Invent a superpower
- Thread starter Betonhaus
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Liberal Logic: A form of mind control, you can force others to believe any asinine bullshit you say as long as you incorporate enough buzzwords and insist The Science™ is on your side.
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Inner voice control.
You don't get to mind control people but instead, you get to be their inner voice and influence their thought process and actions in a way that makes them think that it's their own brain doing it.
You don't get to mind control people but instead, you get to be their inner voice and influence their thought process and actions in a way that makes them think that it's their own brain doing it.
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The power to remember all the crap you crammed for quals.
The power to turn abstract lecture instruction into the efficacious ability to actually do things in the world (without a whole lot of parallel exercises and practice.) Can call it the "School actually does what we assume it does"/"School actually works" superpower.
The entire western world is organized around the assumption that we do have this power. But in my experience, we don't really. The abilities that I have that are immediately available and useful are acquired in a different sort of way (exercises and experience) than whatever happened in decades of lectures. (Math (of the sort that I can call up and use fluently), programming, electronics engineering, etc.)
The power to turn abstract lecture instruction into the efficacious ability to actually do things in the world (without a whole lot of parallel exercises and practice.) Can call it the "School actually does what we assume it does"/"School actually works" superpower.
The entire western world is organized around the assumption that we do have this power. But in my experience, we don't really. The abilities that I have that are immediately available and useful are acquired in a different sort of way (exercises and experience) than whatever happened in decades of lectures. (Math (of the sort that I can call up and use fluently), programming, electronics engineering, etc.)
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I'd want the power to repair objects. Either just by touching it like some kind of Techpriest Jesus, or at least having the instinctive knowledge of how to fix it. I've always admired handy and resourceful people, like my grandpa who was an electrician.
Similarly, I think it'd be funny to make people start fist fights against their will.
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Currency recall. The power to gain an amount of currency equal to the amount you've spent on a particular item. For example, all the money you've ever spent on a burger will appear in your wallet as perfect counterfeit cash. All the money you ever spent on rent could also appear if you wanted it to.