically, it'd allow me to do all my homework and sleep and stuff in less than a second, and have the rest of my day to do whatever the hell I wanted.


Ok, you choose!

Electrkinesis, aerokinesis......maybe cyrokinesis tossed in for fun.

Regeneration.

Healing the sick. So I don't need to go to a doctor or need drugs. Free healthcare for the family :D

What super power would you desire?

China

China


Doh...

China

I should just follow you from thread to thread.



I chose Shapeshifting and Mind Reading. It seems obvious to me.

Control Of Time. Why? *Gets A Mortal Wound, Not Dead Yet* *Reverse!* Ok, I Walk To The LEFT, Not The Right! Oh, And Mindreading. Now I Can Tell If My Girlfriend (I Highly Doubt I'll Ever Get One, Though) Is Cheating On Me. And I Can Also Be A Bitch Like PsychoMantis From MSG And Know Everyones Move Before They Make It. Then They'll Have To Unplug Their Controllers Of Real Life. Wait, They Don't Have Any! MUA HA HA HA!

I'd want them all...and pyrokinesis (sp?). Burning shit is fun.

Clairtangency. Range: Global. Capacity: 1,000 tons.

Clairtangency is a hybrid of telekinesis and clairvoyance. Basically, it is the power to visualize remote locations and manipulate objects at those locations.

For instance, I could 'see' into the White House and give George W. Bush an atomic wedgie. :D

I could pick Carrot Top up and bounce him off the ground like a basketball.

Picture some of those prick terrorists' faces as the pins pull out of their hand grenades. :)

I could even look into the homes of NS posters and start long-range foodfights! :D

And those, my friends, are just the beginning of the possibilities!

Superintelligence- being able to think at ludicrously high speeds and remember everything would be bloody handy.

Shapeshifting and control over time would be handy, too, though.

The power to make beautiful women flock to me.
Now that's a superpower.

I should just follow you from thread to thread.



I chose Shapeshifting and Mind Reading. It seems obvious to me.


You seem like a spy. Or a journalist (who actually follows the unwritten rules of journalism)

The power to make beautiful women flock to me.
Now that's a superpower.
hell ya to that!

You seem like a spy. Or a journalist (who actually follows the unwritten rules of journalism)
Hmmm, I am a writter(but isnt everyone here?).

Why do you say that? I am curious, I dont quite see the connection.
I am however going to pre-emptively take it as a compliment.

Wait, Control Of Time AND Predicting The Future? Now That'd Be Interesting....

Hmmm, I am a writter(but isnt everyone here?).

Why do you say that? I am curious, I dont quite see the connection.
I am however going to pre-emptively take it as a compliment.


You could disguise yourself as, say, Laura Bush, get in to the whitehouse, figure out what is really going on in there, and use what you learn either in a news story, or use it as vital intelligence in a war against the US.

That concept can be applied anywhere, of course.

The power to make beautiful women flock to me.
Now that's a superpower.

Woohoo! I add hydrokinesis and that to my list.

Wasn't sure how many to pick, so here's what I think of each:

Control of time
- very cool, and useful. No-one can defeat you if they can't act fast enough!

Control of the 4 elements
- kinda cool, but not really my think. Useful for destruction though.

Super speed/super strength/heightened awareness.
- All cool. Useful and fun.

Shapeshifting
- Kinda cool, but depends what you can shift into. If anything, then you could just shift into something that has other powers. If it has to be a real animal, not so useful.

Mind control/reading
- Useful and fun for a bit, but I think I'd want the unpredictability of people having their own thoughts, etc.

Predict the future
- Unpredictability makes for fun. Also, if I predicted bad times (or death) for myself, I'd get depressed about it.

Extreme capabilty with guns, swords, etc.
- Cool, but only useful for combat

Extreme senses
- Useful, but not that much fun without the other powers. Of course, x-ray vision could have certain benefits

Control of the dead/animals
- Eh... more of a computer game thing. Not so great for real life.


