Teleportation without the perils of someone catching me in the act or getting stuck in solid matter.
I'd bet more on the line with "let's see what happens, lol". It's not a thread about dream jobs which would obviously be more grounded, and yet I think the thread itself is fine, but people often just seem to pick something that gets them everything an average person can imagine in the long run. Maybe overthinking it, but it's like wishing the genie to make you the richest person on the planet. How much would the world have to change? History too? Maybe you will wake up as Bill Gates or something.Happyninja42 said:Considering they are completely fictional, to declare they would have to appear with a purpose seems flawed. And even if we use common entertainment as a template of "The Rules" about power, that still means that a vast majority of the time, those powers "purpose" would be something along the lines of "do good, help the world".McElroy said:Are we really that juvenile to always go with the boring godlike powers?
I'd take the power to control pudding. I would build my pudding castle on the shore of the Pudding River in Oregon. I would open my own theme park. And if they don't love pudding, they'll start to fear it instead.
The actual issue I have with these super-duper powers is an existential one. There's virtually no chance they would appear without a purpose.
Well it is a thread about power fantasy/wish fulfillment, so it's not that big a surprise people would make choices like that.McElroy said:I'd bet more on the line with "let's see what happens, lol". It's not a thread about dream jobs which would obviously be more grounded, and yet I think the thread itself is fine, but people often just seem to pick something that gets them everything an average person can imagine in the long run. Maybe overthinking it, but it's like wishing the genie to make you the richest person on the planet. How much would the world have to change? History too? Maybe you will wake up as Bill Gates or something.Happyninja42 said:Considering they are completely fictional, to declare they would have to appear with a purpose seems flawed. And even if we use common entertainment as a template of "The Rules" about power, that still means that a vast majority of the time, those powers "purpose" would be something along the lines of "do good, help the world".McElroy said:Are we really that juvenile to always go with the boring godlike powers?
I'd take the power to control pudding. I would build my pudding castle on the shore of the Pudding River in Oregon. I would open my own theme park. And if they don't love pudding, they'll start to fear it instead.
The actual issue I have with these super-duper powers is an existential one. There's virtually no chance they would appear without a purpose.