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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

LIMITATIONS:

  • Flight -- Cannot fly faster than 48 kph/30 mph.
  • Speed -- Cannot move faster than the speed of sound or run on penetrable surfaces (e.g., water). Super speed is not restricted to running.
  • Telekinesis -- Cannot lift more than 2,270 kilograms/5,000 pounds. Cannot use power on your own body.
  • Invisibility -- Must be conscious to remain invisible. Your clothes become invisible when you do.
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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago

lower right - the ability to use public transportation.

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

This is it. The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Telekinesis is a lot more versatile than people make it out to be. Yeah sure I lift heavy things with mind but also I can

  • nuclear fusion and fission (depending on the amount of force I can inact and its precision)
  • pull air from a room or someone
  • use pinpoint force to shatter and break things
  • fly by lifting something below me (if you want to allow that)
  • compress gasses into a liquid or liquids into a solid, possibly also weather control
  • heat objects by rapidly moving their molecules (if you allow that sort of precision) therefore allowing for combustion as well
  • call lightning by manipulating ions in the atmosphere
  • possible light manipulation and production if you moved electrons up and down energy levels or rapidly heat certain materials
  • hell you could do fire bending if you compress the oxygen and add some sort of powdered fuel then heat it
  • create magnetic fields by compressing and aligning electrons in a substance
  • fucking compress air to make the sharpest blade known to man and use it as a wind shear or just throw telekinesis sharpened metal at people idk
  • you could fuck people up if there is even enough dust in the air, just use telekinesis to hold the dust in place. Guarantee you they can't beat 22,246N of force, so suddenly all those tiny particles cannot be moved by them.

Most of these ideas can also be used for strictly non combative purposes but I think if combat when I think of superpowers. With enough understanding of the world around you very subtle manipulations that require very little amounts of force/energy when done rapidly in combination with each other can have drastic effects.

Telekinesis is an absurd power if you don't put enough limitations on it

22,246N is a lot of force if you use it right. Granted I have not done the math on this because I don't feel like it but I guarantee that some of these would be possible and even 1 would be absurd. I would give a no to nuclear fusion though, probably not that.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

You forgot the best part: grab something when you're too lazy to get up and get it or after you just sat down and realized that you need something across the room.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

You're so right

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Let's see...

  • Flight - Seems pretty useless to me if you can't go over 30, you couldn't easily fly to other countries for example.
  • Speed - Reminds me of all the times I missed my train by literally two seconds but bumping into people while running inhumanly fast would be even worse IMO
  • Invisibility - I don't know what I'd do while invisible. Spy on others? Pull shitty pranks? Not really. I guess crimes but I'm not that kind of person.
  • Telekinesis - Pretty overpowered compared to the rest, being able to lift/manipulate up to two tons with your mind sounds incredibly useful
[-] Snailpope@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Invisibility - bank robbing, free movies, tasting expensive food right in the kitchen, hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don't want to talk to, ect.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago

hiding from people I know in the grocery store that I don't want to talk to, ect.

I thought I was sure I wanted telekinesis, but you make a compelling point.

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[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

Telekinesis would be the most useful, but flight is the most fun.

Question about Telekinesis: can you use it on something that you are standing on or strapped onto?

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

Yes you can. Try not to fall off though lol

[-] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Doesn't that make flight totally pointless as an option then? You could just do it on something you're strapped into or inside of like a body harness or a replica iron man suit

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Makes me wonder if flight propels your body equally. One could easily turn one's self into applesauce by accident with the tk suit.

Either way, it's flight for me

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

I'll telekinetically hoist myself up by my underwear. The ultimate wedgie, but Two powers for the price of one!

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[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I stand on a man hole cover and use telekinesis on it to fly myself through the air. Boosh.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Static Shock is back!

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[-] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

I don't know how anyone can watch the Quicksilver segments from the X-men movies and not be hot for speed.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

everyone is forgetting that the invisible picture shows you get to ride a cool train

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[-] forty2@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think telekinesis is the way to go.

  • You can only fly so high before the cold or lack of oxygen get you.
  • Poo is technically not part of me, so you'd see shit floating around when the rest of me is invisible.
  • Speed is only good until you need to turn, and i see no mention of an adamantium skeletal system.
  • Moving all kinds of shit with my mind? I'll be over here not jerking off with this empty velvet glove
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[-] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

How about the power of flight? That's levitation, Homes...

[-] Devcatdan@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

How bout the power to kill a yak from 200 yards away... With mind bullets! That's telekinesis...

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[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

well, since terminal velocity of a falling person is around 150mph, does that mean I can gain speed falling, then turn on my flying powers to slow down/maneuver? If so, then flight.