You missed invisibility/stealth by the way.

This question has come up before on this forum, twice that I recall.

And my answer is still the same, I want the power to invoke spontaneous orgasms in people at will.

I will rule the world.

Wasn't sure how many to pick, so here's what I think of each:

Control of time
- very cool, and useful. No-one can defeat you if they can't act fast enough!

Control of the 4 elements
- kinda cool, but not really my think. Useful for destruction though.

Super speed/super strength/heightened awareness.
- All cool. Useful and fun.

Shapeshifting
- Kinda cool, but depends what you can shift into. If anything, then you could just shift into something that has other powers. If it has to be a real animal, not so useful.

Mind control/reading
- Useful and fun for a bit, but I think I'd want the unpredictability of people having their own thoughts, etc.

Predict the future
- Unpredictability makes for fun. Also, if I predicted bad times (or death) for myself, I'd get depressed about it.

Extreme capabilty with guns, swords, etc.
- Cool, but only useful for combat

Extreme senses
- Useful, but not that much fun without the other powers. Of course, x-ray vision could have certain benefits

Control of the dead/animals
- Eh... more of a computer game thing. Not so great for real life.


You missed invisibility/stealth by the way.


I figured that at least invisibility could be covered under shapeshifting, and I did forget stealth :'(



Most of the powers are up to interpretation and imagination, since they are just broad areas.

This question has come up before on this forum, twice that I recall.

And my answer is still the same, I want the power to invoke spontaneous orgasms in people at will.

I will rule the world.


Orgasmo!

Control of the dead/animals
- Eh... more of a computer game thing. Not so great for real life.




Ity never says dead humans, or even dead animal, you could you dead plants, dead insects, even your dead skin cells, just scratch a bit..


You could defeat your enemies by grossing them out!

Super-speed, and all it entails. Read the first couple pages of Son of M.

I pwn you all.

OntheRIGHTside, ahhhh, yes. That is the kind of person I am.


Inisbility and stealth are covered--if you can read and control minds---"You saw nothing, I was not here"

Now if you can Shapeshift and read and control minds--whoohoo.

Super-speed, and all it entails. Read the first couple pages of Son of M.

I pwn you all.

Bah, lest your feet freeze to the ground.

Actually, I thought of a different use for mind control other than the obvious "make people your slaves" - psychic invisibility. What I mean is, you make people ignore you. No matter what you do, they will take no notice. Even if, for a random example, you dumped paint on them. They might say "how the hell did this paint get here?" afterward, but they would not notice you'd done it. Or that you were even there.

Inisbility and stealth are covered--if you can read and control minds---"You saw nothing, I was not here"

Not if you want to be invisible to cameras, or anything else without a mind.

Bah, lest your feet freeze to the ground.

Ah, but you'd have to keep track of where I was long enough first, by which point I would no longer be there.

Actually, I thought of a different use for mind control other than the obvious "make people your slaves" - psychic invisibility. What I mean is, you make people ignore you. No matter what you do, they will take no notice. Even if, for a random example, you dumped paint on them. They might say "how the hell did this paint get here?" afterward, but they would not notice you'd done it. Or that you were even there.


It'd be bad if that power got in to the hands of any powerful government.


But maybe it already has.


(Silly conspiracy theorists, don't they all know that those random things they saw about X event weren't really there, and the government's description, however stupid and impossible, is right?)

Some sort of controllable x-ray vision, so I could look through women's clothing at will. :)

Super-speed, and all it entails. Read the first couple pages of Son of M.

I pwn you all.Nah...

If I had the power I described I'd pwn u!

You'd probably run into a wall if it didn't stop you cold...

Ah, but you'd have to keep track of where I was long enough first, by which point I would no longer be there.

No i wouldn't, Hydro- and Cryo- kinesis I could fill the air with a mist then freeze it on any solid body, would slow you long enough to focus an attack on you by cooling the area around you, and bury you in ice, at which point a good gust of wind could dispose of you.

Actually, I thought of a different use for mind control other than the obvious "make people your slaves" - psychic invisibility. What I mean is, you make people ignore you. No matter what you do, they will take no notice. Even if, for a random example, you dumped paint on them. They might say "how the hell did this paint get here?" afterward, but they would not notice you'd done it. Or that you were even there.

Wow. I have never really thought of it that way. Brilliant.

Ity never says dead humans, or even dead animal, you could you dead plants, dead incests, even your dead skin cells, just scratch a bit..
Dead incest? That is wrong, just . . . wrong. Even I wouldn't (Of course, even being dead wouldn't make my family members attractive enough, so, yeah).

Anyway, I'd like the power of persuasion/explanation. Basically, anything I tell people, they would believe I was right because "vests don't have sleeves."
ME: I wasn't speeding.
OFFICER: You were doing 60 in a 25 mph zone.
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, so I obviously couldn't have been speeding.
OFFICER: Ok, I'm sorry for bothering you.

ME: Give me $2,000.
BANK TELLER 1: Sir, you don't have an account here, and, anyway, I can't give that much at one . . .
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, do they? And if vests can't have sleeves, shouldn't I have at least $2,000?
BANK TELLER 2: He is right. Vests don't have sleeves.
BANK TELLER 1: I never thought of it that way before. Have money.

Dead incest? That is wrong, just . . . wrong. Even I wouldn't (Of course, even being dead wouldn't make my family members attractive enough, so, yeah).

Anyway, I'd like the power of persuasion/explanation. Basically, anything I tell people, they would believe I was right because "vests don't have sleeves."
ME: I wasn't speeding.
OFFICER: You were doing 60 in a 25 mph zone.
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, so I obviously couldn't have been speeding.
OFFICER: Ok, I'm sorry for bothering you.

ME: Give me $2,000.
BANK TELLER 1: Sir, you don't have an account here, and, anyway, I can't give that much at one . . .
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, do they? And if vests can't have sleeves, shouldn't I have at least $2,000?
BANK TELLER 2: He is right. Vests don't have sleeves.
BANK TELLER 1: I never thought of it that way before. Have money.


BAH! Dangit! Why can't I leave the spelling mistakes on paper!

Dead incest? That is wrong, just . . . wrong. Even I wouldn't (Of course, even being dead wouldn't make my family members attractive enough, so, yeah).

Anyway, I'd like the power of persuasion/explanation. Basically, anything I tell people, they would believe I was right because "vests don't have sleeves."
ME: I wasn't speeding.
OFFICER: You were doing 60 in a 25 mph zone.
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, so I obviously couldn't have been speeding.
OFFICER: Ok, I'm sorry for bothering you.

ME: Give me $2,000.
BANK TELLER 1: Sir, you don't have an account here, and, anyway, I can't give that much at one . . .
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, do they? And if vests can't have sleeves, shouldn't I have at least $2,000?
BANK TELLER 2: He is right. Vests don't have sleeves.
BANK TELLER 1: I never thought of it that way before. Have money.


He meant insects, and your superpower is ridiculously awesome.

Dead incest? That is wrong, just . . . wrong. Even I wouldn't (Of course, even being dead wouldn't make my family members attractive enough, so, yeah).

Anyway, I'd like the power of persuasion/explanation. Basically, anything I tell people, they would believe I was right because "vests don't have sleeves."
ME: I wasn't speeding.
OFFICER: You were doing 60 in a 25 mph zone.
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, so I obviously couldn't have been speeding.
OFFICER: Ok, I'm sorry for bothering you.

ME: Give me $2,000.
BANK TELLER 1: Sir, you don't have an account here, and, anyway, I can't give that much at one . . .
ME: But vests don't have sleeves, do they? And if vests can't have sleeves, shouldn't I have at least $2,000?
BANK TELLER 2: He is right. Vests don't have sleeves.
BANK TELLER 1: I never thought of it that way before. Have money.