If not, then telekinesis.

[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Also with telekinesis you cant lift yourself, but couldn't you lift a car you're sitting in, or even a board you're sitting on and effectively fly?

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago
[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yea, but then me and my monkey friend would have to fight Jafar, and I'm still traumatized by Will Smiths realistic genie nipples.

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[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

That's an interesting loophole, so long as you don't run into anything.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Telekinesis, for sure.

Even if you can't use it on your own body, it'll work against the ground. And 5,000 pounds of thrust will get you going pretty fast. So that covers both flight and speed.

Or does telekinesis make me gain 5,000 pounds? If so, then maybe flight. lol

[-] KinNectar@kbin.run 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Most depections of telekinesis do not exert an opposing force on the user, in other words the force is exerted in an arbitrary vector from an arbitrary point in space. That means you could compress a hole in the ground under you but not levitate at all because the force doesn't act on your body. If it did act on your body lifting 5000 lb would crush your bones to dust.

As other people have pointed out a better option is the "magic carpet ride" or more desirable "flying motocycle" angle, where you Exert force on an object and it moves you as it normally would when pushed or pulled by any other force. I personally like the "infinite parasailing/paragliding" angle as it is possible to do without immediately being noticeable as strange by the public, and it requires less mental effort since you are still using lift for upforce.

[-] foyrkopp@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Telekinesis. It's not even a context

Telekinesis (especially at the "multiple tons" level) is an extremely flexible tool, a weapon, and a defense. There's an endless amount of creative stuff you can do with it.

It can also still be used somewhat discreetly which is important.

Flight would probably be the most fun, though.

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[-] Nougat@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Telekinesis. Build a platform, stand on platform, lift platform.

Now I get flight along with it, and without the speed limit.

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[-] HEXN3T 10 points 9 months ago

Flight > Speed. Just get yourself a wing suit and you have free horizontal velocity, and a path over basically any obstacle.

Telekinesis doesn’t seem to have a range or speed limit. This minor oversight has disastrous consequences.

Invisibility is just invisibility, but it has a niche. I could think of a few uses, most of them unethical.

I might pick flight, though. It might encourage me to actually go outside.

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

With telekinesis, I could technically both fly and have super speed by telekinetically launching myself places. So I'd go with that.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

This is explicitly forbidden. Breaking fictional things is always trivial. Doing so is virtually never interesting.

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[-] jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I'd defs take telekinesis, I can't lift myself but I can always just lift my clothes or something; and if I can lift 2270kg I could probs throw smaller things (ie my clothes (with me in them)) pretty quick.

[-] KinNectar@kbin.run 8 points 9 months ago

That's Telekinesis Kyle!

[-] athos77@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Telekinesis, obviously, so I can get the stuff I want without disturbing the cat.

[The cat has approved this concept, and wishes to know when it'll be implemented.]

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 9 months ago

Cannot move faster than the speed of sound or run on penetrable surfaces (e.g., water).

Sure do if you run almost the speed of sound.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.de 8 points 9 months ago

If you are being literal every surface is penetrable since an unbreakable object does not exist.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Telekinesis, imagine what fun sex could be with a consenting partner. Probably a limit on distance, but until there..

Also, inner mechanisms of locks and vaults.

[-] june@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Telekinesis. Definitely. That way I don’t have to get out of the bed where I forget to close the blinds

[-] Toda@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

This is a good selection of powers, and much more interesting (to me) than the usual array this is done with. For me, it's very difficult to choose between Flight, Telekinesis and Invisibility... I think telekinesis is probably the most useful. The only way I would choose speed is if both:

  1. It is controllable, i.e. you can switch it off
  2. It affects how fast you're able to think
[-] ech@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

As usual with "would you rather"s, so many people just boil it all down to how they can make the most money, and most not even in creative ways. Y'all need bigger imaginations.

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[-] Im_old@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Super speed and win a lot of olimpic medals with no effort. Apart for the obvious sprint race, there's marathons. Also long jump (with that inertia could easily win). Swimming. Javelin. Also sports like football and basketball (and rugby and American football and maybe hokey) I guess. Smash one olimpic games, play a couple of years of other super paid sports. Retire and take it slow

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[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

If there are no monkey's paw-like downsides to any of these, then super speed by a mile.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Until you trip at the speed of sound and die

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[-] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

How does the telekinesis weight limit work with attached objects? E.g., can I exert unlimited force to detach 5000 pounds of rock from a mountain, or do I lose lifting ability in relation to pulling force? If it's the former, telekinesis hands down.

If not, probably speed. I could clean up at the Olympics one year and secure lucrative endorsement deals for life.

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