Ooh. Nice choice! :)

The ability to control the speed and direction of objects movements. Ever seen a building going 100 mph?

The ability to control the speed and direction of objects movements. Ever seen a building going 100 mph?

Telekinesis, then.

The ability to control the speed and direction of objects movements. Ever seen a building going 100 mph?

Velocikinesis*? Cool!



*I just made that word up, might be real though

...the power to touch a book and instantly know it's contents forever.

Telekinesis, then.

Not quite, that's simply the direct mental exertion of your mind on an object, he alters the velocity of an object, not the object itself....sorta....if that makes sense...

...the power to touch a book and instantly know it's contents forever.

Ooooh....not a good idea, your arch nemisis dumps a bookshelf on you, the shock would knock you out, and who knows what you hafta remember forever.

Ooooh....not a good idea, your arch nemisis dumps a bookshelf on you, the shock would knock you out, and who knows what you hafta remember forever.

Never know he picks up a phonebook and *BAM* instant philibuster without needing any actual books.

Not quite, that's simply the direct mental exertion of your mind on an object, he alters the velocity of an object, not the object itself....sorta....if that makes sense...
The former requires he applies a force to accellerate the object, the latter is just plain silly.

Anyways, my power would be to have many powers.

Not quite, that's simply the direct mental exertion of your mind on an object, he alters the velocity of an object, not the object itself....sorta....if that makes sense...

Kinesis means movement.


tel·e·ki·ne·sis
n.

The movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means, as by the exercise of an occult power.

The former requires he applies a force to accellerate the object, the latter is just plain silly.

Anyways, my power would be to have many powers.

Well it's not as if the realm of superpowers aren't inherently rediculous when one is discussion which one someone would have.

Kinesis means movement.

you defined telekenisis as aa whole, I figured kenisis was more toward control or manipulate. pyrokinesis is "power to move fire"? Not exactly.

The former requires he applies a force to accellerate the object, the latter is just plain silly.

Anyways, my power would be to have many powers.

not quite.....it's more....hmmm....he's changing the velocity through means other than applying force, impossible in reality, yeah, but for the context of this discussion....

not quite.....it's more....hmmm....he's changing the velocity through means other than applying force, impossible in reality, yeah, but for the context of this discussion....
...it's just plain silly.

you defined telekenisis as aa whole, I figured kenisis was more toward control or manipulate.
:confused: No! just use a dictionary!

pyrokinesis is "power to move fire"? Not exactly.

That's because pyrokinesis is a dumb word. It's called a "portmanteau" where a new word is invented by stringing together bits of other words. Unfortunately, they took the wrong bit of "telekinesis". They should have taken the "tele" and not the "kinesis".

...it's just plain silly.

Welcome to the realm of us discussing super powers.

I vote Shapeshifting, just for a few reasons:

ONE: No need to get into shape the hard way
TWO: Can make myself insanely attractive, AND can experience all the women stuff I want to
THREE: Who wouldnt want to impersonate someone famous and absolutely destroy their reputaion?
FOUR: You could become animals to run super fast, to be super strong, to hide away somewhere, to swim... and to FLY! Who doesnt wanna fly??
FIVE: If you can become an inanimate object (I hope so) then you can become, like, buildings, or statues...yeah, you could become the best statue-man-thingy ever! Sweeet.
SIX: No problem with money, there is no better dusguis than being able to change yourself; you could rob people or corporations, or if you wanted to go more legit you could become a model, or a hooker, heaps of options.

All in all, the only other one that comes close is time control.

:confused: No! just use a dictionary!



That's because pyrokinesis is a dumb word. It's called a "portmanteau" where a new word is invented by stringing together bits of other words. Unfortunately, they took the wrong bit of "telekinesis". They should have taken the "tele" and not the "kinesis".

True....telephone, television...Eh, doesn't matter, long as it has electro- somewhere on the word, I'll take it.

I vote Shapeshifting, just for a few reasons:

ONE: No need to get into shape the hard way
TWO: Can make myself insanely attractive, AND can experience all the women stuff I want to
THREE: Who wouldnt want to impersonate someone famous and absolutely destroy their reputaion?
FOUR: You could become animals to run super fast, to be super strong, to hide away somewhere, to swim... and to FLY! Who doesnt wanna fly??
FIVE: If you can become an inanimate object (I hope so) then you can become, like, buildings, or statues...yeah, you could become the best statue-man-thingy ever! Sweeet.
SIX: No problem with money, there is no better dusguis than being able to change yourself; you could rob people or corporations, or if you wanted to go more legit you could become a model, or a hooker, heaps of options.

All in all, the only other one that comes close is time control.
@Three: Very fun, indeed.
@Four: Why become an animal that can fly, when you can just spontaniously grow wings?
@Five: What about lingerie?
@Six: How about you just make part of your skin the size/shape/colour of money and "shed" it?

@Three: Very fun, indeed.
@Four: Why become an animal that can fly, when you can just spontaniously grow wings?
@Five: What about lingerie?
@Six: How about you just make part of your skin the size/shape/colour of money and "shed" it?

Because your skin flakes off in cells.....although, you could grow money scales and shed those.....

Because your skin flakes off in cells.....although, you could grow money scales and shed those.....
HMMMM. I suppose. But vests don't have sleeves, so my way will work fine, too.

HMMMM. I suppose. But vests don't have sleeves, so my way will work fine, too.




How could I ever become as logical as you?! *AWE!*

Depends on what mood I'm in. On some days I would like my power to be immortality. Not just unaging but Highlander/Mermaid's Flesh level immortality where you come back to life from anything that doesn't out and out disinegrate you and make my bet that I could use that and time in which to work to get any other power I was interested in. On other days, I'd like my power to be heightened intelligence along the lines of Brainiac 5 or Lex Luthor and make my bet that I could use that one and a little hard work to get any other superpower I was interested in. But either would be cool. :)

1.) Control of the 4 elements
2.) Shapeshifting
3.) Control of animals.

Super speed and heightened awareness would be cool too.

@Three: Very fun, indeed.
@Four: Why become an animal that can fly, when you can just spontaniously grow wings?
@Five: What about lingerie?
@Six: How about you just make part of your skin the size/shape/colour of money and "shed" it?

Regarding the wings:The only problem is, they might be a bit conspicuous. Other than that, true.

And the lingerie, I am shocked and appalled that I forgot this, or any other sexually oriented inanimate object.

I spose I could do that, but the other ways are just oh so much more fun.

Regarding the wings:The only problem is, they might be a bit conspicuous. Other than that, true.

And the lingerie, I am shocked and appalled that I forgot this, or any other sexually oriented inanimate object.

I spose I could do that, but the other ways are just oh so much more fun.
:D

I was a little worried when I got to "shock and appalled," but was relieved o see it was about yourself.

The ability to control time and space. I suppose I could just stop time and walk to wherever I wanted to go, and control space that way, but I wouldn't want to have to walk from America to Nepal should the need arise.

Here's a question: How many people here would actually use their powers to fight crime and for the general purpose of "good" rather than mess with people's heads, conquer to world, or use their powers to help them get laid?

The ability to control time and space. I suppose I could just stop time and walk to wherever I wanted to go, and control space that way, but I wouldn't want to have to walk from America to Nepal should the need arise.

Here's a question: How many people here would actually use their powers to fight crime and for the general purpose of "good" rather than mess with people's heads, conquer to world, or use their powers to help them get laid?
I'd use them to get laid and conquor the world, using them for good when I feel guilty. EDIT: Because, I will feel guilty.

I felt guilt once, but then she woke up!

since i love to design and build things, i'd gladly settle for being psionicly able to manipulate matter, say a mass no more then the size of a house at a time, but no other major restrictions on it, no limitations as to specific chemestry or substance. it would also be nice to be able to levitate, teleport and become invisible at will. but i'd still rather settle for being able to manipulate mater with no other limitation than total mass capable of being simultaniously manipulated.

it wouldn't even have to include being able to do so with living organsims. just nonliving mineral and plymeric substances.

and without a lot of effort or ritual, just appreaciation for the existence of everything and a good meal.

=^^=
.../\...

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and without a lot of effort or ritual, just appreaciation for the existence of everything and a good meal.

=^^=
.../\...

I always appreciate a good meal.

For me, the best thing would be biomancy, which gives you the ability to manipulate living matter. Leaves you practically immortal, super strenth etc.

Mind control. Then all you need to do is to find someone else with any other power.

Mindcontrol.

If I have that, I can PWN all with other capacities.

Then again, I#m all for voluntary relations.


So... willing to make a shared power arrangement on an equal footing with other super powery individuals, without regard to religious/racial/whatever affiliation.

Shapeshifting

Here's a question: How many people here would actually use their powers to fight crime and for the general purpose of "good" rather than mess with people's heads, conquer to world, or use their powers to help them get laid?


Arse to that. I went over to the dark side years ago :D

Super intelligence all the way ...

because then you could invent machines/technologies/methods of persuasion that would get you all of the other things/negate all of the other powers if you wanted to :)

Telekenesis and pyrokenesis. Super speed/strength would be nice too. :)

I, myself, would want control of time. I wouldn't have the power to travel back and forth in time, but instead the power to slow time to enough of a crawl that no one would notice what I did while time was slowed down. Also, I would have the ability to decide what things are still running in real time and what things are running in my altered slowed down time. Plus, I'd have the ability to have time still slowed down while I slept or did something mentally tasking.

That's what I'd like too. Though merely being able to pause time would probably be enough.

Burn! Burn!!! BURN!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!1!1!!one!!!eleven!!!

The 4 elements, or rather, considering it in ways of physics, control of laws of physics. Like increasing internal energy to a point of combustion, or manipulating electromagnetic fields.

And reading all those posts I'd also like to have unreadable mind. And be unpredictable. Useful when there are so many telepaths here.

No i wouldn't, Hydro- and Cryo- kinesis I could fill the air with a mist then freeze it on any solid body, would slow you long enough to focus an attack on you by cooling the area around you, and bury you in ice, at which point a good gust of wind could dispose of you.

Except that by the time you'd realized I was in the immeadiete area, I would have taken your wallet, drawn a funny mustache on your face with permanent marker and left.

To be specific, the powers of The Flash (III), Wally West. He is awesome to the nth degree, and I wish I could carry him love children.

Yeah, title.


SOME RESTRICTIONS THOUGH!!!!!

No ridiculous powers, that just isn't very fun. No omniscience, omnipotence, or omnipresence.


what's a ridiculous power?

One of my dream powers is Hearthcrafting. being able to create anything edible out of thin air.
No need to go marketing...
create non alcoholic drinks that taste the same as their alcoholic counterparts.
Imagining opening up a resturant with cut rate prices but 5 star food?
imaging feeding the hungry

then there is also phasing. being able to not only walk through walls but step up into the sky?


but for me, Probability control being able to manipulate Luck. Roulette from the Hellions. or Longshot.

what's a ridiculous power?

One of my dream powers is Hearthcrafting. being able to create anything edible out of thin air.
No need to go marketing...
create non alcoholic drinks that taste the same as their alcoholic counterparts.
Imagining opening up a resturant with cut rate prices but 5 star food?
imaging feeding the hungry

then there is also phasing. being able to not only walk through walls but step up into the sky?


but for me, Probability control being able to manipulate Luck. Roulette from the Hellions. or Longshot.

Ridiculous as in Godly powers. No biblical powers. They're too big, and such.

Every single one of them.